The Lobby

about

42 Southwark Bridge Rd, London SE1 9EU

The Lobby is a collective made up of 17 members: artists, curators, and writers.

Drawing on the definition of a ‘lobby’ as a central entry point from which we access other spaces, as well as lobbying as an action intended to change political outcomes. Our collaboration is an entry point to a sustainable model for our individual practices at Hypha Studios and beyond.

artists

Picôt Chapman

Chris Chapman is an artist, curator, and mental health worker. He studied at University of St. Andrews, LSE, Goldsmiths and the Institute of Group Analysis and is the events co-ordinator for the Red Clinic.

Felix del Campo

Felix del Campo is a writer and researcher. His work focuses on reactionary representations of capitalism.

Olamiju Fajemisin

Olamiju Fajemisin is a writer, editor and curator. She studied at the Courtauld Institute, London, and the Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam.

Moritz Tibes

Moritz Tibes is a visual artist. Their practice spans across performance and image-making to explore performativity both in the grey zone of durational encounter and the supposedly fixed trace of the photographic.

Diogo Gama

Diogo Gama is an artist working across varied mediums. His practice deals with subjects of instability, sexuality and domesticity through dualist visual poetics.

Ilê Sartuzi

Ilê Sartuzi is an artist who sneaks into different spheres of the art system, from a conceptual practice in institutional exhibitions to commodity-form works in art galleries and elitist fairs

Chris Owen

Chris Owen is an artist, working primarily with live performance and theatre making. Chris also has a studio-based drawing practice, using pen and pencil on paper.

Sara Graça

Sara Graça is an interdisciplinary artist based between London and Lisbon. Her practice pushes against conventions of secure individual identity, often grounding itself in the material conditions of its presentation.

 

Scott Young

Scott Young is a musician primarily working with oil painting whose work explores how images and objects hold significance in strange and uncanny ways dependent on context and lived experience.

Sophie Sekine

Sophie Sekine is an artist and writer, who is interested in language, relationships and politics. Her work spans across drawings, performance, installation and film.

Ellen King

e.g. King is an artist using performance, sound and video to explore the intersection of improvisatory techniques and contemplative practices.

Max Petts

Max Petts is a visual artist working across painting, drawing, writing, found materials, and photography. Their practice deals with the complexities of looking and making.

Catarina Moura

Catarina Moura is an artist primarily working with objects. Between science and fiction, she creates constellations of work that trace material conditions, care and the spirit.

Umi Ishihara

Umi is an artist and filmmaker. She create experimental narrative films that connect personal memories with social realities, focusing on the lived histories of marginalised communities.

Philip Steele

Philip Steele is a Croatian-Irish-South African artist based in London. Steele’s practice investigates queer necropolitics through themes of sex,death, grief, and desire.

Ruoru Mou

Ruoru Mou is an artist working primarily in sculpture and installation. Mou’s process-led practice reconfigures organic material, industrial forms and by-products alongside cinematic tropes to question how we assign value and navigate excess.

Katie Shannon

Katie Shannon is an artist based between Glasgow and London whose work moves across visual art, performance, writing, and event-making. Often collaborative and situational, projects unfold through relationships, encounters and shared spaces; contextually arriving through the connections they explore.