Exhibitions at the House

Illuminated, AOAP x RSA Summer Show

AOAP Projects and the Royal Society of Arts launch a new annual summer exhibition, welcoming over 150 contemporary artists to celebrate the RSA’s founding principles of enlightenment and creativity for the common good.

Illuminated will be on from Wednesday 10 June – Wednesday 24 June

At present, her creative explorations revolve around the interplay between figures and interior spaces, offering viewers a window into our intimate emotions that are entangled with the spaces that we occupy. Quite often in her work the figure sits reading or lost in thought and is both an object in the space but also the subject that gives it meaning.

Frances has found in her work that the ordinary can become fascinating by simply changing the perspective. She employs aerial perspectives to craft patterns seen from above that compress and flatten the spatial dimensions. These pieces venture beyond the constraints of conventional perception and seek to challenge our normal sense of space.

The works on show at the Royal Society of Arts were made specifically for this exhibition, and are a continuation of Frances’ series, From the Perspective of the Angels.

Find out more about Frances in our latest RSA Journal article.

This exhibition at the Royal Society of Arts presents 18 sculptures by artist-maker Adam Dunne. The works are primarily cast in concrete, with selected pieces carved from Spanish alabaster.

The Long Way Round, alludes to journeys in many forms, including the artist’s own sustained relationship with making and sculpture, with the recurring staircase motif suggesting ascent, perpetual effort, labyrinth struggles and contemplative wandering.

The title also references the physical process of casting, playfully echoing the phrase the wrong way round. This points to the artist’s ongoing negotiation between positive and negative forms: what begins as the top becomes the base, staircases are inverted and solid structures are transformed into voids.

The intimate dimensions of the sculptures allow them to function simultaneously as artefacts and design objects.

All pieces are for sale, contact [email protected] or @creativelydunne

During the pandemic, while on furlough, she began developing her own painting practice. What started as quiet experimentation gradually evolved into a distinct sculptural style. Unable to afford traditional materials, she turned to the streets of London, collecting discarded wood and teaching herself woodwork, laying the groundwork for her current approach to painting as a physical, constructed medium.

Simulacrum explores the fluidity of identity and the illusions we build around the self. Drawing on Baudrillard’s idea of the simulacrum, a copy with no original, this series investigates how perception is shaped by internal conflict, external influence, and subconscious distortion.

Constructed from found and unwanted materials, Simulacrum continues Emily Hana’s ongoing process of turning fragmentation into form, distortion into clarity, and introspection into structure.

Her paintings begin with photographs or drawings of observed spaces and objects, which then evolve through a process shaped by both intention and accident, allowing unexpected elements to guide and disrupt the image. The resulting paintings move beyond depiction and explore perception and space, where surface and illusion intertwine and meaning remains deliberately unstable. Kashina was a recent recipient of a grant from The Eaton Fund. Her works are in private collections in the UK, France, Russia and the USA.