GRIDS
2nd - 12th July 2026
Opening: Thursday 2nd July 18:00 - 20:00
Year Two recipients of the Clyde Hopkins Mentoring Award Boudicca Paloma and Rowan Bazley celebrate their year at APT with an exhibition of work made over the last 12 months. ‘Grids’ presents new paintings created by Boudicca Paloma and Rowan Bazley. Both artists have used the year as a test kitchen, allowing their existing practices to unfurl, utilising the grid as a scaffold and as something to push away from. They have explored new routes into painting, which has involved revisions of materials and methods. Grids is a testament to journeys traveled within the imagination, the slick weaving of lines and the braiding of lines against the grain.
The exhibition is presented alongside a piece of creative writing by Georgia Anna Bloom.
Events:
Thursday 2nd July 18:00 - 20:00
Opening
Saturday 11th July 12:00 - 14:00
Kaffee und Kuchen
Come along and enjoy some refreshments and a walk through the show with the artists.
Rowan Bazley
@rowanbazley
www.rowanbazley.co.uk
"Rowan Bazley is interested in the end of history and the grand narrative, and how art might be used to simulate new societies.
His recent work interrogates the ideological battles of the 20th century; the many failed utopias which led us to accept capitalism in the west as a logical endgame.
This new cycle of work draws upon traditions of post-war German and Russian painting as forecast and social commentary, as well as Brechtian theatrical staging, political cartoons (such as Philip Guston’s Nixon drawings), 20th century design history and speculative fiction.
The moka pot figure serves as a vessel, a machine and a head. It is a government issued worker unit programmed to provide the city with energy, productivity and clock-like punctuality.
This was ignited by the artist’s reading of R.U.R (Rossum's Universal Robots), Karel Čapek’s 1920 play about robots replacing factory workers and soldiers.
Underlying Bazley’s practice is an interest in how individuals experience large-scale systems through the texture of everyday life."
Boudicca Paloma
@boudiccapaloma
www.boudiccapaloma.com
Boudicca Paloma was born in South London. She received her BA from The Slade School of Fine Art in 2010 and completed 2 years of the Turps Studio Programme in 2025.
She is a current recipient of the Clyde Hopkins Mentoring Award at A.P.T and was selected as an Artist in Residence for Brighton Festival 2023.
Recent projects have included group shows; ‘Glitter Fatigue’ at Two Plus Two, ‘The Wicker Arms’ group exhibition, Staffordshire Street and collaborating on a Drawing Room Project painting a mural at the Maudsley Hospital.
Alongside her art practice she has also works as a scenic artist and mural painter and currently lectures at Central School of Speech and Drama in Scenic Painting.
Boudicca’s practice reflects patterns and textures found in both man-made and the natural environment often blurring the line between the two. Daisies after Dadd bounce out from beneath dark weavings morphing between something real and a repeating pattern inspired by Indian miniature paintings. A search for a Golden Toad led to the discovery of an extinction. Fingers crossed in hope reaching for green futures.
In a time that often feels increasingly hard-edged, these works seek softness through meditation, repetition and the tactile language of paint. The synthetic nature of faux fur also serves as a metaphor for the degradation of the natural world, while neon tones and saturated hues draw on the visual languages of 1990s rave culture, punk and pop psychedelia. Blue Skies.