“Connections is what interests me. How we find ways to relate whatever background, circumstances and experiences we have been through. Courage to step out of comfort zones of fashions. Finding those passages through, however hard, but trying to keep travelling to more understanding with an open heart. So as to encourage more informed and compassionate ideas in our crazy world.”

Caroline has been a working artist all her life since she first exhibited age eleven in Harrods, London, through a competition judged by Augustus John.

After a false start in fashion in the 60s, a period where she sold her handmade silk batik scarves at Libertys and exported to Hong Kong, she rekindled her true identity of multimedia artist.

Caroline has exhibited widely all her life through solo and group shows internationally, but also collaborating extensively with other artists and art forms especially with professional dancers, and as a textile designer for performing arts. Throughout her life she has also been involved in community arts and ‘Artist in Schools’ projects, believing passionately how important arts is, in all its forms, for society and what insanity it is now to cut it in schools.

She has spent a great deal of time in Asia, especially China where she had a large solo exhibition in XYZ Gallery Beijing. She loves to interact fully with all cultures and loves all their enormous variety in London. This reflects across her wide range of work.

“Altered”, a group show that aims to push the idea of collaboration and ownership so present in our post digital culture. 

This project arises as a reflective thinking on Rauschenberg & De Kooning “collaboration drawing” hanging at the MOMA to challenge our notion of ownership. It mirrors today's visual world that is copied, reposted through social media and raises questions about copyright, value and ownership.

The experience involved ten London based artists, coupled in pairs, and finishing each other’s works whilst reflecting on the experience. The results are astounding.

A solo exhibition including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture and performance art, all focusing on the artist’s personal identity, migration, sexuality and human relationships. 

This is KV’s second solo show. The London based artist draws from personal experiences growing up in Saigon, Toronto and London to explore the integration and conflict of Eastern and Western cultures and values. There is a sense of urgency and vulnerability in the artist’s explorative use of material and texture: works on packaging cardboard are a tribute his parents’ factory work in Canada; works on carbon fibre

polymer are reflective of his structural engineering background; works on mulberry paper and ink are inspired by the mediums used by the Asian calligraphy masters.

Nico Chacon is a multi disciplinary artist born in Venezuela who started his artistic career as a theatre actor, later moved on to Madrid where he developed his career further as a screenwriter and director in the short film ‘Letizia’.

More recently living in Amsterdam and currently based in Luxembourg, his unstoppable creativity and exploration of other artistic media led him to sculpture. Three years ago Nico gives birth to his extensive project “Shining Zoo by Nico Chacon” which is the result of his creative mind and autodidact spirit.

After 3 years, he has created an entire universe of shining sculptures of animals with more than 50 handmade art pieces completely sold out internationally, and with commissions in waiting list. Nico is in continuous development with new materials and ideas and his shining universe includes a range of products including handmade ‘shining’ t-shirts which will also be available for sale. Currently, Nico is expanding this project with new forms and designs without abandoning his own style which has proven extremely successful. 

The exhibition showcases three brand new pieces from the Shining Zoo universe which will surely be a Christmas hit. 

Chacon's works are accompanied by other stunning pieces by DALOPO, SR-X, Caroline Hands, Marina Viatkina, Nara Walker, and Charles Harrop-Griffiths

Jacinto Caetano is a London based graphic designer and visual artist with a passion for photography and architecture and a solid and successful career in concept development and art direction in the world of advertising. His work became instantly recognisable since the re-branding of the London Cycle Hire scheme ‘Santander Cycles’ otherwise known as ‘Boris Bikes’, where he created innovative designs of London’s most representative landmarks now featured on all 13,600 bikes. This project was about identifying graphically these buildings and make them look as striking as possible. Caetano developed his own technique to make 2D drawings look like 3D objects coming to life. This was the foundation for ‘Twisted Lines’.

Caetano’s true love for architecture is reflected in this exhibition through unique depictions of London and other international iconic landmarks. Twisted Lines is, so, the result of his restless life and his passion for the cities and their buildings all around the World.

Caetano's inclination towards design and visual arts started when he was a kid, obsessed with changing everything around him; he says "from moving round furniture in my bedroom to renewing the covers of textbooks. Basically, if it existed, I had to change it".

In 2002, Caetano started studying graphic design in his natal city of Seville. By 2004 he had become Art Director in a new communication agency in Seville. After taking some time to travel around the world and living in Saudi Arabia, Caetano returns to graphic design in 2009 and enrols in a top design school in Barcelona. In 2013, he moves to London and joins the prestigious advertising agency WCRS, and his professional prestige climbs to new levels, especially after his designs and concept feature the Santander bikes campaign. Highly recognisable all over London, the red 'Boris bikes' show very sleek silhouettes of the main landmarks in the capital. Other big successes so far have been the #NOFILTER and #LoveHappensHere campaigns for London Pride; wonderful messages with a freedom-filled ethos delivered by well-known advocates like Ian McKellen and Graham Norton and shared thousands of times in social media.

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