London pop-up studio presentation, new work

FILET

103 Murray Grove

London N1 7QP

Nearest stations: Old Street / Hoxton

 

 

By appointment only

Tuesday 19 - Friday 22 May, 11-5.30pm

 

To arrange a studio visit: hattyvh@mac.com

 

 

What does it mean to work with material that has already endured more than you have?

 

This May I am bringing new work from a developing body to London for the first time. Work that is still live. The presentation is an occasion for encounter and for conversation, not conclusion.

 

I work with found and worn textiles, handling, deconstructing and remaking them as a way of holding difficult experience materially. Cloth carries memory in ways that resist easy explanation - that resistance is where my practice begins. The interventions I make do not seek to impose explanation or resolution - instead I work with what is already there. Each act of touching, stitching, patching adds another layer of evidence in material that was already enduring, holding both the cloth’s past and my presence at once without one dissolving into the other. 

 

My chosen materials are domestic, body-adjacent, feminised. Their histories are largely unrecorded, which is precisely why they matter. The cloth arrives already marked: by use, by time, by damage through wear. Multiple histories held simultaneously, none taking precedence. These are not private or incidental histories. They belong to a much larger, often unspoken record of endurance. Damage as condition, not deficit. The altered structure that carries us forward, in which past and present are held in open possibility.

  • Hatty Buchanan is a London-born artist based between the Midlands and London. She spent part of her childhood in Bangladesh...

     

     

    Hatty Buchanan is a London-born artist based between the Midlands and London. She spent part of her childhood in Bangladesh and travelled extensively through Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America from the late 1970s through the 1990s – experiences that continue to shape how she looks and what she reaches for. She worked for several decades in West End and Broadway theatre before founding one of the first content and ticketing platforms in British theatre. She later led a creative community in London’s East End.

     

    Hatty holds a BA in History of Art from Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, an MA in Applied Imagination from Central Saint Martins, and post-graduate certificates in Contemporary Fine Art Practice, from the New Art School, and Film Intensive, from New York University. 

     

    Recent exhibitions include the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (2020, 2024, 2025), Ingram Prize Finalist (2025), and Ingram Prize curated presentation at London Art Fair (2026). Residencies include Cove Park, Scotland, and The Mothership, Yto Barrada’s artist-led project in Morocco. Her work is held in private collections including that of Maureen Paley, and is listed on the White Columns Artists’ Registry.

     

     

    Images

    Bearing Its Own Weight, 2026

    Found antique indigo dyed hemp household cloth, artist's own used cotton shirt, silk and polyester threads. 62×80cm

     

     A late-19th century Japanese indigo-dyed domestic cloth arriving with original repairs and heavy wear. Three new interventions that refuse a shared language: deconstructed shirt collars laid as structural foreign bodies, bar tacks made at stress points, a floating embroidery line that moves across the surface without connecting to either - none of which belong to this cloth and make no attempt to. A language of patch and stitch from different eras and different hands, held together without conclusion.

     

    All images, credit: Paul Tucker