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 returned to art-making following a career spanning...

     

     

    Hatty Buchanan is a London-born artist based between the Midlands and London. She returned to art-making following a career spanning several decades in West End and Broadway theatre production and contemporary art-world projects. Her work is held in various private collections including the Private Collection of Maureen Paley, and can be viewed on the White Columns Artists’ Registry.

     

    Recent exhibitions include the Ingram Prize, curated presentation, London Art Fair (2026); Ingram Prize Finalist (2025); Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (2024, 2025); and Stranger Within, Rochelle School, London (2024). Recent residencies include Cove Park, Scotland (2026) and The Mothership, Yto Barrada’s artist-led project, Morocco (2025).

     

     

    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.

     

    Credit: Paul Tucker