HAMLET - Group show at The Hari London: In collaboration with Cramer St Gallery

A curation that explores the origins of our story; one of passion, admiration, growth and the cohesion that builds community. A selection of artists who are the genesis of our foundation and the journey that continues to unfold.

A small village, usually without a church. 

Curated by Christina Zahra of CMJZ Arts, Cramer St Gallery & Ryan Monro, A Space For Art.

Without the ecclesiastical influence, a settlement is free to develop along its own individual lines. The collective is coloured by the personal rather than the other way round. This is reflected in the diverse confluence of styles, media, and moods radiating from the artworks. We’re thrilled to present this collection in collaboration with Cramer St Gallery at The Hari where the guests can revel in aesthetic communion.

Featured Artists

Paula Estrella's  practice is about intimacy, desire, and becoming. Auto-fiction, magic realism, and story-telling are central to her work which involves self-reflection, collaboration with other creators, and worldbuilding. During her creative process, she combines mixed media, video, and performance, which often results in video installations. Her projects have become portals that allow me to imagine and exteriorize different possibilities that relate to multiple ways of existence and of understanding reality, which arise from questioning social and political notions about gender, the body, and how we connect with one another. She's interested in how technologies such as VR and social platforms have impacted the way we understand intimacy with ourselves and how we perceive and think about the human experience.

Lauren Baker (b. 1982) is a British contemporary multidisciplinary artist based in London. Her work explores symbolism, higher states of consciousness, and communion with nature and the elements. Delving into human connection, metaphysics, and the vastness of the universe, her practice aims to raise the vibration of love and unity in the world. Passionate about environmental issues and sustainability, Baker uses light to express the 'secrets of the universe,’ creating conceptually grounded yet visually striking works that make the unseen seen. Her signature style often incorporates emitting or reflecting light, referencing the frequencies of astronomical bodies, plants, human organs, and chakras. A sense of mystery and emergence—of connecting to something far greater than the material world—pulsates throughout her work.

Chris Moon is a contemporary artist from East London.  An untrained, self-taught painter, he has primarily chosen to exhibit his work independently. Moon has the unique ability to encompass a variety of techniques through vivid, emotional and at times, distinctly melancholic imagery expressed not only through the works but the process in which he paints.  His paintings often explore the painful, physical and emotional need for re-invention - resulting in his own mental state laid bare on the canvas.

Tori Pounds (UK, 1995) is an English painter based in West Sussex. Her works encounter the alien and the familiarity of nostalgic items and snapshots of time, a game of cat and mouse between the real and surreal, all characterised through layering techniques of oil paint on canvas. In her work, semi-surreal paintings explore the way in which objects can hold memory and the ultimate unreliability of looking back. Visuals are cropped and blurred to encourage the viewer to fill in the gaps with their own nostalgia.

Tobias Ross-Southall is an award-winning British artist, filmmaker and curator from London, currently based in Mexico. Tobias’s artwork are defined by dynamic minimalist forms and expressive brush work, containing fields of washed-out and bleeding monochromatic colour on raw canvas. These figurative shapes become abstract, ethereal and uncanny. The artist explores notions of mortality, melancholy and love. He discusses themes of artificial intelligence and the future of our place in this new world. These emotional experiences are rendered as both powerful and vulnerable. The artwork presented is a collaboration with Thames Carpets, 100% wool & cotton with natural dyes

Dion Kitson grew up in Dudley, in the heart of the Black Country and studied at Birmingham School of Art. Incisive, enterprising and laced with sharp wit, Kitson’s artistic practice dissects British class and identity, reshaping its visual hallmarks and traditions across sculpture, installation, film and found objects. Kitson’s work is both playful and provocative, providing a candid account of the everyday and the banality of life. Joe Lycett, comedian, painter and television presenter, writes in his essay for the exhibition catalogue that Kitson “understands the state of our nation better than anyone, and why it is the way it is: funny, and beautiful, and dumb.”

Hayden Kays (born 1985, London) is a British contemporary artist known for his bold, text driven works that blend pop art, street culture and sharp social commentary. Working across painting, sculpture and printmaking, his practice combines punchy slogans, pop imagery and deadpan humour to examine consumer culture, politics and the absurdities of modern life. Hayden is an internationally respected artists, currently a resident artist of the Moco Museum in London, Amsterdam and Barcelona

Mays Al Moosawi (b. 1994, Muscat, Oman) is an Omani visual artist whose work bridges painting, digital media, and installation with a powerful focus on the female figure; drawing deeply from the stories, insecurities, and experiences of the women who shaped her upbringing. Mays' art is characterized by a profound focus on the female figure, which has become her signature subject matter. This emphasis stems from her unique perspective on women's societal experiences and beyond. Drawing inspiration from the stories, insecurities, and challenges women face in her community, Mays has made it her mission to provide a voice and insight into these women's genuine expressions. What characterizes her work is its spontaneity, driven by the emotional state of mind she experiences in each creative moment. Her art reflects her deep connection with the subject matter, resonating with the raw emotions of the human experience. She illuminates the intricacies of the human experience, inviting us to contemplate our paths of self-discovery.

Tom Furse is a post-disciplinary artist based in Margate, UK. His 20 year career in the arts began as a founding member and synthesist of the cult band The Horrors, gaining international recognition as well as pursuing his own career as a prolific remixer, producer and composer. A chance encounter with early machine learning technology permanently altered the trajectory of Furse’s work, which opened into an ever expanding spectrum of creative practices including digital art, film, sound, textiles, print making and sculpture. His work focuses on visceral and dreamlike interpretations of the contemporary condition, and has been shown internationally at institutions such as the Saatchi Gallery London and the V&A Kensington.

Cynthia Yee is a visual artist graduated from the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving ‘La Esmeralda’, she was a recipient of the FONCA Young Creators Grant Program in the disciplines of Painting (2007-2008) and Graphic Art (2010-2011). Her work is mainly an exploration of drawing, its performative possibilities in collaboration with other disciplines and the distribution of its images through multiple media and has been exhibited in different collective exhibitions in cities such as Munich, New York, Guadalajara, CDMX among others, recently individually in ‘Esta es la música que yo hago / This is the music that I do’ in Plomo Gallery (CDMX) and is part of various private collections in Mexico and the U.S.A. Has collaborated with various artists in the art for records such as the groups Antoine Reverb, Dorotheo (GDL), Nos Llamamos (CDMX), Sparta (USA), among others. Along with her artistic work, she teaches experimental drawing workshops for fashion. Published her first book 'Dibuja en un lugar donde nunca hayas dibujado antes / Draw in a place where you have never drawn before' with Ediciones Acapulco (MX). Lives and works in Mexico City.

Grace Gershinson, a London based artist b.2000, explores the relationship between natural matter, time and form. Interested in the seesaw of nature’s passage of time and its fossilisation, she believes that what we are attracted to or repelled by is revealing of our unconscious processing and speaks to our personal inner experience. Using found natural objects as a basis of investigation she treats them as artefacts. Her personal attachment with these objects is used as a starting point to explore the dynamic limitlessness of time and nature. Interested in their texture, shape and symbolic meaning, she seeks to manipulate the original form to mimic biomorphic themes of ever-changing growth and the rhythm of repetition. Her work plays on the stillness and mutability of nature. By pushing the relationship between movement, mass, and buoyancy to abstract what once was, this leaves room to question what can be. Sandwiched in fascination between the ephemeral and the perpetual qualities of the natural world, she seeks to capture forms in the middle ground of familiarity and unfamiliarity. By abstracting her chosen objects in a multitude of different ways she embraces different perceptions of the forms origin and new interpretation. She hopes to reflect on nature’s fluctuant growth by bringing them to a static stance through sculpture.

Gaby Jonna (b. 1993) is a painter, sculptor and performer whose practice explores bodily intelligence as a mode of knowing and transformation. Her recent work has developed through sustained embodied inquiry into rewilding, bodily porosity and the relationship between the body and its surrounding ecologies. Guided by practices of movement, meditation and touch, her work engages rhythm and material gesture as ways of tracing how energy moves through form, embracing the body as both vessel and landscape.

Lydia Smith’s practice is rooted in automatism, a process that allows intuition to lead and the unconscious to shape each work. Working across sculpture, works on paper and digital media, she begins without fixed ideas, allowing her research, thoughts and experiences to surface intuitively. Through her practice, Smith explores the theme of human connection, drawing from the intertwined histories of ancient beliefs, technological progress, scientific inquiry, and spiritual exploration. From this state of openness, she examines the hidden systems that shape who we are, from subconscious conditioning to the codes written in our DNA, questioning where instinct ends and identity begins. A dialogue unfolds between line and form as geometry takes shape across both material and immaterial worlds. Moving between her hands, to the software, and back again, she builds a rhythm between process and thought. The finished works hold a sense of balance and quiet intensity, inviting the viewer to pause and reflect. For Smith, sculpture is a grounding force that anchors us between our physical and digital avatars, commanding presence across both tangible and virtual realms.