XAP were delighted to be invited by Future For Water CEO and Founder, Claire Zambuni, to bring Watershed to the UK River Summit in Henley on Thames, September 2026. The River Summit is a unique forum, bringing together water company leaders, regulators, technologists, farmers, scientists, campaigners, politicians, artists and community members, to share ideas and […]
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We have just got news that Watershed will be travelling to the Houses of Parliament from 29th June – 3rd July! Audiences will be Members of Parliament and Peers, rather than the general public. This is an opportunity to engage with them, via our artworks, while the many issues of river quality, water supply and […]
All Saints Church at Batford Springs in Hertfordshire will be hosting our touring exhibition, Watershed, from 11th to 26th April 2026, each day from 12-5pm. This lovely church sits on the banks of the River Lea, where fresh water bursts up through the chalk aquifer to feed the river. This week, Angela Mellen has been […]
XAP artist Laura Dekker has been selected as an Artist in Residence at the Ladies’ Pond on Hampstead Heath in London, as part of its Centenary celebrations. From Autumn Equinox 2025 to Autumn Equinox 2026, she will be exploring the Pond as a place of transformation and sublimation, celebrating its profound importance in the lives […]
Angela Mellen’s striking sculpture ‘turbulence’ has a new home for the summer during this year’s Open Air Festival at the Roman Theatre in St Albans. Read this lovely write-up about the work and Angela’s practice by producers OVO. ‘turbulence’ was originally created for XAP’s installation ‘Watershed: A River’s Call to Action’ held in St Albans […]
Watershed: A River’s Call to Action goes live on Mix 92.6 FM! Broadcaster Amanda Yorwerth, from Environment Matters, interviews XAP artists Angela Mellen, Liz Sergeant and Laura Dekker about the project – how it came about, why it is so timely, and what we hope people will take away from being with the artworks and […]
Our launch is only a few weeks away! Watershed – A River’s Call to Action opens to the public on 1st May 2025 in the North Transept of St Albans Cathedral. The project is a response to the violation of our UK rivers by neglect and mismanagement, in particular the River Ver – a very […]
We are excited to have been invited by St Albans Cathedral to develop new artworks and a programme of related events for the vast North Transept of the Cathedral in May 2025. This new project, Watershed, has developed through our on-going engagement and concern about UK rivers. During Covid, we spent more time with our […]
Great news that artist Esther Harbord will be performing with us in Tied Three for Totally Thames Festival 2023! Today we had a very useful reccy at the foreshore near Festival Pier with the festival organisers to confirm final on-site details of the performance… triple- and quadruple check the tide times… Performance starts at 12 […]
Liz Sergeant is delivering ‘Making Sense of Modern Art’ again this autumn as part of a range of courses delivered through Harpenden’s Learning for Leisure organisation. Liz’s lectures begin in 1860s with the start of the Modern era, and explore art and artists making work right up to the present day. “It’s a whistle-stop tour […]
XAP are thrilled to be performing a new version of ‘Tied’ as part of this year’s Totally Thames Festival. Taking place throughout September, the festival’s programme of accessible events and activities is a great opportunity to bring this striking outdoor performance to a new location on the banks of the Thames. ‘Tied 3’ will be […]
This April, XAP artists signed up for the 30/30 Challenge led by the 12ø collective in conjunction with ArtQuest. With a new theme published each day, artists had 24 hours to make their work and upload it to the project website. Challenges included: make work in a public place; make your work accessible; make work […]
XAP are delighted to be sharing the Wandle Wonder Wander again at the Wandsworth Arts Fringe Festival 9-25 June. Come and hunt for the (virtual) hidden treasures along the banks of the Wandle #WAF2023 #wandlewonderwander
For this year’s Hertfordshire Open Studios, XAP’s Liz Sergeant is exhibiting a new body of work in soft pastels inspired by the colour, space and form in the landscape. Together with five other local artists, Liz’s work will be available to view in Gallery Six, Leyton Road, Harpenden from 19th – 25th September 2022. https://www.hvaf.org.uk/
Great news that XAP’s Wandle Wonder Wander will be up and running throughout the school summer holidays. Enjoy a day out with XAP’s augmented reality guide along the River Wandle – discover this lovely river, with its fascinating industrial heritage. The walk begins at Merton Abbey Mills, but you can join it anywhere along the […]
All the details you need to access XAP’s augmented reality #wandlewonderwander for #WandsworthArtsFringe are here. Discover quirky floating animations that reveal the wonder of the Wandle’s rich heritage as you wander at your leisure along the banks of the river Wandle from Merton Abbey MIlls to the Thames. Experience the magic as fragments of the […]
XAP are delighted to be creating new work for this year’s Wandsworth Arts Fringe festival 25th June – 11th July 2021. ‘A Wandle Wonder Wander’ is a guided walk with a difference along the banks of the River Wandle, from Merton Abbey Mills to its confluence with the Thames. Using augmented reality through the medium […]
A rich and exciting programme of art encounters, projects and participations are on offer across Kent and Essex for this year’s Estuary Festival. XAP artists Laura Dekker and Liz Sergeant have been involved in ‘The Water Replies’, a participatory creative journaling project. Over a period of three months during the first lockdown, people were invited […]
Great news that XAP artist Anya Charikov-Mickleburgh’s works will be in the forthcoming group exhibition ‘On the Strangest Sea’ at The Violet Hour, curated by Sarah Reynolds and Alex Wellesley Wesley. The show will be aired online at www.violethour.org from the 18th November and all artworks are available for sale.
Confined to our houses, gardens and one short walk a day in our immediate neighbourhood, home schooling and struggling to keep some kind of well-being-balance, XAP artists have responded with a new project, The Garden Within Us. During lockdown, XAP artists are posting images of moments in the day where our gardens have been rescuing […]
Set at the close of the 21st century, ‘Mars & Beyond’ looks back in time to the year 2020, when there was a catastrophic rise in global warming, deforestation, animal species extinction and plastic pollution in our oceans. The vast immersive experience, taking place across five floors of London South Bank’s iconic Bargehouse, brings together […]
Generosity was the theme of this year’s Cultivate Arts Festival, celebrating the creative arts, and a large-scale flowing fountain has been created by XAP member Liz Sergeant. ‘Flowing Free’ – a 3m x 2m installation in a church – represents a powerful, joyous image of generosity – refreshing, renewing and regenerating. The fountain has […]
XAP will be performing at Wandsworth Arts Fringe in May 2019, to commemorate the radical feminist, activist and social reformer, Charlotte Despard (1844-1939). After becoming widowed, Despard moved from her comfortable Surrey home to Nine Elms, then one of the poorest districts of London, now the site of the new US Embassy. There she set […]
XAP artist Laura Dekker has been awarded the Goldsmiths / V&A Digital Arts Programme Residency for 2019. She will be working between Goldsmiths University of London’s ‘Hatchlab’ digital fabrication and physical computing facilities, and at the V&A’s collections. The residency takes place during spring and summer 2019, culminating in an installation at the V&A’s Digital […]
Cabaret Der Kunstler – Zunfthaus Voltaire have recently published the catalogue for Manifesta 11. The Zurich 2016 edition of the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, curated by Manuel Scheiwiller and Christian Jankowski, includes the performance Hydra Hands Man, created by XAP’s Anya Charikov-Mickleburgh for the biennial. Previous editions have taken place in Rotterdam, Luxembourg, Ljubljana, […]
The Creative Machine 2 exhibition opens on London on 7th November at St James Hatcham Gallery, Goldsmiths. The exhibition explores “the twilight world between human and machine creativity”, and follows the seminal Creative Machine exhibition of 2014. The exhibition will show works by selected artists linked to Goldsmiths and artists from the CYLAND MediaArtLab based […]
XAP’s Liz Sergeant has been instrumental in organising Cultivate, a major new arts festival celebrating the creative arts, taking place from 21-24th June in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. Various locations across the town are hosting exhibitions, installations, concerts, workshops, pottery, poetry and performances with the aim of bringing together people of all ages to participate in art […]
Dina Varpahovsky and Anya Charikov-Mickleburgh are taking part in a special fundraising exhibition for Eileen Skellern 1, a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit for women at Maudsley Hospital in South London. Over 100 artists have donated 20x20cm artworks for the exhibition, to be sold anonymously for £50 each, to raise money for urgent upcoming projects […]
XAP’s Liz Sergeant was invited to work with Scottish artist Ruth Ewan as part of this UK-wide live art project organised by Artichoke, to celebrate the centenary of Women’s Suffrage. 100 women artists created 100 banners for a procession inspired by 100 suffragettes. Liz joined Ruth’s workshop with women from Nine Elms to provide content […]
Beautiful Monsters is a research project investigating the unique and ancient collection of books housed at the Portico Library in Manchester. Portico was founded in 1806 as a subscription library and newsroom. The collections reflect the literary, intellectual and cultural mindset of the men who founded the library, with a focus on topography, biography, […]