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One of Dina Varpahovsky’s City & Guilds degree show paintings, Pool Party, will be shown at ‘MA & Other Postgraduates 2017’ exhibition at Atkinson Gallery, Millfield, Somerset.  The exhibition will be open from 20 February to 18 March with the Private View taking place on Monday 20 February 7 – 9pm.

Ana Oak’s video, ‘developing’, is showing as part of Gasthaus – Fermentation and Bacteria.  This is a transdisciplinary project, curated by Maya Minder, at in which knowledge and ideas are brought together, cooked, fermented, and above all, are shared: “The process of fermenting is to be taken literally and stands as a metaphor for the […]

Technology is Not Neutral, the touring exhibition of digital art, is transferring to Watermans Arts Centre in London.  Laura Dekker’s new installation, Some Small Robots Perform Recent News Media Output Concerning AI, joins work by ten other pioneering and contemporary digital artists. The opening event, on Saturday 12th November, is part of Watermans’ Digital Performance […]

Despite some fairly harsh weather at the start of Art Licks Weekend (1st & 2nd October) XAP took to the cold water of the Thames at Bankside outside Tate Modern for their performance of Tied.  The project made its debut performance in June for Whitstable Biennale Satellite.  This time, on the Thames for Art Licks, […]

Seven artists interpret the imaginative world of the little-known early 20th century Russian writer Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (1887-1950). Curated by XAP’s Anya Charikov-Mickleburgh, The Runaway Fingers is a response, executed in a variety of media – including paintings, photography, video and interactive installations – to Krzhizhanovsky’s remarkable short stories, including Quadraturin, Yellow Coal and The Runaway Fingers. […]

XAP’s Sarah Cave-McMullan has been leading a group of Arts and Crafts for Mums and Babies at the Royal Foundation of St Katherine in London E14; the group aims to bring new local mothers together with Bengali mothers from Marion Richardson Primary School, to explore and learn new art forms. During the project, the group […]

XAP’s Laura Dekker is an invited artist at an ambitious new touring exhibition of digital artworks by leading pioneering and contemporary female digital artists.  Entitled Technology Is Not Neutral, the exhibition launches at Phoenix Brighton on 1st September and runs until 25th September, as part of the Brighton Digital Festival. From drone choreography, sequencing of […]

The Russian cultural centre, Pushkin House in Bloomsbury, is hosting an exhibition which takes as its starting point the short stories of the relatively little known early 20th century Russian writer Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky.  Krzhizhanovsky’s work occupies a fascinating area of science fantasy and alternative reality, providing great inspiration for creating new art works.  Amongst the […]

XAP are delighted to announce that we have been selected to perform a new version of ‘Tied’ as part of ArtLicks Weekend 2016. Come and see us down on the shore of the River Thames by the Millenium Bridge, infront of the Tate Modern, on Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd October from 10.00 – 11.00am. […]

XAP will be performing “Tied” at Whitstable Biennale on Saturday 11th June, as part of the Satellite programme.  The performance will begin at 5pm, on the beach near the Horsebridge, about an hour before high tide, just below high water mark.  Whatever the weather!

For their spring/summer show 2016, XAP will inhabit the old deli and the flat above at Geddes Gallery, taking as a point of departure ideas around time, making (un)subtle interventions with and around the leftovers from the last occupants of the building. In the store room, two lobster-sized electronic creatures roam – their remit to […]

This year’s Soho Create Festival runs 6th-10th June. Winners of the Spirit of Soho competition have just been announced, including XAP’s Laura Dekker.  Judges include Brett Rogers, Director of The Photographers’ Gallery and Jude Kelly, Artistic Director of Southbank Centre.  Laura’s interactive installation will be hosted at the award-winning post-production company, Finish, in Wardour Street […]

Liz Sergeant’s work has been selected to be part of Moving Image Margate from 6th – 13th March 2016, an exhibition of work by female artists working in moving image, curated by Sally Childs. The exhibition is part of the POW! Thanet festival, which coincides with International Women’s Day.

Anya Charikov-Mickleburgh’s postcard-sized works will be part of RCA’s Secret 2016.  From 8 to 15 April 2016, RCA Secret will be on display at the Royal College of Art’s Kensington Campus. The exhibition will feature over 2,000 original artworks for sale: postcard-sized drawings, collages, photographs and sculptures by internationally acclaimed artists, as well as by […]

Laura Dekker’s interactive installation, The Garden of Earthly Delights, has been invited to Leeds Digital Festival in April.  The full installation will also include the touch-sensitive Psychotropic Sofa – interactions with the sofa will determine the content of the objects of desire and revulsion in the Garden.  More info on venue to follow

See Anya Charikov-Mickleburgh’s works in progress at the Royal College of Art’s interim show, at Howie Street, Battersea.  Private View 6-9pm Friday 22nd Jan and continuing throughout the weekend.

Laura Dekker has been invited to take part in the Digital Women festival across London and Brighton in September and October 2016.  The events and exhibition have been organised by Gordana Novakovic and Anna Dumitriu, and will include three generations of female digital arts pioneers.

XAP’s Liz Sergeant recently assisted with an Expressive Drawing session for patients and carers at St Francis’ Hospice in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire. Local artist and teacher, Su Dean led the workshop, exploring expressive mark-making with graphite, paint and pastels with impressive results. These monthly ‘Open Studios’ sessions form part of the creative therapy programme within the […]

Harrow Arts Centre is the venue for the ‘Secret Art Sale’, with paintings by local and national artists and celebrities, sold anonymously in aid of Mount Vernon Cancer Centre. Participating artists include XAP’s Liz Sergeant, painter and actress Christiane Kubrick, and actors Tamsin Greig, Anthony Head & Haydn Gwynne. Exhibition open from Saturday 3rd – […]

New work by Alison Griffins is showing at Lovelys Open Exhibition 2015 in Margate – an exciting and diverse exhibition by South East artists.  Lovelys Open runs Saturday 29th August – Saturday 26th September.

Ute Kirkwood’s new work, ‘Look At Me Now’, is part of the Newcastle University MFA Summer exhibition at the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 21st August to 5th September 2015. “Ute Kirkwood’s work has often turned a mirror upon herself and her surroundings, but her recent personal experiences of becoming a mother have spawned a new level […]

Anya Charikov-Mickleburgh’s performative painting piece, “Being. Umbilical”, is a part of the group show ‘CHEMCRAFT’, a large international multidisciplinary exhibition featuring 60 emerging and mid-career artists from UK, EU, USA & Asia. Curator Christina Mitrentse invited artists to respond to the theme ‘For Love of Chemistry’ and to look at the ‘Aesthetic Forms and Their Opposites’ […]

It has just been announced that Alison Griffin is one of sixteen artists shortlisted for the Shoosmiths Art Prize 2015. The Shoosmiths Art Prize is an innovative project developed by Arts for Health (Milton Keynes) in partnership with Shoosmiths LLP and Milton Keynes Hospital.  The shortlisted artists’ work will be exhibited at Milton Keynes Hospital […]

XAP are delighted to welcome the Swedish artist Theresia Lynch as a new member of the XAP collective. Theresia studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins with the other XAP members, and has participated in several previous XAP projects. This is a happy return, for what we hope will be many future collaborations.

Laura Dekker will present two performative installations at NHTV in Breda, Netherlands, later this month, as part of on-going research by Licia Calvia at NHTV into how people interact with art works in public spaces.  As well as the recent work ‘Forking Paths’, Laura has created a new Kinect-controlled ‘video jukebox’.  The new piece is […]

For the last leg of the Lumen Prize 2014-5 world tour, the exhibition has come to London, at the Crypt Gallery on Euston Road until 21st May.  For the opening event, the Lumen Digital Seminar invited eight speakers, including Douglas Dodds, senior curator at the V&A, artists and XAP’s Laura Dekker, whose interactive work, The […]

Alison Griffin’s drawings will be part of the next Contemporary Art & Design Show by Cavaliero Finn at their home gallery at 268 Croxted Road, Herne Hill, London SE24 9DA. The exhibition will be organised as part of the Dulwich Festival and will take place from May 9-10 and May 16-17 2015.

Nancy Victor Gallery announce their forthcoming exhibition, The Other Garden, with XAP artists Anya Charikov-Mickleburgh, Laura Dekker, Liz Sergeant and Dina Varpahovsky. Inspired by Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights, the artists explore themes of temptation and paradise lost, voyeurism and privacy, curiosity, obsession and gratification. 20th-25th April 2015, Nancy Victor Gallery, 6 Charlotte Place, […]

As the culmination of her residency at Tonbridge School, Jody Gilby’s solo show, Imprint, will be at the Tunnel Gallery, Tonbridge, from 24th April to 12th May. http://www.artistresidencytonbridgeschool.com/  

Anya Charikov-Mickleburgh will be one of the exhibiting aritsts at CHEMCRAFT – For Love of Chemistry: Aesthetic Forms and Their Opposites, an internaitonal group exhibition at Espacio Gallery, London, July 2015.