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CRYPT RESIDENCIES 2025: AARAN GREGORY
10-19 May Open 11am-5pm daily Aaran is a multi-disciplinary artist and sculptor exploring natural materials and themes “I am looking to bring my practice back into the urban environment where I was raised. To receive this residency would be a tremendous opportunity to mark my return to the city as a site of ecological inquiry. Here I would aim to create sculptures that use the actual land from the city itself as a medium—working with soil, clay, and natural pigments…
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CRYPT RESIDENCY: KATHERINE WATERS
15-19 May Open 11-5pm daily Katherine Waters is a London-born artist who works with text, audio, moving and still images, and draws upon dance and movement practice. Her artworks invite viewers to consider how different environments, spaces and encounters shape inner landscapes. In acting as mediums through which people can recognise themselves and others newly, they invite examination of the complex and dynamic relations between self, other and society. Taking as a starting point the replicas of the Erechtheion’s caryatids…
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CRYPT RESIDENCY 2025: FI
Unheld/Unfold 21 – 23 May 2025 Times: 11am – 4pm Fi is a multi-disciplinary artist from Gloucestershire, now based in London. They work across contemporary dance, performance art, choreography, filmmaking, installation and immersive experiences. ‘Following my exhibition at The Gallery – Earls Court, earlier this year with my art collective FAWN, I am excited to continue research which is inspired by my upbringing in rural England as well as my interest in Eco-Feminist ideology. Through surreal and symbolic movement performances,…
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SCULPTING PROJECTIONS
Research Residency Dates: Aug 16-19 2025 Open: Saturday 16 August 11-6pm Sunday 17 August 11-6pm Monday 18 August 11-1.30pm Tuesday 19 August 11 – 6pm For my research residency, I will experiment with sculpting projections within the architectural spaces of the crypt gallery. Working with video footage, I will experiment with light, sound and spatial depth to see how the imagery dialogues with cavernous forms and surfaces.
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CRYPT RESIDENCY – JOE STEVENS
JOE STEVENS MULTI-HYPHENATE ARTIST AND WRITER WHO EXPLORES SYSTEMS This is a chance to develop my ideas around making a series of games out of various objects that I have been collecting for many years. I’d like to bring these objects into the space, including some works that I haven’t yet shown publicly, in order to play around with them. The purpose of the Crypt Residency will be to develop the objects from play materials into game materials, coming…
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CRYPT RESIDENCY: Alicja Żuk
Alicja Żuk 3rd-6th July 2025 Open: 1-5pm (or by appointment) Working with a sense of place and memory, I use found, upcycled and foraged materials and plants to explore, re-contain and embody personal and shared stories. ‘Burnt Umber, Pink Ochres and the Red Moon’ is a body of work in progress, comprising primarily of oil paintings, and a few drawings and baskets, which speak in a language among themselves, through symbols of: sycamore seeds, flowers, bones, shells, leaf structures, landscapes, husks,…
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CRYPT RESIDENCY: ANITA WADSWORTH
7 July -11 July 10:15am – 2.15pm Saturday 12 July 11:00am – 3pm Sunday 13 July 12:15pm – 4.15pm I have a background in choreography and poetry, sometimes combining the two by making text an object for the body to explore. My artwork often draws attention to the absent, resting, or rebellious body. Repetitive actions like sewing, knitting, and writing allow me to regulate and create. Earlier this year, I created a dress for The Shop…
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CRYPT RESIDENCY: EDIE EVANS
9-13 July 2025 During my residency at The Crypt Gallery, I will develop a new body of work under the working title Material Time – a sensory, process-led exploration of presence, temporality, and embodied experience. This project continues my research in how neurodivergent experiences of time and place, often cyclical, sensory, and nonlinear, can inform new ways of working and seeing. The crypt offers a rare opportunity to reflect these ideas within a space that itself embodies multiple temporalities: human,…
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Enclosed Writing: A Crypt Residency
21-26 July 2025 Opening times: Mon 21 July: 10.30am-5pm Tuesday 22 July: 10.30am-5pm Weds 23 July: 10.30am-5pm Thurs 24 July: 1pm-5pm Fri 25 July: 10.30-2pm Sat 26 July: 10.30am-5pm From 21-26 July, artist and writer Kate Pickering will take up an anchoritic residency within the damp walls of the Crypt Gallery underneath St Pancras Church. Extending her research into fourteenth century anchorite, mystic and writer Julian of Norwich, Pickering will sequester herself, channelling the practice of Julian’s enclosure on the…
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CRYPT RESIDENCY: Alicja Żuk
CRYPT RESIDENCY: Alicja Żuk The Crypt Shore 27th- 31st August Open 12- 6pm (or by appointment) Cryptcombing (ticketed event) contact alicja.zuk17@gmail.com 30th August 6-8pm Alicja Żuk is a multidisciplinary fine artist, working primarily with paint, fibres, natural and foraged pigments and found objects. “This residency will be my second time at the Crypt, where I will be playing with the space as curatorial and artistic practice. I will be creating/ installing/ wedging temporary looms and use the…
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