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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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Something Calls: Encounters with Spirits
18-19 July 2025 Open 1-6 pm Private View 17 July 6-9 pm. ‘Something Calls: Encounters with Spirits’ presents an interdisciplinary array of works exploring encounters with the spirit world through visual and performative mediums. Visitors will experience mixed-media artworks by Becky Adams, Sasha Spyrou, and Jessica Arcana. Each piece delves into the theme of spiritual encounters and unseen presences. Complementing the visual works, the opening night will feature fusion belly dance performances by professional dancer Rachael Redfern, alongside exhibiting artists Becky Adams and Jessica Arcana, plus…
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A Time to Gather Stones
20 – 23 July Open daily: 10am-8pm An exhibition in a new, high-intensity format, an atmosphere-rich encounter with jewellery art. The Crypt is transformed into a space of unique objects crafted from precious stones and metals, artworks born from canonical imagery and familiar narratives, reimagined by artists Anna Kiparis and Anastasiia Aleksandrenko. Drawing inspiration from the words of Ecclesiastes — “a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather them” — the artists reflect on the cycles of…
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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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LONDON DRAWING PRESENTS: The Body Exquisite: Shibari Life Drawing Salon 25 July
The Body Exquisite – now in its 9th year- is a series of beautiful Shibari drawing events in one of the most atmospheric spaces in London Drawing with incredible performers, each salon is unique with a different feel, dynamic and emotional quality- all set against a bespoke soundtrack by Tom Visual Sound For this salon we will be drawing with the incredible @sophia__rose_ and partner Let us take you by the hand into the fabulously atmospheric chambers of The Crypt…
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Figuratively Speaking- Exhibition & Residency
Welcome to the Artists Playground An exhibition event where the audience are invited to engage, interact, draw and participate in the live performances. Drinks and light refreshments will be provided, as well as drawing materials for those who want to. There are several performances happening / overlapping for the duration of each evening and a few on the weekend. Visual artists have taken over the walls, works are on sale, and we will be making art from the performers, live.…
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The Body Exquisite: Shibari Life Drawing Salon 8 August
The Body Exquisite – now in its 9th year- is a series of beautiful Shibari drawing events in one of the most atmospheric spaces in London Drawing with incredible performers, each salon is unique with a different feel, dynamic and emotional quality- all set against a bespoke soundtrack by Tom Visual Sound For this salon we will be drawing with the incredible @mouseinrope and partner Let London Drawing take you by the hand into the fabulously atmospheric chambers of 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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SHADOWS OF THE OTHERWORLD
3-5 September 2025 A group exhibition curated by Black Bordello and Friends at the Crypt Gallery. Wednesday 3 Sept: 6-9pm Thursday 4 Sept: 10am-9pm Friday 5 Sept: 10am-10pm
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