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CRYPT RESIDENCY 2025: BEN STEZAKER
3-7 May 2025 Open daily: 11am-3pm I am an art artist working mainly with photography, moving image and sculpture. My role as an artist is to create work that questions the automatic transparency of the photographic image, cutting the viewer short from making the medium disappear in our connectedness to what is represented. Through my image making I aim to create connections between photography and other media of art whether that be through their ambiguity or through finding and documenting…
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I, Eye & the Aye-Aye!
8 May Open: 5.30pm – 9.00pm A narrative game night meets an interactive art experience—blending storytelling, roleplay, and gameplay with themed installations as you experience the night. Guided by hosts and the eerie gaze of the aye-aye, you’ll traverse the four sacred paths: Face, Body, Wear, and Spirit. Each room is a world of its own—part dreamscape, part game, part ceremony—designed to challenge, reveal, and reimagine you. With every trial, your persona evolves, culminating in your arrival to the imagined…
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RESIDENCIES 2025: WILLIAM LAKIN
10-14 MAY 2025 Open daily: 11am-5pm I am an interdisciplinary artist and researcher currently undertaking a practice-based PhD at London College of Communication on the subject of the world-building and storytelling practices of online conspiracy theorists. I also teach on BA and MA photography courses at London College of Communication and Nottingham Trent University. I have been working on series-based interdisciplinary art projects for the past decade and have exhibited these works in photography and art festivals in the UK…
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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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CRYPT RESIDENCY 2025: LEON CLOWES
21-23 May 10am-6pm Absent Fathers” is an open invitation for visitors to speak with artist Leon Clowes about their experiences of paternal absence – in whatever shape or form that absence has taken. Over three days in The Crypt Gallery, leon will be developing an evolving installation using his and his mother’s diaries, alongside family archive materials, to imagine and reconstruct the presence of his own absent father. Through conversation, shared experience, and collective contribution, this R&D residency explores the…
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ENCHANTMENT AT THE CRYPT
Performances from 5pm 5pm: From the 7th Layer – (contains nudity) 6.30pm: Mermaid in the Heart – suitable for children Visual artists are welcome to draw the shows (bring your own materials) and drummers/percussionists are invited to accompany Mermaid. An early evening of theatrical performances by artists Esther and Limor. ‘Enchantment at the Crypt’ includes ‘Mermaid in the Heart’ which playfully explores the archetypes within us as different mythical characters at 6:30pm; and ‘From the 7th Layer’ at 5pm about the nature of…
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RISE, HABIBI
RISE, HABIBI at the Crypt Gallery May 29- June 14 Private View: 28 May 6-9pm 10am-5pm daily THIS IS A CONTRIBUTION BASED EXHIBITION: TICKETS HERE Rise, Habibi • 50 Artists x 30 Poets • Women Collaborate across Centuries• A defiant celebration of Arab Women’s Creative Resistance. Breathtaking poems 1,000 years old inspire artists at The Crypt Gallery In partnership with Saqi Books & Shubbak 2025, Radical Love’s ‘Rise, Habibi’ showcases the ground breaking poems of 30 Arab (mostly Muslim) women writing over 1,000 years ago, taken from Saqi’s…
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SHIFT
17-22 June Open: 12-6pm daily Private view: 17 June 5.30-8.30pm Reflecting themes of disruption and change, SHIFT features works by eleven WHITE NOISE_PROJECTS members, each occupying an individual space. This curatorial approach allows each artist’s practice to stand alone, while also contributing to a broader collective dialogue. In a deliberate move to provoke interaction and tension, two guest artists have been invited to intervene by challenging the existing works and adding fresh perspectives to the central inquiry: What does…
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