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Permanent Exhibitions
Into The Atom - RAF Nuclear Cloud Sampleing 1952 - 1958
Wings Aviation Museum
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Awards / Nominations
Mannington Nature Award 2026
Winner - Residual Currents
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Henki Art Prize 2025
Finalist - Intertidal
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Interviews
Insights of an Eco Artist
Interview
2026
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Curatory Magazine
Vol 12
2025
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Media
East England Art
Mannington Nature Award 2026
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Sussex Express
Into The Atom
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Elephant Vision Lab is a London-based artist duo collaboration between XinYue Ma and Alexander Collinson, working across installation, sound, moving image, sculpture, and spatial design. Bringing together backgrounds in sculpture, stage design, audiovisual practice, and narrative environments, their work explores how material, sound, and atmosphere shape bodily perception and spatial experience.
In 2026, Elephant Vision Lab were selected as the winners of the Mannington Nature Award, recognising their distinctive approach to exploring the relationship between natural systems, human constructions, and embodied experience.
Their collaborative practice approaches space as an active condition rather than a neutral container. Through immersive installations, site-responsive interventions, and sensory environments, they investigate relationships between body, landscape, memory, and time. Drawing on field recording, moving image, sculptural form, and material experimentation, their works unfold through slow accumulation, where sound, reflection, repetition, and material transformation gradually reshape the viewer’s sense of orientation and presence.
Often engaging with coastal environments, infrastructures, and transitional spaces, Elephant Vision Lab examines moments where natural systems and human constructions intersect. Rather than representing these conditions directly, they construct environments that invite sustained attention, allowing meaning to emerge through atmosphere, proximity, and embodied experience.
Mannington Nature Award 2026
Mannington Hall - Norfolk
Work: Residual Currents
6th August - 13th September 2026
Holt Art Prize 2026
Allen Hall Gallery / Plastic Culture - Glandford
Work: Residual Currents
20th July - 1st August 2026
SELECTIVE VISIBILITY
Mercato Metropolitano – Wood Wharf - London
Work: Residual Currents
8–13 June 2026
Wanderer
Solo Show
Studio 1, LOCKSIDE STUDIOS - London
9th - 10th May 2026
Rebuild Babel
Untitled Gallery - Berlin
Work: Untitled 2025
4th - 8th February 2026
Loose Ends
Filet, London
Work: Silence Between the Tides
22nd - 24th January 2026
Soft Ground Show Two
The Annex, London
Work: in between the lights
16th - 18th December
Soft Ground Show One
The Annex, London
Work: Untitled
13th - 15th December 2025
Pathos
Indra Gallery
Work: Echo of Echo
2025
Remember Nature
Castlefield Gallery
Intertidal Reflections
2025
Meal Deal
Fillet
Work: Let me cook!
2025
Pertinacious
Luminoir Art
Work: 51.14° N, 1.38° E
2025
Bankley Open
Bankley Gallery
Work: Intertidal
2025
Dreamscapes
Fox Yard
Work: Intertidal Reflections
2025
Scentless Depths
Sol de Paris / Zhen Yi Gallery
Work: Intertidal + In between the lights
September 2025
Weather Forecast
Badger in the wall gallery
Work: Intertidal Reflections
2025
To The Nameless
Fitzrovia Gallery
Work: Echo of Echo
2025
Eating the Mountain
Fitzrovia Gallery
Work: 51.14° N, 1.38° E
2025
Synonym Lab - Plural Futures
The ANNEX
Work: Intertidal
2025
SB Art Open
SB Art studios
Work: Intertidal
2025
The Archive of Small Things is a group exhibition bringing together small-scale artworks, objects and fragments that offer glimpses into the world we inhabit.
Taking place near the British Museum, the exhibition considers how objects become significant, how materials hold memories, and how the things we make, use and keep might one day tell a story about us.
We invite artists to contribute to a collection of contemporary artefacts, works that might be encountered as fragments of a lost world, records of everyday life, personal relics or objects yet to be understood.
The works need not resemble historical artefacts. We are interested in the unexpected, the familiar, the imagined and the overlooked; in objects that carry a story beyond themselves, and in works that invite us to look a little closer.
Deadline 14th October
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Partner Event for London Design Festival 2026
12th - 20th Septmeber
The Annex - 1 Tiverton Street, Elephant & Castle, London SE1 6NT
https://londondesignfestival.com/activities/known-terrain
Exploring how places, systems and relationships become familiar over time. Rather than a fixed condition, familiarity is understood as something continually shaped through movement, repetition and exchange. Works examine shifting perspectives, everyday encounters and landscapes around us.
Show 1: Structures of Place, Memory and Transformation
Dates: 12th -15th Sep
The first show explores how architecture, infrastructure and landscapes become familiar through movement, repetition, reuse and exchange. Bringing together works that engage with place as an evolving condition, the exhibition considers how memory, material traces and everyday encounters shape our understanding of the environments we inhabit, and how these places transform over time.
Exhibiting artists:
Abbie McKelvie, Anna Sergiel, Ana Vigil Escalera, Batool Zehra, Danlu Zheng, Devansh Soni, Engin Demir, Haibo Jia, Kaiyuan Yang, Kengo Horikoshi, Lezhi (Crystal) Zhang, Lifeng Liao, Loren Herring, Mabel Nash, Mandy (Fangning) Liu, Michelle Widjaja, Muchuan Chen, Qun Fu, Jiemin Ren, Rong Lin, Shijia Huang, Yu Ai, Veronika Russakova, Wanqi Zhu, Xintong Dong, Xinyun He. XinYue Ma & Alexander Collinson, Xiuzhuo Zhou, Xiyu Wang, Zeyuan Ren, Zhenghan Huang.
Show 2: Systems of Self, Ritual and Becoming
Dates: 17th -20th Sep
The second show explores how identities, rituals and cultural systems are shaped through encounters with technology, AI and emerging futures. The exhibition considers the self as fluid and continually constructed, examining how new technologies, inherited rituals and shifting cultural frameworks transform how we understand ourselves, one another and the worlds we inhabit.
Exhibiting artists:
Anshika Gauri Agrawal, Binciya Hamza, Susanna Steuerman Kinston, Minjeong Kim & Charlotte Yang, Charles Kenyon Vaughan, Charles Lambert, Diego Cebrián, Finka(Yunlong Jue), Jingxuan Yang, Joshua Roberts, Klaudia Pacharew, Lucy Sabin, Mengnan (Mona) Gao, Mengmeng Zeng, Monica Dhaka, Nomi Wang, Quiet Matter, Riichiro Yamamoto, Ruby Eve Hall, Runhua Liu, Seokyung Jeong, Timothy Yufit, Yagmur Karaman, Yanxiao Liu, Xueqing Liang.
3rd - 12th September 2026
Gallery 19A - 19a Hollingdean Terrace, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN1 7HB
Drift Work brings together emerging artists whose practices explore the shifting ecologies of coastal environments through material, memory, and transformation.
Taking the shoreline as a place where natural processes and human histories converge, the exhibition invites responses to marine and coastal life, erosion, tidal movement, salvage, wreckage, and the objects the sea returns. From thriving ecosystems and changing habitats to rusted structures, washed ashore debris, and traces of industry, Drift Work considers the coast as a living archive, shaped by weather, time, and continual exchange.
Exhibiting Artists:
Andrew Stratford, Anna Franklin, Ann Russell, Beatrice Markopoulos, Catherine Whiteoak, David Ian Bickley & Hina Kahn, Devansh Soni, Francesca Silverton, Gen Doy, Imogen Campbell, Jack Sanders, James Lord, Kate Tulett, Kevin Goodwin, Laurie Jeanne, Lena Zinski, Rebecca Mwanja, Richard Willis, Ruby O'Sullivan, Titus Davies, XINGCHEN Guo, Yuliana Mulvany, XinYue Ma & Alexander Collinson.
HIT & RUN is a one-day exhibition built around movement, momentum, and temporary takeover. Across three consecutive days, the space will completely transform each day. Artists arrive in the morning, install work in the space, exhibit throughout the day, meet audiences and other artists during an evening viewing, then deinstall the same night.
HIT & RUN leans into the energy of the temporary pop up culture: A show that appears quickly, takes over, and disappears again. An encounter that only exists if you were there for it.
Show One exhibiting artists:
Abigail Alvarez, Ashling McCann, Freja Jiahui Ye, Iris Isabella, Joyce Aranuwa, Julien Le Pocher, Kimberley Aurow, Laura James, Mark G Lonsdale, Maya May Jex, Miranda Reula, Naomi Mellor, Nazanin Ghahramani, Rishi Khurana, Robert R Redman, Vika Malysheva, Zhenghan Huang.
Show Two exhibiting artists:
Alessia Sissa, Bilge Imamoglu, Binciya Hamza, Claudia Pang, George Stamenov, Harsh Pratap Singh Bist, Haoyu Li, Jeongyun (Jennie) Kwak, Jiayin Lu, Kuan Yu Chou, Lily Hoolin, Lynn Fan (Lingli Fan, Mandy Liu, Nomi Wang, Patcharawadee Leehuasa, Xueying Han & Yihe Wang, Yifei Lin, Yu Linlin,
Zishi Tu(Yuxi Chen).