Artists’ Open House 2025: The Incidentals Bell House Dulwich Festival, May 2025

I'm thrilled to announce my participation in The Incidentals, a group exhibition at Bell House as part of the Dulwich Festival Artists’ Open House 2025.

This exhibition invites viewers to reconsider the significance of overlooked or seemingly incidental objects, gestures, and moments, exploring how chance shapes our perceptions.

Within the Lucas Room, curated by Monika Kita, the focus narrows to the evolving natural environment, particularly rock formations. Alongside artists Nilofar Akmut, Minna Etein, and Monika Kita, we delve into themes of transformation and impermanence, reflecting on the subtle, often unnoticed changes that define our landscapes.

EXHIBITION KEY INFORMATION:

• Date: 10/11 & 17/18 May 2025

• Time: 11:00 am - 6:00 pm

• ✨ Private View: 9 May. Open to the public 6pm - 8pm ✨

• Website: Bell House Artists Open House 2025

• Location: Bell House, 27 College Road, Dulwich, London SE21 7BG
  

About:

Curated Space: Lucas Room - Curated by Monika Kita

This exhibition brings together four artists whose works explore the evolving natural environment, such as rock formations and the incidental transformations that occur over time. The central theme, Incidental, examines the subtle, often unnoticed changes that shape the natural world and our perception of it. Through diverse media—photography, moving image, sound, installation, painting, and drawing—the artists reflect on the dynamic processes that define our landscapes, and shape them in imperceptible and profound ways.

The works in this exhibition engage with the fluidity of nature’s transformations and the tension between permanence and impermanence. The incidental nature of these transformations—whether through erosion, time, or myth—invites reflection on the complex relationship between humanity and the ever-changing environment. These pieces offer a powerful reminder of the forces that shape our world in ways we may not always recognise but that ultimately define our experience of it.

Artists: Nilofar Akmut, Minna Etein, Danielle Jacques, Monika Kita

In the realm of incidentals, the unnoticed becomes essential, the fleeting becomes felt.

Featured works

Danielle Jacques, Flower Moon, 2025, multimedia installation

Bell House

Bell House is a remarkable Grade II listed Georgian House built in 1767 in Dulwich, South East London. The house was originally constructed for Thomas Wright, who held the prestigious positions of Sheriff of the City of London in 1779 and Lord Mayor of London in 1785. Bell House is now a volunteer-led charity that provides creative learning for people of all ages and backgrounds. Their vision is to offer an opportunity to gather for learning, enjoyment, and friendship in a special place

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