OCTOBER GALLERY, 24 OLD GLOUCESTER STREET
BLOOMSBURY, LONDON WC1N 3AL
29 JANUARY - 28 FEBRUARY 2026
October Gallery presents Lineages, an exhibition which brings together the work of Susanne Kessler, Elisabeth Lalouschek, Theresa Weber, Eleanor Lakelin, Junko Mori, Bev Butkow, Golnaz Fathi, Tian Wei, El Anatsui and Gerald Wilde amongst others. The exhibition explores the employment of line within these artists’ practice, in which the notion of line is not confined to the drawn mark, but emerges as a connective thread in concept and form. Each selected work examines where lines become pathways across histories, environment, languages and materials.
Other works exhibited celebrate line within nature’s formations, such as Column Vessel by Eleanor Lakelin, an artist who works with the ‘life force’ of trees sustainably felled in the UK, to explore memory, time and material history. By lightening the horse-chestnut wood to soft white, Lakelin reveals the intricate lines and natural patination, emphasising bacterial ‘life-worlds’ indicative of survival, regeneration and hope. Her works in sandblasted sequoia likewise expose how soft summer growth erodes at a different rate than its harder winter counterpart – etching the surface through a process both time-grown and time-worn. These organic lines invite viewers to contemplate new perspectives on sculpture, landscape, and the intricate ecology of trees. Her distinct practice balances the interplay of void and containment in vessel form, guided by the living medium and memory of wood.
Each artist charts a unique course through the conceptual and literal activation of line. The works in Lineages invite viewers to consider how artists use line through gesture and materiality, and furthermore, as a form of ways that unpacks culture, nature, identity and imagination.
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