Exhibitions
Voices from Exile
Sadiq Toma, Koutaiba Al Janabi,
Yamam Nabeel, Samir Jamal Al Din
Closing Event: Saturday 23rd May, 2-5.30pm
Where the Light Wanders / Where Silence Breaks
Caroline Ashley, Lesley Bunch, Tereza Červeňová, Sonja Kresojevic, Réka Ritt Laklia, Mariam Menteshashvili & Charlotte C Mortensson
11th June - 11th July 2026
This June, Art Forward Gallery presents two concurrent shows, interlinked yet independent of each other: Where the Light Wanders and Where Silence Breaks.
The exhibitions bring together seven artists who use their individual mediums to explore and present the world through their own perspectives.
Private View: Thursday 11th June (6-9pm)
Karolina Dworska
An Echo in the Fog
Autumn 2026
An Echo in the Fog is the working title of Karolina Dworska’s first solo exhibition. At its core is the triptych altarpiece, enveloped by an immersive soundscape. The work imagines an unfolding narrative set within the Carpathian forest, where quiet serenity gives way to an unsettling sense of desolation, marking humanity's arrival and disappearance.
Through inspecting nature, folklore and faith, the exhibition will explore belonging as something rooted in land, recasting it from a passive backdrop to human dominance to a force with its own agency, powerful psychic draw and a capricious temperament.
Full details coming soon
Tomorrow’s Sorbet
Heidi Pearce and Andia Coral Newton
Autumn 2026
Tomorrow's Sorbet is a stage-set-style installation built around the use of denial as a flawed method of mental preservation. It exhibits a domestic interior where everything appears simple, pleasant, and colourful-yet it is all artifice with crumbling foundations. In this space, problems are postponed and rebranded with superficial optimism. The work fixates on the promise of a better "later," a delicious unattainable sorbet to distract us from what is going wrong in the moment.
Textile artists Heidi Pearce and Andia Coral Newton collaborate to create this no-where space, with Andia weaving the domestic architecture- all of which is flat, like a paper doll's house- and Heidi tailoring the unsettling mannequin-like figures who inhabit the space.
Full details coming soon
Faisel Laibi Sahi
A Retrospective
Autumn 2026
Faisel Laibi Sahi was born in Iraq in 1945. He graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad, before completing his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Baghdad in 1971.
In the following years he worked as an illustrator for a number of newspapers and magazines in Iraq, before moving to Paris, France in 1974. In France, he furthered his education at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts and at the Université de la Sorbonne in Paris.
This retrospective exhibition includes work spanning from his first solo exhibition in 1966 in his home town of Basra, to his latest work made in his current home of London, including large scale paintings, intimate ink drawings.
Full details coming soon
Christian Houge
Echoes of Utopia
Winter 2026
Across the quiet, wind-shaped landscapes of the former Yugoslavia, concrete structures rise from the earth like relics from a vanished future, monuments born from the dreams of a country that no longer exists. These are the Spomeniks: abstract war memorials constructed between 1966 and 1990 to commemorate the antifascist resistance during the Second World War and to embody the ideals of a unified Yugoslavia.
Their monumental forms, futuristic, enigmatic, almost extraterrestrial, remain as silent witnesses to a political vision that has long since dissolved. In their isolation and gradual decay, they reveal the fragility of ideology, the passage of time, and the shifting ways societies remember their past.
Full details coming soon