Art Forward Gallery

29/05/2026

Thank You to everyone who came last night to Mass Collective opening night viewings for their Mass Mentee show! It was an amazing celebration for the four Mentees,

If you didn’t get to make it last night the show is on till June 1.

26/05/2026

We can’t wait to share the work of this year’s Mass Collective Mentorship Programme at the gallery ✨

The 2025/26 cohort:

Iman Dagnoko
Takenya K. Holness
Justine Sauri White
Mark Woulfe

Over the past year, these four emerging photographers have each developed photographic projects around a story of their choosing, framed through the architecture of London and its surrounding infrastructure.

Preview evening details ⬇️

🗓 Thursday 28th May 6.00-8.00pm
📍 Art Forward Gallery, Central London
🎟 Free RSVP below:

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/artforward/2177269

This exhibition is not to be missed!

24/05/2026

You’re Invited ⬇️✨

As part of the , we’re delighted to be collaborating with .collective to present the 2025/26 End of Programme Exhibition for their mentorship programme.

Open from Thursday 28th May to Monday 1st June, this exhibition celebrates the 2025/26 cohort:

Iman Dagnoko
Takenya K. Holness
Justine Sauri White
Mark Woulfe

Over the past year, these four emerging photographers have each developed photographic projects around a story of their choosing, framed through the architecture of London and its surrounding infrastructure.

Building a picture of the the diversity of the city through its eclectic architecture and the communities that inhabit these spaces, these four projects each following a distinct theme from spiritual spaces, to diasporic homes, or large-scale infrastructure.

Join the Opening Evening ⬇️

🗓 Thursday 28th May, 6-8pm
📍 Art Forward Gallery, London
🎟 Free RSVP below:

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/artforward/2177269

22/05/2026

Stuck for bank holiday weekend plans?☀️Join us TOMORROW afternoon for the closing event of Voices from Exile.

This is a free event but we ask you kindly to RSVP to secure via the link below 🔗

The exhibition has presented the work of four Iraqi artists living in exile - Koutaiba Al Janabi, Sadiq Kareem Toma, and Yamam Nabeel, alongside films by Samir Jamal al Din. Together, their works trace decades of displacement, memory, and creative survival shaped by Iraq’s turbulent modern history, and the long shadow of exile across generations.

To close the exhibition, there will be a private screening of Baghdad in My Shadow by Samir Jamal al Din, a film that weaves personal memory with found footage to reflect on identity, loss, and the fragile persistence of home in exile.

⏰ 2pm doors, 2.30 screening begins
📍Art Forward Gallery
🎟️Free but please RSVP below

We hope to see you there!

Voices from Exile Closer & Finale Screening – Art Forward Gallery, Sat 23 May 2026 - Closing Event: Voices from Exile Saturday 23rd May, 2pm startThis is a free event but we ask you kindly to RSVP to secure your spot.As Voices from Exile comes to an end, we invite you to join us ...

21/05/2026

2 days to go! Exhibition closer & Baghdad In My Shadow screening 🎥

As Voices from Exile comes to an end, you’re invited to an afternoon of conversation, film, and reflection to mark the close of this inaugural exhibition.

The afternoon will include a private screening of Baghdad in My Shadow by - a film that weaves personal memory with found footage to reflect on identity, loss, and the fragile persistence of home in exile.

Details ⬇️

🚪Doors open 2pm
🎬 Screening begins 2.30pm
🎟️ Free RSVP via link in bio

20/05/2026

This June, Art Forward Gallery presents two concurrent shows, interlinked yet independent of each other:

Where the Light Wanders & Where Silence Breaks.

The exhibitions bring together seven artists who use their individual mediums to explore and present the world through their own perspectives.

Featuring: , .bunch, , , , &

11th June - 11th July
Private View: Thursday 11th June, 6-9pm
Art Forward Gallery | London | 12-14 Whitfield Street

RSVP below to attend the opening 🔗

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/artforward/2217767

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Where the Light Wanders

Light is the essential component of photography. As light enters the lens, a moment is frozen in time, never to be repeated. From the mundane to the extraordinary, photographs capture moments that carry different meanings for both taker and viewer. And in between those meanings lies something yet to be discovered.

Where the Light Wanders brings together the work of Tereza Červeňová, Mariam Menteshashvili, and Charlotte C Mortensson, collectively exploring the photographic image as a site of presence and transformation.

Where Silence Breaks

Where Silence Breaks is an exhibition that invites viewers to reconsider the nature of the two-dimensional plane. The works of Caroline Ashley, Lesley Bunch, Sonja Kresojevic, and Réka Ritt Laklia revel in their physicality, presenting volume, reflection, fluidity, and alchemy.

The work in this exhibition is shaped as much by absence as by each work’s physical presence. By what is revealed, what is withheld, by form and by silence. These works possess a materiality that defies the limitations of the space and time in which they are encountered, yet hold a quietness that resists resolution. They are works to be experienced, not merely observed.

19/05/2026

Expectancy, 1991 Woodblock with watercolour.

One of several available works by Iraqi Painter & Printmaker featuring in Voices from Exile at Art Forward Gallery.

LAST WEEK to view the exhibition ⬇️

⏰ Tuesday - Friday (11am - 5pm) | Saturdays - By appointment only | Sunday & Monday - CLOSED

18/05/2026

A huge thank you to every single person who came along to last Friday’s evening of poetry 🙌🏽

Of course, a special thank you goes to Nabeel Yasin for sharing his inspiring work & insights with us 📕

It’s events like these remind us why creating spaces for art, dialogue and community matters so much.

Oh, and we even had to bring out extra chairs…result! 🪑🪑🪑

Enjoyed the event? Couldn’t make it but want to get involved?

Join us THIS SATURDAY for the closing afternoon of Voices from Exile plus a very special screening of ‘Baghdad In My Shadow’ by 🎥

⏰ 2pm - Doors open | 2.30 - Screening begins

📍Art Forward Gallery

🎟️ FREE RSVP via link in bio

We hope to see you there!

17/05/2026

Voices from Exile - Closing Event ⬇️

As Voices from Exile comes to an end, join us for an afternoon of conversation, film and reflection plus a chance to meet some of the artists behind this powerful exhibition.

The Details 📝

🗓 Saturday 23rd May
🚪 Doors open: 2.00pm
📕 Screening begins: 2.30pm
📍 Art Forward Gallery
🎟 Free entry - RSVP below

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/artforward/2218022

13/05/2026

There’s still time to reserve your spot for this Friday’s Poetry Evening with Nabeel Yasin 📅

Including a special screening of Mesopotamia, this exclusive event runs alongside the gallery’s current exhibition, Voices from Exile, featuring works by & 💥

THE DETAILS ⬇️

🗓 Friday 15th May
🚪 Doors open: 6.30pm
📕 Readings begin: 7.00pm
⏰ Event ends: 9.00pm
📍 Art Forward Gallery
🎟 Free entry - RSVP via link in bio