LONDON.- Kate MacGarry is presenting The Equal Right to Live and Blossom, a group exhibition showing the work of seven artists whose practices converge around themes of craftsmanship, cultural difference, and the relationship between natural and constructed environments. Bringing together sculpture, painting and furniture, the artists draw on their unique heritages and multidisciplinary practices.

Saelia Aparicio (b. 1982, Spain, lives and works in London) creates a fictional world through sculpture, murals, video and installation. She blends humour and mythology to explore the impact of environment, disease, and age on the human body. Her works create a fantastical world populated by hybrid creatures inspired by ancient mythology and contemporary concerns. Recent solo exhibitions include Les Fleurs du Mal, Bold Tendencies, London (2024); Protesis para invertebrados, La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2019) and Smudging Gooey Airs, Sarabande Foundation, London (2018). She was commissioned by the Serpentine Gallery for the film Green Shoots for their General Ecology symposium date.

Kara Chin (b. 1994, Singapore, lives and works in Newcastle) works across animation, ceramics, and installation. She explores the ethical dilemmas of fast-evolving technologies, including AI and robotics. She holds a BA in Fine Art from The Slade School of Fine Art (2018). Recent solo shows include Concerned Dogs, Goldsmiths CCA, London (2023); Show Real, Humber Street Gallery, Hull (2022); Fountain of Youth, Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London (2021); You Will Knead, VITRINE, London (2021) and Sentient Mecha Furniture, BALTIC39, Newcastle (2020).

Mark Corfield-Moore (b. 1988, Bangkok, lives and works in Hastings) reflects on his Thai and British heritage in his practice, using textile techniques to investigate themes of transience and cultural memory. His distinctive ikat-inspired paintings, which merge hand-painted warp threads and distorted images, express the ‘fizzy heat’ of personal and collective history. Corfield-Moore graduated from the RA Schools in 2018. Recent solo shows include We Speak Chicken, CCA Goldsmiths, London (May 2024) and Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway (October 2024); Volt, Eastbourne, UK (2023); Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2022), and Cob Gallery, London, UK (2021).

Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck’s (b. 1990, France, lives and works in Oxfordshire) transdisciplinary practice is rooted in ecological awareness, engaging with painting, sculpture, horticulture, and participatory projects. Her works express care and tenderness, reflecting on the fragility and beauty of life. Recent solo exhibitions include Dreaming About Tomorrow, Nidi Gallery, Tokyo (2022). Group shows include One Foot in The Sky, Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, UK (2023) and Edge Effects, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2024). She is also co-founder of the collaborative deep-ecology-informed initiative Poetic Pastel Press and The Gardening Drawing Club.

Rio Kobayashi (b. 1989 in Japan, lives and works in London) grew up in the pottery town of Mashiko, Japan. His design practice draws from his multicultural background, blending traditional crafts with modern sensibilities. His eclectic work takes a collaborative and playful approach to fine craftsmanship. Before setting up his own studio and workshop he worked with international design studios in Milan, Berlin, Innsbruck and Paris. Recent solo exhibitions include Manus Manum Lavit (One Hand Washes the Other), Cromwell Place, London Design Festival (2024).

Grace Ndiritu (b. 1982, lives and works in London) is a British-Kenyan artist. Concerned with the transformation of our contemporary world, Ndiritu works across film, painting, textiles, performance and social practice. In 2012, she began creating a new body of work under the title Healing The Museum, which sets out to re-introduce non-rational healing methodologies such as shamanism to re-activate the ‘sacredness’ of art spaces. Recent solo exhibitions include Labour, Kate MacGarry, London (2023); The Healing Pavilion, Wellcome Collection, London (2023) and Healing The Museum, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium (2023). Ndiritu is included in the 17th Lyon Biennale at Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon (2025).

Sola Olulode (b. 1996, lives and works in London) is a British-Nigerian artist whose vibrant and textural works celebrate the fluidity of identities, depicting joyful Black bodies in intimate settings. Her practice incorporates traditional Nigerian Yoruba adire textile techniques, using natural dyes and resist processes along with dye, batik, wax, ink, pastel and oil bar. Recent solo exhibitions include Islands of the Blessed, Berntson Bhattacharjee Gallery, London (2024); Burning Like the Star That Showed Us to Our Love, Ed Cross, London (2023) and Could You Be Love, Sapar Contemporary, New York (2022). Olulode's work First Kiss (2022) features on the Hayward Gallery Billboard space until April 2025.