Irish Summer: Three Irish Artists - Three Months Wilton Way Gallery. - London Fields.

9 July – 5 October 2026

This summer, Wilton Way Gallery presents Irish Summer, a programme of three solo exhibitions by Irish artists working across painting, installation and text. Across July to October, the series brings together three distinct practices with shared interests in storytelling, memory, and how personal experience shifts over time. Each exhibition responds to the specific conditions of Wilton Way Gallery’s unusual, layered space in London Fields.

Martina O’Shea

Alterity Altar - 9 July – 6 August 2026

Opening the programme, Alterity Altar is a changing installation by Martina O’Shea that unfolds across the gallery.

The work explores the idea of alteration — both physical and emotional — and how we are shaped through our relationships with others. It also draws on the idea of “alterity”, meaning something that feels different or unfamiliar.

Throughout the exhibition, the window installation is continually changed with the help of invited collaborators including artists, writers, musicians, acupuncturists and neuroscientists. These small but ongoing shifts build up into a shared, evolving work shaped by many voices.

Downstairs, the space becomes an immersive environment of sand, sound and light. Together, these elements extend the installation into a more sensory experience.

Shauna Jane Harris

Fine Art for the Farcical - 6 August – 6 September 2026

Shauna Jane Harris (b.1993) is a London-based Irish artist and writer whose work explores nostalgia, memory, storytelling, and the general unreliability of all three.

A painter. A writer. A shite-talker. Harris combines gluttonous paintings with semi-fictional, often absurd texts that look to the past to process the present. Using the specificity of objects and text to mirror shared-experience in an attempt to mitigate derision and egotism. The work often collapses into caricatures of sentimentality or social critique, or both if she’s lucky. Somewhere between sincere reflection and theatrical overthinking, the work searches for resonance in the mundane, the uncanny, and the socially embarrassing, attempting to find common ground and collective curiosity in an increasingly individualistic society.

Or at the very least, a reason to keep making.

Shona Slemon

Archive of Mess 10 September – 5 October 2026

Fed up with the facade of perfection, I retreat to my art where mental clutter and visual obsessions have space to make sense... or not. My "archive of mess" celebrates the feral, faulted, and the dysfunctional - slip-sliding through the friction of polished expectations and the chaos brimming beneath.

I make art to meet with the softer, stranger, cringe, and unhinged sides of myself - influenced by a collision of folklore, magic realism, and the wild west.

This ones for the chaos girlies, the doing-their-best demographic, the serotonin-challenged, mystically-curious, reckless, tired and restless. Here, we play purely in ritual, pleasure, obsession and finding joy in the mundane. Here, you must marinade in the manifold mess of being alive.

Francesca Van Haverbeke

A Car Show - on display until 8 June

Van Haverbeke works across drawing, painting, and sculpture, utilising a broad range of sources including art history, folklore, observation, film, tv, and photography. 

At times taking us to an otherworldly place, her work has an immediacy whereby she reduces her subjects to simple lines and shapes; textured through the use of materials such as concrete, sand, and plaster.

Rosanna Dean

Opening on the 11 June 

'“Buried here and hangs here still', 2025, oil and distemper on canvas, 81x81cm Photo Credit: Benjamin Deakin

 ‘Sphota’ 2024. Oil on Linen, 63x63cm Photo Credit: Benjamin Deakin.

HACKNEY ART WEEK

4-14 June 2026

Featuring more than 130 artists across 60+ venues, this event celebrates the incredible contemporary creativity thriving in the borough of Hackney, East London. Click HERE for more info.