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.
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.
Shóna Slemon
Archive of Mess 11 September – 5 October 2026
Shóna Slemon (b. 1992, Galway) is a London-based Irish artist, curator, and writer whose multidisciplinary work explores a quiet, feral theatre of ritual, pleasure and manic fixation.
Working across painting and mixed media, Slemon’s practice serves as a site to encounter the soft, strange, and unhinged. She celebrates the feral, the faulted, and the dysfunctional, painting the friction between polished expectations and the raw chaos brimming beneath. Moving between whimsy, mysticism, and visual obsession, her work embraces imperfection rather than trying to resolve it.
Archive of Mess embraces mental clutter, creative overflow, and the quiet absurdity of the mundane. Here, mess is not seen as a flaw to be fixed, but as fertile ground and a curated gentle rebellion - a sanctuary for the unmasked self.
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.
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.