Acts of Magic | 1st - 4th October 2026 in Chalk Farm, London
Following on from our inaugural summer show I am really please to announce our second edition !
I am curating and organising this show of these amazing fellow artists at a wonderful gallery space in Chalk Farm, London.
Acts of Magic brings nine contemporary artists together in Chalk Farm, London, UK this October
“Creating art alchemises line, colour and memory into meaning, transmuting doubt and the mundane into luminous images, forms and revelations that alter both maker and viewer.”
Acts of Magic presents a group exhibition of contemporary fine art from 1st – 4th October 2026 at the Koppel Collective project gallery, 157 Regent’s Park Road, London NW1 8BB.
Bringing together nine contemporary fine artists, the exhibition explores transformation, memory, colour and meaning through painting, drawing and visual storytelling. Across a diverse range of practices, the artists investigate how ordinary experiences, inner doubt and emotional complexity can be transformed into images and forms that invite wonder.
Acts of Magic takes its title from the exhibition’s central idea: that the artist acts as a modern alchemist, transmuting the everyday into something luminous and unexpected. Line, colour and memory become materials for creating new meanings, offering audiences a space for reflection, discovery and imaginative escape.
Art and its observation is an act of alchemy.
We look for artists who can take the raw materials of being human - memory, desire, doubt, intimacy, absurdity, loss, beauty and the everyday, and transform them into something that makes us see differently.
The exhibition opens with a Private View on Thursday 1 October, from 6–9pm, and continues throughout the weekend.
Exhibiting Artists:
Joe Barrow
Billy Byrne
Lara Gallagher
Galine Hristova
Marcus Kirsch
Bradley Lafford
Prince Oke
Paul Kingsley Squire
Michelle Watson
Exhibition information
Exhibition: Acts of Magic
Dates: 1st - 4th October 2026
Private View: Thursday 1st October, 6–9pm
Venue: Koppel Collective project gallery
Address: 157 Regent’s Park Road, London NW1 8BB
Private View Tickets Available via :
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/acts-of-magic-private-view-tickets-1999010462104
