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Spring Open Studios – 16 May 2026


OPEN STUDIOS — SPRING 2026

Saturday 16 May 2026, 2-7pm
Deadline to sign up: 9 May

As part of hARTslane Artist Membership, we host Open Studios twice a year — free and open to all artist members. It’s an opportunity to receive peer and professional feedback on your work in a relaxed, supportive environment.

About the Day
This session will include a Feedback Speed Dating activity: Over the course of two hours, each artist receives several two-minute feedback rounds — a quick-fire way to gather fresh perspectives on your work.
Come prepared – bring a notepad and pen if you’d like to take notes.

Tables and plinths will be provided. Please note that each artist may display one piece of work, and artists are responsible for their own work and any equipment needed to present it safely.

There are 16 places available, allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

Schedule for the day:

–                2-3pm, Artists install their work

–                3-5pm, Feedback speed dating

–                5-7pm, Drinks & open to the public

–                7-7:30pm, Work collected and wrap-up

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More info on hARTslane’s Artist Membership and how to join here. 

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Personal Relations Touring Exhibition 2025-2026

Artworks above: Eric Fong, Tisna Westerhof, Alberto Balletti, Sumi Perera, Paul Bonomini, Anne Leigniel, Salma Hasan.

Personal Relations


An international touring miniature-portrait exhibition bringing together art collectives worldwide, 2025-2027

Personal Relations feature a collection of newly created miniature portrait works —each the size of a mobile phone—produced by artist members of international artist collectives.

The project is designed to foster cross-border collaboration & international understanding and explore portraiture as a form of cultural exchange.

In an era of heightened political tension, where national identities and borders are increasingly reinforced, Personal Relations seeks to create meaningful cultural bridges. Through the universal language of art, the project aims to foster unity, collaboration, and artistic excellence across borders.

Historically, miniature portraits were often exchanged as political gift between rulers and ambassadors, symbolising connection and diplomacy.

In this project, over 150 artists are invited to reinterpret this tradition for the 21st century, responding to the history of miniature portraiture while exploring the smartphone screen as today’s “portrait format”—an intimate, portable space for identity and connection.

The Tour

The Personal Relations exhibition will be on tour between December 2025 and November 2026. The 150 miniature portraits will travel across Europe, connecting artists, artist collectives and audiences.

What Art Can Do Gallery
Amsterdam

6 – 27 December 2025

Sala Delmo Veronese
Este, Italy

23 May – 7 June, 2026

The Cello Factory
London, United Kingdom

26 September – 7 October 2026 

The Artists

The London Group, London

Wendy Anderson / Melissa Alley / Victoria Arney / Jonathan Armour / Bryan Benge / Barbara Beyer / Stanislas Blatton / Paul Bonomini / Lesley Bunch / Clive Burton / Laura Carey / Paul Carey / Stephen Carley / Jacqueline Yuen-Ling Chiu / Ece Clarke / Peter Clossick / Gary Clough / Sandra Crisp / John Crossley / Martin Darbyshire / Stathis Dimitriadis / Simon E Head / Angela Eames / Eric Fong / Jan Frith / Cadi Froehlich / Marenka Gabeler / Alexandra Harley / R James Healy / Julie Held / Aude Herail Jager / Chris Horner / Gillian Ingham / Annie Johns / Anne Leigniel / Amanda Loomes / Hannah Luxton / Genetic Moo / Charlotte Mortensson / lan Parker / Claire Parrish / Janet Patterson / Sumi Perera / Steve Pettengell / Christopher Poulton / Inga Tillere / Tommy Seaward / Suzan Swale / Paul Tecklenberg / Almuth Tebbenhoff / Lisa Traxler / Joshua Uvieghara / Annie Wasdell / Neil Weerdmeester / Tisna Westerhof / Susan Wilson / David Wiseman / Erika Winstone / Carol Wyss

La Medusa, Este

Silvia Baldisserotto / Alberto Balletti / Rosita Bernardo / Paola Bonotto / Alessandro Brusamolin  / Luigi Dovigo / Giorgio Gattolin /Paola Gazziero / Salma Yaseen Ghaleb Hasan / Alessandra Locatelli / Michela Mascarucci / Ivone Ortolan / Silvia Paggiarin / Roberta Pancera / Olivia Pegoraro / Nicol Ranci / Andrea Rimondo / Luca Salvagno  / Laurence Turina / Andrea Zago. Special guests participating in the Personal Relations exhibition in Este: art students at the Liceo Artistico G.B. Ferrari di Este.

What Art Can Do, Amsterdam

Wafae Ahalouch / Domenique Almeida / Sybila Baumann / Marion Bloem / Diana Blok / Melanie Bosboom / Leslie Browne / Marion Buiterhof Dirkse v/d Heuvel / Roberto Caradonna / Airco Caravan / Nelson Carrilho / Bilal Chahal / Paulo Chicareli / Isan Corinde / Brian Couthino / Hotegni Dansou / Moni Dekkers / Baharak Dehghan / Annelien Dijkman / Marjan De Voogd / Marijke De Vries / Els Groen / Erik Hessel / Ruud Hiel / Renate Jacobs / Jan Willem Kaldenbach / Inger Kolff / Viktoria Kova / Arjen Lancel / Geraldine Macdonald / Joanneke Meester / Jacqueline Muitjens / Lies Neve / Astrid Oudheusden / Clementine Oomes / Ine Poppe / Pieter W Postma / Carola Rombouts / Ola Samko / Max Schulze / Helia Simonneau / Mischa Smit Kleine / Tampidaro / Rob Thijssen / Eleanora Van Lingen / Marja Van Putten / Harry Van der Woud / Tinca Veerman / Robert Verhaaf / Greet Weitenberg / Paul Wiegman / Petra Wiek / Mattijs Werner.

The Producers

The Personal Relations project is produced by Tisna Westerhof & Cristiana Bottigella, co-founders and directors of hARTslane Gallery in South East London. In 2016 they produced Personal Relations.

Tisna is an artist member of The London Group. Cristiana is an experienced art producer, a curator and an artist mentor.

Personal Relations 2016

Discover the first edition of Personal Relations in 2016 in collaboration with The London Group (UK), Pulchri (NL) and This Is Not Art (Italy).

Find out more

Contact

For any enquiries please contact Tisna and Cristiana:

personal.relations.info@gmail.com

Instagram: personal.relations.art

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DIY Residencies Online presentation + workshop

Dates and Times

Friday 15 May 2026, 1-2:30pm BOOK

Cancellation policy:
Refunds are available up to 24 hours before the event begins. After that, while we’re unable to issue a refund, we’ll gladly offer you a place in a future similar session.

hARTslane Presents:
DIY Residencies

Online presentation + workshop

Take control of your creative journey and design the residency experience you deserve.

DIY Residencies is an interactive online session combining a concise presentation with a reflective workshop, created for artists who want to reclaim agency over their time, focus, and working conditions. Instead of waiting for competitive or inaccessible opportunities, this session offers inspiration and practical tools to help you design and plan your own self-organised residency.

This presentation + workshop is relevant to all creative disciplines, including visual artists, writers, performance artists and musicians.

What to expect

  • A clear introduction to DIY / artist-initiated residencies

  • Real examples and case studies drawn from professional practice

  • Practical tips and tools to organise your own residency

  • Guided reflection time to start planning your own idea

  • Access to slides, worksheets, and other resources.

Format & details

  • Format: Online presentation + reflective workshop

  • Duration: 90 minutes

  • Fee: £15 per participant

  • Platform: Google Meet

Participants will leave with practical resources and a clearer sense of how to create protected time, dedicated focus, and space for experimentation within their own circumstances.

Session leader

Cristiana Bottigella is an art producer with over 25 years’ experience supporting artists to develop their practice, access resources, and create meaningful cultural impact. Her work focuses on socially engaged art, artist-led infrastructures, and sustainability.

She is the founder and director of hARTslane Gallery (South East London) and a director at the London School of Muralism. From 2000–2009, she ran the residency programme at the Pistoletto Foundation in Italy. In 2024, she authored the DIY Residencies guide for the Arquest website and currently co-runs Making a Buck Without Selling Out, a six-week course on artist practice development.

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Promotional poster with a bold, DIY aesthetic for a course titled Making a Buck Without Selling Out, presented by hARTslane. The background is a rough-textured, rusty red with torn paper-style beige panels layered on top. At the top, the black text reads: hARTslane Presents:. Below, in large capital letters, the title is displayed: MAKING A BUCK WITHOUT SELLING OUT. The typeface is heavy and hand-cut in appearance, giving the design a raw, grassroots feel. There are no images or dates—this version focuses solely on the title and presenter.

Making a Buck Without Selling Out – Open for registration!

Promotional poster with a bold, DIY aesthetic for a course titled Making a Buck Without Selling Out, presented by hARTslane. The background is a rough-textured, rusty red with torn paper-style beige panels layered on top. At the top, the black text reads: hARTslane Presents:. Below, in large capital letters, the title is displayed: MAKING A BUCK WITHOUT SELLING OUT. The typeface is heavy and hand-cut in appearance, giving the design a raw, grassroots feel. There are no images or dates—this version focuses solely on the title and presenter.

Making A Buck Without Selling Out is open for registration!

Next course: January 2017

Making a Buck Without Selling Out is hARTslane’s new course on artists’ professional practice, with hARTslane co-director Cristiana Bottigella and guest tutor Sophia Kosmaoglou, founder of ART&CRITIQUE and co-founder of the Radical Pedagogy Research Group.

We created this course because we recognise that there’s a gap in art education—one that rarely prepares artists for the realities of building a practice in today’s culture industry.  

The art world’s economy is full of contradictions. Artists are expected to be visionaries, provocateurs, and entrepreneurs all at once. We’re told to challenge the system—while also expected to succeed within it. Artists must survive and keep making work within a capitalist economy. That means negotiating visibility, marketing, and income—without selling out.

This course confronts that tension. It asks:

  • What does it mean to prioritise artistic integrity over marketability?
  • How do you stay connected and visible without getting drawn into competition and isolation?
  • What does autonomy look like when you also need to pay the rent? 

This programme isn’t a checklist or a formula. It’s a space to ask difficult questions about what keeps your work going, what threatens to undermine it, and how to protect your autonomy while expanding your networks and building community. You’ll also reflect on what success means for you, and what it takes—emotionally, materially, ethically—to keep your practice sustainable over time.

You’ll get 7 online group sessions, weekly activities with tangible outcomes, peer review, written feedback, and collective learning, a workbook to map your progression, resources, tools, and 1-to-1 tutorials to review your action plan.

Find out more and register on the course page

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hARTslane Artist Membership

‘Love Shack’ Artist Members’ Annual Exhibition 2025

‘Plateforms’ Artist Members’ Annual Exhibition 2026

Open Studios, May 2026

 ‘Silent Forms’ by Ted Brunning, window artwork 2025

hARTslane Artist Membership

hARTslane Artist Membership is open to artists at any stage of their career and from any background, offering opportunities to showcase and develop their work while being part of an exciting and supportive creative community. We keep our membership affordable and accessible, starting from £4/month. But as hARTslane is a not- for profit art space, any additional or larger contrbution will help keep our gallery running.

You’ll get:

  • Participation in the yearly Artist Members’ Annual Exhibition at hARTslane. Each year we pick a theme for artists to rrespond to. 
    2026, Plateforms
    2025, Love Shack
  • Participation in the Artist Members’ Open Studios in hARTslane. This is a day of closed door, small group, peer feedback session from other hARTslane’s members on a piece of work of your choice. The session is 2 hours long and it’s followed by a pop up show open to the public. The hARTslane team will guide the session alongside a visiting artist.
    2025-2026, visiting artist: Clive Burton LG
  • The opportunity to propose an artwork for our Window Installation (annual open call for members only).
    2025, ‘Silent Forms’ by Ted Brunning
  • Optional access to the Member’s Whatsapp group. This is a space for members to share relevant news and updates. It’s also practical tool and a way to support each other and nurture this community. 

 

    How to become a member:

    The membership is open to all artists and creatives. Please choose one of the following options.

    • From £4 / month via Pay Pal 
    • £42 / year via bank transfer to Hartslane CIC, account number: 67219643, sort code: 08-92-99 and send us an email with your details.

    ** Membership Terms **

    In the case of monthly membership, payments will be due monthly and will renew automatically month by month. In the case of annual membership, we will invite you
    to renew before your membership comes to an end.

    You will be eligible for a full refund of a monthly or annual payment if you cancel your membership within 14 days of that payment being made. We do not offer refunds for cancellations of memberships after this time except as described below.

    We reserve the right to make changes to the terms of membership. We may make minor changes to reflect any changes in relevant laws or to implement adjustments that will have no significant effect on your membership benefits. For more significant changes we will notify you in advance and you may then contact us to cancel the membership before the changes take effect. Donations will not be refunded.

    All membership benefits are subject to availability, and membership is non-transferable. For more information on how we look after your personal information please see our Cookies & Privacy Policy.

    Upcoming events:

    Window Artwork Open Call – Release date: July 2026

    Autumn Open Studios & Launch of the Window Artwork  – Saturday 10th of October 2026

    Artist Members Annual Exhibition 2027  – March 2027

    I have really enjoyed taking part in the open studio. Being able to give and receive feedback directly and openly has been very informative, and I found it helpful for considering how others view the work.

    It also gave me the chance to look at other artists’ work and see my own practice from a different angle. That kind of exchange feels useful, especially as I am working alone for long periods.

    So far, the main event I have taken part in is the open studio, but it has already felt like a positive and encouraging part of the membership. – Siméon Artamonov

     

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