Au fil du temps

SLQS Gallery presents Au fil du temps, an exhibition of new paintings, prints and ceramics by Damaris Athene, Lexia Hachtmann and Bethany Stead, recipients of the 2025 GIRLPOWER Residency co-founded by Marcelle Joseph and Kimberly Morris. 

Au fil du temps reflects on the artists’ time spent as visual archaeologists over their month-long stay in a 15th-century house in the French countryside in the South West of France. Feeling and being in the landscape inhabited by humans and more than humans, attending to its existence and transformation over time. In the ethereal world that these three artists have collectively created our very own existence as  individuals and as a species is reflected through the passage of time.

Private View | 5 March 6-8pm | RSVP 

On View | 6 March - 11 April 2026

Thursday - Saturday 12-6pm & by appointment

SLQS Gallery, 20 Club Row, London, E2 7EY

Almost Held

Almost Held brings together new work by Damaris Athene and Valentino Vannini, developed during their residency at Studio17 in Stavanger. United by a shared interest in thresholds and states of transition, the exhibition unfolds as a material and perceptual dialogue shaped by the coastal landscape. Athene presents expanded photographic works initiated through site-responsive image making with reflective materials in Stavanger and on the island of Vassøy, printed on fabric and installed in space. Vannini exhibits a new installation combining lamp-worked glass and wax, informed by dissolving ice and chain-link fences observed around Storhaug park. Together, the artists create an environment of suspended transition and permeable boundaries.

Private View | 4 March 6-8pm

On View | 5 - 7 March 2026

Thursday 2-6pm, Friday & Saturday 12-4pm

Studio17, Øvre Strandgate 66, 4005 Stavanger, Norway

Residency at Studio17

Valentino Vannini and I were selected for a duo residency with Studio17 in Stavanger Norway. We are in residence from 9th February until 8th March 2026.

During our time at Studio17 we are exploring thresholds. We are interested in the borders between land and water, people and the social and commercial systems around them, and the boundaries between bodies. We are keen for the materiality of the Stavanger landscape to permeate our practices, making work in response to our embodied experiences.

The Healthy Artist Podcast

For the first 6 months of 2026 I am joining Martha Lamont as a guest co-host on The Healthy Artist while Dan Curtis takes a pause. We’ll be meeting once a month and our discussions will be loosely inspired by The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron.

Our January episode is now out. In this episode, we explore the tender, often tricky feelings that surface at the start of a new year- rebuilding self-trust, learning how to recognise our gut feeling, and sitting with the vulnerability of beginning new projects when certainty feels far away. Martha is moving through a season of slowing down, while I am in a period of creative crunch as deadlines approach. Together, we reflect on how to honour the seasonality of our practices, making space for both rest and momentum without guilt.

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GIRLPOWER Residency 2025

I was selected for the GIRLPOWER Residency by co-founders Marcelle Joseph and Kimberly Morris. Alongside fellow artists Lexia Hachtmann and Bethany Stead, I was in residence for all of September 2025 in Salles, France. We had a wonderful time connecting to the landscape of South-Western France and I found my way back to oil painting, a medium I hadn’t used in 7 years.

Werkstattwoche 2025

I was selected for an artist residency as part of the 17th Werkstattwoche festival from 27th June - 7th July 2025 in Lüben, Germany. It was an incredible time of artistic and cultural exchange. I developed new work on paper - photographic collages and layered drawings inspired by light filtering through trees. Click on the link below to see some of the work I created at Werkstattwoche.

RCA/Konstfack Exchange supported by the Anglo-Swedish Foundation

I was awarded a residency in the Konstfack glass department which took place from 10th March - 1st June 2025 in Stockholm, Sweden. During my time at Konstfack I developed my work with glass further and I am immensely thankful to the Anglo-Swedish Society for their support.

Feature in Courrier Picard newspaper

Thank you to Courrier Picard for highlighting my work and featuring ‘In/Visible: The Changing State of Womanhood’ curated by Alisa Lisovskaia at Galerie de l’Est in their weekly arts and culture. The show took place from 18th January until 15th February 2025.

The article is called ‘À Compiègne, elles donnent leur vision de la féminité à la Galerie de l’Est’ and can be viewed on their website with the link below, or read in the image to the left.

art’otel Christmas Tree Commission

art’otel London Hoxton commissioned me to make a Christmas tree inspired by my Fruiting_Bodies series. The tree was available to view over the 2024 Christmas period.

Feature in the Financial Times

Thank you to Melanie Gerlis for featuring my piece ‘fruit-in-my-body’ in the Financial Times Weekend on 24th October 2024 in her art market column. This installation was exhibited at the Women In Art Fair with SLQS Gallery in October 2024 before SLQS Gallery opened their permanent space in Shoreditch in 2025.

An extract from the article:

Le Quang Sang previewed her gallery programme at this month's Minor Attractions and Women In Art Fair events, with works by Beverley Duckworth and a sound performance by Laima Leyton at the former, and a striking showing of Damaris Athene at WIAF (Athene will get a solo show in the gallery next year, Le Quang Sang confirms.) She will open on Club Row, close to Kate MacGarry, and says "I'm starting a business in the worst of economic times, but the gallery is well-located and compact."

London Cult Magazine Interview

What can and should the body be? is an interview for London Cult Magazine. I was interviewed by Anzhela Popova alongside fellow artist Katya Tsareva who mainly works with painting. We were interviewed ahead of our duo show Dawn on Your Skin which was held at Feelium Gallery from 16th-19th May 2024. You can read the full interview with the link below.

Suboart Magazine Interview

I was interviewed by Suboart Magazine and was featured in #17 released in January 2024. I’m delighted that my work featured on the front cover (left). This is a close-up image of my installation Fruiting_Body.004.

You can see images of my interview below and you can also order a physical copy with the link below.

Robert Walters UK New Arts of the Year Award 2023

I was delighted to be shortlisted for the Robert Walters Group UK New Artist of the Year Award 2023. I made a new version of my degree show installation, ‘Fruiting_Body.004’, for the exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery on 9th November 2023.