Time For A Change
Everything evolves in its own time.
After ten years of running FAWW Gallery, I will be closing our physical spaces. Our pop-up at Mare Street Market ends in two weeks, and our kiosk in Spitalfields will transition into Portals, a new Platform supporting young creative entrepreneurs. These next couple of weeks will be my final days trading in Hackney before I take a little bit of a breather across 2026.
I first met Matrijarsija, a Balkan screen-print collective, when I was 20. I was completely taken by their studio walls covered floor to ceiling in prints, and when I found out they had never shown in London because they couldn’t get visas, I went back the next day, selected pieces, brought them home and began selling them down the East End on weekends.
From there I started representing many of their friends Oficina Arara, Dunja Janković, O Homem Do Saco, Poster Rex and eventually expanded into graphic design and club-culture posters, working with Floating Bstrd, Benedikt Rugar and many more.
It’s been a privilege to represent these artists internationally and give many of them their first shows abroad. This year alone we’ve done Vancouver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Shanghai, and next week Tokyo at the Museum of Contemporary Art for our final fair.
We began as a Brick Lane market stall and grew into a multi-site gallery program with international exhibitions, dinners, screenings and cultural events from back-alley spaces in Peckham to huge white cubes in Soho Square, vintage kiosks and everything in between.
The most meaningful part has always been the artists and the collectors. The people who gravitated towards our work are some of the most interesting, creative and individual people I’ve ever met. Thank you for supporting us, especially in the last couple of years when everything has become absurdly expensive yet so many of you still chose to buy art and support artists.
Next year FAWW will be focusing on specific shows and international fairs rather than maintaining permanent physical spaces in London, so we’ll still be popping up just not so intensley. This new direction will allow me to focus on the core of what I want to curate.
Over the next couple of months we have a huge amount of our archive on sale, including pieces that have never been available online. Please come see us at Mare Street Market for some brilliant Christmas art bargains!
Thank you for a decade of support, trust and community. This isn’t the end, rather a beginning of a new chapter for FAWW.
