Hypha Frieze | Private View - Assembly

Curated by Alexandra Carr and Alex Breeze
Hypha Studios South Bank / Gallery 3, 42 Southwark Bridge Rd, London, SE1 9EU
PV: Monday, 12th October 2026, 6 – 9pm
Open: 8th October – 15th November 2026, Thursday-Sunday 12pm – 6pm

This autumn, Assembly brings together 35 members and fellows of the Royal Society of Sculptors at Hypha Gallery South Bank, following its inaugural presentation in Sunderland earlier this year. Opening during Frieze season, the exhibition brings a diverse group of established sculptors into a new architectural and cultural context, creating an opportunity for audiences, collectors, curators and artists to encounter contemporary sculpture beyond the conventional gallery framework.

Curated by Alexandra Carr MRSS and Alex Breeze of Breeze Creatives, Assembly began in Sunderland as an experiment in artistic freedom, exchange and collaboration. The London presentation continues that spirit while allowing the works to enter into dialogue with the distinctive context of Southbank and the international activity surrounding Frieze.
The exhibition brings together practices spanning installation, object-making, architectural intervention, film, performance and material experimentation. Across the exhibition, sculpture moves between the intimate and monumental, the poetic and political, the familiar and unexpected.

Together, the works explore the capacity of sculpture to transform space and shape human encounter, while engaging with themes including ecology, identity, migration, labour, landscape, memory and the human experience. Rather than presenting a single definition of what sculpture can be, Assembly reflects the breadth of approaches being pursued by artists working within the field today.

The move from Sunderland to London marks a further development of the project. Following its presentation within Sunderland’s historic Athenaeum building, Assembly now enters a very different cultural landscape, bringing the work of its artists into proximity with major institutions, galleries, collectors and international audiences during one of the most significant periods in London’s art calendar.

Olana Light will activate her installation ‘The Birch Tree Family’ with a live performance at 7pm.

Artists: Farnoush Amini MRSS, Tabatha Andrews MRSS, Sally Barker MRSS, Perla Krauze MRSS, Ronn Beattie MRSS, Mary Bourne FRSS, Gillian Brent MRSS, Julie Brook MRSS, Owen Bullett MRSS, Ros Burgin MRSS, Alexandra Carr MRSS, Ali Darke MRSS, Kate Davis and David Moore MRSS, Sally De Courcy MRSS, Mandeep Dillon MRSS, Ebru Dosekci MRSS, Victoria Ferrand Scott MRSS, Andrea Geile FRSS, Peter Hanmer MRSS, Steve Johnson FRSS, Ben Joiner MRSS, Caroline Lambard MRSS, Julia Ellen Lancaster MRSS, Olana Light MRSS, Jenny Pope MRSS, Gary Power MRSS, Simon Raines MRSS, Stefan Reiss MRSS, Si Sapsford MRSS, Susanne Schmidt-Nielsen MRSS, Louise Frances Smith MRSS, Jill Townsley MRSS, Almuth Tebbenhoff PVPRSS, Sarah Villeneau MRSS and Susan York FRSS.