Exhibition: Selfsame

About Zoë Goetzmann

Zoë Goetzmann is a London-based curator and director of The Artist Workspace Gallery, a curatorial platform established to champion emerging and mid-career artists through exhibitions, commissions, and creative consultancy. Building on her recent projects on Dean Street, Soho, as well as independent collaborations with cultural partners including art’otel London Hoxton and Hypha Studios, Zoë’s curatorial approach centres on accessible contemporary art, community engagement, and artist-led storytelling. She works closely with organisations to deliver thoughtful, cohesive exhibitions that highlight diverse creative voices, including women artists. In addition to her curatorial work, Zoë is also an arts writer and podcaster, with features and reviews published in Artsy, Create! Magazine, and Fetch Magazine London.

About the artists

Anne von Freyburg 

Anne von Freyburg (b. 1979) is a Dutch artist based in London. She received her MFA from Goldsmiths (2016) and holds a BA in Fashion Design from ArtEZ Arnhem, The Netherlands. Von Freyburg is the winner of Robert Walters UK New Artists Award (2021) and a finalist for the Hopper Prize (2025). Von Freyburg had a solo show at Saatchi Gallery London in Spring 2025 and exhibited several times at the Gallery. In 2021 von Freyburg was nominated for the Ingram Prize. Her work is part of the 18^th Tapestry Triennial at the Central Textile Museum in Lodz, Poland (2025-2016) one of the most prominent international textile museums worldwide. Von Freyburg’s work is in museums and private collections all over the world.

Anne von Freyburg actively engages in the ongoing discourse surrounding femininity and the construction of female identity. Departing from historical norms that sidelined traditionally feminine materials, her work serves as a reclamation of the value of textiles and embroidery in fine art.

Abbie Griffiths

Abbie Griffiths is a British artist working in London, UK. Her work focuses on the seen and unseen forces that mediate human experience. Exploring the spaces between the unconscious and physical realms her work exposes the marks and forms left as evidence of memories on material, modern ideas of mythology and themes of order and chaos, permanence and vulnerability.

Working with construction materials and second-hand domestic fabrics, she draws on the experiences of her own family, a lineage of makers who have always worked with their hands as builders, boxers, cleaners, and tradespeople, while remaining rooted in her traditional art training at Lyme Academy College of Fine Art in Connecticut, USA. Her choice of materials are common both in their social meaning and in their everyday familiarity. Taking what is known, used, and overlooked, Abbie transforms them into objects that tell stories beyond their usual context. Polyurethane becomes cellulitic flesh; plaster becomes a gesture, an appendage, touch. Pillowcases become skin – decorated, sagging, fleshy sacks.

Marina Renée Cemmick

Marina Renée-Cemmick is a figurative artist concerned with people and the spaces they inhabit – physically and mentally. Choosing to work predominantly with the human body, she draws from life, memory and imagination to create  drawings and paintings that are rooted in reality but have a theatrical or dreamlike quality.  Her confident line work comes from years of life study and translating onto the page, while her colourful mark making is an instinctive expression of what she sees.

​She works in a range of mediums including charcoal, colour pencil and oil paint. Originally from Dorset, Marina showed promise for portraiture and drawing at an early age. After studying Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art, she became an MA scholar on the Drawing year at The Royal Drawing School in London, before reconnecting with her love for Scotland. She now lives and works near Glasgow.

​Recently she exhibited in the Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award at The National Portrait Gallery London. Marina made an appearance on season 10 of SkyArts Portrait Artist of the Year, drawing Actor Nigel Havers. She has had work personally selected by HRH King Charles for the Royal Collection, as well as had work exhibited with Christies, The Royal Society of Portrait Painters and New English Arts Club, Mall Galleries, London.

Lidia Russkova-Hasaya

Lidia Russkova-Hasaya is an interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, installation, and performance. Sky 111 is a recent video project developed during Lidia’s most recent trip to Greece and serves as an extension of her earlier Unfolding project, presented at the Ria Keburiations. She has presented work internationally in exhibition and public contexts, collaborating with galleries, foundations, and urban developers across Europe and the Middle East. Her practice approaches art as a form of emotional architecture—structures and situations designed to be encountered, inhabited, and felt.

Cleansing (2018–ongoing): Cleansing is an ongoing video work composed of episodic actions filmed across multiple locations and years. Each episode centres on a performative act of purification, using materials that are strictly site-specific and inseparable from their immediate context. The work treats cleansing not as symbolism but as a concrete, physical gesture—repetitive, embodied, and contingent—through which the body momentarily disengages from environmental, informational, and cultural saturation. New episodes continue to expand the work, introducing additional sites, materials, and conditions while maintaining a consistent focus on gesture, presence, and situational specificity.

In Episode V, filmed during Art Basel Miami, the artist sits in front of Order of Importance (2019) by Leandro Erlich, collecting discarded art pamphlets and using them to cleanse her body against the sandy backdrop of the installation, building on the work’s commentary on climate change and activism through the female gaze.

Sky 111: Sky 111 is a recent video project developed during Lidia’s most recent trip to Greece and serves as an extension of her earlier Unfolding project, presented at the Ria Keburia Foundation in Tbilisi in 2023. Through sustained observations of cloud formations, the work captures the natural beauty of the sky as it unfolds before the viewer’s eyes, foregrounding subtle shifts in light, movement, and atmosphere.

Fiona G Roberts

Fiona G. Roberts lives and works in London. She has an MA, Painting, from Wimbledon College of Arts, University of the Arts London, where she was awarded the Vice Chancellor’s Scholarship. She has also completed two years at the Turps Banana Painting School (2019-2021) on the offsite painting programme. She has had work shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize; Ingram Collection’s Contemporary Talent Prize; Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, 2018 and 2019 and Dentons Art Prize, where she was runner-up and also won the Staff Prize.  She was also shortlisted for the Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize 2021 and the 2021 Figurative Art Now Exhibition, where she was awarded a Mentorship Prize. Her work has been exhibited in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2021, 2023 and 2025. She also has degrees from the LSE and Goldsmiths, University of London.

Lea Rose Kara

Before completing her Masters in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art (2022), Lea Rose Kara received a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Bath Spa University. She has completed residencies at Porthleven in Cornwall (2019) where she was a Prize Winner, the Freud Museum London in 2021, and the Standpoint Gallery, London in 2022. Lea has exhibited nationally and internationally in both solo and group shows, including ‘In Between’ at RuptureXIBIT, London (solo), ‘MIXTAPE’ at Pi Artworks gallery, London, ‘Brighten up the Night’ at the Yuan Art Museum in China and projects with Hypha Studios in London. Most recently, Lea lectured at The Courtauld Institute of Art symposium “Distilling Reality: Artists as Alchemists” and was the 2025 Ingram Prize finalist.

Karolina Dworska

Karolina is a London-based Polish artist whose multidisciplinary textile practice explores dreams, mythologies and liminal fantasy spaces, situated between the unconscious and reality. Littered with surreal motifs and mysterious inhabitants, her dreamscapes examine the strangeness, abject horror as well as the euphoria of corporeal existence. She recently exhibited as part of the 2025 UK/Poland Season, as well as holding duo and group shows nationally and internationally.

Elena Unger 

Elena Unger (b. 1997, Canada) is a London based artist. She studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins and Goldsmiths, and philosophy at the University of Cambridge. Unger produces meticulously detailed oil paintings at both miniature and monumental scales. Her works form part of an overarching, interconnected apocalyptic world, approached through a documentary lens.

Alongside her painting practice, Unger extends her work into curation through large scale, immersive, extra liturgical installations. Recent projects include an exhibition in partnership with James Freeman Gallery at Saint Bartholomew the Great, where she is artist in residence. Unger is also a Freeman of the City of London through the Company of Painter Stainers.

Olivia Strange

Olivia Strange’s multi-disciplinary practice spanning sculpture, painting, installation, moving image & poetry is characterised by a layered narrative and a highly visceral aesthetic. Historical hetero-patriarchal narratives are dismantled through re-writing ancient mythologies via a queer feminist lens. As a practicing witch herself, the historical persecution of witches & gender-marginalised people – for their sense of self-directed feminine power, intellectual and sexual freedom – is a recurring theme in Strange’s work, as well as the landscape of fantasy and otherworldly dimensions. Themes of pleasure, jouissance, desire, power, spirituality and escapism are explored by subverting universal codified objects, gestures and icons to portray an empowering image of queer subjectivity with the hope of cultivating empathy for continually othered experiences.

Graduating with Distinction from Chelsea College of Art ( MA Fine Art (2017)  having received the Vice-Chancellor’s Scholarship, Strange has been selected for the Radical Residency 2022 at Unit 1 Gallery, longlisted for the Robert Walters UK New Artist Award 2022, shortlisted for the GIRLPOWER Residency 2023, selected for the 2021 cohort of the SPACE Studios x London Creative Network Artist Development Programme, the Ellipsis Prints 2021 Commissioning Project, and was a finalist of the prestigious Ingram Collection Purchase Prize 2021. Additionally, she was awarded ‘Critics’ Choice’ for her stand with Liminal Gallery at London Art Fair’s PLATFORM section curated by Gemma Rolls-Bentley.

Strange has exhibited at Liminal Gallery as part of Margate Pride Art Trail, Shoreditch Modern Gallery, Annka Kultys Gallery, Southwark Park Galleries, ArtOn Istanbul, Unit 1 Gallery, Every Woman Biennial, Basis Projektraum, and London Art Fair. Most recently, Strange has exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery (London) in Entangled (2025) and presented her ambitious solo exhibition ‘The Real Housewives of Apotropiaca’ at Second Act Gallery in London.

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