A Mote in the air, in sunlight, in the eye, up your nose. Drawing is looking. This exhibition gathers 14 artists whose 'motes' are waiting to float into your eye, maybe you’ll never get them out.

About the artists:
Audrey Danet
@audrey_danet

Chris Harnan
Chris Harnan lives and works in East London, England. He is an illustrator, designer and artist, creating mixed media works made both digitally and with analogue media. Chris’ work attempts to simplify and reduce the world around him, and has developed a visual language and process that not only rejects technical proficiency, but attempts to unlearn traditional ways of representing subjects.
Chris is set to publish his second book BIG POOL in 2025, with South London publisher Breakdown Press. In recent times, he was featured in both Lagon Revue’s Marecage and Lagon Revue’s Plaine, which were exhibited in the Centre Pompidou, Paris, in 2024. Chris graduated from the University of Brighton in 2013 and interned at HORT Berlin in 2016. www.chrisharnan.com

Joe Kessler
Joe Kessler is a cartoonist based in South London. His books include Windowpane and The Gull Yettin. His drawings have been exhibited internationally in numerous solo and group shows including le Chemin de Terre at the Pompidou Centre in 2024. Windowpane received the Prix Révélation at the 2020 Festival International de la Band Dessinée d’Angoulême whilst The Gull Yettin was featured as a New York Times Graphic Novel of the Year in 2023 and a Washington Post Graphic Novel of the Summer. www.joekessler.co.uk

Brianna Moreno
Brianna Moreno is an artist from Ottawa now living in London. Her practice includes drawing and beading amongst other disciplines. briannamoreno.co.uk

John Molesworth
John Molesworth is an artist working at the intersection of image making and sculpture, exploring form, texture, and narrative through ceramics. With a background in visual communication, their sculptural practice delves into craft and material experimentation with ceramics. www.johnmolesworth.co.uk

Saehan Parc
Born on February 4, 1989 in Bucheon, a city of comics, in South Korea, Saehan lives and works in Strasbourg, France. Her artwork can be found in newspapers such as The New York Times or Bloomberg Businessweek, and in exhibitions or book fairs. Her first children’s book Papa Ballon published by Éditions 2024 won the prize Révélation livre jeunesse 2021 of ADAGP. Curious, she likes to draw and make people want to draw, without forgetting the values that are important to her. She is also a member of Louise the Women, a women’s visual artist collective in Korea. @saehan_parc

Chi Park
Chi Park is a South Korean artist based in London. She graduated from Kingston School of Art in Illustration/Animation in 2022. Her love for drawing grew especially after completing a year at the Royal Drawing School in 2023, where she began to focus on the simple joy of drawing practice. She mainly draws inspiration from everyday life, capturing and transforming ordinary moments into creative opportunities. In her studio, Chi explores the possibilities of the imagination and memory. It is where she infuses observation with wit, crafting a playful perspective on both fiction and reality, embracing the possibilities of imagination, coincidence, and chance. Working with various analogue materials, she creates vibrant, dynamic pieces that evoke the essence of fleeting moments while embracing coincidence and chance. chi-park.org

Erland Peder Kvam
Erlend Peder Kvam (b. 1994) is a Norwegian visual artist and illustrator who recently returned to Oslo after graduating from Hochschüle für Buchkunst Leipzig. His work has been published by Nieves Books, Le Monde Diplomatique and Bloomberg Businessweek, and since 2017 he has been collaborating with the band Pom Poko. He was formerly associated with the performative design collective Narves1biblioteket, and in 2020 he co-founded the publishing house Foot Books. He is currently working on a series of works inspired by a classic one-panel comic format, which is set to be published by Foot Books later this year. @erlendpederkvam

Mike S Redmond & Faye Coral Johnson
Collaborative earthlings Mike S Redmond and Faye Coral Johnson (MSR FCJ) are the duo behind images that dare to explore all manner of odd but enchanting circumstances where themes of unbridled romance, mild horror, dark humour and plain weird fantasy unfold.
In rejection of conventional attitudes towards art, Mike S Redmond and Faye Coral Johnson (MSR FCJ) consciously push experimental ideas of lo-fi making through intuitive collaborative line and narrative based work. Both with a background in drawing, comics and self publishing the duo often play with structural elements of these smaller scale mediums by translating them into larger scale works.
Reworked and built up over time, mutating scenes reveal themselves through their back and forth process like piles of doodles forming in a sketchbook; in ode to the ephemeral, the in-between and unfinished. Through their collaborative exchange, somewhere between the chaos and harmony of melding visual ideas, there is a complete merging, a third view, a middle ground, that is unforeseen and mind-bogglingly personal. Recent Shows: The Other Celia, Art Shenzhen Fair, China, 2024, Head Sounds Gallery daSein, China, 2024, Happy I Have Your Head, Golsa Gallery, Norway, 2024, Puff & Watch, Andys Gallery, Sweden, 2023, Pap Er Popper Sound, Simchowitz Gallery, USA, 2023, Arb & Orb, Cape Town Residency 2023, Wader The Ditch, IASPIS, Sweden, 2023, Cartoon Moon, Andys Gallery, Sweden, 2022. Recent Residencies: Cape Town Art Residency, 2023, IASPIS, 2023, Hospitalfield, Arbroath, Scotland, 2019, Bibliothek Andreas Zust, Switzerland, 2017. @msr_fcj

Leomi Sadler
Leomi Sadler, 41, is a trans woman living in Nottingham. Making zines since her teens, her artistic journey began when she witnessed Kramers Ergot 4 in 2003. It was a moment of divine focus and set the guiding rails. As a member of the Famicon art group collectively making animation and video games, in 2008 they began to publish their comics and zines formally as Famicon Express.
Her creative restlessness can’t be satisfied by comics alone, her tendrils also extend into sculpture, painting, printmaking and fashion. Leomi's work is regularly published and exhibited internationally, most recently at the Pompidou with Lagon Revue, and Palais De Tokyo as part of La Morsure Des Termites.
Leomi is co-editor of the Mould Map comic/art anthology series alongside Hugh Frost of Landfill Editions. Whilst it garnered significant recognition, it’s on ice for now until a sustainable platform reveals itself. Her work could be placed in the lineage of underground comix, francophone transgressive graphic publishing, Fort Thunder etc. although somewhat cursed by post-internet art, dissolving labour conditions and the effect of web 2.0. @leomi_sadler

Zoe Taylor
Zoë Taylor makes drawings and comics which have appeared in anthologies by Lagon Revue and others. Rather than follow a discernible plot, these tend to be fragmentary and catalyse around obscure, intense or unexpected moments. She likes to explore the atmospheres which can emerge through the textures and suggestions of drawing.
Her book Joyride, published with Breakdown Press in 2016, was recently shown at the Pompidou Centre’s Comics on Every Floor exhibition. Her latest book, Mirror Vault Secret Door was published with Foot Books in 2024. @zlysbeth

Wai Wai Pang
Wai Wai Pang is an illustrator living in Milton Keynes. She works in her 3 x 3m studio in an “Advance Factory Unit” that forms the industrial estate. The building resembles faded potato waffles. She draws, she snacks, she takes frequent breaks to walk to the scrap store for treasure. waiwaiworld.hotglue.me

Chantelle Wroblewska Fairless
Chantelle Wroblewska-Fairless (b.2000, Warsaw) studied BA Illustration at Kingston School of Art. She was the recipient of the Newman Young Artist Award and completed a year at the Essential School of Painting. She has since exhibited as part of multiple group exhibitions including the Young Artists collective Shapes and Things and Fresh Salad Art. Her solo show, In the Round, with Rotate Gallery took place in August 2024 and her work is also currently shown with Columbia Road Gallery.
Working in a fast and layered approach, the artist’s process is driven by a preoccupation with the intimate spaces of theatre and the stage. Through an exploratory and responsive approach to colour and texture, as well as the possibilities of materials at hand, each artwork is built up in layers and sections to form a space left to be interpreted by the viewer. Each piece acts as a small scene or insight from the artist’s ongoing collections of found material and observations of her environment and past experiences. @chantellewroblewskafairless



Thames-Side Studios Gallery
Thames-Side Studios
Harrington Way, Warspite Road
Royal Borough of Greenwich
London SE18 5NR

Open Thursday-Sunday, 12-5pm, during exhibitions.
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Bicycle: Thames River cycle path (16 mins cycle from Greenwich).
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Road: A2 corridor, first roundabout east of Thames Barrier onto Warspite Road.
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