coming soon


rob kesseler

agalis manessi




Seasonal Studio Sale of

drawings, prints, glass & ceramics




Friday 5th December 4 - 8

Saturday & Sunday 11 - 4






About the Artists


Rob Kesseler is an award-winning visual artist, Emeritus Professor of Art, Design & Science at Central Saint Martins, London, For the past twenty-five years he has worked extensively with botanical scientists and molecular biologists around the world to explore the living world at a microscopic level with solo exhibitions in the UK, North & South America, Greece & Germany. Fellowships include: 2002 -05 NESTA Fellow at Kew, 2010, Year of Biodiversity Fellow at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal, 2014 winner of the Royal Microscopical Society Scientific Imaging Competition, 2022 1st Prize, Botanic Garden Rome, Arts & Science Synergy Foundation. EU Horizon 2020. Collaborators include The Jodrell Laboratory Kew, The John Innes Centre, Norwich, and the Max Planck Institute, Germany.



Artist website


 
Agalis Manessi is a ceramic artist working from studios in London and Corfu, where she was born. She has exhibited widely in the UK, recently at Messums Wiltshire and Ceramic Art London, and also across Europe. Her work recently appeared in the New York Times Style Magazine and was featured in TOAST magazine TOAST Portraits. Manessi is a Fellow of the Craft Potters Association and Brother of the Art Workers’ Guild. A Journey Painted in Clay, a monograph celebrating fifty years of working in ceramics was published by Unicorn in 2023.



Artist website






Ken artspace is a small new art space in the heart of Kennington.

 Run by artists and founders Rob Kesseler and Agalis Manessi  is

dedicated to a mix of occasional exhibitions, window installations

and pop-up events.




ARCHIVE


2020

Leap                                                                    Rob Kesseler & Agalis Manessi

Taster                                                                 Paul Ashurst, Maria Chevska, Stephen Nelson, Liz Rideal

Slice                                                                    Rob Kesseler 

Decadence of Rebelegance                     Earl of Bedlam

Seasonal Fruit                                               Rob Kesseler


2021

Fieldwork 1                                                     Alice McCabe

Sliver Hope Optimism Linings                Paul Ashurst

Easter Parade                                                Agalis Manessi

Resistance is Fertile                                    Justin Knopp – Typoretum

Liminal Landscapes                                     Ken Taylor

Flood                                                                  Rob Kesseler & Agalis Manessi

Polytunnel                                                       Marco Kesseler

Observe - Obverse.                                     Jacqueline Duncan


2022

Northern Light                                              Cecilia   Bortoluzzi - Brocklin

Slice                                                                    Rob Kesseler

The Surrogate                                             Jefford Horrigan

Little Wretches                                          Stephen Nelson

I'm all ears....                                                 Maria Chevska

Being Colour                                                Rosemary Phelps


2023

The Small Stuff                                             Garth Lewis

Catalogue of Time                                       Maiko Tsutsumi

Signifying Nothing.                                     Robert Dawson

Oracle                                                               Antoni Malinowski.                       

That Playful Place                                       Deborah Duffin                           

Mixed Marvels                                              Group exhibition


2024

Gathering                                                       Jocelyn Clarke

Nearly not there, actually very             Jo Lewis

Someone I know                                        Andrew Carnie                                                     

Open Studio                                                 Aliki Braine

Ethereal Twins                                            Liz Rideal

Zona Pellucida                                            Rob Kesseler


2025

REFLECT                                                        Annie Johns

Peaks branching                                        Vivien Blackett           

STUDY                                                            Rob Kesseler      

In Discrete Dialogue                                  Mark Aitken , Jonty Sale                             




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