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.
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.
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