Category: Art & Design

FASHION MEETS ART — LONDON 2026

FASHION MEETS ART — LONDON 2026 ONE PIECE. ONE STORY. Application Deadline: Friday, 13 November 2026 at 11:59 PM GMT An International Exhibition of Fashion, Art & Creative Expression 5–6 DECEMBER 2026 | LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM Presented by LA MODE GROUP UK APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN Fashion is art. Art tells stories. Every creative masterpiece deserves a platform where its story can be seen, appreciated and celebrated. Fashion Meets Art — London 2026 is an exclusive two-day curated exhibition bringing together exceptional fashion designers and visual artists from across the United Kingdom and around the world. This unique creative experience celebrates the powerful relationship between fashion and visual art, presenting extraordinary creations in an inspiring London gallery environment. Each selected exhibitor will showcase one signature piece — a creation that represents their identity, originality, craftsmanship and artistic vision. Whether you are a fashion designer creating breathtaking couture or a visual artist expressing ideas through original artwork, this is an opportunity to present your creativity on an international platform. One Piece. One Story. One Extraordinary Exhibition. ⸻ ABOUT THE EXHIBITION WHERE FASHION BECOMES ART Fashion Meets Art — London is more than an exhibition. It is a celebration of artistic identity, storytelling, cultural expression and creative excellence. For two days, fashion and art will come together in a carefully curated exhibition setting where garments are presented as artistic statements and visual artworks are celebrated for their originality and meaning. Our vision is to create a distinctive environment that connects creative talent, art enthusiasts, fashion lovers and exhibition visitors. Each exhibitor will have the opportunity to share the inspiration and story behind their selected creation. The exhibition welcomes both emerging and established creatives, including international participants. Exhibition Details Event: Fashion Meets Art — London 2026 Dates: Saturday 5 December – Sunday 6 December 2026 Location: London, United Kingdom Organiser: LA MODE GROUP UK Participation: One signature piece per selected exhibitor Categories: Fashion Designers and Visual Artists International Applications: Welcome The exact exhibition venue and logistical details will be communicated to confirmed exhibitors at the appropriate stage. ⸻ WHO CAN EXHIBIT? FASHION DESIGNERS We invite fashion designers with distinctive creative identities to submit one signature garment or fashion creation that represents their craftsmanship and artistic vision. Applications are welcome from: * Couture and haute couture designers * Luxury and contemporary fashion designers * Avant-garde and conceptual designers * Emerging and established fashion brands * Independent fashion creators Your selected garment will be presented as an artistic creation within the exhibition environment. VISUAL ARTISTS We welcome original visual artworks that communicate a compelling creative vision and can be professionally displayed within a curated gallery setting. Applications are welcome from: * Painters * Mixed-media artists * Textile artists * Contemporary visual artists * Fine artists * Other visual artists whose work is suitable for exhibition Each selected artist will exhibit one approved original artwork. All proposed works are subject to curatorial approval and suitability for the exhibition setting. ⸻ THE PREMIUM EXHIBITOR EXPERIENCE YOUR CREATION. YOUR STORY. YOUR LONDON EXHIBITION. Every selected participant will receive a professionally coordinated exhibition experience designed to present their work beautifully and introduce their creative identity to exhibition visitors. WHAT YOUR EXHIBITOR PACKAGE INCLUDES 1. Two-Day Curated Exhibition Presentation A dedicated curated presentation for one approved signature fashion creation or original visual artwork throughout the two-day exhibition. 1. Professional Display & Installation Standard mannequins for fashion creations and standard artwork hanging arrangements for visual artworks, with coordinated exhibition presentation. 1. Professional Exhibition Photography Professional photography documenting the exhibition and selected displayed works, with a selection of images made available to exhibitors. 1. Exhibitor Promotional Features Inclusion in selected pre-event and event-related digital promotional activities across LA MODE GROUP UK communication channels. 1. Personalised Exhibitor Identification A professional display label featuring your name or brand, the title of your work and a short statement about your creative inspiration. 1. Official Digital Exhibitor Directory Your name or brand and creative profile included in the exhibition’s official digital exhibitor listing or programme. 1. Exhibition Coordination & Support Guidance on standard exhibition presentation requirements, coordination of display arrangements and on-site exhibition support. 1. Creative Networking Opportunities An opportunity to connect with fellow exhibitors, creative professionals and visitors attending the exhibition. 1. Digital Certificate of Participation An official digital participation certificate acknowledging your involvement in Fashion Meets Art — London 2026. Participation does not guarantee sales, media coverage, buyer attendance or commercial partnerships. ⸻ EXHIBITOR PARTICIPATION FEE ONE PREMIUM PACKAGE. TWO DAYS OF CREATIVE EXPOSURE. £1,200 Excluding VAT Full Payment Required The premium exhibitor package covers participation across both exhibition days: 5–6 December 2026 The fee includes the standard exhibition presentation, professional photography, mannequins or artwork hanging, promotional features, digital exhibitor listing and other package benefits described above. There is one premium package for both fashion designers and visual artists. WHAT IS NOT INCLUDED? The participation fee does not include: * Travel, accommodation or visa expenses * Shipping and return delivery of garments or artworks * Customs duties or import-related charges * Individual insurance for exhibited work * Specialist framing, oversized installations or non-standard technical requirements * Personal expenses Exhibitors are responsible for ensuring their work can be safely transported and presented according to the exhibition requirements. ⸻ HOW TO APPLY SUBMIT YOUR CREATION. SHARE YOUR STORY. We welcome applications from fashion designers and visual artists who wish to participate in Fashion Meets Art — London 2026. The application process is completed online. STEP 1 — COMPLETE YOUR APPLICATION Fill in your personal and professional details, including your creative background, brand or artistic identity and country of residence. STEP 2 — UPLOAD YOUR SIGNATURE PIECE Upload 3–5 clear photographs of the actual fashion creation or original artwork you wish to exhibit. Include the title of your piece, its dimensions, materials and a short creative statement explaining the inspiration behind it. The submitted photographs should clearly represent the work proposed for exhibition. STEP 3 — PAY YOUR PARTICIPATION FEE After completing the form and uploading your

Ololade Oletubo’s Mixed Reality Exhibition Brings a Vibrant Celebration of Culture and Community to London

1 September 2026 Artist Ololade Oletubo presented Mixed Reality, a solo exhibition at Afrahouse Gallery, London, bringing audiences into a vivid world of colour, cultural expression and shared human experience. Held at the gallery’s Haddo Street space, Mixed Reality showcased a body of expressive figurative works exploring the relationships that connect individuals to family, community, heritage and everyday life. Oletubo’s paintings place people firmly at the heart of the narrative. Across the works, men gather in conversation, mothers carry their children, and groups of women share moments of movement, work and companionship. These familiar scenes are transformed through the artist’s energetic approach into powerful reflections on belonging and collective identity. A defining feature of the exhibition was Oletubo’s bold use of colour and texture. Rich blues, oranges, purples, yellows, greens and turquoise were layered through vigorous, highly visible brushstrokes, creating compositions filled with movement and emotional intensity. Traditional garments, headwraps, caps and jewellery also featured prominently throughout the works, reinforcing connections to African heritage while remaining firmly situated within a contemporary visual language. The title Mixed Reality reflected the exhibition’s exploration of the many layers through which life is experienced. Reality, within Oletubo’s paintings, is not presented as a single fixed image. Instead, it emerges through the meeting of memory and observation, tradition and modernity, individuality and community. The exhibition also drew attention to the significance of ordinary human interactions. Conversations, motherhood, friendship and daily responsibilities became worthy of artistic focus, allowing experiences that can easily pass unnoticed to assume a commanding presence on canvas. By presenting these narratives in London, Mixed Reality created a meeting point between culturally specific experiences and a wider international audience. While the works were strongly rooted in African visual and social experiences, their themes of family, care, friendship and belonging extended beyond geographical boundaries. Through expressive figures and richly textured compositions, Oletubo offered audiences a celebration of culture not as something static, but as something continually lived, shared and carried from one generation to another. The exhibition at Afrahouse Gallery marked a compelling presentation of Oletubo’s artistic practice, demonstrating how contemporary figurative painting can serve as both an expression of cultural identity and a record of collective experience. Mixed Reality ultimately celebrated the people, relationships and everyday moments through which communities are built and sustained transforming scenes of ordinary life into lasting images of dignity, connection and cultural pride.

Layers of Seeing Opens a Conversation on Identity, Memory and the Stories We Carry

A reflection held in a fragment of glass. A body illuminated against darkness. Two figures standing side by side. Hands holding, reaching and supporting. A face meeting the viewer from the surface of water. These encounters formed part of Layers of Seeing, a group exhibition at Orisun Art Gallery, Abuja, bringing together Ibrahim Kareem, Anehita Aletor, Ololade Oletubo, Samson Yusuf and Deborah Ibeme. The exhibition was built around a familiar but often overlooked truth: what we see is shaped by what we have lived. Rather than following a single visual style, Layers of Seeing allowed each artist to approach that idea independently. Photography, painting and drawing moved alongside one another, creating a varied exhibition in which the human figure repeatedly appeared as a place where memory, identity, vulnerability and hope could be examined. For Ibrahim Kareem, attention turned towards moments that might ordinarily disappear into everyday life. His fine art photographs The Unnoticed and Thresholds used intimate compositions and carefully controlled light to make the seemingly ordinary feel significant. His work asked what becomes visible when we give ourselves enough time to notice. Ololade Oletubo’s Paths of Becoming and The Journey of Hope brought another rhythm to the exhibition. Through painting and drawing, Oletubo explored people in relation to movement, community and possibility. His expressive treatment of the figure suggested that becoming is not a fixed destination, but a process shaped by experience. In Samson Yusuf’s Presence and Absence and Interior Landscape, photography became a means of approaching memory. Light, shadow and partial visibility created images that appeared to exist somewhere between the tangible and the remembered. The photographs invited viewers into an emotional space where absence could feel as present as the things directly before them. Deborah Ibeme explored physical and psychological connection in Shifting Perspectives and Fragments of Time. Through tightly framed bodies and evocative portraiture, her photographs considered how relationships, environments and changing circumstances influence the ways people understand themselves. Anehita Aletor’s contribution added its own perspective to this wider examination of human experience, strengthening an exhibition that deliberately allowed different artistic languages to meet without requiring them to become the same. The works were individual, but their concerns frequently crossed paths. Throughout the exhibition, the body carried meaning. Hands communicated without words. Faces revealed and concealed. Light altered the emotional character of a scene. Figures appeared not simply as subjects to be observed, but as people carrying histories that could never be fully understood from the surface alone. This made Layers of Seeing as much about the audience as it was about the artists. Visitors were encouraged to bring their own experiences to the works. An image that suggested resilience to one person could speak of uncertainty to another. A gesture might be read as protection, dependence, affection or strength. The exhibition left room for those differences. That openness gave the show its pulse. At a time when photographs and visual information are encountered in an almost continuous stream, Layers of Seeing offered a different pace. It encouraged sustained attention and reminded viewers that an image can become more complicated and more rewarding the longer one remains with it. The exhibition took place on 29 August 2026, at Orisun Art Gallery, 1st Floor, Tropic Galleria, by Grand Square, Muhammadu Buhari Way, CBD Abuja, Nigeria. By bringing five different practices into one space, Layers of Seeing demonstrated that there is no single way to represent human experience. We see in layers: through memory, through emotion, through culture, through other people and through the changing understanding we have of ourselves. Sometimes, a second look changes everything.

Ololade Oletubo Presents Mixed Reality A Solo Exhibition at Afrahouse Gallery, London

September 1, 2026 Mixed media artist Ololade Oletubo presents Mixed Reality, a solo exhibition at Afrahouse Gallery, London, bringing together works that explore the layered, shifting nature of how we see, remember and experience the world around us. There is rarely just one version of reality. What we see is shaped by where we have been, what we remember, what we imagine and what we choose to hold on to. In Mixed Reality, Oletubo enters that space between the tangible and the felt, using mixed media to build a visual language that is both personal and open-ended. Working across materials, textures and forms, Oletubo allows each piece to develop through a process of layering and discovery. Surfaces are built up, interrupted and reconsidered. Contrasts are allowed to remain. What might initially appear fragmented begins, on closer viewing, to reveal connections. This way of working is central to the exhibition. For Oletubo, mixed media is more than a technique; it offers the freedom to bring different experiences into the same space without forcing them into neat conclusions. Material, memory and emotion meet on the surface of the work, each carrying its own weight. The title Mixed Reality reflects this tension. We live simultaneously with what is in front of us and with the private worlds we carry within us. A place can exist as it is and as we remember it. An experience can be beautiful and uncomfortable at once. Something familiar can suddenly become strange. Oletubo’s works sit comfortably within these contradictions. Rather than telling viewers what they should see, the exhibition asks them to bring something of themselves to the encounter. A colour may stir a memory. A texture may feel unexpectedly familiar. A composition may mean one thing from across the room and something entirely different when seen up close. At its heart, Mixed Reality is an invitation to look again not only at the works themselves, but at the ways in which our individual histories influence what we recognise as real. The exhibition marks an important solo presentation for Oletubo and offers audiences an opportunity to experience her evolving practice as a mixed media artist in an intimate gallery setting. Artists, collectors, curators, members of the press, art enthusiasts and the wider public are invited to attend.

AFTER THE RAINS VIRTUAL INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION CONCLUDES SUCCESSFULLY

The virtual international group exhibition After the Rains concluded successfully in April 2026, following its run from April 1 – 30, 2026, as a UK-based online exhibition that brought together artists and audiences from different parts of the world in a powerful exploration of resilience, renewal, and transformation. Through a diverse collection of contemporary artworks, the exhibition examined the experiences, emotions, and lessons that emerge after periods of difficulty and change. The virtual format enabled viewers from across various countries to engage with the works, creating a global platform for artistic exchange and meaningful dialogue. Among the featured artists was Nigerian visual artist Orisakwe Emmanuel Chizitere, whose contribution added depth to the exhibition’s narrative of hope and perseverance. His work was showcased alongside those of Agata Henderson, Amanda Lebus, Anthonia Nnenna Ndukauba, Beth Neal, Deborah Abosede Ibeme, Elizabeth Roberts, Erika Loch, Evangelia Hamilton, Georgia Cadden, Georgina Zafeiri, Gurmant Kaur, Hector Geoffrey Dokopoulos Hamilton, Justin James, Kayla Michelle, Lin Ye, Lior Locher, Louise Heaton, Monika Tkaczyk, Mr Bruiser, Obiora Vincent Nwankwo, Paul Durber, Phil Bixby, Sean BW Parker, Sepideh Shagholi, and Vans Mead. Together, the artists offered unique interpretations of the exhibition theme, presenting works that spoke to healing, reflection, recovery, and the enduring strength of the human spirit. Despite differences in style, medium, and cultural background, the exhibition revealed a shared commitment to storytelling through visual art. The success of After the Rains demonstrates the growing importance of virtual exhibitions in connecting artists and audiences beyond geographical boundaries. By creating a digital space for creative engagement, the exhibition fostered meaningful conversations while celebrating the diversity and richness of contemporary artistic practice. As the virtual doors close on After the Rains, the exhibition leaves behind a lasting impression of hope, resilience, and the remarkable ability of art to unite people across cultures and continents.