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Exhibitions
The Archive of Small Things, London
'Gold at Mobius End' will be exhibited in 'The Archive of Small', a group exhibition bringing together small-scale artworks, objects and fragments that offer glimpses into the world we inhabit.
Taking place near the British Museum, the exhibition considers how objects become significant, how materials hold memories, and how the things we make, use and keep might one day tell a story about us.
23rd - 25th October 2026
23rd: 5:30-7:30pm
24th: 12:30-6pm
25th: 12:30-5pm
Elephant Vision Lab
15 Bury Place
London WC1A 2JB
https://elephantvisionlab.com/
https://www.instagram.com/elephantvisionlab
Discerning Eye 2026, London
A new work, 'Conjoined Shell Form' has been selected for this year's edition of annual exhibition, Discerning Eye'.
13th - 21 November 2026
Exhibition open:10am - 5pm daily
Free entry
Private view on Thursday 12 November
Mall Galleries
The Mall
London SW1W 5BD
https://www.discerningeye.org/
Assembly, London
8th October – 15th November 2026
Exhibition open: Thursday-Sunday 12pm – 6pm
Private View: Monday 12th October 2026, 6 – 9pm
Free Entry
Hypha Studios South Bank / Gallery 3
42 Southwark Bridge Road
London SE1 9EU
https://hyphastudios.com/gillian-brent/
Assembly brings together 35 members and fellows of the Royal Society of Sculptors at Hypha Gallery South Bank, following its inaugural presentation in Sunderland earlier this year.
Opening during Frieze season, the exhibition brings a diverse group of established sculptors into a new architectural and cultural context, creating an opportunity for audiences, collectors, curators and artists to encounter contemporary sculpture beyond the conventional gallery framework.
Curated by Alexandra Carr MRSS and Alex Breeze of Breeze Creatives, Assembly began in Sunderland as an experiment in artistic freedom, exchange and collaboration. The London presentation continues that spirit while allowing the works to enter into dialogue with the distinctive context of Southbank and the international activity surrounding Frieze.
The exhibition brings together practices spanning installation, object-making, architectural intervention, film, performance and material experimentation. Across the exhibition, sculpture moves between the intimate and monumental, the poetic and political, the familiar and unexpected.
Together, the works explore the capacity of sculpture to transform space and shape human encounter, while engaging with themes including ecology, identity, migration, labour, landscape, memory and the human experience. Rather than presenting a single definition of what sculpture can be, Assembly reflects the breadth of approaches being pursued by artists working within the field today.
The move from Sunderland to London marks a further development of the project. Following its presentation within Sunderland’s historic Athenaeum building, Assembly now enters a very different cultural landscape, bringing the work of its artists into proximity with major institutions, galleries, collectors and international audiences during one of the most significant periods in London’s art calendar.
Participating Artists
Farnoush Amini
Tabatha Andrews
Sally Barker
Perla Krauze
Ronn Beattie
Mary Bourne
Gillian Brent
Julie Brook
Owen Bullett
Ros Burgin
Alexandra Carr
Ali Darke
Kate Davis and David Moore
Sally De Courcy
Mandeep Dillon
Ebru Dosekci
Victoria Ferrand Scott
Andrea Geile
Peter Hanmer
Steve Johnson
Ben Joiner
Caroline Lambard
Julia Ellen Lancaster
Olana Light
Jenny Pope
Gary Power
Simon Raines
Stefan Reiss
Si Sapsford
Susanne Schmidt-Nielsen
Louise Frances Smith
Jill Townsley
Almuth Tebbenhoff
Sarah Villeneau
Susan York
Gravity 3.0
Elephant Eggs is shown in digital format in Gravity 3.0, a group exhibition curated by Monica Mardare.
The exhibition brings together digital and moving-image works by over 20 artists which explores what it means to be drawn towards, held by, or released from something.
September 26th -29th, 2026
2nd Floor
15 Bermondsey Square
London
Assembly, The Royal Society of Sculptors Exhibition, Sunderland
The Last Rain Forest Tree in Brazil, an 8 feet high mixed media sculpture is currently on show at The Abject Gallery as part of 'Assembly'.
'Assembly' is an International exhibition of the work of 36 members of The Royal Society of Sculptors from different countries open until July 25th at The 'Abject' and 'Moving' Galleries'. Sunderland, UK.
June 13th – July 25th, 2026
Exhibition open: Wednesday – Saturday, 12pm – 4pm
Private view: Friday 12 June, 6pm - 8pm
Free Entry
The Abject Gallery
27 Fawcett Street
Sunderland SR1 1RE
https://sculptors.org.uk/whats-on/2026/exhibition/assembly
Landscape Open 2025, The Salisbury Museum
Water Carrier will be shown in a group exhibition which reflects the multifaceted relationships artists have to place
October 18th, 2025 - January 25th, 2026
The Salisbury Museum
The King’s House
65 The Close
Salisbury SP1 2EN
https://salisburymuseum.org.uk/whats-on/landscape-open-2025/
The ING Discerning Eye 2025, The Mall Galleries
Eel Catcher has been selected to be shown in the ING Discerning Eye exhibition.
November 14th - November 23rd, 2025
Opening Hours:
10am-5pm, Friday 14 - Saturday 22 November
10am-1pm, Sunday 23 November
The Mall Galleries
The Mall
London SW1
www.discerningeye.org/exhibition
www.mallgalleries.org.uk
Mattress in a cave, Torriano Meeting House
A new work, The Furniture Tree, will be exhibited for the first time in this group exhibition.
November 2nd - November 29, 2025
Opening event: 3:30pm-6:30pm, Sunday 2 November
Open by appointment: https://www.instagram.com/muddymudlarks
99 Torriano Avenue
London NW5 2RX
https://torriano.org/whats-on/art/mattress-of-a-cave-02-11-2025
Annual Open 2025, Southwark Park Galleries (Lake Gallery)
The Earth We Dig (left) and Dug Up (right) will be exhibited in the Annual Open.
November 8th - December 6th, 2025
Opening Hours:
11am - 4pm, Wednesday - Sunday
Lake Gallery
Southwark Park Galleries
1 Park Approach
Southwark Park
London SE16 2UA
https://southwarkparkgalleries.org/annual-open-2025/
Touchlines of Fortitude II
Family Bag is features in this group exhibition celebrating female strength and resilience.
September 25th - October 5th, 2025
Opening times:
10am-5pm, Wednesday~Sunday
The Beach Gallery
197 Waldegrave Road
Teddington TW11 8LX
June 20th - July 20th, 2025
'Water Carrier' will be shown in The Fair Art Fair
July 17th - 20th, 2025
2 sculptures, 'The Earth We Dig' (left) and 'Oak Apple Branch' (right), in Flux Exhibition.
July 18th July - August 2nd, 2025
4 sculptures in 'Gardens of Life' at POSK Gallery, London
8th February - 6th March 2025
'Day Dream-Halfway Between Here and Not'
253 Eversholt Street
London NW1 1BA
February 18th - 23rd 2025
'Winter Salon'
Candid Arts Trust,
3-5 Torrens Street
Islington
London EC1V 1NQ
'Seeding Stream', mixed media sculpture with 4 ceramic bird forms in trees, was on show at Monkton Nature Reserve as part of the Sculpture Trail Summer 2024 until the end of September.
Monkton Nature Reserve
Canterbury Road
Monkton
Nr. Ramsgate
Kent CT12 4LH
https://www.visitthanet.co.uk/attractions/monkton-sculpture-trail-124255/
Online Publication & Exhibitions
cista arts: Group Exhibition - Entangled Geographies: Displacement, Belonging, and the Spaces In Between
https://www.instagram.com/cistaarts/
Links
Royal Society of Sculptors: https://sculptors.org.uk
London Potters: www.londonpotters.com
Curriculum Vitae
RONN BEATTIE RBS.
RSS
PhD. London Univ of Arts
MA. Goldsmiths College, London University
email: ronn.beattie@talk21.com
instagram: @ronnbt
Beattie uses wood carving, mixed media recycled materials, and ceramics, to comment on the fragility of the environment and destruction of natural diversity within it. Her sculptures are surrealist, with a hint of irony and an accessibility to touch .
ACADEMIC STUDY QUALIFICATIONS
July 2001 Viva Voce & exhibition of sculpture awarded Doctorate status, University of Arts
Dec: ’94 Master of Arts, London Univ, Goldsmiths College ‘Theory of Modern Practice’
EXHIBITIONS
Nov 13-21 2026 ‘The Discerning Eye’ at the Mall Gallery
Oct 8-Nov 11, 2026 ‘Assembly’, Hypha Studios Gallery 3 Southbank, London
June-July 2026 ‘Assembly’, Abject Gallery, Sunderland
Nov-Dec 2025 ‘The Discerning Eye’ at the Mall Gallery
October 15-January 25, 2026 ‘Landscape Open’, Salisbury Museum, Salisbury
September 12-October 5, 2025, ‘Touchlines of Fortitude’, Beach Gallery, Teddington, London
July 26 July-August 8 ,2025 'Gardens of Life', POSK Gallery, Hammersmith, London
June 17-July 20. 2025 Flux Exhibition, Marylebone, London
June 20-July 20, 2025 100/50 Exhibition, Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop, London
February 2025 ‘Day Dream’ Eversholt Street, Camden, London
February 2025 'Candid Arts Winter Salon', Islington
July 2024 'On the Edge 2', The Ovada, The Warehouse, Oxford
May-Sept 2024 exhibited on sculpture trail at Monkton Nature Reserve, Kent
June-Sept 2023 exhibited in The Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Show; London
Sept 2021 Solo Sculpture Exhibition ‘Planetary Matters’ Pharmacy Gallery, Margate
December 2013 Solo show ‘Forest & Coast’ New Street Gallery, Penzance
Sept/Nov 2012 Work selected for Falmouth Art Gallery, Arts Council, ‘British Surrealists’
July/August 2011 ‘Red Earth Gallery’, Devon 8 sculptures by invitation in Summer Show
June 2010 Large floor sculpture exhibited in ‘Mall Gallery’, London
April 2010 Mariner Gallery’, St Ives, 2 sculptures in juried Spring Open
Oct-Dec 2008 Exhibited with ‘New Greenham Arts’ Annual Open Berkshire
March 2008 2 sculptures in ‘XVA Gallery, ART DUBAI’ International Art Biennale
Nov-Dec 2007 Solo Exhibition of sculpture at Taib Gallery, BAHRAIN
September 2007 Wood Sculptures exhibited in Anglican Cathedral, BAHRAIN
Oct-Nov: 2003 ‘Harvest from Above’ Solo Show Norden Farm Arts Centre, Berkshire
September 2002 ‘One Beside One’ one painter one sculptor ‘Heifer Gallery London
March 2001 ‘The Touched & the Untouched’ Sci Art Sculpture and Drawing Exhibition
April 2001 PhD Theory and Practice Sculpture Exhibition, ‘The Epicurian’s Material Delight’
Letherby Gallery, Southampton Row, London
April 2000 exhibited with The Free Painters Sculptors, at the Mall Gallery, London
Listed in David Buckman’s ‘Dictionary of Artists in Britain, Post 1945
Book
A Passage in Women’s Sculpture - Diversity, Hapticity & Domesticity in One Contemporary Lineage of Women’s Sculpture.
Published by Lambert Academic Publishing, 2011
Enlarged Phd Thesis. Available from here:
https://www.amazon.com/Passage-Womens-Sculpture-Domesticity-Contemporary/dp/3843373132