Exhibition: Sbel

Launch 12 June 2026

13 June - 11 July 2026

Neda Mohammad, Abi Palmer & Lewis Prosser

Lewis Prosser
Lewis Prosser

This exhibition over a short summer spell brings together three artists in g39. They work in film, sculpture, and painting. A summer full of making things!

The gallery will have a mix of finished pieces as well as gathering together the working materials for a series of workshops. Wicker, ink, hubcaps and cardboard – all waiting to be transformed. Audiences will have opportunities to take part in practical sessions themed around each aspect of the show. Together we will explore the craft and the ways that these artists make their work.

We want to see how this craft can be a practice of meticulous attention to detail, while at other times be the more intuitive enjoyment of sticky tape and cardboard.

The artworks themselves take the pastoral pause of the summer spell into strange and unexpected places. Lewis Prosser introduces us to an old technique of woven willow skibs, an old traditional form that is something between a sieve and a pan but this version incorporates car parts with cooking potatoes; rural boy racers, willow weave and hubcap trophies. It builds on a tradition of working with whatever has been found in the hedge.

Neda Mohammad’s illuminations and calligraphic works expand our time frame, with delicate and intricate artworks each formed from hundreds of hours of delicate work. These are meditations on the sun, spirituality, poetry, and the sublime sense of infinity found in minute pattern-making.

Abi Palmer’s series of moving image works, Abi Palmer invents the weather, takes the outdoors indoors, as she crudely replicates weather conditions of the world outside in a cardboard box, for an audience of her cats. Made during lockdown, these thoughtful and humorous films touch on isolation, companionship, DIY world building, where craft is directed by our imagination and need to play.

Sbel is the Welsh word for a while, but phonetically in English the meaning also crosses over into something focussed, enchanting, transformative. As we cross over into Summer, g39 is excited to host these artists and makers.

Abi Palmer Invents the Weather is part of The Artangel Collection, an initiative to bring outstanding film and video works, commissioned and supported by Artangel, to galleries and museums across the UK. The Artangel Collection has been developed in partnership with Tate, is generously supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and The Foyle Foundation and uses public funding from Arts Council England.

  • Lewis Prosser

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