Exhibitions & Events
Home to two bright and refurbished gallery event spaces, The Handbag Factory hosts a variety of exhibitions and projects from across London’s creative communities.
We also run the ASC Gallery, which showcases a year-round programme of contemporary art exhibitions.
We are proud to work with partners, universities, and providers to offer space for creative networking, skills development and training.
See our past and upcoming events below.
About Time
The exhibition "About Time" showcases a collection of paintings, photography, sculpture, film, and installations. Through a diverse array of media, artists communicate their encounters with transient thoughts and enduring truths, inviting the audience to share in the experiences of time, change, and eternity.
This Is Our Gut / 이것이 우리 것이여
The first group exhibition of The Dependent Group, [This Is Our Gut/이것이 우리 것이여], is a place for diagnosing and reflecting on Korean-ness from various angles.
After
After brings together the work of artists who recurrently use the found photographic image, whether analogue or digital. In their engagement with the found image, these artists’ works touch on the subject of loss: from the familial, to the environmental, to the social and political.
In Translation
In Translation by Sometimes Prints brings together the work of 10 current RCA MA Print students 2023 – 24.
CANCAN
A group show of graduating artists from The Essential School of Paintings Artist Development Year. The Essential School of Painting is an alternative art school with a supportive artists community based in Wood Green, London.
A Mark is a River
ASC Gallery reopens with an expanded showcase of nine artists who deal with the problem of abstraction in contemporary painting.
Project Pending — Chelsea BA Textile Design
Students from UAL Chelsea College of Art in BA Textile Design present a showcase of works in progress.
Chemistry of The Blueprint
‘Chemistry of the Blueprint’ brings forward curiosity about print's associations with industrial procedures, archives and use at the service of replicating information. Working beyond these perimeters allows them to embrace the disobedience, entropy and material encounter in the processes they work with.
Achilles and the Ghost of Patroclus
Rupert Record presents a collection of new works at The Handbag Factory in ‘Achilles and the Ghost of Patroclus’.
