Summer 2026 Exhibition

This summer exhibition brings together three artists previously presented within our programme: Austyn Taylor, Julien Calot, and HelloMarine. Reunited here in a new constellation, their practices enter into a shared dialogue across sculpture and painting. Summer is approached not as a subject, but as a condition of heightened perception — a season in which light sharpens experience, colour intensifies, and images resonate with particular immediacy.

Austyn Taylor's sculptural animal figures balance humour with tenderness, offering a visual language grounded in vulnerability, empathy, and quiet optimism. Both playful and deeply human, their presence is immediate and disarming, inviting closeness rather than distance, and suggesting that sincerity itself can become a form of resilience.

Julien Calot's paintings unfold as immersive, densely layered environments in which abstraction and figuration remain in constant dialogue. Built through rhythm, repetition, and accumulation, they evoke shifting inner landscapes shaped by memory, time, and natural cycles, creating spaces that feel organic, fluid, and continually becoming.

HelloMarine introduces a vivid graphic language that draws on illustration, design, and modernist traditions to construct compositions where colour becomes both structure and emotion. Guided by intuition as much as formal precision, these works balance spontaneity with control, resulting in images that feel at once playful, luminous, and carefully composed.

Together, the three practices propose distinct yet complementary ways of looking. Through material, colour, and form, the exhibition invites viewers to inhabit a space where perception slows, associations emerge, and the vitality of summer is experienced not through representation, but through sensation itself.

SELECTED WORKS