The Fountain Overflows

curated by Yates Norton

June 4 – July 25, 2026
43a Duke Street, St James's, London (UK)

GRIMM is pleased to present The Fountain Overflows, a group exhibition curated by Yates Norton at the London Gallery. The opening coincides with the London gallery weekend (June 5 - 7, 2026). 

Adam Farah-Saad, Anj Smith, Benjamin Orlow, Daisy Parris, Divine Southgate-Smith, Ebun Sodipo, Emmanuel Awuni, Francesca Mollett, Gabriella Boyd, Jesse Wine, Leon Scott-Engel, Rachel Kneebone, Ramin Rokni Hesam, Rebecca Ackroyd and Vivan Suter. 

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Anj Smith’s intricate works occupy the space between the genres of portraiture, landscape, and still-life. Often detailing hybrid, dream-like environments adorned with human figures, flora, fauna and decorative motifs, Smith’s paintings recognise medium and the parameters of materiality as useful tools for investigation. Characterised by meticulously layered details and her slow, labour-intensive technique, Smith’s works force the viewer to slow down and contemplate her complex compisitions that evoke psychological as well as physical landscapes. Exploring issues of gender, ecology, anxiety, and eroticism, Smith’s figures populate ecologically devastated landscapes, sometimes merging into the background, framed by their interior states, desires, and tensions. 

Smith studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, London (UK), where she completed a BA in Fine Art (Painting) in 2002, and later received an MA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, London (UK), in 2005.

Benjamin Orlow works across sculpture, video, and installation, favouring experiential techniques that investigate the ways in which cultural narratives shape both public and private space. Ruminating on historical transitions, Orlow examines material culture and the relationships between individuals and the built environment.

Orlow’s sculptures are often monumental in scale, shaped by feelings of solitude, yet reflecting the processes of transformation inherent to life’s cyclical nature. His interdisciplinary approach considers how spaces are fabricated, inhabited, and remembered, foregrounding the subtle interaction between human presence and architectural form, alongside iterations of transformation, resilience, and vulnerability.

Orlow received his MFA from Goldsmiths, London (UK), in 2012 and represents Finland at the Nordic Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale (IT) in 2026.

Daisy Parris is a painter of psychological space. Direct text-based works and abstract paintings are made up of a vernacular that has developed through experience, relationships and through the depths and peaks of their human existence thus far.

Parris brings intimacy, insight and integrity to their paintings with great psychological and emotional force. The work is imbued with the sensitivity of one who feels everything, taking us through unflinching narratives and moments of reflection and tenderness. An ode to human existence, their work is sometimes silent, sometimes savage, with paintings that construct self-portraits of personal battles and triumphs in a fast moving yet contemplative assault on the canvas.

Parris earned a BA (Hons) in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, London (UK), in 2014. 

Divine Southgate-Smith is a Togolese-British transdisciplinary artist and poet whose work engages with archival poetics and material memory to reconsider how histories are recorded, recalled, and experienced across time. Rooted in research-led inquiry, her practice examines how cultural memory shapes the imagination, with particular attention to the ways institutional archives inform and constrain the Black imaginary. Her methodology is grounded in speculative approaches, allowing her to reorder archival and ethnographic materials into works that move between intimate narrative and historical reconfiguration.

In 2022, she received her Postgraduate Diploma from The Royal Academy of Arts, London (UK), having previously completed her undergraduate study in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, London (UK), in 2017.

Ebun Sodipo is a Nigerian-British artist and writer whose multidisciplinary practice spans sculpture, installation, and text. Guided by black feminist study, with a methodology of collage and fabulation, her work locates and produces real and imaginable narratives of black trans women’s presence, embodiment, and interiority across the past, present and future. Drawing on personal narrative alongside historical and speculative frameworks, Sodipo creates works that operate between intimate reflection and collective memory. Through materials such as resin, metal, and organic matter, Sodipo produces sculptural forms that often suggest bodily presence while resisting fixed or discernible identities. 

Ebun Sodipo received her BA from Camberwell College of Arts, London (UK), in 2016 and a PgCert from University of the Arts London (UK), in 2020.

Working across painting, drawing, and installation, Emmanuel Awuni explores the emotional and psychological dimensions of contemporary life. Focusing on the human figure, Awuni’s works invoke states of introspection, vulnerability, and connection through sweeping gesture, colour, and composition. Capturing the expressive potential of the body, Awuni’s paintings feign a patina of abstraction, often situating his figures in fluid surroundings where identity is continually negotiated through markers of memory, perception, and feeling. Engaging with themes of intimacy, isolation, and belonging, Awuni rewrites the boundaries between internal and external worlds, unravelling the subtle dynamics of human presence to present a nuanced vision of contemporary experience.

Awuni received a BA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, London (UK) in 2017, and later completed an MA in Fine Art at the Royal Academy Schools, London (UK), in 2022.

Francesca Mollett makes abstract paintings that react to space and context. Her works are reflections of light and surface formed through a fluid yet precise process. Compositions evolve by extracting observations from an image, which transforms in a practice of analysing the shifting passages of paint as tension between luminosity and solidity develops. Often influenced by literature, Mollett reveals a deep relationship between the ethos of life and of time, elusive and unable to be articulated through representation alone. In this, abstraction - through colour and texture - becomes an attentive way of considering these affinities. 

Francesca Mollett received her MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London (UK) in 2020. Mollett’s solo exhibition Buried shadow is on view at GRIMM, New York, NY (US), from May 15 – June 18, 2026.

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For Gabriella Boyd, painting is an act of translation, from the interior or verbal to the exterior and visual. Her paintings give form to internal sensations, memories, narratives and spaces held in the mind. Boyd explores and collapses the distinction between interior and exterior states by bringing together representational motifs with purely symbolic structures or diagrammatic forms. Working in the vein of psychoanalytic and Surrealist tradition, her forms emerge from the unconscious drift of association: an inward turn toward the body as the site of knowing.

Boyd studied at Glasgow School of Art from 2007 to 2011 in Glasgow (UK) and Royal Academy Schools from 2014 to 2017 in London (UK). In 2027, Boyd will present a solo exhibition at the Yuz Museum, Shanghai (CN). 

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Jesse Wine is a British artist working primarily in ceramics and sculpture. His practice explores the expressive and unpredictable potential of clay and, more recently, bronze, producing works that range from intimate vessels and reliefs to figurative sculptures and large-scale installations. Combining humour, autobiography, and art historical reference, Wine’s objects often merge tableau-like scenes with exaggerated everyday objects, emphasising the qualities of process, form, and display. Working through methods that embrace chance, instability, and transformation, he experiments with glazing, firing, and surface treatment to produce objects that appear fractured, mutable, and often deliberately unresolved. 

Wine studied Fine Art at Camberwell College of Arts, London (UK) graduating with a BA in 2007, and later completed an MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London (UK), in 2010.

Inviting a fragility and tenderness, Leon Scott-Engel’s practice is open in its emotional and physical vulnerability. Scott-Engel’s tailored, upholstered and curved canvases replicate familiar forms, from domestic objects to sports apparatus, using them as a reparative site to share an unguarded impression of the self. Often drawing on personal memories and tender images, residues of contact are traced across his surfaces, mapping an implied sense of intimacy and presence; a soft impression left behind in the wake of memory. 

Scott-Engel completed his BA at Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow (UK), in 2022 and was awarded the Richard Ford Award and Research Residency at the Museo Del Prado, Madrid (ES), in 2021. 

Rachel Kneebone is a British sculptor concerned with viscerality of life, her practice centres on the human condition and the experience of renewal, transformation, desire and the fragility of the body. Working primarily in porcelain, she crafts intricate, highly detailed sculptural compositions that recollate fluid, hybrid forms. Tangled limbs, classical motifs, flora and abstracted bodies merge to evoke states of movement, metamorphisis, and suspension.

Kneebone received an MA from the Royal College of Art, London (UK), in 2004. This year, Kneebone will present works in a major group exhibition White Cube at Claydon, hosted by the National Trust in the opulent eighteenth-century interiors of Claydon House, Buckinghamshire (UK).

Ramin Rokni Hesam are a Dubai-based artist collective formed by Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, and Hesam Rahmanian, who have worked collaboratively since around 2009. The Iranian trio are known for a highly immersive and interdisciplinary practice that spans painting, installation, collage, video, performance, and drawing. Exploring individual and collective authorship, they possess an acute dexterity for blurring the distinctions between art-making and lived experience. Incorporating found imagery, personal archives, and reworked cultural materials, to fabricate densely layered environments, their work naturally resists fixed interpretations.

Working across sculpture, drawing, installation, and print, Rebecca Ackroyd creates immersive, psychologically charged environments that draw on fragments of the body, domestic space, and surreal narrative structures. Her constructed architectural settings evoke interiors shaped by psychological states rather than physical realism, emphasising the theatrical quality of memory and the instability of perception. Populating these staged installations with cast forms, beeswax sculptures, and pastel drawings, she draws from psychoanalysis, popular culture, and cinema, projecting environments that feel both familiar and uncanny, intimate and estranged. 

Ackroyd studied Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art, London (UK), where she completed her BA in 2010, and later received an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art, London (UK), in 2012.

Vivian Suter is an Argentine-Swiss painter whose work engages closely with the ecological sensitivities of her natural environment. Living and working in Panajachel, Guatemala, Suter has developed a distinctive approach to painting shaped by the conditions and climate of the tropical landscape that surrounds her. Working primarily with unstretched canvas, Suter produces large-scale, immersive installations in which paintings hang freely, often draped, layered, or suspended throughout a space. Materials such as soil, plant matter, and water become embedded within the surface, blurring the boundary between painting and environment. Created in an open-air studio, her works are exposed to the natural elements, vegetation, and animal life, allowing nature to actively participate in their creation.

With special thanks to all participating artists and their representing galleries.

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