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Cardion Arts, London (2026)

21/03/2026

Cardion Arts team members and talking at last night’s event about our charity partner , and their work to help young q***r people living in difficult circumstances. Donation link is in our bio.

16/09/2025

We have two tickets to give away for the Bloomsbury (London) screening of Solo, a new movie by director-writer Sophie Dubois from . The screening will take place at the Curzon Bloomsbury cinema, on 19th September, the launch night of the movie, hosted by .
Simon (Théodore Pellerin), a dazzling star of Montreal’s drag scene, finds his world turned upside down when he meets Oliver (Félix Maritaud), the captivating new act at his club. Their passionate romance quickly morphs into a dangerous dynamic, jeopardising Simon’s shining career. Complicating matters, Simon’s estranged mother, a renowned opera diva, returns, prompting him to confront his idealised vision of her. As he navigates the heartache of these two relationships, Simon realises that he deserves better.
Sophie Dupuis is one of Canada’s rising film directors and describes her film as a ‘festive, musical, intense whirlwind of emotions. A tumultuous story with a disco beat
and a shower of glitter.’
To win, follow and comment below a friend’s name who might be interested to see the movie. If your network might like the movie, please give it a share. Thank you!
***rlondon

12/09/2025

TONIGHT: Cardion Arts presents Richard Maguire in residence at 9 Lower Mall, Hammersmith / 5-8pm.

Join us for an intimate evening celebrating and showcasing the residency of Richard Maguire, who formerly exhibited in our Talisman exhibition. Set in a picturesque house on the river, this significant location has been a home and haven for creative homos*xuals and bohemians who enriched the cultural life of the eras in which they lived. We’re so excited to continue that tradition with Richard Maguire.

Maguire’s artistic practice is rooted in the intersections of s*xuality, colonialism, and the intellectual exchange between Britain and Asia. Through meticulous research that directly shapes the narrative structure of the work, he creates small-scale graphite drawings sourced from archival materials.

Hope to see you there!

04/09/2025

Cardion Arts are delighted to announce an intimate evening with Richard Maguire (Talisman Artist) on 12 September at 9 Lower Mall, Hammersmith in London - a stunning historic waterside home where Richard has been hosted by Cardion Arts and 9LM in an artist residency for a month.

Richard Maguire’s artistic practice is rooted in the intersections of s*xuality, colonialism, and the intellectual exchange between Britain and Asia. Through meticulous research that directly shapes the narrative structure of the work, he creates small-scale graphite drawings sourced from archival materials.
For more than 150 years, 9 Lower Mall, Hammersmith, has been a home and haven for creative homos*xuals and bohemians who enriched the cultural life of the eras in which they lived (Source: BBC 3 Podcast, A Most Q***r House).

Richard Maguire’s experience at 9 Lower Mall has been one of intellectual and historical discovery. By immersing himself in the environment of the parlour - with its eclectic collection of books on s*x, Indian miniatures, Orthodox icons, and a Javanese mask - he became deeply engaged with the concept of a sedimentary history.

The house will be open to guests 5-8pm. Please feel free to pop in and join us for a drink at anytime between those hours.

9 Lower Mall is a historic building with limited access other than by narrow stairs.

RSVP Required - link in bio.

Any questions please email [email protected].

12/08/2025

Wow - where do we start. Working with q***r artists and art proves time after time that art remains one of the strongest tools for change and calling to action. For this exhibition we decided in light of the recent sociopolitical events, to present somewhat of an ‘other-worldly’ personal presentation of q***rness. Remembering the personal items, symbols and meanings that carry us through our q***red lives gave birth to the concept of Talisman.

Firstly, a huge thank you to all of the artists involved and for trusting us with your work. Being able to work with some of the most talented names in art (who also happen to be q***r!) brings us nothing but joy - especially when raising vital funds for our partner charity ‘akt’. Your commitment to showing art for positive change within our community is more than we can ask for.

For all supporters, collectors and visitors of the exhibition - you really carry the success of this exhibition. Visiting and telling your friends/colleagues, sharing on social media or simply just popping in supports not only q***r art and our selected artists, but the future of q***r art and the q***r youth we fundraise for.

To the Talisman team and Museum of Transology, our performers, photographers and videographers, workshop coordinators, security, install team, Madame F - THANK YOU! When we launched Ultraviolet last year we never expected to make a typical ‘annual’ exhibition as part of our programming - but with the feedback from last year and the enormous response this year, we can’t stop here!

To allow us to continue what we’re doing, keep sharing, keep telling your q***r friends and allies, and keep loving q***r art. See you soon.

The Talisman team x

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PHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS:
Henri T - - 1,2,4,9,10,11,12,12,14

Christa Holka - - 3 & 6

Joshua Tarn - - 5,7,8,15

07/08/2025

Contemporary works by leading LGBTQIA+ artists currently showing in our Talisman exhibition are for sale (subject to availability). This is your last chance to get your hands on works from the likes of Osman Yousefzada, Zack Toppin, Dudley Dream Walsh, Jesse Darling, Kasra Jalilipour & Claye Bowler.

20% of all sales are Dante’s to ‘akt’ - the only q***r charity targeting youth homelessness in the UK.

For more information, please get in touch by contacting our page or via email.

FINAL CALL FOR TALISMAN VISITORS:

TALISMAN
Until 10 August 2025
185 Park St
SE1 9BL

Talisman is a group exhibition of LGBTQIA+ artists, curated by Gemma Rolls-Bentley and E-J Scott, exploring the objects, people and symbols we turn to for protection. Since ancient times, talismanic objects have offered defence against unseen forces. In this spirit, Talisman – Cardion Arts’ annual 2025 exhibition – invites UK artists to channel creative energies as acts of safeguarding and resistance.

The show presents a space of collective sanctuary shaped by leading q***r artists and selected early / mid-career voices. Works explore q***r spirituality, the supernatural, healing, bodily sanctity, and community resilience.

Curated by Gemma Rolls-Bentley and E-J Scott, with assistant curator Katie Della-Valle.

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Cardion Arts is a not-for-profit supporting LGBTQIA+ artists through exhibitions, performances and events. It creates joyful, inclusive spaces and raises funds for akt – the UK’s charity for LGBTQ+ youth facing homelessness.

The Museum of Transology (MoT) holds the world’s largest collection of trans, non-binary and inters*x material culture – nearly 1000 objects and 2000 protest placards. Curated by community curators, the collection preserves trans history and identity in our own words. Housed at the Bishopsgate Institute, it is freely accessible to the community and available for exhibitions.

04/08/2025

Monochrome works by contemporary LGBTQIA+ artists in our Talisman exhibition. Works by Emily Pope, Prem Sahib, Emily Witham, Ajamu X and Richard Maguire. ⚫️

Please enquire for availability to avoid disappointment. A reminder that 20% of all sales go towards ‘akt’ - the only youth charity tackling homelessness for q***r youth in the UK. ❤️

Talisman is a group exhibition of LGBTQIA+ artists, curated by Gemma Rolls-Bentley and E-J Scott, exploring the objects, people and symbols we turn to for protection. Since ancient times, talismanic objects have offered defence against unseen forces. In this spirit, Talisman – Cardion Arts’ annual 2025 exhibition – invites UK artists to channel creative energies as acts of safeguarding and resistance.

The show presents a space of collective sanctuary shaped by leading q***r artists and selected early / mid-career voices. Works explore q***r spirituality, the supernatural, healing, bodily sanctity, and community resilience.

Curated by Gemma Rolls-Bentley and E-J Scott, with assistant curator Katie Della-Valle.

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Cardion Arts is a not-for-profit supporting LGBTQIA+ artists through exhibitions, performances and events. It creates joyful, inclusive spaces and raises funds for akt – the UK’s charity for LGBTQ+ youth facing homelessness.

The Museum of Transology (MoT) holds the world’s largest collection of trans, non-binary and inters*x material culture – nearly 1000 objects and 2000 protest placards. Curated by community curators, the collection preserves trans history and identity in our own words. Housed at the Bishopsgate Institute, it is freely accessible to the community and available for exhibitions.

30/07/2025

The final artist in our lineup - Osman Yousefzada ()!

Osman Yousefzada is a British artist and writer whose work engages with the representation, rupture, and reimagining of the immigrant experience. His work incorporates textiles, printmaking, installations, sculpture and performance. Yousefzada’s practice has been described as “defiant”, where the participating bodies throughout his work are presented as part objects that refuse to identify or conform.

TALISMAN
4 July - 10 August 2025
185 Park St
SE1 9BL

Talisman is a group exhibition of LGBTQIA+ artists, curated by Gemma Rolls-Bentley and E-J Scott, exploring the objects, people and symbols we turn to for protection. Since ancient times, talismanic objects have offered defence against unseen forces. In this spirit, Talisman – Cardion Arts’ annual 2025 exhibition – invites UK artists to channel creative energies as acts of safeguarding and resistance.

The show presents a space of collective sanctuary shaped by leading q***r artists and selected early / mid-career voices. Works explore q***r spirituality, the supernatural, healing, bodily sanctity, and community resilience.

Curated by Gemma Rolls-Bentley and E-J Scott, with assistant curator Katie Della-Valle.

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Cardion Arts is a not-for-profit supporting LGBTQIA+ artists through exhibitions, performances and events. It creates joyful, inclusive spaces and raises funds for akt – the UK’s charity for LGBTQ+ youth facing homelessness.

The Museum of Transology (MoT) holds the world’s largest collection of trans, non-binary and inters*x material culture – nearly 1000 objects and 2000 protest placards. Curated by community curators, the collection preserves trans history and identity in our own words. Housed at the Bishopsgate Institute, it is freely accessible to the community and available for exhibitions.

25/07/2025

ANOTHER brilliantly q***r night had by all in celebration of Trans Pride at ’ Talisman Exhibition!🏳️‍⚧️

We had a moving reading by , and performances by featuring a surprise appearance! The tunes and vibes were aptly delivered by 🪩🪩

It makes us so happy to see the community and those outwith come together to celebrate Trans people and pride. It’s ever more important in today’s age that we remind ourselves of the sheer talent, excellence, storytelling, narratives and resilience that comes through creative spaces like these.

Thank you so much to those who continue to support our efforts at Cardion Arts. We really couldn’t do it without you ❤️🫶

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TALISMAN
4 July - 10 August 2025
185 Park St
SE1 9BL

Talisman is a group exhibition of LGBTQIA+ artists, curated by Gemma Rolls-Bentley and E-J Scott, exploring the objects, people and symbols we turn to for protection. Since ancient times, talismanic objects have offered defence against unseen forces. In this spirit, Talisman – Cardion Arts’ annual 2025 exhibition – invites UK artists to channel creative energies as acts of safeguarding and resistance.

The show presents a space of collective sanctuary shaped by leading q***r artists and selected early / mid-career voices. Works explore q***r spirituality, the supernatural, healing, bodily sanctity, and community resilience.

Curated by Gemma Rolls-Bentley and E-J Scott, with assistant curator Katie Della-Valle.

24/07/2025

We’re so pleased to see so many people resonate with the objects and items on display from the Museum of Transology ().

The Museum of Transology is a vital archive documenting trans existence through ranges of materials, items, books, art and artefacts. They hold the world’s largest collection of trans, non-binary and inters*x material culture – nearly 1000 objects and 2000 protest placards. Curated by community curators, the collection preserves trans history and identity in our own words. Housed at the Bishopsgate Institute, it is freely accessible to the community and available for exhibitions.

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TALISMAN
4 July - 10 August 2025
185 Park St
SE1 9BL

Talisman is a group exhibition of LGBTQIA+ artists, curated by Gemma Rolls-Bentley and E-J Scott, exploring the objects, people and symbols we turn to for protection. Since ancient times, talismanic objects have offered defence against unseen forces. In this spirit, Talisman – Cardion Arts’ annual 2025 exhibition – invites UK artists to channel creative energies as acts of safeguarding and resistance.

The show presents a space of collective sanctuary shaped by leading q***r artists and selected early / mid-career voices. Works explore q***r spirituality, the supernatural, healing, bodily sanctity, and community resilience.

Curated by Gemma Rolls-Bentley and E-J Scott, with assistant curator Katie Della-Valle.

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Cardion Arts is a not-for-profit supporting LGBTQIA+ artists through exhibitions, performances and events. It creates joyful, inclusive spaces and raises funds for akt – the UK’s charity for LGBTQ+ youth facing homelessness.

21/07/2025

Notoriously titled the ‘Patron Saint of Darkrooms’, Ajamu X is showing a photographic work in Talisman, Cardion Arts’ annual LGBTQIA+ exhibition.

Ajamu X is a darkroom/fine art photographic artist. His theoretical provocations, and aesthetics unapologetically celebrate black q***r bodies, the senses, pleasure as politics and the sensual material attributes of the print. His work has been shown in many prestigious museums and galleries worldwide and has been published in a wide variety of publications and critical journals.

TALISMAN
4 July - 10 August 2025
185 Park St
SE1 9BL

NEXT EVENT:
Trans Pride Celebration | 24.7.2025 | 6-10pm, 185 Park St - ♿️✅

Talisman is a group exhibition of LGBTQIA+ artists, curated by Gemma Rolls-Bentley and E-J Scott, exploring the objects, people and symbols we turn to for protection. Since ancient times, talismanic objects have offered defence against unseen forces. In this spirit, Talisman – Cardion Arts’ annual 2025 exhibition – invites UK artists to channel creative energies as acts of safeguarding and resistance.

The show presents a space of collective sanctuary shaped by leading q***r artists and selected early / mid-career voices. Works explore q***r spirituality, the supernatural, healing, bodily sanctity, and community resilience.

Curated by Gemma Rolls-Bentley and E-J Scott, with assistant curator Katie Della-Valle.

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Cardion Arts is a not-for-profit supporting LGBTQIA+ artists through exhibitions, performances and events. It creates joyful, inclusive spaces and raises funds for akt – the UK’s charity for LGBTQ+ youth facing homelessness.

The Museum of Transology (MoT) holds the world’s largest collection of trans, non-binary and inters*x material culture – nearly 1000 objects and 2000 protest placards. Curated by community curators, the collection preserves trans history and identity in our own words. Housed at the Bishopsgate Institute, it is freely accessible to the community and available for exhibitions.

18/07/2025

Zach Toppin’s paintings (2) are featured in our Talisman exhibition which is now extended until August 10!

Toppin is a London-based multidisciplinary artist. His work is an investigation, celebration and honouring of q***rness and identity struggle, weaving stories about emotion, gender, desire, longing, s*x and love. A collaging of his own explorations and an archiving of those of his q***r community and ancestors, he finds through it a way to navigate the dichotomy of trans unease and euphoria. Toppin makes work about the languages of masculinity and q***r culture—the external signifiers we use to build identity fantasies. Clothing becomes not just fabric, but opportunity; a tool to transcend gender. The fetishisation of items, possessions, symbols, relics-the ways we use them in rituals of existence, in our presentations of self, building inner strength through exterior armours. It thinks about time travel, secret messages, building portraits and personal narratives through scrupulously combined items, sending messages of care, communion, struggle, heartbreak. It gives intimate insights into a private trans life.

TALISMAN
4 July - 10 August 2025
185 Park St
SE1 9BL

Talisman is a group exhibition of LGBTQIA+ artists, curated by Gemma Rolls-Bentley and E-J Scott, exploring the objects, people and symbols we turn to for protection. Since ancient times, talismanic objects have offered defence against unseen forces. In this spirit, Talisman – Cardion Arts’ annual 2025 exhibition – invites UK artists to channel creative energies as acts of safeguarding and resistance.

The show presents a space of collective sanctuary shaped by leading q***r artists and selected early / mid-career voices. Works explore q***r spirituality, the supernatural, healing, bodily sanctity, and community resilience.

Curated by Gemma Rolls-Bentley and E-J Scott, with assistant curator Katie Della-Valle.

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