Cob Studios & Gallery

Cob Studios & Gallery www.cobgallery.com The Cob Gallery and Studios was founded in February 2011 by curator Victoria Williams and playwright Polly Stenham.

The space was founded on the principle of creative collaboration and is dedicated to supporting emerging artists.

Cob is pleased to present Antechamber, a duo exhibition bringing into dialogue new works by Elli Antoniou and Jamiu Agbo...
31/05/2026

Cob is pleased to present Antechamber, a duo exhibition bringing into dialogue new works by Elli Antoniou and Jamiu Agboke fAcross painting, metallic drawing, and charcoal drawing, the exhibition unfolds as a constellation of atmospheres: intimate zones of perception shaped through light, material and spatial rhythm. Moving between the sacred and the secular, the works emerge like moments of private revelation - suspended scenes illuminated with near-devotional intensity, where matter becomes radiant and architecture itself begins to dissolve.

Antechamber
Jamiu Agboke & Elli Antoniou
6 June - 4 July 2026

Opening as part of London Gallery Weekend

5 June, 12 - 7pm

Michael Lombardo | Mother of Pearl | Until 30 May Cob Gallery presents ‘Mother of Pearl’, the UK debut of Los Angeles–ba...
25/05/2026

Michael Lombardo | Mother of Pearl | Until 30 May

Cob Gallery presents ‘Mother of Pearl’, the UK debut of Los Angeles–based artist Michael Lombardo.

Bringing together new paintings and drawings, the exhibition explores memory, belief, and material through recurring motifs of shells, flowers, and fabric. Drawing on references to the American West, Panama, and Lombardo’s religious upbringing, the works blur the boundaries between image and object, surface and place.

Paintings of pearl-snap cowboy shirts and band T-shirts bearing country and western icons extend this logic of figuration through fabric. Enlarged and rendered with devotional attention, these garments operate as contemporary icons, images worn against the skin, where identity, belief, and longing are held in tension.

Across the paintings of silk and satin, Lombardo’s attention turns to surfaces that are inherently unstable, light-responsive, reflective, and difficult to fix. Highlights slide across the painted fabric, producing moments where image and abstraction become indistinguishable. A recurring motif is the satin scarf associated with Panamanian military culture, its sheen and drape rendered with heightened sensitivity. Here, material carries contradictory associations, softness and authority, intimacy and display. The surface does not settle, but flickers between legibility and dissolution.
 
Across the exhibition, Lombardo situates figuration within the language of abstraction, allowing fabric, creased, folded, and marked by use, to become the ground on which the sacred and the everyday briefly coincide.

Michael Lombardo
El Pecos, 2026
Oil on linen
45.7 x 40.6 cm
18 x 16 in

Michael Lombardo
Satin Scarf, 2026
Oil on linen
43.2 x 34.3 cm
17 x 13 1/2 in

Cat Roissetter | Art Warsaw Villa RóżCob presents Cat Roissetter for Art Warsaw offering an encounter between drawing, m...
24/05/2026

Cat Roissetter | Art Warsaw Villa Róż

Cob presents Cat Roissetter for Art Warsaw offering an encounter between drawing, material archive, and architecture, using the building’s layered history as an active conceptual frame rather than a neutral backdrop. Villa Róż combines 19th-century palatial interiors with the dense, bureaucratic atmosphere of a Cold War diplomatic mission - an architecture shaped by surveillance, discretion, and control. This charged setting offers a compelling context for Roissetter’s exploration of Englishness as a cultural and psychological construct.

Roissetter’s drawings emerge from a sustained engagement with English visual culture, particularly portraiture and moral genre painting. Her figures - bloated, tumbling, and faintly grotesque - inhabit scenes that are sexually charged without being conventionally seductive. Like the narratives of nursery rhymes or fairy tales, the imagery occupies a childlike register that barely conceals something more disturbing. Humour slips into menace; farce coexists with shame. The drawings suggest a culture in which desire is always accompanied by embarrassment or suspicion, and where propriety masks a latent excess.

Materially, Roissetter creates her works on cooking and olive oil-soaked paper, working with pencil, crayon, and handmade transfer papers to produce an atmosphere of liquidity and instability. Images appear to resolve and dissolve simultaneously, as though permanently under construction. This sense of flux mirrors the psychic condition explored in the work: a social world obsessed with surfaces, where disorder is never eradicated but continually managed.

Bad Boy, 2026
Coloured pencil, graphite, crayon on linseed, turps and cooking oil primed paper, framed in walnut
23 x 16 cm

After King’s Maid’s Dream, 2026
Coloured pencil, graphite, crayon on linseed, turps and cooking oil primed paper, framed in walnut
29.5 x 20 cm

Cob Gallery presents British artist Cat Roissetter for Villa Róż, Warsaw offering an encounter between drawing, material...
22/05/2026

Cob Gallery presents British artist Cat Roissetter for Villa Róż, Warsaw offering an encounter between drawing, material archive, and architecture, using the building’s layered history as an active conceptual frame rather than a neutral backdrop. Villa Róż combines 19th-century palatial interiors with the dense, bureaucratic atmosphere of a Cold War diplomatic mission - an architecture shaped by surveillance, discretion, and control. This charged setting offers a compelling context for Roissetter’s exploration of Englishness as a cultural and psychological construct.

Art Warsaw Villa Róż
Aleja Róż 1
May 21–24, 2026

The presentation brings together a suite of new drawings with an installation of reference materials drawn from the artist’s studio: nursery rhyme books, toby jugs, and chintzy porcelain figurines. These objects are displayed independently but in close dialogue with the drawings, forming a domestic archive that mirrors the logic of Roissetter’s imagery. Together, the works stage a tension between innocence and corruption, nostalgia and repression, intimacy and observation.

Roissetter’s drawings emerge from a sustained engagement with English visual culture, particularly portraiture and moral genre painting. Her figures - bloated, tumbling, and faintly grotesque - inhabit scenes that are sexually charged without being conventionally seductive. Like the narratives of nursery rhymes or fairy tales, the imagery occupies a childlike register that barely conceals something more disturbing. Humour slips into menace; farce coexists with shame. The drawings suggest a culture in which desire is always accompanied by embarrassment or suspicion, and where propriety masks a latent excess.

Cat Roissetter
Fat Laird II, 2026
Coloured pencil, graphite, crayon on linseed, turps and cooking oil primed paper, framed in walnut
31 x 41 cm

Greed in Jade, 2026
Coloured pencil, graphite, crayon on linseed, turps and cooking oil primed paper, framed in walnut
Paper size: 31 x 41 cm

Scran, 2026
Coloured pencil, graphite, crayon on linseed, turps and cooking oil primed paper, framed in walnut
31 x 41 cm

Michael Lombardo | Mother of Pearl | Until 30 May Cob Gallery presents ‘Mother of Pearl’, the UK debut of Los Angeles–ba...
18/05/2026

Michael Lombardo | Mother of Pearl | Until 30 May

Cob Gallery presents ‘Mother of Pearl’, the UK debut of Los Angeles–based artist Michael Lombardo.

Bringing together new paintings and drawings, the exhibition explores memory, belief, and material through recurring motifs of shells, flowers, and fabric. Drawing on references to the American West, Panama, and Lombardo’s religious upbringing, the works blur the boundaries between image and object, surface and place.

Using textiles and Oklahoma red dirt embedded directly into the works, Lombardo creates paintings that feel both devotional and deeply personal. A series of irregular, cut-out canvases reject the traditional rectangular frame, allowing the paintings to take on a sculptural presence where memory and material converge.

Michael Lombardo
Pillowcase I, 2026
Oil on linen
43.2 x 44.5 cm
17 x 17 1/2 in

Michael Lombardo
Mother of Pearl, 2026
Oil on linen with dirt
21 x 14 cm
8 1/4 x 5 1/2 in

Cob Gallery is pleased to present ‘Mother of Pearl’ the UK debut of Los Angeles–based artist Michael Lombardo. Lombardo’...
11/05/2026

Cob Gallery is pleased to present ‘Mother of Pearl’ the UK debut of Los Angeles–based artist Michael Lombardo.
 
Lombardo’s practice attends closely to material culture and the visual languages of place. Born in Panama and raised in Oklahoma, he moves between these geographies not as fixed identities, but as overlapping systems of memory, belief, and perception. Drawing from personal archives and lived experience, Lombardo paints objects shaped by use and proximity, including flora and fauna, garments, textiles, and keepsakes. Rendered with careful precision, these forms accrue emotional and symbolic weight, held close to the body and marked by touch.

Michael Lombardo | Mother of Pearl
10 - 30 May

Michael Lombardo
Lavie Lee, 2026
Oil on linen
22.9 x 17.8 cm
9 x 7 in

Cob Gallery is proud to present the UK debut of Los Angeles–based artist Michael Lombardo. His work explores material cu...
04/05/2026

Cob Gallery is proud to present the UK debut of Los Angeles–based artist Michael Lombardo. His work explores material culture, memory, and place through intimate depictions of garments and keepsakes. Drawing on his upbringing in Panama and Oklahoma, Lombardo transforms textiles into emotionally resonant images in which personal history, regional identity, and devotional symbolism intersect. In Mother of Pearl, fabric becomes both subject and surface, positioning the everyday as a quiet site of reverence where abstraction and figuration meet.

Michael Lombardo | Mother of Pearl
10 - 30 May

Opening Saturday 9 May, 5-8pm
84a Lamb’s Conduit St, London, WC1N 3LT

Michael Lombardo
El Pecos, 2026
Oil on linen
45.7 x 40.6 cm
18 x 16 in

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