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TM Lighting TM Lighting is the UK's leading art lighting specialist. Producing a range of high CRI LED picture lights and accent lights for the art market.

™Lighting brings art to life using new LED energy-efficient technology. Their discreet product design with an expertise in distributing light draws out the vibrancy of every work of art through this sophisticated technology. Their choice of light source conserves the artwork through no ultraviolet or infrared light and no forward heat throw while maintaining excellent colour rendering similar to i

ncandescent lights. ™Lighting approaches each commission like a work of art in itself, with a sensitivity to its surroundings, whether contemporary or traditional.

This year’s International Women’s Day theme, “Break the Pattern,” is a powerful reminder to challenge outdated norms and...
04/03/2026

This year’s International Women’s Day theme, “Break the Pattern,” is a powerful reminder to challenge outdated norms and champion a future where women lead, innovate, and shape the world of design and technology.

At TM Lighting, we’re proud to celebrate the incredibly talented women who are at the heart of our business. From precision craftsmanship to expert assembly, the women in our workshop play a fundamental role in creating the lighting products that we are known for and which are shaping our future. Their skill, dedication, and attention to detail ensures every piece meets the highest standards.

Today, we recognise not only their contribution to our company, but their impact on the future of our industry and proudly encourage this year’s message.

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‘The opening of Collect this week was a powerful reminder that light does far more than illuminate - it connects.As the ...
03/03/2026

‘The opening of Collect this week was a powerful reminder that light does far more than illuminate - it connects.

As the fair’s lighting partner, our team worked across multiple exhibitions and installations, responding quickly and carefully to each space. The challenge is always balance: every artwork needs its own voice, but the fair still needs a sense of cohesion. Light is what makes that possible.

We were especially proud to open our new TM Gallery outpost presenting Textildermy by Carmen Mardonez, curated by Hannah Payne Art. This was a true collaboration where the artist, curator, space and light worked together from the start. Lighting wasn’t an afterthought, but part of the foundation.

Our high colour rendition approach was essential here. Carmen’s work is incredibly nuanced. She splices together multiple coloured cotton strands to create her own threads before weaving them into embroidery. There are layers of pigment within pigment. Texture within texture. To reveal that depth, the response through our work at TM Lighting, has to be both scientific and sensitive.

One moment that stood out was lighting Studio Sumakshi Singh’s Monument for the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize exhibition. In that installation, shadow was as important as the object itself. Achieving a crisp, intentional projection (without spill or distraction) required precision and restraint.

In the Collectors’ Lounge, designed by Tola Ojuolape, light shifted its role once again. It softened edges, guided movement and created moments of pause. The same medium with a completely different outcome.

Across every space - TM Gallery, the Loewe prize exhibition and the Lounge - the intention remained the same: coherence. Different designers, materials and energies with one luminous thread running through them all’.

- Andrew Molyneux, Founder and Director of TM Lighting

TM Gallery at COLLECT 2026 presented by TM Gallery, curated by Hannah Payne ArtCarmen Mardonez | TextildermyTM Gallery, ...
26/02/2026

TM Gallery at COLLECT 2026 presented by TM Gallery, curated by Hannah Payne Art

Carmen Mardonez | Textildermy

TM Gallery, our not-for-profit exhibition space founded by the team behind TM Lighting are thrilled to showcase a two-part presentation by Chilean textile artist Carmen Mardonez, presented by TM Gallery, curated by Hannah Payne Art.

This project unfolds across two locations, beginning with a presentation at COLLECT 2026, before continuing with a solo exhibition at TM Gallery in March.

Presented within a dedicated space at COLLECT Bar in the Navy Board Room at Somerset House, Mardonez introduces Textildermy, a body of work in which the artist reclaims embroidery as a contemporary, expressive medium. The title merges “textile” and “taxidermy,” evoking ideas of skin, preservation and transformation. Fabric becomes a second skin, a surface that holds memory, intimacy and lived experience, while resisting embroidery’s traditional associations with decoration or domestic utility. In this work, Mardonez reimagines embroidery as a contemporary visual language shaped by colour, gesture and material presence.

Created in 2023 while the artist was living and working in Los Angeles, Textildermy IV, V and VI are shaped by the city’s intense light and colour. Saturated pinks, vivid greens and neon tonal shifts echo LA’s sunsets, beaches and expansive skies, while the works’ scale and physicality reflect an embodied engagement with place.

We worked with Carmen to draw out the vibrant and vivid colours of the artworks, with our gallery spotlights, so the thread colours pop and also melt into each other, as the artist intended.

26 February – 1 March 2026
Collect Bar, Navy Board Room, Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 1LA.






An honour to light the Collector’s Lounge this year, designed by .studio The room designed by Tola Ojuolape is a tactil...
26/02/2026

An honour to light the Collector’s Lounge this year, designed by .studio

The room designed by Tola Ojuolape is a tactile and calming space, featuring artworks neatly hung and positioned, lit with our gallery spotlights. The traditional library - reimagined.

A delight to meet the designer yesterday. Make sure you try and see the space this year.
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Find us as a featured member on The List by House & Garden ‘TM Lighting, the leading international art lighting speciali...
24/02/2026

Find us as a featured member on The List by House & Garden

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We are excited to announce a solo exhibition of work by Chilean textile artist Carmen Mardonez, presented by Hannah Payn...
24/02/2026

We are excited to announce a solo exhibition of work by Chilean textile artist Carmen Mardonez, presented by Hannah Payne Art at TM Gallery, from 20 March – 5 June 2026.

Working across large-scale embroidered works, sculptural textiles and installation, Mardonez reimagines embroidery as a contemporary visual language shaped by colour, gesture and material presence. Now based in Oxford, the artist draws on experiences of place and light — from the saturated hues of Los Angeles to the atmospheric rhythms of the Northern Lights — to create immersive, emotionally resonant environments.

At the heart of Chromatic Solace is making as a form of refuge. Colour becomes a space of safety and intimacy, while layered, freehand stitches build expansive surfaces that invite close, bodily engagement. Using discarded domestic textiles such as bedsheets and clothing, the works carry traces of shared lives, care and labour, asserting embroidery as a site of autonomy, tenderness and creative freedom.

The exhibition presents a new five-metre-wide embroidered installation shown publicly for the first time, alongside works from the artist’s ongoing Textildermy series and a sculptural wall-hung textile piece. The works are lit using TM Lighting’s high-CRI lighting, bringing depth, colour and texture vividly to life.

As part of the gallery programme, TM Gallery will present an Artist Talk with Carmen Mardonez in conversation with TF Chan, Director of COLLECT, at TM Gallery on 29 April, 6.30 – 8.30 pm. More details to follow.

Image: Carmen Mardonez, Textildermy IV, 2023, hand embroidered thread on discarded bedsheet (120 x 122 cm / 47 x 48 in) Image courtesy of the Artist and Hannah Payne Art

It’s the Year of the Horse, so we look back to illuminating Wentworth Woodhouse. 🐎On the occasion of the 300th anniversa...
17/02/2026

It’s the Year of the Horse, so we look back to illuminating Wentworth Woodhouse. 🐎

On the occasion of the 300th anniversary of artist George Stubbs, The Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust commemorated the artist by showcasing his paintings at the estate in South Yorkshire, which marked their first public display there. Renowned for his innovative approach and keen interest in portraying animals with human-like qualities, Stubbs visited Wentworth Woodhouse in 1762 to create works commissioned by the Second Marquess of Rockingham.

The exhibition, was titled “Beneath the Surface,” and was the largest of its kind and features Stubbs’ artwork alongside pieces from contemporary artists like Ugo Rondinone, Mark Wallinger, and Tracey Emin. These artists explored similar themes, delving into the experiences of animals and humans through their creative and insightful works.

The exhibition was illuminated with our TM Gallery130 Spotlights and TM Goodwood Picture Lights delivering high colour rendition, museum-grade lighting.



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At TM Lighting, we have always believed that light does more than illuminate an artwork. It reveals intention, materiali...
12/02/2026

At TM Lighting, we have always believed that light does more than illuminate an artwork. It reveals intention, materiality and meaning. It shapes how work lives within its environment.

Last night’s talk at TM Gallery reinforced something fundamental to our ethos: the importance of giving back. Not only environmentally, but culturally. A green mindset is about responsibility, continuity and care and it is about recognising that art does not exist in isolation. It is embedded in the world around it.

The Gilbert Bayes Award Winners Exhibition 2025, curated by Freeny Yianni and presented at TM Gallery (TM Lighting) in partnership with the Royal Society of Sculptors supports outstanding early-career sculptors during a pivotal transition into professional practice, a stage that can be both creatively fertile and financially challenging.

Beyond the exhibition opportunity, recipients receive a year of professional development, mentorship and membership with the Royal Society of Sculptors.  The conversation also touched on an important principle: innovation involves both risk and resilience.

“Sculpture is about process, experimentation and growth” said Yianni.

We are proud to provide a platform for this to happen at TM Gallery.

At TM Lighting, we see our role with the artist and curator as both technical and custodial. We illuminate art, but we also help sustain the conditions in which it can thrive.

The exhibition is open until 11 March 2026 by appointment at TM Gallery, 7 Cubitt Street, London, WC1X 0LN.

This Spring, watch this space 🧵 Our not-for-profit exhibition space, TM Gallery announces a major two-part presentation ...
11/02/2026

This Spring, watch this space 🧵 Our not-for-profit exhibition space, TM Gallery announces a major two-part presentation by Chilean textile artist Carmen Mardonez, presented by TM Gallery, curated by

Unfolding across February and March 2026, the project introduces Mardonez’s work to UK audiences through a presentation at COLLECT 2026, the international fair for contemporary, museum-quality craft and design, followed by a solo exhibition at TM Gallery.

Mardonez’s large-scale textile installations take centre stage, exploring colour, surface, and tactility through richly embroidered forms. The first chapter, Textildermy, will be presented at COLLECT 2026 from 26 February – 1 March, with a Private View on 25 February.

The project continues with Chromatic Solace, a solo exhibition at TM Gallery, opening 12 March – 5 June 2026 (Private View: 19 March).

Together, the presentations highlight Mardonez’s distinctive approach to colour and material, offering an immersive encounter with contemporary textile practice.

Commenting on the exhibition, Harry Triggs, Founding Director at TM Lighting, says: “These large-scale embroidered surfaces are vividly brought to life through TMs high-colour rendition lighting using the Gallery 130, illuminating the depth, ensuring colour authenticity and texture of Carmen’s intricate work”.

TM Gallery
7 Cubitt Street, London WC1X 0LN
Open weekdays, 11am–5pm (by appointment)





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We are thrilled to bring Alice Kettle’s new exhibition to light, on view now until 11 April using our G130 lights.Alice...
10/02/2026

We are thrilled to bring Alice Kettle’s new exhibition to light, on view now until 11 April using our G130 lights.

Alice Kettle uses thread to describe the tensions between stability and precarity; articulating the contradictions between what is fixed and what is in flux. Through stitched and layered surfaces, her works materialise everyday human sensations, interweaving the archetypal and personal with contemporary experience. As Anni Albers observed, “to make life visible and tangible, we need light and material…”

Through the connection between one thread with another, Kettle explores the relationship between catastrophe and hope. “We are part of the material world as physical and emotional beings, …where in between suffering and joy, power and powerlessness, we search for equilibrium.”

Within this new body of textiles, figures appear in the act of catching and throwing, of pushing and pulling. The threads in places are taut, tangled, and drifting, at times grounded and at others lifted—twisted with one another in lines of colour and form. They act as a metaphor for stillness and movement and the continual negotiation between opposing forces. In this dynamic interplay of thread, Kettle explores lived experience where rupture and renewal are in a perpetual balancing act.

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ALICE KETTLE: BALANCING ACT
7 FEBRUARY - 11 APRIL 2026
Bo Lee Gallery

In the next of our Spotlight series of interviews, we offer a glimpse into the mind of Freeny Yianni – guest judge and c...
04/02/2026

In the next of our Spotlight series of interviews, we offer a glimpse into the mind of Freeny Yianni – guest judge and curator of the current TM Gallery exhibition and curator and founder of

Freeny discusses the ideas, processes, and inspirations that shape her work and how she curated the Gilbert Bayes Award Winners 2025 Exhibition in partnership with

On view until the beginning of March, the exhibition features ten sculptures by the ten selected artists; Amanda Cornish, Beverley Duckworth, Bo-Yi Wu, Emmanuel Awuni, Lucy Mulholland, Madeleine Ruggi, Regan Boyce, Salvatore Pioni, Stephen Burke and Yidan Kim.

Lighting the three dimensional artworks in our tall, industrial, gallery space really allowed us to bring the sculptures to life – playing with shadow, emphasising texture and drawing out reflections and patterns in the variety of materials used. The works are all different in their own right but together there is a beautiful rhythm and natural balance to the show.

With thanks to our programme curator, Hannah Payne, for this interview.






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