29/09/2026
This autumn, Assembly brings together 35 members and fellows of the Royal Society of Sculptors at Hypha Gallery South Bank, following its inaugural presentation in Sunderland earlier this year. Opening during Frieze season, the exhibition brings a diverse group of established sculptors into a new architectural and cultural context, creating an opportunity for audiences, collectors, curators and artists to encounter contemporary sculpture beyond the conventional gallery framework.
Curated by Alexandra Carr MRSS and Alex Breeze of Breeze Creatives, Assembly began in Sunderland as an experiment in artistic freedom, exchange and collaboration. The London presentation continues that spirit while allowing the works to enter into dialogue with the distinctive context of Southbank and the international activity surrounding Frieze.
The exhibition brings together practices spanning installation, object-making, architectural intervention, film, performance and material experimentation. Across the exhibition, sculpture moves between the intimate and monumental, the poetic and political, the familiar and unexpected.
Together, the works explore the capacity of sculpture to transform space and shape human encounter, while engaging with themes including ecology, identity, migration, labour, landscape, memory and the human experience. Rather than presenting a single definition of what sculpture can be, Assembly reflects the breadth of approaches being pursued by artists working within the field today.
The move from Sunderland to London marks a further development of the project. Following its presentation within Sunderland’s historic Athenaeum building, Assembly now enters a very different cultural landscape, bringing the work of its artists into proximity with major institutions, galleries, collectors and international audiences during one of the most significant periods in London’s art calendar.
