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🎉 STUDIO NEWS 🎉 Congratulations to Sam Machell on being awarded Exeter Phoenix's Artists Moving Image Commission. For th...
02/06/2026

🎉 STUDIO NEWS 🎉

Congratulations to Sam Machell on being awarded Exeter Phoenix's Artists Moving Image Commission.

For the commission, Sam will utilise ultra high frame rate cameras to capture and slow down choreographed movements of bodies and light to create images of clowns in dance-like combat.

Last week, Lucía Pizzani joined us at KARST to install the plaster wall for her upcoming exhibition, Faunal Succession. ...
30/05/2026

Last week, Lucía Pizzani joined us at KARST to install the plaster wall for her upcoming exhibition, Faunal Succession.

Scroll through to see Lucía in action! 👀

📅 Opening event: 11 Jun, 6–8pm. On view: 12 Jun - 1 Aug (Wed-Sat, 11am–5pm)
🎟️ Free entry
🔗 To find out more, visit: https://karst.org.uk/exhibitions/faunal-succession/

📸 Dom Moore

Thank you to everyone who attended INSIDE UFO and the accompanying discussion panel earlier this month at KARST. 🙏 INSID...
28/05/2026

Thank you to everyone who attended INSIDE UFO and the accompanying discussion panel earlier this month at KARST. 🙏

INSIDE UFO brought together sculptural works by KARST studio artists Anna Boland, Laura Hopes, Tom Pether, and Laura Robertson. The group show was the result of two peer-led residencies conducted by the featured artists in which they coined the term Unidentified Familiar Objects, or UFOs, to describe the found materials at the heart of their practice.

Thank you to everyone who came to see INSIDE UFO and joined us for the accompanying discussion panel, earlier this month...
28/05/2026

Thank you to everyone who came to see INSIDE UFO and joined us for the accompanying discussion panel, earlier this month at KARST. 🙏

INSIDE UFO brought together sculptural works by KARST studio artists Anna Boland, Laura Hopes, Tom Pether, and Laura Robertson. The group show was the result of two peer-led residencies conducted by the featured artists in which they coined the term Unidentified Familiar Objects, or UFOs, to describe the found materials at the heart of their practice.

📸 Martin Hampton

👍 KARST RECOMMENDS 👍 There are some exciting exhibitions going on across Devon and Cornwall this month… ⭐ Maeve Brennan’...
15/05/2026

👍 KARST RECOMMENDS 👍

There are some exciting exhibitions going on across Devon and Cornwall this month…

⭐ Maeve Brennan’s Siticulosa at (until 30 May)

CAST are screening Maeve Brenna’s film Siticulosa, part of an ongoing body of work which focuses on the global trade in illicit antiquities.

⭐ Bruce Asbestos’ Bootleg Shreg 2 at (until 20 Jun)

A solo exhibition by Bruce Asbestos featuring paintings, inflatable sculpture and digital artworks that explore the evolving world of Shreg.

⭐Tom Kaniok’s Mud Makes the Revivalists at .house.art.wellbeing (until 20 Jun)

Through drawing and painting, Mud Makes The Revivalists explores our relationship with nature through ecology, climate change, memory, and belonging.

⭐ Louise Fago-Ruskin’s Til All Is Correct at (until 7 Sep)

Til All Is Correct is rooted deeply in personal history. Louise Fago-Ruskin traces her own ancestral lineage, including the loss of her Great Uncle Moszek and fifteen relatives during the Shoah, to bring forward a body of work that reflects on belonging and exclusion.

⭐ Libita Sibungu’s Zed Love at (from 23 May – 31 Oct)

In this solo exhibition, Libita Sibungu works with early photographic techniques alongside drawing and sound to uncover the hidden layers, energies, and histories that connect people to place.


📷 Images: 1 & 2) Siticulosa (2025), Maeve Brenna. 3) Work by Bruce Asbestos. 4) Work by Tom Kaniok. 5) Work by Louise Fago-Ruskin. 6) Work by Libita Sibungu.

🛸 THIS MONTH AT KARST 🛸KARST studio artists Anna Boland, Laura Hopes, Tom Pether, and Laura Robertson present a sculptur...
06/05/2026

🛸 THIS MONTH AT KARST 🛸

KARST studio artists Anna Boland, Laura Hopes, Tom Pether, and Laura Robertson present a sculptural test space at KARST.
INSIDE UFO is the result of two peer-led residencies conducted by the featured artists. They have coined the term Unidentified Familiar Objects, or UFOs, to describe the found materials at the heart of their practice. Their shared aesthetic favours material interest over polite redaction.

The show will be opening on Thursday 14 May, 5.30 – 7.30pm. Join the artists on Saturday 16 May, 12pm – 1pm, for a discussion panel in KARST’s FENSTER project space.

🔗 To find out more, visit: https://karst.org.uk/projects/inside-ufo/

Did you visit Discord & Harmony and Doorway Guardians at KARST? We'd love to hear about your experience! 💬 We are always...
01/05/2026

Did you visit Discord & Harmony and Doorway Guardians at KARST? We'd love to hear about your experience! 💬

We are always looking at how we can improve so we can best serve the needs of our communities and audiences. We’d be grateful if you could spare a couple of minutes to tell us about your time at KARST.

🔗To give your feedback, visit the link in comments...

📸 Dom Moore

📣 NEW TRUSTEES 📣We are excited to announce that six new Trustees have joined our board, with expertise spanning capital ...
22/04/2026

📣 NEW TRUSTEES 📣

We are excited to announce that six new Trustees have joined our board, with expertise spanning capital development projects, community engagement, and contemporary art. Our new Trustees are Graham Devine, Dr Rosalind Hayes, Nicoletta Lambertucci, Patrycja Loranc, Henry Mulhall and Jenny Tipton.

🔗 To find out more about our new Trustees, visit: https://karst.org.uk/announcing-karsts-new-trustees/

📣 STUDIO ANNOUNCEMENT 📣We are excited to announce our new studio holder, Sam Machell!Sam's multi-disciplinary practice c...
20/04/2026

📣 STUDIO ANNOUNCEMENT 📣

We are excited to announce our new studio holder, Sam Machell!

Sam's multi-disciplinary practice combines drawing, text, performance and video to conjure absurd fictions. He is interested in knotty, complex ecologies and systems of power, and the emotional and bodily experiences of the frail consciousnesses caught within them. Drawing from the legacies of ‘hysterical realism’ and the ‘systems novel’, Sam's writing situates neurotic, recursive selves within contrived, doomed scenarios. He has had work published by Cloak, Back Patio Press, surfaces.cx and Expat Press.

Sam says: “Last year I undertook a residency at KARST and found it explosive for my practice. I'm thrilled to be able to spend more time within this vibrant community, and to dedicate more time and space to magnifying my work and testing new ideas.”

📸 LIVE MIME/DUMB HIPPY (2025), Sam Machell

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