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A Morning in Shoreditch with Pei-Yi Tsai: A wonderful review, interview and photographs of Pei-Yi Tsai and her solo exh...
30/05/2026

A Morning in Shoreditch with Pei-Yi Tsai: A wonderful review, interview and photographs of Pei-Yi Tsai and her solo exhibition [insert] curated by Senem Cagla-Bilging Keys, by Brynley Odu Davies published by Overstandard.

“This show at SLQS Gallery means a lot to me because it’s my very first solo exhibition in the West. While there are a lot of artists exploring q***r themes right now, I wanted to bring a fresh perspective to the table—specifically, looking at q***r subject matter through an East Asian lens. My hope is to use my own distinct voice and visual language to spark a different kind of conversation within the Western art scene.” - Pei-Yi Tsai

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For more information about available works by Pei-Yi Tsai please email [email protected]

About Beverley Duckworth who is opening her solo exhibition From Below on 4 June 2026 at SLQS Gallery as part of London ...
28/05/2026

About Beverley Duckworth who is opening her solo exhibition From Below on 4 June 2026 at SLQS Gallery as part of London Gallery Weekend.

Working with living sculpture and installation, Beverley Duckworth creates spaces and moments which connect the smallest, poetic actions of plants with precarious issues facing humanity. Her practice centres on the afterlife of the discarded and is rooted in small acts of reparation - sewing scraps together, watering fragile seedlings and nurturing the regenerative power of composting from waste materials.

Duckworth was born and lives in London and is the winner of the Royal Society of Sculpture’s Gilbert Bayes Award (2025). She was shortlisted for the John Ruskin Prize (2026) and was awarded a studio residency with the Sarabande Foundation (2025). She was selected for New Contemporaries (2024) and UK New Artists City Takeover (2022). She graduated with an MFA (with distinction) from Goldsmiths University (2024). She has exhibited in the UK and internationally in the USA, China and Europe.

Artist Portrait by Sarabande Foundation

Installation images of works by Bevereley Duckworth:
Strands (2022), Arthub Gallery, London
Stale (2024), A Landscape of Chance, SLQS Gallery, London; Image by
Surplus (2024), Goldsmiths MFA Degree Show, London; Image by Carmen Gray
Residue (2025), New Contemporaries, ICA, London and KARST, Plymouth; image credit is Ben Deakin
Glut (2024), SLQS Gallery at Minor Attractions, London; Image by
Anthesis III (2025), Patience in Looking, Truth in Making, The John Ruskin Prize, London
Vaneer (2025), Terraforma, The Royal Society of Sculptors Gilbert, Bayes Award Winners show, London and Wakefield
Source (2025), Permission to Bloom, Don’t Look Projects, Los Angeles.

Join us for the private view on 4 June (link in bio to RSVP)

seeddrawing

Next Exhibition at SLQS Gallery!For London Gallery Weekend, SLQS Gallery presents From Below, Beverley Duckworth’s first...
25/05/2026

Next Exhibition at SLQS Gallery!

For London Gallery Weekend, SLQS Gallery presents From Below, Beverley Duckworth’s first solo exhibition.

From Below offers a timely, materially rich exploration of seeds as a disruptive force. Through living works, root sculptures, and preserved archives, it reflects on systems in flux, ecological resistance, and quiet reclamation. Immersive and durational, the exhibition invites viewers into a slow unfolding of growth and unmaking.

Join us for the private view on 4 June (RSVP link in bio)

Private View | Thursday 4 June 2026 6-8pm
On View | 5-27 June 2026
LGW | 5-7 June 2026
20 Club Row, London, E2 7EY

22/05/2026

Thank you to everyone who came to our poetry evening Refractions, to the poets and artists who performed and to Sophia Al-Adhami for co-curating this event. We hope that some of the poems and the paintings of Pei-Yi Tsai resonated with you and that some words and ideas about who we are and our becoming will stay with you.

It’s the last weekend to view [insert], the solo exhibition Pei-Yi Tsai, curated by Senem Cagla Bilgin-Keys. Come by the gallery at 20 Club Row, London E27EY.

Artists and poets who performed: Sophia Al-Adhami, Jauhara Ali, Victoria Cantons, Heather Harrison, Rowena Hughes, Nympha Ozougwu, Jerrold Yam and thư you. Thank you to Betty C Fan and Dyana Gravina for joining the open mic.

Reel by Ciana Taylor
Poem by Jauhara Ali

Last three days to view [insert] by Pei-Yi Tsai and curated by Senem Cagla Bilgin-Keys“Bilgin-Keys’s curatorial approach...
21/05/2026

Last three days to view [insert] by Pei-Yi Tsai and curated by Senem Cagla Bilgin-Keys

“Bilgin-Keys’s curatorial approach is especially effective in the exhibition’s central grouping, where three paintings are arranged in a silent yet emotionally charged dialogue. In one, a kneeling figure reaches toward beaded bracelets on the floor, objects associated with the artist’s parents and a metaphorical form of protection given to her by her mother, reflecting an emotional and cultural notion. Adjacent to this, another figure presses a finger to their lips in a gesture of enforced silence, alluding to the secrecy and self-censorship often imposed upon q***r identities. Together, the works articulate the emotional burden of concealment without lapsing into sentimentality.” - Lee Sharrock for Culturalee

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Pei-Yi Tsai
Close in Distance (2026)
Oil on Linen
51 x 40 cm

Pei-Yi Tsai
What remains unsaid (2026)
Oil on linen
40 x 30 cm

Pei-Yi Tsai
Multiplicity of Self (2026)
Oil on Linen
30x30 cm

All works are available to collect, please email [email protected] for more information.

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Curated by Senem Cagla Bilgin-Keys
On view until 23 May 2026
20 Club Row, London E2 7EY

We are open Thursday-Saturday 12-6pm and by appointment.

Installation Imagse by Rita Silva

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Last week to view [insert] by Pei-Yi Tsai!Pei-Yi TsaiScar, 2026Oil on Linen45 x 65 cmPei-Yi TsaiMemory, Symbol, or Who W...
18/05/2026

Last week to view [insert] by Pei-Yi Tsai!

Pei-Yi Tsai
Scar, 2026
Oil on Linen
45 x 65 cm

Pei-Yi Tsai
Memory, Symbol, or Who We Are (2026)
Oil on Linen
61 x 53 cm

All works are available to collect, please email [email protected] for more information.

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Curated by Senem Cagla Bilgin-Keys
24 April - 23 May 2026
20 Club Row, London E2 7EY

Image by Rita Silva

We are open Thursday-Saturday 12-6pm and by appointment.

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Thank you for the brilliant review of [insert] by Pei-Yi Tsai curated by Senem Cagla Bilgin-Keys. Last chance to view t...
16/05/2026

Thank you for the brilliant review of [insert] by Pei-Yi Tsai curated by Senem Cagla Bilgin-Keys. Last chance to view this exhibition, it’s on until next Saturday 23 May only!

“Tsai’s draughtsmanship is especially striking. There is a precision reminiscent of Jean‑Auguste‑Dominique Ingres in the clarity of contour and anatomical control, yet Tsai’s line also carries traces of Taiwanese visual traditions. Fine black contours and intricate detailing evoke something almost calligraphic, allowing her Taiwanese heritage to subtly permeate the paintings without reducing them to cultural signifiers.

Bilgin-Keys has remarked that the strength of Tsai’s work lies in “the tension between what is revealed and what is withheld,” and this exhibition succeeds precisely because it never seeks easy resolution. Instead, Tsai constructs a visual language in which identity remains contingent, fractured, and emotionally charged. Through exquisitely rendered surfaces and psychologically complex compositions, [Insert] positions the body as a site where private memory and broader cultural histories converge. The result is a deeply affecting exhibition that confirms Pei-Yi Tsai as an important emerging voice in contemporary figurative painting.”

Full Article in link in bio

Pei-Yi Tsai | [insert]
Curated by Senem Cagla Bilgin-Keys
On view until 23 May 2026
20 Club Row, London E2 7EY

We are open Thursday-Saturday 12-6pm and by appointment.

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‘From 2024 to early 2026, I primarily used a type of cotton fabric called calico as the painting ground. Due to its ligh...
14/05/2026

‘From 2024 to early 2026, I primarily used a type of cotton fabric called calico as the painting ground. Due to its lightweight quality and relatively loose fibers, paint and gesso can easily pe*****te the surface. I usually stretch or pin the fabric directly onto the wall to apply gesso, and once it dries, I remove it. This process causes the surface to wrinkle, resulting in a fragile and unstable texture resembling crumpled cotton paper.

For me, this kind of material—susceptible to change, marked by traces and deformation—corresponds to the nature of memory. Memory is not something fixed, but rather something that is continuously overwritten, faded, and reconstructed. In this sense, the fragility and instability of the material also echo my ongoing interest in the fluidity and uncertainty of identity.’

Pei-Yi Tsai in conversation with Culturalee (link in bio to read full article)

Pei-Yi Tsai
Sealed memories (2025)
Oil & Acrylic on calico
132 x 105 cm

Pei-Yi Tsai
Hushed (2025)
Oil on calico
40x40 cm

All works are available to collect, please email [email protected] for more information

Pei-Yi Tsai | [insert]
Curated by Senem Cagla Bilgin-Keys
24 April - 23 May 2026
20 Club Row, London E2 7EY

We are open Thursday-Saturday 12-6pm and by appointment

Installation Image by Rita Silva

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We’re proud to be part of Backyard Biennial: East, a free, 8-week festival in collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery and...
12/05/2026

We’re proud to be part of Backyard Biennial: East, a free, 8-week festival in collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery and 40+ local partners across East London (15 July - 6 September 2026). Join us for an exciting programme of exhibitions, performances, workshops and more,
celebrating the histories, communities and creative practices that shape the East End.

On 10 July 2026, SLQS Gallery opens the group exhibition No Place Like Home III curated by Hoa Dung Clerget and KV Duong and featuring works by Hoa Dung Clerget, KV Duong, Moi Tran, Alvin Lương, Hiền Hoàng and Nguyễn Thùy Tiên.

The third part in this series of exhibitions centres around an interior garden as a place of exchange. No Place Like Home is a collective exploration of home, focusing on the Vietnamese diasporic house as an intimate, cultural, and political space. In addition to a traditional exhibition, the project centres on workshops, gatherings, and discussions, inviting the public and local communities to reflect and share experiences.

The exhibition is supported by SLQS Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery, the Vietnam Art Collection (VAC) and the Circles of Art.

More information is coming soon! Save the date for the opening: 10 July 2026!

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Image: detail of Family Portrait (2026) by KV Duong

Come to the gallery and view [insert] by Pei-Yi Tsai until 23 May 2026 at 20 Club Row, London E2 7EY. We are open Thursd...
09/05/2026

Come to the gallery and view [insert] by Pei-Yi Tsai until 23 May 2026 at 20 Club Row, London E2 7EY. We are open Thursday-Saturday 12-6pm and by appointment.

Pei-Yi Tsai
Untitled, 2026
Oil on Linen
89 x 45 cm

Curated by Senem Cagla Bilgin-Keys. All works are available to collect, please email [email protected] for more information.

Installation Image by Rita Silva

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