ART FURNITURELAND - Group Sculpture Exhibition at The Bomb Factory Holborn

Featuring: Clive Jennings, James Grossman, Mike Ballard, Heidi Pearce, Bella Bradford, Helen Hamilton, Marie-Thérèse Ross, Graham Clemie, Pallas Citroen

This summer, The Bomb Factory Art Foundation is pleased to present Art Furnitureland, a group exhibition exploring the shifting boundary between fine art and furniture. Drawing inspiration from the conceptual provocations of artists like Donald Judd, Franz West, and Pipilotti Rist, the show features work by contemporary practitioners who approach furniture not simply as a functional object, but as form, invitation, and experience.

At the heart of the exhibition is a questioning of how we live with art - and how art, in turn, lives with us. The works on display subvert conventional ideas of furniture as passive or utilitarian, instead framing it as sculptural, sensory, and often participatory. Chairs that refuse to be sat on, Tables that echo ritual altars, Cabinets that conceal more than they contain. These hybrid objects are at once familiar and strange: they carry the silhouette of domesticity, but behave more like sculpture, installation, or performance.

Across sculpture, design, installation, and object-based performance, Art Furnitureland raises critical questions about form, function, and feeling. What happens when a chair demands contemplation? When a lamp performs? When a bed becomes a site of political rest? The exhibition challenges the audience not just to observe, but to dwell - momentarily - in a world where furniture becomes a vehicle for storytelling, transformation, and thought.

Artists

Clive Jennings is an artist whose work combines disparate elements to create new narratives that engage, perplex and delight. He studied Fine Art at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and St Martin’s School of Art. His work is held in public and private collections, including The Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

James Grossman is a London-based sculptor whose practice explores the intersection of emerging technologies and the hidden systems of nature. Drawing on a background in Product Design and a fascination with organic form, he creates tactile installations that suspend movement, evoking freeze-frames of nature’s rhythms.

Mike Ballard is a London-based artist known for large-scale sculptures constructed from salvaged building site hoardings. His work examines urban transformation, architecture and the aesthetics of the built environment, repurposing materials to challenge perceptions of space, value, identity and permanence.

Heidi Pearce is a London-based artist working in textile, sculpture and installation. Her practice often centres on a recurring dog-like form, used as a personal signature to explore belonging, social interaction and humour through an uncanny lens. She graduated with a BA from Goldsmiths University and completed The School of the Damned Alternative Masters Programme. Pearce exhibits regularly across the UK in both galleries and unconventional public spaces.

Bella Bradford is a London-based artist whose work explores material meanings, fashion, trends, identity and culture through mutated domestic objects. She holds an MFA in Fine Art (Sculpture) from The Slade School of Fine Art and a BA in Fine Art from the University of Gloucestershire. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in London, including Flowers Gallery, Mandy Zhang and Three Rooms.

Helen Hamilton is a Yorkshire-born, London-based sculptor whose work combines irreverent humour with an interest in the physical and associative properties of materials. Her practice investigates the performativity of objects through a class-based lens. She holds an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art.

Marie-Thérèse Ross is a sculptor and member of the Royal Society of Sculptors. She holds a First Class BA in Painting from Loughborough College of Art and Design, studied sculpture in Germany at the Karlsruhe Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, and completed an MA in Sculpture at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work has been exhibited widely in the UK, including the Royal Cambrian Academy, The Stone Space, APT Deptford and with Vivienne Roberts Projects. She is a winner of the Art Gemini Prize and has been longlisted for the Women in Art Prize..

Graham Clemie is an artist whose work explores the boundary between being and merely existing, often engaging with the uncanny and the philosophy of idealism. He has a BA from Central Saint Martins and an MFA from The Slade School of Fine Art. His practice is shaped by an international upbringing and a background in electronics and software engineering, reoriented through art to explore freedom from inherited modes of thought.

Pallas Citroen is a London-based artist and founder of The Bomb Factory Art Foundation. She holds an MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins. Since establishing the Bomb Factory Art Foundation, she has overseen its growth from a single converted building into multiple sites across London, supporting a diverse community of artists and expanding public programming. Alongside her role as Managing Director, she continues her practice in sculpture and installation. 

PRIVATE VIEW: Thurs 14th August, 6-8pm

LOCATION: 99 Kingsway, WC2B 6QX

DATES: 15th August - 6th September

TIMES: Weds - Sat, 12-6pm