ART FURNITURELAND - Group Sculpture Exhibition at The Bomb Factory Holborn

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 Jenning’s work combines disparate elements creating new narratives to engage, perplex and hopefully delight the viewer. Clive studied Fine Art at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and St Martin’s School of Art. His work is in many 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 nature’s hidden systems. Drawing from his background in Product Design and a deep fascination with organic form, Grossman creates tactile installations that suspend movement, offering moments that feel like a freeze frame of motion drawn from nature’s rhythms.

Mike Ballard is a London based artist best known for his large-scale sculptures constructed from salvaged building site hoardings. 

His work explores themes of urban transformation, architecture, and the aesthetics of the built environment. Ballard repurposes materials to challenge perceptions of public and private space, value, identity and permanence. 

Heidi Pearce is a London based artist, originally from Kent. Predominantly working in textile, sculpture, and installation, Pearce’s work usually takes the form of the same dog-like form, almost like a signature. The use of this repetitive ‘signature dog’ allows her to question ideas of belonging, social interaction and humour through an uncanny lens. Pearce takes inspiration from quips and one liners of everyday interactions; whether they be funny, awkward, bizarre or frightfully boring. Pearce studied her BA at Goldsmiths University graduating in 2019, then completing The School of the Damned Alternative Masters programme 2022-24. Exhibiting regularly in London and elsewhere in the UK, Pearce balances her practice with both traditional gallery shows and nontraditional spaces such as a church, a law firm, multiple pubs/breweries and other public art walks/settings.

Bella Bradford was born in the West Midlands (UK) and is currently working and living in London. Bradford graduated with an MFA in Fine Art - Sculpture, from The Slade School of Fine Art in 2024. She previously studied BA Fine Art at the University of Gloucestershire. Bradford’s work explores material meanings, fashion, trends, identity, and culture through mutated domestic objects; challenging how materials affect the way that forms are perceived. She recently had her first London based solo exhibition as part of Artist of the Day at Flowers Gallery, and has shown in various group shows including; Enrooting at Mandy Zhang, FEVER at Three Rooms, and Small is Beautiful at Flowers Gallery.

Helen Hamilton a Yorkshire-born, London-based sculptor whose work combines irreverent humour with a deep interest in the physical and associative properties of materials to investigate the performativity of objects through a class-based lens. She has recently graduated from MA Sculpture at the Royal College of Art.

Marie-Thérèse Ross MRSS is a member of The Royal Society of Sculptors. She is

an Art Gemini Prize winner (2021) and she is at present longlisted for the Women In

Art Prize (2025) Her work has recently been exhibited at the Royal Cambrian

Academy, and the Elysium Gallery in Wales, The Stone Space, APT Deptford, and

with Vivienne Roberts Projects in London. Ross was awarded a First Class BA hons in painting from Loughborough College of Art and Design, she went onto to study sculpture in Germany for a year at Karlsruhe Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste with the British sculptor Michael Sandle RA. She studied sculpture for her MA at the University of Pennsylvania in the USA.

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

LOCATION: 99 Kingsway, WC2B 6QX

DATES: 15th August - 6th September

TIMES: Weds - Sun, 12-6pm