WINDOW WONDERLAND 2025 - Xmas Window Displays at Marylebone & Holborn Galleries

Exhibiting Artists: Be Andr, Alison Jackson, Peter Kennard, Daniel Lismore, Fa Razavi, Olga Szynkarczuk, Wankers of The World, Phill Wilson-Perkin

The Bomb Factory Art Foundation presents Window Wonderland, a festive window exhibition across our Marylebone and Holborn galleries from December 11th to January 18th. Bringing together painting, sculpture, installation and video, the exhibition explores how freedom of speech is shaped by visibility and silence in the contemporary and public realm. Addressing subjects that are increasingly censored or overlooked, the artists respond to issues including war, motherhood, dissent and political polarisation, asking who is heard and what it means to speak up publicly today.

Peter Kennard presents photomontages responding to war, state violence and media complicity. Addressing the ongoing devastation in Gaza, the works reflect on Britain’s political and media reluctance to directly acknowledge its role, asserting art as a form of witness where public language retreats.

Alison Jackson’s videos examine belief through staged encounters featuring celebrity lookalikes. Using the language of documentary, her films blur the lines between truth and fabrication, questioning how easily authenticity is manufactured within media culture.

Daniel Lismore, British fabric sculptor, designer and LGBTQ+ rights campaigner, presents a sculptural installation featuring a mannequin dressed in one of his iconic ensembles. Responding to the violence he has personally experienced, the work asserts self-expression as an act of resistance and survival.

Be Andr’s Untitled (Silent / Listen) is a looping video in which the word “silent” gradually rearranges into “listen”. Without sound or imagery beyond shifting letters, the work suggests that freedom of speech depends as much on listening as on speaking, offering a moment of quiet within the noise of the street.

Fa Razavi’s large-scale painting reflects on gender-based discrimination in Iran, as female bodies reclaim streets once denied to them. Women and children assemble across the city skyline, transforming physical presence and collective visibility into acts of resistance and renewal. 

Phill Wilson-Perkin reworks the candle as a ritual object bearing political slogans that have been softened or marginalised within public discourse. Drawing on Mike Kelley’s Wages of Sin, the work considers how dissent becomes diluted or turned into spectacle.

Olga Szynkarczuk presents a site specific installation that examines the often-unspoken invisibility experienced by women artists when they become mothers, transforming these silenced realities into sculptural, luminous, and environmentally conscious forms.

Recent Cass Art Award winner Wankers of the World presents reimagined ‘half-and-half’ football scarves, replacing teams with opposing positions from the culture wars. The work highlights how political division mirrors fan tribalism and is increasingly consumed as entertainment.

Together, the artists present freedom of speech as a contested terrain shaped by visibility and power. Window Wonderland invites audiences to consider whose voices are amplified and how public narratives are formed.

Artists 

Peter Kennard creates powerfully political work that visually manifests resistance against economic inequality, war, climate change, and social injustice, both locally and globally. Instagram: @peterkennardx Website: peterkennard.com

Alison Jackson is a contemporary, BAFTA-winning and multi-award-winning artist, photographer, and filmmaker whose work explores the cult of celebrity – an extraordinary phenomenon manufactured by the media, publicity industries, and the public figures themselves. Instagram: @alisonjacksonartist Website: www.alisonjackson.com

Daniel Lismore is a British fabric sculptor, designer, and campaigner. Described by Vogue Magazine as “England’s Most Eccentric Dresser,” he is best known for his flamboyant ensembles, which function as statements, sculptures, and even armour.  Instagram: @daniellismore  Website: www.daniellismore.com 

Be Andr works from the premise that language is inherently unstable – letters drift, reorder, and continually renegotiate meaning. His practice spans painting, moving image, and AI, treating text as a material process and code as a language through which meaning emerges via fluctuation rather than fixed representation. Instagram: @be_andr Website: www.beandr.com

Raised in a highly restrictive environment before leaving Iran as a teenager, Fa Razavi draws on the complexities of migration, inherited belief systems, and the ongoing struggle for self-determination. Instagram: @farazavi Website: www.farazavi.com 

Phill Wilson-Perkin is an artist whose work explores subcultures, politics, working-class archives, communal healing, and third spaces. He is interested in how these topics intersect, shape one another, and allow marginalised communities to assert their own narratives and representations. Instagram: @phillwilsonperkin Website: www.im-creator.com/free/phillwp/pwp_awesome_site

Olga Szynkarczuk’s practice explores motherhood, female embodiment, migration, and the emotional labour woven into daily life. Working across installation, drawing, sculpture, and moving image, she often uses discarded or domestic materials – reclaimed fridge doors, paper remnants, low-energy lights – to turn overlooked objects into carriers of memory, resilience, and layered identity.  Instagram: @olgaszynkarczuk Website: www.olgaszynkarczuk.com

Wankers of the World is a satirical artist known for provocative and often darkly humorous work. He gained notoriety in 2017 with a series of prostitute-advertisement-style cards featuring right-wing politicians, followed in 2018 by a saucy video installation in a Soho shop window depicting Boris Johnson and Donald Trump dancing provocatively. His interventions also include inserting subversive Prince Andrew souvenir mugs into the Buckingham Palace shop and leaving abusive Philip Green T-shirts in Topshop. Instagram: @wankersoftheworld Website: www.wankersoftheworld.com 

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PRIVATE VIEW: Thurs 11th Decemeber (Holborn, 5 - 6pm & Marylebone, 6 - 8pm)

LOCATIONS: 206 Marylebone Road, NW1 6LY & 103 Kingsway, WC2B 6QX

DATES: 12th December - 18th January

TIMES: 24/7 illuminated window displays