11 July — 8 August, 2026 

Viewing Hours: Friday & Saturday 12 - 6PM

A ritual dates back to the earliest of civilisations and indigenous cultures as a way to forge deep connections between humanity and the spiritual and natural world, whether that be through the form of meditation, chanting, dancing, or observing seasonal or astrological cycles, most of which are often ascribed to a set of actions or order as it relates to religion or spirituality. In other forms, ritual can represent the habitual nature of a particular action or repeated activity or gesture. For many artists, artmaking itself, or the preparation leading up to the making, can be ritualistic, so can the choice in subject matter, the way of collecting or manipulating the material, or a process of archiving. For a gallery, it can be a recurring exhibition.

RITUALS is a collaborative exhibition between London based gallery, Studio/Chapple, and an international gallery, which launched in 2025 featuring a collaboration with CAROÇO in São Paulo between six artists across the UK and Brazil. This year's iteration features an artistic exchange with eight artists between Chicago and London, in collaboration with Chicago gallery, cam.contemporarie.

The interpretation of ‘ritual’ is intentionally left ambiguous to allow the participating artists the opportunity to explore what the concept means to them in terms of their practice and the work presented, which invites a diverse range of practices to unearth the hidden rituals of everyday life as they emerge transnationally across both geographical landscapes. Ritual is manifested in the way that Barbara Majek uses Yoruba mythologies and cosmological systems to ground her practice through her swirling abstract figurative representations of healing, memory work, and representations of spiritual circularity. For Ellathea Jackson-Harris, it can represent the ritual between voyeur and voyee, by distorting the simple act of looking and receiving, as seen through the collection of architectural glass blocks that blur the access to the body and the image. Both LaNia Sproles and Nicola Frimpong’s practice are quite the opposite of figurative concealment, but represent an overt exposure of the internal conversation between the mental and physical state of being through their illustrations of individuals in precarious conditions and situations.

Noel Mercado’s use of discarded and repurposed punching bags to create methodical patchwork textile works like ‘Low Hanging Fruit Doesn't Taste As Sweet’, are his way of creating a visceral reminder of the discipline of self-improvement. Roland Knowlden Jr’s use of poetics to inform his paintings and sculptural works, are a ritual collaboration between the written word and the collection of found materials, outlining the ignition of a recollected encounter personified through the careful placement of three matchsticks. zakkiyyah najeebah dumas-o’neal is also interrogating a poetic visual language, in her photographic notations derived from her archival practice of collecting found images of light, solar phenomena, and family alongside her own photographs. Renoir Saulter’s balcony series is archival and tribunal in the ways that his mixed media balcony-like steel structures honour the urban industrial landscape of London and its Grime musical roots - channeling the dance between sonic structures of place.

As you move between the works in ‘RITUALS II’, conversations, similarities and discord emerge across both localities. A lineage of shared sonic histories between Chicago and London is well documented, and this exhibition begins to unearth this relationship through material and aesthetic synergy.  Found materials and forgotten debris make their way into the gallery from both cities, with an understanding that these often invisible objects are a living archive of our collective experience. Old mobile phones, unused matches, discarded punching bags and glass tiles gather here to tell the story alongside brush and camera. ‘RITUALS II’ proposes a transnational dialogue between artists who, individually and collectively, challenge ideas of what it means to belong, to persist, and to live through these ceremonies of the everyday.

Barbara Majek
Ellathea Jackson-Harris
LaNia Sproles
Nicola Frimpong
Noel Mercado
Renoir Saulter
Roland Knowland Jr.
zakkiyyah najeebah dumas-o’neal 

From Top: Balcony 3, 2026, Renoir Saulter, being called upon, beside unknown comprehensions for the delicate, 2026, zakkiyyah najeebah dumas o’neal, Low Hanging Fruit Doesn't Taste As Sweet, 2026, Noel Mercado

Barbara Majek is a London-based artist of Yoruba heritage. Her practice moves between drawing, painting, and mixed media. She is committed to crafting beauty and storytelling for healing through sculptural mark-making and colour. Drawing on Yoruba mythology, Afro-surrealism, nature, and historical fiction, she uncovers inner worlds and sacred ways of knowing through an African diaspora lens. She holds a BA in Fashion Textiles: Embroidery (UAL) and an MRes in Fine Art & Humanities from the Royal College of Art as a Sir Frank Bowling Scholar, and completed the Drawing Year 2025 at the Royal Drawing School. Awarded the Dumfries House Residency with The King’s Foundation (2026). Recent highlights include exhibitions at Christie's, Pratt Institute, Steuben Gallery (New York), Pescheria Foundation (Italy), San Mei Gallery, and Bernie Grant Arts Centre. Public commissions include BEAF Arts Festival, Bournemouth (2024), Deptford X Festival (2022), and Magistrates’ Association UK(2020–2021). She has also led socially engaged projects with South London Gallery, Barbican Centre, The Albany, and Dulwich Picture Gallery.

Ellathea Jackson-Harris is a multidisciplinary artist based in London. Her practice is heavily facilitated by the critical selection of archival material and documentation from sites and occurrences of intrigue. She is interested in memory, memorabilia, movement and withdrawal; seeking to explore subjects’ capabilities to evoke varied responses through negotiating processes of visual association, compilation and reframing. Predominantly working across painting, drawing and sculpture, her practice uses varied materials and surfaces as modes of interrogating conditions of time-keeping.  She graduated from Goldsmiths in 2023, and is currently studying for an MA in Fine Art at the Slade School. 

LaNia Sproles is a queer artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin and currently based in Chicago, Illinois They received a BFA from Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in 2017. Their practice is interdisciplinary, often blending or fluctuating between print media, collage, drawing, painting, and curation. The philosophies of self-perception, queer and feminist theories, and inherent racial dogmas are essential to Sproles’s work. In the recent years Sproles has guest curated an exhibition hosted by NADA art fair with The Green Gallery exhibited several artworks with Elijah Wheat Showroom hosted by David Zwirner’s online exhibition space, Platform, and with Goldfinch Gallery and FLXST Contemporary in Chicago.

Nicola Frimpong b. Epsom, also known as Freakpong, explores personal intersections of disability, queerness, and desire. Using watercolour pen and digital media the artist tackles intimate themes of sex, gender race and violence. Frimpong was selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2012. In 2014 Frimpong was interviewed as part of African Diaspora Artists in the 21st Century, by curator and academic Paul Goodwin, a collaboration between King’s College London’s Department of International Development and the Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva). Her works have been acquired by notable collections including Henry Boxer and The Museum Of Everything.

Noel Mercado is a Mexican American, Chicago-based artist who works across various multimedia forms. His practice revolves around exploring the cultural meanings embedded in found objects, which he repurposes into new, expressive approaches. All of his works are handmade with a deep appreciation for quality, attention to detail, and craftsmanship—everything becomes a canvas in his hands. Noel’s appreciation for design, craftsmanship, and experimentation has led him to unique brand projects with Knoll, USM Modular Furniture, RIMOWA, Soho House, and Porsche, to name a few. Noel has shown work at Expo Chicago and Future Fair in New York, with more projects and showings in the upcoming year. 

Renoir Saulter is a multidisciplinary artist, exploring societal structures through the harmonisation of materials, objects,and language, gleaning references from memory and observation, delving into the fragile inner essence of fear and its close links to humour, growth and self understanding. He is forged from Northern steel, and influenced by Jamaican, Irish and English Heritage. He traverses vulnerability, mistake-making and is currently studying at Royal Academy Schools.

Roland Knowlden Jr. is a Liberian-American artist currently based in London. His practice explores a material poetics of how the unknown, absent, or chaotic create tensions in relation to order and systems of power. Knowlden utilizes processes of collage and assemblage across painting, drawing, and sculpture - destabilizing objects and materials through their convergences/divergences. Knowlden is a 2026 MFA Fine Art candidate at Goldsmiths, University of London and received his B.Arch in 2020 from Illinois Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited in multiple art spaces in across Chicago and London, where he was previously and is currently based, including DePaul Art Museum, Elmhurst Art Museum, South Side Community Arts Center, and House Works Presents, among others.

zakkiyyah najeebah dumas-o’neal (b. U.S., based in London) is a multidisciplinary artist who makes work to further understand how the specificity of her own lived experiences are connected to historical and contemporary movements that involve embodied knowledge production, in service to self-possession. She works across video montage, sound, performance, and photography, to reorient her relationship to memory, images, history, and poetics. Her work is positioned as poetic gesture and knowledge production, using disparate sources across these mediums, to move “somewhere between archive and continuum”, using her own 35mm and 120mm photographic archive and video footage, alongside historical and contemporary found photo images, field recordings, and appropriated sound. Informed by Black femme cosmopoetics, she works within a visual method and way of thinking that draws upon life experiences, emotional states of being, Black feminist thought and histories, the cosmos, poetic text, and fragmentation. The visual and the sonic compel her to trouble perceptions of Black femme beingness, and it’s right to opacity and complexity. zakkiyyah has been included in numerous group exhibitions and has had several solo exhibitions which include Arts and Public Life at University of Chicago and Washington University. Her work has been presented in various forms at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, NADA, Centre Pompidou, Rebuild Foundation, The Art Institute of Chicago, The August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Humanities Festival, DePaul University, EXPO Chicago, and Harvard Graduate School of Design to name a few. She recently completed a MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins.