Category Art
Published September 14, 2025
Gorse, by Vladimir Guculak
Clouds of silk and petals of cotton bloom in the middle of Soho. Under gallery lights, tufted floral landscapes flicker and fray with emotion. A thread unravels, knots unspool into vessels of memory, and what was once mere repetition is transfigured into revelation.
Delicate forms of resistance unfurl at the heart of The Sun is but a Morning Star, Qloud Collective’s forthcoming group exhibition at Great Pulteney Street. ‘The morning wind forever blows,’ wrote Henry David Thoreau in Walden: Or, Life in the Woods, ‘the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears that hear it.’ Drawing its title from his book’s closing lines, this show is a tactile response to Thoreau’s invocation that art is always discernible to anyone who decides to listen. Presented in partnership with the London Design Festival and Mayfair Design District, the artist-run curatorial platform founded by Dana Goh brings together nine international artists whose practices re-attune us to the living poem of creation.
Dana Goh and Dana Chang have curated a cosmopolitan medley of works that sit in luminous dialogue across geographical borders. Sebastian Sochan’s delicate textile forms hint at pastel bodies in moments of intimacy, while Fray (Eunbi Kang) stitches threads that become maps of inner feeling.
My Soul Inflates at the Thought of You, by Sebastian Sochan
Cheong Ah Baik explores how repetitive yet instinctive movements invoke space for meditation, building sculptural forms from crocheted gestures. Other works turn to the fragile poetics of the natural world. The immersive floral landscapes of Onzième (MoonYoung Seo) are assembled from artificial flowers and wax, creating blooms that grapple with both transience and eternity. Vladimir Guculak’s embroidered offerings trace hidden ecological rhythms in the everyday, while Isabella Tallulah’s tufted landscapes transport the serenity of the English countryside into Soho.
Through soft textiles, sculptures, and layered material encounters, this constellation of artists from Singapore, South Korea, the UK, and the US remind us that slowing down in a world that demands urgency can be a political act of radical attention. Dana Goh’s dreamlike landscapes are tinged with emotional nuance, invocations to linger and to long, while Villa Oasis (Sohyun Bae) melds layered textiles and hand-tufted forms to build soft spaces of retreat and refuge. Silkscreen pieces by Breezebeats (Miri Shin) lean tranquilly into the accidents of its form, letting smudges and broken edges become gestures of discovery.
As with the evocative lines of the title’s namesake, this is an exhibition that hums with quiet resistance, its title an invitation that heralds a possible dawn of slower, more mindful futures.
Trauma Archive - Book Cover Collection, by Fray Eunbi Kang
Alongside the show, three artists will also host a series of material workshops as part of Morning Star: Material Sessions, a public programme by Qloud Collective that also includes curator-led tours and a limited edition merchandise shop.
The exhibition will run from 14–21 September 2025 at Great Pulteney Street Gallery, W1F 9NS, with daily opening hours from 12–6pm, and 12–5pm on Sundays. Admission is free. A ticketed private view was held on 13 September. On 15 September 2025, in tandem with the Mayfair Design District opening night, the exhibition will be open to the public from 5–8 pm for free.
