HOT AIR, Grace Shiels, Malachi Wallace, Leo Jordan-Lynch

Opening Hours:
23rd/24th/25th 11:00 – 18:00
26th 11:00 – 15:00
PV: 22nd 17:00 – 20:00

“The body in its entirety would become an object of cathexis, a thing to be enjoyed” – Herbert Marcuse

Maillol said “I invent nothing as little as the apple tree can invent its apples”

Traversing topics of subjective existence, natural forms, human traces, and contemporary intimacy, ‘HOT AIR’ combines new and former works of three emerging artists who are all recent UAL Camberwell Sculpture graduates; Leo Jordan-Lynch, Malachi Wallace and Grace Shiels.

Grace Shiels
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Grace Shiels is an artist and 2025 BA Fine Art: Sculpture graduate, awarded by UAL Camberwell College of Art. Currently conducting her art practice with SPACE Studios. She often produces paintings and drawings as well as sculptures, using unconventional materials and found objects. Those materials go from oil paint, clay paintings, to wood stain, and salt dough sculptures. Clay acts as a particularly important symbol in her work, representing creation, birth, and death. A visual metaphor for the circular motion of life.

There is a physical, human element that is core to her practice. Mortality and mythos are played with to create an expression of the human experience, combining elements of the natural world with facets of modern life. A fascination with the body; skin, flesh and bone, becomes a visual vessel for describing the transient experience of living within a body made of blood and bone.

Malachi Wallace
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Malachi Wallace is a sculptor working with assorted techniques to explore the creative possibilities inherent in randomness that emerge from chance and despair and arts utilisation to ground and authenticate subjective existence. He is curious about the potential of objects as visual poetry and the primacy of perception in the world at large. His work examines how lines, colors, textures, and spatial constraints directly evoke moods, atmospheric feelings, and perceptual truths. By embracing the phenomenological nature of art he seeks to explore the connection between the physical reality of objects and our internal mental or emotional reactions.

Leo Jordan-Lynch
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I am an artist, and a recent graduate of the BA Fine Art: Sculpture course at UAL Camberwell College of Arts.

My practice navigates the complexities of sexual freedom, intimacy, and personal journey, unravelling the cognitive dissonance that often shapes these experiences. Through sculpture, I consider the body a site where emotional histories are mapped and made visible, using everyday materials such as plaster and chicken wire to investigate vulnerability, transformation, and resilience.

More recently, my practice has expanded into painting and drawing, allowing me to explore the lived realities of online dating and contemporary intimacy. These works draw from both personal experience and a wider social observation, examining the conditions, expectations, and emotional negotiations that emerge within digital dating spaces. Throughout the expanse of all mediums, I am interested in how desire, identity, and human connection manifest, are observed and responded to, and how these encounters leave lasting traces on both the body and the psyche.