▫️Code & Craft: Painting, digital craft, and jewellery in the microchip age
▫️ Exhibiting encounters between the computational and the material. Plus: final days of Louise Sheridan's River Thames paintings.
Dear friends and supporters,
The weekend is coming - so don’t miss your chance to see Louise Sheridan’s passionate paintings of the Thames at Gallery White Box! Her exhibition, Dark Water Journeys, continues until Sunday 15th March, 10 - 5pm.
If you’ve seen a work you like, it is also possible to purchase a painting for your collection through our online shop:
Coming up next, we are delighted to announce an art and design exhibition by celebrated arts collective Cluster London, exploring the dialogue between computational processes and material practice: Code & Craft.
Group show: “Code & Craft” | 20 - 30 March 2026
Bringing together painting, digital craft & jewellery within curatorial processes and material practice.
“Code & Craft”
🗓️ 20-30 March 2026 / Open Friday-Sunday (10am-5pm), or by appointment.
🥂 Open day: Saturday, 21st March, 10am-5pm. You are invited to drop in for a drink and a chance to meet some of the artists.
🗺️ Gallery White Box, 5 Hare and Billet Rd, Blackheath, London, SE3 0RB.
Digital craft can be defined as “using digital technologies and tools to create handmade or artisanal objects.”1
The Code & Craft exhibition is conceived as a conversation between two-dimensional painting and three-dimensional digital and crafted works, highlighting shared interests in texture, colour geometry, and tactility.
Within the spatial context of the gallery, this integration enhances the viewer’s experience both visually and physically, encouraging close observation and material awareness.
Please read more on the artists below.
The exhibiting artists are united by their participation with Cluster, which supports designers and brands who are not afraid to be active, innovative, and different.
Cluster is a platform that takes a unique approach towards the art fair setting and experiencing the creative arts, bringing together a range of styles and imaginative individuals into an intimate collective environment. Cluster is working towards establishing a wider ground for exhibiting practices with an alternative touch.
Instagram: @cluster__crafts
Featuring:
Keith Simpson — Digital craft
Natcha Kucita — Digital craft
Nicholas Lee — Digital craft
Ana Popescu — Digital craft
Valeria Benalcázar Solá — Jewellery
Aleksandra Niemczyk — Paintings
Exhibiting artists
Keith Simpson
Ceramic artist and educator, Keith Simpson, merges custom-written digital code with clay’s primordial gravity. Designing his own 3D printers, he extrudes vessels like geological accretions: forms that forget the algorithm and return to matter.
Natcha Kucita
Thai-born, London-based ceramicist and BIM engineer, Natcha Kucita, bridges architectural precision and ritual craft. Through raku, saggar, and reduction firing, she creates vessels of balance and memory: objects where structure meets surrender.
Nicholas Lee
London-based ceramic artist and founder of Slow Throw, Nicholas Lee, creates process-driven stoneware vessels shaped by fire and atmosphere. His tactile works balance smooth glaze and raw texture, holding tension between precision and accident.
Ana Popescu
Romanian-American multidisciplinary artist Ana Popescu works sculpturally with ceramics, merging ornament, memory, and myth. Through 3D scanning and ceramic printing, she creates layered “time capsules” where excess and technology reshape personal and collective history.
Valeria Benalcázar Solá
Ecuadorian jewellery artist Valeria Benalcázar Solá creates hybrid forms from biomaterials, polymers, silver, and gemstones. Her wearable works explore growth, tactility, and transformation, revealing jewellery as a living archive between nature and artifice.
Aleksandra Niemczyk
Blackheath-based abstract painter, filmmaker, and curator Aleksandra Niemczyk uses mixed media techniques to create non-figurative paintings full of intensity and colour. Her latest works draw inspiration from the art of Boro and the use of pigments in Japanese textile art. She exhibits internationally, and her works feature in many private and public art collections, among them Focus Bank and Louis Vuitton in Oslo, Norway.
Dates for your diary
Until 15 March: Louise Sheridan
20-30 March: “Code & Craft” by CLUSTER, the Art and Craft Fair, accompanied by works on paper and canvas by Aleksandra Niemczyk.
2-5 April: Easter Open Studio by Aleksandra Niemczyk (paintings)
10–26 April: Richard Lawrence (handmade prints and sculptures)
1–17 May: Group exhibition — “Matter of Threads” (paintings)
22–31 May: Steve Joy (paintings)
Until soon,
Aleksandra & Graeme, Gallery White Box team.
