▫️See inside Aleksandra Niemczyk's process | Book painting and printing workshops
▫️ Plus: Live music at the gallery from Sarah Angel | Andrea Resner artist micro-residency.
Gallery White Box, 5 Hare and Billet Rd, Blackheath, London, SE3 0RB.
Dear friends and supporters,
Since 1978, Greenwich Open Studios has given Londoners a chance to visit the studios of Blackheath and Greenwich’s thriving artist community - to see and talk to the artists at work, and potentially pick up a new piece for home or work.
This September, artist and curator Aleksandra Niemczyk invites you to view her works-in-progress at Gallery White Box as part of Greenwich Open Studios 2025. There will also be finished pieces available to buy. The event takes place on the weekends of 12-14 and 19-21 September, and Aleksandra encourages you to download a map of the participating artists and visit as many studios as you can handle!
Aleksandra will also deliver two painting and printing workshops as part of the event. Please email gallerywhiteboxinfo@gmail.com to reserve a place. Further details follow below.
Concert and artist residency
To celebrate Aleksandra’s open studio, two intimate, unplugged musical performances by Sarah Angel will take place at the gallery on Saturday 20th at 7.15pm and 8.45pm (to allow more people to experience it in our tiny space!). Tickets can be bought from Sarah’s website, and you can listen to her latest album here.
And Gallery White Box is pleased to welcome Croatian multimedia artist Andrea Resner for a micro-residency, overlapping Aleksandra’s Open Studio from 20-25 September, including a drawing workshop on Thursday, 25th of September from 5pm.
Andrea and Aleksandra have previously collaborated on residencies in Croatia and France, and we’re looking forward to hosting Andrea and celebrating the rare energy of the duo in sync!
Please follow the artists and gallery on Instagram:
🧑🎨 @niemczykaleks
And please read on for more details on the Open Studio, residency, concert, and workshops.
Aleksandra Niemczyk: Open Studio | 12-21 September 2025
Greenwich Open Studios presents works in progress by Aleksandra Niemczyk, artist and curator of Gallery White Box:
🗓️ 12-21 September, 2025 / Open Friday-Sunday (10am-6pm), or by appointment.
🎤 Opening concert with Sarah Angel: Saturday 20th September, 7.15pm and 8.45pm. Book here.
🧑🏫 Ticketed workshops with Aleksandra (reply or email gallerywhiteboxinfo@gmail.com to reserve a place):
Friday 12th September, 4-6pm: Painting workshop, “Finding form and colour.” Materials included. Price £25.
Sunday 14th September, 10am-Noon: Painting workshop, “Finding form and colour.” Materials included. Price £25.
Friday 19th September, 4-6pm: Relief print workshop, “Creating personal icons.” Materials included. Price £25.
Sunday 21st September, 10am-Noon: Relief print workshop, “Creating personal icons.” Materials included. Price £25.
👩🎨 Guest artist in residence Andrea Resner. 20-25 September / Open 11am-6pm.
👩🏻🏫 Ticketed workshop with Andrea: ‘Magic portrait.’ Thursday 25th September, 5-7pm. A guided session to liberate your drawing process. Materials included. Price £25. Book via: gallerywhiteboxinfo@gmail.com
🗺️ Gallery White Box, 5 Hare and Billet Rd, Blackheath, London, SE3 0RB.
Aleksandra’s open studio offers a chance to see the process and different stages of the artist’s current paintings in progress, and to browse and purchase some older sketches and prints.
Aleksandra will be working on a series of paintings to accompany a forthcoming exhibition of pottery objects by artist Flora Fabris (17-26 October).
Flora’s pieces convey the Japanese wabi-sabi spirit of acceptance of transience, irregularity, process, and unpredictability in three-dimensional objects. Aleksandra will respond to this theme through her own language of paint, tactility, and simple colour study on canvas and paper.
Artist biography
Aleksandra Niemczyk is an abstract painter living and working in Blackheath/Greenwich, London.
She uses mixed media techniques to create non-figurative paintings full of intensity and colour, often inspired by her current landscape. Her latest works draw inspiration from the art of Boro and the pigments of Japanese textile art.
Niemczyk’s formal training includes an MA in Fine Arts (Painting and Lithography) and an MA in Film Directing from Béla Tarr’s radical film.factory program in Sarajevo.
She exhibits internationally and in the UK, where her work was recently selected for the Royal Society of British Artists’ 200th Anniversary Exhibition. Niemczyk’s works feature in many private and public art collections, among them those of Focus Bank and Louis Vuitton in Oslo, Norway.
Coming soon
12-21 September: Aleksandra Niemczyk, open studio
20-25 September: Andrea Resner, artist residency
26 September - 12 October: Group show - Kate Stephens, Jonathan Cowell, Paula Sanders, Shelagh Vida - “Make-believe”
17-29 October: Flora Fabris pottery exhibition, accompanied by works of Aleksandra Niemczyk
31 October - 11 November: Basia Burrough painting exhibition
Busy times!
Best,
Aleksandra & Graeme, Gallery White Box team.
