About

FRAMING

At Happenstance studios we deliver affordable bespoke framing for artists by artists. Our extensive experience organizing and hanging exhibitions means we know how to give your artwork the presentation it deserves.

We provide a full pre-framing consultation that helps develop the innovative display solutions that will bring out the best in your art, framing to conservation level using exclusively natural wood and acid-free materials. Serving the art community of East London and beyond since 2010.

EXHIBITIONS

Happenstance Gallery is an independent and innovative pop-up gallery (est. 2010) best known for its annual Salon des Refusés exhibition in which art works rejected from the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition were exhibited in all their glory.

Happenstance specialize in illuminating art experiences, pioneering visitor interactivity through techniques such as voting on art work and integrating sound art, live interviews and streaming.

Happenstance Gallery  is the events arm of Happenstance Art and Framing. Based in Shoreditch, London, we work with local and international emerging artists with a particular focus on art that expands our frames – emotional, spiritual, physical, digital –  of reference. Recent exhibitions have included sound art, street art, spiritual art, photography, screenprints and word art.

Past EXHIBITIONS

June 2018 – Salon des Refusés 2018 in London. Venue TBA.

1 – 4 June 2017 – Salon des Refusés 2017 at  Candid Arts Trust, 3-5 Torrens Street, Islington, London EC1V 1NQ

1 December – 3 January 2016 – Art Woo: ‘Enter the Anthropocene’ at Flaxon Ptootch, Kentish Town, London NW5

27 – 30 October 2016 – Grid Art Fair at The Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London E1

23 – 26 June 2016 – Salon des Refusés 2016 at SPACE, 129-131 Mare Street, London E8 3RH

11 – 14 June 2015 – Salon des Refusés 2015 at SPACE, 129-131 Mare Street, London E8 3RH

5 December 2014 – 31 January 2015 – Happenstance Collective at Romeo’s Sugar Free Bakery, Islington, London

4 December 2014 – 31 January 2015 – Bears & Babushkas: Lesya Kara-Kotsya Retrospective at Stories, Broadway Market, London

2 October – 30 November 2014 – Nine Circles of Heaven by Urte Janus & Ruta Pu at Stories, Broadway Market, London

30 August – 30 November 2014 – Solo Exhibition by Gemma Ebdon at Chez Le Boulanger, Islington, London

7 August – 27 September 2014 – Salon de Street Art II at Stories, Broadway Market, London

5 June – 31 July 2014 – The Trevor Lock Exhibition: ‘Does Anyone Know What ”I Love You Means”? – with doodles by Marla Born – at Stories, Broadway Market, London

3 – 13 July 2014 – Best of Salon des Refusés (2012-2014) at Londonewcastle Project Space, 28 Redchurch Street, Shoreditch, London E27DP

31 December 2013 – 30 August 2014 – Exhibition of original work and limited edition prints by TAZ at The Library bar, Islington (235 Upper Street, London N1 1RU).

19 – 24 June 2014 – Salon des Refusés 2014 at Dog Eared Studios, King’s Cross, London

18 May – 18 July 2014 – Terrible Twins at Happenstance Studios, London

21-22 February 2014 – Happenstance Art presents Jennifer Hedley at Parallax Art Fair, Chelsea Town Hall, London.

8 – 30 November – FUTURE VINTAGE, TAZ’s solo show @ Curio Cabal, London

11-14 June 2013 – Salon des Refusés 2013 at Hoxton Gallery, 12-18 Hoxton Street (entrance on Drysdale street), London E1 6NG

2 June – 2 August 2013 – Exhibition of Mandalas at Betty’s Coffee in Dalston (510 Kingsland Road, London E8 4AE)

26 November 2012 – 25 June 2013 – Exhibition of erotic photography by Serhiy Mykhalkiv at The Library Pub in Islington, London

December 2011 – December 2013 – Changing Exhibition of Limited Edition Prints @ Betty’s Coffee Shop (Dalston, London).

7 – 28 March 2013 – TOPIAS by Juan Carlos Verona @ Slaughter House Studios

December 2012 – February 2013 – FUTURE VINTAGE (Taz Art Show) at Betty’s Coffee Shop in Dalston, London

10-22 November 2012 – FUTURE VINTAGE (TAZ Art Show) & A Slightly Fancy Framing Fair @ Slaughter House, Hoxton, London

26 September – 26 November 2012 – KARAKOKO Exhibition (artwork by Lesya Kara-Kotsya) at The Library Pub (Islington, London)

6-16 September 2012 – SHIFT at Hundred Years Gallery, London. See all artwork

26 June – 23 September 2012 – Around Waterloo in 90 minutes. Exhibition of Photography by Lembergerian. @ The Library Pub, Highbury&Islington station, 235 Upper street, London N11RU

2-31 August 2012 – Tarot Sport: Not an Olympic at Slaughter House, London

14-28 June 2012 (extended till 7 July 2012) – WELCOME TO UKRAINE Contemporary Ukrainian Art Show at the Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain (London). view works exhibited

5-8 June 2012 – Salon des Refusés 2012 at Hoxton Gallery (London). photos from private view . TOP 12 Pictures of the show

December 2011 – April 2012 – TAKE ME IN, the first post-feminist art exhibition @ The Library (Islington, London). An art show of original photography, oil on canvas and paper cuts, brought to you  from Ukraine.

3-6 May 2012 – CATERPILLAR DREAMS at Hundred Years Gallery (London). photos from private view

13 October – 7 November 2011 – Contemporary Ukrainian Art Show @ Flaxon Ptootch Salon&Gallery (Kentish Town, London).