Curated by OHSH Projects, RUNES examines mark-making as a fundamental aspect of human culture. Before written language humans used marks and symbols to communicate, record and interpret their experiences. The exhibition situates abstraction within this broad history, connecting early symbolic practices with those of contemporary artists and presenting visual language as something that develops across generations rather than belonging to any single moment.

Seen together, the works do not present a single narrative of abstraction. Instead, they demonstrate how abstraction operates as a shared condition across artists born between 1922 and 2002. Marks recur not because artists imitate one another, but because the impulse to record our experience persists. A drawn line, a carved incision or a painted stroke can function simultaneously as gesture, record and proposition.

www.ohshprojects.com/runes

Exhibition text:
2026-03_OHSH-RUNES-Exhibition-Text.pdf

List of works:
2026-03_OHSH-RUNES-List of Works-LOW-WEB.pdf

RUNES Artist Panel Discussion: Saturday 14th March, 3pm
Panel discussion moderated by Scott McCracken with exhibiting artists Bijanka Bacic, Magda Blasinska, Howard Dyke and Pia Ortuño. Free to attend. Reserve a spot here

About OHSH Projects
OHSH Projects is a nomadic project space, conceived in 2021 by Henry Hussey and Sophia Olver from the desire to create tactile conversations between artists and spaces. OHSH Projects is a collage of ideas explored through the artists they work with and the dialogues that emerge between their processes. Their curatorial approach draws on ancient mythology, history and symbolism to decode the paradoxes and inner struggles of contemporary life. Through their nomadic set-up, they take on various forms transforming diverse locations, from more traditional white cube gallery spaces to unconventional, raw and historic environments, with each iteration inviting participation and reflection.



Thames-Side Studios Gallery
Thames-Side Studios
Harrington Way, Warspite Road
Royal Borough of Greenwich
London SE18 5NR


Open Thursday-Sunday, 12-5pm. For general Thames-Side Studios Gallery enquiries please email [email protected]
Disabled access. Free, limited parking is available on site.

How to get here:
Bicycle: Thames River cycle path (16 mins cycle from Greenwich).
Bus: 161 / 177 / 180 / 472 to Warspite Road bus stop.
DLR: Woolwich Arsenal (1 minute walk to Plumstead Road and take Route Bus 177 towards Peckham Bus Station or 472 towards North Greenwich Station).
Road: A2 corridor, first roundabout east of Thames Barrier onto Warspite Road.
Train: From Cannon Street or London Bridge to Woolwich Dockyard (8 minute walk) or Charlton (12 minute walk).
Tube: North Greenwich (Take the Route Bus 472 towards Thamesmead Town Centre).
Crossrail: Elizabeth Line to Woolwich (take Route Bus 177 towards Peckham Bus Station or 472 towards North Greenwich Station).