Artist details & Artwork info for ‘Clutter’
CLUTTER is a multimedia exhibition featuring works by sixteen AltMFA artist-members, curated by Anna-Maria Amato. The show explores the emotional and psychological impact of clutter, examining our attachments to objects and cycles of accumulation and decluttering. The artists reflect on how environments filled with waste, sensory overload, and excess possessions shape our behaviors, touching on themes of collecting, archiving, hoarding, legacy, environmental action, and the politics of minimalism.
AltMFA linktr.ee/altmfalondon @alt_mfa
Founded in 2010, AltMFA is a peer-led, alternative Master of Fine Art (MFA) program created by artists, for artists. Run by its members, AltMFA is self-organized and free, with no fixed location, taking place in a variety of private and public venues. Before Covid, we met every Monday night from 6:30-9pm. Post-Covid, we’ve shifted to an informal WhatsApp group to organize meet-ups, artist crits, gallery outings, and group shows. While we've been functioning more as an artist collective in recent years, we will be reviving the art school aspect of our model soon. Join us in shaping the future of our dynamic, evolving, and radical alternative art school! For more information, follow the links above or email us at altmfalondon@gmail.com.
‘Clutter Redistribution Action Pile’
A red clothing rack with clothes, textiles, accessories, and bric-a-brac donated by AltMFA members, to be redistributed at the exhibition’s closing party on April 11th. Get your free tickets via our linktr.ee/altmfalondon
Anita Agarwal www.anitagarwal.com @anitagarwal14117
Collection: 'Entangled mind'
front-facing diptych: 'Entangled (it’s complicated)', conti and charcoal on paper
back-facing diptych: 'Entanglements (it’s complicated)', conti and charcoal on paper
floor piece: 'Entangled desires (it’s complicated)', conti and charcoal on paper
“Clutter is, therefore I am … ? I am, therefore, the clutter… It is the chicken or the egg situation. A never ending, mundane byproduct of being alive. Frustrated but humbled by this knowledge I accept this fact graciously and prefer working on it, rather than be defeated. Clutter of any kind physical and mental is a stress inducer. Discipline and persistence seems the only way around, at least for me. I call it the 20-10 rule: dedicating twenty minutes every day of my life for the physical clutter (organising stuff) and ten minutes for the mental clutter (meditation or breathing exercises).”
Anjan Saha @anjansaha_light
Installation: ‘Collapsible infinities’
Objects of desire by an analogue man in a cluttered world. An exploration of forms of attachment and what occupies our spaces. From childhood stories of Ali Baba and the forty bags, to aspirations of OLAB; organise like a boss.
Can the analogue world live comfortably in digital representations?
Performance: ‘CLUTTER Parts 1 & 2’
Spoken word piece for private view, written for AltMFA Clutter ‘zine.
An inquiry into the state of clutter, exploring fractals, dust, dark matter, space and density.
Anna-Maria Amato annamariaamato.weebly.com @amatoheart
‘Keeping Memories of Place’ (drawing, watercolour, pen, pastel on paper)
Exploring the connections between objects and the memories of place they are associated with, the jigsaw pieces of an identity contained within objects on a shelf. Including books that open up the possibility of curiosity and new memories.
‘Hierarchy of Clutter/ Remembrance’ (oil paint on tiles)
Confined to ornaments collected from different trips, the memories don't appear to have any hierarchy, but perhaps the places they come from do-in a different context. How I place them is related to my own personal relationships with the objects and place.
‘Casting Shadows’ (shells, clay, slate, acrylic paint)
When there is nature clutter, it renews itself. Shells are hard, sturdy and don't decompose like plant life and animals. Our sensation of flying above nature and perceived superiority to it requires us to use and abuse nature. The child figures are playful, inspired and ambitious as they play for their chance to fly.
Wall-based works:
Posters: ‘DeClutter Mantra / Why Clean Up?’ 2025
5x A3 poster prints
Installation: ‘Renegade wild plants’, 2025
A mobile planter with street-salvaged drawers and a collection of wild plants that received a Weed Removal Order from my local allotment society
“Social pressure to create “decluttered” spaces of a purified, minimal aesthetic can lead to piling up even larger bloated mountains of global waste. My artworks and workshops for this exhibit explore the messy habits of street salvage, of making do, of re-use rather than throw away, and the lively mess created by “weeds” and wild plants.
“As a multimedia artist who stages group walks, performative works and installations, my artwork investigates the social, historical and ecological narratives underlying the ways we inhabit buildings and urban spaces.”
Claire Eva linkedin.com/claireeva @claireevaart
Blue “Plastic Echoes”; Navy “Deep Space”; Grey “Shadow Atlas”; Red “Pile Up”;
Black “Objects Orbit”; Orange “Lost and Found”,
Monoprints on paper, square 22 X 21.5 cm/ rectangle 24.5 x 19 cm, 2024-25
“The Freegan/Pick-Up-Artist”
Mixed-media collage on card, 53 x 40 cm, 2024-25 SOLD
“Domestic Myths”
Prints on dressmaking paper (framed), 53 x 53 cm, 2025 SOLD
“The Albatross”
Assemblage installation, 113 x 103 cm, 2023-25 FREE (not astroturf)
“Things I Almost Remember”
Prints on dressmaking paper, string and pegs, 3x approx 107 x 52 cm, 2025
This collection celebrates the serendipity of found objects. The monoprints layer Lego, gifted stamps and discarded tools, once forgotten, now reimagined. The Freegan/ Pick-Up-Artist reveals a curious, resourceful spirit stumbling upon unexpected treasures. The Albatross, a transforming bathroom cabinet in flux, serves as an evolving archive, filled with possessions that evoke personal and collective histories. Alongside this, translucent dressmaking-paper is marked with blueprint-like imprints of household items. The delicate hangings echo patterns of making, memory and the overlooked beauty of the everyday. This quiet poetry of discovery shows that what was once clutter can become a canvas for playful reinvention.
Dave Miller davemiller.uk @davemillerart
Blue “Plastic Echoes”; Navy “Deep Space”; Grey “Shadow Atlas”; Red “Pile Up”;
Black “Objects Orbit”; Orange “Lost and Found”,
Monoprints on paper, square 22 X 21.5 cm/ rectangle 24.5 x 19 cm, 2024-25
“The Freegan/Pick-Up-Artist”
“Domestic Myths”
“The Albatross”
“Things I Almost Remember”
‘Structured Clutter’ - Pencil, tempera, felt pens, silver and gold ink.
“This is a 4x4 matrix of drawings, snapshots of the world around and within me during February 2025. They cover many themes - my thoughts, feelings, concerns, worries, opinions, news, politics. They act as a sort of daily journal, releasing mental clutter. To structure the randomness I have applied rules - a drawing is made in one day only, and different colour palettes are applied to different themes. The work consists of 16 A5 sheets from notebooks, assembled together. Each grid contains 6 panels.”
Debora Mo www.deboramo.com @debora.mo.art
‘Under the Clutter-Cloak of Night,’ Mixed media installation
The life of a hoarder is cloaked in secrecy. A hoarder’s cloak is the garment we can never take off, that gets heavier and heavier, ever slowing us down. It is not laden with things as much as with fear of loss and scarcity, the desire to preserve instants that spell out the stories of our lives and the emotions that go with them. It is also a safety blanket, a tiny sandbag against the riptide of the world, making sense to the owner alone. This work is a living garment and will accumulate my clutter throughout the exhibition.
Eldi Dundee linktr.ee/eldidundee @eldidundee_art
1) ‘Scattered Pictures’ (2025)
Wall assemblage: digital prints on paper of domestic clutter, in ~30 assorted family photo frames, & a pencil and gouache sketch on mount board (2008)
Cherished family photos give way to snapshots of domestic and studio chaos: renovation mess, half-finished decluttering attempts, and commission-driven creative mayhem. A family portrait through object clutter, it documents a decades-long difficulty parting with ‘stuff’: “This might be useful/valuable someday,” or “I might use this in a future artwork”—a struggle many artists, crafters, and neurodivergent individuals can relate to, in their perpetual balancing act between inspiration, sentimentality, spatial limitations, and what feasibly can be kept.
2) ‘Ariadne, Dreaming’ (2025)
Site specific ‘window-jewellery’ installation: vintage costume jewellery and oddments, bull clips, bakery twine
Watch your pockets! Eldi may decide to perform a ‘reverse pick pocket’ clutter redistribution action using pieces taken from this installation on the night of the private view…
3) ‘Small House Gallery Annex presents: Studio 5537 Fernando Holguin Cereceres’
(NB: Small House Gallery Annex has gone back to South London for another artist’s exhibition)
Small-scale paintings on canvas board featured in a dollhouse basement as part of 5537’s solo show, REFLECTIONS IN MINIATURE: A World in Crisis for Small House Two (Sept 2024). Founded 2016 by Dundee, Small House Gallery is a contemporary art curation project in a series of dollhouse micro galleries.
smallhousegallery.uk @small_house_gallery www.5537gallery.com @5537fernandoholguincereceres
Eldi Dundee linktr.ee/eldidundee @eldidundee_art
1) ‘Scattered Pictures’ (2025)
Wall assemblage: digital prints on paper of domestic clutter, in ~30 assorted family photo frames, & a pencil and gouache sketch on mount board (2008)
Cherished family photos give way to snapshots of domestic and studio chaos: renovation mess, half-finished decluttering attempts, and commission-driven creative mayhem. A family portrait through object clutter, it documents a decades-long difficulty parting with ‘stuff’: “This might be useful/valuable someday,” or “I might use this in a future artwork”—a struggle many artists, crafters, and neurodivergent individuals can relate to, in their perpetual balancing act between inspiration, sentimentality, spatial limitations, and what feasibly can be kept.
2) ‘Ariadne, Dreaming’ (2025)
Site specific ‘window-jewellery’ installation: vintage costume jewellery and oddments, bull clips, bakery twine
Watch your pockets! Eldi may decide to perform a ‘reverse pick pocket’ clutter redistribution action using pieces taken from this installation on the night of the private view…
3) ‘Small House Gallery Annex presents: Studio 5537 Fernando Holguin Cereceres’
(NB: Small House Gallery Annex has gone back to South London for another artist’s exhibition)
Small-scale paintings on canvas board featured in a dollhouse basement as part of 5537’s solo show, REFLECTIONS IN MINIATURE: A World in Crisis for Small House Two (Sept 2024). Founded 2016 by Dundee, Small House Gallery is a contemporary art curation project in a series of dollhouse micro galleries.
smallhousegallery.uk @small_house_gallery www.5537gallery.com @5537fernandoholguincereceres
4) 'Valkyrie' (2025) Temporary travelling work: wheeled shopping trolley frame, Small House Gallery's Small House Two (dollhouse art gallery) basement annex wrapped in two IKEA bags, recycled bakers' twine, white duct tape
Fernando Holguin Cereceres www.5537gallery.com @5537fernandoholguincerece
‘Mind and view’
‘Clear skies through the clutter’
‘The great awakening of the big reset’ (from the 'Unhopelessness' series)
Fernando Holguin Cereceres (5537) is a British-Mexican multidisciplinary artist exploring humanity and transcendence through conceptual, neo-expressionist works. My work explores the theme of clutter—not just physical, but the mental overload of our hyperconnected world. Through symbolic imagery, my paintings and installation depict the chaos of modern anxieties, where media and digital distractions overwhelm our focus. Playful yet unsettling figures, like a smiley-faced man on a flamingo or a masked man holding a bird, represent escapism, control, and the struggle to find clarity amid constant stimulation. Ultimately, this collection invites reflection on how we navigate information overload and what we lose in the process.
Giorgos Theocharous theocharousart.com @giorgotheocha
“One on top of the other,” Pencil, pastel and watercolour
Two drawings on gessoed panel 29cm X 42cm
(NB: This work has travelled back to Cyprus with Giorgos for CLUTTER’s final week)
“A cluttered drawing can be:
Multidimensional,
Multi-layered,
Can have a foreground and background or more,
Can sit on top of another drawing…”
Irene Pulga @irene1810
‘Terreno battuto (trodden path)’, Mixed media and collage on paper. 2025
‘Another little piece of me’, Monoprint and mixed media on paper. 2022
I explore the theme of clutter as a reflection of the chaos and order that govern both the universe, life on Earth and our mind; saturated by personal and collective experiences.
My artworks, consisting of drawing, painting, printmaking, and collage, invite viewers to contemplate the harmonious coexistence of disorder and structure, and how these forces shape our reality.
Lorraine Snape lorrainesnape.com @snappysnape
Fernando Holguin Cereceres www.5537gallery.com @5537fernandoholguincerece
‘Mind and view’
‘Clear skies through the clutter’
‘The great awakening of the big reset’ (from the 'Unhopelessness' series)
Fernando Holguin Cereceres (5537) is a British-Mexican multidisciplinary artist exploring humanity and transcendence through conceptual, neo-expressionist works. My work explores the theme of clutter—not just physical, but the mental overload of our hyperconnected world. Through symbolic imagery, my paintings and installation depict the chaos of modern anxieties, where media and digital distractions overwhelm our focus. Playful yet unsettling figures, like a smiley-faced man on a flamingo or a masked man holding a bird, represent escapism, control, and the struggle to find clarity amid constant stimulation. Ultimately, this collection invites reflection on how we navigate information overload and what we lose in the process.
Giorgos Theocharous theocharousart.com @giorgotheocha
“One on top of the other,” Pencil, pastel and watercolour
Two drawings on gessoed panel 29cm X 42cm
(NB: This work has travelled back to Cyprus with Giorgos for CLUTTER’s final week)
“A cluttered drawing can be:
Multidimensional,
Multi-layered,
Can have a foreground and background or more,
Can sit on top of another drawing…”
Irene Pulga @irene1810
‘Terreno battuto (trodden path)’, Mixed media and collage on paper. 2025
‘Another little piece of me’, Monoprint and mixed media on paper. 2022
I explore the theme of clutter as a reflection of the chaos and order that govern both the universe, life on Earth and our mind; saturated by personal and collective experiences.
My artworks, consisting of drawing, painting, printmaking, and collage, invite viewers to contemplate the harmonious coexistence of disorder and structure, and how these forces shape our reality.
Lorraine Snape lorrainesnape.com @snappysnape
‘the hum (when jeffrey met laura)’, 2025
Mixed plastic storage tubs, tarps, ratchet straps and bungees, steel and electricity
A vibrating hoard of mixed plastic storage, which has lived a life and travelled much, holding nothing in particular but bestowed with value, moving from place to place, house to flat, home to home, in and out of storage and studios but never unpacked. The hum is the intrusion of visual noise which amplifies the mental whirring. Often the proposed solution to clutter is storage – a storage solution. And how it’s not a solution, because the clutter remains clutter whether it is in a box, piling up or sprawling across a space. We fill our lives with plastic tubs and vacuum bags to resist disposing and letting go. Boxing up, covering and putting in a cupboard, a shed, garage, lock-up. Protecting or hiding with a resulting guilt.
Nathania Hartley www.nathaniahartley.com @natteronyeah
‘the hum (when jeffrey met laura)’, 2025
Mixed plastic storage tubs, tarps, ratchet straps and bungees, steel and electricity
A vibrating hoard of mixed plastic storage, which has lived a life and travelled much, holding nothing in particular but bestowed with value, moving from place to place, house to flat, home to home, in and out of storage and studios but never unpacked. The hum is the intrusion of visual noise which amplifies the mental whirring. Often the proposed solution to clutter is storage – a storage solution. And how it’s not a solution, because the clutter remains clutter whether it is in a box, piling up or sprawling across a space. We fill our lives with plastic tubs and vacuum bags to resist disposing and letting go. Boxing up, covering and putting in a cupboard, a shed, garage, lock-up. Protecting or hiding with a resulting guilt.
Nathania Hartley www.nathaniahartley.com @natteronyeah
‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ 2025
Audio piece (10 mins), visitor contributions, zine page and performances (on PV 6th March and performance night 11th April)
‘Urban Group Walk’
An ongoing project, a participatory walk (1 hour approx) - meet at the gallery 6th April 4.30pm
A leap straight into the societal and psychological clutter of our lives today.
Reflecting our repeated attempts at ordering and making sense of the world, Nathania will play with many different forms across the month of the show – exploring the theme through recorded audio, writing, performance, a participatory group walk and visitors’ contributions.
‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ 2025
Audio piece (10 mins), visitor contributions, zine page and performances (on PV 6th March and performance night 11th April)
‘Urban Group Walk’
An ongoing project, a participatory walk (1 hour approx) - meet at the gallery 6th April 4.30pm
A leap straight into the societal and psychological clutter of our lives today.
Reflecting our repeated attempts at ordering and making sense of the world, Nathania will play with many different forms across the month of the show – exploring the theme through recorded audio, writing, performance, a participatory group walk and visitors’ contributions.
Sadie Edginton sadieedginton.tumblr.com @sadie_edginton
1) ‘Etching plate for studio materials at night (Fernando's, Kassel)’, Tetra Pak carton, 2025
2) ‘Playscape III, copper plate etching’, 2021
3) ‘Studio materials at night III (Fernando's, Kassel)’, drypoint Tetra Pak etching, 2025
4) ‘Piles of materials in the studio, charcoal drawing’, 2025
5) ‘Studio materials at night I (Sadie's, Powell road)’, drypoint Tetra Pak etching, 2025
6) ‘Studio materials at night II (Sadie's, Powell road)’, drypoint aluminium etching, 2025
7) ‘Etching plate for studio materials at night (Sadie’s, Powell road)’, 2025
8) ‘Imagined studio I’, Screenprint, 2025
“For ‘clutter’ I turned my attention to the pile of objects in my studio. We collect and fill our studios, they’re our outposts for thinking and making.There is something about the potential in these collections of materials, yet to be turned into sculptures or artworks. Leaning on each other they’re somehow alive, vibrating, theatrically placed and lit. Volumes and forms nestled together. There’s a feeling of presence but no people are in sight and the artist is not there. Do they come alive when the door is closed? Do they need to be made into anything? Are they already artworks?”
Sara Kelly www.sarakelly.co.uk @arrnnie
'Handmades' hand-sewn prints:
1. Sophia
2. The Fool
3. Sitting
4. Handmade
5. La Deliquescencia
Sara Kelly is a London based artist who explores the material and immaterial through an interplay of paint, collage, and found objects and photography. These works are painting-collages and serve as fragile, temporary structures - the prints becoming the only records. ‘I have recently started using generative AI tools, which add tension between digital and physical. Reworking past pieces with found materials and my own images, the works become contemplative in the making.’
Wendy Manel de Silva @wendymanel
‘Found In Translation,’ Gouache on paper, 615 X 41cm, 2025
Wendy Manel's practice explores what it means to be mixed race. She is relearning a language she used to be fluent in, Sinhala, which is spoken by the majority of people living in Sri Lanka.
One of the many pieces of clutter she unearthed when rootling through her dusty boxes was a poster of English/Chinese flashcards. The English alphabet was clear, but the Chinese characters, which she first learnt over 20 years ago, were another lost language to her.
Her exhibition-specific project, 'Found In Translation' is a series of flashcards made on a recent research trip to Sri Lanka. Each image has a memory, a story, or a bit of history attached to it. More can be found out about each card on her instagram (see link above).