Artist details and Artwork information for ‘Clutter’ by AltMFA members
Anita Agarwal www.anitagarwal.com @anitagarwal14117
Entanglements (it’s complicated) 1, conti and charcoal on paper
Entangled desires (it’s complicated) 2, 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).
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 the 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
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.
Casting Shadows, shells, clay, slate, acrylic paint
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.
Eldi Dundee linktr.ee/eldidundee @eldidundee_art
Scattered Pictures (2025) - wall assemblage: digital prints on paper of domestic clutter, in ~30 assorted-sized family-photo frames, & a pencil and gouache sketch on mount board (2008)
Cherished family photos give way to snapshots of domestic and studio chaos—sippy cups by the sink, toy box carnage, the teenage ‘no-go zone,’ and the inevitable empty nest: “Your room’s now an art studio/guest/storage space (but no tidier than before).” Renovation mess, half-finished decluttering attempts, commission-driven creative mayhem, and deliberate film-set disarray. A deeply personal work, it reflects Eldi’s family’s struggle, over a 21 year stretch, to part with objects—something many artists, crafters, and neuro-divergents relate to. “This might be valuable someday!” or “I might use this in an artwork…”—a perpetual balancing act between inspiration, sentimentality, and what feasibly can be kept.
Small House Gallery Annex presents: Studio 5537 Fernando Holguin Cereceres (2025)
Small-scale paintings on canvas board, displayed in the basement annex of Small House Gallery, from his Sept 2024 Small House Two solo exhibition REFLECTIONS IN MINIATURE: A World in Crisis. Small House Gallery, founded in 2016 and curated by Dundee, is a contemporary art project showcasing work within a series of dollhouses. smallhousegallery.uk @small_house_gallery www.5537gallery.com @5537fernandoholguincereceres
Sadie Edginton sadieedginton.tumblr.com @sadie_edginton
Etching plate for studio materials at night (Fernando's, Kassel) Tetra Pak carton, 2025
Playscape III, copper plate etching, 2021
Studio materials at night III (Fernando's, Kassel), drypoint Tetra Pak etching, 2025
Piles of materials in the studio, charcoal drawing, 2025
Studio materials at night I (Sadie's, Powell road), drypoint Tetra Pak etching, 2025
Studio materials at night II (Sadie's, Powell road), drypoint aluminium etching, 2025
Etching plate for studio materials at night (Sadie’s, Powell road) 2025
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?’
Claire Eva linkedin.com/claireevaart @claireevaart
Artworks, from the top, downwards:
Blue “Plastic Echoes”; Black “Objects Orbit”, Orange “Lost and Found”;
Red “Pile Up”, Grey “Shadow Atlas”; Navy “Deep Space”
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
“Domestic Myths”, Prints on dressmaking paper (framed), 53 x 53 cm, 2025
“The Albatross”, Assemblage installation, 113 x 103 cm, 2023-25, Free to good home
(minus 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.
Catherine Harrington www.catherineharrington.org @catheharrington
Wall based works:
Posters: DeClutter Mantra / Why Clean Up? (5 A3 poster prints), 2025
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.
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.
Irene Pulga @irene1810
1. Terreno battuto (trodden path), Mixed media and collage on paper. 2025
2. 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.
Dave Miller davemiller.uk @davemillerart
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.
Fernando Holguin Cereceres www.5537gallery.com @5537fernandoholguincerece
1) Mind and view Acrylic on canvas
2) Clear skies through the clutter Site specific Installation
3) "The great awakening of the big reset" (from the 'Unhopelessness ' series) Acrylic on Canvas
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.
Sara Kelly www.sarakelly.co.uk @arrnnie
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.’
Debora Mo www.deboramo.com @debora.mo.art
Under the Clutter-Cloak of Night, a 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.
Anjan Saha
An inquiry into the state of clutter.
Anjan Saha, spoken word: will explore fractals, dust, dark matter, space and density.
Wendy Manel de Silva
Found In Translation, Gouache on paper
Lorraine Snape lorrainesnape.com @snappysnape
the hum (when jeffrey met laura)’ Mixed plastic storage tubs, tarps, ratchet straps and bungees, steel and electricity, 2025.
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.
Giorgos Theocharous www.theocharousart.com @giorgotheocha
One on top of the other, drawings on a gessoed panel. Pencil, pastel and watercolor.
A cluttered drawing can be:
Multidimensional,
Multi-layered,
Can have a foreground and background or more,
Can sit on top of another drawing….