Artists: Alaister, Daiga, John J Sheehy, Johnny B, Lewis EM, L (el), Lui Saatchi, Mary Vallely, Matt, Peter C. Norman, Peter H, Ricaso, Richard Fletcher

Stemming from the artists’ own journeys, the works in Stories at the Seams explore entanglements of lived experience and mythology. Spanning drawings, photographs, paintings and ceramics, they weave together folklore and memory, cityscapes and ancient deities, bodies and plant ecologies. The exhibition maps the artists’ personal and creative accounts of living between worlds. Here, at the junction of wildness and home, exclusion and belonging, where the known world begins to fray, thresholds emerge into the fantastical.

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Further info

The artworks in this exhibition have been made during weekly workshops at partner venues the Swiss Church London and St. Paul's Church. They have also been made with support from partners the London Graphic Centre and Rochester Square.

The exhibition's Green Man plaque, created by Portal Project artists and Antropia CIC will form part of a limited series of six public artworks to be installed across Camden. Each holds a QR code linking to an online resource list for people experiencing homelessness, offering information on shelters, food and shower access points, as well as health and legal support.

In the 17 November 2025 edition of the Big Issue magazine, Portal Project will present an artwork accompanying the Stories at the Seams exhibition. Here, further artworks and perspectives from the artists can be accessed through QR code ‘portals’.

This exhibition is supported by the Arts Council England.

In partnership with Big Issue, Swiss Church, St.Pauls Church, London Graphic Centre, Rochester Square.