Blissful Ignorance
Assembly House
Aug 2023
Julia Pomeroy
Upcoming Exhibition
A View From Everywhere
The London Art Collective (LAC) is proud to announce “ArtEvol 2026: A View from Everywhere”, the sixth edition of its annual international contemporary art exhibition. The exhibition will take place at Saatchi Gallery, London, from 2 to 9 October 2026. This year’s exhibition, “ArtEvol 2026: A View from Everywhere”, invites artists from around the world to respond to the theme of perspective, exploring how different cultural backgrounds, lived experiences and social contexts shape the ways we understand the world, and to foster exchange and interaction across geography, culture and identity through contemporary art. “ArtEvol 2026: A View from Everywhere” does not seek a single, unified answer. It understands perspective as a continuously evolving process—each way of seeing is influenced by personal cultural backgrounds, lived experiences and other factors, and continues to evolve through ongoing exchanges of ideas and dialogue. Therefore, the exhibition focuses on how these perspectives respond to and influence one another within the same space, generating new understandings through exchange: when numerous partial perspectives come together, what new landscapes might become visible? Artists from diverse backgrounds will respond to contemporary society through different artistic practices and distinctive visual languages, offering diverse and open-ended responses. “ArtEvol 2026: A View from Everywhere” is curated by Nelson Qin, organised by the London Art Collective (LAC), and selected by an international jury composed of curators, artists, critics and scholars. The exhibition will focus on artistic practices that respond to this year’s curatorial theme while reflecting independent creative thinking, with the aim of building an open, diverse and continuously evolving exhibition space through the exchange and response of different perspectives.
Selected Works
Personal statement
Julia Pomeroy, London (b.1998), is based in London at ACME studios in Walthamstow; and her heritage comes from Scotland, Central Ireland and Britain. Pomeroy completed her MFA at City and Guilds London School of Art in 2024 with the Leverhulme Scholarship. And has exhibited with The Koppel Project, The Florence Trust, Auto Amor and others. This year, Pomeroy exhibitied with the London Art Collective at Saatchi Gallery, London and her work was longlisted for the Women in Art prize. In her painting practice, she explores figuration in nature through a magical realism lens. Pomeroy analyses this relationship through vibrant colours and gestural mark-making, contrasted with moments of realism. These methods depict underlying psychologies against real physicality, overall challenging a sense of place and stability. She has been focusing on humans’ relationship with nature and how this feels today. Conveying mystical feeling landscapes while referencing the modern world. Adventure and engagement with nature, and its connection with mental health, are key themes in her practice.
Biography
Julia Pomeroy
Julia Pomeroy, London (b.1998), is based in London at ACME studios in Walthamstow; and her heritage comes from Scotland, Central Ireland and Britain. Pomeroy completed her MFA at City and Guilds London School of Art in 2024 with the Leverhulme Scholarship. And has exhibited with The Koppel Project, The Florence Trust, Auto Amor and others. This year, Pomeroy exhibitied with the London Art Collective at Saatchi Gallery, London and her work was longlisted for the Women in Art prize.
