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Cell Studios are an affordable artists work space provider established in 1999, providing leasehold work space to 1097 artists and designer-makers at 7 sites / 147,000 sq ft of B1 work space in east and South East London.

11/08/2026

Baris Kareli (Baris Kareli) is one of the artists currently based in our Forest Park studios.

Baris Kareli is a sculptor, animatronics designer, and special effects artist specializing in hyper realistic human and creature creations. With over 14 years of experience in the film industry, his work spans sculpture, practical effects makeup, silicone figure fabrication, and mechanical character design.

Combining traditional sculptural techniques with engineering and special effects processes, he creates lifelike characters, creatures, and immersive installations that blur the boundaries between art, biology, and technology. His recent work explores themes of transformation, mortality, and the relationship between the human body and machines through sculpture, animatronics, and kinetic artworks.

07/08/2026

Large share studio in Dalston for fine artists. Sharing with 6 artists. 135 SQ FT each, high ceilings. 24/7 access. £350 each includes heat, internet, business rates. Nice and cool in summer 😎
DM to book a viewing - two spots left!

17/07/2026

Jessica Ashman ( ) is one of the artists based in our Forest Park studios.

Jessica Ashman (she/her) is a Jamaican black British interdisciplinary artist, working across painting, natural dye, animation, textiles, music and performance that culminate in immersive installations. Ashman’s practice is rooted in the black Caribbean and working-class diaspora archive, both personal and institutional, aiming to dismantle the archive as a gatekeeper of knowledge. Ashman is particularly interested in the blurred space between fact and folklore, archival absence and cultural inheritance. Currently, she is exploring Caribbean diasporic relationships to land, especially through histories of colonial botanical extraction.
 A Royal College of Art graduate (2014), her work has been supported by Animate Projects, Jerwood Foundation, 198 Contemporary, Focal Point Gallery, New Art Exchange, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery and Modern Painters New Decorators.

Image Credits:
Image 1: Jessica Ashman
Image 2: Joshua Jones
Image 3: Jessica Ashman
Image 4: Jessica Ashman
Image 5: Jessica Ashman

02/07/2026

Sebastián Espejo (Sebastián Espejo) is one of the artists currently based in our Forest Park studios.

Sebastián Espejo (b. 1990, Santiago, Chile) currently lives and works in London. Espejo’s work centres on the transience and beauty of everyday life, with the narrative of his works following everyday environments, intentionally lacking any single event. This translation of environmental experience into painting connects his work to the Chilean pictorial tradition of ‘descriptive realism,’ defined by its direct sensory capture of transient moments. Espejo sees himself as an inheritor of this tradition and its artistic philosophy.⁠ He is represented by Union Pacific.

Image credits:
1. Portrait, Emilia Edward’s (Emilia Edwards)
2. Portrait, Stella McGarvey (stella) and Brave Projects ()
3. ‘Quarry’, Slip House (Slip House)
4. Group of paintings, Carolina Vlachakou (Carolina)

24/06/2026

Tim Green (Tim Green ) is an artist and designer whose work is driven by an ecosystemic approach to creativity. Raised in Macclesfield, he spent time living and working in Berlin and Buenos Aires before settling in East London.

His practice spans oil painting, printmaking, and mixed-media, exploring the concept of micro-chaos forming a coherent macro aesthetic. Drawing inspiration from the repetitive, evolving structures of Steve Reich’s musical compositions, Tim’s paintings begin with rhythmic repetition that unfolds into polychromy. His work forms a delicate balance that feels as though it might disentangle at any moment, yet finds harmony in its entirety.

Influenced by the material freedom of the CoBrA and Fluxus movements, Tim’s compositions balance naive, instinctive mark-making with considered design. His recent oil paintings investigate the leaf-to-root connection between the microscopic and macroscopic in our natural environment, creating soft, whispering surfaces that evoke forests, mycelia, and gas nebulae. They explore the interconnectivity of life, matter and existence - connection between the human body, our internal emotional and visceral states, and the natural environment from which we often confuse ourselves as being separate.

Tim has exhibited extensively, recently curating the group show ‘Skin Of The Earth’ (https://skinoftheearth.vercel.app/) and presenting his solo exhibition ‘The Force That Drives The Flower’ at Three Rooms Gallery.

Tim is one of the artists based at our Forest Park studios.

21/05/2026

We have some spaces available in a share studio at our South Bermondsey site for fine artists. Prices from £253 - £400 depending on size. DM for more info and to book a viewing.

Our Rollins Street site is in an old Victorian Factory with many original features and large windows.

28/04/2026

Artist share studios in South Bermondsey. Set in a former Victorian factory building with many original features these studios are full of character and lots of natural light. We have shared spaces available soon from £253 - £506. Message us for full details and to book a viewing.

24/04/2026

Bunny Hennessey () is one of the artists based in our Cambridge Heath Road studios.

Her work emerges from the physical and sensory conditions of painting itself. Driven by motion, pressure and tempo, her practice explores the body’s inner parameters; how sensation accumulates, disperses, and reorganises through movement.
Working intuitively across oil, acrylic, and watercolour, her work unfolds in a visceral, reactive process. Paint is applied, scraped back, and reintroduced, surfaces seesawing between density and exposure. Colour is drawn out through appetite; pigments that feel edible, evoking taste, texture, excess.

Work exists in a continual state of flux, hovering between abstraction and somatic suggestion, where forms surface briefly before dissolving, as if caught mid-transformation. She describes approaching the canvas “as a surface that holds sensation outside the body”, the painting becoming an inhabited structure where sensation is displaced, reworked, and transformed rather than confessed. It is through this ongoing negotiation between body and material that Hennessey’s work opens up a space for release and renewal—not as resolution, but as a continual process of reappraisal.
Born in 1991, Bunny Hennessey grew up in coastal Devonshire. She is currently in the final year of an MFA at Slade School of Fine Art, following an undergraduate at City & Guilds of London Art School, where she received First Class Honours. In 2024 she was awarded the Freeland’s Painting Prize. Her work has been shown at Chilli Art Projects, London in duo exhibition ‘Constrain’, as well as through Roamer Project II, where she was selected for the Val d’Aran edition of the group show in the Pyrenees.

Image 1: Bunny Hennessey - photographer .riev
Image 2: Give Way, oil on canvas, 140 x 125cm, 2025
Image 3: High Tide, acrylic and oil on canvas, 150 x 120cm, 2025
Image 4: Waiting Room, acrylic and pencil on canvas, 100 x 100cm, 2025
Image 5: Rinse and Repeat, oil on linen, 100 x 76cm, 2026
Image 6: Merger, oil on linen, 35 x 45cm, 2025
Image 7: Dog Eat Dog, acrylic and pencil on canvas, 150 x 100cm, 2025
Image 8: False Start, oil on linen, 76 x 60cm, 2025

16/04/2026

We have just had the third in a series of pop-up group show across our studios. This exhibition showed the work of 12 artists based in our Rollins Street studios. Thank you to everyone who came to see the show, and here are some photos of the amazing work for those who couldn’t.

Address

258 Cambridge Heath Road
London Borough Of Hackney
E29DA

Website

https://www.cellprojects.org/studios/studios

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