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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.

06/10/2026

We are excited to launch our inaugural residency programme offering a space for one artist or collective to experiment, explore and expand their creative practice without the pressure of a prescribed outcome.

This residency offers time, space and industry professional support to follow curiosity, take risks, and let ideas unfold naurally. Eligible practices include emerging artists, established practioners, makers, researchers or participants of a creative collective.

What you will receive:

Dedicated studio space with 24/7 access for three months.
All utilites included.
One mentorship session with an industry professional.
Opportunities to connect and collaborate with peers and other Cell artists.
Optional sharing or presentation opportunities if appropriate.

How to apply: Submit your proposal via our website and online application form - link in bio.

Deadline for applications is midnight on October 27th with successful applicants notified on November 3rd.

Images credited to Emilia Edwards (1), Adam Isfendiyar (3) & Cell Studios (2,4)

29/09/2026

Tian Mu ( Tian Mu 田牧 ) is one of the artists based in our Rollins Street studios.

Tian Mu (b. 1985, China) lives and works in London, He holds an MA Fine Art from Central Saint Martins (2011) and previously studied Sculpture at the Royal College of Art. His practice spans painting, sculpture, and relief, with a sustained interest in industrial materials and production processes. Positioning the body as a site of perception and cognition, he explores touch, intimacy, protection, and distance as forms of lived experience. Working with fragmented and cropped bodily forms, his work considers the body as an operative system rather than a representational subject.
Recent solo exhibitions include Animated Body, JINJI Lake Art Museum, Suzhou (2024), and Half The Sand, CHI K11 Art Museum, Shanghai (2023). Recent group exhibitions include Flesh & Bones: The Art of Anatomy, ArtScience Museum, Singapore (2026), Soliloquy 25_01, Royal Academy Schools, London (2025), and XSWL, White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney (2024), LAPSUS CALAMI, Marlborough Gallery, London (2023)
Image Credit:
01: Studio portrait, Wang Peng Penn
02-06: Wang Peng Penn
07-08:Tian Mu
09: Studio portrait, Studio: Wang Peng Penn

24/09/2026

New studios are coming soon to Rollins Street, South Bermondsey.

Available from early December, we’ll have a selection of small and medium-sized studios, with rents starting from £470–£750 PCM.

These studios are available exclusively for fine art practices.

Applications are now open for the first round of viewings which will be held in October. Visit the link in our bio to apply.

28/08/2026

Samah Rafiq (samah ) is one of the artists based at our Wallis Road South studios.

Rafiq (b. 2000), is a London based Artist. She completed her MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art in 2024. Previously she completed her Undergraduate Degree at UAL Camberwell College of Arts, graduating in 2022 with a First Class Honours in Fine Art: Painting.

Rafiq debuted her first solo exhibition, Excalibur, in November 2024 with Kira Streletzki in
Berlin, Germany. Her second solo exhibition, Bloodsport, marked her London debut with
Refusés in October 2025 and has since been followed by a growing programme of exhibitions
across the UK and internationally. She has since exhibited in New York with Refusés at Future Art Fair, alongside numerous presentations in the UK and London, including The Garage with Toxic Arts, Condo: Satellite with Harlesden High Street and Refusés, South Open 4 with OHSH Projects, Fancy Ices with Bompas & Parr, and more.
Rafiq’s works are now held in private collections across Switzerland, America, Germany, London, and Greece. She is currently a Shortlisted Finalist for the ACS Studio Prize 2026 with a group show at Gurr Johns in September. Rafiq will also be presenting a new work in an upcoming Duo Booth presentation with Tache Gallery at Untitled Art Fair, Miami.

Images taken by Stella McGarvey (stella)

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.

Address

258 Cambridge Heath Road
London Borough Of Hackney
E29DA

Website

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

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