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29/09/2026

Opening this week at Primary

Santiago Mostyn | Natural History

Preview: Friday 2 October 2026, 5PM (quiet time), 6–9PM
Exhibition continues: 3 October – 28 November 2026

Natural History is the culmination of an extended period of visual and auditory research by Stockholm-based artist Santiago Mostyn into the Grenada Revolution (1979–1983).

Photographic archives, audio recordings, textiles and 16mm film are presented and remixed in the galleries to create an open-ended retelling of one of the most consequential yet overlooked episodes of the Black Power era in the Caribbean.

Santiago Mostyn lived through the US invasion of Grenada in 1983 as a child. Natural History approaches the absence left by the Revolution’s collapse obliquely, by inhabiting the craft techniques of his parents – his mother’s textile practice and his father’s work in music and radio – before coming face to face with the protagonist of this history in the present day.

Bernard Coard, the surviving co-leader of Revolutionary Grenada and a key figure in the Revolution’s collapse, is portrayed in a new 16mm film.

Natural History constitutes a reckoning with personal history, with the knowledge carried in craft, and with the kinds of memory that resist being metabolised into official narrative.



https://www.weareprimary.org/projects-archive/naturalhistory

30/05/2026

Last weekend to apply!

* Collaborative Programme Curator
Application Deadline: Sunday 31 May 2026, 11pm

https://www.weareprimary.org/news/job-opportunity-collaborative-programme-curator

Join our team

We are seeking to recruit a Collaborative Programme Curator to make an important contribution to our work and expand the range and depth of skills within our organisation.

This is a key role responsible for implementing Primary’s Collaborative Programme, continuing and developing new relationships with communities.

This role builds on a decade of programme at Primary that has embedded collaboration, socially just approaches and community-centred practice in the organisation’s work.

* Collaborative Programme Curator

Application Deadline: Sunday 31 May 2026, 11pm

For further information on this role and how to apply please see

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30/05/2026

Final weekend to apply!

* Deputy Director
Application Deadline: Sunday 31 May 2026, 11pm

https://www.weareprimary.org/news/job-opportunity-deputy-director

Join our team

We are seeking a Deputy Director to play a key role in implementing Primary’s strategic direction and strengthening the organisation’s skills, knowledge, and capacity.

This is a pivotal role for someone with fundraising and financial expertise, and a genuine commitment to supporting the organisation’s future.

* Deputy Director

Application Deadline: Sunday 31 May 2026, 11pm

For further information on this role and how to apply please see

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22/05/2026

Just over a week left to apply 👀

We’re recruiting for two roles at Primary:

• Deputy Director
• Collaborative Programme Curator

🗓 Deadline: Sunday 31 May 2026, 11pm

These roles will expand the range and depth of skills within our organisation, making an important contribution to our work.

Our mission is to sustain a thriving arts ecology in an unpredictable and inequitable world — by investing in artists and expanding access for more people to engage. Rooted in creativity and collaboration, we consistently champion artists’ development, create new ways of making art, and drive social impact in our neighbourhood and beyond.

🔗 Find out more + apply via our website https://www.weareprimary.org/

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18/05/2026

Join our team

We are seeking to recruit a Collaborative Programme Curator to make an important contribution to our work and expand the range and depth of skills within our organisation.

This is a key role responsible for implementing Primary’s Collaborative Programme, continuing and developing new relationships with communities.

This role builds on a decade of programme at Primary that has embedded collaboration, socially just approaches and community-centred practice in the organisation’s work.

* Collaborative Programme Curator

Application Deadline: Sunday 31 May 2026, 11pm

For further information on this role and how to apply please see

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14/05/2026

Join our team

We are seeking a Deputy Director to play a key role in implementing Primary’s strategic direction and strengthening the organisation’s skills, knowledge, and capacity.

This is a pivotal role for someone with fundraising and financial expertise, and a genuine commitment to supporting the organisation’s future.

* Deputy Director

Application Deadline: Sunday 31 May 2026, 11pm

For further information on this role and how to apply please see

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25/04/2026

Join our team

We are currently recruiting for two roles at Primary:

* Deputy Director
* Collaborative Programme Curator

Application Deadline: Sunday 31 May 2026, 11pm

For further information on these roles and how to apply please see https://www.weareprimary.org/news

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18/04/2026

Announcing… Studio A4: Raisa Kabir ✨

Primary opens our 2026 Studio A4 programme in our Grade II listed building with artist and weaver Raisa Kabir, the first resident of the year and continuing the work developed through our 2025 programme.

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We don’t talk about flexibility enough.

Studios are so often imagined as places for constant production — for objects, for presence, for output. But 'doing' can also be thinking and sometimes it’s okay for nothing to take form at all. Residencies should create possibilities, not enforce labour. As an organisation we ask how we can support someone when things don’t unfold as planned — when illness, shifting capacities or different rates and paces of working shape the process. How do we accept what we can't control in our creative processes?

Kabir spent 2–31 March 2026 with the studio absent of finished objects and it is only now in April that forms begin to emerge.

Raisa’s practice holds disability justice as a material and political commitment — working through interdependence, hybridity and a clear responsibility to the history of cloth and thread that alert us to how woven the implications of trade and movement are in shaping the worlds around us, especially what is left for us to pick up the pieces. Over the next few days on site, she will be transforming walking sticks into looms, creating 5‑metre textile works suspended from the gallery ceiling.

💭 This period for Raisa to think and now make leads into 'Q***r Texture', opening 24 April, 5 pm (Quiet Time), and continuing from 6 pm to 9 pm.

Join us as we gather for an evening shaped by q***r and disabled joy and graft.

The 'Studio A4' residency and commission is supported by the Henry Moore Foundation ().

Image Description: Portrait of artist Raisa Kabir standing beside a wooden weaving loom in a gallery setting. She faces the camera with a relaxed expression and wears a black top with a patterned floral jacket and a gold necklace. The background includes framed artworks on the wall and the structure of the loom visible to her right.

Image Credit: Angela Dennis.

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18/02/2026

This weekend, we were delighted to welcome so many growers, collaborators, neighbours, and friends to Primary to celebrate the launch of We Feed The UK, in partnership with The Gaia Foundation 🌱

Thank you to everyone who joined us to share seeds, stories, food, and conversation. It was a joyful afternoon that reflected the generosity and knowledge at the heart of regenerative growing communities.

Through photography, poetry, and lived experience, We Feed The UK honours the people cultivating ecological and cultural resilience across the country.

We Feed The UK continues at Primary until 14 March.

Open Thursday–Saturday, 10 am–5 pm, or by appointment.

Free entry.

Image Description: Visitors gather at Primary to share and exchange seeds, view photographic works and engage with seed archives as part of the launch of ‘We Feed The UK’. Moments of participation, exhibition viewing and outdoor installations unfold within the community garden.

Image Credits: Tom Platinum Morley

05/02/2026

Primary is pleased to announce its 2026 exhibitions programme, shaped by interdependence, reciprocity, and shared futures.

Across the year, the programme brings together newly commissioned and existing work in film, installation, performance, photography, and textile practice.

The 2026 programme includes:

We Feed The UK
7 February – 14 March 2026
Launch Event: Saturday 7 February, 2–5 pm

Q***r Texture | Raisa Kabir, Adam Seid Tahir, Amina Seid Tahir, and Qualeasha Wood
25 April – 18 July 2026
Featuring a live performance during the exhibition preview.

Santiago Mostyn | Natural History (Lessons)
3 October – 28 November 2026

🔗 Full programme details: https://www.weareprimary.org/news/2026-exhibitions-programme-announcement

We are grateful to our 2026 programme partners, co-commissioners, and funders for their support and shared passion: Botkyrka Konsthall, The Gaia Foundation, MPB, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Henry Moore Foundation, Paul Hamlyn Foundation; Konstnärsnämnden, Internationellt utbyte och resebidrag (International exchanges and travel grants); Arts Council England, and The Exhibitions Group ().

Thank you also to our Friends of Primary for your support and Pippy Houldsworth Gallery for your artist advocacy.

Primary is pleased to announce its 2026 exhibitions programme, shaped by interdependence, reciprocity, and shared futures.