Division of Labour Holy Trinity, Cloudesley Square, London N1 0HN, UK c/o The Florence Trust - Underground Angel / No19 Islington Green
SCHEMA
Openings - Events
2 April 5-8pm
02.04 - 25.04.26
Gavin Wade: L is for Landscapefeaturing Jo Berry (Cardiff UK) Bonnie Campbell (Birmingham UK) Gordon Dalton (Middlesbourough UK) Elisha Enfield (Milton Keynes, UK) Wapke Feenstra (Frisian region NL) Jane Hayes Greenwood (Manchester UK) Mishka Henner (Brussels, BE) Banele Khoza (Hlatikulu, SZ) Henry Moore (Castleford UK) Harun Morrison (London UK) n:u (melissandre varin) (Gonesse FR) Harold Offeh (Accra, GH) Tom O’Sullivan (Norfolk UK) & Joanne Tatham (West Yorkshire UK) Yelena Popova (USSR) Carol Rhodes (Edinburgh, UK, Courtesy of the Estate of Carol Rhodes) Emma Talbot (Stourbridge, UK) Markus Vater (Dusseldorf DE) Gavin Wade (Birmingham UK) Richard Woods (Chester UK)
Co-curated by Gavin Wade , Nat Pitt (Wordsley UK)
2 April 5-8pm
02.04 - 18.04.26
Without Dirt
Harun Morrison (London UK)
Oona Wilkinson (London UK)
Ella Belenky (Vermont USA)
25 April 12-8pm
23.04 - 25.04.26
Song of The Modern World III
Gavin Wade (Birmingham UK)
30 April 5-8pm
01.05 - 24.05.26 (also open Sundays 11-4)
Matthew Cornford
David Blamey
Schirin Kretschmann
2 May 12-8pm
02.05 - 10.05.26 (also open Sundays 11-4)
Genré [machine] Painting
Andee Collard (Bolton UK)
16 May 12-8pm
The Taraxacum Officinale
16.05 - 24.05.26 (also open Sundays 11-4)
Hilary Jack
23 May 6pm
IN/OUT STUDIO Artist Talk
Domo Baal
Matthew Cornford
David Blamey
Schirin Kretschmann
28 May 5-8pm
28.05 - 06.06.26
Saulius Leonavičius invites
Jez Dolan (Manchester UK) Lewis Graham (Birmingham, UK) Paul Vivian (UK) Joanne Masding (UK) James Winnett (UK) Sam Curtis (UK) Ana Mastretta (MX) Melina Merlin (MX)
6 June 4-8pm
04.06 - 06.06.26
Old Europe2
Saulius Leonavičius (Vilnius LT)
6 June 2-5pm
Performance
Old Europe - Artist Talk
11 June 5-8pm
11.06 - 27.06.26
Angelina May Davis
Cedar Lewisohn
11 June 5-8pm
11.06 - 20.06.26
Andrew Lacon
20/21 June 2-5pm
Film Weekend
Céline Berger (Paris FR), Priscila Fernandes (Lisbon PT)
more to follow...
27 June 2-5pm
Old England
- Artist Talk
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LONDON
April - May - June
Opening times: Thursday - Friday 11:00- 18:00
Saturday 12-4pm
(also open Sundays 11-2 by appointment)
Join us this spring for a three-month curatorial programme from April to June 2026, comprising exhibitions and discursive events at The Florence Trust, Holy Trinity, Cloudesley Square, Islington. The venue lies within a short walk of Angel Tube Station or is accessible via Bus No. 19 to Islington Green.
The programme marks Division of Labour’s return* to working in London following a sustained period of activity in Manchester. This return is framed as a critical encounter with the London art economy, foregrounding questions of location, circulation, and value within a shifting cultural infrastructure.
Division of Labour extends heartfelt thanks to the Florence Trust for the generous use of the gallery.
Our presence across both London and Salford, reflects a historical dialogue between the intellectual ferment of North London, where Marx spent time in exile, and Greater Manchester, whose industrial landscape shaped Engels’ observations and the early foundations of Marxist theory.
*Division of Labour was based on Herald Street in Bethnal Green from around 2016 to 2020 and is now returning to London after six years at Paradise Works, a studio complex in Salford that plays a leading role in the contemporary art ecology of the North West.
The story of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
being chased by police for smashing gas-lit street lamps after a drunken night spent crawling around “red” pubs has long occupied that hazy space between documented incident and urban myth. Often embellished or told in apocryphal fashion, variations of the same tale still surface in both Salford and North London.