Chromatic Hands

Artists

Anderson Borba
b. 1972, Santos, Brazil | Lives and works in London, UK and São Paulo, Brazil
Borba works with hand-carved wood and collage. His forms are built from everyday images. Colour is applied, abraded, and reworked through magazine cut-outs, forming patterns that emerge from within. His repetitive approach honours ritual over inspiration.
Featured image “Medallion” (2025).

Gabriele Beveridge
b. 1985, Hong Kong | Lives and works in London, UK
Beveridge’s hand-blown glass and synthetic hair treat colour as a force rather than a symbol. Soft pastels, iridescent tones, and translucent layers evoke membranes and skins, exploring boundaries between organic and synthetic.

Holly Hendry
b. 1990, London, UK | Lives and works in London, UK
Hendry creates sculptural vignettes that make visible what is usually hidden. The work here, made during a residency at Casa Wabi, Mexico, uses natural earth colours. Clay behaves like fabric or leather—stitched and nailed—while a nose emerges, sniffing the air from the ground.

Christina Mackie
b. 1956, Oxford, UK | Lives and works in London, UK
Mackie treats colour as dynamic. Her Token works combine clay and earth-based glazes with synthetic materials that wrap, tie, and suspend the forms. Muted and intense colours suggest value, exchange, and material fragility.

Candida Powell-Williams
b. 1984, London, UK | Lives and works in London, UK
Powell-Williams uses colour to challenge expectation. Her objects draw on ritual, mysticism, and transformation, shaped by the carnivalesque and grotesque. Bold, clashing palettes push at ideas of taste, gender, and class.

LR Vandy
b. 1958, Coventry, UK | Lives and works in London, UK
Vandy focuses on constructed public objects. Using salvaged materials, she employs saturated colour to reference maritime histories and Black diasporic experience. Her work combines memory, loss, and hope.

About

Xxijra Hii is an independent London gallery supporting emerging and re-emerging artists who challenge mainstream approaches. It presents an annual programme of exhibitions and events and participates in fairs and international collaborations.

Collaboration

Pangaea Sculptors’ Centre was founded by artist Lucy Tomlins in 2013 and is an artist-led non-profit CIC that supports the making and advancement of sculpture in the UK and internationally. Based in Coventry, London and Warwickshire, Pangaea’s three pillars are Fabricate, Educate and Advocate. Elizabeth Neilson is a curator based in London, she has been a supporter of Pangaea Sculptors’ Centre since its inception and on the board of Directors since 2018. She is also Director of the Zabludowicz Collection. Candida Powell-Williams is an artist working in sculpture, performance and installation.

Xxijra Hii is an independent gallery based in London who advocate for emerging and re-emerging artists countering the mainstream and support outlier modes of thinking, practice and collaboration. The gallery commits to an annual programme of exhibitions and events at our London space whilst participating in fairs and collaborations internationally. ‍

Chromatic Hands events, in colour and in conversation:
• Holly Hendry and Candida Powell-Williams, 7 February 4.30–6 pm
• Candida Powell-Williams and Elizabeth Neilson, 21 February 4.30–6 pm
Join the curators and artists for informal conversations about the exhibition and approaches to colour in sculpture.
Free, no booking required.

Acknowledgements

With thanks to the artists and their galleries: The Approach, Herald Street, October Gallery, Seventeen, and Stephen Friedman Gallery.