Our Gallery

Our gallery is a place for industry and enthusiasts to engage with and learn about contemporary design. A place for supporting independent practitioners and for giving ideas the space to come to life. We achieve this through collaborating with guest curators and exhibitors from a broad range of disciplines, with an approach that centres on experimentation, prototypes and play, while always considering the context of our physical space and our history.

Founded by Zeev Aram in 2002, the gallery that once occupied our third floor was dedicated to new and experimental design across mainly focused on furniture, lighting and industrial design, with forays into jewellery, graphics, fashion, and even bookbinding. Until the pandemic, it presented four to five exhibitions per year, featuring both emerging and established designers, and gained international attention under the guidance of Daniel Charny, Héloïse Parke, and later Riya Patel. After a brief return post-Covid and following Zeev Aram’s passing in 2021, the gallery now continues its legacy in a new home on the lower ground floor at 110 Drury Lane where it remains, as always, a space for curiosity and meaningful engagement with design.

With Limitations by Design Everything

Limitations must be navigated by designers of all levels, but for emerging creatives they feel particularly acute. Accessing workshops and exhibitions. Having the financial resources for materials and equipment and even the time to develop new pieces represents some of the many obstacles that must be overcome to simply ‘design’ in London today.

With Limitations by Design Everything (Friday 11 September – Saturday 10 October 2026) invites you to explore a fictitious emerging designer’s flat, that has been entirely furnished with over 123 pieces, created by 102 different emerging designers. Each piece tells a story of one or more of these limitations. Hopefully enabling you to peek behind the veneer of the design industry - the glossy photographs and Instagram reels - to provide an honest portrayal of life as an emerging designer today.

Throughout the course of the exhibition, the space will be used as if it was a real flat, with the kitchen, living and bedroom areas transformed into spaces for making, reflecting the hybrid live-work arrangement of many emerging practitioners.

As part of With Limitations, Design Everything is organising a series of events that aim to delve deeper into the show’s core theme; what is the reality of being an emerging designer today?

Live Making

Live making sessions will run concurrently with the main week of the London Design Festival.
Saturday 12 September, 10–5pm
George Boyce will be screen printing t-shirts and tote bags on the flat’s dining table, with visitors invited to bring their own items to be printed too!

Monday 14 September, 10–5pm
James Woods will be crafting a stool by modifying the bedroom’s desk and chair into ad-hoc woodworking apparatuses.

Tuesday 15 September, 10–5pm
Abigail Ghent will be continuing her Hands Playground project, which was originally born in lockdown when she had no choice but to make from home, forming a seat from found cardboard.

Wednesday 16 September, 10–5pm
Oliver Linnell will be making hooks and other small household objects out of B&Q’s ‘pick and mix’ section - an aisle where shoppers can pack any selection of hardware into a ziplock bag, all for £5.

Thursday 17 September, 10–5pm
Anna McAllister will transform the kitchen into a wood-compressing chamber, embossing Balsa wood using nothing more than a domestic vegetable steamer and finally Polly Jennings will reimagine slip casting. Democratising the process by making moulds out of cardboard rather than plaster.

Friday 18 September, 10–5pm
Live making, Polly Jennings.

The live making sessions are free to attend on a drop-in basis with no need for RSVP.

Talks

Following the design festival, there will be three talks. Each will see an established designer invited into the exhibition space to give a presentation, not on their biggest career accolades and achievements, but on their own journey as an emerging designer. The limitations they faced, how they overcame them, and the ways in which they think the industry has changed in the time they have been practicing. In a similar way to how a support artist might open for the main act at a music event, each designer has also been invited to select one participant from the show to speak before them. With each talk closing with a Q&A including both designers.

Thursday 24 September, 19:00-20:00 - Martino Gamper with Jake Robertson

Wednesday 30 September, 19:00-20:00 - Kim Colin (one half of Industrial Facility) with David Searcy

Saturday 10 October, 14:00-15:00 - Ella Doran with Olivia Webb

The talks are free and open to all but require an RSVP which you can do here.

Drawing Workshops

On Saturday 3 October, there will be drawing workshops run by Paperweight Club, where up to twenty participants (across two sessions) will be exploring the fictitious flat, capturing it via a series of mark-making and drawing exercises. Each group will be guided by Jaimus Tailor, founder of Paperweight and Greater Goods, and one of the Forbes ‘30 under 30’ within the Arts and Culture sector. These sessions – which have not been released yet – will be pay-what-you-can to cover materials. Follow @aramgalleryldn for updates or contact gallery@aram.co.uk.