Tate Collective invited six young and emerging artists to create a series of outdoor murals in response to Frida Kahlo: The Making of an Icon. Located in and around Tate Modern and the Bankside area, the murals bring art beyond the gallery walls, inviting passers-by to connect with creativity, community and the world around them.
This iteration of Beyond Boundaries is inspired by Frida Kahlo’s enduring global influence as an artist who challenged convention, redefined self-expression and carved out her own space as an artist. Each mural carriers her spirit forward through the voices and perspectives of a new generation.
Building on the success of Beyond Boundaries in 2021, this project has been made possible through close collaboration with Tate Collective Producers.
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Murals produced by the artist team Absolutely Studio.
Tate Collective is supported by The Rothschild Foundation, and Tate Patrons.
Amy Almeida
Paisajes Mexicanos, 2026
25 Sumner Street, London SE1 9JA
Eddie Donaldson
Dining Table, 2026
28 Great Suffolk Street, London SE1 0UE
Milena De Rosa
Tea Break (Expanded), 2026
55 Ewer Street, London SE1 0NR
Helena Samarasinghe
Rooted in Play, 2026
30 Great Guildford Street, London SE1 0HS
Gloria Da Silva
Long Live London, 2026
28 Southwark Street, London SE1 1TU
Sharloola
Here and Now, 2026
5 Green Dragon Court, London SE1 9AW
Amy Almeida
Paisajes Mexicanos, 2026
Amy Almeida is a 25-year-old artist from Malawi currently practicing in Lisbon. As the daughter of an English mother and Portuguese father, she proudly claims all three cultures, allowing them to shape her multidisciplinary practice. While Almeida developed her painting aesthetic at Falmouth University, her primary influences remain rooted in her Malawian home.
She credits the traditional *Chitenje* fabric as a foundational influence, utilising its vibrant colours and patterns to represent the specific origins and histories embedded in visual language. By mixing these cultural symbols, Almeida boldly explores the "mingling" of the identities that define her.
Eddie Donaldson
Dining Table, 2026
Eddie Donaldson's work looks at the instability of identity, of memory and of the body itself. Her work operates within an uncertain territory, using distortion and fragmentation to explore what it means to exist in states of emotional and psychological in-betweenness. Working intuitively and quickly, Donaldson allows paintings to unfold through instinct rather than rigid structure, producing works that feel immediate and unresolved.
Her non-naturalistic figures move between the recognisable and the unfamiliar; resisting clear individuality. There is a quiet tension throughout her work with a sense that the paintings are representing different emotional states, without trying to resolve them. Rather than focussing on realism, Donaldson’s paintings ask viewers to bring their own memories and emotional responses into the work.
Milena De Rosa
Tea Break (Expanded), 2026
Milena De Rosa’s paintings explore the gaze and the everyday lives of women. Her paintings consider how looking in art is not neutral but is framed as an exchange between subject, viewer, and artist. Her work is influenced by cinema working from staged and carefully composed images of herself and those close to her.
De Rosa’s paintings depict moments of intimacy, tension, and observation within familiar settings, such as the home or garden. Through cropped compositions, saturated colour and contrasts of light and shadow, her paintings alter perceptions and create new atmospheres. Using diluted oil paint, De Rosa builds and wipes back layers to reveal the white surface beneath, allowing figures to emerge and dissolve through shifting passages of light, colour, and form.
Helena Samarsinghe
Rooted in Play, 2026
Helena Samarasinghe is a British South Asian artist working across drawing, collage, and installation. Her practice uses sport as a framework to explore power, belonging, and connection. Through large-scale drawings, she examines the physical and emotional relationships between bodies in motion, thinking about sport as a way of reaching towards one another through shared rhythm, timing, and responsiveness.
Influenced by the bold contours of Kalighat painting, Samarasinghe combines scale, exaggerated musculature, and vibrant colour to create figures that feel emotionally charged. Drawing from contemporary sport, mythology, and personal experience, her work centres brown female bodies as sites of resistance and agency.
Gloria Da Silva
Long Live London, 2026
Gloria Da Silva is a figurative painter based in London. Her work draws from her dual background in Art & Psychology, using painting to explore identity, community, and self-expression.
A recurring theme in her art asks, “What is rest and who can do so?” Her paintings often depict communal scenes revolving around the intimate act of doing hair. These moments highlight the cultural significance of hair as a source of identity, love, and community. Inspired by Angolan poetry and her lived experience, Gloria weaves reflections, mirrors, and gaze into her art. Some figures boldly meet the audience’s gaze, while others immerse themselves in quiet moments of rest and adornment.
sharloola
Here and Now, 2026
sharloola (Shar Oola) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work focuses on Black identity. As a first-generation Ugandan woman, she’s interested in celebrating the people of her community who she didn’t see represented growing up.
Her work explores her own experiences as Black woman with intersecting identities who was raised in London. sharloola’s work tends to include bold abstract portraits designed to be unrestricted by white supremacist ideals. She uses exaggerated, asymmetrical faces to serve as an ode to Black expression, which forms the prominent style of sharloola’s work across various mediums.
