We’re holding a special private view to celebrate the three finalists of our Spirit of London open call in partnership with UNIQLO. See the winning works on display in the Regent Street store and enjoy an unmissable line-up of art workshops, music, drink and more!
Postcards of London
Drop-in to this design-your-own postcard workshop led by the three finalists of ‘The Spirit of London’ open call. Get creative with different mediums and create your own postcards inspired by parts of London that feel most significant to you!
Find this workshop on the first floor.
Mending London
Join Embellished Talk for a patchwork embroidery workshop in UNIQLO's repair studio. Find new ways of repurposing and repairing clothing using old jewellery, beads and sequins to create your own patches and new creations with craft embellishments.
You are encouraged to bring your own items of clothing, preferably without stretch. Templates, embroidery threads, sequins and patches will be provided. All levels welcome.
Find this workshop in the Repair Studio, basement floor.
Capturing the Spirit of London
Artist Joey Yu will be live drawing portraits to capture the spirit of London through its people. The portraits will be hung in loops as an installation in the store.
Find this workshop on the ground floor.
DJ Music Set
Join Keke for a DJ set capturing the spirit of London, at the store entrance.
There will be free soft drinks available at the drinks bar, also at the front of the store.
Rebeckah’s an embroidery designer from London. She studied fashion textiles at the London College of Fashion and graduated with a degree in 2007. After graduating, she taught herself how to hand embroider. In 2015 she set up her business Embellished Talk where she runs workshops and teaches people how to embroider. As well as this she has put on craft events for Nike, Ganni, Anthroplogie and many other exciting brands. She absolutely loves embroidery and is constantly working to perfect the art.
Joey Yu is a London based illustrator/artist. Having graduated from Kingston School of Art in 2017, she has gone on to work with clients such as Rimowa, Debeers, The Guardian, Lulu Guinness, Bombay Sapphire and more. Previous artist residency locations include Seoul, Korea and Bahia, Brazil. Her work explores people, the places they inhabit, and even the act of drawing itself; the way an artist interacts with the subject for a particular moment in time. With her expressive mixture of both immediate hand drawn styles and digital sketches, she hopes to continue daydreaming, playing with perspectives and warping the ways we view things.
Rosie Haynes is a neurodivergent multi-media artist working in digital collage and hand-embroidery. Her work explores the tension between femininity as a visual form of expression and its problematic nature, and collage as a way of deconstructing existing visual languages. Graduating from Central Saint Martins in 2020; Haynes is now based in the West Midlands, where her work has been recently exhibited, as well as in London.
Flatboy works across mediums, their style is bold, focusing on people rather than the things around them. Their work reflects the huge diversity of the trans community. Seren Thomas created Flatboy at the beginning of the pandemic as a way to manage their own gender dysphoria and poor mental health at a time of isolation from their queer and trans community. Drawing trans bodies and souls in joyful, peaceful and positive states helped them feel closer to the trans and non-binary people they missed so much.
Yolande Mutale is an Illustrator, printmaker and artist based in London who studied Graphic Communication. Yolande's work often explores a narrative, using her cross-cultural experiences as material and combining bold colours and humorous drawings to communicate a message. Yolande often uses hand quilting and printmaking techniques to project messages from celebration to discontent.
Keke is a proud British-Jamaican and granddaughter of the Windrush generation embodying the heart and soul of black youth music culture in London. As a DJ, Producer, Presenter and Music Supervisor, she's produced numerous broadcasts, radio shows, live events, festival sets, podcasts and now presents her very own show for BBC Sounds. Keke's also worked on the music in the latest series of Netflix’s hit British Drama series, Top Boy. She's DJ’d at events for brands like Bumble, Sneakersnstuff and Adidas, plus worked with A-list talent ranging from Kendrick Lamar, Common to Megan Thee Stallion, Ghetts, Ray BLK and more.