Release A Stanley Picker Gallery Late and Final Day Drop In

Release opens the gallery after hours for an evening of live sound performances, collaborations and resonant experiments celebrating Attack Decay Sustain Release. The following day marks the final day of the exhibition with a daytime programme of activities and events with our community.

Friday 5-8pm / FREE Drinks / All Welcome.

Saturday 12-4 / Family Drop In / All Welcome.

A weekend to celebrate the closing of Attack Decay Sustain Release Release opens up the gallery after hours in celebration for an evening of live sound performances, collaborations and resonant experiments. Join us for the culmination of ten weeks of sound based residencies as we share all the frequencies the space has absorbed, held and amplified.

On Friday we will have a chance to hear from the sound artists in the exhibition as the artists are joined by curator Andrea Zarza Canova to discuss their works. Following this we will hear a sonic correspondence produced by Rebecca Kressley in response to Nnena Kalu’s working practice as part of Super Trouper. We will listen to Abbas Zahedi’s experiments with art making in collaboration with students from Kingston School of Art and experience Sophie Huckfield as Lady Ludd with her newly formed group Alternative Uses who are students from the foundation programme at Kingston School of Art.

We are serving drinks all night and will end with a boogie to the disco and pop soundtrack that fuels the Turner Prize winning artist Nnena Kalu’s sculptural works.

Schedule
5.00pm – Panel discussion between Andrea Zarza Canova, sound curator and archivist and artists in the programme Rebecca Kressley, Sophie Huckfield, Abbas Zahedi.
6.00pm – Rebecca Kressley, sound composition as part of Super Trouper
6.30pm – Abbas Zahedi performs with Kingston School of Art’s BA & MA Fine Art students (Carina Desouza, Jules Shipton, Holly Somerville, Lukas Wigart & Callum Vega) & BA Music Technology Francesca Williams
7.00pm – Sophie Huckfield performs as Lady Ludd and Alternative Uses Kingston School of Art Foundation Students (Amelia Smith, Chaewon Kim, Felix Nielsen, Immy Carlier, Jasmine Tilney, Ruby Sims & Zoe Popova)
7.30pm – close– Nnena Kalu’s studio playlist: Stay for a boogie to the soundtrack that Nnena Kalu plays while making her sculptures.

Come for free drinks, performances and sounds that shape the exhibition.

Attack Decay Sustain Release Final Day Drop-In Programme
Sat 28 March 12-4pm / No Booking Required / FREE All Welcome.

Join us on the final day of Attack Decay Sustain Release for a programme of exciting events with our collaborators and activities for all the family.

Biography

ActionSpace supports young people and adults with learning disabilities across London, providing access to creative studios, professional guidance, and the support they need to grow as artists. They ensure learning disabled artists are seen and heard and fully included at the heart of the visual arts world.

Andrea Zarza Canova is a curator, archivist, and AHRC-funded PhD researcher based in London. Her work engages with historical sound recordings through exhibitions, text and audio publications, and radio, connecting sound archives with political, social, and cultural histories. Andrea has delivered talks, listening sessions, and curated exhibitions internationally including with NTS Radio, CentroCentro, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Southbank Centre, Somerset House, nGbK, TBA21, Sandberg Institute and Pirelli HangarBicocca. She currently works as a curator at the British Library Sound Archive and runs the record label traza.

Sophie Huckfield is a Stanley Picker Fellow at Kingston University. Their collaborative, political, and interdisciplinary practice draws on intersectional feminist and queer approaches, working with communities and archives to expand upon working-class histories. They also perform and DJ as Lady Ludd. For ADSR, they are working with Art & Design Foundation students at Kingston School of Art, to create Socially Useful Sonics and Instruments for a collaborative performance which incorporates archival sounds from the Broadside Mobile Workers’ Theatre and The Lucas Plan.

Nnena Kalu lives and works in London, UK. Winner of the Turner Prize 2025, Kalu’s practice is rooted in two-dimensional works, sculptures and installations. Through binding, layering and wrapping materials, Kalu explores space, scale and materiality with repetitive and durational sculptural processes. Kalu is a Resident Artist at ActionSpace and represented by Arcadia Missa.

Rebecca Kressley is an artist based in Amsterdam. Her work ranges in medium with sound as a continuum throughout. To some extent, she makes art as a response to a driving curiosity about relations between excess, intractability, sexuality and creativity. Her practice is frequently collaborative. She is currently a PhD Candidate in Philosophy of Art at Universität Mozarteum.

Lisa Slominski lives and works in London. She is a writer-curator and PhD candidate at Kingston School of Art, where her research examines how agency, identity, and representation operate in existing artworld strategies. Slominski is Senior Art Producer at Contemporary Art Society, co-founder of Art et al., and author of Nonconformers: A New History of Self-Taught Artists (Yale University Press, 2022). Her recent writing includes ‘Curating Difference’ in Art Monthly (November 2025).

Super Trouper is an evolving project organised by curator-researcher Lisa Slominski and supported by ActionSpace that centres on the artistic practices of Nnena Kalu and Rebecca Kressley. Super Trouper will continue to unfold across Attack Decay Sustain Release, wherein Kalu and Kressley work in proximity: Kalu will build new temporal sculptural works, and Kressley will generate sonic responses that consider the rhythmic and aural qualities of Kalu’s making.

Abbas Zahedi is currently a Stanley Picker Fellow and PhD Candidate at Kingston University. His major installation Begin Again (2025) is currently being presented as part of Gathering Ground at Tate Modern. For ADSR, Abbas will be working with a cohort of students from the School of Fine Art to explore the ongoing role of sound within his expanded studio practice. This includes a focus on collective listening, grief aesthetics, ambient structures, and the theoretical framework of dissociative realism – through which sound is treated as a conduit for infrastructural agency and affective detachment. Alongside this, Abbas will be collaborating with composer Thomas Boulousis, whose background in classical composition and language-based forms will intersect with the programme through a parallel line of inquiry.