Exile in Beckton (1985) © The Grey Organisation. Image Courtesy A/POLITICAL.
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Cities have long provided fertile ground for collectives, but how has London acted as a catalyst for their work? Join us for a panel discussion bringing together three influential collectives working at the intersection of art and fashion, featuring founding members of the Grey Organisation, !WOWOW! and Muslim Sisterhood.
Continuing ICA's ongoing programming on the importance of collective work, this conversation will explore how collective ways of working emerge in response to specific urban conditions. How do artists continue to gather in physical spaces? Against the backdrop of the city, style, performance and self-representation become powerful tools for visibility, community-building and claiming cultural space.
Panellists from all three collectives, including Toby Mott of the Grey Organisation, Lamisa Khan of Muslim Sisterhood and Matthew Stone of !WOWOW! will present short films, followed by a discussion chaired by the event’s curator, Nina Manandhar.
The evening is a collaboration between the Institute of Contemporary Arts and Central Saint Martins, with support from CSM M School Fund.
Continuing ICA's ongoing programming on the importance of collective work, this conversation will explore how collective ways of working emerge in response to specific urban conditions. How do artists continue to gather in physical spaces? Against the backdrop of the city, style, performance and self-representation become powerful tools for visibility, community-building and claiming cultural space.
Panellists from all three collectives, including Toby Mott of the Grey Organisation, Lamisa Khan of Muslim Sisterhood and Matthew Stone of !WOWOW! will present short films, followed by a discussion chaired by the event’s curator, Nina Manandhar.
The evening is a collaboration between the Institute of Contemporary Arts and Central Saint Martins, with support from CSM M School Fund.
Bios
Toby Mott (b. London, 1964) is an artist and publisher best known as a co-founder of the Grey Organisation, an early 1980s East London collective that used provocation and direct action to confront the art world status quo. Their interventions, including the Cork Street action, challenged accepted ideas of authorship, value, and control. Mott’s subsequent work spans publishing and archiving; he is the founder of Cultural Traffic and the custodian of The Mott Collection, an archive documenting British subculture from punk through rave. The Grey Organisation Archive is part of the A/POLITICAL collection.
Matthew Stone is a painter based in the Wye Valley, UK. As a founding member of !WOWOW!, the mid-2000s South London art collective known for exhibitions and parties in squatted buildings, Stone developed a collective logic that continues in their hybrid paintings of entangled digital bodies. Through a neuroqueer, constellatory approach, Stone combines oil paint with CGI, AI, 3D scanning and machine-assisted processes to explore shifting perception, critical tech-literacy, creative autonomy and new forms of embodiment. Stone has exhibited internationally across galleries and institutions including Tate Britain, the ICA, the Royal Academy, Somerset House, The Hole, Unit London and Gallery COMMON, Tokyo. Stone also created the artwork for FKA twigs’ album MAGDALENE.
Lamisa Khan is the co-founder of Muslim Sisterhood, an online and IRL creative community for Muslim women. She has collaborated with organisations including Nike and the V&A, and her work has been featured in Vogue, Dazed and The Face. Working across research, casting, event production and consultancy, Lamisa’s practice is rooted in bringing marginalised voices to the forefront and helping shape a more equitable and accessible creative industry. Alongside Muslim Sisterhood, she works at international humanitarian organisation Islamic Relief UK, where she proudly occupies the role of “personality hire.”
Nina Manandhar is a London based artist and curator working with photography, archives and participation. In her research led practice, Nina explores the relationship between place, style and identity. She is the author of What We Wore – A People’s History of British Style; a photographic documentary of street and subculture viewed through the lens of the people living it. She has presented projects at The Photographers’ Gallery, Wellcome Collection, RIBA, Tate and London Museum. She is Stage Two Lead on the Fashion Communication BA at Central Saint Martins.
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Wed, 17 Jun 2026
Nash and Brandon Rooms
06:30 pm
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Muslim Sisterhood by Sara Gulamali
Beckton Gasworks, 1984 © The Grey Organisation. Image Courtesy, A/POLITICAL
!WOWWOW! by Julia Keller
