Jonathan Armour, Mandeep Dillon, Jamie Gallagher and Kika Sroka-Miller
Great Pulteney Street gallery
Wednesday 9 – Sunday 20 September 2026
Open Monday – Saturday, 12:00 – 18:00, Sunday, 12:00 – 17:00
Artist Talks: Sunday 20 September, 15.00 – 17.00
Things do not exist until they begin to appear.
— Humberto Maturana, biologist, philosopher and creator of the term autopoiesis
Carnal Autopoiesis brings together the work of four contemporary artists whose self-generating processes, methods and practices explore the body as the primary site for a grounding between the material and immaterial. The exhibition probes ways in which images and forms emerge from artistic material and questions how that process of emergence differs when we consider the artist’s body as material.
‘Autopoiesis’, a concept introduced in 1972 describing self-generation in cellular biology, has since become a prominent idea in systems theory, cybernetics and digital culture.
Through painting, sculpture, digital art and writing, the works in this show produce varied visual languages and aesthetics but share a commonality in their consideration of embodiment and artwork. Using autopoiesis as an underpinning, the artists explore themes of sensation, chaos, unpredictability, legibility and meaning.
Private View: Wednesday 9 September, 17.30 – 20.00
Jonathan Armour
Jonathan Armour is a London-based Irish artist whose practice fuses oil painting and digital media to explore the body as a site of transformation, feeding off an underlying urge to make the pixel more visceral. Merging classical influence with transhumanist thought to question what it means to inhabit a body, his work investigates skin as interface, identity as mutable, and the future of human evolution.
An elected member of The London Group, Jonathan has exhibited and given talks extensively in Europe, Australia/New Zealand, Thailand, India, Nepal, China and the USA, including: Vigeland Museum, Oslo; Goldsmiths University of London; Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand; Kings College London; Arco Madrid; Guildhall Gallery (City of London); Portland State University, USA; Ars Electronica, Austria; Chiang Mai University, Thailand; and Siddhartha Gallery, Kathmandu, and NY20+ Chengdu, China.
Website: thearmourstudio.com
Instagram: @the.armour.studio
Mandeep Dillon
Mandeep Dillon works across sculpture, moving image and photography to examine the transient physicality of human and more-than-human beings. Conscious of the paradox of making sculpture in a saturated material world, she treats temporality as central to her practice.
Working with air, latex, gravity and subtle shifts in opacity, she constructs inflatable forms that inhabit the threshold between object and being. Her work seeks the moment when inert material becomes a presence. Resisting stability, each sculpture remains in a state of flux, responding to subtle environmental changes as its swollen buoyancy hints at imminent collapse.
Dillon was shortlisted for the Ingram Prize, received the Madame Tussauds Fine Art Award, and is a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors. She graduated from the Royal College of Art with Distinction and previously worked as a creative director and documentary producer.
Website: www.mandeeepdillon.co.uk
Instagram: @inbuilt_obsolescence
Jamie Gallagher
Jamie Gallagher is a contemporary British painter whose practice is driven by process rather than predetermined outcomes. Each painting develops through a continual cycle of response, with every mark altering the conditions for the next. The work is neither planned nor improvised, but negotiated, allowing images to emerge through making rather than illustration.
Working between figuration and abstraction, Jamie is interested in paintings that feel discovered rather than designed. Faces, bodies and fragments of memory surface, dissolve and reform, while the physical history of the painting remains visible through layers, revisions and texture.
Alongside traditional painting, Jamie incorporates AI into his studio practice as another creative material. Rather than producing finished works, it serves to interrupt habit, challenge intuition and create unexpected starting points before the work returns to paint. Across both analogue and digital processes, the focus remains the same: using making as a way of thinking.
Website: jamiegallagher.co.uk
Instagram: @typ01134
Kika Sroka-Miller
Kika Sroka-Miller is a Polish-British artist working in London. They paint notionally abstract, disordered oil paintings in which amorphous forms, loose marks and a cacophony of reference and symbol sit alongside areas of exposed canvas. Their paintings move between chaos and emptiness, fragments of recognisable shapes and signs (dis)appear within a semiotic soup of productive uncertainty.
Sroka-Miller’s work grapples with themes of chaos and categorisation. Crucially they are absorbed by the impulse to legibility, and by the role dualisms and binaries play in sense and meaning making.
Sroka-Miller’s studio work sits within a broader transdisciplinary practice spanning visual art, writing and publishing. Sroka-Miller is Director of Awaiting Press, which represents the literary estate of Assata Shakur, founded the artist-run network Blue Parlour, and is The Voice in Susanne Regina Meures’ feature film Eternity, featuring Florentina Holzinger (2026). Sroka-Miller’s practice is informed by fifteen years in social science publishing, including as Director of Zed Books, an MA in Gender and Sexuality from Birkbeck, studies at Chelsea and Camberwell Colleges of Art and at Turps Painting School (2023-26).
Website: www.ikasrokamiller.comk
Instagram: @kikasrokamiller
Great Pulteney Street gallery
GPS Gallery is a 90 sqm gallery situated on the ground and lower ground floors of 36 Great Pulteney Street, in the heart of London’s buzzy and fashionable Soho district. The building is owned by Soho Housing Association and is a Grade II listed property in a row of beautiful Georgian terraces.
