📍 They Made This, Mare Street Market Kings Cross (Coal Drops Yard), 2 Lewis Cubitt Square, London N1C 4DY

📅 30 October - 16 November 2025

 🎨 Workshop Saturday 1 November with The Private Press

'And my mother said to me, enjoy your life’ comprises Annie Frost Nicholson’s latest body of work. Large-scale paintings with hand-stitched narratives create a cocoon of memory within an analogue world that no longer exists.

The pieces articulate nostalgic objects and their relationship to one another with a powerful use of colour and form to construct dreamlike worlds that are pierced, undone and remade through text and narrative. Balancing a yearning for the past with the sly, rueful acceptance that we can never go back, the paintings ask us what we can learn, what we must jettison, and what we may hold onto.

Text: Lara Haworth

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There will be a workshops on Saturday 1st November with The Private Press and Annie Frost Nicholson exploring memory through screen printing and drawing/mixed media.

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Workshop details: Join The Private Press x Annie Frost Nicholson for a workshop exploring memory. You are invited to reflect upon the things we take with us in life(both metaphorically and physically) and those which we leave behind, through screen printing, collage and drawing. Immerse yourselves in an analogue world of mixtapes and landlines as we invite you to think about our connection to objects and all the feelings we associate with them.What meaning do these precious objects hold in your life that amounts to so much more than the object itself? Why do we instil such meaning in inanimate objects? Which stories do they conjure up and what are the journeys they take us on? Join us as we explore these aspects of memory together and take away your own unique prints.

Annie Frost Nicholson is a London-based interdisciplinary artist whose work examines some of the most uncomfortable and tragicomic aspects of the human condition. The Fandangoe Discoteca is a touring mini club which invites the public to dance out their grief, from climate rage to Brexit fury to bereavement, all intersections of loss are welcome. This piece was commissioned by Southbank Centre in July and August.Annie’s painting practice has been shortlisted by John Moore’s Painting Prize 2025 and Delphian Gallery as one of the winners of their Open Call 2024 and she lectures part time in experiential design at ChelseaUAL. She has an installation called the A Piece of Silk at RMIT in Melbourne opening in July, exploring the space between life and death.

Annie’s public realm work intersects with her painting practice, which has evolved into large scale wallhangings with textile narratives, reflecting upon memory, the human condition, the stories we tell one another and how our cultural and anthropological experiences of the world coexist. Annie responds carefully to time and space, working with community groups across London, the UK and internationally for many years to develop workshop programmes in advance of her installations. Her practice seeks to ensure that collective voices are carefully heard ahead of installation in public spaces such as hospitals, parks, canteens alongside her touring pieces at Tate, Design Museum, Southbank Centre and RMITMelbourne.

Frost Nicholson has carefully developed her practice over the past twelve years, most recently working in the public realm to create aesthetically powerful touring installations. The Fandangoe Discoteca, (London,Milton Keynes and Berlin 2023), complete with a series of Grief Raves, was made in collaboration withThe Loss Project and K67 Berlin, The Fandangoe Whip, an ice cream van for post-pandemic grief and mental health (Latitude, Design Museum, Tate 2021), and The Fandangoe Skip, a kiosk for mental health(London and New York 2022), received footfalls of over 200,000 and international acclaim, culminating in a BBC World Service documentary about her practice.

Her work has recently been on show at Young V & A, as part of a commission for the Yokai exhibition, atCharleston Trust as part of Supergraphics Newhaven, and permanent pieces are The Hope Exchange in London Bridge (LDF 2022) and Creativity Will Save Our Souls at London College of Communication (UAL,120th Anniversary).

The Juicy Booth, a micro booth where you can come and release your shame and shed your guilt opened in Coal Drops Yard in September 2024 for London Design Festival, featured in Wallpaper*, The Times andThe Financial Times' pick of LDF. The Juicy Booth then moved to Potsdamer Platz, Berlin from December2024 - Spring 2025.

Annie’s next painting shows are at They Made This, (London) opening on October 30th and Wilton WayGallery (London) in March 2026. Her work is shown at Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool as part of JohnMoore’s Painting Prize until March 2026.