Dialogue in the Making: Exhibition by Thomas Tallis School Art Department

In a profession that often separates artist from teacher, or studio from school, Dialogue in the Making offers an alternative perspective: that making and teaching, memory and imagination can inform one another. Bringing together the practices of ten art teachers and the technicians integral to the school community, the exhibition invites reflection on the possibilities of creative dialogue.
What happens to creative practice when it unfolds in the margins of daily life - between lessons, in sketchbooks, in moments carved out from the pressures of teaching life?
From the spiritual gatherings documented by Jannell Adufo, to Louisa Barry’s photographs of places shaped by time, to fictional landscapes constructed in the sculptural worlds of Lily Pym. For Kerry Gibson, scale slips into abstraction through layered paper studies, while Tamsin Wildy’s fragile structures reveal the unpredictable behaviours of plaster, found objects and light. Some return to unfinished ideas, such as Luke Roszkowski’s early moving-image work, whilst others shape their practice around the demands of care, labour and the pressures of time.
This show continues the momentum of the acclaimed exhibition at Autograph, exploring how vulnerability, identity and creative practice intersect in the work of an artist-teacher at Thomas Tallis School. Here, Dialogue in the Making embeds that idea across the whole Art Department, providing space and freedom to see how creative practices can evolve and be challenged beyond the classroom.

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Jannell Adufo, Louisa Barry, Nehan Ciftci, Isabelle de Tscharner Vischer, Kerry Gibson, Dianne Minnicucci, Jon Nicholls, Lily Pym, Luke Roszkowski and Tamsin Wildy.

Planning a visit? Have a look at the Thomas Tallis Visit Us page to find out more about getting to the school.

Limited tickets: We recomend booking in advance.

Step free: The building and entrance is step free. A wheelchair accessible lift goes to all floors. There is free parking in the school car park.

Location: The exhibition takes place in the gallery at Thomas Tallis School

How to find the gallery: Report to the school reception and they will direct you.

The is a three-year project to support and expand the personal practice of art and photography teachers from global majority backgrounds, elevating the teacher as artist and artist as teacher.

Supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

Dialogue in the Making is suppported by Freelands Foundation and Arts Council England.

The Visibile Practice Residency is in partnership with Thomas Tallis School and The Photographers' Gallery.

Autograph ABP Registered in England | VAT no. 244105051 | Registered Charity no. 1127712

Images: 1) Jannell Adufo, from the series The ground on which you stand is holy ground, 2025. © and courtesy the artist.

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