Together! 2026 Open Exhibition

Welcome to the Together! 2026 Open Exhibition, taking place annually in July to celebrate Disability Pride Month. Curated by Alison Marchant and the Together! 2012 Team, our annual exhibition brings together work by amateur, community, student, semi-professional and professional Disabled artists of all ages. Anyone with a Newham or Together! 2012 CIC connection – for example, living, studying, working or volunteering in Newham now or in the past, or taking part in Together! 2012 activities – and who identifies as a Deaf or Disabled person* is able to submit one family-friendly work for guaranteed inclusion. *Including people with learning difficulties, people with long-term health conditions including mental health, people with additional mobility needs, visually impaired people, people who are Deaf or hard of hearing, neurodivergent people… Clicking on an image will display it at full size to enable you to ‘get up close’.

Thanks to: Art for Fun, INUF, Together! Art Club and all of the Exhibiting Artists for their support.

We will be celebrating the exhibition on Thursday 16 July from 7-8pm on Zoom. If you would like to join us, email kate@together2012.org.uk for the link.

A photograph of a fine white nightdress hanging from two wooden pegs by its straps against a white wall. The nightdress is blowing in a breeze.

Alison Marchant. From the Petticoat series. Digital film still. 2026.

An energetic drawing of three foxes running past a tree in the foreground and a castle in the background, in dark pencil on white paper.

Celia Wilson. The Foxes Come Running. Pencil on paper. 29.5cm x 24cm 2026.

A drawing of a purple fantasy creature with the body of a mammal and the head and beak of a bird next to a turquoise tree, in pencil and pastels. Many almond shapes in pink blue and white curve around the creature and tree in an optical illusion.

Mohamed. Untitled. Pencil and paint on paper. A3. 2025-26.

Yellow and brown felt tip lines curve and undulate across the page diagonally, with the white paper showing in between the lines.

Marie Powell. The Dunes. Felt pen on paper. 29.5cm x 24cm. 2026.

A loosely sketched three-quarter portrait of a dog with red fur in soft pastels.

Charlotte Lindsay. Rafferty (Jen’s dog). A4. Soft pastels on sugar paper. 2025.

An oil painting of a white flower in a jam jar against a vibrant, deep blue background.

Julia Baines. Flower in Jam Jar. Oil on board. 15cm x 15cm. 2025.

A felt tip drawing of a woman with dark-toned skin and grey hair with a blue streak emerges from waves. Her eyes are closed and she is smiling. She holds a spotting scope and is surrounded by fish, two of which are leaping out of the water. The sun shines down from the left hand top of the image.

Tracy Vidal. Neptune’s Daughter. Mixed media on card and laminated card. 27cm x 30cm. 2026.

An impressionistic watercolour painting of a sea arch hollowed out from rock with deep turquoise waves lapping against it and a deep blue sky.

Rumanah. Untitled. Paint on paper. A3. 2025-26.

A still life pencil and gouache painting in teal green of a teacup, spoon, and small potted plant.

Pippa Marshall. Still Life in Green. Pencil and gouache on paper. A3. 2026.

A bright, impressionistic painting of rolling fields leading to a building. The painting is predominantly green with features of blue yellow brown and purple.

Olu. Untitled. Paint on paper. A3. 2025-26.

A painting of a grid pattern against a colourful background made up of loose squares and rectangles. The colours orange, green, deep blue, yellow, red and white blend into each other.

Sabina. Untitled. Mixed Media. A3. 2025-26.

Two drawings of the same subject in black pen of a ruffled rose with two leaves either side of it. The drawing on the left is looser, and zoomed in so it takes up the whole page, and the perspective of the drawing on the right is from further away and more delicate.

Brian. Untitled. Mixed Media. A3. 2025-26.

A painting of terracotta flowerpots on a blue window ledge which curves upwards to the left. Through the window is a wooded hill.

Leo. Untitled. Mixed Media. A3. 2025-26.

A pencil drawing of two blue hands with red fingernails surrounded by red flowers.

Anne Marie. Untitled. Mixed Media. A3. 2025-26.

A painting of a dark green checkerboard pattern with a red tulip and butterfly painted over the pattern in the bottom left hand corner, with smaller flowers beside them. The painting has torn edges and is placed on top of a larger sheet of white paper with dashed lines guiding to the corners.

June. Untitled. Mixed Media. A3. 2025-26.

A large drawing of a daisy filling most of the page with a painted red background.

Georgina. Untitled. Pencil and paint. A3. 2025-26.

A felt tip drawing of a doll dressed in red tartan clothes inside one of a pair of black shoes resting against a bright blue handbag. The background is grey pencil.

Huma Butt. A Happy Doll. Felt pen on paper. A4. 2026.

A pencil drawing of a pair of pink children’s shoes with a design of flowers and an animal’s face on the toes.

Lee Brooker. Still Life. A3. Coloured pencils. 2026.

A felt tip drawing of black circles and pink squares with a red curved boundary between them.

Shuheb Miah. Picture You. Felt pens on paper. 24cm x 29.5cm. 2026.

A digital collage of a woman with pink and purple butterfly wings and a pale pink dress with a floral pattern around the skirt. The woman has light toned skin and bright red hair. The background is a swirling gradient of turquoise and yellow with a dark vignette.

Alya Al-Amoudi. Ballerina. Digital collage. 2026.

A photograph of a beaded circle of wire with a beaded red white orange and lime green butterfly in the centre. The beaded wire is stuck to a window looking on to a garden.

Tracy Surgeoner. Butterfly in Beads. Beads and wire. 2026.

A collage in felt tip and tissue paper of a bee with a joyful smile and its eyes closed stretching out its wings. The bee is surrounded by colourful flowers and butterflies against green grass with orange tissue paper triangles below and a blue tissue paper sky above.

Eve Smith. Spring. Collage. A4. 2026.

A close-up, detailed photograph of a bumble bee on a purple chive flower.

Julie Newman. Buff-tailed Bumble Bee on Chive Flower. Digital image. 2026.

A felt tip, colourful drawing of flowers with multicoloured petals in pink blues yellow green purple and brown.

Ruby. Untitled. Mixed Media. A3. 2025-26.

A painting incorporating printmaking of four birds above orange flowers and a wavy body of water, with green branches with red flowers or berries hanging down from the top left hand corner.

Rosmina. Untitled. Mixed Media. A3. 2025-26.

A bright drawing in coloured pencil of intersecting geometric shapes with white wavy lines on the left and black wavy lines on the right.

Sumaia Sultana. Like Kandinsky. Drawing and collage. A4. 2026.

A bright drawing in felt tip of interlocking shapes and patterns.

Dawn Barber. Lumination of Colour. Felt pen on paper. 23cm x 41cm. 2026.

A coloured pencil drawing of a rectangle made up of brightly coloured triangles against a half orange, half red background.

Shahid. Untitled. Mixed Media. A3. 2025-26.

Two abstract drawings of flower seeds in marker pen. The purples and pink drawing on the left is a curving close-up, and the blue flower seeds on the right are surrounded by pink wavy lines.

Talya Cowen. Flower Seeds. Marker pens on board. 24cm x 48cm. 2026.

A drawing of striped teardrop shapes in blue yellow brown green and purple. The teardrop shapes lie on top of each other and fill the page.

Untitled. Mixed Media. A3. 2025-26.

A drawing in soft pastel of a blue green orange and yellow rocket in flight, surrounded by red and blue stars.

Jermaine Logan. Star Rocket. Soft pastel. 29.5cm x 24cm. 2026.

A collage and acrylic paint artwork based on the cover of Eric Clapton’s album ‘Layla’. An abstract painting of a woman’s face with bright red lips white skin and blonde hair but no facial features is surrounded with a blue and orange painted arch and overlaid with collaged photographs and words from magazines.

Renée Wallen. Homage to Layla. Collage and acrylic paint on canvas. A2. 2026.

A photo collage featuring David Attenborough’s face with a butterfly over his nose. Surrounding his face are a floral wallpaper-like pattern, animals and objects from the natural world, and surreal artworks.

Debbie. Untitled. Mixed Media. A3. 2025-26.

A collage of coloured paper, illustrations and photographs depicting the natural world through flowers, a colourful bird, and a watermelon.

Untitled. Mixed Media. A3. 2025-26.

A collage in green tissue and coloured paper and orange marbled and textured paper of a face.

Rehana. Untitled. Mixed Media. A3. 2025-26.

A collage of a transformer robot in blue grey brown yellow and red card, cardboard and tissue paper.

Matt Russell. Transformer Deception Soundware. Collage. 29.5cm x 24cm. 2026.

A collage of an abstract face in strips of blue yellow and grey textured card and papers.

Sean. Untitled. Mixed Media. A3. 2025-26.

An abstract paper collage in blue black green red and yellow with orange pink and dark red streamers of paper reaching outside the frame of the page.

Andrew. Untitled. Mixed Media. A3. 2025-26.

A drawing with collage elements of geometric candles in green orange gold and yellow with a potted plant, flower, turtle and snake in place of the candle flames.

Dwain Bryan. Candles in the Palace. Mixed media. 23cm x 41cm. 2026.

A vibrant collage of a yellow face with red features with leaf shaped orange marbled paper hair and green plants and a butterfly on transparent paper laid over the cheeks and chin.

Georgie. Untitled. Mixed Media. A3. 2025-26.

A photograph of a colourful abstract mosaic made from smashed pottery and nestled into grass.

Marcella Rick. Mosaic and Nature. Mosaic installation. 2026.

An artwork of leaves and flowers alongside their natural dyes and prints, in green orange-yellow red and purple.

Untitled. Mixed Media. A3. 2025-26.

Two photographs, the first a close up in saturated colours of a bundle of twigs, burlap sack, soil and plants, and the second a desaturated photograph the lower half of a woman’s body. The woman is holding fabric and standing in front of undergrowth.

Zillah Bosworth-Coleman. Sustainable Self: Performance Documentation. 118″x78″. Photograph on aluminium. 2026.

A self portrait of the artist drawn on the side of a banjo or round guitar. The body of the instrument is intersected with triangles of gold with braille, text and a bear design on them.

Robin Surgeoner. My First Attempt About Me. Original drawing A2 pencil sketch on white – composite image A4 using Pages. 2026

An embroidery on a white doily of the phrase “Hope is a verb” in green and blue thread. The words follow the circular shape of the doily.

Kate Rolison. Hope Is a Verb. Hand embroidery on doily. 21.5cm diameter. 2026.

Exhibiting Artists: Alya Al-Amoudi, Andrew, Anne-Marie, Julia Baines, Dawn Barber, Zillah Bosworth-Coleman, Brian, Dwain Bryan, Lee Brooker, Huma Butt, Talya Cowen, Debbie, Fatima, Georgie, Georgina, June, Leo, Charlotte Lindsay, Jermaine Logan, Alison Marchant, Pippa Marshall, Mohamed, Shuheb Miah, Julie Newman, Olu, Marie Powell, Rehana, Marcella Rick, Kate Rolison, Rosmina, Ruby, Rumanah, Matt Russell, Sabina, Sean, Shahid, Sharifa, Eve Smith, Sumaia Sultana, Robin Surgeoner, Tracy Surgeoner, Tracy Vidal, Renée Wallen, Celia Wilson.

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