COLLISIO pairs work from the practices of artists Amy Douglas and Lou Winwood in a disruptive sensory bombardment encompassing painting, collage, drawing and ceramics.
Douglas and Winwood met as teenagers when dating two brothers and have remained friends for over three decades. Amy is an established ceramic artist, print maker and painter based in Brighton, while Lou had a successful career in the fashion industry before pursuing her long-standing love for making art from her studio in Hertfordshire.
Their interrelated approach offers shared themes of memory, family, nostalgia and pets funnelled into a kind of gimcrack dystopia, where materials ranging from clobbered china to paint, cut-up discarded books, discontinued wallpaper and textile scraps vie for the eye.
While working discretely, each draws on concepts of interference and disorder, deliberately probing accepted boundaries, perception, protocol and comprehension to provoke a reassessing of meaning.
COLLISO marks their first time exhibiting together. Curated by Anne Mullee.
COLLISIO, 11th- 14th June 2026 Studio Two Point
How to Get There / Entrances:
Studio Two Point is in the Perseverance Works complex with entrances on Hackney Road, Kingsland Road and Waterson Street. Please use the entrance indicated depending on the day of your visit. Check below for the correct gate information and a map.
Call Lou on 07971 194 261 or Georgia on 07852 560 551 for directions if needed.
Private View – Thurs 11th June 6-9pm Use the entrance at 38 Kingsland Road, E2 8DA (Next to Dream Bags Jaguar Shoes)
Thursday 11th & Fri 12th June: Use the main entrance on Hackney Road 25-27 Hackney Rd, E2 7NX 11am – 6pm
Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June: Use the Waterson Street Entrance (off Hackney Rd) 14 Waterson Street, E2 8HH. What3Words: sober.ship.became 11am – 6pm
About the artists
Born in Hammersmith, Amy Douglas grew up in a theatrical family. She studied Decorative arts at City & Guilds of London Art School under Flavia de Grey RA, learning the applied arts of gesso work, gilding and specialist painting techniques. She has an MA in Printmaking from Camberwell College of Arts.
Working in ceramic conservation led to her project The Art of Salmagundi, where she drew on her refined restoration skills to deliberately ‘misrepair’ Staffordshire ceramics to create unique artworks. Her work bridges the realms of craft and fine art, presenting a fragmented visual diary of the people in her life, situations, the things people say, observations and ruminations she experiences in the everyday. Each piece hints at a narrative, often with a dark sense of humour.
“I like to go with the serendipity that life can bring, especially if you listen to your gut. Random elements can be connected but confusing, as to whether they mean anything at all, who knows? But a “gut feeling, is like hidden data; it is often your brain processing environmental cues and past experiences that your conscious mind hasn’t registered yet. As pattern-seeking humans, we like to connect random events, interactions and images, especially in our disconnected and image-heavy world. It’s a positive way of having a personal narrative that can anchor us in the storm of our tech bro world of the 21st-century meltdown. “
Her work is held in numerous private collections and has been exhibited nationally and internationally at Lulu Guinness, Paul Smith, Collect and Jack Hanley Gallery (New York City). She is a member of The Royal Society of Sculptors. www.amydouglasart.co.uk
Lou Winwood is an emerging visual artist working in mixed media. Following an extensive career as a fashion editor, stylist and designer, she completed a BA in Fine Art Mixed Media (First Class Hons.) at the University of Westminster in 2023. Based in Hertfordshire, Lou’s work draws from what she terms “corrupt nostalgia”. Often using discarded materials and working from old photographs and printed ephemera, Lou creates portraits and collages saturated with colour and pattern.
Lou has fostered a unique aesthetic used to combine dislocated images, textures and materials. Decades are jumbled up in paintings, drawings or imagery cut directly from books, dated ornaments and photographs archived over a lifetime of scouring jumble sales, car boots, charity shops and people’s attics. Altered diagrams, decaying foliage, distorted facial expressions and pets combine to create work that is simultaneously playful and unsettling.
She explains, “There’s a phenomenon called apophenia, a tendency for the brain to seek meaningful connections between random, unrelated information even when none exists. I like the unease created in the brain when things don’t add up, when your brain tries to work out what’s going on but it can’t because narrative in the work is deliberately distorted, the images out of context and the composition slightly off-kilter or floating in the canvas.” Winwood’s work is held in private collections. www.louwinwood.co.uk
