Well Well Well... Opening night

Well Well Well…

In late 2019 Leyden Gallery left its white-walled gallery premises of six years on Leyden Street in Aldgate in order to create a new and nomadic approach to their gallery business structure.  Looking to continue collaborating with artists and seeking to develop a deeper connection to people and businesses around the City of London and beyond they made their prescient move just as Covid appeared on the horizon. 

A year later in 2020 their first live project ‘Ghost Spaces’ was held in the empty offices Creechurch in the City of London. Here, in this site where workers had once been, art took up occupancy to mark the presence of absence and a new order of spatial interaction with art.

In this current collaboration with Aldgate House, Leyden Gallery presents, in another vacated space, a group exhibition of 12 artists, all of whom explore the theme of Wellness in unique ways. 

Wellness is a theme which has been of immense importance over the last 18 months, with unprecedented circumstances taking many of us away from family, leaving others with financial difficulties and taking a toll on our wellbeing in a variety of different ways. During these challenging times, many individuals have turned their minds to wellness in all its forms by taking an introspective look and returning to normality with a new sense of self, health, and personal awareness. Well Well Well… encompasses a range of artists, some who have had wellness at the heart of their practice for a long time, others who have used art during covid and lockdown as a cathartic practice, and others who look to a more scientific approach. Several of the artists have wellbeing related careers alongside