“Woven Voices — Her Story in Art” marks 3812 Gallery London’s first international group exhibition dedicated to women artists. Bringing together 15 artists from diverse cultural, religious, and geographical backgrounds, the exhibition presents over 40 works that collectively form a resonant platform for women to articulate their experiences across personal, historical, socio-political, and cultural contexts.
The exhibition takes the notion of “voice” as both metaphor and method. A voice is not only something heard; it is presence, authorship, memory, and agency. For generations, women’s voices have often been framed as gentle or nurturing, yet they are equally incisive, questioning, resilient, and transformative. Each participating artist speaks from her own lived reality — shaped by heritage and displacement, by faith and identity, by inherited narratives and contemporary conditions. Through their works, interior worlds become visible, and private reflections expand into shared discourse.
“As a gallery committed to cross-cultural dialogue, we are proud to present ‘Woven Voices’ in London — a capital of art and a global hub for the exchange of ideas,” says Mark Peaker, Group CEO and Co-founder of 3812 Gallery. “This exhibition celebrates the remarkable strength and diversity of women artists while reflecting our belief that art has the power to connect perspectives across cultures, histories, and generations. In bringing these voices together, we are weaving individual narratives into a collective resonance — a tapestry of stories that speak not in isolation, but in powerful harmony.”
Rather than offering a singular definition of womanhood, “Woven Voices” embraces plurality. Painting, photography, film, performance, and mixed media unfold as distinct yet interconnected languages. Together they create a woven structure — a mosaic of perspectives where vulnerability coexists with strength, contemplation with assertion, stillness with resistance. The exhibition foregrounds difference while revealing subtle threads of shared experience that bind these practices together.
Painter and film artist Eleanor Ekserdjian (b. 1996) merges moving image with gestural mark-making. By projecting film onto paper or canvas and drawing both from and over it, she captures fleeting perceptions and emotional responses in layered compositions. Her works hold movement and pause in delicate tension, tracing the rhythm of memory while inviting moments of quiet introspection.
Russian-British multidisciplinary artist Elena Shkvarkina (b. 1988) works across painting, sound, performance, film, and sculpture, developing a ritual-inflected practice rooted in the body as a vessel of memory and ancestral knowledge. Her works inhabit the threshold between the personal and the collective, the visible and the unseen, reflecting on how histories — both intimate and inherited — continue to shape contemporary identity.
Chinese artist Yushi Li (b. 1991) engages critically with the politics of representation. Drawing on the iconography of Renaissance and Old Master painting, her photography and video reconfigure traditional hierarchies of the gaze by positioning the male body as the object of female desire. Through carefully staged compositions, she reclaims authorship and agency, reframing intimacy as both tender and subversive.
Among the gallery’s represented artists, Joanne Chan (b. 1992) explores emotional interiority through abstraction. Her fluid gestures and atmospheric forms unfold as psychological landscapes, revealing vulnerability and transformation while inviting viewers into spaces of reflection and emotional resonance.
Other participating artists include Humaira Abid (b. 1977), Ann Carrington (b. 1962), Natalie Cheng (b. 1992), Chloe Ho (b. 1987), Sin U Lam (b. 2001), J.Lei (b. 1979), Prudence Mak (b. 1978), Saeideh Mirshekar (b. 1984), Valéria Nascimento (b. 1962), Delphine de Saxe-Cobourg (b. 1968), and Heiyi Tam (b. 1998).
In weaving together these distinct artistic voices, “Woven Voices” becomes more than an exhibition; it is a shared stage. It affirms art as a means of testimony and connection — a space where women speak on their own terms and where audiences are invited not only to witness, but to listen, reflect, and find echoes of their own narratives within the collective fabric of contemporary experience.
