In our last takeover of 2025, Sam Hamper and Edmund Spencer presented Draw a Line Under It, an exhibition focused on concluding a series of artworks that had been ongoing for too long, dedicating a week to resolving and ultimately removing them from their studios.

Working independently within the space, the exhibition took the form of a seven-day live performance with continuous audience access, culminating in an open viewing. Both are primarily painters, also working across printmaking, drawing, sculpture, installation, and photography. The exhibition saw them both explore ideas of closure and new beginnings, experimentation, public exposure, and the process of finalising unresolved work—embracing, at times, a Sisyphean repetition.

Having both come to painting later in their practices, Hamper and Spencer used their time in the gallery to reflect on a tendency to endlessly rework pieces. Through this exhibition, they confronted that impulse—acknowledging when enough is enough and making a decisive break. Draw a Line Under It became a statement on vulnerability, the challenge of rectifying perceived mistakes, and the need to let go of work that lingers unresolved in the studio.

Video and Photography credit: Sam Hamper and Artloud

Please note: this event has already taken place.