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Newsletter - July 2026

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West Norwood Library & Picturehouse | Emma Donaldson | Grocers' Hall

A massive welcome to Ella Ogan, our latest artist-in-residence!

Ella is a visual artist and image maker working across drawing, soft sculpture, monoprinting and textile-based work.

Her practice explores the relationship between industrial and organic forms – bringing together the familiar with the unsettling through folk imagery, repetition and tactile material processes. She hand-stitches over foam structures, prints with block printing ink on glass plates and creates work that's genuinely thought-provoking, personal, resonant.

Having recently completed a residency in Berlin, Ella is using her time with us to continue that creative growth. This residency is an incubator – a space where she can focus, experiment and see where her work takes her. We're excited to support that journey and share it with you over the coming weeks.

Want to know more about Ella's practice? Visit her website: ellaogan.com

Want to know more about our residency programme and how to apply, visit ours: https://www.packedlunch.org/residencies

Trails of Colour Dissolve – Emma Donaldson Exhibition Now Open

We're thrilled to announce the opening of 'Trails of Colour Dissolve', a new exhibition featuring the work of textural-abstract artist Emma Donaldson. This is Emma's first London show, on display at West Norwood Library & Picturehouse until 19th Sept.

Emma's paintings and mixed-media works explore colour, form and emotion. Sharp angles colliding with soft curves. Colours in conversation. Hidden faces that feel familiar yet indistinct.

Emma is a self-taught artist who's exhibited across the Midlands, UK and has work in university collections and the Museum of Bad Art in Boston, USA. This London show marks an important milestone in her creative journey.

Come and experience her work. All are welcome.

Exhibition Details:
📍 West Norwood Library and Picturehouse
📅 28 June – 19 September 2026
💷 Free entry
🔗 www.packedlunch.org/whatson-list/trails-of-colour-dissolve for online gallery and shop

Sales proceeds go towards supporting the artist’s growth and funding public programmes in advancing and diversifying engagement in visual storytelling.

Emma Donaldson | Trails of Colour Dissolve — Packed Lunch “The exhibited works reflect assorted moods expressed through uninhibited breadth of palette. Faces are seen as familiar yet indistinct. Colours compete for attention whilst maintaining uneasy truce on the canvas. Sharp angles and soft curves collide or avoid. Restlessness seems ever close.” Emm...

Conceptual photographer is exhibiting at West Norwood Library & Picturehouse until 26th June.

https://www.packedlunch.org/exhibitions

This free exhibition, in partnership with Crystal Palace Artists Open House, is a fresh mediation on masculinity, vulnerability within masculinity and the artist's unique journey of self-acceptance and belonging.

Influenced by artists such as René Magritte, Claude Monet and Robert Doisneau, his practice moves between introspection and visual poetry.

Proceeds from all sales going to the artist’s growth and funding public programmes in advancing and diversifying engagement in .