Project runs 9 - 12 October 2026

The Handbag Factory, 3 Loughborough St, Vauxhall, SE11 5RB

All welcome to the preview on 8 October, 6-9pm and all events on the weekend 10-11 October (listed below unless ticketed.)

In the story of the Tower of Babel, humanity once shared a single language, until its people were given different tongues and could no longer understand one another. Bringing together the nineteen artists of ‘Changeable Beast’, Babel Babble takes this myth as a starting point to explore the different languages of sculpture.

Every artist has their own way of making and communicating through objects, materials and forms. But what happens when these individual languages come together in the same space? Can they speak to one another? What connections, similarities or tensions emerge between them?

Babel Babble invites us to look closely, listen carefully and consider how meaning shifts when different artistic voices share the same space. Together, do these voices create a cacophony, a conversation - or perhaps a symphony?

Events

Thursday 8 October, at 6pm- Artist & curator talk with guest Sally Spurring (Speech & Language Therapist)

Saturday 10 October, at 3-4:30pm- Artist & curator talk with guest Sally Spurring (Speech & Language Therapist)

Saturday 10 October at 6:30-7:30pm- Sculptural Soundbath with practitioner Bella Verrrico (for tickets contact changeablebeast@gmail.com)

Sunday 11 October at 2-4pm- Word Feast an exploration of the exhibition through artists’ mother tongue followed by a sharing of the language of food. Guest artist Ana Genoves. Performance by Chuting Lee.

Curated by Vivien Delta, Jennifer Moore, Ellie Reid & Diana Wolzak

Participating Artists:

Karen Byrne, Rachael Causer, Vivien Delta, Matt Foster, Tessa Garland, Andy Gomez, Alex Hegazy, Clare Jarrett, Aileen Kelly, Sandy Layton, Chuting Lee, Jennifer Moore, Seona Myerscough, Ellie Reid, Tania Salha, Kay Senior, Carolyn Whittaker, Diana Wolzak, Susan Young.

Babel Babble has kindly been sponsored by WTFrames, Peckham.