Zach Toppin

For two weeks in July, TIN MAN ART presents works by some of the leading names in contemporary art at the Fitzrovia Chapel in an exploration of witchcraft, womanhood, feminism and satire. The Witch Burns includes artists such as Sara Berman, Radiohead & Chris Hopewell, Malene Hartmann-Rasmussen, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Zach Toppin and Nooka Shepherd, whose works delve deep into our continuing obsession with witches, female power and proto-religious imagery.

Inspired by London Art Fair’s partnership with Charleston, the modernist home of painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, the 2024 Platform section of the fair brings together art that shines a light on queer love and life selected by guest curator Gemma Rolls-Bentley. In the early 20th century, the historic house and artist studio became a queertopia for members of the Bloomsbury Group, including Vanessa’s sister Virginia Woolf. In Woolf’s 1928 novel Orlando, an imaginative biography of her lover and muse Vita Sackville-West in which the protagonist changes sex from male to female.

An exhibition of contemporary art celebrating the complex undercurrents in Kenneth Grahame’s seminal work, ‘The Wind in the Willows’ featuring works by Charlie Billingham Stanley Donwood, Malene Hartmann Rasmussen, Keaton Henson, Rupert Muldoon, Gina Soden, Indigo Tarrick and Zach Toppin. Desire, forbidden love, addiction, self-destruction, class war and control in a bubbling literary cauldron that has fascinated children and adults for 115 years.