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Award-winning artist to participate in Kingston art show

By James Bools   7th Jan 2026

Nnena Kalu is participating in an exhibition at Kingston University's Stanley Picker Gallery (Credit: Nnena Kalu and Action Space)
Nnena Kalu is participating in an exhibition at Kingston University's Stanley Picker Gallery (Credit: Nnena Kalu and Action Space)

A Turner Prize winning artist will participate in a special programme of residencies at Kingston University from 20 January - 18 March.

Nnena Kalu, the first learning disabled artist to win the prestigious award, will be part of the Attack Decay Sustain Release: Experiments in Sound exhibition at the University's Stanley Picker Gallery.

Kalu, who scooped the gong in 2025, makes vibrant artworks by binding, layering and wrapping materials to an exuberant soundtrack of disco music.

The phrase 'Attack Decay Sustain Release' (ADSR) is used in sound production to denote the four phases of a sound, in terms of its volume and strength over time.

The residency programme will explore how sound plays a part in artistic production, with audiences invited to hear, see and experience the works as they are developed over ten weeks of residencies.

For Attack Decay Sustain Release, Kalu will be working alongside artist Rebecca Kressley as part of Super Trouper - curated by Kingston School of Art PhD candidate Lisa Slominski.

Other artists in the programme will include Stanley Picker Fellows Sophie Huckfield and Abbas Zahedi.

Nnena Kalu is a Resident Artist at ActionSpace, an organisation that supports young people and adults with learning disabilities across London.

Fellow ActionSpace artist Ian Wornast was commissioned last year to create a major new public mural for Kingston town centre, which was launched as part of the Kingston 2025 festival.

You can find out more about the programme and the weeks each artist will be in residence here.

     

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