RAW GALLERY LONDON

Music – Patti Smith (cover “Barefoot Dancing”); Edit – Katya Gubareva

RAW Gallery London – Frieze Week popup
34 Park Street, London W1 2JG

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18: Workshops by the Tatreez Collective: Tatreez Collective presents:

SATURDAY 18 & SUNDAY 19: The Stitch Collective Quilt designed by Aya Haidar

DAILY SHOP: Limited edition Prints – Unique Embroidered Yemeni Bags & Cushions from the YENOF collective – Palestinian Oil, honey, nuts from Yaffa Foods – Books from the Maqam Nomadic Library – Rare Art Books

DAILY CAFÉ: Enjoy Tea and a Dialogue in our popup RAW Café…

Step through the doors of a Mayfair townhouse and find yourself transported—every room transformed into an extraordinary, joyful, and magical experience.

Dialogues with a World on Fire is a salon of colour and imagination unfolding during Frieze Week at RAW Gallery in Mayfair, 14–19 October.

This bold gathering of award-winning contemporary female artists and radiant new voices invites you into a space where art becomes conversation, provocation, and play.

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In “Dialogues with a World on Fire”, we present a group show of international female artists, each exploring a variety of responses to these questions in all media, from canvas to performance, installation to textile arts.

Each work carries a lived story, opening portals of wonder while confronting today’s fiercest challenges. Together, they conjure an atmosphere of curiosity and magic—where perceptions shift, questions ignite, and hopeful futures are dreamed into being. This is more than an exhibition—it’s an immersive encounter with art that ignites, inspires, and uplifts.

DIALOGUES WITH A WORLD ON FIRE is a project by RAW Gallery, a social enterprise developed by the non-profit Karmabank, an incubator for social impact and humanitarian projects. RAW began as Refugee Art Works, a project to support female artists fleeing War and Gender Based Violence.

Highlights of the show include a unique hands-on daily workshop with the David Nott Foundation, focusing on how art and design help doctors work in war zones; Charmaine Wombwell’s interactive project “Piecing us Together”, shown recently at the Wellcome Collection, which invites attendees to add their parts to a life-size textile doll; an embroidery workshop by the Tatreez Collective; a live performance by the oud virtuoso Rihab Azar; and a continuation of the Stitch collective tapestry, designed by Aya Haidar.

The meanwhile space in Mayfair features a popup gallery, shop, performances and workshops. RAW is also raising funds for victims of war through a lottery of donated “post card art” (small artworks donated by international artists), which will support the work of the David Nott Foundation – an incredible organisation which trains surgeons to perform surgery in global war zones. They will present a demonstration of the tools used to train combat surgeons.

Donations will also support the work of Karmabank, whose projects help both victims of war and marginalised local residents in London.