10 October – 12 December
Thursday – Saturday (11am – 4pm)
Free entry, no booking required

Forming the latest chapter in the year-long expanded exhibition that continues through to April 2026, Morgan Quaintance presents an exhibition of new work at Chelsea College of Art’s public gallery, Chelsea Space. Open from 10th October to 12th December, this iteration of Available Light incorporates photography, text and archival material to further explore notions of home and belonging in contemporary society.

The exhibition, his first solo show in London, features images that depict scenes of domesticity, temporary accommodation and the built environment in urban Japan, offering reflections on often-unsettling realities of contemporary city life. Alongside these, Quaintance weaves in fragments of cultural memory, drawing on mid-century plays, films and cinematic references that echo themes of intrusion, alienation and the fragile idea of home. These include the American con artist David Hampton, who inspired the film Six Degrees of Separation; Harold Pinter dramas, which are often marked by domestic intrusion; and the 1961 film The Catch, which examines themes of entrapment and prejudice and is based on the prize-winning novella Shiiku by Kenzaburō Ōe.

Available Light will be accompanied by a programme of talks and events to be announced, and a publication developed in collaboration with Maria Walsh, writer and Reader in Artists’ Moving Image at Chelsea College of Arts, UAL, will accompany the exhibition. Using a loose epistolary format, Walsh and Quaintance engage in an anecdotal and informally theoretical text and image exchange that offers another interpretative frame through which to experience the display and its themes.