HER STORIES UNTOLD - ToWNHALL | LONDON
Town Hall Presents - HER STORIES UNTOLD
In Collaboration with The Circle, founded by Annie Lennox
Exhibition Dates: 19 March – 1 July 2026
Preview Event: 18 March 2026 69pm. By invitation and appointment only. Join us for an exclusive evening of drinks, a curator-led tour, and intimate encounters with the artists behind Her Stories Untold. Guests will gain rare insight into each artistʼs practice in a setting designed for conversation, discovery, and connection.
Location: Town Hall by Bottaccio, Kingʼs Cross, London
Town Hall Presents is Town Hallʼs cultural programme, spanning five tracks: Culture, Innovation, Impact, Community and Big Ideas. It celebrates art, fashion, music and performance through concerts, runway shows, installations and exhibitions. It is a home for ideas reshaping the future, from AI and quantum research to creative experimentation, and a space where sustainability and social change sit at the heart of culture. Through workshops, mentoring and collaborative programmes, it nurtures connection and belonging, while hosting conversations on philosophy, politics and identity with thinkers who challenge convention. A bold cultural initiative, Town Hall Presents connects art, science and ideas to inspire a new generation of pragmatic dreamers and luminous visionaries.
Town Hall is proud to announce Her Stories Untold, the first in the Town Hall Presents annual exhibition programme. Curated by Town Hallʼs Director of Art, Virginia Damtsa, in collaboration with The Circle — the global womenʼs rights charity founded by Annie Lennox — the exhibition will open with a Private View on 18 March 2026. It inaugurates Town Hallʼs cultural programme with a powerful tribute to women in all their diversity, across generations, cultures, disciplines and lived experiences.
Bringing together leading artists from the UK and internationally, Her Stories Untold celebrates female resilience, creativity, visibility, and voice. The exhibition examines how women have been portrayed, silenced, honoured, misunderstood, celebrated, and reimagined—through portraiture, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, and digital works. The exhibition embraces expansive understandings of womanhood, acknowledging lived experience, self-identification, and the intersections of gender, culture, race, and power. Her Stories Untold asks who has the power to narrate, preserve, and circulate womenʼs stories—and what happens when those narratives are reclaimed, reimagined, or authored anew.
From iconic global figures to quiet, intimate moments of inner life, the narrative unfolds across multiple perspectives, revealing the complexity and richness of womanhood today. At a moment when visibility, autonomy, and authorship are increasingly contested—both online and offline—the exhibition situates artistic practice as a site of resistance, care, and collective imagination.
Featured Artists
● Jonathan Yeo — featuring his celebrated portrait of Malala Yousafzai, a universal symbol of courage, education, and female empowerment.
● Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf — photo-digital paintings exploring the female body, identity, and transformation.
● Wen Wu — Chinese, London-based painter known for her luminous portraits of women portrayed with books, knowledge, empowerment and introspection.
● Richard Wathen — enigmatic portraiture that evokes ambiguity, inner psychology, and timelessness.
● Poppy de Havilland — a rising young artist whose work brings a fresh contemporary voice into the dialogue.
● Carolina Mazzolari — embroidered textile and mixed-media works, exploring emotional mapping, femininity, and the body.
● Conrad Shawcross — presenting a smaller version of his monumental steel sculpture Paradigm, a 14-metre-high structure installed outside the Francis Crick Institute. Paradigm symbolises ambition, risk, and the pursuit of knowledge—its ascending, geometric form reflecting the boldness and resilience at the heart of Her Stories Untold.
● Abe Odedina — celebrated for his vibrant portraits of beautiful and strong African women, Odedina’s paintings draw on Yoruba mythology, Afro-Brazilian spirituality, and folk traditions. His work celebrates female power, dignity, and visibility, offering a radiant testament to womanhood and self-determination.
Together, these artists create a multi-layered conversation about the many faces of womanhood—power, memory, struggle, imagination, visibility, and legacy.
In Collaboration with The Circle
The Circle is an organisation dedicated to supporting women around the world through advocacy, economic empowerment, and legal change. Their mission—to fight inequality and uplift women—resonates deeply with the themes of this exhibition. This partnership amplifies the exhibitionʼs purpose, grounding artistic celebration in real, urgent global action.
Founded by singer-songwriter and activist Annie Lennox, The Circle is a unique organisation which brings Global Feminists together to fight for a fairer world for women and girls everywhere. A space for creative ideas, connections, and the opportunity to make change. From small beginnings in 2008, we have grown into an independent movement of women and allies from all walks of life who are bonded by the desire to live in a world where women and girls have equal rights and equal opportunities.
About Town Hall by Bottaccio
Located in the heart of Kingʼs Cross, Town Hall is Camdenʼs reimagined cultural landmark, set within a 1937 Grade II–listed building spanning 60,000 square feet. Conceived as a dynamic cultural hub where creativity and imagination collide, Town Hall brings together art, performance, innovation and community through state-of-the-art event spaces, a bold year-round cultural programme and a membersʼ society.
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