Fold Gallery

FOLD Gallery is another of London’s backstreet hidden treasures. I walked past this gallery twice before locating it (and getting highly confused by Google maps).
No ostentatious signs, only a simply door label and buzzer with a handwritten note saying ‘FOLD’ alert the art enthusiast to this gallerys’ where abouts — but it is well worth seeking out.
Once the attendant lets you in, you’ll feel like you’re intruding in someone’s flat (which you essentially are as the gallery is in the converted warehouse basement of a block of four residential flats). Down a winding staircase & you find yourself in the perfectly lit, glossy white sheen of FOLD.
Exhibitions change monthly and the themes always leave me with humble food for thought and a list of contemporary artists to go away and research. A visit to FOLD won’t take up too much of your time, but the architecturally wonderful space is worth finding.

The co-​founder of this gallery actually works for Charles Saatchi (owner of the Saatchi gallery in Hoxton), so you can imagine the calibre behind this space. That air that you breath in as you walk toward the building is nothing but progressive east london art and artists. This is why it is such a refreshing venue. Back in October I went to see the exhibition, ‘Yellow Freight’ from what I perceived it was a sort of unpleasant feeling, for instance, Bettina Buck’s ‘Lamp Cluster’. It was incased light under a architectural structure, with black fringes. Light was trapped and I only wanted to move the fringes to let it out! An extremely thought provoking exhibition.
As of now I am getting ready, mentally and phisically, to attend their current exhibition ‘Oddball-​ER’. Just for reference, an oddball is a person who is atypical, something unusual or even bizarre. Exciting!