NOW 2025
Alex Beattie, Nell Castor, Alejandro Reiriz Pouseu, Nikita Savostyanov, Sofia Serpa Arango, and Mengyi Zhang
16th October – 22nd November 2025
Private View: Thursday 16th October
6 – 8pm
Open to public Saturday 10am-4pm or by appointment
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The Gerald Moore Gallery is delighted to present NOW 2025, a group exhibition featuring new and exciting works by recent graduates from some of the best art schools in London. NOW 2025 includes works by Alex Beattie (Royal College of Art, Print MA), Nell Castor (Central Saint Martins, BA Fine Art), Alejandro Reiriz Pouseu (Goldsmiths, MA Art & Ecology), Nikita Savostyanov (Chelsea College of Arts, MA Fine Art), Sofia Serpa Arango (Goldsmiths, BA Fine Art), and Mengyi Zhang (Royal College of Art, Arts & Humanities MFA). NOW 2025 runs from 16th October to 22nd November 2025.
The private view is on Thursday 16th October from 6 – 8pm.
This will be the fifth edition of NOW: New Original Work. The annual exhibition is an initiative to spotlight emerging artistic talent and provide a stepping stone for artists to transition from education to professional practice. Past iterations have included artists such as Josef Yaeger, Alexandra Searle, Hanne Peeraer, Krystle Patel, Kainoa Gruspe, Abdulmohsen Al Bin Ali, Zinong Zhang, and Sean Synnuck.
The exhibition is open to the public every Saturday 10am to 4pm until 22nd November 2025 or by appointment for other days.
Artists:
Alex Beattie is a visual artist and printmaker. He produces work in both paper and textiles, using a range of hand-based print techniques including lithography, silkscreen and etching creating mythical dreamscapes and queer utopias, full of vivid colour. In 2025 he completed an MA in Print at the Royal College of Art.
Nell Castor was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Castor now lives and works in London. She completed her undergraduate studies at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London in 2025, where she was awarded the Barry Martin Prize 2025 for her degree show exhibition, marking the first time she had publicly shown her work.She creates art as a means to metabolize emotions, release them, and grow and works in a variety of media.
Alejandro Reiriz Pouseuis a Galician fine artist and researcher based in London. With his practice, he aims to investigate cultural and natural uncertainties through community archiving, scientific methods applied to art processes and the concept of "materiality resilience". He recently completed an MA in Art & Ecology at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Nikita Savostyanov works primarily with installation and sculpture, often incorporating projections, screens, and code. His practice explores the intersections of simulation and reality, focusing on the unstable boundaries between the real, the semi-real, and the artificial. With a background in journalism, he became attuned to the mechanisms of media manipulation and the shaping of perception, which continues to inform his artistic approach.
Savostyanov recently completed an MFA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts, UAL. He has exhibited at AVA Gallery, Ljubljana (Reality Check, 2025), Tselinny Center, Almaty (Re-imagine: gen one, 2023). He has participated in residencies including Fifth Element (Yemaa, Atyrau, 2023).
Sofia Serpa Arango is a South East London–based artist whose interdisciplinary practice spans painting and sculpture. She graduated with a BFA (Hons) from Goldsmiths, University of London, and her work explores themes of migration and (non)belonging through narrative and storytelling. She recently completed a residency and solo exhibition at Lewisham Arthouse, El color de las cosas idas: The Colour of Things Past. Serpa Arango is the recipient of the 4th Goldsmiths & Lewisham Arthouse Short Residency (2025), was shortlisted for the Freelands Painting Prize (2025), and received the Art Academy London Foundation Trustee Award (2021).
Mengyi Zhang is a contemporary artist from Chongqing, China, works primarily with lacquer as a core material language. Her practice explores the generative and processual qualities of traditional craft, examining how such materials can be reconfigured and expanded within contemporary art contexts. For Zhang, lacquer is not merely a medium—it is a mode of thinking. She recently graduated from Royal College of Art with an Arts & Humanities (MFA).
For more information, images, and interview requests, or to attend the Private View
please contact: Haf Anuar at info@geraldmooregallery.org