Performing & Visual Arts
GROUNDINGS: LOVE AS A RADICAL FORCE - A Conversation in the round
Can love change anything?
Join us for an intimate evening of art and open conversation as the artists participating in About Love gather for a relaxed, circle discussion with curator Sukai Eccleston.
This is not a top-down, expert-led panel.
It’s a shared space. A collective exchange.
A conversation you are invited into.
ABOUT LOVE - an exhibition on the meaning of love
This February CasildART proudly presents About Love, a group exhibition featuring the work of six artists responding in their own way to the eternal subject of love.
Love, in all its vast and varied expressions, has long been one of humanity’s most powerful creative forces. This exhibition brings together the work of Anthony Daley, Dr Hassan Aliyu, Roisin Jones, Alexandra Moskalenko and Diana Rosa, a diverse group of artists who explore the many dimensions of love - its tenderness, its complexity, its resilience, and its ability to transform both individuals and communities.
Across these works, love emerges not only as an emotion but as an energy that shapes the world around us. Some paintings celebrate love between people: the quiet intimacy of connection, the courage of vulnerability, and the joy found in shared moments. Others reflect a deep reverence for nature, reminding us that love also lives in the landscapes that sustain us, in the delicate balance of ecosystems, and in our responsibility to protect the earth. Still others illuminate love as a driving force for knowledge, creativity, and growth—an affection for learning, teaching, and the lifelong pursuit of understanding.
Together, these artworks form a tapestry of perspectives—personal, environmental, spiritual, and intellectual. They invite us to consider how love takes root in our own lives and how it shapes the ways we see, feel, and act. Above all, this exhibition celebrates love as a universal thread that binds us to one another and to the world we share.
Open Circle Conversation
Join the conversation with Dr Hassan Aliyu, Alexandra Moskalenko, Anthony Daley, and Farnaz Gholami as they speak about love through their distinct lens.
Shared Dialogue
Rather than a formal panel, this is an inclusive discussion where audience voices are welcome. Come ready to listen, reflect, and contribute.
Art, Insight & Connection
Discover how each artist’s cultural background and creative journey informs their interpretation of love — romantic, communal, political, spiritual, and self-directed.
Meaningful Networking
Connect with fellow artists, collectors, thinkers, and art lovers in an inspiring and intimate setting.
Featured Artists
Hassan Aliyu
Dr Hassan Aliyu (DProf), says, “I have been deeply excited about exhibiting in your LOVE-themed exhibition, particularly because of its resonant contradiction with the current global moment, marked by the erosion of the very rules that once underpinned an international order. Love, in an age of disorder, evokes in me a sense of dystopia rather than hope, especially amid the unashamed assertion of power and the illusion of permanence, despite the historical reality that no power or empire endures indefinitely. Power and dominance are transient, as are the realignments they produce. The stark disjunction between responses to the colossal loss of life in Gaza, in which institutions charged with peace marginalise the principal actors in the conflict, constitutes a palpable failure that embodies a precarity fundamentally antithetical to love. On this basis, the work I am creating specifically for this exhibition will be titled Wo-Man-Ity v Love, foregrounding the contradiction between inhumanity enacted in the name of love.”
Alexandra Moskalenko
While Alexandra Moskalenko takes inspiration from Cézanne, her life-affirming paintings celebrate love—for one another and for nature. Through a vibrant engagement with colour, she emphasises the beauty of diversity, biodiversity, and the colours of life itself.
Anthony Daley
Anthony Daley is an established and celebrated abstract expressionist artist. The titles of the four paintings in the exhibition are inspired by Lord Byron’s Romantic poem She Walks in Beauty. Like Byron’s lyrical poetry, Daley’s work meditates on light, shadow, and inner grace. His canvases function as portals, inviting viewers to explore realms of connection and reflection, and to venture into spaces of quiet wonder.
Farnaz Gholami
Farnaz Gholami’s two paintings reflect on recent events in Iran, depicting interior spaces as fragile zones of safety—places of escape, shelter, and retreat. In the aftermath of violence, everyday domestic scenes become charged sites where love endures through grief, absence, and memory. Ordinary objects carry quiet emotional traces, transforming the home into a space where intimacy persists despite loss.
Curated by Sukai Eccleston
Sukai brings a thoughtful and socially engaged curatorial approach, centring artists whose work invites reflection on care, connection, and collective healing.
Who Should Attend?
This event is for:
Whether you’re deeply embedded in the art world or simply drawn to thoughtful conversation, your presence will shape the evening.
Come and join the conversation!
Other Events
SATURDAY 21ST FEBRUARY
Join us for a relaxed Saturday afternoon meet and greet with the artists participating in About Love. This is an informal drop-in session between 2–4pm, giving you the opportunity to meet the artists in the gallery, hear directly about their work, and have one-to-one conversations in a welcoming and open setting. Book Here
About CasildART
CasildART Contemporary CIC is a not-for-profit Black-led organisation founded to foster a more inclusive and supportive creative culture by addressing the lack of representation of Black artists in museums, commercial galleries, and fine art institutions. We aim to raise awareness and increase the visibility of their work, amplify their voices and give freedom to their creative expression.
Connection is at the heart of everything that we do. We aim to bring artworks together with the critical conversations that flourish through and around them, intersecting diverse themes, ideas, and cultures. We invite you to join our community of artists, art collectors, and art lovers and experience the best of contemporary Black art, transforming the way we see the world.
Together, we’ll explore how love — and the absence of it — shapes our lives, our communities, and our creative practices. The artists will reflect on themes of “lovelessness” that stem from materialism, neglect, and trauma, and how art can respond to, challenge, or transform these realities.
