Places & Spaces: Emotive Cityscapes meet Americana Dreamlands.
Places & Spaces
When? 7-29 November 2025
Where? Atom Gallery
What? A Joint Exhibition with Jo Peel & Maxine Gregson
Places & Spaces: Emotive Cityscapes meet Americana Dreamlands.
Maxine Gregson’s retro‑futurist dreamlands and Jo Peel’s emotive cityscapes converge at Atom Gallery to explore how we experience the world; somewhere between memory and the moment.
Atom Gallery presents Places & Spaces, a two‑person exhibition by Hackney based artists Jo Peel and Maxine Gregson. Running Friday 7 November – Saturday 29th November 2025, the show brings recent and selected works from both artists into conversation, pairing Peel’s revealing, hand-drawn cityscapes & buildings with Gregson’s surreal, nostalgic‑futurist scenes.
Places & Spaces asks how we experience the world: as record, as memory and as projection. The exhibition explores the built environment and the imagined one - between the real places we inhabit and the spaces we construct in our minds.
ABOUT MAXINE GREGSON
Ley Lines (2023) by Maxine Gregson
Maxine Gregson recasts landscapes as dreamscapes. Her screen-printed compositions often contain both futuristic and retro motifs - mid-century Americana meets science fiction. Trained as a graphic designer, Gregson’s screenprints often use a combination of photo-collage, graphic elements and typography.
Gregson’s screenprint Ley Lines (2023), selected for Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2023, feels like one of her quintessential surrealist scenes; 1950’s bathers relax beside a towering cactus, set against Californian mountains and desert . Gregson’s work feels like a memory of a place - suspended between reality and projection; a dream world that is neither here nor there.
ABOUT JO PEEL
“Beigel Bake” screenprint by Jo Peel
Jo Peel reveals the hidden emotional world of the streets and buildings in which we live. Her lovingly observed, hand drawn cityscapes are free of human forms, while inanimate elements - cranes, trees, decaying shopfronts, newbuild towers - are imbued with life and character, allowing them to tell their own stories of renewal and loss. From her screenprint series of Trellick Tower (2010, and later re-editioned in different colourways) to her mural on Howard Street in Sheffield (2019), to Things Change, a hand‐painted animation created for Village Underground(Shoreditch, London), Peel’s works in different media are all coloured by the same unique mixture of wit, empathy, and attention to detail. Urban landscapes - with a portraitist’s eye for feeling.