COMING SOON: TRAINSPOTTERS #T30
30+ Artists celebrate Trainspotting's 30th Birthday | Entirely New Works Riffing on Trainspotting's Cultural Legacy.
With a percentage from all sales going to Big Issue, a London-founded street newspaper and social enterprise established in 1991 that provides employment for people experiencing, or at risk of, homelessness.
London, 21 February 2026 to 14 March 2026, Atom Gallery presents TRAINSPOTTERS, curated by Grow Up aka Blam the original designer/co-creator with Lorenzo Agius, the photographer behind the iconic Trainspotting (1996) film poster. Stanley Donwood, Phill Jupitus, Magda Archer, Modern Toss, Adam and Joe, Florist, Ben Frost, Haus of Lucy, Hayden Kays, Mul, Chris Ashworth and many other artists have created new works for this exhibition.
TRAINSPOTTERS isn’t a 90s nostalgia trip; it’s aimed squarely at what comes next. Original film poster photographer Lorenzo Agius was keen to toast the film’s 30th birthday, but curator Blam – whose mantra is “don’t look behind you, you’re not going that way” – would only bite if the show faced forward.
“We keep getting approached to drop the original work into 90s retrospectives,” says curator Blam. “But it felt far more interesting to look forward completely and do something new and different with the theme for this show.”
The result: 30+ artists creating entirely new work, inspired by the gritty, countercultural pulse that gave Trainspotting its cult following
NOTES TO EDITORS
Exhibition Title: Trainspotters #T30
Run Dates: 21st February – 14th March 2026.
Curation: Curated by Blam (Grow Up), the designer behind the iconic 1996 Trainspotting campaign. Special mention to Lorenzo Agius (the photographer behind the iconic portraits used in the poster) for granting the artists exclusive permission to use these licensed images for this exhibition.
Venue: Atom Gallery, 127 Green Lanes, London N16 9DA
Private View Event: 20th February 2026, 6pm - 9pm. Get Tickets NOW SOLD OUT!
Charity: 10% of proceeds will be donated to Big Issue
Hashtag: #T30
USEFUL LINKS
Download High-res Images: Click here to preview downloadable Images of artworks by Modern Toss, Lucy Pass and Adam & Joe (Adam Buxton & Joe Cornish). Note: artworks will be on sale for the first time at the opening on the 20th Feb 2026.
Read Exclusive Q&A: Click here to preview a Q&A with curator Blam about Trainspotters exhibition (Feb 2026)
Trainspotting Film Poster (1996) Info: The Trainspotting Film Poster (1996) is now part of the V&A archives, in the Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection. Read more in this Vice article published about the film poster The Story Behind the Groundbreaking ‘Trainspotting’ Poster (Vice, 2017).
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FULL ARTIST LIST
Grow up
Lorenzo Agius
Haus of Lucy
Carl Stimpson
Populuxe
Shuby
Hayden Kays
Ceal Warnants
Chris Ashworth
Stef Dies
Phill Jupitus
Perspicere
Florist
Mul
Richard Pendry
Tuffworld
Jack Blam
Mark Perronet
OHMY_Mark Yates
Oddhouse
Bench Allen
Ben Frost
Magda Archer
Gregory Gilbert-Lodge
Andrew Torr
Hutch
Megan Gant
Chemical X
Maxine Gregson
Rob Bremner
Studio Build
Stanley Donwood
Prefab77
Anonymouse
Lucy Pass
Modern Toss
Joe Cornish
& Adam Buxton
Lizzie Coles