Lethaby Gallery presents Re:generating Creativity exhibition

This autumn, Lethaby Gallery at Central Saint Martins presents Re:generating Creativity (17 September – 7 December 2025), a vibrant cross-disciplinary showcase of over 24 works by recent graduates and staff, each exploring how creativity doesn’t just respond to our world but actively regenerates it.

From ecological approaches to material and playful experimentation, to political works of hope and richly developed storytelling, the exhibition spans fashion and textiles, moving image, architecture and biodesign. Together, these works question what happens when artists, designers and performers refuse to accept the world as it is and instead ask: what could it become?
Visitors can move through three themed sections – Re:making, Re:grounding and Re:visioning – each offering a distinct lens on how creativity can re:generate. Re:making explores heritage, craft and archival knowledge, showing how looking to the past can inspire the future. Re:grounding focuses on identity, community and place, revealing how personal and local perspectives can transform global understanding. Re:visioning embraces new technologies, imagining futures centred on kinship, care and collective flourishing. At the centre of the exhibition, the Common Ground space acts as a dynamic hub, bringing together ideas and works from all sections. Staff contributions are also threaded throughout, with publications and research outputs, providing context and illuminating the wider ecosystem of practice.

Exhibition highlights include:

• IM-Mortal Magenta: The Colour That Doesn’t Exist by Ayham Masleh – Hand-draped garments in vibrant magenta preserve and celebrate Palestinian craft traditions, blending tailoring, textiles and cultural memory.
• GROWink by Peerasin Punxh Hutaphaet – A living bio-ink made from fungal pigments that evolves over time, demonstrating a sustainable and dynamic approach to colour and material.
• Lab to Loom by Lotte Plumb – Bacteria spin and dye denim, creating a future-facing textile that grows, changes, and biodegrades, reimagining how clothes could live and die.
• re:SOURCE by Mark Hester – A machine that transforms human urine into a nutritious superfood.
• Prompting Nowhere by Max Park – A hand-cranked AI inspired by William Morris’ utopian vision, exploring how creativity and technology intersect to shape society and craft in the digital age.
• Pitter Patter by Syed Murshed – Recreates the sensory experience of a Bangladeshi village roof, letting visitors hear, feel, and imagine the sound and texture of home.
• Soft Armour by Beau Roberts – Bold ceramic forms exploring trans identity, memory, and the politics of the body.

Re:generating Creativity marks the public launch of Central Saint Martins’ three Schools of Thought – C School [Culture], S School [Systems], and M School [Material] – de-emphasising traditional disciplinary categories such as art, design and performance. The exhibition highlights how teaching, research, and creative practice intersect across disciplines. The naming strategy highlights the whole (C + S + M = CSM).

Rathna Ramanathan, Head of Central Saint Martins, said:
“Central Saint Martins has a global reputation for change-making through creative practice. We create and practise ideas, materials, systems and actions for a better future in a more-than-human world. Today, creativity itself is at the brink of change and our response is a bold reimaging of what an art and design college can be. Re:generating Creativity marks our first step in sharing this transformation with the world, demonstrating the imagination, ingenuity and interdisciplinarity of our community. These visionary works show how our graduates are working across boundaries visual and creative arts, design and performance, not only responding to society as it is, but actively shaping the world as it could be.”

Re:Generating Creativity is accompanied by a dynamic public programme taking place during October and November, with details to be announced soon. These include workshops, tours, open critiques, roundtable discussions and community initiatives designed to invite visitors into dialogue with the exhibition.