Makila Nsika (M.Kala): Pattern, Texture, Ornament
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New Ashgate Gallery
Waggon Yard
Farnham
Surrey
GU9 7PS
New Ashgate Gallery presents a solo exhibition by Makila Nsika (M.Kala), winner of the Rising Stars 2025 Award.
New Ashgate Gallery presents a solo exhibition by Makila Nsika (M.Kala), winner of the Rising Stars 2025 Award. The exhibition brings together new jewellery and object-based work shaped by Makila's ongoing research into pattern, repetition, and surface, developed through careful making and collaboration.
Makila is a London-based teacher, designer and jeweller whose practice connects contemporary jewellery with cultural heritage and responsible material choices. Her use of stones is now focused within a single collection, using lab-grown diamonds and potentially other lab-grown stones. Alongside this collection, Makila has developed a series of rings with hand-textured surfaces made in collaboration with an artisan, where tactile pattern becomes the main visual and conceptual language.
The exhibition also introduces a larger-scale work in development using raffia, drawing on histories of body ornament. This new piece considers ornament as a social and cultural structure that can frame, reveal, or obscure the body, informed by Makila's dual cultural inheritance, African and European. A selection of work will be available to buy, offering collectors the chance to acquire pieces from an emerging practice at a key stage of growth.
Future dates
- Tuesday 17th March 10:00am until 5:00pm
- Wednesday 18th March 10:00am until 5:00pm
- Thursday 19th March 10:00am until 5:00pm
- Friday 20th March 10:00am until 5:00pm
- Saturday 21st March 10:00am until 5:00pm
- Tuesday 24th March 10:00am until 5:00pm
- Wednesday 25th March 10:00am until 5:00pm
- Thursday 26th March 10:00am until 5:00pm
- Friday 27th March 10:00am until 5:00pm
- Saturday 28th March 10:00am until 5:00pm
- Tuesday 31st March 10:00am until 5:00pm
- Wednesday 1st April 10:00am until 5:00pm
- Thursday 2nd April 10:00am until 5:00pm
- Friday 3rd April 10:00am until 5:00pm
- Saturday 4th April 10:00am until 5:00pm
- Tuesday 7th April 10:00am until 5:00pm
- Wednesday 8th April 10:00am until 5:00pm
- Thursday 9th April 10:00am until 5:00pm
- Friday 10th April 10:00am until 5:00pm
- Saturday 11th April 10:00am until 5:00pm
- Tuesday 14th April 10:00am until 5:00pm
- Wednesday 15th April 10:00am until 5:00pm
- Thursday 16th April 10:00am until 5:00pm
- Friday 17th April 10:00am until 5:00pm
- Saturday 18th April 10:00am until 5:00pm
- Tuesday 21st April 10:00am until 5:00pm
- Wednesday 22nd April 10:00am until 5:00pm
- Thursday 23rd April 10:00am until 5:00pm
- Friday 24th April 10:00am until 5:00pm
- Saturday 25th April 10:00am until 5:00pm
