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Robin Megannity
Julia Thompson
Santi is pleased to present Tired of Being Tired (?), the gallery’s second exhibition, curated by Sasha Shevchenko and Pia Zeitzen of Kollektiv Collective, who have also authored a text accompanying the exhibition. The presentation comprises two newly commissioned installations and three wall-based sculptures by Ali Glover; five recent paintings by Robin Megannity; and sculptures, a drawing, and a site-specific installation by Julia Thompson, accompanied by a text by Moffy Gathorne-Hardy.
A limited edition of twenty pinboards by Ali Glover, titled overnight everyday (miniature), is available in conjunction with the exhibition.
Ali Glover was born in the West Midlands and lives and works in London. His most recent solo exhibition is nothing concrete, Inspection Pit, West Sussex (2024). Selected group exhibitions include Performing Landscapes, Art Au Centre, Liège (2024); All I Could See Through the Port Hole Was Glittering Dust (F.A.F), Split Gallery, London (2024); Dumping Ground, Hypha HQ, London (2024); Construct, Cob Gallery, London (2024); Terminal Parlour, Split Gallery, London (2023), and loose teeth, Commonage Projects, London (2023). Glover is also part of F.A.F., a collective formed by himself, Henry Burns and Ruairi Fallon.
ROBIN MEGANNITY (B. 1985)
Robin Megannity was born in the North West of the United Kingdom and is currently based in Greater Manchester, where he lives and works. His recent solo exhibitions include Eating the Middle, Galeria Fran Reus, Palma de Mallorca (2024), and Call of the Void, Workplace, London (2023). Selected group exhibitions include The Echoes of Memory in The Azure Depths, ARCH Gallery, Shanghai (2025); and still I may, Workplace Gallery, London (2024); 40 Years of the Future: Painting, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (2024); Gentle Again, The Shophouse, Hong Kong (2024), and Perfect Passive, Xxijra Hii, London (2023). Megannity is represented by Workplace, UK.
JULIA THOMPSON (B. 1996)
Julia Thompson was born in Toronto, Canada and currently lives and works in London. Thompson completed her MFA at Goldsmiths, University of London in 2024. Her recent solo exhibitions include Valley of the Dolls, Dries Van Noten the Little House, Los Angeles (2024); Soft Furnishing, Incubator, London (2023), and Leftovers, Lyles & King, New York (2021). Selected group exhibitions include BOND, Dries Van Noten, Los Angeles (2023); Moonflower, EUROPA, New York (2022), and INDUSTRIALISM, SIZED, New York (2022).
KOLLEKTIV COLLECTIVE
Kollektiv Collective is a London-based curatorial collective founded by independent curators and writers, Pia Zeitzen and Sasha Shevchenko in 2019. Selected recent exhibitions include Of course I know eternity: Wilhelm Traeger + Gray Wielebinski, Austrian Cultural Forum, London (2025); Fa Razavi: Opera Rose, Palo Gallery, New York (2025); nothing concrete, Inspection Pit, West Sussex (2024); Great Expectations, General Assembly, London (2024); things fall apart; the centre cannot hold, Tabula Rasa Gallery, London (2023); un/sense, Christie’s, London (2022), and In Nihilum, Swiss Church, London (2020).
→ Press Release (PDF)
→ Accompanying text by Pia Zeitzen and Sasha Shevchenko (PDF)