INNIT

In his latest body of work, conceived partly in the stillness of lockdown and shaped through its lingering echoes. Leon invites us into a world both deeply personal and unapologetically public. These works are not just reflections but confrontations; raw, mundane, and viscerally honest. With London as both muse and mirror, he charts a course through the textures of contemporary culture and collective unease.

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Amid a time marked by isolation and constraint, Leon reminds us that the fractures in society were not new, they were simply illuminated. Old tensions simmered, sharpened, and in their persistence, revealed the paradox of modern life: a heightened sense of individualism coexisting with an aching hunger for connection.

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Each piece becomes a meditation on the overlooked. Objects stripped of prestige, common, discarded, ignored are reassembled, reimagined. Through Leon’s hands, these artefacts of the everyday are transformed into vessels of new meaning. Their former utility dissolves, giving way to narrative, memory, emotion. It is a quiet rebellion a poetic homage to the beauty in what we fail to see.

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The title, “INNIT” one of London’s most iconic and elusive slang terms embodies the spirit of the city itself: layered, playful, crude, profound. It encapsulates the charm and chaos, the wit and weariness, the unapologetic contradictions that make London a place like no other.

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This is not just an exhibition. It is a lived language. A cultural remix. A portrait of a city through the detritus of its own stories.