Art
The heart of Setlist is a striking 50m-long pavilion that has been designed to provide a blank canvas to present emerging visual artists from London.
This new space will provide a canvas for an annual artwork commission which will become one of the largest public painted artwork commissions in London, promoting emerging and early career artists, and bringing their work to central London audiences.
Inspired by sculpture gardens across the world, Setlist will also curate a series of interactive artworks and games across the year, in partnership with Somerset House.
2025 Commissions
Farouk Agoro
The inaugural commission will be a large painted installation by Brixton-based artist Farouk Agoro, whose work uses markings as a visual language to explore space, rhythm, and emotion. Central to his practice is a distinctive zigzag pattern, repeated, deconstructed, and reimagined, like a personal theme song that maps movement through time.
Farouk has previously created high profile public artworks such as the Brixton Bridge and this commission at Setlist presents an opportunity to combine his personal
Gray Wielebinski
First up for the interactive artwork commission is a basketball-inspired installation by Gray Wielebinski, following on from a recent breakout solo show at the ICA.
Gray is a London based, Dallas-born artist whose practice is interested in the role that power plays in historical and contemporary forms of myth-making and narratives, and how this intrinsic power dynamic affects how we conceive of ourselves, others, and the world around us. Gray is a resident of Somerset House Studios.
