About this Event
Event starts at 7pm, doors open at 6:30pm.
Join Art on the Underground to celebrate the ten public artworks commissioned through its Brixton Mural Programme with the premiere of a new short film and a public conversation event on 26 November 2026.
Since 2018, Art on the Underground has commissioned a series of artworks for Brixton station, taking inspiration from the murals created across the local area during the 1980s. The programme has invited artists to respond to the rich histories of mural making in Brixton, the area's changing social landscape, and the communities that have shaped it. Across ten commissions, artists have explored themes including migration, identity, labour, community, resilience and belonging, reflecting the histories and lived experiences that continue to define Brixton.
To mark this milestone, Art on the Underground will present the premiere of a new short film at Ritzy Cinema, Brixton produced by Other Cinemas, bringing together all ten commissions for the first time and exploring the programme’s starting points and legacy.
The screening will be followed by a conversation between artists Claudette Johnson, Joy Labinjo and Rudy Loewe, who have presented new commissions as part of the programme, chaired by art historian and critic Rianna Jade Parker. They will explore the role of public art in shaping collective memory, the significance of Brixton's mural traditions, and the continuing relevance of painting in public space.
About the panellists
Claudette Johnson
Claudette Elaine Johnson (born 1959) is a British visual artist. She is known for her large-scale drawings of Black women and her involvement with the BLK Art Group, of which she was a founder member. She was described by Modern Art Oxford as "one of the most accomplished figurative artists working in Britain today". A finalist for the Turner Prize in 2024, Johnson was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts the same year.
Joy Labinjo
Joy Labinjo's (born 1994) work presents fresh and arresting compositions of colour, pattern and motifs: key signatures of Labinjo’s work. Fundamentally, at the heart of Labinjo’s practice is a bold interest in storytelling and ultimately, people’s lives. Exploring multiple modes of representation including abstraction, naturalism, flatness and graphic patterns, Labinjo’s ‘collage aesthetic’ comprises an eclectic visual vocabulary and mixed painterly techniques which echo her experience of multiple identities – growing up Black, British, Nigerian in the 90s and early 00s.
Rudy Loewe
Rudy Loewe (born 1987) is an artist who works with painting, drawing, and sculpture. Their work explores black histories, queering the archive, and social politics. Their mural The Congregation was unveiled at Brixton Underground station in south London in 2025, and their installation Intimacies of Care opened at the Wellcome Collection in north London in July 2026.
Rianna Jade Parker
Rianna Jade Parker (born 1991) is a British writer, critic, curator and researcher based in South London whose work stems from her interest in internationalist Black cultural production. She received a MA in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths College, University of London, and is a founding member of the interdisciplinary collective Thick/er Black Lines and a contributing editor of frieze.
Accessibility at the Ritzy
- The screening will take place in Screen 2 which is on the ground floor
- Screen 2 has 3 wheelchair spaces. To reserve one of these spaces please email [email protected]
- A BSL-interpreter is available upon request, please let us know in advance via [email protected]
- Guide dogs are welcome. If you are bringing a guide dog please let us know in advance via [email protected] so that we can reserve an aisle seat
- Customer toilets are on the ground floor and the first floor. An adapted toilet for wheelchair users is located on the ground floor on the main corridor to the screens
- To discuss any other access adjustments please email [email protected]
Image credit: Shanti Panchal, Across the Barrier (Shadwell Anti-Racism Mural, GLC), 1951. © courtesy of Shanti Panchal
Event venue & nearby stays
Ritzy Cinema and Cafe, Coldharbour Lane, London, United Kingdom
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