A person sits on a chair in the centre of a room, reading a book, surrounded by tall, rectangular mirrors on wheeled stands. The room has wood panelling, large windows, and a chandelier hanging from the ceiling. The photo is black and white.

Curator-led Tour: Katherine Hubbard, The Great Room and Bill Walton, A Form Of Honesty

Amy Jones, Curator (Exhibitions) leads introductions to Katherine Hubbard, The Great Room and Bill Walton, A Form of Honesty, providing insight into the work of both artists and the development of the two exhibitions.

  • Katherine Hubbard, The Great Room

For her first solo institutional exhibition outside the US, Hubbard presents her largest photography and sculptural installation to date. The artist has transformed the gallery at Studio Voltaire into a labyrinth that references the partition wall used to turn ‘the Great Room’ of her mother’s Philadelphia home into a makeshift bedroom. With her intimate portraits, Hubbard explores the shifting relationship between mother and daughter, photographer and subject, to reflect on experiences of grief, visibility and illness. 

  • Bill Walton, A Form of Honesty

Also the artist’s first solo institutional exhibition, Studio Voltaire presents a number of Walton’s surprising and sentimental works from across his sculptural practice. Assemblages of lead, wood, copper, glass, concrete and textile illuminate Walton’s view that materials in his work remained in flux, subject to change both in their making and in their encounter with the viewer. Through the formal language of minimalism, the exhibition showcases Walton’s clever illusions that obscure and reveal the world around us by subtly playing with perception, artifice and material truth.

The Great Room runs until 10 January 2027

A Form of Honesty runs until 17 January 2027

The Great Room | Lead Programme Supporter: The Ampersand Foundation. Programme Supporters: The Henry Moore Foundation, The Elephant Trust and Bella Kesoyan. With additional support from the Katherine Hubbard Exhibition Circle. Studio Voltaire’s Programmes are core funded by The Studio Voltaire Council.

A Form Of Honesty | With support from the Bill Walton Exhibition Circle. Special thanks to The Bill Walton Estate, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia and Sweetwater, Berlin.

  1. Katherine Hubbard (b. 1981, Philadelphia, lives and works in New York). Recent solo exhibitions include The great room, Company Gallery, New York (2023); Avoid glancing blows, Company Gallery, New York (2020); Katherine Hubbard, Higher Pictures, New York (2018); stages, Baxter St. Camera Club of New York, New York (2017); and Bring your own lights, The Kitchen, New York (2016). Group exhibitions include Time Management Techniques, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2022); Ecstatic Land, Marfa Ballroom, Texas (2022); A Collection of Slow Events, The Luminary, St. Louis, Missouri (2017); The Artist’s Museum, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2016); and Greater New York, MoMA PS1 (2015). 

    Hubbard’s performances have been presented at the Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas; Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Her work is included in the permanent collection at the Whitney Museum of American Art. 

    Hubbard is a 2024 Guggenheim fellow in photography and received her MFA in 2010 from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College and is currently an Associate Professor and MFA Program Faculty Director at Pratt School of Art.

  2. Bill Walton (b. 1931, Camden, New Jersey, USA; d. 2010, Philadelphia, USA) worked as a commercial printmaker and taught at the Moore College of Art and Design (1974–1990). His first solo exhibition took place in 1971 in Philadelphia, where he would have regular exhibitions until his death in 2010. Posthumous exhibitions have been held at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2011); Drexel University, Philadelphia (2014); and Portikus, Frankfurt (2025).

    His work is included in the permanent collections of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, and the Yale University Gallery.

  3. This event will take place between the Gallery 1 and Gallery 2. Additional seating will be available. If you have any questions or need assistance with your visit, please feel welcome to contact us at +44 (0) 20 7622 1294 or access@studiovoltaire.org. Read Studio Voltaire's full access information here.

    1. Katherine Hubbard, one fifty one (mom reads the new yorker), 2022. Silver gelatin photograph. Image courtesy of the artist and Company Gallery, New York.
    2. Installation view of Bill Walton, 2023, at Sweetwater, Berlin. Image courtesy of the Estate of Bill Walton and Sweetwater. Photo: Joanna Wilk.

Free, booking essential

Saturday 31 October 2026, 2–2.30 pm

Book
A black-and-white photo by Katherine Hubbard shows her elderly mother on a bed, leaning forward. A mirror by the window reflects them gently touching a child's face. The room has patterned curtains, a headboard, a stuffed animal box, and soft daylight from outside.

Katherine Hubbard
The Great Room

Exhibition
A textured, abstract artwork with three overlapping, raised quadrilateral shapes in muted beige and grey tones, arranged on a rectangular canvas. The layered surfaces feature subtle linear patterns, creating depth and shadow against a white background.

Bill Walton
A Form Of Honesty

Exhibition