Championing Emerging Artists UK Wide
Access | Care | Resistance

Location: Arts Against Knives, 162 High Rd, London, N2 9AS

Creative Opps presents Co:Lab with Arts Against Knives is a collective exhibition showcasing work by nine emerging artists from the Creative Opps Membership Programme. Taking place on 20 March 2026 at Arts Against Knives, London, Co:Lab explores inclusion, access and community power in the contemporary creative landscape.

Developed in partnership with Arts Against Knives and co-curated by Maddie Tichborne and Bolu Kolawole, the exhibition centres voices from disabled, neurodivergent, racialised and working-class backgrounds. Featuring visual art, film, sound, writing, installation and interactive digital works, Co:Lab brings together deeply personal and politically engaged reflections on belonging, identity and creative empowerment — with many artists exhibiting publicly for the first time.

Alongside the exhibition, young people from Arts Against Knives’ programmes will gain hands-on experience in curation, installation, production and marketing, ensuring the project creates wider opportunities beyond the exhibiting artists themselves. Funded in part by FundAction, Co:Lab is both an artistic and activist project rooted in youth leadership, accessibility and collective care.