Cubitt Gallery
Saturday Socials was a friendly, relaxed, collective ( for over 55’s) who met monthly at Cubitt Gallery to share creativity, ideas, connection and to play. Led by Artist Lucy Steggals and supported by Cubitt’s Community Projects Curator Harri Harrison. It was was established in 2012 in partnership with All Change and North London Cares and continued till March 2026 through funding from Islington Giving. There was always tea, coffee, biscuits and sometimes there were eggs, pegs, honesty and oranges (HOPE).
2026 11-1
11-1
A collaboration between: Jody O’Brien- Audio Recording, Collage & Production, Lucy Steggals- Artwork, Saturday Socials & Harri Harrison
Cubitt Gallery the last remaining artist run gallery and studio space in Central London is having to close its doors. The intention for this tape was to attempt to capture and leave a record of the feeling, laughter, traces and crumbs that happened between 11-1 on repeat on the 1st Saturday of the month for over 10 years.
2025 ISTHMUS (or Studio 5)
The space between, a neck, a bridge
Spin, connect on a carousel, quietly remember
It’s brain fog, take a running jump on a metal pony
It’s a happy place
Intersections, questions, exclamations and faces
Away from boring life
A transition, where thoughts become strange to themselves
A waiting room between heaven and earth
The city of now collapses
Plants grow into the next ideal
Teetering on the edge, just balanced
Take one thing away and it all crumbles
A magic trick, chaos as it is in this world
Hopefully it will be better in the next
There are fish and peacocks
Everything swings around, its colourful, chaotic
It’s not two big bits
It’s the big bit in the middle and the smaller bits on each side
Holes through words, a poem on a parasol
Let me play, leave us be
Liminal loops, leaping lizards
Lean on loving
Text written in May 2025 by Saturday Socials. A collaborative musing on what happens here at
Cubitt in Studio 5 for two hours once a month.
2024 Spoons, Cups & Other Vessels
2023 Lavender Lines
A year spent exploring ways to weave warmth through Islington. Hosting an event at the Arc and co-creating a fanzine.
2022 #bodyhouse2022
2021 #somebody2021
2020 Anthropomorphic Indignant Why?
2019 HOPE (Honesty, Oranges, Pegs and Eggs)
2018 Ings (Holding, Shaking, Gazing, Net-Working) & An Edible Portion of Truth
2017
lucysteggals.co.uk 