Errant Grammars
Louise Hapton, Paul Majek, Blossom Oyeyipo,
Corinne Slade and Austin Uzor
September 25 – October 31, 2026
Stump Gallery in collaboration with DADA Gallery
Louise Hapton, We are One, 2026, Porcelain, 7.9 x 12.2 x 8.7 inches (2.29 x 30.99 x 22.10 cm)
Calling a flower flesh. Mistaking a vessel for a face. Remembering a place differently from how it was. Believing that something without a body might nevertheless possess one. These are small errors, if at all. Errant Grammars begins with the suspicion that misrecognition might be productive: that the distance between what something is and what it could be is not empty space, but where work begins. The exhibition brings together Louise Hapton, Paul Majek, Blossom Oyeyipo, Corrine Slade and Austin Uzor, whose practices share an appetite for this distance. Their fabulated images and objects do not abandon the recognizable so much as worry at its edges. Things retain enough of themselves to be named and then, almost imperceptibly, begin behaving otherwise.Fabulation need not invent anything at all. It takes the furniture of an existing world — bodies, rooms, flora, memories, vessels, myths — and puts it back incorrectly. An interior can become a psychological state. A figure can read as terrain. A petal can pass for skin. Belief rendered material. Nothing is entirely transformed, yet nothing remains obedient to its taxonomy. The works in Errant Grammars are full of these categorical indiscretions. They are less interested in inventing another world than in discovering what else this one might be made to accommodate. Fiction is structural: somewhere to put a feeling, a trace, a form or a self for which reality has not provided adequate architecture.
Text by Yasmin Patel
Paul Majek (b. 2000) is based in London and received his BFA in Fine Art from the University of Oxford’s Ruskin School of Art in 2023 and completed his postgraduate studies at the Royal Drawing School in 2024.
Blossom Oyeyipo (b. 1998, Lagos, Nigeria) is a visual artist working in drawing and painting. Rooted in Yorùbá cosmology, particularly the philosophy of orà (the inner head), her practice investigates the threshold of consciousness and the hypnagogic state where the self is most porous.
Corinne Slade (b. 1998, Montclair, NJ) is an oil painter living and working in Chicago. Slade received a BFA from the School of Art Institute of Chicago.
Austin Uzor (b.1991, Nigeria) is a painter living and working in Texas. Uzor received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing and Painting from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. In 2021, he graduated from the University of North Texas with a Master of Fine Arts in Drawing and Painting.
Louise Hapton (b.2004) is a French writer, painter, ceramicist and mixed-media sculptor based in London. A graduate of the University of Westminster’s Fine Art Mixed Media BA, she completed an MA in Ceramics and Glass at the Royal College of Art.
