Hello!
Our names and Johanna and Jon - we are the team behind Glasshouse Contemporary. After meeting in India a long time ago, we have been doing life alongside each other in various parts of the globe. Now settled in East London - we adore this vibrant, creative corner of the world.
Johanna is the artist, gallery director and the face you will see most often! After 8 years working in gallery management, this is the first gallery of her own. Our gallery houses her painting studio as well as the ever-changing and exquisitely curated selection of works by the Glasshouse Artists. We can't wait to see you in the space!
Why Glasshouse?
Since playing in the small glasshouse in her grandparent’s back garden as a child, Johanna has found them to be magical, liminal spaces. Somewhere between indoor or outdoor, the sleek glass panes enclose a hot, earthy and abundant wilderness.
This became a visual metaphor of order and chaos in her mind, and it summarises what she loves most about art... the space between control and play, abstraction and representation, fragility and strength. She loves glasshouses. She loves the in-betweens.