# The Bright Eyes of Children

OCD Gallery's pop-up for Frieze Week London shows sculpture, painting and print by six artists in a nineteenth-century Fitzrovia house that was once half of Pollock's Toy Museum. The show is about attention before interpretation, and the building's layered interiors replace white walls.

- Type: Show
- When: Thursday 15 October 2026, 12:00 PM (BST) until Oct 15 – 17
- Where: Pollock's Theatrical Print Warehouse, 41 Whitfield Street, London, W1T 2SG
- Artists: Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka, Luke Hamel Cooke, William Lowry, Selena Corsellis, Talia Golchin, and Atalanta Xanthe
- Part of: [Frieze Week 2026](https://artweekguide.com/weeks/frieze-week-2026)
- Event's own page: https://oscarchloedirectory.com/
- On Art Week Guide: https://artweekguide.com/events/the-bright-eyes-of-children

## From the organiser

The Bright Eyes of Children, is OCD Gallery's pop-up exhibition for Frieze Week London, opening Thursday 15 October at 41 Whitfield Street, Fitzrovia.

This is not an exhibition about childhood, nor a nostalgic one. It is about a way of looking that artists spend whole careers protecting: attention before interpretation, curiosity before certainty, and the instinct to make before the need to explain. It runs through sculpture, painting and print by Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka, Luke Hamel Cooke, William Lowry, Selena Corsellis, Talia Golchin and Atalanta Xanthe.

In place of white walls, the work fills a nineteenth-century house of uneven floors, narrow stairs and decades of layered paint. Once part of the neighbouring pub, it spent more than fifty years as one half of Pollock’s Toy Museum, keeper of the Victorian toy theatres that children cut out, coloured and brought to life by hand. Its shopfront still reads Pollock’s Theatrical Print Warehouse. Here the building is not a backdrop but part of how the work is seen.

The title comes from Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1884 essay in praise of Pollock’s toy-theatre shop: “If you love art, folly, or the bright eyes of children, speed to Pollock’s…”

## Also on Thursday 15 October

- **All day** · [Yinka Shonibare and Thomas Gainsborough: A Conversation — Display Opens](https://artweekguide.com/events/yinka-shonibare-and-thomas-gainsborough-a-conversation-display-opens) — Museum at National Gallery, Room 1. A display at the National Gallery's Room 1 pairs Yinka Shonibare's *Mr and Mrs Andrews without their Heads* with the Thomas Gainsborough painting that inspired it. It is the first time the two works have been shown side by side. The display runs to 7 February.
- **All day** · [Frieze Masters — Public Days](https://artweekguide.com/events/frieze-masters-public-days) — Fair at Frieze Masters. A fair of about 140 galleries showing work from antiquity to the 20th century, held as part of Frieze Week 2026 in London. It adds a new thread, *Queering Modernism*, alongside the Spotlight and Reflections sections. Entry is ticketed and an RSVP is needed.
- **8:30 AM** · [Passages: Breakfast Talk at Monologue](https://artweekguide.com/events/passages-breakfast-talk-at-monologue) — Breakfast & Brunch at Monologue Showroom. A design breakfast at Monologue Showroom, part of Frieze Week 2026, where Paraforma's José María Balmaceda, Simone Bossi and Valentina Grittini discuss memory and materials. Busola Evans moderates the conversation. Entry is free, with an RSVP required.
- **9:30 AM** · [Breakfast: Georgie Hopton & Blanche Vaughan at Lyndsey Ingram](https://artweekguide.com/events/breakfast-georgie-hopton-blanche-vaughan-at-lyndsey-ingram) — Breakfast & Brunch at Lyndsey Ingram. Artist Georgie Hopton and food writer Blanche Vaughan discuss the ritual of food over breakfast at Lyndsey Ingram gallery. The event forms part of the Mount Street Arts Festival during Frieze Week in London. RSVP is required.