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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.
- When
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October 15 – 17, 2026
Opens 12:00 PM (BST)
Add to calendar - Where
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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
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Frieze Week 2026
London · Oct 12 – 18, 2026
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…”
