Isthmus

As part of 'Cubitt Invites', join Saturday Socials and artist Lucy Steggals in Studio 5 at Cubitt (8 Angel Mews, London, N1 9HH) on Saturday 7th June, from 12–2 pm, for a creative celebration of 'Isthmus (or studio 5) - the space between, a neck, a bridge. 

As always, we will have biscuits and hot drinks. You can also visit the rest of the artist studios at Cubitt.

To find out more or to rsvp so that we have an idea of numbers please contact Harri (email [email protected] , call 020 7278 8226, or text Mobile 07774282167 (checked on Thursdays and during events).

Led by visual artist Lucy Steggals and supported by Cubitt’s Community Projects Curator Harri Harrison, Saturday Socials is a welcoming space for local older people to explore creativity, share ideas, and connect with others. 

Cubitt Invites… is a celebration of friendship and connection with guest artists showing across the studios at Cubitt. Artists studios will be open between 12 - 6 pm on Saturday 7th June.

📸 Drawing by Mike 

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. 

Supported by Artists Lucy Steggals & Harri Harrison