outhouse gallery
outhouse (London)
outhouse gallery is a small, independent, artist run creative space located in Brunswick Park, Camberwell. As a former public toilet, the gallery’s mission is to be open, public and accessible to both facilitators and visitors – from free exhibitions, live performances, and workshops to publishing articles online and in outhouse magazine.
Proposal
In this solo exhibition Mina Fouladi explores fragments of memory, movement and place through painting. Working from personal photographic archives, the paintings examine how images preserve fleeting experiences and how memories are shaped by what is visible and what remains obscured. Moving between intimate interiors, urban landscapes and material fragments, the works consider painting as a form of documentation, a way of slowing down images and tracing the relationship between personal experience and the spaces we inhabit.
Mina Fouladi is a British-Iranian visual artist working between Iran and the UK. Her practice moves between the streets and the studio, balancing self-preservation and release while examining the distance and dislocation of diasporic life. Transforming photographs, often taken on her phone, into small detailed paintings, she works directly on walls in both public and gallery spaces, often erasing the work after documentation so that only a photograph remains. Creating a copy of a copy.
Fouladi’s work navigates the paradox of holding on and letting go, preserving fleeting moments of home while accepting their inevitable disappearance. She weaves personal and
collective histories into public space, and through that aims to humanise landscapes often flattened by media narratives, while reflecting on the redevelopment and conflict that fragment both cities and identities. She has painted directly on urban walls in Tehran and created site-specific ephemeral works for exhibitions including outhouse gallery and Copeland Gallery, where the act of erasure was as central as the act of painting.
Fouladi holds a BA in Architecture from Central Saint Martins and an MA in Fine Art Painting from Camberwell College of Arts. She has exhibited widely in London and Tehran, including as a member of the 2024 Rich Mix Resonates: Mehfil – The Art of Resistance cohort. Most recently, during the ceasefire of the US/Israel– Iran war she was part of a group exhibition called For Example: My Eyes are Whistling held in Vali Gallery in Tehran.
