Gallery: Electric Kin

May, 10th - 11th, 2025

Free gallery, Cristal Palace, London

Electric Kin
A mythic trio of soft-edged beings, flickering at the threshold of emergence. Painted in saturated gradients on raw cotton, these forms conjure sentient energy - Alert, Dreaming, & In-motion.

Spring is more than blossoming - it’s an inner surge:

Instinctual, Electric, Strange

Each creature is a kind of rebirth - some Crawling, Drifting, or Mid-metamorphosis. They’re not of this world, but of a nearby one:

Spectral kin of a parallel season.

This is the first collaborative series by Mia Upton & Frazer Lyden, long-time creative friends since their BA. Mia is an RCA 2024 graduate exploring colour & speculative transformation through textiles. Frazer, a mixed-media designer from Kent, blends screen printing, airbrush, & sculptural forms - currently on a self-led MA with his grandfather, a former RCA print lecturer.

Their collaboration fuses instinct & structure - Electric Kin celebrates strange, radiant new beginnings.