Come Quick Disaster
Join us for the upcoming Come Quick Disaster at Chisenhale Studios!
Sunday13th September - 3 - 5 pm
Come Quick Disaster is a free, informal artist-led crit open to artists and anyone interested in art. Two artists bring work to discuss, with the group responding to the work before the artist joins the conversation.
The platform brings together artists at all stages of their careers through engaging critiques, artist talks and curated exhibitions.
Artist Crit 13 features artists Lee Maelzer and Jenny Lewis.
We look forward to welcoming you and to hearing Lee and Jenny share insights into their work.
Free — everyone is welcome.
Lee Maelzer
Lee Maelzer is a London based artist whose paintings explore the poetic potential of used objects, redundant sites and the significance of matter and place. Her work occupies the space between image and landscape, painted and printed surface, often transforming the everyday into something atmospheric, melancholic and quietly uncanny.
Maelzer studied at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art. She has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, with six appearances in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and has twice been shortlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize. She was awarded the Bryan Robertson Trust Award in 2019 and the Abbey Fellowship at the British School at Rome in 2004.
Her work is held in private and public collections internationally, including the BSR Fine Arts Collection, David Roberts Collection, Queen Mary University of London and the University of the Arts Collection.
Maelzer is also a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at the University of East London and has lectured at institutions including Central Saint Martins, the Royal Academy Schools and City & Guilds of London Art School.
Jenny Lewis
In recent years, Jenny has turned to unseen and underrepresented aspects of women’s lives, from birth to menopause. UnBecoming (2024) documents and conceptualises her experience living with a chronic invisible illness while simultaneously navigating the unknown territory of menopause. Her newest project, Autoimmune x Autophoto (2026), extends this inquiry, gathering voices that share a crip perspective.
Her work has been exhibited widely across the UK and internationally, including at the National Portrait Gallery, Pallant House Gallery & Walker Gallery, Liverpool. Her work is also held in many of their collections. Lewis has been selected for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery three times; 2019, 2021 and 2023.
Jenny’s artwork is the subject of books such as One Hundred Years. London: published by Hoxton Mini Press in 2021. “This intimate collection of portraits and stories of Hackney residents at every age from birth to 100 reveals not just a neighbourhood, but the deep sorrows, fierce joys and many contradictions that all our lives contain.”