LÂL YILMAZ: AS ABOVE, SO BELOW: An upcoming exhibition at 8 Holland Street Flagship, St James's Park

8 Holland Street is excited to announce the exhibition featuring new works by artist Lâl Yilmaz. "As Above, So Below" will be on view at our flagship gallery in St James’s Park, London, from 29 January to 3 April 2026. 

As Above, So Below presents a range of paintings and drawings inviting the viewer into a world where narratives unfold to be felt rather than defined. Each piece is an offering, a portal of memory, a duality of connection and release - a wish, a ritual, a healing. 

Yılmaz’s visual language links the works together where motifs are emotionally charged and recur, creating personal mythologies that chart an internal landscape. Her worlds are both deeply personal but have a universality, inhabited by figures that are vessels of our shared human experience. They emerge and disappear, existing between solitude and togetherness, self and other, to unmask the complexities of our inner lives. Yılmaz interprets the magic realism of life through her lens, something at once intimate and vast, familiar yet strange.

Lâl Yılmaz is a visual artist based in London and Istanbul, working across drawing, painting and printed textiles. Her practice unravels thought and emotion through an intentional yet spontaneous, mapping the maze of her inner world across paper and canvas. Drawing on a personal library of symbols, Yılmaz explores connection, an interplay of dualities and transformation. Colour, texture and gesture become instruments of a somatic inquiry where theatrical yet intimate engagements of figures create a narrative — layering the mystical with the everyday.

Yılmaz is currently undertaking the Drawing Year at the Royal Drawing School, London.