Small Weathers – James Seow

​Exhibition Dates & Opening Hours: 14th of November - 30th of Novermber 2025

Open Thursday–Sunday, 14:00–18:00

The Transformation Gallery is pleased to present Small Weathers, a solo exhibition by London-based Malaysian artist James Seow. Working across photography, sculpture, and installation, Seow’s practice explores the fragile interdependence between cultivation and wildness, memory and maintenance. His intricate, constructed images reflect on the quiet dramas of ecological attention and care, often drawing from both Eastern and Western visual traditions.

Private View:

Join us for the opening on Thursday 13th of November from 18:00 to 21:00 at The Transformation Gallery

In Small Weathers, Seow composes miniature, bowl-contained landscapes—micro-biomes of moss, stone, weed, and cultivated fragment. These are not simple dioramas or pristine replicas, but intimate worlds in tension: where the human desire to shape, edit, and control brushes against the persistent unruliness of nature. Each image is carefully staged and slowly constructed, evoking both garden and shrine, dwelling and terrain.

“I’m interested in the tension between gardening as a form of authorship, and nature’s quiet refusal to be fully edited,” Seow writes.“Not diorama, not wilderness, but proposals for living with the living: make room, set gentle limits, accept surprise.”

Mist, scale shifts, and the absence of horizon render these works ambiguous and absorbing—a stone becomes monumental, a weed heroic. These table-top worlds carry a diasporic undertone: portable terrains shaped by memory, migration, and adaptation. Each bowl is a proposition—for how we live alongside living systems, and how we tell stories of care without certainty or permanence.

Seow’s work has been exhibited widely, including at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Anima Mundi Gallery, and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, and is held in public and private collections such as the Royal College of Art, Central Saint Martins, and Brookfield Asset Management. He holds an MA in Printmaking from the Royal College of Art and a BA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins.