ING Discerning Eye 2025 - Private View
With three back-to-back exhibitions (including some overlaps!), I’m finally able to share more about the Private View for this year’s ING Discerning Eye Exhibition at Mall Galleries.
Chosen from over 6,500 submissions, it was a privilege to be part of the show exhibiting my work ‘US‘, which is available to buy directly through the ING website. You can see it in person until Sunday 23rd November 2025.
The inspiration for this piece began over 15 years ago, during my very first firing. A tiny fragment emerged when two completely different materials and shapes fused together, supporting one another in the most beautifully delicate and balanced way. I’ve kept that fragment on my shelf ever since, and it has always felt like the best tiny sculpture I’ve ever had.
In recent years, as I’ve been developing a new body of sculptural porcelain vessels, I felt compelled to revisit and remake that tiny form using the techniques I’ve been refining. I didn’t create it with the ING Discerning Eye in mind, but when the opportunity arose, submitting it felt right.
The piece expresses exactly what I want to express: how two very different forms can support each other simply by being themselves, contrasting yet coexisting in a quiet, balanced harmony.
📍 Mall Galleries, London
🗓️ 14th - 23rd November 2025
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A few glimpses from the Private View:
With the exhibiting piece, ‘US’.
Some more images taken during the ING Discerning Eye Exhibition private view.
The Private View evening was full of energy, and buzzing with anticipation from everyone there. As you can see from some of the images above, it was so packed that it was almost impossible to take a proper photograph of any of the works - including my own.
Towards the end of the night, the awards ceremony by The Art Ladder was genuine, empowering, and deeply touching, with heartfelt speeches from Sarah Hall, the chair of ING, along with the panel, and The Art Ladder directors.
I am so appreciative and thankful to ING Discerning Eye for creating opportunities like this — platforms where artists, regardless of background or education, have the chance to be selected and showcase their work. My thanks also go to the panel for their selection and for curating an incredible exhibition, and to Polly Morgan for selecting my work. In the exhibition book, she explained that the quality of submissions was so high and that she responded particularly to works that showed restraint in their palette and ambition. Reading this meant a great deal to me. And finally, thank you to The Art Ladder and everyone involved for championing artists with such dedication.
If you’d like to see where my work will be exhibited next, take a look at my upcoming exhibitions, or sign up to my newsletter to be kept up to date. You can also explore exclusive pieces available directly from me through my newly launched online shop.
Warmly,
Belgin