GRIMM presents a group exhibition, The Fountain Overflows, curated by Yates Norton at the London gallery, to coincide with London gallery weekend (June 5 - 7, 2026).

In his Proverbs of Hell, the visionary poet and artist William Blake wrote: “the cistern contains; the fountain overflows.” For Blake, the fountain symbolised exuberance and the generative logic of relations built from empathy and love. Its baroque, gushing flow celebrated life beyond systems and categories, dogma and cynical rationalism. The cistern, by contrast (contained, still, rational) embodied restriction. For Blake, life was movement and exuberance; its restraint was death.

This exhibition takes Blake’s couplet as a departure point to reflect on exuberance beyond categories and names while also considering Blake’s baroque and overflowing fountain as an allegory of the ‘too-muchness’ of contemporary life, where excess fractures our ability to hold any sense of order. Ranging from an exploration of identity as moving and relational rather than fixed, to the ever shifting relationship to materials and making, the exhibition celebrates the vital power of creativity and poetry as a ceaseless act of responding to and working with the world around us.