There’s Rice at Home: Our First Exhibition of the Year

We are beyond proud to announce There’s Rice at Home, the first ever solo exhibition from Kazvare, coming to Havant House this May.

Why Kazvare

If you’ve followed The Lemon Seed Project for a while, you’ll know that we don’t just put work on walls. Every artist we work with is chosen because something about their practice feels right for this space for this home. Kazvare has been on our radar for some time. Her work has been part of Havant House, and every single person who comes through mentions it. So when the conversation about a solo show began, it felt less like a decision and more like an inevitability.

To say we’re excited is an understatement. Her first solo show. With us.

About Kazvare

Kazvare is an artist and illustrator whose work explores the everyday language, humour and contradictions of Black British life and the diaspora. Her playful yet powerful take on identity, culture and politics makes complex ideas feel accessible and deeply relatable. She uses bright colours and humour as the disarming weapons through which her messages are carried — work that makes you laugh before it makes you think, and then stays with you long after both.

She is also anonymous. And intentionally so. In her own words, she likes the idea that people encounter her ideas first. The work leads. Everything else follows.

About the Exhibition

There’s Rice at Home considers how Black British life is lived, not only in public, but in private. In the objects we use, the language we speak, and the conditions we are expected to endure.

The exhibition brings together illustrations, text-based works, and materially reworked pieces that move between humour and critique, the intimate and the political. Familiar household products are subtly altered to reveal how Black British language already circulates through British life.

Set within the domestic space of Havant House, the exhibition collapses the boundary between the private and the political.

Expect to leave feeling entertained. But also slightly provoked.

Why a Home

One of the things that makes this exhibition so fitting is where it’s taking place. Havant House is not a gallery. It is a home first. The works in this show are in direct conversation with their surroundings. The domestic setting isn’t just a backdrop. It is part of the work.

Come and See It

Private View — Friday 1st May, 6–9pm

By invitation only. Invites dropping soon.

Public Viewing — Saturday 2nd May & Saturday 9th May 2026

Free, ticketed. Slots available: 12–1pm / 1–2pm / 2–3pm

UPDATE: FREE TICKETS OUT NOW.

This is Kazvare’s first solo show. It will not feel like anything else you see this year.

There’s Rice at Home is presented by The Lemon Seed Project at Havant House, London.