Maison Monna, creative guesthouse and cultural incubator, joins forces with Max Radford Gallery to unveil Tom Bull’s HARDCORE COTTAGECORE show at Times Square Space on May 14 2026, amid the electric energy of Frieze New York.
The exhibition is the culmination of a one-month residency at Maison Monna - an 18th-century farmhouse in Old Chatham, NY, restored by multi-hyphenate creative Dorian Grinspan. With each residency, Monna invites a single artist to live and work within the home. The programme is rooted in Grinspan’s history of cross-collaboration that began with OUT OF ORDER, the art magazine he founded in 2011.
British-born sculptor and installation artist Tom Bull was introduced to Maison Monna by Max Radford, whose gallery champions artists working at the intersection of craft and art. Together, Grinspan and Radford conceived this first iteration of Monna’s residency programme, inspired by a commitment to giving international artists a platform between Old Chatham and New York City.
Grinspan and Radford are bringing Bull’s body of work - spanning painting, site-specific installations, sculpture and video - to Times Square Space, a non-profit artist residency and exhibition programme, founded by the renowned curator and art collector, Tiffany Zabludowicz in 2016.
Exhibited pieces were imagined during - and in response to - Bull’s time at Maison Monna. Among the works, a sculpture will return to Maison Monna at the close of the exhibition and become a part of its permanent collection on show at the property.
Tom Bull comments on the upcoming exhibition: “Located within the dense Shaker landscape, between Shaker Museum and Hancock Shaker Village, I spent time with both institutions, gaining insight into how Shaker objects and ideas are preserved, interpreted, and carried forward. Working within a house formerly owned by a Shaker antiques dealer, I was surrounded not only by the legacy of Shaker design but by its continued presence within contemporary life. This created an active environment where historical material wasn’t distant or static, but something more dynamic and continually worked through.
The work focuses on tensions where order, belief, and restraint sit alongside excess and disorientation. It also responds to the current resurgence of Shaker aesthetics, often reduced to a nostalgic or nationalist image of purity and minimalism. The work pushes against this, treating Shaker design as unstable, conflicted, and open to reinterpretation. Presenting this in Times Square is important. Its intensity and spectacle sit in direct contrast to the rural conditions the work emerged from, sharpening the friction within the exhibition.
I’m hugely grateful to Max Radford Gallery for their continued commitment to my practice and for the collaboration that made this project possible. I would also like to sincerely thank Dorian Grinspan and Maison Monna for the invitation and support throughout the residency, and Tiffany Zabludowicz and Times Square Space for providing such a strong context to present the work._”_
Dorian Grinspan comments: _“_I am tremendously excited to introduce Tom Bull’s practice to an American audience. Particularly in the context of our inaugural artist-in-residence show at Maison Monna. I am also very proud of collaborating with Max on this show and incredibly grateful to Tiffany for lending us her pioneering space for the occasion. Their profound commitment to art and artists is something that we share and I look forward to continuing to build the platform that is Monna into an evolving space for artistic experimentation outside of established systems_.”_
Max Radford comments: _“_We are very excited to be presenting this new body of Tom Bull’s work at Times Square Space in collaboration with Dorian and Maison Monna. Tom’s work has such a deep resonance in the exploration of the country and shaker culture so that when we were approached by Dorian to work together on the residency at Monna he felt like the perfect fit. The body of work we are presenting reflects the artist’s close relationship to the area in which Monna sits as well as insight that would not be possible without the time spent on the land. We look forward to sharing with a New York audience Tom’s playful contextualisation of this work in the office setting that Tiffany has so kindly provided_.”_