M E M E N T O A M O R I S

Remember love. Remember to love. Remember, you must love.

7 February - 15 March 2026

The Lido Stores’ annual Alt Valentine’s open call returns with its fifth iteration, Memento Amoris – ‘Remember love. Remember to love. Remember, you must love’.

This year’s line‑up has been selected from more than 1,200 submissions by gallery owner‑curator Kristen Healy, who has transformed Galleries 1 and 2 with works from over 120 artists. This is The Lido Stores’ sole open call of 2026.

Memento Amoris is the gallery’s most expansive exhibition yet – a vibrant cross‑section of contemporary art practices from a truly fantastic cadre of artists. “The Alt Valentines show has grown rapidly from a fun, light start to the year, to an exhibition with real depth and quality,” says Healy, “albeit it’s important that we want to keep that ethos and retain a bit of levity – it’s February, it’s cold and it’s dark and there’s enough going on in the world!”

The Lido Stores’ Alt Valentine’s exhibition has become a tremendously popular, well-attended and fun event in the gallery’s calendar. Expect an engaging salon-style hang full of intriguing and sometimes downright outrageous conversations between pieces.

Exhibition Programme

Winter 2026

Memento Amoris

Alt. Valentines Open Call
7 February - 15 March 2026
123 Artists are included in the shortlist for this year’s Alt. Valentines Exhibition. All work riffs on what it is to love, & sustain love through life’s many challenges.
Join us at the opening reception on Saturday, 7 February, 7-9pm, to see the display and meet some of the exhibiting artists.
Disco Disorder Sheila Rennick

G2 | 25 April - 23 May
Disco Disorder is a series of paintings born from restrictions, creative urgency, and destructive tendencies. Themes of femininity, motherhood, popular culture, and social media emerge through both raw, instinctive works created quickly and pieces that evolve slowly over time.

M E M E N T O A M O R I S

Memento Amoris

Disco Disorder Sheila Rennick