Found under the noses of Ronny and Holly in reception, the L Gallery is W+K London’s very own exhibition space. Everyone from our finance staff to our Creative Directors are invited to use the L Gallery to let us know a little something about themselves. In the past we’ve had Laura V’s collection of postcards made into houses and Guy’s collection of trainers. This time, Nicholla Longley has had a play with toothpaste, demonstrating that it’s not just an everyday hygiene aid, but also a fantastic art medium… she uses to make sails!

This is
what Nicholla has to say:

"One evening

Coco my daughter, was

brushing her teeth. I
popped downstairs.

Whilst I was downstairs,
she stopped

brushing her teeth, took
the white toothpaste

and squeezed little lines
of toothpaste on to

the bathroom door.

I didn’t notice until the
next morning.

Then I saw what looked
like little white

slugs slithering up and
down the door.

It took me a second to
work out it was

toothpaste.

It looked really gross,
but good. I liked the

fact that real slugs are
horrible, and yet these

toothpaste slugs were
really quite clean

and pleasing to look at. I
also thought

toothpaste was a good
medium to make

sculptures, as it’s quite
pliable but dries

really hard."