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Found, discarded, recycled materials: jute, fabric, twine, plastic, nylon, polystyrene, rope, wood, wire & thread.
305x190x275cm
Somerset-based, Kenya-born artist Fiona Campbell creates site-responsive sculpture, installation, and textiles centred on sustainability. A Royal Society of Sculptors member, she exhibits internationally and received the Gilbert Bayes Award in 2019.
Campbell reappropriates discarded materials through weaving and handstitching, highlighting the wasteful textiles industry and overconsumption. Her art responds to trauma, connecting care, activism, and ecological repair.
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Oil pastel on Aso-Oke fabric.
40.5x51cm
London-based Nigerian-Ghanaian artist Yasser Claud-Ennin layers vibrant figuration onto West African textiles, exploring identity, migration, and heritage. His work has featured in Christie’s Lates Voices of Black Artistry and in international collections.
This work on Aso-Oke fabric is a tender meditation on familial bonds, childhood memory, and the quiet beauty of everyday moments. It is a portrait of joy and unity.
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Acrylic on canvas board.
40x80cm
Peter Davis creates portraits exploring technology addiction, mental health, race, and gender. His work has been exhibited at the John Moores Painting Prize, Aesthetica Art Prize, and the National Portrait Gallery.
This double portrait of the same woman examines unconscious bias through clothing. Using chiaroscuro, the work highlights how visual signifiers can shift our perceptions of people.
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London plane, stainless steel & beeswax.
80x35x7cm
London-based sculptor and printmaker, Lucy Ellerton studied at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and at the Royal College of Art. She is a current resident at the Sarabande Foundation.
Ellerton transforms disposable objects into cultural portraits, reimagining the familiar through labour-intensive processes. Ellerton’s wooden scampi fries sculpture preserves a pub culture icon, reflecting on identity, inclusivity, and impermanence.
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Oil on dibond aluminium.
56x78cm
London-based painter Samantha Fellows, has exhibited internationally, including Los Angeles and London. She has a BFA in Fine Art from Oregon State University and recently graduated from the Turps Art School Correspondence Course.
Fellows paints fleeting sensations as souvenirs of memory. Through translucent layers of oils, she creates snapshots of forgotten encounters, evoking nostalgia and photographic immediacy.
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Charcoal & pastel on paper.
53x76xcm
Representational artist David Gleeson works in drawing and painting, with a lifelong focus on figuration. He has exhibited widely in both solo and group shows while also teaching art throughout his career.
Gleeson’s work captures the winter landscape’s quiet stillness. Using charcoal and pastel, he reworks surfaces until calm resolves into presence.
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Drypoint etching. 15x19.5cm
London-based Leggy Gordon, a Royal Drawing School graduate, explores human experiences including loss, illness, and mortality, through drawing and etching. Following a double mastectomy, her recent self-portraits investigate vulnerability, intimacy, and the enigmatic nature of memory.
In this etching, Gordon depicts her post-mastectomy scarring, confronting the idea of femininity and what it means to her. The work examines the theme of personal transformation.
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Pastel on folded handmade paper. 36x25cm
Italian-British artist Lavinia Harrington, studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, and the University of Oxford. She was shortlisted for the Chadwell Award and was awarded The Audrey Wykeham Prize for Painting.
Harrington works intuitively with pastel, folding and layering material. This work considers the resonance of emotion and memory, drawing on tides as metaphors for the forces linking time and experience.
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Mixed drawing media and gesso, on hemp, mounted to panel. 80x60cm
Australian-born, London-based Nikola Hrga trained at the Florence Academy of Art and City & Guilds, London. His psychologically charged paintings and drawings combine realist tradition with subtle surrealism, inviting reflection and narrative ambiguity.
Peripheral is a psychologically nuanced mixed-media work set within the artist’s studio. It serves as a self-portrait and invites the viewer to consider how we perceive, experience, and construct meaning.
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Oil on hardwood plywood. 100x80cm
London-based painter Lorena Levi graduated from Edinburgh University with an MA in Fine Art in 2021. She has exhibited widely and was part of Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2022 and The RSA New Contemporaries 2023.
This painting explores the subject of illness and treatment, particularly hair loss during chemotherapy, and reflects on shifts in our perceived identity while undergoing medical interventions.
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Oil on canvas. 110x80cm
Formerly homeless, Tony Margerrison began painting murals at squat parties before becoming known for portraits and London street scenes, using painting as a way to document and transform lived urban experience.
Margerrison’s portrait captures his DJ friend applying makeup before a gig. It reflects blurred boundaries between public and private identity in contemporary life.
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Oil paint, oil stick and oil pastel on canvas. 72x72cm
Oxford-based painter Andrew McNeile Jones, Ruskin School of Art graduate and former filmmaker, creates narrative-driven works informed by cinematic lighting and set design. Winner of the ING Discerning Eye Prize 2022, he exhibits widely.
McNeile Jones’s paintings capture city life through reflections and shadows. His layered perspectives reveal isolation, fleeting connection, and hidden narratives within urban spaces.
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Acrylic yarn, polyester, metal & card. Dimensions variable.
London-based satirical artist WOTW creates provocative works engaging politics and protest. His interventions include installations in Soho and Buckingham Palace. His work was recently acquired by the Fitzwilliam Museum.
WOTW explores the relationship between politics and football by reimagining the notorious ‘half-and-half’ scarf. Teams are replaced with opposing sides of the 'culture war', drawing parallels between political polarisation and football fan tribalism.
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Jesmonite, steel & insulation. 300x90x30cm
Based in Margate, sculptor Josh C Wright trained at Camberwell College of Arts and was shortlisted for the Ingram Prize 2020. Reworking salvaged construction materials, his site-responsive sculptures probe ecological degradation, urbanisation and gentrification.
Wright reimagines brick as weightless, suspended in fragile equilibrium. The work inhabits a shifting territory between permanence and collapse, structure and fragility.
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Watercolour on paper. 20.3x15.2cm
London-based painter Florence Yuqing RI was the youngest elected member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours in 2023. She has won multiple prizes, and her work is collected internationally.
This watercolour portrait of an imaginary girl blends reality with illusion, adding an otherworldly quality to the portrait. The work evokes a sense of something that feels both real and unreal.
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Oil and woodcut on 80 panels of linen. 200x240cm
Artist, curator, and art educator Bella Easton studied at the Royal Academy Schools. She exhibits internationally and has presented work in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the John Moores Painting Prize, and The Cass Art Prize 2024.
Easton’s multi-panel work merges printmaking and painting, exploring transitional space. Evoking an interior landscape, it sits at a threshold between interior and exterior, memory and imagination, structure and collapse.
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Acrylic on canvas. 60x76cm
London-based figurative artist Tom Mead was a Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year finalist in 2019. His award-winning works have been exhibited widely across the UK and explore existentialism and nostalgia.
Mead paints cardboard sets inspired by miniatures and stop-motion to blur scale, realism, and space. His uncanny self-portrait references the anxiety attacks he used to have whilst eating in public.
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Oil on linen. 40x60cm
Birmingham-based painter Annette Pugh has exhibited extensively, including at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and the RWA. Her work was recently featured in the Anomie Review of Contemporary Painting 3.
In this painting, Pugh depicts a woodshed as a metaphor for solace. It reflects fleeting memory, human presence, and emotional connection to place.
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Paper on canvas. 60x60x5cm
A recent Fine Art graduate from Loughborough University, Jess Beaton explores sensory communication through intricate paper-cut forms inspired by photomicrography. Her vibrant, textured works blur boundaries between painting and sculpture, investigating colour, depth, and illusion.
Beaton’s paper-cut work magnifies a rose’s microscopic details, mimicking spikes and stems through sharp abstractions, merging natural beauty with delicate intricacy.
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Acrylic on canvas. 140x110cm
A London-based artist from Ghaziabad, Lakshya Bhargava explores queer identity, joy, and memory through painting and drawing. Awarded the Elizabeth Greenshield Grant and Tata Trust Biennale Award, he is now studying his MFA at the Slade School of Fine Art.
Bhargava’s paintings revisit memories and queer experiences, exploring visibility, love, and joy as acts of defiance. His work resists heteronormativity through personal storytelling.
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Quilt & needle felt. 86x66cm
Cambridge-based textile artist Loke Catafalque explores queer and trans identity, spirituality, and the relationship between the surgical and the sewn. He is currently studying Fine Art at Anglia Ruskin University, exhibiting locally.
Patient Quill T. is a surgical quilt that explores the relationship between the artist’s experience with gender affirming top surgery and his identity as a textile artist.
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Pastel and coloured pencil on archival paper. 65x50cm
Bedford-based artist Talia Giles is a student at The Royal Drawing School, exploring the fragility of the human experience within interior scenes. Her practice employs limited palettes and layered mark-making to capture narrative.
This work is part of an ongoing exploration of enclosed domestic environments and those living within them. Here, Giles explores this theme using pastel and pencil, focusing on pattern and texture.
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Oil on canvas. 137x81cm
Gala Hills studied at the Ruskin School of Art and recently graduated from the MA course at the Slade School of Fine Art. Their work interrogates biology, history, sociology and folklore.
Painting myth-inspired monsters from Cornish landscapes, Hills blends Welsh folklore with personal imagination. This work redefines landscape through mythology and memory.
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Oil and soft pastel on wood. 120x115cm
Northern Irish, London-based artist Beth McAlester, attained her BFA at the Slade School of Fine Art and is currently a student at the Royal Academy Schools. Awarded the Painters Stainers’ Scholarship, she has exhibited widely.
McAlester paints Northern Ireland’s ‘peace walls’. Recontextualised in art, they critique segregation, questioning community division while portraying fragility through distressed materials.
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Soak and stain method using acrylic paints on raw canvas. 50x164cm
British artist Deborah Porter recently attained an MA in Fine Art at Winchester School of Art. She focuses on the disembodied female working towards embodiment through process.
Porter paints from an inward gaze, building up layers of acrylic washes to create the void from invisible to visible. She paints the emotions of the body, taking its space.
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Oil on canvas. 80x120cm
Born in Germany, Katharina Rieppel lives and works in London and the Scottish Borders. She studied BA Painting at Camberwell College of Arts and is currently studying MA Fine Art at Central Saint Martins.
This painting is based on a vintage school photograph from the 1950s. The process used was one of rubbing out and repainting repeatedly, evoking the nature of half-erased and reconstructed childhood memories.
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Gansai watercolour on paper. 200x120cm
Japanese watercolour artist Nohana Sayama, based in London, is a recent graduate from Camberwell College of Arts. Exhibited internationally, her practice reflects cultural displacement and the fragility of presence.
Sayama’s vignettes reflect transient life shaped by migration. Anthropomorphic figures witness fleeting identities, while watercolour layers evoke memory’s fragility and the impermanence of existence.
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Oil on canvas. 40x40cm
Chengdu-born, London-based Qian Zhong recently graduated from the Royal College of Art. Prior to her MA, she founded a studio in Chengdu, China, focused on public and community-based art.
Zhong’s paintings explore the complexity of female identity. Glittering hypnotic surfaces, draw the viewer into a space of fantasy and artifice. The female body is adorned yet fragmented, present yet elusive.
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