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Sagnick Bhowmick (b. 2000, Kolkata, India) is a sculptor from Kolkata, India, working primarily with clay, metal, and mixed materials. He studied Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture at The Indian Colle …

BIO Seán Cummins graduated from Manchester Polytechnic with a BA(Hons) Fine Art in 1981 and from Goldsmiths MA Fine Art, in 2000. Between 1993 and 1998 Cummins was a Co-Director of the Gasworks Galler …

Madi Acharya-Baskerville is an Asian born diaspora artist, living and working in the UK. Broadly speaking, the themes explored in her work range from environmental concerns, migration and exile and ge …

Justin Addy is an abstract painter. He often works on large scale canvases, creating layers of colour and texture. He makes sweeping gestural movements, working with large brushes and large mark makin …

Louise Adkins is an artist and researcher whose practice is rooted in performance and extends across drawing, artist books, photography, and film. Her work often engages with historical collections, a …

Since completing her BA in Fine Arts in 1991, Heather Alderson has maintained a dedicated studio practice. Her recent work explores the ways images and events are presented, interpreted, and remembere …

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My work is a response to lived experiences. It explores all aspects of self; from the mundane everyday, to living with a chronic illness. In my varied and diverse approaches to making art—such as anim …

Brass Art have had major solo exhibitions at: HOME, Manchester; The Lowry, Salford; Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield and substantial commissions from: Arts & Heritage; Meadow Arts; Echappées d'art, …

Esin Aykanat Avcı (b. 1986, Ankara) graduated from the Department of American Culture and Literature at Hacettepe University in 2009. She was admitted to the Master’s Program in the Ceramics Departmen …

Mustafa Bağcı (b.1998, Balıkesir) graduated from Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Painting in 2020. Bağcı bases his works on the concept of dichotomy and focuses on the relation …

Simeon Barclay (b. 1975, Huddersfield, UK) received his BA from Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds in 2010 and an MFA from Goldsmiths College, London in 2014. In 2022 Barclay received the Ares Art A …

Anna Barham (UK, 1974) is a London-based artist working across writing, sound, installation, video, and live events. Treating language as raw material, she explores how it shifts between technologies, …

Georgina makes colours from plants: dyes, inks and paints. These are embodied in tactile objects made very, very slowly: from a gifted fleece of British grown wool to found skirting boards and discard …

Amelia Barratt (b. 1989, Reading, UK) lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland and works with painting, writing and performance. Barratt received a BA from Glasgow School of Art and received an MFA from S …

Aideen Barry is a practising Visual Artist based in Ireland but with international representation. In 2020 she was elected to the RHA. She is a member of Aosdána and Lectures in several universities a …

TIMON BENSON (b. Manchester 1998) is a photographic artist who has built a reputation playing an integral role documenting the northern art scene, working alongside internationally recognised artists …

Lucy Bevin is a graduate of Liverpool Collage of Art and UCA Farnham. In addition to her ongoing practice she has a background in Film and Television Production Design. The scale model and the use of …

Alicja Biala is a Polish artist working across a range of different media and scales. Biala initially gained attention with her large-scale public paintings, followed by her politically charged Polish …

Emma Blackburn is a Manchester-based artist working with textiles and sculpture. She uses embroidery, beadwork, hi-vis fabrics and found materials to explore the everyday objects, rituals and emotiona …

James Bloomfield (b.1977) lives and works in Manchester, UK. He studied art at Manchester Metropolitan University. Since then he has exhibited his work both nationally and internationally. Selected gr …

I am a contemporary artist exploring the transformation of traditional European cultural symbols within modern society, using classical fine art techniques and materials. My central subject is always …

I’m a 17yr old student currently studying photography at the Manchester college. I have developed a passion for photography over the last few years people have told me it is a natural skill that I ha …

Lindsey Bull (b.1979, Hereford, UK) lives and works in Manchester, UK. Bull received an MA in Fine Art from the Chelsea College of Art and Design (2009) and a BA in Fine Art from the Manchester School …

Through a minimal, concept lead practice that combines traditional techniques with a wide variety of contemporary and historic materials and supports, including aluminium, wood, copper, silk, paper, l …

Armaghan Butt is based at Venture Arts working across written word, printmaking, digital illustration and animation. Armgahan explores stream of consciousness, typing processes and modernist architect …

Rebecca Byrne’s fantastical natural scenes are flooded with colour. The American artist’s paintings, drawings and ceramics are held in a careful balance between abstraction and figuration, observation …

As a visual artist based in Manchester, my practice explores the impact of conflict and occupation through portraiture, narrative, and material investigation. Since autumn 2024, I’ve been working clos …

Chiara Camoni (b. 1974, IT) Her practice encompasses drawing, printing with plant dyes, video and sculpture, with particular attention to ceramics. She uses objects from the domestic world, organic ma …

KRIS CANAVAN- (born, Bangor, NI. Lives and works in Blackpool, UK). With performances that straddle pain, endurance, and vulnerability, Canavan exposes the body’s limits and its potential as a site fo …

John Carney is an Artist and Researcher based in Manchester, and has been practicing since graduating with a BA (Hons) Fine Art from Kingston University in 2015. His artistic practice encompasses a nu …

Jason Carr is a New Zealand-born, Manchester-based figurative and portrait artist whose work delves into identity, vulnerability, and the raw, unguarded moments that define human connection. Carr expl …

ANN CARRAGHER (Lives and works Blackpool). A visual artist, researcher and facilitator. Her research explores the concept of liminality (physically and psychologically) in relation to borders, thresho …

Cain Casson narrates the hidden absurdity of isolated rural landscapes by exploiting the confines of painting. Navigating raw, argumentative surfaces with salvaged brushes, emerging images pulse betwe …

Louisa Chambers graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2007 (MA Painting), is a Resident Artist at Primary Nottingham and Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University. She is current …

Mike Chavez-Dawson is an artist-curator based at Rogue Artists’ Studios, a Lecturer on the Foundation Art & Design course at the University of Salford, UK. His interdisciplinary practice interrogates …

Gwen SenHui Chen (b. 1996) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice investigates embodied experience, material presence, and the acts of everyday life. Drawing on observations of natural and built …

Yin-Ju Chen’s primary medium is video, but her works also include photos, installations and drawings. Chen is particularly interested in the way that humans respond to signs and signals such as those …

Monster Chetwynd lives in Glasgow, UK. Chetwynd’s practice intertwines performance, sculpture, painting, installation and video. Her work incorporates elements of folk plays, street spectacles, popula …

Graham Chorlton is a painter and long standing member of Birmingham Artspace. His work deals with location and place and his recent solo exhibition 'Suburb' at Midlands Art Centre was featured in The …

Ingrid Christie has lived on the northwest coast for twenty-five years, where a daily communion with rocks, sea, and sky forms the foundation of her practice. Her paintings, drawings and photographs a …

Born in Italy. Based in Preston, UK. Roberta studied at the University of Central Lancashire Fine Art BA (Hons) including period abroad 2013-2014 with ISEP exchange student program, California State …

Lucy Claire’s practice is inspired by museum collections, primarily her fascination with classical sculpture. She explores this through photography, printmaking, and engraving. As an artist, she is co …

Born and working in Manchester, UK, I am exploring themes of trickery through creating illusive surfaces built up through layers of oil paint. I am interested in how the process of layering in paintin …

Nottinghamshire based photographer, who's long term projects are interested in the notions of belonging, place and landscapes. I work with both digital and analogue photography, but my practice is pri …

Jo Clements is a visual artist based at Rogue studios, Manchester UK, with a long-standing interest in the intersections of materiality, cognitive science, and social identity. Her work explores how k …

Jo Clements is a visual artist working between studios in Manchester, UK and Donegal, Ireland, interested in the intersections of materiality and cognitive science and how complex artworks might activ …

GRACE CLIFFORD: (lives and works Sheffield). Made during WORK/LEISURE residency with Abingdon Studios, she became familiar with William Blake’s work. This informed pre-existing interests in the connec …

Lotti V Closs B.1987, Whitstable. Lives and works in Stockport, studio holder at Paradise Works in Manchester since 2022. Studied BA fine art at Nottingham Trent 2006-2009 and MFA Sculpture at West De …

Nan Collantine is a Manchester-based painter and artist-curator. She was a recipient of the Castlefield Gallery Award in the Manchester Open and finalist in the Beep Painting Prize in 2022. To stren …

Matthew Collings is an artist, writer, and broadcaster based in the UK. He was born in 1955. His drawings depicting an alternative art history have been a massive success and are in collections all ov …

Erin Conel is an American-born artist settled in Worcestershire. Her work explores childhood, gender roles, and agency. She uses imagery from a variety of sources including family and historical photo …

Craig Coulthard is a painter from Fife, and is based in Manchester. The works we are showing is a collection of paintings that could appear to be relics, mysterious and timeless. They place contempora …

Stephen Crawford is a painter, who builds his works through a variety of methods including, drawing, stencilling, collage, and painting. He often combines his paint with a variety of other mediums and …

Alison Critchlow is an abstract landscape painter based in north west Cumbria, with a studio beside the Solway Firth. She has been a professional artist for 30 years. She trained at Humberside College …

Vahid Danaiefar (b. 1983, Tehran) received his bachelor’s degree in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Tehran Azad University of the Arts in 2007 and his master’s degree from Tehran Soore Unive …

Rio Darwin is a sculptural ceramicist, translating the ephemerality of place into tangible forms. Rooted in the shifting landscapes of The Holderness Coast, Darwin’s phenomenological approach to the l …

Angelina May Davis‘ paintings are fabrications, plundering imagery from childhood TV and art history. She is interested in thinking about the past and what shapes us, using the transformative act of p …

Shezad Dawood (b.1974, London, UK) is a multidisciplinary artist who interweaves stories, realities and symbolism to create richly layered artworks, spanning painting, textiles, sculpture, film and di …

Coco’s practise focuses on uplifting the voices of those who are often overlooked in society, especially women and the queer community. She likes to take more serious topics and approach them through …

Marijke De Roover is a part-time professional karaoke singer and meme connoisseur, yet currently known mostly for her queer/feminist performance work. She holds a Masters in Fine Arts from KASK School …

Candice Dehnavi is a sculptor from Devon and is based in London. The works we are bringing to Manchester Contemporary are large solum fingers sprouting from the ground as if reaching out from somewher …

TINA DEMPSEY- Dempsey’s practice is grounded in an immersive exploration of natural environments, particularly coastal landscapes. Spending extended periods in these places, she absorbs their essence …

Di Turi (Caracas, 1972) is fascinated by the transformation of function of photographic images over time – an image of the interior of a home changes from a simple documentation of the space to a test …

turntable gallery’s inaugural artist in residence. Sophie Dickinson is a Lincolnshire-based artist specialising in sculpture and a graduate of Manchester School of Art. Her work was collected through …

Claire Dorsett (born 1985, UK) works in Manchester, UK. She graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art Painting at The University of Brighton in 2007, and from MFA Painting at The Slade School of Fine Art …

JOSEPH DOUBTFIRE - (b. 1993) is an artist based in Preston and working across the North West. my practice is a collage layered with ideas and approaches gathered over time these layers are both digita …

Ruby Eden is a painter who explores themes of memory and place through the depiction of space and objects, and their place within the domestic. She utilises the gestural nature of oil paint by paintin …

Illustrator & designer Harrison Edwards fuses his love for retro style and personality, playing with bold colours and punchy textures. Harrison blends traditional sign painting techniques with his exp …

Moving between planetary spheres —British and Moroccan, human and non-human, political and poetic—following the currents of ecology, migration, and globalization, Jessica's work traces the invisible s …

Surrounded by buckets of PVA glue and stacks of newspapers, Emmely Elgersma uses her studio like a surreal kitchen, concocting wonky sculptures and wobbly objects that look good enough to eat (but pro …

b. 1989, Milton Keynes, UK Elisha Enfield is an award-winning UK-based artist. Her work delves into the layered histories of human rituals, examining the shifting boundaries between absence and presen …

Gwen Evans (b. 1996, Bodelwyddan, Wales) lives and works in Manchester. A graduate of Manchester School of Art (2018), her work was the subject of a solo institutional display, CIPHER at HOME, Manches …

Inci Eviner's work ranges from drawings and video to performative and collaborative practices, Eviner’s large body of work comprises multi-layered pieces that originate from drawings. Eviner’s work ex …

Erica Eyres is an artist, researcher and currently a Lecturer in Painting and Drawing at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. She received her BFA from the University of Manitoba in 2002, …

Sarah Feinmann qualified in 1981 from Manchester Polytechnic with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art. She practiced as an artist for twenty years before taking a break for family commitments, and is now based at …

Craig Fisher graduated from MA Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London in 2000. He is a Resident Artist at Primary Nottingham and Programme Leader BA (Hons) Fine Art at University of Derby. Fishe …

Rather than adhering to a specific medium or form, Leo Fitzmaurice's practice is deeply rooted in a process of roaming and observation. His focus invariably centres on the everyday—the subtleties so c …

Pat Flynn is an artist based in Manchester. His work explores desire and belief.

Michael Forbes is an artist and co-founder of Primary, an artist studio complex in Nottingham, where he served as Chair of the Board of Trustees from 2006–2011 and 2017–2024. In 2018, Primary joined t …

Iona Ford’s work explores folk history, oral storytelling, and her experience of being raised in rural Britain. In her contemporary practice, Ford works with absurdity and humour, critiquing the housi …

Peggy Franck (NL, 1978) works across painting, photography, and installation, exploring how gesture, light, and space can be folded into one another. Her large -format C-prints occupy a distinctive po …

‘As a child I would often draw detailed imaginary worlds, I don’t think I ever grew out of seeing the world in that way’ Ashley Gallant presents work from his ongoing project unloud. Gallant attempts …

Ryan Gander RA OBE (b.1976, Chester, UK) lives and works in Suffolk and London. He studied at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK; the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherlands; a …

Growing up half German in Yorkshire, Mik began to look at his “forgotten” heritage when he got his first computer. The simple decision to find out “where Mum came from” (because that’s what people do) …

Momoka Gomi is a Japanese-born, UK-based textile artist whose work explores memory and the passage of time through the meditative process of handweaving. Working primarily with denim—cut, frayed, and …

Ben is based at Venture Arts and makes large scale clay images informed by his personal influences: football, music and festival culture, rich with fluidity and movement. In 2023, Ben was invited for …

Lewis Graham (b.2001) born in Birmingham, and currently living and working in Worcester, Graham's work is about a relationship with place and landscape, in particular the Client Hills south west of Bi …

Sarah Grant's work explores the potential for painting to hold psychological space, by drawing on objects of memory or charged association. The gestures are fleeting moments, cropped details from pola …

Artist, independent curator and founder of Abingdon Studios. Currently exhibiting at BlueCoat, Liverpool. As well as acquired neon work Mummy's Boy, on view at Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool. Clore Fel …

Susan Gunn received international recognition when she won the Sovereign European Art Prize. Sir Peter Blake, chairman of the judges, described her paintings as “incredibly beautiful objects.” A gra …

ABIGAIL HAMPSEY- (lives and works, Lancaster) Gaining her BA in Fine art from Newcastle university followed by an MA in painting from the Royal Collage of Art, Abigail now lives and works in Lancaster …

David Hancock graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University in 1996 and completed a Masters at Liverpool John Moores in 2010 and a PhD at University of Salford in 2015. He has appeared in a numbe …

Lela Harris is an award winning figurative artist, originally from Manchester but now living in Kendal. Her creative practice focuses on uncovering stories of those often overlooked by history and mar …

Emma Hart makes work that actively confronts us. Her sculptures often jut out from the wall, and physically encroach on the viewer’s personal space. Hart tries to manipulate the viewer, ceramic speech …

Gherdai Hassell is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist, podcast host and independent curator and researcher based in Manchester, UK. Having studied in China, Her work investigates memory and nosta …

Isabelle Hayman is a French artist based in London. She trained as a textile designer at the ESAADuperre Paris, and completed a Master of Fine Arts from Paris I. She has extensive experience in the te …

Tony Heaton is a sculptor and consultant/advisor to cultural organisations including the British Council and the Museums Association. He is the initiator of NDACA – the National Disability Arts Collec …

Helēna Heinrihsone is one of the most established and notable Latvian female painter. At The Manchester Contemporary 2025 she presents a collection of more than ten miniature paintings from her series …

Osian Hervig is a Welsh Photography student at Manchester College. He enjoys exploring new places and communities with his camera by his side. Photography has been an integral part of his daily life, …

Ellie Hill’s practice weaves together play and personal exploration, embracing art as a multisensory journey. Hill seeks to engage all senses in both the act of making and the experience of viewing. E …

The broader emphasis of Sara’s work takes the form of fractured narratives inspired by personal events, dominated by themes of time, mortality, grief and salvation. She uses a wide variety of media an …

Clive Hodgson (b. 1953, UK) is a painter whose work persistently tests painting’s conventions through recurring signatures, dates, and pared-back motifs. Alongside his abstractions, Hodgson has quietl …

Xander Hoffman (b.1993) lives and works in Manchester, UK. Hoffman graduated with a BFA in Painting and Printmaking at The Glasgow School of Art (2019). Selected solo exhibitions include Xander Hoffma …

A multidisciplinary artist, Jamie Holman Studios seeks to make visible the exciting connection and propositions that manifest when heritage collides with contemporary practice. His research often prop …

Born in Warrington, Mark gained his first degree at Middlesex University (formerly the Hornsey School of Art) and subsequently his MA in Fine Art at the Cardiff Metropolitan University, (formerly the …

WILL HUGHES- (lives Stockton, Teeside). Plastic bags symbolise a trip to the local corner shop, a treat, a fizzy drink or a pint of milk. They are an everyday item around us- overlooked and considered …

Medine İrak (b.1983) completed her Bachelor's, Master's and Proficiency in Art education at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University between 2001-2015. She works on cultural heritage, change, ecology, migrati …

TOM IRELAND- (b.1984, Blackpool) is an artist living and working in Blackpool, UK. Ireland’s practice spans a variety of media and is motivated by broad notions of space, distance and the things that …

Kate Jacob is an artist and curator who trained in Textiles at Manchester School of Art in 1993, Turps Correspondence Course in 2021, and Morley Fine Art Mentoring 2022. She has exhibited at The Manc …

Celia's work explores site, memory and community; her current research is centred on the post-industrial landscape of the Black Country. In unofficial residence on the site of a former Midland's vehi …

Isaac Jordan (b. 1998), draws inspiration from varied sources, including stills from 1970s science-fiction films. His practice is centred on the creation of imagined spaces and revolves around the dev …

Nick Jordan is an artist whose work explores the interconnections between natural, cultural and social ecologies. His field of practice includes film, print, photography, painting, drawing, sculptural …

Harminder Judge (b.1982 Rotherham, UK) creates transportive sculptural works that simultaneously reference Indian neo-tantric painting and the abstract expressionist and colorfield movements of the 20 …

HOLLY KILNER- (Lives and works Blackpool). North West based disabled artist whose work celebrates resilience, awareness, and reclamation. Through painting, she explores the emotional landscape of livi …

Vytautas Kumža constructs realms out of contradiction to search for meaning within the fractured logic of daily life. His practice unfolds in the space between stillness and tension. Rooted in a child …

Sammy Lai (b.1996) Hong Kong-born visual artist based in Manchester, UK Sammy Lai works primarily with painting and installation, exploring layered relationships between urban environments, nature, an …

ALANA LAKE (b. 1981, Tamworth, Staffordshire) is a sculptor and researcher exploring the intersections of art, psychoanalysis, and queer identity. She graduated from the Royal Academy Schools, London, …

Drt Lakra is well known for his drawing practice, inspired by the history of tattooing – a practice across the globe since Neolithic times re-introduced to the Western modern world after an increase i …

Liane Lang, RA Elect, MRSS is a mixed media artist with a focus on the conversation between sculpture and photography. She prints images onto unusual materials and objects to explore the tension betwe …

Turner Prize winner Mark Leckey has an ongoing fascination with the affective power of images, music and technology, and often uses reconfigured archival footage in his work. He produced an edition ec …

Paulis Liepa is one of the best-known contemporary Latvian printmaking artists. His distinctive and recognisable style employs fundamental graphic techniques, such as collagraphy, cardboard cut, and s …

Linder lives and works in London, UK. Linder is internationally renowned for her radical feminism. She uses photography, photomontage and performance to critique past and contemporary gender roles, sp …

Georgina Lingard is a sculptural artist working in woodwork, metal, and found objects. She imagines the Artist to be a conduit, the process an act of ritual, and thereby, artwork an offering of someth …

Caroline Locke is a UK-based international artist known for her innovative sound sculptures and immersive installations that connect audiences to the natural world. Working across disciplines, she com …

Rudy Loewe is a visual artist engaging social histories, politics and Caribbean folklore through painting and drawing. Loewe is creating a new work for the ninth Brixton Mural Programme and as part of …

Angela is a painter and member of Birmingham Artspace.She has exhibited broadly both regionally and nationally and has recently shown work in in Leeds and Wrexham. Angela makes images that operate as …

Jo Manby is a painter and writer based in Greater Manchester, represented by Comme Ca Art Manchester. After graduating in Foundation Art at North Staffs University and English and Art History at the U …

Lydia Marshall (b. 2002) is a Manchester based artist. She is a studio member at Paradise works - recently awarded with the 2025-26 Haworth Trust Scholarship and previously with the Graduate prize of …

Bex Massey presents the viewer with isolated objects depicted in a soft realism, rendered in oil under an even light. Images are presented in relation to each other, two per work, a painted object dep …

Julie Mayer was born in Biddulph, Stoke-on-Trent and has lived and worked in the North West since 1980. Mayer is a painter and studio holder at The Birley Studios, in Preston; she studied both BA (199 …

Chad was born in Manchester and grew up in Edinburgh, where he still lives and works. He graduated from Goldsmiths College, London in 1989. McCail's main interests are the links between sexual repress …

Andrew McDonald’s making process is intense, extended periods of drawing and production demanding months of the artist’s time, Be this animation or large-scale ink drawing. Imagery of caves, lightning …

Jocelyn McGregor is a multi-disciplinary artist based in North West of England. She holds a BFA in Fine Art from the Ruskin School of Fine Art and an MFA in Sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art. …

Lindsey Mendick (b.1987, London, UK) lives and works in Margate. She works primarily with ceramics, embedding her sculptures within installations that include stained glass, film, furniture, large sta …

Julia Milns is a multi-disciplinary artist working at AWOL studios in Hope Mill, in Ancoats. Her works invoke dialogue about the protection of the earth’s precious natural resources. She captures th …

Lisa Milroy was born in Vancouver, Canada in 1959. She lives and works in London and Kent. Still life is at the heart of Milroy’s practice. In the 1980s, her paintings featured ordinary objects depict …

Azraa Motala is a multidisciplinary visual artist from Preston whose work explores themes of identity, culture, and belonging through the lens of her experience as a British South Asian Muslim woman. …

Ispahani Mukah is a Cameroonian-born visual artist based in Birmingham, widely recognised for his evocative biro drawings. His work explores the human form with intimacy and depth, capturing the quiet …

Heather Mullender-Ross is an artist and academic based in Preston, UK. She has a multi-disciplinary practice, as a solo artist and as part of the collaborative duo 'Artist A & Artist B' (with Jackie H …

Olga Mun is an award-winning contemporary British painter based in Manchester. Her practice moves between abstraction and figuration to explore embodiment, displacement, and the mythic feminine within …

Ruth is a graduate of the Royal College of Art and was overall winner of Jackson’s Painting Prize in 2020. Her work reflects a deep interest in exploring portraiture, identity, and the presence of hum …

Ruth graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2008 and was the Derek Hill Scholar at the British School at Rome. She received grants from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation in 2021 and 2024 and w …

Begüm Mütevellioglu (b.1983) has graduated from Marmara University, Department of Painting and Business Teaching in 2005 and Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Department of Painting in 2011. She com …

xhi Ndubisi is a visual artist, writer, curator, and producer whose work explores storytelling, oral tradition, and the Black female body through performance, installation, and socially engaged practi …

I am an artist and researcher currently undertaking a doctoral award at Leeds Beckett University. My practice-led research navigates the preposterousness of olfaction (through perfume and commercially …

Line Nilsen (born 1985) is a Norwegian artist, designer, and hand weaver currently based in the UK. Her creative practice is deeply rooted in craft and process, exploring the interplay of material and …

I am a painter, using my practice to look back and examine what relics arise from exploring themes of memory and time. This includes childhood when time itself felt more gradual. I am interested in …

Nolan’s most recent exhibitions include solos at ‘499 Seconds’ Chateau La Coste, Aix-en-Provence, France, 2023; ‘Flotsam, Jetsam, Lagan and Derelict’, Void, Derry, 2022-23; and a two-person show ‘Mate …

A key figure in both the Fluxus and Conceptual Art movements of the 1960’s and 1970's, Yoko Ono continues to work across a broad range of disciplines and media, including music, performance and instal …

Jen Orpin (born Surrey, England, 1974) lives and works in Manchester. She studied at Manchester Metropolitan University (BA 1996) and has been a member of Rogue artists’ Studios since 2000, she is als …

Sam Owen Hull is a contemporary artist working at the intersections of fine art, craft and sculpture. She has exhibited in the UK and internationally and has work in private collections worldwide. He …

Raksha Patel works as an artist, writer, socially engaged practitioner and lecturer. She worked for the Learning Department at Tate Britain (1999-2011); The Learning Department of the British Museum ( …

Hetain Patel has a diverse multi media and performative practice. Identity formation has been central to his concerns since the beginning of his career, more recently this idea has been viewed throug …

Between 2012 and 2017, and again during lockdown from 2020 to 2022, her work focused on Park Hill, the Grade II* listed Sheffield council estate and one of Britain’s largest examples of Brutalist arch …

Kirsty Pemberton makes her paintings with generous additions of textural mediums, layering paint to create sculptural works. The paintings' edges reveal the history of each work, and a meticulous and …

David Penny is a photo artist and lecturer in Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University. His practice encompasses photography, moving image, and sculptural installation. He redefine …

Hannah Perry (b.1984, Chester, UK) lives and works in London. She graduated from Goldsmiths College in 2009 and then Royal Academy of Arts 2014. Recent exhibitions include: solo show’ Baltic Gallery i …

Artist Beata Podstawa channels the human desire for escapism in her work. She constructs 'hideaways' which take the form of hammocks, 'sleeping cubes' and cosy beds which invite us to clamber inside, …

Based in the UK, Popova exhibits nationally and internationally. Her work has garnered significant institutional recognition, including major tapestry commissions for Meta's London office, Cambridge U …

Pallet Show is a curatorial project consisting of a number of wooden pallets, which function as a platform or plinth for displaying sculptures or other curated works. The pallets are themselves artwor …

Annette is a Birminham based artist and founder of Studio Wall. Annette's work deals with notions of collective memory, place and solitude. Annette's show Happenstance at The New Art Gallery Walsall …

Remi Rana-Allen explores the construction of British Indian female identity and ‘the maternal,’ informed by her lived experience as a British-born Indian woman. Her identity is mapped onto her body, i …

Brian Raymond is an artist and lead tutor at Creative Art Courses, based at AWOL Studios in Manchester. His artistic practise focuses on creating mixed-media drawings that express his experience of th …

Artist Bio Hello! My name is Harrison Richardson and i am a 17 year old currently doing a level 2 photography course at The Manchester College. I absolutely love photography. I personally think that p …

Following a degree in architecture, David Rickard went on to study art at Accademia di Brera in Milan and Central Saint Martins in London. His original studies in architecture have had a lasting impac …

I trained at Manchester School of Art graduating in 2005 with a BA Hons in Fine Art Painting. My work has been shown in galleries throughout the UK including The Bankside Gallery in London and The Roy …

Zara Saghir is an Assistant Producer for The British Textile Biennial (BTB) and The Super Slow Way (SSW)—a place-based cultural programme working with communities across East Lancashire. BTB explores …

Peter Saville (b.1955, Manchester, UK) exists in a territory of his own, his practice can be located somewhere between art and design – merging aspects of both, his unparalleled approach has resulted …

We are primarily an artist-led project that publishes and distributes a free quarterly broadsheet newspaper showing lens-based-art. Formed in 2016 by Tor S. Ulstein, Dagny Hay and Charlie Hay. Uncerta …

My practice explores the meeting point of traditional textiles and digital innovation, creating phygital work that blends tactile and digital experiences. I use the power of play to spark curiosity, i …

My current work explores the ‘site of trauma’. I’m interested in how some places are ‘defined’ by the events that happen within them, and whether the aura of trauma remains, either in the places, or i …

Nahem Shoa (b. 1968, London) lives and works in London. Shoa studied Fine Art at Manchester Polytechnic (1988-1991) before later completing postgraduate studies at The Royal Drawing School (2003-2004) …

Alan Silvester is an internationally published photographic artist working at the intersection of visual art, science, and documentary. His work reveals lesser-known stories through striking, narrativ …

My work reflects on the human experience, my paintings, often bodily, entwine figurativeness with gestural, abstract layering of brushwork. The colours, and levels of opacity and transparency are meta …

Bob and Roberta Smith is the pseudonym of the artist Patrick Brill (b.1963, London, UK). He studied at the University of Reading from 1981 to 1985 and Goldsmiths College (1991). He trained as a sign p …

Julie Sommerville is a contemporary painter whose ideas evolve through the use of print/ photography and collage. Julie graduated from Coventry University and is based in the West Midlands. Her work d …

Rae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊 (b. 1993, Edinburgh) lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland. Song received a BA (Hons) in Sculpture and Environmental Art from Glasgow School of Art (2014). Selected solo exhibitions in …

Christine Stevens PhD is an artist and Gestalt psychotherapist. She works through the medium of clay, exploring the haptic interface between human experience and the environment. From her base at Clay …

Fiona Stirling is an artist, mother, and educator. Her PhD explores the impact of time and space in the work of painters who are mothers. When discussing time, Fiona refers to the physical duration av …

Debra Swann graduated from Goldsmiths College in 2001 with an MA in Fine Art, she is a resident Artist at Primary, Nottingham and has taught on the Fine art course at Nottingham Trent University until …

Chester’s work is conceptually led, driven by language and text with outputs in painting, writing, performance, sculpture and print. He is interested in the absurdity and peculiar nature of institutio …

Errol Theunissen is a self-taught painter from Zimbabwe and is based in Middlesbrough.The paintings we are showing yearn to capture the intense colours and emotional truths of everyday life. Dogs and …

Helen Thomas is a contemporary British painter based in Wakefield, England. She graduated from Falmouth School of Art (BA Fine Art) and completed a year of postgraduate study with Turps Art School. He …

John Timberlake‘s (b.1967) practice and research as a fine artist engages principally with photography, painting and drawing, underpinned by the legacies and dialogics of conceptualism. Drawing on the …

Marek Tobolewski, a contemporary British artist, has dedicated nearly four decades to exploring non-representational art, building a practice that spans drawing, painting, and printmaking across a ran …

Katie Tomlinson (b. 1996, Tees Valley) is a painter based in Manchester. She holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London (2021–2023), where she was supported by the Basil H. Alkazzi …

Katie Tomlinson (b. 1996, Teesside) lives and works in Manchester. She holds a BA in Fine Art from Manchester School of Art and an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art in London, where she rec …

In his abstract paintings, Piers Veness (Portsmouth, 1974) fuses nature and geometry to create monumental forms. Hard-edged shapes give a sense of depth that is heightened by his tonal palette, which …

GW is based at Venture Arts and creates imagined eternal cityscapes using biro and other office materials. GW's cities emerge on long scrolls, intricate and endless labyrinths of docks, highrises and …

Matilda returned to her first instinct: painting, by way of a career as an Art Director in the film industry. Living in Paris, Sydney, Dubai and a few other places in between, then latterly in London …

Jude Wainwright AMAFA is an award-winning artist based in Manchester and Studio Manager at AWOL Studios. Her practice centres on surreal self-portraiture, using layered symbolism and storytelling to e …

Charmaine Watkiss, completed her MA in Drawing at Wimbledon College of Art, 2018. Her work is concerned with what she calls ‘memory stories’. She creates narratives primarily through research connec …

As an artist, my practice coalesces around the metaphorical shaping of landmasses, architecture and its influence upon the fauna which swarm about it. These serve as a conduit by which tragedy, despai …

Joanna Whittle is a painter based in Sheffield. She is Vice Chair of Contemporary British Painting and was winner of the prize in 2019. This year she was shortlisted for first prize for the John Moo …

Gary James Williams received an MA Fine Art at the Manchester Metropolitan University (1999) and a PGCE HE FE in Art & Design at the Wolverhampton University School of Painting (2001).Through his stud …

SAM WILLIAMS- lives and works in London where he is a current resident at Somerset House Studios. Using a diverse range of media spanning moving-image, choreography, text and assemblage he develops bo …

KAYT HUGHES- North West-based artist, arts producer, curator and educator. Her work focuses on the sensory – informed by their synaesthesia – creating a unique understanding of sound, shape, texture, …

Hannah was born and brought up in Norfolk in a tiny village a stone's throw from the woods. She spent most of her time growing up watching old Hollywood films whilst drawing, exploring said woods and …

Ezgi Yakin (b. 1988) graduated from Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Painting in 2010. She completed her Master's Degree in the same department in 2015 and Proficiency in Ar …

Fleur Yearsley is a visual artist based in Manchester, UK. Working across painting and installation, her practice explores memory, gender and pop culture. With bold, immersive works, she reframes clas …

Zane Žeivate is a multidisciplinary artist, architect, and lecturer at the Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University. Her art serves as a platform for exploring critical issues surr …