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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Ingrid Christie graduated from The University of Lancashire (formerly UCLan) in 2007 and has been twice shortlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize (2019 and 2025). Work is held in private collec …

Born in Italy. Based in Preston, UK. I studied at University of Central Lancashire Fine Art BA (Hons). Studied abroad 2013-2014 Exchange student 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

turntable gallery’s inaugural artist in residence; a visual artist specialising in sculpture. She recently graduated from the Manchester School of Art, with a BA in Fine Art, and is currently based in …

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 …

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 …

‘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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Having grown up in Great Harwood, Lancashire, Hebson has been an artist for as long as she remembers, claiming it’s all she’s ever known. This passion for art led her to study Fine Art at Lancaster Un …

Helēna Heinrihsone (1948), 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 s …

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 …

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 …

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/archive and community; her current research is centred on the post-industrial landscape of the Black Country. For MCR she is showing sculptures made from metal grin …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

David Penny (1979) is a photo artist and lecturer in Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. His practice encompasses photography, moving image, and sculptural installation. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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