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Sagnick Bhowmick
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 …
Seán Cummins
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
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
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
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 …
Heather Alderson
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 …
David Alker
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Kelan Andrews
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
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
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
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 …
Georgina Barney
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
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
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 …
Lucy Bevin
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
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
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 …
Eva Bryan
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
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 …
Armaghan Butt
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
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 …
Ian Cale
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 …
John Carney
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 …
Cain Casson
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
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 …
Gwendolyn SenHui Chen
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
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
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 …
Ingrid Christie
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 …
Roberta Cialfi
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
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 …
Rachel Clancy
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 …
Tamara Clarke
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
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
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 …
Lotti V Closs
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 …
Nancy Collantine
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
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 …
Craig Coulthard
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
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
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
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
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
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 …
Coco Day
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 …
Candice Dehnavi
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 …
Katherine Di Turi
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 …
Sophie Dickinson
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 …
Ruby Eden
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 …
Jessica El Mal
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 …
Emmely Elgersma
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 …
Elisha Enfield
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
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
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
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
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
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 …
Leo Fitzmaurice
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
Pat Flynn is an artist based in Manchester. His work explores desire and belief.
Michael Forbes
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
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 …
Ashley Gallant
‘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 …
Mik Godley
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
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 Goring
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
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
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
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 …
David Hancock
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
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
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 …
Isabelle Hayman
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 …
Helēna Heinrihsone
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
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
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 …
Xander Hoffman
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 …
Jamie Holman
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 …
Mark Houghton
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 …
Medine İrak
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 …
Kate Jacob
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 Johnson
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
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
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
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 …
Sammy Lai
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 …
Dr Lakra
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
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 …
Mark Leckey
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
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
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
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
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
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 …
Jo Manby
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
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
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
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 McCail
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
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 …
Lisa Milroy
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
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
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
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 …
Ruth Murray
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 Murray
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 Mütevellioğlu
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
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 …
Darren Neave
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
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 …
Isabel Nolan
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 …
Yoko Ono
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
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 …
Silke Otto-Knapp
Raksha Patel
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 ( …
Mandy Payne
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
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
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 …
Beata Podstawa
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, …
Yelena Popova
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
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 …
Remi Rana-Allen
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 …
Harrison Richardson
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 …
Zara Saghir
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 …
Uncertain States Scandinavia
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 …
Haanin Shafeeque
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 …
Chris Shaw Hughes
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
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
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 …
Jayne Simpson
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 …
Rae-Yen Song
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
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
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
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 Tenneson
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
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
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
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
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
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 …
Piers Veness
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
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 Wainwright
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 …
Charmaine Watkiss
  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 …
Dale Christopher Wells
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
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
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 …
Hannah Wooll
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 Yakın
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
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
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 …