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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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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