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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …