Deb Bowness
Deborah Bowness makes wallpapers. Her unique domestic designs furnish interior spaces with an unexpected dimension: trompe I’oeil produced through a photo-realist twist. Beautiful and functional they are handmade in England through a combination of digital printing, silk-screen and handpainting. The rolls of wallpaper come as ready mades, specially mades, machine mades and paper cut outs. […]
David Batchelor
1955, Born Dundee, Scotland 1973–75, Foundation Course Watford College of Art 1975–78, BA (Hons) Fine Art, Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham 1978–80, MA Cultural Studies Centre of Contemporary Cultural Studies – University of Birmingham Lives and works in London
Emma Critchley
Emma Critchley has worked as an underwater image-maker for over ten years. In 2011 she graduated with an MA from The Royal College of Art. Through working with a combination of photography, video and installation she explores the human relationship with the underwater environment. Critchley has developed works funded by The Photographers Gallery, The National Media Museum, The Arts Council England, The British Council and the Singapore International […]
Dylan Shipton & Ben Fitton
Dylan Shipton and Ben Fitton met on the MA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art & Design in 2000 and continue to live and work in London, pursuing both individual and collaborative practices. Their collaborations combine an interest in surfaces and their supporting structures with an investigation of absence and negation. The work seeks to question what is at stake in maintaining or arresting processes of collapse […]
David Wightman
Born in Stockport, Greater Manchester in 1980, David Wightman graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2003. His selected solo exhibitions include Paramour at Halcyon Gallery (2012), Homage to Loreleia at Berwick Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland (2011), Secret Name at Sumarria Lunn/Art Work Space at the Hempel, London (2010), Behemoth and Other New Paintings at Cornerhouse, Manchester (2009), Aspirations – New Paintings at William Angel […]
Mariele Neudecker
Neudecker’s work manipulates perception, distortion, contrast, scale, reality and fiction in representations of vast spaces, limited by the human eye ‘frame’ of the view.
Rosanna Martin & Ester Svensson
Rosanna Martin and Ester Svensson met in London while studying at the Royal College of Art. A recognition not only of the crossovers between each of their individual practices, but also their shared concern for the situation of refugees and migrants today, fuelled their decision to work in collaboration on this project. Martin was born in Cornwall and […]
Leah Gordon
Leah Gordon is an artist and curator and has produced a body of work on the representational boundaries between art, religion, anthropology, post-colonialism and folk history. Her photographic work registers junctures between shared Haitian and British histories and cosmologies, with an emphasis on the links between the slave trade and the industrial revolution. She is […]
Tobias Revell
Tobias Revell is a critical designer and futurist talking and exhibiting worldwide, a lecturer at the Royal College of Art and the London College of Communication, a senior associate at design studio Superflux and a researcher with Arup’s Foresight group. His practice looks at alternative narratives for technologies and changes in contemporary society. He has […]
Phillip Hall-Patch
Born in 1971 and resident in Brighton, Phillip Hall-Patch is a contemporary artist of mixed heritage and ethnicity (part English and part Iranian). He is a practicing artist and architect working at the boundary between the two disciplines and specialising in the conceptual design of public art installations, sculpture and drawing. His first public art […]
Yinka Shonibare MBE
Yinka Shonibare MBE is a British-Nigerian artist living in London. He studied Fine Art, first at the Byam Shaw School of Art (1984–1989) and then at Goldsmiths, University of London (1989–1991) where he received his MFA. In 2002 Okwui Enwezor commissioned Shonibare for documenta XI, where he created his most recognised work: Gallantry and Criminal Conversation, […]
Maria Pattinson
Maria Pattinson is a theatre director specialising in new writing and community engagement.
Abigail Norris
Abigail Norris is an artist filmmaker, whose work includes documentary film and art installation. Collaboration forms a central part of her practice.
Amanda Loomes
Amanda Loomes was a Civil Engineer until 1996 when she went on to study Fine Art, graduating from The Royal College of Art in 2006. She lives and works in Dorking, Surrey. Amanda’s work considers the frailty and resilience of human endeavour; in particular, work that goes unnoticed or becomes erased or undone. Usually working […]
Joseph Popper
Born in 1986; Joseph Popper lives and works in London. He examines space travel and other forms of human exploration and technological endeavour through film, photography and installations. Taking inspiration from cinematic special effects, his works transform found locations and everyday objects to simulate speculative scenarios and fictional experiences. In these handmade worlds, Popper plays […]
Nathan Coley
Nathan Coley was born in 1967 in Glasgow, Scotland. Between 1985 and 1989 he studied at the Glasgow School of Art. From 1998 to 2005 he lived and worked in Dundee. In 2007 he was shortlisted for the Turner Prize. His work is represented in many international public and private collections. He currently lives and […]
Elizabeth Doak
Elizabeth Doak is a freelance photographer and artist educator currently working for the National Portrait Gallery, Towner, Eastbourne, in local schools and on various independent projects.
Chris Riddell
Chris Riddell, the 2015-2017 UK Children’s Laureate, is an accomplished artist and the political cartoonist for the Observer. He has enjoyed great acclaim for his books for children and has won a number of major prizes. Chris lives in Brighton with his family. More information about Chris and his work can be found at www.chrisriddell.co.uk or on […]
Thompson Hall
Thompson Hall is a member of ActionSpace, a London-based organisation that supports artists with learning disabilities. Hall has recently exhibited “Postcards from Brighton” Brighton Dome (2013), “Postcards of Glasgow” Project Ability Gallery (2015) and as part of the group show “Shop of Curiosity” Geddes Gallery, London (2016).
Felicity Hammond
Felicity Hammond (b 1988, UK) graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2014. She has been a finalist and nominee for numerous awards including Magnum and Photo London Inaugural Photographer Award 2015, Saatchi New Sensations 2014 and Metro Imaging Printing Award 2014. Her work has been exhibited widely, in 2015 with South Kiosk Gallery […]