Curated by Jane Millar / Sarah Sparkes
Alison Aye
Aye makes hand stitched collage from discarded materials, the recording of which is an integral part of her process. Daughter and granddaughter of seamstresses and pitmen, social injustice is at the root of everything she makes.
Altea Grau Vidal
Altea Grau is a London-based artist-researcher working across printmaking, sculpture, and installation. Her practice explores poetic languages through expanded notions of the book, investigating duality, reflection, and the fold.
Annie Wasdell
My practice is a way of distilling thoughts and emotions that seemingly defy being summed up in words. Exploring the emotive and social associations of materials, I work with those that are ubiquitous, and that overlap art and social life in an attempt to investigate more personal narratives such as mental and physical well-being, motherhood and domesticity. My current work utilises glass, for its capacity to be simultaneously fragile, yet possessing incredible durability and capacity to endure environmental stress. It seems therefore, a perfect metaphor for all manner of human strengths and we@annie.wasdellaknesses.
@annie.wasdell
Avis Underwood
'My painting begins with found or historical imagery that draws me in, but evolves through intuitive editing, erasure, and chance. The work transforms its source into immediate, often grotesque figures shaped by mood, material, and unconscious influence.’
Charlotte Squire
Charlotte Squire makes mixed media 3 dimensional objects & installations. Her sculptures look at environmental concerns using materials and social constructs that are explored through a blurring of craft, myth and magic realism
Clare Chapman
'Clare Chapman’s paintings sit somewhere between the organically surreal, and the gesturally abstract; they conjure a surface that feels seductive and repellent, dreamlike and earthbound. Since studying at the Slade she has exhibited in group and solo shows in the U.K and internationally.'
Donna McLean
Donna McLeans paintings are about paradox and polarity. Imagery that sits alongside its opposite - light/dark, beauty/horror, peace/unease.
Recently she has been painting the screen, that hypnotic square that dominates contemporary life.
Gavin Maughfling
Gavin has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally. His work examines subjects ranging from the dynamics of familial care to vulnerability and power within queer relationships. Sources include film stills, personal archives and memory.
Inga Tillere
Inga Tillere’s practice explores perception, temporality and ways of seeing through experimental and historical photographic processes, as well as moving image, sound and performance.
Isobel Atacus
A direct grappling with matter leads my practice across sculpture and text, through which I question the fleeting and ambiguous nature of interactions that take place in the physical realm.
Jane Millar
Jane Millar works with ceramic and installation; recently making site-specific work in Southern Italy, as well as gallery shows, teaching and curating projects.
Jonathan Waller
Jonathan Waller is a figurative painter and sometimes sculptor. He has work in many public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. His work currently examines the universal theme of loss.
Mark Woods
My recent work is concerned with looking at nostalgia & fetishisation, especially luxury goods.
I make work that could be thought of as ‘contemporary fetish objects’, something that one might come across in a museum collection.
Nelson Diplexcito
Nelson Diplexcito has exhibited paintings and drawings internationally and nationally. The first monograph of his work, The Orpheus Street Paintings was published in 2023.
Nicky Hodge
Nicky Hodge is a minimalist abstract artist who has had recent solo shows at Bobinska Brownlee (2021); Francis Gallery, Bath (2023), and Francis Gallery Los Angeles|Bath (2025) and group shows in Burgundy; Tokyo and New York (all 2025).
@nickyhodge4@nickyhodge4
Rebecca Scott
Rebecca Scott has work in public and collections nationally and internationally, and has exhibited in London, Cumbria, Spain, France, Germany, Sweden, and Norway. In 2019, she was a finalist for Cumbria Life’s Visual Artist of the Year award.
She currently lives and works between London and Cumbria, and is Co-Founder and
Director of Cross Lane Projects, an independent art space and Gallery in both
Kendal and London.
Richard Ducker
Dark Matter Specimen, 2013, comes from a series of that was exploring the relationship between analogue and digital sensibilities in the creation of a visually seductive spectacle. It evokes cinematic science fiction, while the retro aesthetics are associated with an envisioning of a future past through the language of pre CGI props.
Sarah Sparkes
Sarah Sparkes works across multiple mediums. Her work is held in international collections including The Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art Bergamo and the College of Psychic Studies.