To The Studio

Steven Gee is a London-based artist, curator, and founding Director of Piccalilli. In 2013 he graduated with a BA from the University of East London and in 2015, an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art. In 2017 Steven subsequently co-founded the curatorial collective IKO (It’s Kind Of hard to explain) alongside Corey Bartle-Sanderson and Oliver Durcan, curating exhibition across London, Ma...

Rhys Coren was born in Plymouth (UK) in 1983, and completed a Foundation at Plymouth College of Art and Design (2001-2002), followed by a BA (Hons) at UWE, Bristol (2002-2006), then the Royal Academy (2013-2016) Rhys has a studio practice that consists of painting and animation, supplemented with sound and writing and collage. Hes work with Cristea Roberts Gallery in London and makes furniture in...

Kate Burling (b.1998, Reading) lives and works in South East London. Her iridescent finger-paintings examine a corporeal experience of exponential change. Marking the inside and outside of the skin as initial zones of softness and hardness respectively, Burling observes a gradual obscuring of boundaries as the sponge-like body ages and absorbs. Her paintings are amalgamations of rolling mass with...

Grant was born in 1982 in Worthing, and is a London based artist who completed a MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art in 2012.  In 2019 Grant was International Randall Chair at Alfred University, New York, and in 2016 was Fellow in Contemporary Art with The British School at Rome. In 2007 he was a Prizewinner in John Moores 25, and is currently a mentor on The Turps Banana painting program a...

Hannah Bays (b. 1982) is a London based painter who graduated from the Royal Academy Schools in London, 2015. Through painting, Hannah Bays explores psychological terrain associated with the sacred, the profane and the transformational. Familiar objects are used symbolically to convey existential meaning, whilst gesturing towards broader philosophical, social, and global concerns. These objects wi...

Mary is based in London and graduated from the Royal Drawing School in 2018 and Goldsmiths College London’s BA in Fine Art and contemporary critical studies in 2010. Her works have been the subject of solo exhibitions at Moskowitz Bayse (Los Angeles) and Lychee One (London), and have recently been included in group exhibitions at The British Museum, White Cube, Union Pacific, and Huxley-Parlour (L...

Anna Ilsley is based in Suffolk and graduated from Royal Drawing School in 2010 and University of Brighton’s BA in Fine Art Painting in 2006.  Anna is inspired by mythologies and cultural references from across eras and cultures, be that a saucy detail from a Medieval manuscript; mythical representations of feminine power, the erotic frescoes of ancient Pompeii or the latest series of Love Island....

Whenever possible Jennifer Caroline Campbell obsessively cultivates a shifting bag of mixed fragments, recombining, contaminating and navigating without a map. Textures and stories build up like minerals. The crystal bundles snowball and scatter into multicoloured slices, oscillating shiftily between slathered picture and lumpy thing.  Through reckless and rhythmic process new thoughts are shaped...

Ross Taylor was born in 1982 in Harrow, London, where he continues to live and work. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Painting, he was awarded the Abbey Scholarship at the British School at Rome and was artist in residence at the Edward James Foundation.  Taylor’s work is concerned with an emergent space; a swilling and churning dual sphere of production and consumption...

Phil studied at the Royal College of Art from 1990 to 1992 and is also currently a director at  Turps Banana . John Yau’s 2024  Hyperallergic  review of Phil’s  NY Miles McEnery  show states: "Something about his visual preoccupations speaks to the viewer’s mind and eye—the connections and ruptures between physical and visual sensations—working in tandem with our capacity to daydream and reflect u...

Jessie Makinson's work is darkly erotic and draws from influences including Ursula Le Guin, British folklore, stories of travelers, myths of pre-agricultural societies, 17th and 18th-century erotica, Flemish kitchen scenes, science fiction, and early Renaissance altarpieces. Makinson readdresses a patriarchal past from a female perspective. Plucking themes and narratives from historical precedent,...

Ben Edmunds is a London-based painter, whose deconstructionist approach takes him into sculpture, branding, useful objects and wearable equipment. He is best known for his large scale paintings that combine tropes of modernist abstraction with stylised accents of extreme sports. Drawing on his background in sailing, windsurfing and cycling, his work explores the transcendental possibilities of pai...

Tamu Nkiwane is a London-based artist whose work examines his surrounding environment and considers the way value – as a fiscal and cultural consideration – is accumulated and transferred within it. . . John Strutton is an artist, musician and academic based in London. John’s work ranges across painting, drawing, installation, moving image, sound and performance. The work often uses the strategy o...

Karolina Albricht (b. 1983 in Krakow) is a London based artist and curator. Karolina graduated with an MA from The Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow in 2008. Prior to that she completed Socrates-Erasmus at ArtEZ Institute of Fine Arts in Arnhem, the Netherlands in 2007. Karolina Albricht thinks of painting as an opening, a stretching beyond dimensionality and optical perception. Its process is driven...

Mark Selby’s practice mainly revolves around sculpture, installation and film, using an engineering approach to materials, computation and mechanics in order to explore how images, objects and human agency are affected by technological rationality. Creating and collaborating with machines to develop often complex and elongated processes of making, his work asks questions of access to information f...

Ceri Hand originally trained as an artist and has extensive experience of working in the arts and culture sector, with previous key positions including:  Director of Programmes ,  Somerset House , London;  Associate Director: Institutions and Public Relations ,  Simon Lee Gallery , London;  Associate Consultant,  Contemporary Art Society , London;  Director...

Richard Hughes and Bernadette Kerrigan live and work in Herefordshire. Richard Hughes’ recent solo exhibitions have included  The Great Perhaps , Anton Kern Gallery, New York (2019);  Field Trip , The Modern Institute, Glasgow (2014),  Time Is Over, Time Has Come , Firstsite, Colchester (2013). He is represented by The Modern Institute, Glasgow; and Anton Kern Gallery, New York. Ber...

Emma Talbot is an artist based in London and is winner of the 8th Max Mara Art Prize for Women. Through drawing, painted silk hangings, 3 dimensional forms, installation, sound and - most recently - animation, Emma has developed a distinct visual world. . . Her work explores personal subjectivity, which is then cast into the wider context of prevalent contemporary concerns  - s...

Anna graduated from the RCA in 2015 and holds a BA from Central Saint Martins. In 2017 she won Griffin Art Prize and the Young Contemporary Talent Prize supported by the Ingram Collection. . . She has been shortlisted for several prizes, including The London Group, in 2013, where she was presented with a prize by Frank Bowling. In 2019 her show Muscle Memory at Elephant West in London saw a collab...

Tahmina Negmat is currently on a year-long residency at the Carpenters Wharf Studios in Hackney Wick and making paintings about Joe Exotic from Tiger King in her quarantine flat in Moscow. Tahmina treats her studio as a spectacle arena where she wants to throw a real celebration for the anti-hero the Trickster ("A demonic-comic double of a cultural hero, endowed with the features of a naughty dodg...

Gala is a London based multidisciplinary artist. Engaging with ideas of value, taste, hierarchy and absurd labour, her work is the aftermath of a reaction to substance and situation. Materials and actions become metonymic, swapping roles between quotidian interactions and traditional art processes. . . She is a graduate of the Royal College of Art and City and Guilds Art School London. She has bee...

Alexander Pollard graduated from his BA at Glasgow School of Art in 1999 and In 2017 he earned an MPhil from Goldsmiths for his thesis A Genealogy of Bad Painting – Legacies, Soft Objects and Networks. . . Alex is a Steiner student having attended Brighton Steiner School prior to university. This education has left a deep and lasting impact in the way he approaches his work and rese...

Matthew Burrows was born in 1971 in the Wirral, UK, and he currently lives and works in East Sussex. He studied as an undergraduate at Birmingham School of Art in 1990-93 and graduated with a Master's Degree in painting from the Royal College of Art London in 1995. . . Matthew's studio, on the site of an old windmill, is perched on a ridge between valleys. Despite the beautiful views and clear vis...

Neena Percy and Lizzy Drury studied together on the MA Painting Programme at the RCA. Since graduating, the pair formed Hot Desque, a collaboration in which they curate theatrically presented site-specific group exhibitions, staging artworks together within a mise-en-scene. They encourage cross-disciplinary collaborations between practitioners, have written essays and hosted an artist talk as part...

Laurence Owen was born in Gloucester and now lives and works in London. . . He completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art at Royal Academy Schools, London in 2015, and holds a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Falmouth College of Art in Cornwall. . . I caught up with Laurence a week or so after the opening of his exhibition Gerund, where Laurence showed a completely new body of work that split across b...