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Artist : Miles Cleveland Goodwin
Title : Country Church
Medium : mixed media on canvas
Dimensions : 76 x 122 cm


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Miles Cleveland Goodwin’s upbringing in the American South is a recurring theme in his brooding paintings and sculptures. Goodwin draws parallels between the people he portrays, the rhythm of their rural ways of life, and the rugged landscapes that they inhabit. The artist frequently evokes themes of mortality, decay and solitude with a sense of phantasmagoric realism combined with a haunting stillness. Goodwin’s ‘Southern Gothic’ works conjure the ambivalent beauty of a place that is both simultaneously desolate yet deeply soulful.

Goodwin lives and works in Georgia, USA. He graduated from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Oregon in 2007 with a BFA in painting and printmaking. His work has been featured in group exhibitions at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, the Grace Museum and the Amarillo Museum of Art among others and can be found in collections worldwide.

Artist : Miles Cleveland Goodwin
Title : Graveyard
Medium : oil on canvas
Dimensions : 76 x 102 cm


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Miles Cleveland Goodwin’s upbringing in the American South is a recurring theme in his brooding paintings and sculptures. Goodwin draws parallels between the people he portrays, the rhythm of their rural ways of life, and the rugged landscapes that they inhabit. The artist frequently evokes themes of mortality, decay and solitude with a sense of phantasmagoric realism combined with a haunting stillness. Goodwin’s ‘Southern Gothic’ works conjure the ambivalent beauty of a place that is both simultaneously desolate yet deeply soulful.

Goodwin lives and works in Georgia, USA. He graduated from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Oregon in 2007 with a BFA in painting and printmaking. His work has been featured in group exhibitions at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, the Grace Museum and the Amarillo Museum of Art among others and can be found in collections worldwide.

Artist : Laurence Edwards
Title : Lucuna
Medium : bronze (edition variee)
Dimensions : 140 x 60 x 30 cm


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Laurence Edwards’ sculptural practice has long been concerned with the physical and metaphysical, orderly and entropic, entwining of man, nature and time. Organic matter is often built into the casting process, perhaps a detritus of leaves, branches, stone and / or rope. One of the few sculptors who casts his own work, he is fascinated by the metamorphosis of form and matter that governs the lost-wax process which is an inherent part of his process. It is a method of working which also registers symbolically and conceptually. His primary working material is bronze, an alloy that physically and metaphorically illustrates the natural tendency of any system in time to tend towards disorder and chaos. His sculptures express this raw material potential, harnessing molten liquid versatility to achieve solid mass. Each process mark is both embraced and retained, telling the story of how and why each work came to be.

Based in Suffolk, Edwards studied sculpture at Canterbury College of Art and bronze casting at the Royal College of Art with Sir Antony Caro. After winning a Henry Moore Bursary, the Angeloni Prize for Bronze Casting and an Intach Travelling Scholarship, he studied traditional casting techniques in India and Nepal, an experience that not only influenced his treatment of form and technique, but also gave him the necessary tools to establish his own atelier and foundry. In November 2019, ‘Man of Stones’ was unveiled at the Sainsbury Centre in Norfolk. In 2018, Edwards was commissioned by Doncaster Council to create a sculpture that celebrates the lives of those who worked in the collieries around Doncaster. ‘A Rich Seam’ was unveiled in Print Office Street in 2021. In November 2021, Edwards installed a 26-foot-high sculpture, alongside the A12 highway in Suffolk, called ‘Yoxman’. This colossal figure embodies his fascination between the human figure and the environment; he is part tree, cove, cliff and figure. ‘Gathering of Uncertainties’ opens at The Orange Regional Gallery NSW early 2023. Edwards is represented by Messums Wiltshire.

Artist : David Quinn
Title : Cloghan (1)
Medium : mixed media on panel
Dimensions : 21.5 x 13.5 cm


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Working on several pieces at once, David Quinn’s studio is an intimate, white, rectangular space where small scale, inter-related yet instinctively painted works, hang in line or grid. Each piece a self contained unit, both unique and yet part of a greater whole, as if individual words as part of a sentence, notes in a tune or hours in a day. What at first glance appears simple, minimal and understated, reveals itself upon closer inspection to be multilayered and imbued with quiet complexity, where a unique history is accumulated, built like strata in sedimentary rock. A finished painting is the summary of the process of its creation: a concentrated form or essence, containing both purity and imperfection, each tablet a poetic palimpsest, considered by Quinn as a marker of time, spent in contemplation - akin perhaps to a physical embodiment of meditation or a prayer.

David Quinn was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1971 and currently lives and works in Shillelagh, County Wicklow. His paintings have been exhibited internationally and can be found in collections worldwide.

Artist : David Quinn
Title : Cloghan (2)
Medium : mixed media on panel
Dimensions : 21.5 x 13.5 cm


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Working on several pieces at once, David Quinn’s studio is an intimate, white, rectangular space where small scale, inter-related yet instinctively painted works, hang in line or grid. Each piece a self contained unit, both unique and yet part of a greater whole, as if individual words as part of a sentence, notes in a tune or hours in a day. What at first glance appears simple, minimal and understated, reveals itself upon closer inspection to be multilayered and imbued with quiet complexity, where a unique history is accumulated, built like strata in sedimentary rock. A finished painting is the summary of the process of its creation: a concentrated form or essence, containing both purity and imperfection, each tablet a poetic palimpsest, considered by Quinn as a marker of time, spent in contemplation - akin perhaps to a physical embodiment of meditation or a prayer.

David Quinn was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1971 and currently lives and works in Shillelagh, County Wicklow. His paintings have been exhibited internationally and can be found in collections worldwide.

Artist : David Quinn
Title : Cloghan (3)
Medium : mixed media on panel
Dimensions : 21.5 x 13.5 cm


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Working on several pieces at once, David Quinn’s studio is an intimate, white, rectangular space where small scale, inter-related yet instinctively painted works, hang in line or grid. Each piece a self contained unit, both unique and yet part of a greater whole, as if individual words as part of a sentence, notes in a tune or hours in a day. What at first glance appears simple, minimal and understated, reveals itself upon closer inspection to be multilayered and imbued with quiet complexity, where a unique history is accumulated, built like strata in sedimentary rock. A finished painting is the summary of the process of its creation: a concentrated form or essence, containing both purity and imperfection, each tablet a poetic palimpsest, considered by Quinn as a marker of time, spent in contemplation - akin perhaps to a physical embodiment of meditation or a prayer.

David Quinn was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1971 and currently lives and works in Shillelagh, County Wicklow. His paintings have been exhibited internationally and can be found in collections worldwide.

Artist : Andrew Litten
Title : Whispering
Medium : bronze (edition of 5)
Dimensions : 46 x 21 x 20 cm


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Andrew Litten’s dynamic and gestural figurative artworks express a strong interest in the universal complexity of everyday existence. Dealing with humanistic themes such as love, sensuality, fear, anger, loss, nostalgia, mundanity, personal growth and perceived identity normality or disturbance. Works are created with an unguarded, empathetic attitude, like so many expressionistic artists, a rawness of approach combined with an often viscous application of paint is also key to the extreme experience felt from the work. Gesture and nuance inspire extreme emotive reading, perhaps subversive, tender, passionate, ambivalent, malevolent or compassionate, our response becomes one of allure or repulsion.

Andrew Litten is a British artist, born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire in 1970. He currently works from his studio in Fowey, Cornwall. He is a self-taught artist leaving art college as a teenager having found it to be too restrictive to his aspired method of working. For a decade he created mostly small-scale works using humble domestic or found materials (including envelopes and assembled furniture parts). The work made at this time deliberately challenged ideas of art elitism and art as commodity. He then moved to Cornwall in 2001 and chose to begin exhibiting. Early success came when his work was included in an exhibition titled ‘Nudes’ in New York City, (along with Jacob Epstein and Pierre-Auguste Renoir), where his work was highlighted and reviewed by the New York Times. Shortly after he had four consecutive solo exhibitions at Goldfish Fine Arts in Penzance, Cornwall. Other notable exhibitions included ‘Move’ at Vyner Street, London, during Frieze Art Week 2007, where his work ‘Dog Breeder’, created as a twisted and emphatic anti-art statement, was exhibited. He was also included in ‘No Soul For Sale’ at Tate Modern Turbine Hall, London in 2010. In 2012 he held a major solo exhibition at Millennium in St Ives, Cornwall and that year was given a guest solo exhibition at L13 Light Industrial Workshop, London. He has also held large-scale solo exhibitions at Spike Island and Motorcade FlashParade in Bristol. ‘Ordinary Bodies, Ordinary Bones’ was conceived withsupport from The Arts Council, UK and was exhibited at Anima Mundi in 2018. Works have been included in numerous international curated mixed exhibitions in Berlin, Dublin, Siena, Milwaukee and New York City and in Venice during the 54th Biennale. Most recently paintings have been exhibited in four major museums in China. Andrew Litten paintings feature in numerous international private and public collections.

Artist : Roy Eastland
Title : Displaced Portrait (fur erinnerung an mine schulzeit 1939)
Medium : silverpoint on gesso on board
Dimensions : 21 x 15 cm


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“‘Displaced Portrait (fur erinnerung an mine schulzeit 1939)’ is one of an ongoing series of silverpoint drawings based on portrait photographs taken mostly in the 1930s and 1940s, which have found their way into my hands via a second-hand shop in my home town of Margate. My drawings are a kind of meditation on these displaced traces of lived moments. This particular drawing is based on a school photograph dated 1939 which was taken somewhere in Germany. The piece has been repeatedly drawn onto with points of silver wire, drawn into with needles, and scratched-away with scalpel blades and sandpaper. The image goes through a continual process of repeated loss and re-finding. With each re-working, certain details change; but always the repeated point of reference is the original photographic image. Whatever it is that I’m trying to see seems always to be elusive. Each re-working points to the same thing but each re-working is also a different drawing adding something new. I draw in the hope of catching sight of something which I could not have foreseen but which feels somehow true. These drawings are worked on over the course of many months and often years. Some never reach an end-point. Hand-made drawings remind us that there is always another way of seeing and that there is always another way to mark those moments of recognition. I wonder who it is that I have drawn here.” -
Roy Eastland 2022

Roy Eastland lives and works in Thanet, Kent. He graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 1996. Works have been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibition including the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, The Jerwood Drawing Prize (on three occasions), The ING Discerning Eye Drawing Bursary, The Zoo Art Fair, Miami Art Fair, The London Art Fair, The BP Portrait Award, The British Art Fair, The Hunting Art Prizes, Margate Rocks, the Turner Contemporary Open, among others.

Artist : Richard Nott
Title : Baetylus
Medium : mixed media floating panel
Dimensions : 184 x 184 cm


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Richard Nott’s paintings are unique. There are no oil or acrylic paints in his studio, he works with industrial materials, bitumen, emulsions and varnishes, building them up layer upon layer, often over intimately drawn or gouged grids, lines or marks, into a textural palimpsest, before courageously scraping or burning them back to reveal what lies underneath. Viewing Richard Nott’s artwork is witnessing a protracted collision of creative and destructive processes. An evolution of matter, exposed, concealed, exposed, concealed, continuously. His paintings become the consequence of protracted time spent where Nott’s history merges with the history of the elements used. He has little interest in illusionistic ‘texture’, the work must be its own entity, have its own story and be its own statement. His objective is to create an organic object that evolves like a living thing with truth and imperfection. His process of working allows for a contemplation of a cycle of existence to become imbued into the work. Not a beginning with an end but a journey where genesis leads to dissolution, and on once again to genesis. Something eternal akin to alchemy.

Richard Nott is a British artist born in 1963, who lives and works in west Cornwall. Nott gained his Fine Art degree at Lancashire Polytechnic and his MA in fine art at Reading University. In 1985 he worked as an assistant to Andy Goldsworthy on site-specific sculptures in the Lake District. He was gallery assistant at the Royal Academy from 1986-7 and at Oldham Art Gallery from 1991-2. He won the South West Arts Visual Arts and Photography Award in 1994. He gained a residency at the 12th International Weeks of Painting in Slovenia. Exhibitions have been extensive and international notable included numerous solo exhibitions at Anima Mundi over a long and fruitful working relationship, ‘Art Now Cornwall’ at the Tate St Ives and Chashama, Avenue of the America’s, NYC.

Artist : David Cooper
Title : Hed
Medium : bronze (edition of 7)
Dimensions : 37 x 21 x 20 cm


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David Cooper’s work is examined inside out, and outside in, through a series of unpremeditated and intuitive processes. The works inquire into a humanity that feels, fears and confronts restriction and control; a state of being often conducive to an abominable sense of desolation and fettered anxiety. These unknown (and unknowable) aspects of the human condition, driven by momentary absences of restraint, structure and control are embodied. Broken happenings, motivated by instinct and random thoughts, naivety and energy are exploited to sculpt the identity of these unfathomable aspects of
human experience.

David Cooper was born in Wakefield, West Yorkshire in 1972. He currently lives and works in Suffolk. Cooper studied Fashion at John Moores University followed by an MA in Fashion Design at Central Saint Martins where he went on to become lead designer and head of menswear at Alexander McQueen. More recently Cooper attended Fine Art summer school at the Slade School of Fine Art in 2008. Works have been exhibited extensively in the UK.

Artist : Jamie Mills
Title : A Space Under Your Tongue (Vestige)
Medium : paper, beeswax, cotton, thread
Dimensions : 28.5 x 35 cm


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Jamie Mills’ practice is underpinned by an investigation surrounding the dissemination of gesture between materiality and environments – referencing both internal and external landscapes. These concerns are reinforced by an interdisciplinary approach to working and are made manifest through the renderings of materials often sourced or retrieved via immersion into nature or borderlands The term ‘gestalt’ refers to a concept within psychotherapeutic fields, inferring that the nature of a whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Mills’ employment of the mediums of photography, sound and mark-making can be read in this sense whereby a reality is constructed not by the sole surface representation of any individual element alone, but instead there is a sense that the artist's reality is presented through the relationships and the spaces between elements. In other terms, it is work that requires both on one hand a stepping away from, and on the other an immersion into, in order to extract an empathetic understanding of the essence of the work that presides from both a conscious and subconscious framework of mind.

Universally inherent within his process of rendering, there is a conscious dialogue between, on one hand material intent (or ‘essence’) and on the other, control (or the relinquishing of control), so as to make work that negotiates thresholds and occupies at times a liminal status. In this sense Mills’ “intuitively composed” sound works, and his images or assemblages become markers to a series of internal journeys or rituals informed by an often poetic dialogue between material, form and environment.

Artist : Evelyn Williams
Title : Death and the Maiden (1)
Medium : oil on canvas
Dimensions : 122 x 91 cm


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Evelyn Williams was born in 1929 and died in 2012. Her tender, intimate and emotional paintings are concerned with the subtleties and complexities of relationships and the human predicament. Dealing with the intimate connection and profound solitude of existence, taking the viewer on a profound journey from womb to tomb.

Williams trained at St Martin’s School of Art from the age of 15 and then the Royal College of Art working alongside the older, largely male students, many of them soldiers returning from service in the Second World War.

Despite failing health she continued painting right up to her death at the age of 83. Williams proved difficult for some to categorise during her life time, but is regarded, along with friends such as Paula Rego, as having forged a path for female artists. She later founded a trust in her name which has done modest but important work to support artists, particularly women, and the practice of drawing. As Huon Mallalieu stated “Her work deserves to be as well-known as those of her fellow 1961 John Moores prize-winners, Blake, Blow, Hockney, Kitaj, Kossoff, McWilliam and Uglow.”

Artist : Evelyn Williams
Title : Death and the Maiden (2)
Medium : oil on canvas
Dimensions : 122 x 91 cm


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Evelyn Williams was born in 1929 and died in 2012. Her tender, intimate and emotional paintings are concerned with the subtleties and complexities of relationships and the human predicament. Dealing with the intimate connection and profound solitude of existence, taking the viewer on a profound journey from womb to tomb.

Williams trained at St Martin’s School of Art from the age of 15 and then the Royal College of Art working alongside the older, largely male students, many of them soldiers returning from service in the Second World War.

Despite failing health she continued painting right up to her death at the age of 83. Williams proved difficult for some to categorise during her life time, but is regarded, along with friends such as Paula Rego, as having forged a path for female artists. She later founded a trust in her name which has done modest but important work to support artists, particularly women, and the practice of drawing. As Huon Mallalieu stated “Her work deserves to be as well-known as those of her fellow 1961 John Moores prize-winners, Blake, Blow, Hockney, Kitaj, Kossoff, McWilliam and Uglow.”

Artist : Arthur Lanyon
Title : Mafrash
Medium : oil, oil stick, acrylic, charcoal on linen
Dimensions : 190 x 140 cm


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Arthur Lanyon paintings combine intuitive figurative motifs with an emotive, gestural, abstracted language. His energetic works are sited on a physical and metaphysical crossroads, like a belay between numerous visual and emotional pinnacles. They offer a progressive link between the outside world, the inner architecture of the brain, altered states of consciousness, memory and the unencumbered essence of
child’s drawing.

Arthur Lanyon is a British artist born in Leicester, England in 1985. He lives and works from a studio near Penzance, Cornwall. Born into an artistic family, his father was the painter Matthew Lanyon and his grandfather the celebrated, influential and world renowned modernist painter Peter Lanyon. He won the Hans Brinker Painting Award in Amsterdam in 2007 and gained a first class degree in Fine Art from Cardiff University in 2008. Upon graduating he was featured in Saatchi’s ‘New Sensations’ exhibition. In 2014, his work was in the long-list for the Aesthetica Art Prize and was included in the award’s published anthology. His debut Anima Mundi solo exhibition ‘Return to Whale’ opened in 2016, which was followed by ‘White Chalk Lines' in 2018, ‘Arcade Laundry’ in 2020 and ‘Coda for an Obol’ in 2022. Works have been exhibited extensively, notably including Untitled Art Fair in Miami; Zona Maco, Mexico City; the Saatchi Gallery London; The House of St Barnabas, London; CGK, Copenhagen; Tat Art, Barcelona and Herrick Gallery, Mayfair. Arthur Lanyon paintings are held in private collections worldwide.

Artist : Kate Clark
Title : The Ghost
Medium : greater kudu & black wildebeest hide & horns, foam, clay, thead, pins, rubber eyes
Dimensions : 165 x 66 x 76 cm


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Kate Clark’s sculptures invite the viewer to experience an instinctive and primal reaction, that encourages further examination of our own humanity. Stitched over a hand-sculpted human face, the material quality of her ethically sourced animal hide brings an authenticity to the final sculpture, through what the artist describes as a unique energy and presence. We identify with animals through both our connection with and separation from them. Recognising these contradictions, Clark’s fusion of human and animal suggests that our human condition is fully realised only when we acknowledge and reconcile our current state and our natural instincts, acknowledging the animalistic inheritance within the human condition. She achieves this through emphasis on the characteristics that differentiate us from the rest of the animal kingdom, and, importantly, the ones that unite us.

Kate Clark lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She attended Cornell University for her BFA and Cranbrook Academy of Art for her MFA and has been awarded fellowships from the Jentel Artists Residency in Wyoming, The Fine Arts Work Center Residency in Provincetown, MA, and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio Program in New York. Clark was nominated for a USA Fellowship, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award and an American Academy of Arts and Letters award. She was awarded a grant from The Virginia Groot Foundation in 2013 and a New York Foundation For the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship Award in 2014. Clark has exhibited in solo museum exhibitions at the Mobile Museum of Art, The Newcomb Art Museum and the Hilliard Museum and in group museum exhibitions at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, The Islip Art Museum, and The Bellevue Arts Museum, MOFA: Florida State University, Cranbrook Art Museum, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, The Winnepeg Art Gallery, the Glenbow Museum, the Musée de la Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, The Art Gallery at Cleveland State University, the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, the Nevada Museum of Art, the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, the Biggs Museum of American Art, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Her work is collected internationally and is in public collections such as the JP Morgan Chase Art Collection, the 21c Collection, the David Roberts Art Foundation and the C-Collection in Switzerland. Clark’s sculptures have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, New York Magazine, Art21:Blog, The Village Voice, PAPERmag, The Atlantic, Hyperallergic, NYArts, Huffington Post, Hi Fructose, the BBC World News Brazil, Hey! Magazine, Time Out, ID Paris, Cool Hunting, Wallpaper, Creators Project/VICE, Sculpture Review and many other publications. In addition she was filmed by National Geographic in her studio over a 2 month period for a short documentary about her work.

Artist : Michael McGrath
Title : Ghost Town
Medium : acrylic, oil pastel, colored pencil and burlap on raw linen
Dimensions : 100 x 153 cm


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Michael McGrath’s paintings are inspired by an interest in the history of place and his natural environment but also embodies a curiosity in the cults of mysticism, mythology and religion. An interest in the esoteric is balanced and presented alongside the more prosaic aspects of daily life with a playful sense of naivety. His painted faces often depict deities or the deceased, where ghosts and skulls naturally symbolise death and afterlife, but are rendered with a fair measure of acceptance and hope. McGrath imagines that “if there were gods, ghosts or magic, they would exist within nature and in the landscape; not just as beings in the sky, but also in the ground, in the trees, in the flowers and in the animals.”

Michael McGrath is an American artist and painter who lives and works in Rhinebeck, in New York’s Hudson Valley. He graduated from Ithaca College in 2000 with a B.F.A. in Fine Art and has most recently shown work in Rhinebeck, New York, Germany, Belgium, and in Beijing, China.

Artist : Michael McGrath
Title : Intro to the Theatre: Grouches Lurking
Medium : oil and pastel on canvas
Dimensions : 60 x 76 cm


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Michael McGrath’s paintings are inspired by an interest in the history of place and his natural environment but also embodies a curiosity in the cults of mysticism, mythology and religion. An interest in the esoteric is balanced and presented alongside the more prosaic aspects of daily life with a playful sense of naivety. His painted faces often depict deities or the deceased, where ghosts and skulls naturally symbolise death and afterlife, but are rendered with a fair measure of acceptance and hope. McGrath imagines that “if there were gods, ghosts or magic, they would exist within nature and in the landscape; not just as beings in the sky, but also in the ground, in the trees, in the flowers and in the animals.”

Michael McGrath is an American artist and painter who lives and works in Rhinebeck, in New York’s Hudson Valley. He graduated from Ithaca College in 2000 with a B.F.A. in Fine Art and has most recently shown work in Rhinebeck, New York, Germany, Belgium, and in Beijing, China.

Artist : Simon Averill
Title : Entanglements (1)
Medium : acrylic on panel
Dimensions : 40 x 40 cm


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Albert Einstein’s ‘spooky action at a distance’ theory referred to the subject of ‘quantum entanglement’. This principle has inspired this ongoing series of paired paintings by Simon Averill. Quantum entanglement is a physical phenomenon which occurs when pairs or groups of particles are generated, interact, or share spatial proximity in ways such that the quantum state of each particle cannot be described independently of the state of the other(s), even when the particles are separated by a large distance—instead, a quantum state must be described for the system as a whole. Physicist and feminist theorist Karen Barad coined the term ‘intra-action’ to describe the concept of ‘entanglement’, (not only of fundamental particles but of all material, matter, of nature and of meaning). There is a distinction to be made between intra-action and interaction; when bodies interact they retain a degree of independence, each entity existed before the encounter. When intra-action occurs individuals materialise and agency emerges from within the relationship not outside of it. These works further enhance Averill’s reputation for attempting to record elusive, transitory yet fundamental phenomena. Produced through a multi layered, process of glazing where methodical and repetitive series’ of motifs, are used to describe intangible potentials.

Simon Averill is a British artist born in Brighton, England in 1961. He currently lives and works near Marazion in West Cornwall. Averill studied Fine Art at Brighton Polytechnic and graduated with Honours. In 1986 he established a Printmaking Workshop near Penzance, Cornwall, which he ran until 1990. He has been a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists since the late 1980s. Averill has exhibited widely with exhibitions in the UK, Europe and USA including the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Show, The Discerning Eye exhibition at the Mall Galleries, Royal West of England Academy in Bristol, Sherborne House, Plymouth Museum, Plymouth Arts Centre, Truro Museum, Falmouth Art Gallery, Newlyn Art Gallery and the Festival Hall in Chicago, USA. He has had 12 exhibitions and won the Wells Art Contemporary painting prize in 2020.

Artist : Simon Averill
Title : Entanglements (2)
Medium : acrylic on panel
Dimensions : 40 x 40 cm


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Albert Einstein’s ‘spooky action at a distance’ theory referred to the subject of ‘quantum entanglement’. This principle has inspired this ongoing series of paired paintings by Simon Averill. Quantum entanglement is a physical phenomenon which occurs when pairs or groups of particles are generated, interact, or share spatial proximity in ways such that the quantum state of each particle cannot be described independently of the state of the other(s), even when the particles are separated by a large distance—instead, a quantum state must be described for the system as a whole. Physicist and feminist theorist Karen Barad coined the term ‘intra-action’ to describe the concept of ‘entanglement’, (not only of fundamental particles but of all material, matter, of nature and of meaning). There is a distinction to be made between intra-action and interaction; when bodies interact they retain a degree of independence, each entity existed before the encounter. When intra-action occurs individuals materialise and agency emerges from within the relationship not outside of it. These works further enhance Averill’s reputation for attempting to record elusive, transitory yet fundamental phenomena. Produced through a multi layered, process of glazing where methodical and repetitive series’ of motifs, are used to describe intangible potentials.

Simon Averill is a British artist born in Brighton, England in 1961. He currently lives and works near Marazion in West Cornwall. Averill studied Fine Art at Brighton Polytechnic and graduated with Honours. In 1986 he established a Printmaking Workshop near Penzance, Cornwall, which he ran until 1990. He has been a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists since the late 1980s. Averill has exhibited widely with exhibitions in the UK, Europe and USA including the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Show, The Discerning Eye exhibition at the Mall Galleries, Royal West of England Academy in Bristol, Sherborne House, Plymouth Museum, Plymouth Arts Centre, Truro Museum, Falmouth Art Gallery, Newlyn Art Gallery and the Festival Hall in Chicago, USA. He has had 12 exhibitions and won the Wells Art Contemporary painting prize in 2020.

Artist : Paul Benney
Title : Scrying Mirror
Medium : oil and resin on board
Dimensions : 65 x 45 cm


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Paul Benney was born in London and currently lives and works in Suffolk. He rose to international prominence as a member of the Soho and East Village Neo-Expressionist group, whilst living and working in New York City in the 1980s where he worked and exhibited alongside peers Marylyn Minter, Jean-Michel Basquiat and David Wojnarovicz among the many other others who made up the exploding NY art scene. Despite living and working in this extraordinary creative environment Benney’s painting maintained a uniquely English sensibility.

Collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The Brooklyn Museum, The National Gallery of Australia and The National Portrait Gallery in London, The Royal Collection and The Eli Broad Foundation own works. He has exhibited in eight BP Portrait Award Exhibitions and twice won the BP Visitors’ Choice Award. Benney’s portrait subjects have included HM Queen Elizabeth II, Sir Mick Jagger, John Paul Getty III, 7th Marquess of Bath, The State Portrait for Israel, Lord Rothschild, as well as Ben Barnes for the portrait in the feature film ‘A Portrait of Dorian Grey’. Benney was invited to be resident artist at Somerset House in 2010. During his five year residency he held the exhibition ‘Night Paintings’ in 2012 and drew over 15,000 visitors. In 2017 his epic painting and holosonic sound installation ‘Speaking in Tongues’ was a prominent feature of the Venice Biennale.

Artist : Carlos Zapata
Title : Charon’s Obol
Medium : polychrome carved wood
Dimensions : 43 x 33 x 19 cm


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Carlos Zapata predominately makes idiosyncratic carved and painted wooden sculpture alongside mixed media installation. His work deals with many challenging and potent humanist themes including poverty, conflict, religion and race, yet perhaps paradoxically, the overriding characteristics of the work are of emotive empathy and compassion. Zapata’s work belongs to and takes inspiration from folk and tribal artforms from all over the world but specifically from South America, from its indigenous populace and the trade routes and traditions that have fed it over the centuries. Many of his sculptures have evolved from personal experience of living in a foreign land and from his home country where civil issues continue to trouble its people.

Carlos Zapata is a Colombian artist who currently lives and works near Falmouth in Cornwall, UK. He has exhibited extensively internationally with works held in numerous private and museum collections around the world.

Artist : Luke Frost
Title : Pale Brilliant Blue Volts
Medium : acrylic on aluminium
Dimensions : 84 x 84 cm


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Luke Frost is a British abstract painter living and working in West Cornwall. Despite his notable heritage, as Son of the English painter Anthony Frost and the Grandson of the celebrated Modernist painter Sir Terry Frost, his paintings could be seen to instead echo a formality found in 1960s American hard-edge, post-painterly, abstraction. However Frost has developed his own means of exploring complex colour relationships, be they harmonious or provocative, and their impact on their surroundings alongside an internal and more contemplative space.

Frost began exhibiting in 2003 following studies at Falmouth and Bath Schools of Art. His work was featured in ‘Art Now Cornwall’ at Tate St Ives in 2007 and in 2008 he was awarded a Tate St Ives artist in residency during which time he worked at Porthmeor Studio No. 5, formerly occupied by Ben Nicholson and Patrick Heron. His solo exhibition ‘Paintings in Five Dimensions’ was shown at Tate St Ives in 2009. He has since exhibited in Cornwall, London and USA, with essays written on his work by Matthew Collings, Tony Godfrey and Michael Klein.

Artist : Tim Shaw
Title : Middle World : Figure with Crown & Mask
Medium : bronze (edition of 8)
Dimensions : 16 cm high


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Tim Shaw RA’s sculpture is often dualistic, incorporating current affairs, societal complexity and human conflict with ancient, mythical, metaphysical and primal concerns. Shaw’s powerful oeuvre connects these elements to create wider, timeless portraits of humanity. The tension between ancient past and a prosaic presence, between solidity and breakdown, becomes an organic part of his worldview, whether he’s looking at human transgression or the enlightenment of primitive ritual.

Shaw is a British artist, born in Belfast, he currently lives in Cornwall. He was elected an Academician at The Royal Academy in 2013 and made a Fellow of The Royal British Society of Sculptors and a Fellow of Falmouth University the same year. Shaw has had a number of significant solo shows throughout the UK, Ireland and internationally. Most recently the major public solo exhibitions ‘What Remains’ and ‘Something is Not Quite Right’ a collaboration between The Exchange and Anima-Mundi, ‘Mother the Air is Blue, The Air is Dangerous’ was held in the F.E McWilliam Gallery in Northern Ireland, ‘Black Smoke Rising’ toured from Mac Birmingham to Aberystwyth Arts Centre and Back From the Front presents: Shock and Awe – Contemporary Artists at War and Peace at the Royal West of England Academy. He has undertaken a number of public commissions including ‘The Rites of Dionysus’ for The Eden Project, ‘The Minotaur’ for The Royal Opera House and ‘The Drummer’ for Lemon Quay, Truro. A more political side to his work became evident in a number of sculptures responding to the issues of terrorism and The Iraq War. ‘Tank on Fire’ was awarded the selectors prize at the inaugural Threadneedle Prize in 2008 and the installation ‘Casting a Dark Democracy’ was reviewed in 2008 by Jackie Wullschlager of The Financial Times as ‘The most politically charged yet poetically resonant new work on show in London’. Shaw has been supported by the Kappatos Athens Art Residency, The Kenneth Armitage Foundation, The British School of Athens,The Delfina Studio Trust through residencies in Greece, Spain and a fellowship in London. Most recently as an Artist Fellow at the Kate Hamburger Centre for Advanced Study in the Humanities of ‘Law and Culture’ In Bonn, Germany where he began work on ’The Birth of Breakdown Clown’ an existential sculptural work utilising sculpture, robotics and AI.

Artist : Tim Shaw
Title : Middle World : Joker Holding the Moon
Medium : bronze (edition of 8)
Dimensions : 15 cm high


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Tim Shaw RA’s sculpture is often dualistic, incorporating current affairs, societal complexity and human conflict with ancient, mythical, metaphysical and primal concerns. Shaw’s powerful oeuvre connects these elements to create wider, timeless portraits of humanity. The tension between ancient past and a prosaic presence, between solidity and breakdown, becomes an organic part of his worldview, whether he’s looking at human transgression or the enlightenment of primitive ritual.

Shaw is a British artist, born in Belfast, he currently lives in Cornwall. He was elected an Academician at The Royal Academy in 2013 and made a Fellow of The Royal British Society of Sculptors and a Fellow of Falmouth University the same year. Shaw has had a number of significant solo shows throughout the UK, Ireland and internationally. Most recently the major public solo exhibitions ‘What Remains’ and ‘Something is Not Quite Right’ a collaboration between The Exchange and Anima-Mundi, ‘Mother the Air is Blue, The Air is Dangerous’ was held in the F.E McWilliam Gallery in Northern Ireland, ‘Black Smoke Rising’ toured from Mac Birmingham to Aberystwyth Arts Centre and Back From the Front presents: Shock and Awe – Contemporary Artists at War and Peace at the Royal West of England Academy. He has undertaken a number of public commissions including ‘The Rites of Dionysus’ for The Eden Project, ‘The Minotaur’ for The Royal Opera House and ‘The Drummer’ for Lemon Quay, Truro. A more political side to his work became evident in a number of sculptures responding to the issues of terrorism and The Iraq War. ‘Tank on Fire’ was awarded the selectors prize at the inaugural Threadneedle Prize in 2008 and the installation ‘Casting a Dark Democracy’ was reviewed in 2008 by Jackie Wullschlager of The Financial Times as ‘The most politically charged yet poetically resonant new work on show in London’. Shaw has been supported by the Kappatos Athens Art Residency, The Kenneth Armitage Foundation, The British School of Athens,The Delfina Studio Trust through residencies in Greece, Spain and a fellowship in London. Most recently as an Artist Fellow at the Kate Hamburger Centre for Advanced Study in the Humanities of ‘Law and Culture’ In Bonn, Germany where he began work on ’The Birth of Breakdown Clown’ an existential sculptural work utilising sculpture, robotics and AI.

Artist : Tim Shaw
Title : Middle World : Juggler with Skull
Medium : bronze (edition of 8)
Dimensions : 12 cm high


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Tim Shaw RA’s sculpture is often dualistic, incorporating current affairs, societal complexity and human conflict with ancient, mythical, metaphysical and primal concerns. Shaw’s powerful oeuvre connects these elements to create wider, timeless portraits of humanity. The tension between ancient past and a prosaic presence, between solidity and breakdown, becomes an organic part of his worldview, whether he’s looking at human transgression or the enlightenment of primitive ritual.

Shaw is a British artist, born in Belfast, he currently lives in Cornwall. He was elected an Academician at The Royal Academy in 2013 and made a Fellow of The Royal British Society of Sculptors and a Fellow of Falmouth University the same year. Shaw has had a number of significant solo shows throughout the UK, Ireland and internationally. Most recently the major public solo exhibitions ‘What Remains’ and ‘Something is Not Quite Right’ a collaboration between The Exchange and Anima-Mundi, ‘Mother the Air is Blue, The Air is Dangerous’ was held in the F.E McWilliam Gallery in Northern Ireland, ‘Black Smoke Rising’ toured from Mac Birmingham to Aberystwyth Arts Centre and Back From the Front presents: Shock and Awe – Contemporary Artists at War and Peace at the Royal West of England Academy. He has undertaken a number of public commissions including ‘The Rites of Dionysus’ for The Eden Project, ‘The Minotaur’ for The Royal Opera House and ‘The Drummer’ for Lemon Quay, Truro. A more political side to his work became evident in a number of sculptures responding to the issues of terrorism and The Iraq War. ‘Tank on Fire’ was awarded the selectors prize at the inaugural Threadneedle Prize in 2008 and the installation ‘Casting a Dark Democracy’ was reviewed in 2008 by Jackie Wullschlager of The Financial Times as ‘The most politically charged yet poetically resonant new work on show in London’. Shaw has been supported by the Kappatos Athens Art Residency, The Kenneth Armitage Foundation, The British School of Athens,The Delfina Studio Trust through residencies in Greece, Spain and a fellowship in London. Most recently as an Artist Fellow at the Kate Hamburger Centre for Advanced Study in the Humanities of ‘Law and Culture’ In Bonn, Germany where he began work on ’The Birth of Breakdown Clown’ an existential sculptural work utilising sculpture, robotics and AI.

Artist : Tim Shaw
Title : Middle World : Hooded Figure with Knife
Medium : bronze (edition of 8)
Dimensions : 8 cm high / 15 cm high


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Tim Shaw RA’s sculpture is often dualistic, incorporating current affairs, societal complexity and human conflict with ancient, mythical, metaphysical and primal concerns. Shaw’s powerful oeuvre connects these elements to create wider, timeless portraits of humanity. The tension between ancient past and a prosaic presence, between solidity and breakdown, becomes an organic part of his worldview, whether he’s looking at human transgression or the enlightenment of primitive ritual.

Shaw is a British artist, born in Belfast, he currently lives in Cornwall. He was elected an Academician at The Royal Academy in 2013 and made a Fellow of The Royal British Society of Sculptors and a Fellow of Falmouth University the same year. Shaw has had a number of significant solo shows throughout the UK, Ireland and internationally. Most recently the major public solo exhibitions ‘What Remains’ and ‘Something is Not Quite Right’ a collaboration between The Exchange and Anima-Mundi, ‘Mother the Air is Blue, The Air is Dangerous’ was held in the F.E McWilliam Gallery in Northern Ireland, ‘Black Smoke Rising’ toured from Mac Birmingham to Aberystwyth Arts Centre and Back From the Front presents: Shock and Awe – Contemporary Artists at War and Peace at the Royal West of England Academy. He has undertaken a number of public commissions including ‘The Rites of Dionysus’ for The Eden Project, ‘The Minotaur’ for The Royal Opera House and ‘The Drummer’ for Lemon Quay, Truro. A more political side to his work became evident in a number of sculptures responding to the issues of terrorism and The Iraq War. ‘Tank on Fire’ was awarded the selectors prize at the inaugural Threadneedle Prize in 2008 and the installation ‘Casting a Dark Democracy’ was reviewed in 2008 by Jackie Wullschlager of The Financial Times as ‘The most politically charged yet poetically resonant new work on show in London’. Shaw has been supported by the Kappatos Athens Art Residency, The Kenneth Armitage Foundation, The British School of Athens,The Delfina Studio Trust through residencies in Greece, Spain and a fellowship in London. Most recently as an Artist Fellow at the Kate Hamburger Centre for Advanced Study in the Humanities of ‘Law and Culture’ In Bonn, Germany where he began work on ’The Birth of Breakdown Clown’ an existential sculptural work utilising sculpture, robotics and AI.

Artist : Tim Shaw
Title : Middle World : Devil
Medium : bronze (edition of 8)
Dimensions : 8 cm high / 15 cm high


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Tim Shaw RA’s sculpture is often dualistic, incorporating current affairs, societal complexity and human conflict with ancient, mythical, metaphysical and primal concerns. Shaw’s powerful oeuvre connects these elements to create wider, timeless portraits of humanity. The tension between ancient past and a prosaic presence, between solidity and breakdown, becomes an organic part of his worldview, whether he’s looking at human transgression or the enlightenment of primitive ritual.

Shaw is a British artist, born in Belfast, he currently lives in Cornwall. He was elected an Academician at The Royal Academy in 2013 and made a Fellow of The Royal British Society of Sculptors and a Fellow of Falmouth University the same year. Shaw has had a number of significant solo shows throughout the UK, Ireland and internationally. Most recently the major public solo exhibitions ‘What Remains’ and ‘Something is Not Quite Right’ a collaboration between The Exchange and Anima-Mundi, ‘Mother the Air is Blue, The Air is Dangerous’ was held in the F.E McWilliam Gallery in Northern Ireland, ‘Black Smoke Rising’ toured from Mac Birmingham to Aberystwyth Arts Centre and Back From the Front presents: Shock and Awe – Contemporary Artists at War and Peace at the Royal West of England Academy. He has undertaken a number of public commissions including ‘The Rites of Dionysus’ for The Eden Project, ‘The Minotaur’ for The Royal Opera House and ‘The Drummer’ for Lemon Quay, Truro. A more political side to his work became evident in a number of sculptures responding to the issues of terrorism and The Iraq War. ‘Tank on Fire’ was awarded the selectors prize at the inaugural Threadneedle Prize in 2008 and the installation ‘Casting a Dark Democracy’ was reviewed in 2008 by Jackie Wullschlager of The Financial Times as ‘The most politically charged yet poetically resonant new work on show in London’. Shaw has been supported by the Kappatos Athens Art Residency, The Kenneth Armitage Foundation, The British School of Athens,The Delfina Studio Trust through residencies in Greece, Spain and a fellowship in London. Most recently as an Artist Fellow at the Kate Hamburger Centre for Advanced Study in the Humanities of ‘Law and Culture’ In Bonn, Germany where he began work on ’The Birth of Breakdown Clown’ an existential sculptural work utilising sculpture, robotics and AI.

Artist : David Kim Whittaker
Title : The Sisters : For Who Shall Be Sent
Medium : oil and acrylic on panel
Dimensions : 76 x 76 cm


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Most of David Kim Whittaker’s paintings are based upon a metaphysical interpretation of the human head. These portrait portals, are often ambiguous, with the aim of representing the totality of the human condition - both the universal and the empathetic alongside personal experience. The works often juggle dual states of inner and outer calm and conflict, offering a glimpse of simultaneous strength and fragility, conscious and subconscious, masculine and feminine. The paintings express Whittaker’s constant focus on an attempt to express something far greater than oneself. Recent works depict the artists deep sensitivity and increasing unease when confronted with the compounding global tensions of this particular moment. A dual reflection of hope and warning stares back at us from the frame.

Whittaker is a British artist born in Cornwall where he still resides. Exhibitions have been held internationally, notably including a major solo exhibition at the prestigious Fondazione Mudima in Milan in 2017. Works are in numerous museum collections, art foundations and international private collections. Whittaker was further acknowledged in 2011 as the recipient of the Towry Award (First Prize) at the National Open Art Competition.

Artist : Henry Hussey
Title : Untitled (Black Herma I)
Medium : black glass
Dimensions : 51 x 18 x 19 cm


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Henry Hussey’s artworks are often emotionally and physically raw, yet contrastingly beautiful and intricate, created with force through often paradoxically laboured mediums, including textile, glass, ceramic, paint and film. Whether through an expanding vocabulary of quasi-mythological symbols, or in embellished lines of text extracted from performative situations, Hussey explores personal and national identity in response to aggravating relationships and events. Recent experimentations reveal a deep concern with control and chaos and the sweet spot in between these two distinctive states.

Henry Hussey is a British artist born in London in 1990 where he still resides. Hussey studied Textiles at Chelsea College of Art before completing an MA in Textiles at the Royal College of Art. His work is widely respected and has been exhibited in notable exhibitions including The Textiel Biennale 2017 at Museum Rijswijk in the Hague, a solo presentation at Art Central in Hong Kong, the Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2014 at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, the Royal Academy London and Volta New York and the Young Talent Contemporary Prize at the Ingram Collection in 2016. Hussey has participated in residencies at La Vallonea, Tuscany, Italy in 2018 and participated in a residency at Palazzo Monti, Milan in 2020. His work is held in collections worldwide including Simmons & Simmons, Hogan Lovells, The Groucho Club and Soho House.

Artist : Henry Hussey
Title : Untitled (Black Herma II)
Medium : black glass
Dimensions : 51 x 18 x 19 cm


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Henry Hussey’s artworks are often emotionally and physically raw, yet contrastingly beautiful and intricate, created with force through often paradoxically laboured mediums, including textile, glass, ceramic, paint and film. Whether through an expanding vocabulary of quasi-mythological symbols, or in embellished lines of text extracted from performative situations, Hussey explores personal and national identity in response to aggravating relationships and events. Recent experimentations reveal a deep concern with control and chaos and the sweet spot in between these two distinctive states.

Henry Hussey is a British artist born in London in 1990 where he still resides. Hussey studied Textiles at Chelsea College of Art before completing an MA in Textiles at the Royal College of Art. His work is widely respected and has been exhibited in notable exhibitions including The Textiel Biennale 2017 at Museum Rijswijk in the Hague, a solo presentation at Art Central in Hong Kong, the Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2014 at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, the Royal Academy London and Volta New York and the Young Talent Contemporary Prize at the Ingram Collection in 2016. Hussey has participated in residencies at La Vallonea, Tuscany, Italy in 2018 and participated in a residency at Palazzo Monti, Milan in 2020. His work is held in collections worldwide including Simmons & Simmons, Hogan Lovells, The Groucho Club and Soho House.

Artist : Gabrielle K Brown
Title : There’s Balance Between Heaven & Earth
Medium : mixed media on wood panel
Dimensions : 30 x 30 cm


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Embodying a natural and intuitive, seemingly naive, yet extremely complex aesthetic, Gabrielle K Brown is a multi-faceted, multi-media artist who eagerly and energetically seeks new ways to tell stories through her artworks. Her pieces retain an object, often shrine-like quality, utilising materials including wood, various paints, resin, fabrics and even hair - nothing is beyond limits. The works dissect the relationship we have with ourselves, our companions, our society and our past with an awe and celebration of nature and the divine, shedding light on how we grow and how we suffer as human beings. Confrontational imagery is often contrasted with uplifting symbolism, actions and words - emphasising the extremes of the human condition and experience, and yearning within the energetic and fraught times that we live in.

Born in 1994 on the east coast of Canada in New Brunswick, Brown grew up along the riverside and mountains which is where she connected to art and began painting and sculpting. She has spent much of her life travelling the world and moving throughout Canada which has always reflected in her work, but has recently moved back home to St John, the oldest city in Canada.Work has been exhibited at Art Basel Miami, as well as Montreal and New York and LA in the United States.

Artist : Gabrielle K Brown
Title : Greetings From Heaven
Medium : mixed media on wood panel
Dimensions : 25 x 20 cm


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Embodying a natural and intuitive, seemingly naive, yet extremely complex aesthetic, Gabrielle K Brown is a multi-faceted, multi-media artist who eagerly and energetically seeks new ways to tell stories through her artworks. Her pieces retain an object, often shrine-like quality, utilising materials including wood, various paints, resin, fabrics and even hair - nothing is beyond limits. The works dissect the relationship we have with ourselves, our companions, our society and our past with an awe and celebration of nature and the divine, shedding light on how we grow and how we suffer as human beings. Confrontational imagery is often contrasted with uplifting symbolism, actions and words - emphasising the extremes of the human condition and experience, and yearning within the energetic and fraught times that we live in.

Born in 1994 on the east coast of Canada in New Brunswick, Brown grew up along the riverside and mountains which is where she connected to art and began painting and sculpting. She has spent much of her life travelling the world and moving throughout Canada which has always reflected in her work, but has recently moved back home to St John, the oldest city in Canada.Work has been exhibited at Art Basel Miami, as well as Montreal and New York and LA in the United States.

Artist : Gabrielle K Brown
Title : I Feel Lost Without You
Medium : mixed media on wood panel
Dimensions : 25 x 20 cm


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Embodying a natural and intuitive, seemingly naive, yet extremely complex aesthetic, Gabrielle K Brown is a multi-faceted, multi-media artist who eagerly and energetically seeks new ways to tell stories through her artworks. Her pieces retain an object, often shrine-like quality, utilising materials including wood, various paints, resin, fabrics and even hair - nothing is beyond limits. The works dissect the relationship we have with ourselves, our companions, our society and our past with an awe and celebration of nature and the divine, shedding light on how we grow and how we suffer as human beings. Confrontational imagery is often contrasted with uplifting symbolism, actions and words - emphasising the extremes of the human condition and experience, and yearning within the energetic and fraught times that we live in.

Born in 1994 on the east coast of Canada in New Brunswick, Brown grew up along the riverside and mountains which is where she connected to art and began painting and sculpting. She has spent much of her life travelling the world and moving throughout Canada which has always reflected in her work, but has recently moved back home to St John, the oldest city in Canada.Work has been exhibited at Art Basel Miami, as well as Montreal and New York and LA in the United States.

Artist : James E Crowther
Title : Love Thyself (front / back)
Medium : oil on bespoke panel
Dimensions : 51 x 25 cm


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James E Crowther has earned his reputation for painting his idiosyncratic signature ‘cut out’ portraits, rendered in oil on panel. It is through his attention to detail and his skill at ‘capturing’ his subject that the sensitivity of their inner psyche is revealed.

Crowther is a British figurative painter living and working in rural Oxfordshire with his two daughters, three dogs and partner. He was born in Southampton in 1974 and grew up on the River Hamble Hampshire where his father ran a boatyard. He secured a place at Brighton art college in 1993 where the world opened up for him. He graduated under principle tutors of Andrzej Jackowski and Brendan Neiland and continued to live in Brighton for the next ten years embracing the rich club scene. In 2004 he had his first painting accepted for BP Portrait Prize. The highly acclaimed writer Blake Morrisson said on seeing James’ painting at the National Portrait Gallery, “A good portrait painting does not merely capture a likeness, but connects with the inner energy of the sitter, showing the ‘flickers of feeling, shadows of thought, or what Leonardo da Vinci called The motions of the Mind”. Crowther has been shortlisted for the Sequested Art Prize 2021/22 at Unit Gallery and has had several solo shows in London and exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the BP Portrait Prize, Figurative Art Now at the Mall Galleries, Lynn Painter Stainers Prize, The Discerning eye, The Threadneedle Art Prize and art fairs in London, New York, Miami, Paris, Switzerland and Greece. Works are in numerous private collections internationally.

Artist : Antony Micaleff
Title : Constructing Auras, Untitled Head
Medium : oil with beeswax on linen
Dimensions : 48 x 40 x 20 cm


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Antony Micallef is a British contemporary artist working in London, UK.

He first appeared on the British art scene after becoming a prize winner of the BP Portrait Award competition at the National Portrait Gallery. Since then, his oevre fused political imagery with contemporary expressionism winning him worldwide acclaim. Described as a Modern Expressionist, Micallef roots his visually charged figurative paintings in the fields of social commentary and physical and metaphysical self-examination in the search to capture something of the human condition. In his more recent works, he builds up a substantial relief-like surface with extensive paint mass sited upon a benign background. By using significant layering, and heavy impasto, the materiality of his medium is pushed to its extreme, blurring the boundaries between painting and sculpture.

Micaleff was notably taught by the painter John Virtue, who was in turn taught by Frank Auerbach. He has been selected as one of Louis Vuitton’s ‘Visionaries’ and is currently taking part in a world tour showcasing his work. His paintings features in private and public collections across the world, with work exhibited in exhibitions in institutions including The National Portrait Gallery, The Royal Academy, Tate Britain and the ICA.

Artist : Julia Soboleva
Title : Bury Me Above Your Chest
Medium : mixed media on photographic image
Dimensions : 13.5 x 14 cm


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Julia Soboleva is a Latvia born, UK based artist. Her process involves painting and collage on found photographic imagery. Meditating on the themes of order and disorder, Soboleva constructs mysterious narratives with ominous overtones and absurd humour. Being born and raised in a post Soviet era and struggling to find her own place against the complicated past of her nation, Soboleva explores the notions of family, taboo and trans-generational trauma within her work.

Soboleva obtained a BA at Southampton Solent University and a Master’s Degree at Manchester School of Art, winning the Paul Osborne Drawing Prize during her studies. Her first monograph ‘I have found the light in the darkness’, was published in 2021.

Artist : Julia Soboleva
Title : A Circle With Many Centres
Medium : mixed media on photographic image
Dimensions : 11 x 9 cm


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Julia Soboleva is a Latvia born, UK based artist. Her process involves painting and collage on found photographic imagery. Meditating on the themes of order and disorder, Soboleva constructs mysterious narratives with ominous overtones and absurd humour. Being born and raised in a post Soviet era and struggling to find her own place against the complicated past of her nation, Soboleva explores the notions of family, taboo and trans-generational trauma within her work.

Soboleva obtained a BA at Southampton Solent University and a Master’s Degree at Manchester School of Art, winning the Paul Osborne Drawing Prize during her studies. Her first monograph ‘I have found the light in the darkness’, was published in 2021.

Artist : Julia Soboleva
Title : Zero Vector of the Vanishing Point
Medium : mixed media on photographic image
Dimensions : 11 x 7.5 cm


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Julia Soboleva is a Latvia born, UK based artist. Her process involves painting and collage on found photographic imagery. Meditating on the themes of order and disorder, Soboleva constructs mysterious narratives with ominous overtones and absurd humour. Being born and raised in a post Soviet era and struggling to find her own place against the complicated past of her nation, Soboleva explores the notions of family, taboo and trans-generational trauma within her work.

Soboleva obtained a BA at Southampton Solent University and a Master’s Degree at Manchester School of Art, winning the Paul Osborne Drawing Prize during her studies. Her first monograph ‘I have found the light in the darkness’, was published in 2021.

Artist : Simone Pellegrini
Title : Traviso in fase
Medium : mixed media on hand made paper
Dimensions : 71 x 147 cm


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Simone Pellegrini’s visionary works appear as timeless artefacts describing complex systems of interconnectivity. The works are made through a process of pressing motifs, painted on to discarded paper fragments, on to a rich parchment-like paper, which is then hand-coloured and distressed with oil to create a rich and deep patination of age and wear. Their compositional arrangements echo an archaic sensibility, depicting dreamlike symbology and structures where figures float or wander either lost or found, consumed or enraptured. Whilst remaining cryptic Pellegrini’s paintings make tangible, more elusive philosophical, mystical and spiritual aspects of universal relatedness.

Simone Pellegrini was born in Ancona, Italy in 1972, and he is currently based in Bologna, Italy. His works have been exhibited internationally and are in numerous public collections including the Museum of Modern Art in Bologna; the Civic Museum in Monza; Volker Feierabend in Frankfurt; Bologna Fiere; Maramotti Art Collection, Reggio Emilia; Unicredit Art Collection, Milan and Museum Kunstpalast Duesseldorf.

Artist : Tessa Farmer
Title : The Intruders
Medium : books, wasp nest, wormshells, insects, arachnids, coral, plant roots, bones, hedgehog spines,Portuguese man-o-war polyp in wood and glass case
Dimensions : 53 x 30 x 22 cm


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As artst in Residence in the department of entomology at the Natural History Museum London, I became interested in the insect pests threatening the collections. A drawer of Hymenoptera had been reduced to dust by carpet beetle larvae, retained as a stark warning to curators to be ever vigilant. My intervention in NHM saw my sinister skeletal fairies as a new species, disrupting the established order, causing chaos and cross pollination between the fastidiously ordered collections. ‘The Intruders’ imagines a neglected, insect damaged collection of entomology books reduced to a wasp habitat; wasps have pulverised the pages to create their intricate nest, cemented neatly between the books. Now however, the fairies have usurped the nest, enslaved the wasps and appropriated the habitat, disrupting the knowledge within and wreaking fantastic havoc.”

Farmer is a British contemporary artist born in Birmingham, England in 1978. She currently lives and works in London. Her unique work has attracted global attention. She received both a BFA and an MFA from The Ruskin, University of Oxford. Subsequently, she has been exhibited and collected widely both nationally and internationally, including at the Saatchi Gallery, the David Roberts Collection, the Museum of 21st Century Art, Kentucky and The Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania. In 2007 she was Artist in Residence at the Natural History Museum, London. Awards include selection for New Contemporaries in 2004, and a Royal British Society of Sculptors Bursary Award in 2005. In 2007 she was nominated for The Times/ The South Bank Show Breakthrough Award and in 2011 was awarded a Kindle Project ‘Makers Muse Award.

Artist : Peter Burns
Title : Nemesis
Medium : oil on canvas
Dimensions : 46 x 61 cm


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Peter Burns lives and works in County Mayo, Ireland. His enchanting impasto oil paintings unguardedly address the plight of the lost soul, the lone wayfarer and the anti-hero. Expressing the solitary struggle to comprehend the universe that looms over us and the magnitude of the world we inhabit, overpowers us and seals our fate to be ever a stranger in an ever stranger land.

Burns’ work has been exhibited extensively internationally and collected worldwide, and has featured in Wall Street International Magazine, The Sunday Times and ArtForum. He was also a recipient of the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant and was awarded a BA in Sculpture and MFA in Painting from The National College of Art & Design, Dublin.

Artist : Peter Burns
Title : Woodlander
Medium : oil on canvas
Dimensions : 40 x 40 cm


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Peter Burns lives and works in County Mayo, Ireland. His enchanting impasto oil paintings unguardedly address the plight of the lost soul, the lone wayfarer and the anti-hero. Expressing the solitary struggle to comprehend the universe that looms over us and the magnitude of the world we inhabit, overpowers us and seals our fate to be ever a stranger in an ever stranger land.

Burns’ work has been exhibited extensively internationally and collected worldwide, and has featured in Wall Street International Magazine, The Sunday Times and ArtForum. He was also a recipient of the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant and was awarded a BA in Sculpture and MFA in Painting from The National College of Art & Design, Dublin.

Artist : Jim Carter
Title : Weathercup
Medium : Rowan berries, fox and rabbit bone, wood, clay, horse hair, straw,
leaves, graveyard soil, jackdaw, fox and blackbird marks
Dimensions : 15 x 6 x 5 cm


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Often uneasy or tragic, irrational or other, Jim Carter’s work is linked to a real world of suffering and transcendence: making sculpture from organic materials as a means of advocacy, atonement or commemoration; shifting to story and the written word as a way to enter emotional and numinous spaces of memory and dream. What appears on the surface to be a wilful disturbance of the remains of organic life in order to fulfil a creative compulsion is intended to be part of a transforming and re-sanctifying process. Taken materials are reconfigured into new forms to express complex feelings of grief and loss, love and devotion, fertility and renewal. Fundamental in this work is a conviction in an irrepressible spirit for regeneration in the world, an imperishable flame that rises most clearly in landscape and the magic and otherness of animals.

Carter was born in Worcestershire in 1967. He received an MA with distinction in Art and Environment from Falmouth University and an MSc Award in Ecopsychology from the Centre For Human Ecology, Edinburgh. His work has appeared in Dark Mountain, Unpsychology and Earthlines magazine.

Artist : Jim Carter
Title : Altar of Torn Falcon
Medium : cow, deer, fox and sheep bone, wood, clay, horse hair, straw, leaves, ash, catkins, rowan berries, blackbird, gull and crow feathers, jackdaw, goose, fox, sheep and blackbird marks
Dimensions : 22 x 10 x 9 cm


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Often uneasy or tragic, irrational or other, Jim Carter’s work is linked to a real world of suffering and transcendence: making sculpture from organic materials as a means of advocacy, atonement or commemoration; shifting to story and the written word as a way to enter emotional and numinous spaces of memory and dream. What appears on the surface to be a wilful disturbance of the remains of organic life in order to fulfil a creative compulsion is intended to be part of a transforming and re-sanctifying process. Taken materials are reconfigured into new forms to express complex feelings of grief and loss, love and devotion, fertility and renewal. Fundamental in this work is a conviction in an irrepressible spirit for regeneration in the world, an imperishable flame that rises most clearly in landscape and the magic and otherness of animals.

Carter was born in Worcestershire in 1967. He received an MA with distinction in Art and Environment from Falmouth University and an MSc Award in Ecopsychology from the Centre For Human Ecology, Edinburgh. His work has appeared in Dark Mountain, Unpsychology and Earthlines magazine.

Artist : Judith Nangala Crispin
Title : When monsoon floods the Tanami, it fills waterholes and dry creeks, disturbing those who sleep all summer below the sand – shield shrimp and water-holding frogs, seeds, the dead. Alfy, buried this last year, wakened by rain, is lifted back into the sky on the shoulders of storm
Medium : lumachrome glass print, cliche-verre, chemigram, painting, drowned rakali on fibre paper, twigs, seeds, vegemite, paint, turmeric and electroplating chemicals: exposed 36 hrs in a geodesic dome re-printed as a single image, detailed with gold and silver leaf
Dimensions : 200 x 131 cm


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Judith Nangala Crispin is an Australian visual artist, poet and musician, and a descendant of Bpangerang people of North East Victoria. Her skin name, Nangala, was given to her by the Warlpiri people of the remote Tanami Desert in northern Australia, a place she has lived for a few months each year for over a decade. Her work includes themes of displacement and identity loss, a reflection on her ancestry, but it is primarily centred on the concept of connection with the land. This work forms a part of Crispin’s ongoing series depicting the transcendent ascending forms of recently deceased fauna. Crispin’s camera-less method of photography incorporates a range of processes. Her own developed alternative process of ‘lumachrome glass printing’, combines elements of lumen printing, cliché verre, chemical alchemy and drawing. She works within a mobile geodesic dome which functions as a giant lens where light streams penetrate its plastic walls. The mobility of her studio allows her to go to the site of her subject, prior to respectful burial. The muse is raised onto a plastic box, rested on special photographic paper for up to 50 hours as the passage of sun and moonlight exposes its posthumous portrait. Each work is viewed as a collaboration with nature, where honouring the subject is a key objective. In each work the animals are diaphanous where light has literally passed through their bodies. They appear drawn in a primitive motion by a slipstream of spirit, levitating in a space of brooding luminosity that appears sentient and wholly focused on the task of enfolding each creature back into its care. The result offers a profound sense of what lies beyond.

Nangala Crispin has published a collection of poetry, The Myrrh-Bearers (Sydney: Puncher & Wattmann, 2015), and a book of images and poems made while living with the Warlpiri, The Lumen Seed (New York: Daylight Books, 2017). She is a member of Oculi collective, one of the chapter leads of Women Photograph (Sydney), and was the 2021 Artist in residence with Music Viva. She is also the Poetry Editor for The Canberra Times. She has also directed and worked on two major social justice research projects – The Julfa Project, which preserved photographic records of a destroyed Armenian cemetery and digitally reconstructed the site from new and existing images; and Kurdiji 1.0, an Aboriginal suicide prevention app, which strengthens resilience in young indigenous people by reconnecting them with community and culture. Nangala Crispin work has been exhibited internationally.

Artist : Katie Sims
Title : When It Comes The Landscape Listens - Shadows - Hold Their Breath
Medium : oil on panel
Dimensions : 30 x 24 cm


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Painting, for Katie Sims, is the closest thing to an act of communion. Her work reinforces the complexities of engagement, of seeing beyond first appearances and in questioning the origins and absolutes presented. Constraints are an integral part of her process, from a conceptual, painterly and physical stance. These limitations help her pare back to the essential, towards a directness of emotional statement and to silence; the silence the process facilitates and the silence the work is trying to get at. It is a simplifying, but not in the sense as to reduce complexity for it is layered with complexity and thus demands more from the viewer. Maintaining a balance around the transition point requires great focus akin to any devotional practice. The repetition and movement between prior intention and intention-in-action supports the virtues of listening and humility as she ‘assists’ something into being. Her work is a process that leads to a resolve. She places herself in an in-between space, between two opposing poles, challenging what resolve is through the middle ground until these two states are in a complete tension. Each resolution is different; chromatically, compositionally, through colour or light, yet each involves a circular dialogue of adding and removing. Thus her resolve sustains an instability of form, which manifests as hesitant and uncertain of itself. Sims sees this liminal space as the place where distinctions dissolve and the best opportunity for renewal is found. It is a fluid, malleable situation that enables new customs and identities to be unconcealed.

Katie Sims was born in Shropshire, England in 1988 and currently lives and works on the small island of Gozo, Malta. Her paintings have been exhibited internationally and can be found in collections worldwide.




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Artist : Katie Sims
Title : Eremos
Medium : oil on panel
Dimensions : 30 x 24 cm


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Painting, for Katie Sims, is the closest thing to an act of communion. Her work reinforces the complexities of engagement, of seeing beyond first appearances and in questioning the origins and absolutes presented. Constraints are an integral part of her process, from a conceptual, painterly and physical stance. These limitations help her pare back to the essential, towards a directness of emotional statement and to silence; the silence the process facilitates and the silence the work is trying to get at. It is a simplifying, but not in the sense as to reduce complexity for it is layered with complexity and thus demands more from the viewer. Maintaining a balance around the transition point requires great focus akin to any devotional practice. The repetition and movement between prior intention and intention-in-action supports the virtues of listening and humility as she ‘assists’ something into being. Her work is a process that leads to a resolve. She places herself in an in-between space, between two opposing poles, challenging what resolve is through the middle ground until these two states are in a complete tension. Each resolution is different; chromatically, compositionally, through colour or light, yet each involves a circular dialogue of adding and removing. Thus her resolve sustains an instability of form, which manifests as hesitant and uncertain of itself. Sims sees this liminal space as the place where distinctions dissolve and the best opportunity for renewal is found. It is a fluid, malleable situation that enables new customs and identities to be unconcealed.

Katie Sims was born in Shropshire, England in 1988 and currently lives and works on the small island of Gozo, Malta. Her paintings have been exhibited internationally and can be found in collections worldwide.

Artist : Katie Sims
Title : It Swallows Then Covers
Medium : oil on panel
Dimensions : 30 x 24 cm


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Painting, for Katie Sims, is the closest thing to an act of communion. Her work reinforces the complexities of engagement, of seeing beyond first appearances and in questioning the origins and absolutes presented. Constraints are an integral part of her process, from a conceptual, painterly and physical stance. These limitations help her pare back to the essential, towards a directness of emotional statement and to silence; the silence the process facilitates and the silence the work is trying to get at. It is a simplifying, but not in the sense as to reduce complexity for it is layered with complexity and thus demands more from the viewer. Maintaining a balance around the transition point requires great focus akin to any devotional practice. The repetition and movement between prior intention and intention-in-action supports the virtues of listening and humility as she ‘assists’ something into being. Her work is a process that leads to a resolve. She places herself in an in-between space, between two opposing poles, challenging what resolve is through the middle ground until these two states are in a complete tension. Each resolution is different; chromatically, compositionally, through colour or light, yet each involves a circular dialogue of adding and removing. Thus her resolve sustains an instability of form, which manifests as hesitant and uncertain of itself. Sims sees this liminal space as the place where distinctions dissolve and the best opportunity for renewal is found. It is a fluid, malleable situation that enables new customs and identities to be unconcealed.

Katie Sims was born in Shropshire, England in 1988 and currently lives and works on the small island of Gozo, Malta. Her paintings have been exhibited internationally and can be found in collections worldwide.

Artist : Simon Hitchens
Title : Casting a Shadow Over The Cambrian
Medium : carbon, wax, crystacal (edition of 3)
Dimensions : 17 x 10.5 x 42.5 cm


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Casting a Shadow Over The Cambrian is an uncanny object which references time: geological time, celestial time and human time by reflecting a specific moment. It is the shadow of a paleozoic piece of rock, precisely at midday, when the sun is at its zenith. That brief moment in time has now passed, but is immortalised forever as a solid object, quite the opposite to the ephemerality of its origin. Simon Hitchens' work explores the interconnectedness between the human and the non-human, as a means of learning about Mankind’s relationship with impermanence. The material backbone of his work is rock in its raw and natural state. This is not carved and polished but plucked from the rock face or quarry floor. He remains acutely aware of the historical significance that stone has as the prime material to make sculpture, and as a sculptor is challenged to make art that contributes to this debate. As a climber he maintains an intimate relationship with rock, and is acutely aware that geologically it is the very material that supports us upon the planet. In the age of the Anthropogenic it seems pertinent to question how we comprehend the geological and human worlds as united, interconnected even.

Hitchens believes there is increasingly a disconnect between these two worlds which is harmful not only to the planet but also our psyche. Consequently, rock is the conceptual focus of his work and typically the material backbone within it. His work questions differences between animate and inanimate, more specifically rock and flesh, mountain and body; exploring themes of transience and transcendence.

Artist : Sax Impey
Title : Landfalls
Medium : mixed media on paper
Dimensions : 30 x 60 cm


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Sax Impey’s artworks are often large scale, immersive and elemental, incorporating intense detail and dexterity and an expressive, behavioural use of medium. Since 2005, Impey has produced works derived predominantly from experiences at sea. A qualified RYA Yachtmaster he has sailed many thousands of miles around the world. His journeys have had a profound impact and subsequent development as an artist. Reconnecting with nature through this powerful element has the almost inescapable effect of calling to question many of life’s existential questions. This epiphanic moment of realisation, of revelation, is at the core of Impey’s oeuvre. Reflecting on and capturing personal moments and making them universal, Impey’s work reaffirms the importance of introspection and confrontation, found specifically when surrounded by the natural world; “A mind can breathe, and observe, and reflect, away from the shrill desperation of a culture that, having forgotten that it is better to say nothing than something about nothing, invents ever new ways to fill every single space with less and less”.

Impey was born in Penzance, Cornwall. He currently works from one of the prestigious Porthmeor Studios in St. Ives. From 2005, he has collaborated with the cross-cultural, environmental art group Red Earth. In 2007 Impey’s work was selected for the ‘Art Now Cornwall’ exhibition at Tate St Ives where he was placed on the cover of the associated publication. The same year he was heralded in The Times as one of the ‘New Faces of Cornish Art’. In 2010 he was featured in Owen Sheers’s BBC4 Documentary ‘Art of the Sea (In Pictures)’ alongside Anish Kapoor, J. M. W. Turner, Martin Parr and Maggi Hambling among others. His work was selected as a finalist the 2013 Threadneedle Prize and the year before was elected an Academician at the Royal West of England Academy. His paintings are in multiple collections including The Arts Council, Warwick University and the Connaught Hotel.

Artist : Sax Impey
Title : Night in the Celtic Sea (1)
Medium : mixed media on paper
Dimensions : 30 x 60 cm


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Sax Impey’s artworks are often large scale, immersive and elemental, incorporating intense detail and dexterity and an expressive, behavioural use of medium. Since 2005, Impey has produced works derived predominantly from experiences at sea. A qualified RYA Yachtmaster he has sailed many thousands of miles around the world. His journeys have had a profound impact and subsequent development as an artist. Reconnecting with nature through this powerful element has the almost inescapable effect of calling to question many of life’s existential questions. This epiphanic moment of realisation, of revelation, is at the core of Impey’s oeuvre. Reflecting on and capturing personal moments and making them universal, Impey’s work reaffirms the importance of introspection and confrontation, found specifically when surrounded by the natural world; “A mind can breathe, and observe, and reflect, away from the shrill desperation of a culture that, having forgotten that it is better to say nothing than something about nothing, invents ever new ways to fill every single space with less and less”.

Impey was born in Penzance, Cornwall. He currently works from one of the prestigious Porthmeor Studios in St. Ives. From 2005, he has collaborated with the cross-cultural, environmental art group Red Earth. In 2007 Impey’s work was selected for the ‘Art Now Cornwall’ exhibition at Tate St Ives where he was placed on the cover of the associated publication. The same year he was heralded in The Times as one of the ‘New Faces of Cornish Art’. In 2010 he was featured in Owen Sheers’s BBC4 Documentary ‘Art of the Sea (In Pictures)’ alongside Anish Kapoor, J. M. W. Turner, Martin Parr and Maggi Hambling among others. His work was selected as a finalist the 2013 Threadneedle Prize and the year before was elected an Academician at the Royal West of England Academy. His paintings are in multiple collections including The Arts Council, Warwick University and the Connaught Hotel.

Artist : Sax Impey
Title : Night in the Celtic Sea (2)
Medium : mixed media on paper
Dimensions : 30 x 60 cm


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Sax Impey’s artworks are often large scale, immersive and elemental, incorporating intense detail and dexterity and an expressive, behavioural use of medium. Since 2005, Impey has produced works derived predominantly from experiences at sea. A qualified RYA Yachtmaster he has sailed many thousands of miles around the world. His journeys have had a profound impact and subsequent development as an artist. Reconnecting with nature through this powerful element has the almost inescapable effect of calling to question many of life’s existential questions. This epiphanic moment of realisation, of revelation, is at the core of Impey’s oeuvre. Reflecting on and capturing personal moments and making them universal, Impey’s work reaffirms the importance of introspection and confrontation, found specifically when surrounded by the natural world; “A mind can breathe, and observe, and reflect, away from the shrill desperation of a culture that, having forgotten that it is better to say nothing than something about nothing, invents ever new ways to fill every single space with less and less”.

Impey was born in Penzance, Cornwall. He currently works from one of the prestigious Porthmeor Studios in St. Ives. From 2005, he has collaborated with the cross-cultural, environmental art group Red Earth. In 2007 Impey’s work was selected for the ‘Art Now Cornwall’ exhibition at Tate St Ives where he was placed on the cover of the associated publication. The same year he was heralded in The Times as one of the ‘New Faces of Cornish Art’. In 2010 he was featured in Owen Sheers’s BBC4 Documentary ‘Art of the Sea (In Pictures)’ alongside Anish Kapoor, J. M. W. Turner, Martin Parr and Maggi Hambling among others. His work was selected as a finalist the 2013 Threadneedle Prize and the year before was elected an Academician at the Royal West of England Academy. His paintings are in multiple collections including The Arts Council, Warwick University and the Connaught Hotel.

Artist : Luke Hannam
Title : Deep Water Drowns Feint Hearts
Medium : oil on collaged canvas
Dimensions : 160 x 250 cm


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Luke Hannam describes his work as the result of an ‘ordered chaos’ where poetic paintings are made ‘in the eye of the storm’, where creativity spins wildly, through bursts of impulse around a silent meditative deep well of meaning. Ideas emerge out of an energetic dedication to drawing and a relentless desire to explore images and motifs. His work is instantly recognisable through his strong punch of colour and definite use of line which weaves its way sensuously across the surface, denoting both the delicacy and strength of the form and spirit of the subject. Hannam’s paintings expressively offer a singular view on how what he sees, how he thinks and pivotally how he feels about the human condition and what lies beyond our materiality. His work could be seen to continue the Romantic tradition, embracing reality and mysticism with the wonder of experience.

Luke Hannam was born in 1966 and currently lives in East Sussex, UK. He studied Fine Art in the 1980s and whilst others of his generation faithfully chanted the conceptual mantra of the time, Hannam focussed on perfecting his expressive drawing skills seeking inspiration from the earlier masters. Works have been exhibited and collected internationally, including the collections of Stefan Simchowitz and David Kowitz.

Artist : Claire Curneen
Title : Digging
Medium : porcelain and stoneware
Dimensions : 70 x 46 x 40 cm


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Claire Curneen’s iconic sculptures are poignant contemplations on the liminal and precarious nature of the human condition; exploring themes around death, rebirth and the sublime. Universal and profound states of fear, loss, suffering and sacrifice fuse with devotion, desire, wonder and mystery to underlie each intricate, porcelain figure. Their translucent and fragile qualities offer potent, metaphoric abstract narratives. Porcelain, terracotta and black stoneware create a grounded vulnerability to these works, with dribbles of glaze and flashes of gold to embellish denoted sacred qualities.

Claire Curneen was born in Tralee, Co. Kerry, Ireland in 1968 and currently lives and works in Wales, UK. Works have been exhibited internationally and appear in many notable public collections including The Crafts Council, London; Shipley ArGallery, Gateshead; National Museum & Gallery of Wales, Cardiff; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester; National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh; Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, Wales; Cleveland Craft Centre, Middlesbrough; Oldham Art Gallery and Museum, Manchester; York City Art Gallery, York; Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough; Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Eire; Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Eire; Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland; Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece; Clay Studio, Philadelphia, USA; Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA; Icheon World Ceramic Centre, Gyeonggi-do, Korea; Taipei Ceramics Museum, Taiwan.

Artist : Barbara Neil
Title : A Casa
Medium : oil on canvas
Dimensions : 195 x 130 cm


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“I never paint with narrative in mind (although that may not be obvious). Developments in the painting occur along the way, through working, when it works, which it doesn’t always. Often I paint out and overpaint time and time again. I see the bottom of this painting as a defiance of death and when looked at from that position or perspective, I see the life - our human lives - taking place above the ground. There is the overground and the underground struggle in this one. Well, you’ve probably guessed I dislike interpreting my work… I mean, if words were going to be enough why would I paint it at all? My work is an attempt to snag the worm in me (thank you Herman Hesse), to delight my eyes and befuddle my brain. Clarity is a fearsome thing, hard to find, but worth seeking I think.” Barbara Neil, 2021.

Barbara Neill was born in Sydney, Australia in 1953 and has spent most of her adult life living and working in relative obscurity in Barcelona, Spain. She describes herself as an art school dropout, university dropout and self taught. Anima Mundi are delighted to present her work in this exhibition.

Artist : Mat Chivers
Title : Where Do I End and You Begin (Bilateral Gynandromorph)
Medium : pencil on paper
Dimensions : 76 x 56 cm


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Referencing that all life on Earth, including our own is carbon-based, ‘Carbon Mirror’ is one of a series of paired drawings made using this primary element. The left hand has been used to make a drawing of the right hand and the right to draw the left. The eye observes, sending a signal to the brain and down through the body into the hand which makes marks on the paper in an attempt to describe what the eye sees - setting up a continual loop between the interior and the exterior. Physical engagement with material reality is an act of extended cognition - of thinking out into the world. The idea of extended cognition centres around the way thinking is something that happens in relationship with material reality - a network of processes that radiate back and forth from the wetware of the brain through the physiology of the sensorial body and into the world of animate and inanimate form in a complex web of reciprocity. The evolution of our hands has facilitated an evolution of our minds. The hand enables the mind to manifest on the three-dimensional plane and has led us to where we are now.

The work of British artist Mat Chivers looks at some of the fundamental phenomena that drive our thoughts and actions. He explores ideas relating to perception, evolutionary process, ecology and ethics by bringing traditional analogue approaches to making into counterpoint with state of the art digital technologies. Chivers has works in numerous private and public collections including Oxford University Mathematical Institute, UK and Fondazione Henraux, Italy. Solo exhibitions include ‘Migrations’ at Arsenal Art Contemporain Montréal, Canada and Musée d’art de Joliette, Canada; ‘Harmonic Distortion’ at PM/AM, London, UK, ‘Altered State’s at Hallmark House, Johannesburg, South Africa and ‘Syzygy’ at Anima Mundi. Group exhibitions include The New States of Being at Centre d’Exposition de l’Université de Montréal, Canada; A Place In Time at Nirox, Johannesburg, South Africa; Glasstress: White Light/White Heat at Pallazzo Cavalli Franchetti for the 55th Venice Biennale, Italy and The Knowledge at The Gervasuti Foundation for the 54th Venice Biennale, Italy.

Artist : Massimo Angei
Title : Sapienza ultraterrena (Unearthly Wisdom)
Medium : oil on board
Dimensions : 80 x 70 cm


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Massimo Angèi’s elemental, tempestuous yet ethereal oil paintings reflect varied emotional states whilst remaining open to physical and metaphysical interpretation. Tableaus and forms are suggested but never fully established, perhaps evoking landscape, weather patterns, natural systems, inner psychology or spiritual connectedness. Voluptuous cloud-like billows intersperse with delicate spiralling marks forming an ecstatic unity reminiscent of both renaissance grandeur and primitive automatic drawing.

Massimo Angèi was born in La Spezia, Italy, he currently lives and works in Sarzana, near the borderline between Liguria and Tuscany. Following art school, he collaborated with various institutions and museums exhibiting early representational depictions of flora and fauna. After finishing his degree at the Fine Arts Academy in Carrara/Painting (Accademia di Belle Arti\Pittura), he participated in his first exhibitions, and the creation of the Idioma group along with Marco Casentini, Fabio Linari, Jacopo Bruno, Andrea Geremia. He then began to work as an independent freelance photographer working for photo agencies including Grazia Neri of Milan, and Bilderberg of Hamburg, publishing his images in both Italian and international magazines. A vivid dream in the spring of 2006 made him realise that his destiny was as a painter, and he vowed to never again abandon it.

Artist : Joy Wolfenden Brown
Title : The Good Earth
Medium : oil on paper
Dimensions : 136 x 84 cm


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Joy Wolfenden Brown’s intimate oil paintings feel hauntingly familiar possessing a raw, emotional, honesty. She captures fleeting fragments of memory, moments in time where the inherent vulnerability of the figures depicted, often in isolation, is palpable. These are lovingly yet spontaneously executed reflections on the human condition, which have an unnervingly, yet simultaneously comforting, unguarded quality.

Joy Wolfenden Brown is a British artist born in Stamford, Lincolnshire. She currently lives in Bude, North Cornwall. She graduated from Leeds University then completed a post-graduate diploma in Art Therapy at Hertfordshire College of Art & Design which she worked as an for ten years before moving to Cornwall in 1999. Since then she has had numerous solo exhibitions and was the First Prize Winner in The National Open Art Competition, 2012. She was also awarded the Somerville Gallery painting prize in 2003 and first prize winner at the Sherborne Open in 2007 and the Revolver Pricze at The RWA in 2019. Works were acquired by the Anthony Pettullo Outsider Art Collection in Milwaukee with further works held in collections worldwide.

Artist : Youki Hirakawa
Title : Coaled Sky
Medium : single channel 4K video
Duration : 7 min 45 sec, silent


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Whilst living in Germany, Youki Hirakawa visited an artificial lake and former coal mine, where he collected lumps of coal and petrified wood. When he unearthed the bituminous coal from the ground, it was still wet and the surface was shining like a thousand stars. From that experience, Hirakawa produced ‘Coaled Sky’.

Hirakawa is a Japanese contemporary artist born in Nagoya, Japan in 1983. He currently lives and works in Toyota, Japan, following a long residency in Berlin, Germany. He was invited to show at the ‘48th International Film Festival Rotterdam’ and ‘65th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen’ in 2019 and has held solo exhibitions internationally, including Ando Gallery, Tokyo, Double Square Gallery, Taipei, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Kunstkraftwerk, Leipzig, Minokamo City Museum, Japan. Hirakawa has also been invited to exhibit in international art festivals including Digital Art Festival Taipei 2017, International Contemporary Art Festival Kaunas, Sapporo International Art Festival and Aichi Triennale. His inaugural solo exhibition ‘Secret Fire’ at Anima Mundi was held in 2016 and his follow up ‘A River Under Water’ in 2018. In 2017 he was a finalist of the Sovereign Asian Art Prize. He was recently included in ‘Spirit & Endeavour’ to celebrate 800 years of Salisbury Cathedral. alongside Craigie Aitchison, Sir Tony Cragg, Martin Creed, Dame Barbara Hepworth, Dame Elisabeth Frink, Sir Antony Gormley, Bill Woodrow, Bruce Munro, Grayson Perry, Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Mark Wallinger, Henry Moore, Conrad Shawcross and Lynn Chadwick. Works are held in numerous public and private collections.

Artist : Lisa Stokes
Title : Flare
Medium : oil, oil pastel, charcoal on canvas board
Dimensions : 51 x 41 cm


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Lisa Stokes is a British artist based in Plymouth, Devon. Her practice draws on the fundamental themes of motherhood, psychology and loss. She combines these emotive elements with the patient use of contrasting mediums including oil paint, oil pastel, ink and charcoal, to make paintings which weave all these elements together to create significant depth.

Stokes work has been selected for various notable exhibitions including the BP Portrait Award at The National Portrait Gallery, The Hunting Art Prize at The Royal College of Art, The National Open Art Competition, The Royal Academy Summer Show, The London Art Fair, The British Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery and Spinneri Art Fair, Leipzig, Germany. The Ruth Borchard Collection recently purchased two paintings for ‘Ruth Borchard : The Next Generation Collection’ which includes works by Maggie Hambling, Celia Paul, Nicola Hicks, David Bomberg and John Keane. Her work is held in many private collections in the UK and internationally.