This publication accompanies the 2020 Ingram Prize Š The Ingram Collection ingramcollection.com Design: teacakedesign.com Price list and sales enquiries: alison.price@ingramcollection.com This year’s prize is generously sponsored by Rawlinson & Hunter
Foreword
Chris Ingram Founder The Ingram Collection I first started visiting art school degree shows in 2007. Since my very first purchase of work that year from Haroon Mirza’s MFA show, The Ingram Collection now has 70 works by young and emerging artists, which we are proud to display around the UK as part of our public loans and exhibition programme. The Ingram Prize was established five years ago to celebrate and support the work of artists at a tricky stage in their career - the years after leaving art school when navigating the demands of building a career and making a living can be difficult. I am particularly proud that we have had a record number of entries for this year’s prize, which highlights the importance of opportunities such as this for artists. I am most associated with Modern British Art, but I have increasingly come to believe that rather than simply looking backwards at what artists have achieved, we should also be looking forwards at the art that is being made today. It is with that idea in mind that the Ingram Prize was created, and seeing our finalists’ work has become one of the highlights of my year. Congratulations to all.
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From our sponsor
Mark Harris Partner Rawlinson & Hunter Rawlinson & Hunter is delighted to sponsor the 2020 Ingram Prize. The firm has a long history of working with artists and supporting the arts through pro bono work, sponsorships and partners serving as trustees for museums and collections. I have now known Chris Ingram for over 25 years and share his passion for art, so it is a great pleasure to be involved with him through The Ingram Collection and this prize. Rawlinson & Hunter remains committed to the arts and to supporting artists at this difficult moment, and so it was important to us to continue our sponsorship of the Ingram Prize which presents a great opportunity for artists in these times.
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Introduction
Jo Baring Director & Curator The Ingram Collection We are so happy to present the 2020 Ingram Prize. It was particularly important to us at The Ingram Collection to ensure that the 2020 Ingram Prize happened, as we have always believed that supporting artists in the years after graduation is vital. This year in particular, which has seen arts funding cut, degree shows made virtual or postponed, and support for the arts seemingly decrease, we are determined to make the 2020 Ingram Prize an even more valuable opportunity and support for artists, and it is fitting that we received a record number of entries, more than doubling last year’s figures. This is the 5th edition of the prize and our offering now includes a residency, solo show at a prize winning museum & gallery in the UK, and the opportunity for three finalists’ work to join The Ingram Collection. Part of the joy of the prize is the peer to peer networks and support created amongst each cohort, and we hope to continue that this year by providing online professional development sessions. These will be hosted by Samuel Zealey and Ingram Prize alumna Susie Olczak, as part of their Conscious Isolation programme, which was set up in lockdown as an online platform to give artists and art students access to free talks and tutorials. I am grateful to Alison Price, our Collections Manager, whose hard work and attention to detail makes everything happen, and to Mark Harris and Rawlinson & Hunter for their continued support of the arts and The Ingram Prize. Congratulations to the 2020 cohort.
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Daisy Buckle
MA Information Experience Design
B. 1994
Royal College of Art, 2019
Grow and Flex
woven textiles, paper and cotton yarn
2016
80 x 80 x 30 cm
Kristina Chan
MA Print
B. 1991
Royal College of Art, 2016
Banksia Seeds (3 States)
bronze (polished, brushed, & patinated)
2020
8 x 6 x 4 cm 7
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Sofia Cianciulli
MA Fine Art
B. 1993
Central Saint Martins, 2020
Introjection
video 00:00:35
2020
Watch at www.ingramcollection.com
Connor Coulston
MA Ceramics and Glass
B. 1992
Royal College of Art, 2017
Sometimes, Connor, it feels like I’m just waiting to die - Depressed Ewer
glazed ceramic
2018
24 x 29 x 12 cm 9
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Solomon Deller
BA Filmmaking
B. 1999
Kingston School of Art, 2020
Washtub Voyeur
film 00:02:35
2019
Watch at www.ingramcollection.com
Charis Entwisle
BA Fine Art
B. 1997
Central Saint Martins, 2020
Mog
oil on board
2020
100 x 80 cm 11
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Madinah Farhannah Thompson
MA Performance Making
B. 1991
Goldsmiths, 2020
Saliva & Tears / Underneath You
film 00:09:09
2020
Watch at www.ingramcollection.com
Matt Feldman
BA Fine Art
B. 1996
Goldsmiths, 2018
Will End Soon
ceramic mosaic with walnut frame
2020
26 x 32 cm 13
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Harriet Gillett
Graduate Diploma in Fine Art
B. 1995
City & Guilds of London Art School, 2020
Icon of Aurora
oil and spray paint on canvas
2020
15 x 10 cm
Robin Godde
MA Sculpture
B. 1985
Royal College of Art, 2019
Tenderness
wooden barometer series
2014 - 2020
each approx. 250 x 20 x 80 cm 15
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Sophie Goodchild
BA Fine Art
B. 1993
Kingston School of Art, 2015
It is said that there is both danger and strength among closeness
lambswool, cotton thread, aluminium, acrylic, Iranian pink onyx
2019
132 x 127 cm
Emily Grimble
BA Jewellery Design
B. 1995
Central Saint Martins, 2017
C19 Text Talk
50 embroidered text works in calico and cotton
2020
each 8 x 16 cm 17
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Ant Hamlyn
MA Fine Art
B. 1993
Chelsea College of Arts, 2017
[INSTANT] Eyeball Lubricant
oiled birch plywood, laser cut mirrored and opaque perspex, chrome, fluorescent card, melamine faced ply, custom fittings
2020
80 x 80 x 10 cm
Alex Hayward
BA Painting
B. 1997
Edinburgh College of Art, 2019
The Boy That I Love Is Waiting In The Wings
film
2019
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Alice Irwin
MA Print
B. 1994
Royal College of Art, 2018
Big Cook, Little Cook
engraved ply
2018
150 x 90 cm and 110 x 66 cm
Chantay James
BA Fine Art
B. 1996
University of Hertfordshire, 2019
Venus, in a solitary state
digital art print
2020
84.1 x 59.4 cm 21
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Ella Jones
MFA
B. 1995
Newcastle University, 2020
Social distancing gloves
textiles
2020
36 x 125 cm
Heun Jung Kim
MFA Photography
B. 1988
Royal College of Art, 2019
Tae Jung and Ha Ru1
photograph
2020
40 x 30 cm 23
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Sooun Kim
MFA
B. 1989
Glasgow School of Art, 2020
Yellow Fever
video 00:13:22
2019
Watch at www.ingramcollection.com
Giulia Lanza
MA Drawing
B. 1988
Wimbledon College of Arts, 2016
La Scucitura
vegetable fibre mask
2020
18 x 26 cm 25
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Sandy Layton
MA Ceramics and Glass
B. 1949
Royal College of Art, 2020
Attitude
stoneware clay
2020
28 x 34 x 29 cm
Louis Martin
BA Television
B. 1998
Edinburgh Napier, 2020
Eaglefriek
video 00:08:35
2019
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Liz Middleton
MA Stone Carving
B.1975
City & Guilds of London Art School, 2017
Cotswold Copper Top 20
Cotswold limestone, copper leaf
2020
20 x 33 x 20 cm
Christina-Shelagh Mongelli
MFA
B. 1991
Slade School of Fine Art, 2019
Suspended Sound
hand blown glass installation
2019
series of six glass sculptures, various sizes 29
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Alice Motte-MuĂąoz
Masters of Research in Fine Arts and Humanities
B.1983
Royal College of Art, 2020
Dignity
photograph on paper
2020
100 x 100 cm
Fern O’Carolan
MFA
B. 1991
Chelsea College of Arts, 2018
Tazza
silkscreen and embroidery
2020
14 x 10 cm 31
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Aphra O’Connor
MA Ceramics and Glass
B.1991
Royal College of Art, 2019
Agglutinate Curlicue
earthenware clay, underglaze, coloured clay slip, acrylic sheet
2020
47 x 25 x 25 cm
Robbie O’Keeffe
BA Fine Art
B. 1994
University of Hertfordshire, 2016
Harbour At Dusk
oil on canvas
2020
14.5 x 19.5 cm 33
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Anna Perach
MFA Fine Art
B.1985
Goldsmiths, 2020
Frida
tufted yarn and wooden frame
2020
130 x 150 x 90 cm
Lucie Rachel
BA Fine Art
B. 1992
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, 2015
Factory Talk
video 00:04:31
2020
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Marigold Plunkett
MA Printmaking
B. 1983
Camberwell College of Arts, 2020
Unapologetic
etching
2019
16 x 12 cm
Marigold Plunkett
MA Printmaking
B. 1983
Camberwell College of Arts, 2020
The Light/The Dark
etching and aquatint
2020
48 x 42 cm 37
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Richard Rawlins
Postgraduate Diploma in Print
B. 1967
Royal College of Art, 2019
Empowerment
digital print
2018
83.1 x 61.2 cm
Richard Rawlins
Postgraduate Diploma in Print
B. 1967
Royal College of Art, 2019
The True Black Crown
digital print
2018
83.1 x 61.2 cm 39
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Alexandra Searle
MFA Fine Art Sculpture
B. 1992
Slade School of Fine Art, 2019
A Rock And A Soft Place
concrete, plaster, pigment, carnauba wax
2020
35 x 25 x 12 cm
Alice Walton
MA Ceramics and Glass
B. 1987
Royal College of Art, 2018
Avon Ribbons
porcelain
2020
30.5 x 28 x 28 cm 41
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Anne-Lise Weinberger
Graduate Diploma in Fine Art
B. 1982
Chelsea College of Arts, 2020
Plugged in III
giclee print on Canson Rag Photographique 310g
2020
82 x 57 cm
Josh Wright
BA Fine Art Sculpture
B. 1993
Camberwell College of Arts, 2016
Monads of the Urban Sea
Jesmonite, steel, insulation board, acupuncture needles, artificial rose petals, aromatherapy calming body mist spray
2020
95 x 120 x 60 cm 43
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John Wyatt-Clarke
Turps Art School
B. 1964
Turps Studio Programme
The How and Why Wonder Painting of Love
oil on linen
2020
30 x 40 cm
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Biographies
Daisy Buckle
Pg.6
naturalcuriositystudio naturalcuriosity.format.com
Daisy Imogen Buckle (b. 1994) is a conservationist and craftsperson. She graduated in woven textiles design from Chelsea College of Art, UAL in 2016 and The Royal College of Art in 2019. She is the founder of Natural Curiosity, a studio which uses craft and ethical, sustainable practice to highlight the importance of the natural world and develop a connection between humans and nature. She was nominated for the Helen Hamlyn Design Award in 2019, won a John Muir Conserver award in 2017 and has exhibited in London and the UK, Mexico and Paris.
Kristina Chan
Pg.7
kristina_chan_ kristinachan.com Kristina Chan graduated from the Royal College of Art (2016) with an MA in Print. Her work is in the V&A collection and Royal Collection Clarence House (UK), and has been exhibited widely, most notably at the Louvre Museum during the 5th Annual Exposure Award, Offprint TATE, TATE Modern, Royal Academy, KoMASK Master, Printmaking Salon Antwerp, Oseana Kunst og Kultursenter Bergen, Museum fĂźr Moderne Kunst Bremen, and Beers London. Chan is a finalist nominee for the Queen Sonja Print Award (2020), recipient of the Canadian Council for the Arts Digital Originals Innovation Grant (2020), and two-time winner of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (2017/2018).
Sofia Cianciulli
Pg.8
sophmetries sophmetries.com
Sofia Cianciulli is a body artist from Florence, Italy. She studied MA Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, and has exhibited internationally with venues including Tate Exchange, Lethaby Gallery and Apiary Studios. Her work combines painting, performance, sculpture and augmented reality to consider the female body in the post-feminist media age. Her work reflects upon the entangled and co-dependent nature of millennials and the internet, and seeks to respond with absolute transparency to modern narrative conventions that are an inextricable part of her reality. 46
Connor Coulston
Pg.9
connor.coulston connorcoulston.com
Connor Coulston (b. 1992, Oldham, UK) graduated from his MA at the Royal College of Art in 2017. Recent achievements include his selection as one of fifty artists commissioned from Sky Arts to explore what it means to be British, post-Brexit, showing at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art and being shortlisted for the John Ruskin and Young Masters Maylis Grand Ceramic Prize.
Solomon Deller
Pg.10
sdllr vimeo.com/soldeller
Solomon Deller recently graduated from Kingston School of Art with a First Class degree in BA Filmmaking. Two of his films (Power Cut, 2018, and Narcissus, 2019) have been exhibited at Kingston’s end of year shows at the BFI Southbank. His work pursues themes central to the architecture of character, the psychology of the cameraperson and the reflexive nature of filmmaking. His current influences include Lynne Ramsay, Steve McQueen, Barry Jenkins, Ruben Östlund and Gaspar Noé.
Charis Entwisle
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Charis Entwisle (b. 1997, Bristol) gained a Distinction for his Foundation course at Central Saint Martins, where he went on to graduate in July 2020 with a First Class Fine Art BA. He has exhibited at the Sid Motion Gallery (2018 & 2019) and has participated in group exhibitions with UAL / Slade students as part of a 22-strong, intra-school student artist collective, Young Modulus at Crypt Gallery, Duke’s Road, London WC1, and the UAL x Goldsmiths collective, Deptford Does Art. Charis has previously worked for Alexander McQueen in Florence HQ, and is currently featured in L’Uomo Vogue Italia with illustrations for two short travel stories (October 2020 issue). 47
Madinah Farhannah Thompson
Pg.12
saras_story_mft sarasstory.squarespace.com
Madinah Farhannah Thompson is a visual artist and writer currently living in London. Thompson has recently completed a Performance Making MA at Goldsmiths, University of London. In 2017 she graduated with first class honours in BA Fine Art from The Cass School of Art (London Metropolitan University) and received the Owen Riley prize for best in show. She was a British Council Fellow, spent a month stewarding the British Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale and has exhibited and performed in venues in London including Camden People’s Theatre and RAW Labs.
Matt Feldman
Pg.13
mattfeldmanarts mattfeldmanarts.com
Matt Feldman is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, photography, installation, and sound. He graduated with a BA Fine Arts degree from Goldsmiths College in 2018 and was awarded a junior fellowship with the university for the following academic year. He also participated on the Into the Wild artist development program at Chisenhale Studios in 2019. He is currently working on developing an installation based on his ongoing archival project which involves documenting the various ghost towns of the Southwestern United States through photography and sound.
Harriet Gillett
Pg.14
harrietgillettart harrietgillett.myportfolio.com Harriet Gillett (b. 1995) is a painter and printmaker from East Yorkshire, currently based in London. She received an English Literature degree from Edinburgh University (2017), and this year completed her Graduate Diploma in Fine Art at City and Guilds of London Arts School, where she is due to study her Masters next year. Her interest in exploring different mediums has led to various large-scale commissions and graffiti pieces, and she is currently expanding the street art side of her practice through a series of murals in public spaces. She was shortlisted for the VAO Prize in 2018 and recently exhibited work at Groocks Gallery and Unit 1 Gallery Workshop.
Robin Godde
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onceuponateam_ robingodde.com
Robin Godde is a French artist who has shown his work in both solo and group exhibitions in Europe, Australia and South Korea. His work has been reviewed in publications and discussed at conferences such as From, Art and Environment, Matilda Marseillaise, Kunsthaus Baselland Group Exhibition and the Geumcheon Seoul Art Foundation. His work is inspired by the poetry of motion from site construction, public spaces (gardens, heritage buildings, factories) and body gesture. He received his MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art in London, and his BFA from the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg, France. 48
Sophie Goodchild
Pg.16
sophiegoodchild Sophie Goodchild (b. Chester, 1993) is currently studying MA Painting at The Royal College of Art. She recently finished an Alternative MFA style programme with School of The Damned, a nomadic art school where she exhibited in many group shows at galleries and projects spaces such as Limbo Limbo (London); Civic House (Glasgow); Backlit Gallery (Nottingham); The Tetley (Leeds); and The Royal Standard (Liverpool). She graduated from Kingston School of Art in 2015 with a BA Hons Fine Art, having previously studied her Art Foundation at Manchester School of Art. She has her first solo show with Flatland Projects, Hastings, in 2021.
Emily Grimble
Pg.17
emilygrimble emilygrimble.com Emily Grimble (b. 1995) is a visual artist based in London. She graduated with a BA in Jewellery Design from Central Saint Martins in 2017, where she was awarded the Best Use of Non-Precious Metals, selected by Simone Ten Hompel and the Worshipful Company of Tin Plate Workers alias Wire Workers. Selected exhibitions include The Tŷ Pawb Open: An Exhibition Celebrating Lockdown Creativity (Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham, Wales, 2020); Insects (Galeria Alice Floriano, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2018); Jewellery: The best young international jewellery designers, selected by Marzee (Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2017-18); and Unpinned (The Foundling Museum, London, UK, 2015-16).
Ant Hamlyn
Pg.18
anthamlyn anthamlyn.co.uk Ant Hamlyn studied Fine Art at Liverpool Hope University (2012-2015) before receiving the Cecil Lewis Sculpture Scholarship to study MA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts in 2017. His works are held in private international collections and have featured in exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Arts, Daniel Benjamin Gallery, V&A, Saatchi Gallery, FACT and Science Gallery Melbourne, as well as exhibitions and residencies in Beijing, New York and Moscow. In 2017 he represented the UK and the UK Young Artist s at the BJCEM Biennale. He was one of the 2018/19 winners of the Red Mansion Art Prize and is this year published in Aesthetica Magazines 100 Contemporary Artists 2020.
Alex Hayward
Pg.19
tibby_schlegel alexhaywardart.com
Alex Hayward (b. 1997, Devon) is an artist, painter and filmmaker. He is based in Scotland, having moved there to study for the BA Painting programme at Edinburgh College of Art. Hayward’s approach to collating and combining source material leads him to work across collage, painting and film. He mines literature, philosophy, cinema, and personal biography to produce work which he hopes evoke nostalgia, humour, romance and pathos. Since graduating, he has shown new work alongside Sir Matthew Bourne’s production of The Red Shoes at Sadler’s Wells, and is working towards an exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy. 49
Alice Irwin
Pg.20
alice.irwin_ aliceirwin.com
Alice Irwin is an award-winning artist who graduated from the RCA in 2018. Irwin currently has a solo show, People Play at The Piece Hall in Halifax and had a solo show at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 2018. She won the Contemporary Art Trust prize in 2017 for a series of prints, and has recently exhibited at Flowers Gallery, Sid Motion Gallery, CGP London and East of Elsewhere in Berlin. Alice Irwin works in layers as a printer, and much of her sculpture is created from a printer’s perspective. She pushes the boundaries of art and craft, combining the traditional with the new.
Chantay James
Pg.21
artworkbytay_ chantayjamesart.com Chantay James is a Fine artist from East London/Essex. She creates digital art focusing on educating, empowering and blurring the boundaries between traditional and contemporary modes of representation within western art. She received a Fine Art BA from the University of Hertfordshire (2019), where she explored her talent in different media including painting, performance, photography and digital art. Her series Revelation was shown at The Truman Brewery’s Free Range shows in 2019 (London), winning the runners’ up award for best art. Most recently her piece The Reformation of Danaë became the cover of Curious Publishing’s magazine “The Womxns Issue” (2nd edition) which also includes several other pieces of her work.
Ella Jones
Pg.22
ellalouisejones_celf ellalouisejones.com Ella Louise Jones is a graduate from Newcastle University and Cardiff School of Art and Design. She received the Hatton Prize, Bartlett travel fund and is currently an Artist in Residency at Newcastle University’s Mitochondrial research facility. Ella creates installations, sculptures, and costumes centred on the theme of haptic touch - the relationship between sight and touch. Her work is informed by research into the science and psychology of touch from the macro to the micro. Ella is specifically interested in kinaesthetic learning; learning through bodily movement and creating opportunities for tangible interactions between audience and artwork.
Heun Jung Kim
Pg.23
heunjungkim im-creator.com/free/heunjungkim/a Heun Jung Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea. She is a London-Seoulbased portrait photography artist with a Master’s of Photography from the Royal College of Art, London (2019). She has exhibited work at the Photo Oxford Festival, 2020, UK; MAGENTA Suite Gallery, USA, 2019; Artzone42 Gallery, Greece 2019; Photo Place Gallery, USA, 2019; Gallery 1202, USA, 2019; Glasgow Gallery of Photography, UK, 2019; Art Finder ‘Grad Week’, 2019; International Photography Awards; and the Light Space & Time Awards, Landscapes, 2019, Greece. Her works have featured in several magazines including A5, Average, Wotisart, Notrandomart and APERO Fine Art. 50
Sooun Kim
Pg.24
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Sooun Kim is a multidisciplinary visual artist working in music, painting and sculpture, although he has recently begun specialising in video and installation. Sooun has a keen interest in topics of hybrid culture and cultural imperialism. Kim is currently based in Glasgow and he received his MFA from Glasgow School of Art. He was selected to the Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2019 as part of the Artist Film Official Selection, and Circa Class of 2020 on the Piccadilly Lights, London. His collaboration solo show Order G is scheduled to be held in March 2021 at Intermedia Gallery of Centre for Contemporary Art in Glasgow.
Giulia Lanza
Pg.25
giulialanzastudio giulialanza.com
Giulia Lanza (b. 1988, Rome) holds a BA (Hons) Fine Art (Rome Academy of Fine Arts), and an MA Drawing (Wimbledon College of Arts, UAL), for which she received the Beale Bell Hammer drawing Prize. She is currently attending an MA in Design & Crafts (Jewellery) at EKA, Tallinn (EE). In 2017 two of her drawings were acquired by the Vatican Museums collection. Solo shows: Incerte Mutazioni (2018); Fondazione Sensus curated by Claudio Cosma; L’uomo è l’unico animale in grado di arrossire (2020); and SpazioSERRA (Milan), curated by Vincenzo Argentieri. In 2021/2022 she will exhibit at NeroLaFactory and at Galleria RAMO (IT).
Sandy Layton
Pg.26
sandy_layton sandylayton.com
Before becoming an artist, Sandy Layton pursued a career as a psychotherapist working with children and adults, which gave her a wealth of experience in human relationships. This prompted her to want to explore her own life experiences and she pursued further studies, doing an MA in Fine Art at Kingston before undertaking an MA at the Royal College of Art (2018-2020). Her RCA dissertation, ‘Working Through’, explored the effects of trauma in the work of several photographers and was awarded a distinction. Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions, including Creekside Open (2017) and the Royal West of England Academy (2019).
Louis Martin
Pg.27
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Louis Martin has been writing/directing for the past five years having graduated from North East Scotland College and then Edinburgh Napier. After having notable successes at film festivals across the UK, the John Byrne Award and others, Louis was able to feature his short Box of Frogs on Amazon Prime. From Aberdeen but currently residing in Glasgow, Louis is currently working on his next short, writing a TV pilot and a medium length documentary about Jehovahs Witnesses. 51
Liz Middleton
Pg.28
liz_middleton_sculptor lizmiddleton.com
Liz Middleton is a sculptor and site-specific artist. She trained in Fine Art at the University of Derby, and Historical Stone and Letter Carving at the City and Guilds of London Art School. Following her BA she was awarded a two-year artist-in-residence studio from the Hampshire Sculpture Trust; at her MA she won the prize for ‘Outstanding Work by a Graduating Student’, and in 2018 the ‘Be Smart About Art Award’ through the Federation of British Artists’ Futures show. Middleton is currently engaged with a number of public art commissions and exhibiting at the Royal Academy of Art Summer Exhibition.
Christina-Shelagh Mongelli
Pg.29
shelagh_christina_mongelli christinashelaghmongelli.com Christina-Shelagh Mongelli (b. Athens, 1991) is a London based artist of Greek-English-Italian ethnicity who works with photography, sculpture, video, installation, performance and sound. She completed her Master’s of Fine Art at the Slade (2019) and prior to this attended Central Saint Martins (2011-2014). For her postgraduate studies she was awarded an academic scholarship from the Neon Organisation in Greece. She is currently working on an audio commission for the ICA and the BBC, part of ‘New Creatives’, and her recent work has been exhibited/broadcasted by such institutions as Milton Keynes Gallery (UK), Medea Electronique (GR), Resonance FM (UK), and Athinais Cultural Centre (GR).
Alice Motte-Muñoz
Pg.30
alicemottemunozart Alice Motte-Muñoz is a Filipina-French artist who studied at the Royal College of Art (Masters of Research, Fine Arts & Humanities, 2020), British Museum (Postgraduate Diploma, Classical and Decorative Arts of Asia, 2006), and the Courtauld Institute of Art (BA, Art History, 2005). She attended the Royal Drawing School and Slade School of Fine Art (2019). She won First Place in the 2019 Trinity Buoy Wharf (previously Jerwood) Drawing Prize and was shortlisted for the ING Bank Discerning Eye Award (2019), and Derwent Art Prize (2020). She was a British Museum Scholarship recipient and has had group exhibitions at the RCA, Derwent Prize Finalists’ and Discerning Eye Finalists’ shows.
Fern O’Carolan
Pg.31
xfernluciax Fern O’Carolan (b. 1991) graduated from Gray’s School of Art (BA Contemporary Art Practice (Printmaking), 2015), and Chelsea College of Arts (MFA Fine Art, 2018). Her fantasies narratives often leave her in unsettling and peculiar places in relation to herself, her sexuality, and the political madness of today’s society. Heroes and villains, soulmates and fuck buddies collide and change forms, recounting the vicious cycles of despair and desire that the real world offers, and displaying it through graphic forms and objects. Fern uses work as a way to ask questions about ethics, mortality, and our paradoxical human condition while including humour to facilitate insight. 52
Aphra O’Connor
Pg.32
aphraoconnor aphraoconnor.co.uk
Aphra O’Connor (b. 1991) is a Yorkshire artist investigating the collage potential of clay. She graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Ceramics and Glass in 2019, and has established a studio in Whitby, North Yorkshire. She has exhibited across the UK, notably at Tate Modern in 2019. She was a recipient of the Collyer Bristow Graduate award in 2019 and The Travers Smith Graduate award in 2019 and 2020. Her work and practice will be featured in the book Contemporary British Ceramics: Beneath the Surface by Ashley Thorpe, which will be published in 2021.
Robbie O’Keeffe
Pg.33
robbie.okeeffe robbieokeeffe.co.uk
Robbie O’Keeffe (b. 1994) is a painter. After graduating from the University of Hertfordshire in 2016 with a BA in Fine Art, his selected exhibitions include New Contemporaries and the Deptford X fringe festival. His painterly style has been described as visual music in which he builds layers of space and colour on a small scale. Although inspired by personal insights of places, seen in pier motifs, city and domestic scenes, his works often pull towards poetic notions. O’Keeffe is now a studio holder in London and will have his first solo show at No Format Gallery in Easter 2021.
Anna Perach
Pg.34
anna_perach annaperach.com
Anna Perach is a Ukrainian born Israeli artist, living and working in London. Anna holds an MFA in Fine Arts with distinction from Goldsmiths, University of London (2020). She has exhibited work in the UK, Europe and Israel. Recent group shows include Tomorrow: London (White Cube, London, UK), Storia Notturna (Centrale Feis, Italy), and Larsen Warner gallery (Stockholm, Sweden). In 2020 she was one of the finalists in the Birth Rites Collection Biennial Competition for New Works, and received a grant for the production of new work from Procreate Project via Arts Council London. Recent publications include Floorr Magazine and Calvert Journal.
Marigold Plunkett
Pg.36-37
marigoldplunkett.artist marigoldplunkett.co.uk Marigold Plunkett recently graduated from Camberwell College of Arts with a distinction in MA Printmaking. Her work is concerned with the female gaze and the expressive nature of line and mark-making in intaglio printmaking. She completed a BA in Social Anthropology in 2004, which has guided the way she approaches her portraits. Marigold exhibits her work in Kent and Sussex and has exhibited twice in the Society of Women Artists annual exhibition (The Mall Galleries). She is the recipient of the annual Artichoke Print prize and has been given a fellowship to work in their Brixton workshops. She continues to develop the projects she started in her MA alongside her commissioned work. 53
Lucie Rachel
Pg.35
lucie_rachel lucierachel.com Lucie Rachel is a lens-based artist focusing on intimate subject matter through an interdisciplinary and collaborative approach. Since graduating from DJCAD in 2015 as one of the RSA New Contemporaries, she has directed award winning short films with the Scottish Documentary Institute, Glasgow Film, Channel 4 Random Acts and Art With Impact. Her work has screened internationally at over 50 festivals including MoMA’s Doc Fortnight, Iris Prize, and #fivefilms4freedom selected by BFI Flare and British Council. She supports the programme team at Lighthouse, Brighton, and is community film curator for Queer the Pier exhibition at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery.
Richard Rawlins
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rmaffinity richardmarkrawlins.com Richard Mark Rawlins (b.1967, Trinidad & Tobago) lives in Hastings. A Royal College of Art print programme alumnus (2019), Rawlins’ research examines the poetics of life in the Caribbean, the contested histories/realities/ politics of colonialism and diaspora. Rawlins’ work has been featured in Get Up Stand Up Now, London (2019); Transoceanic Visual Exchange (2019), China; and more recently the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival 2020; Wells Art Contemporary 2020 and PHOTOFRINGE 2020. He is a past resident of the Vermont Studio Center, USA (2012). Rawlins’ work has been acquired by the Wedge Curatorial Collection, Toronto and the Soho House Collection, London.
Alexandra Searle
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alexandrasearle_ alexandrasearle.com London based sculptor Alexandra Searle studied Fine Art at Newcastle University followed by an MFA in Fine Art Sculpture from the Slade School of Fine Art, where she was awarded the Henriques Scholarship Prize and the Nancy Balfour Scholarship. She was shortlisted for the 2020 ACS Studio Prize and recent group shows have included FBA Futures 2020 (Mall Galleries, London) and the BBA Artist Prize (Berlin). Combining the industrial and solid with the fragile and decaying, and drawing on references to the mental and the medical from her own experiences with anxiety and hypochondria, Alexandra is chiefly inspired by the behaviours and anthropomorphisms of materials themselves.
Alice Walton
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alicewaltonceramics alicewaltonceramics.co.uk Alice Walton (b. 1987) is a British ceramics artist and Postgraduate (MA) of Ceramics from the Royal College of Art (2018). Further, she has been an artist in residence during the European Ceramic Context in Denmark, the Victoria and Albert Museum and Cove Park, Scotland. In 2017, Walton was awarded the Sir Eduardo Paolozzi Travel Scholarship and in 2018 was the recipient of the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust. Alice Walton’s ceramics have been exhibited worldwide including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Make Hauser & Wirth, Officine Saffi, and Collect. She was awarded the Wedgewood Prize at the British Ceramics Biennial in 2019. 54
Anne-Lise Weinberger
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anneliseweinberger anneliseweinberger.com
Anne-Lise Weinberger (b. 1982, Geneva) is a Swiss-British artist based in London. She graduated with distinction from both Chelsea College of Arts (2020) and City and Guilds of London Art School (2018), where she was awarded the prize for Outstanding Work at the Foundation Show. Her work translates an interest in materiality, bringing strong sensorial and tactile elements to her pieces, exploring ideas such as transience, vulnerability and conformity. Anne-Lise’s work has been shortlisted for the Mother Art Prize 2020 by Procreate Project and she is a founder and contributor to the Women’s Voice in the Arts platform.
Josh Wright
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joshcwright joshcwright.com Josh Wright (b. 1993, High Wycombe) is a British artist living and working in London. Wright studied his BA (Sculpture) at Camberwell College of Arts graduating in 2016. As well as his solo sculptural practice, Wright has an ongoing collaboration with the artist Guillaume Vandame, operating as Wright & Vandame. Recent and forthcoming solo / collaborative exhibitions include NIMBY, Contemporary Collaborations, Robert Young Antiques, London (2020); Open House, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (2020); fool’s paradise, SET Lewisham, London (2019); Pavilion of Change, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes (2018); Whitechapel Gallery Café 1985 – 2007, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2018); Art Gym, fig-2 Week 38/50, ICA, London (2015).
John Wyatt-Clarke
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johnwyattclarke johnwyattclarke.com
John Wyatt-Clarke is a painter trying to make sense of the world: a practice that feels to him both urgent and futile. Wyatt-Clarke has studied dinosaur palaeontology in Bristol, photography in Sheffield, art history and theory in Oxford, and painting on the Turps Studio Programme. He has previously worked as a Creative Director of Magnum Photos, an editor at Oxford University Press, a lecturer in photography at the Royal College of Art and the University of South Wales, and he also founded the environmental activist organisation Project Pressure. Wyatt-Clarke has been exhibiting his paintings and photographs across Europe since the 1980s.
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Dimensions are given in cm as height x width x depth All artwork images are © and courtesy of the artists Additional credits below: Image of Chris Ingram © JP Bland Image of Jo Baring © Phil Adams Image of Alice Irwin © Oliver Holmes Image of Aphra O’Connor & Agglutinate Curlicue © Charles O’Connor Image of Alice Walton © Sophie Alder Image of Anne-Lise Weinberger © Kang Linyue Front cover image: Chantay James, Venus, in a solitary state Inside front cover: Josh Wright, Monads of the Urban Sea Page 2 image: Richard Rawlins, The True Black Crown Page 4 image: Anne-Lise Weinberger, Plugged In III Inside back cover: Connor Coulston, Sometimes, Connor, it feels like I’m just waiting to die - Depressed Ewer Back cover image: Matt Feldman, Will End Soon
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