2022 Manchester Metropolitan University graduate Rhianna Mone makes hybrid wall hangings. In her process the artist uses chance to foreground the interrelations of shapes and colours. As artist Elsworth Kelly said of using chance to make his collages of colourful squares: “I want to eliminate the ‘I made this’ from my work.” The title of many […]

Here are the latest emerging artists to join this summer. We’re so excited at the diverse range of talent that continues to be evident at the degree shows this year; here is a brief introduction to the newest additions curated by the gallery.  Kaiya Khatri is a graduate of Loughborough University. Flowers are her subject, following the Puja (‘the […]

We’re delighted to introduce Emily Oades to the gallery, a young artist just graduated from Leeds Arts University. The oil paintings she’s producing are ambitious, head-turning works that recall the seminal contemporary British painter Cecily Brown – who once described painting as a transformative “kind of alchemy.”  We hope you enjoy browsing Emily’s work here.  Our take:  In these […]

The two newest artists showing at the gallery are Sammi Mak and Tian Rossana Wong.  In very different ways these emerging artists dramatise the meeting of paint with paper, the myriad possibilities of brushwork, line and tone. Different types of paper – whether rice paper from the ancient Chinese tradition, or Somerset soft velvet paper made of […]