The artistic practice of Maeve Brennan (London, UK) explores the political and historical resonance of material and place. She develops long-term investigations led by personal encounters, often drawing on forms of expertise that encompass a material practice - geologists, archaeologists, conservationists - with a particular focus on repair. Working across moving image, installation, sculpture and printed matter, her works excavate layered histories, revealing the unseen or hidden structures that determine our lived environment. Her ongoing body of work The Goods (2018 - present) traces the underground networks that facilitate the looting, smuggling and trade of cultural heritage. Brennan was the recipient of the 2023 BSR Sainsbury Scholarship.
http://www.maevebrennan.co.uk/
@maevekrbrennan
Catriona Gallagher (UK/IE) is a visual artist and filmmaker working between Northumberland, UK and Athens, Greece. Her work probes at the collision of manmade and natural worlds, navigating overlooked details in our physical surroundings and their mirroring psychological landscapes. She uses moving image, drawing, writing, and research processes to map physical and conceptual traces of human and non-human relations. Gallagher is a founding member of A – DASH project space and studios, where she worked between 2016-19. Her work has been exhibited in the UK, Ireland, Italy, Greece and France and her films have premiered at Ann Arbor, Laterale, New Holland Island, Sheffield Doc Fest, Aesthetica, Ribalta, and London Short film festivals. Recently, her work has been supported by Arts Council England and Visual Arts in Rural Communities, UK, and Creative Ireland and Roscommon Arts Centre, Ireland. Gallagher was the recipient of the 2022-23 BSR Bridget Riley Fellowship.
http://catrionagallagher.com/
@catrigallagher
Holly Graham (London, UK) is an artist whose work looks at ways in which memory and narrative shape collective histories. Graham holds a BFA from Oxford University and an MA in Printmaking from the Royal College of Art. Recent solo projects include commissions with: Up Projects & Barnet Council (2023); TACO!, London (2021-23); Skelf, Online (2022); Robert Young Antiques, London (2021); Gaada, Shetland (2020); Goldsmiths CCA, Online (2020); and Southwark Park Galleries, London (2020). Graham is an Associate Lecturer at the Royal College of Art, London; and is Co-Founder of Cypher BILLBOARD, London. Graham was the recipient of the 2023 BSR Sainsbury Scholarship.
www.hollygraham.co.uk
@hollycagraham
Helena Hladilová (Kroměříž, CZ, lives and works in Tuscany, IT) studied Fine Arts at the University of Brno (Czech Republic), at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan and the Academy of Fine Arts of Carrara. In 2018 she co-funded GUM Studio, an artist-run space. Hladilová exhibited in important international and national institutions and galleries, such as: almanac Inn, Turin (2021), Kleine Humboldt Galerie, Berlin (2018), 0smicka, Humpolec (2018), SVIT, Prague (2017), L’ascensore, Palermo (2017), Treti Galaxy, Milan (2017), Polansky Gallery, Prague (2017), Centro per l’arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato (2017), American Academy, Rome (2016), National Gallery, Prague (2016), MaXXI, Rome (2015), Fanta Spazio, Milan (2015), MaCRO, Rome (2014), GaM, Turin (2013), Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice (2012), Fondazione antonio Ratti, Como (2012), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2012). She took part in the 6° Biennal of Prague (2013) and at Go West! - III Moscow International Biennale for Young Art at the Muzeon Art Park in Moscow (2012).
@helenahladilova
Sharon Kelly (NI) lives and works between her studio in QSS, Belfast and South Armagh, Northern Ireland. She gained a Master’s in Fine Art from the University of Ulster in 1989. Kelly’s practice takes the intersections between art, life, health, and sport, and explores ideas resilience and of the synergy between mind and body. Her work encompasses a variety of media including drawing, installation, sculpture and moving image. In 2022 Kelly worked with women Boxers in Dublin’s north inner city, exploring ideas around resilience and the specific challenges faced by women in boxing. In 2022 she was the recipient of The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, USA and in 2020 she commenced a 6-month Arts Council of Northern Ireland Fellowship at The British School at Rome, which was interrupted by Covid, and which she finally completed in March 2023. She has been the recipient of numerous Visual Arts Awards from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, most recently the Artists’ International Development Fund to participate in a printmaking residency at Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium in late summer 2023.
www.sharonkellyartist.com
@sharonkellyartist
Lulù Nuti (IT/FR) lives between Rome and Paris.
Nuti obtained her diploma at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Paris in 2012. Since then she exhibited in Italy and abroad. Expanding from sculpture and installation to drawing, Lulù Nuti’s practice is based on a strong belief in the intelligence of matter, in its power of being a vehicle for sensitive information, which go beyond the limits of words and language. Her work depicts the feeling of responsibility and powerlessness that are engendered by the age we live in and affect human beings. She experiments with various construction materials, creating sculptures and installations that dialogue with space.
For the occasion of this exhibition, the artist worked with her mother Marie-Agnès Nobecourt.
http://www.lulunuti.com/
@lulunuti
Lucy Tarquinio (Brooklyn, New York, USA) graduated with a BFA in 2021 from the Cooper Union and held the Abbey Scholarship 2022-23 at the British School at Rome. Her paintings are built up in an arduous layering process and engage with subjectivity, mood, and care. She deals with the process of image making through histories of abstraction and formalism in the medium of oil painting.
@lucytarquinio
Laura White (London, UK) graduated in 1990 with a BA in Fine Art: Sculpture from the Loughborough University School of Art and Design and in 2004 with an MA in Fine Art from the Goldsmith College in London. She is currently a reader in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her practice is interdisciplinary, focusing on process and how objects/things come into being, with an emphasis on the handling of materials, from stable material such as ceramics and concrete to the changeable matter of clay, bread dough, silicone rubber and rusting metal. Recent exhibitions include: Rome, a portrait. Festival of Foreign Academies and Cultural Institutes (Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, 2023); Pollute Volute, Laura White (HS Projects, London, 2022); Skewed Logic (Coleman Projects, London, 2021); MASS (Saatchi Gallery, London, 2021); The Clever Girl Painter (Tintype, London, 2019); The Precious Clay: Porcelain in Contemporary Art (Museum of Royal Worcester, 2018-19); As Much About Forgetting (Viborg Kunsthal, Denmark, 2018); Double agents and great refusers (The Agency Gallery, London, 2017). White was the recipient of the BSR 2022-23 Ampersand Fellowship.
https://www.laura-white.co.uk/
http://www.tenderfoot.co.uk
@laurawhite2
