About:

Bárbara Alegre (b. 1976, Barcelona, Spain) is a Spanish artist living and working between Barcelona and London.

Alegre’s paintings seek to capture the intangible and inseparable interaction between bodily senses and thoughts, observing it with empathy and tenderness. Intimate and contemplative, the work supports the idea of art as a shelter, a safe space, somewhere to return and reflect. Recent solo exhibitions include Dancing in the Sky, Waiting for the Sunset (May 2022). HERE is her third show with the gallery.

She is a graduate of the Royal College of Art (2023) and Chelsea College of Art and Design (2003).

Irini Bachlitzanaki(b. 1984, Athens, Greece) is a Greek artist living and working between London and Athens.

Inspired by material culture, artisanal traditions, nature and the biographies of objects, Irini Bachlitzanaki builds upon re-contextualising recognisable forms to examine our relationship with the world around us and ourselves. Within a practice that is primarily sculptural she plays with two and three-dimensionality and explores the object as image, signifier and continuation of the body and the self. Recent solo shows include The Combination Show at Wolfson College, Cambridge (January 2022). HERE is her third exhibition with the gallery.

She is a graduate of UCL, University of London (BA History of Art, 2005), Chelsea College of Arts (BA Fine Art, 2010) and, most recently, the Royal Academy Schools graduating in 2021.

James Cabaniuk (b. 1987, Carlisle, UK) is a British artist living and working between Manchester and London.

Primarily working with large format painting, Cabaniuk’s practice uses personal and canonical histories to debunk myths of shame around trauma and queer identity. Focusing on the issues within abstract expressionism and its machismo they navigate the complex relationship of disdaining whilst fetishising the power they hold. They employ coding, abstraction, and queer opacity and layering to construct records with materials like confetti, glitter and soil ,serving as tools of celebration, resilience, and connection. Shaped through rapid creation, the paintings are all about the drama, encompassing concepts of fun, camp, sexuality, gender, self destruction, healing, and community. Cabaniuk established and ran ‘horseshed’, a queer archive and exhibition space and their work has been exhibited in the UK, Italy and Lithuania. HERE is their first exhibition with with the gallery.

They received their Bachelors of Arts from Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2015 and recently graduated with their Masters in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths University of London in 2023.

Jana Emburey (b. 1979, Bratislava, Slovakia) is a Slovakian artist living and working in the Scottish Highlands

Emburey’s meditative micro/macrocosms explore the ideas of interconnectivity, oneness and universal natural dynamics. Using a rich visual vocabulary, from complex, intricate compositions to fluid soak-stain abstract topographies, she considers humanity’s place in the cosmos, time and space. Emburey approaches the work mindfully, as an expression of a state of consciousness, with the experience of the process, alternating between single point focus and an expansive state of flow, inextricably linked with the outcome. Recent solo exhibitions include Elemental with &Gallery in Edinburgh. HERE is her seventh show with the gallery.

She is a graduate of the Academy of Arts and Crafts in Bratislava (1997) and Leeds Metropolitan University (2012).

Jonathan Kelly (b. 1988, Hereford, UK) is a British painter living and working in London.

Kelly’s bold and often multilayered paintings employ paired down recognisable elemental motifs and figures that reference our very early ancestors, the fundamentals of the human condition and the perennial search for an essential truth. Through luminous colour, texture, confident, decisive lines, and the use of symbols, often in repetition as mantras, he explores and questions structures of shared human experience, consciousness and belief. Recent solo exhibitions include Truths and Rights (March 2022). HERE is his sixth show with the gallery.

He is a graduate of Wimbledon College of Art (2011) and the Royal Academy Schools (2017).

Alice Kemp (b. 1987, Brighton, UK)  is a visual artist and educator living and working in London.

She finds inspiration in nature and the mundane, painting traditionally decorative subjects like plants, flowers, animals and landscapes yet choosing to accentuate both their beauty and inherent asymmetry, what she describes as natural “crookedness or bulginess”. Influenced by the Japanese approach to art where the distance between art, decoration and nature is shorter, she approaches her subjects with a conscious mix of expression and restraint, minimalism and visual overload. Recent solo exhibitions include In the Night Garden (September 2022). HERE is her eighth exhibition with the gallery.

She is a graduate of University College Falmouth (BA First class Honours in Fine Art, 2010), Central Saint Martins (MA Fine Art, 2016) and University College London : The Institute of Education (PGCE Art and Design, 2019).

Yuichiro Kikuma (b. 1982, Chiba, Japan) is a visual artist living and working in London.

His work attempts to visualise the invisible forces, patterns or rhythms that exist around us in daily life, in the same way as any landscapes are created as a result of their specific climate. His paintings often incorporate non-painterly methods to create conditions for unexpected images to emerge. In recent years he has predominantly used ink and explored household devices as mark making tools, enabling him to work indirectly, often in a mechanical and repetitive manner which leaves space for calculated chance. Driven by rhythm and pattern in both inspiration and process, his fluid, abstract style appears as a manifestation of energy favouring perceived spirit over direct imitation. Recent solo exhibitions include Traces of the Summer with Sokyo Annex in Kyoto. HERE is his fourth exhibition with the gallery.

He is a graduate of Wimbledon College of Arts (BA Fine Art, 2010) and Central Saint Martins (MA Fine Art, 2016).

Emily Platzer (b. 1989, Hampshire, UK) is a British artist living and working in Paris.

Emily Platzer’s practice is based in painting and expands this field to incorporate sculpture and textiles. She prefers working in formats that allow for full gestural expression with the gestures within the work reaching towards a bodily rather than overtly figurative outcome, forming feminine entities that propose nuanced interpretation of female archetypes.She collects and processes natural pigments and uses them alongside chemically synthesised colours and typically completes a painting in one sitting; She describes her process as experiential, a symbiosis of material processes, time, physicality and intention open to subconscious and unconscious influences. Platzer presented her first solo show I keep the whole of you in the edges of my eyes with the gallery in February 2020. HERE is her fourth exhibition with the gallery.

She is a graduate of Falmouth College of Art (2011) and the Royal College of Art and Design (2019).