Results for: Artist Alumni

Daisy Parris

Daisy Parris is a painter of psychological space. Direct text-based works and abstract paintings are made up of a vernacular that has developed through experience, relationships and through the depths and the peaks of their human existence thus far.

Jeremy Deller

In his own estimation, Jeremy Deller is not an artist of a single medium (his works use many), but rather an instigator of social interventions. Critic Mark Brown once referred to Deller as a “pied piper of popular culture”—an apt reference to Deller’s extensive use of music and sound, his deliberately lowbrow approach, and his performance pieces that often require participation of the viewer. His works frequently look towards historic events and archives as a source, which he then builds upon accumulatively with found materials. One of his best-known pieces is the massive performance the Battle of Orgreave (2001), a re-staging of an infamous clash between striking miners and the police in 1984. Deller is also known to frequently collaborate with other artists. “I work because I’m interested in other people,” he has said. “I’m nosy.” Deller won a Turner Prize in 2004.

Daisy Parris

Daisy Parris is a painter of psychological space. Direct text-based works and abstract paintings are made up of a vernacular that has developed through experience, relationships and through the depths and the peaks of their human existence thus far. Parris brings intimacy, insight and integrity to their paintings with great psychological and emotional force. The work is imbued with the sensitivity of one who feels everything, taking us through unflinching narratives and moments of reflection and tenderness. An ode to human existence, their work is sometimes silent, sometimes savage, with paintings that construct self portraits of personal battles and triumphs in a fast moving yet contemplative assault on the canvas.

Yinka Shonibare

Yinka Shonibare (b. 1962) in London, UK. Born in London to Nigerian parents, he moved to Lagos at the age of three. Returning to England to study at Fine Art at Byam Shaw School of Art, London (1989) and received his MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London (1991). His interdisciplinary practice employs physical materials such as Dutch wax textiles and bronze as vehicles for exploring complex historical, political, and cultural ideas. In doing so, the work uses material history as a lens for broader reflection, inviting a rethinking of how we perceive culture and encourage new ways of understanding the world around us.

Beatriz Milhazes

Saturated colour, cascading patterns and distinctly Brazilian forms define the abstract work of Beatriz Milhazes. Her densely layered paintings and collages and intricate sculptures visualise a state of transformation, poised between order and chaos, rational structure and spontaneity, and at the biting point between European and Brazilian modernisms. Often pushed to its compositional limit, her work has an embracing force that pulls the viewer in. Yet, as Milhazes states: ‘It’s very controlled, every single thing, every piece has a reason. It’s like a mathematical dream.'

Lonnie Holly

Lonnie Holley (born 1950; Birmingham, Alabama) Since 1979, Holley has devoted his life to the practice of improvisational creativity. His art and music, born out of struggle, hardship, but perhaps more importantly, out of furious curiosity and biological necessity, has manifested itself in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, performance, music, and filmmaking.

Aidan Moesby 

Aidan Moesby’s practice is a socially engaged one, rooted in research and response – in conversation of many kinds. Underpinning his work investigating the dual crises of Climate Change and Mental Health is an exploration into the relationships between the outer ‘physical weather’ we experience, and our ‘internal psycho-emotional weather’.

Jay Price 

[Not a ‘disabled artist’] As a disabled person Price has worked with disability arts organisations & artists with impairments navigating a disabling society. Price makes work about their own lived experience with psychosis, autism, & brain damage caused by the treatments for these conditions: navigating making an alien experience relatable.

Orlanda Broom

Orlanda Broom’s paintings take two distinct forms; her lush, floral landscapes and her fluid abstract works. Connecting these two bodies of work is a strong sense of colour, references to organic forms and the exploration of painting mediums.

Huhtamaki Wab

Huhtamaki Wab works between painting, performance, video, installation and sculpture alongside his role as director of the Genius Treasure Collection. His practice exists in an animistic and nonanthropocentric world.