Jessie Makinson's work is darkly erotic and draws from influences including Ursula Le Guin, British folklore, stories of travelers, myths of pre-agricultural societies, 17th and 18th-century erotica, Flemish kitchen scenes, science fiction, and early Renaissance altarpieces. Makinson readdresses a patriarchal past from a female perspective. Plucking themes and narratives from historical precedent, she creates a bold new context for the motifs she selects. Vivid colors describe tense, erotic scenes in which women are dangerous active participants, not passive permission givers. Makinson’s characters practice rituals, they embrace, plot, and conspire. They hold sexual power and disrupt expectations, inhabiting a universe that surprises, delights, and tests its audience.

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Ben Edmunds is a London-based painter, whose deconstructionist approach takes him into sculpture, branding, useful objects and wearable equipment. He is best known for his large scale paintings that combine tropes of modernist abstraction with stylised accents of extreme sports. Drawing on his background in sailing, windsurfing and cycling, his work explores the transcendental possibilities of painting as well as these outdoor leisure pursuits, all the time questioning the assumed anti-utilitarianism of painting and asking “what can an artwork do?”.

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Underwritten into his dyed canvases, handmade carbon fibre components and short incidents of text is the sense that we are unsatisfied, in a perpetual state of wanting and desire. We live in a world of seductive adverts, property ladders, job promotions and romantics affairs, all the while searching in the dark as the clock is ticking. His paintings evoke a distant horizon, something you can never reach or obtain, framed by the equipment you might need for the journey.

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Alongside his painting practice, in 2019 Ben set up Aspirational Equipment. A pseudo sports and lifestyle brand for romantics, it provides tools for explorers and dreamers. It recognises the act of searching as a fundamental human driving force, and the state of being on the way somewhere as a part of the human condition..

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Tamu Nkiwane is a London-based artist whose work examines his surrounding environment and considers the way value – as a fiscal and cultural consideration – is accumulated and transferred within it.

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John Strutton is an artist, musician and academic based in London. John’s work ranges across painting, drawing, installation, moving image, sound and performance. The work often uses the strategy of accrual to deal with a visual form of veneration and cultural reclamation. The resulting installations of paintings, drawings and objects become a kind of makeshift memorial, an ex–voto offering where nostalgia becomes a form of revenge. The sedimentary process creates a convoluted cosmos of effigies, mandalas, portraits and trophies, a graveyard whose architecture is sustained by anxiety. Sometimes brutal, often absurd, his approach to figuration is fractured, automatic and schizophrenic.

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Karolina Albricht (b. 1983 in Krakow) is a London based artist and curator. Karolina graduated with an MA from The Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow in 2008. Prior to that she completed Socrates-Erasmus at ArtEZ Institute of Fine Arts in Arnhem, the Netherlands in 2007. Karolina Albricht thinks of painting as an opening, a stretching beyond dimensionality and optical perception. Its process is driven by curiosity, a desire to see what is possible by negotiating new configurations of form, colour and surface. It is her attempt to generate an active space, an environment which can be perceived and responded to through our intellectual and physical faculties. It is rich, paradoxical, and flexible, embracing a reality in all its multiplicity, its continuous mutation- a state of becoming and a state of exchange. Albricht is interested in the relationship of the body and the space; the way a body corresponds to the space it occupies, how it recalibrates as it moves through it. What she is searching for in painting is a kind of a gap, a dislocation- a glimpse of a possibility.

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Scott McCracken (b. 1987 in Falkirk) is a painter and occasional writer and curator living and working in London. Scott’s recent paintings bring together modelled, volumetric forms - spheres, cones, and cylinders are assembled into a configuration that points towards a type of imaginary still life. The geometric substructure within these paintings exists as a binding, yet elastic force, where elements are held in position, suspended in a field of shallow depth. The motifs are pushed together, juxtaposed and conjoined, fluctuating between the diagrammatic and the corporeal, never fully settling as either.

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Mark Selby’s practice mainly revolves around sculpture, installation and film, using an engineering approach to materials, computation and mechanics in order to explore how images, objects and human agency are affected by technological rationality. Creating and collaborating with machines to develop often complex and elongated processes of making, his work asks questions of access to information from both their aesthetics and function; asking what the potential and limits of programming, rules and instructions can offer.

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Jordan Baseman’s work is best described as a synthesis of reportage, portraiture, documentary, creative non-fiction, narrative practices, that are combined with experimental filmmaking techniques.

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We were invited to Jordans Studio for our chat, which is based in East London. Our chat travels through stories of destroyed self portraits, working in a Emergency Psychiatric Unit, the intimacy of computers, putting screwdrivers through paintings and allowing space for hard work.

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Ceri Hand originally trained as an artist and has extensive experience of working in the arts and culture sector, with previous key positions including: Director of Programmes, Somerset House, London; Associate Director: Institutions and Public Relations, Simon Lee Gallery, London; Associate Consultant, Contemporary Art Society, London; Director, Ceri Hand Gallery, London/Liverpool; Director of Metal, Liverpool; Director of Exhibitions, FACT, Liverpool; Deputy Director of Grizedale Arts, Cumbria and Director of Make, London.

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She has worked closely with emerging and established artists throughout her career, commissioning, producing, programming, exhibiting and selling new interdisciplinary, inter-generational work, including large scale live events, performances, public realm works, touring exhibitions and public engagement, participation and education programmes.

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She has curated over 250 exhibitions and events and was a contributing curator to Liverpool Biennial in 2004 and 2006 and Liverpool’s Capital of Culture year in 2008.

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Henny Acloque is an artist currently living in London.

Having recently graduated form MA Painting course at Royal College of Art London.

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Recent solo Exhibitions include:

2019 - Haatschi, EBENSPERGER RHOMBERG Salzburg

2016  - Jerk,  Galerie Tristan Lorenz Frankfurt

2013 - Life After Magic, (Ceri Hand Gallery, London, UK)

2012 - Justice (The China Shop, Oxford, UK) / Lugar De Culto (Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool, UK)

2010 - Circumstances (First Floor Projects, London, UK)

2009 - A Dressing (Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool, UK)

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Richard Hughes and Bernadette Kerrigan live and work in Herefordshire.

Richard Hughes’ recent solo exhibitions have included The Great Perhaps, Anton Kern Gallery, New York (2019); Field Trip, The Modern Institute, Glasgow (2014), Time Is Over, Time Has Come, Firstsite, Colchester (2013). He is represented by The Modern Institute, Glasgow; and Anton Kern Gallery, New York.

Bernadette Kerrigan graduated in Painting from The Royal College of Art in 2017. Recent group exhibitions have included Colours that no-one knows the name of, Recent Activity, Birmingham (2018); Beep Painting Prize, Swansea (2018), Malevolent Eldritch Shrieking, Attercliffe™, Sheffield (2018); Pharmacy For Idiots, Rob Tufnell at Tanya Leighton Gallery, Cologne, (2017).

Their most recent show together was at Recent Activity in Birmingham titled 'Colours that no-one knows the name' (2018)

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Emma Talbot is an artist based in London and is winner of the 8th Max Mara Art Prize for Women. Through drawing, painted silk hangings, 3 dimensional forms, installation, sound and - most recently - animation, Emma has developed a distinct visual world.

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Her work explores personal subjectivity, which is then cast into the wider context of prevalent contemporary concerns  - such as our relationships with nature, our intimate engagement with technology, the way we communicate and power structures. Emma’s work has a hand-drawn, direct quality - using combinations of figurative imagery, painted text and flowing pattern to articulate non linear narratives.

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Recent exhibitions include GEM Kunstmuseum, The Hague, A 2019 ArtNight Commission at William Morris Gallery, London, Tate St Ives, Turner Contemporary and Arcadia Missa New York

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Emma has forthcoming solo exhibitions at Eastside Projects Birmingham, Dundee Contemporary Arts and Kunsthalle Giessen, Germany, The Whitechapel Gallery and Collezione Maramotti.

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Anna graduated from the RCA in 2015 and holds a BA from Central Saint Martins. In 2017 she won Griffin Art Prize and the Young Contemporary Talent Prize supported by the Ingram Collection.

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She has been shortlisted for several prizes, including The London Group, in 2013, where she was presented with a prize by Frank Bowling. In 2019 her show Muscle Memory at Elephant West in London saw a collaboration with musician and friend Kieran Hebden also known as Four Tet drawing on grief, movement, vibration and memory.

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Anna describes painting as attitude. Painting serves as a physical intelligence and makes the most sense when described in relation to the body and often come out of chaos. Her Ukrainian grandmother used to say: “If it wasn’t all lies it would be the truth"

Tahmina Negmat is currently on a year-long residency at the Carpenters Wharf Studios in Hackney Wick and

making paintings about Joe Exotic from Tiger King in her quarantine flat in Moscow.

Tahmina treats her studio as a spectacle arena where she wants to throw a real

celebration for the anti-hero the Trickster ("A demonic-comic double of a

cultural hero, endowed with the features of a naughty dodger”. For her The Trickster is

the main protagonist of today and takes a lot of inspiration from cinema

and books.

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As a way into this thinking Tahmina explains that her painting ‘Endless Infatuations with Malcolm Mcdowell', which you can see over on our instagram page is a tribute towards my obsession over the portrait of the antihero. Sh says ‘I have a real antagonistic reaction to pitch-perfect moralism, as I think I see most

things that are perfect and clean-cut as a nice antisocial package where the

whole investment goes towards oneself. However the anti-heroes are raw,

and they are rare. They have this weird self conflicted duality going on.

Similarly like looking at the rock in Goya’s painting and never quite seeing

just the rock, but the tripled eyed devil, ongoing mutating faces, a depiction

of the birth of something and the whole mortality is in that rock. So I see the

same rawness and wrongness in the rounded and enlarged facial features

of Malcolm McDowell who played a lead role in Kubrick’s “Clockwork

Orange”. And Malcolm’s face is round and beautiful like it’s been sat on by

the birth of Venus.

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