Anne Bean, Paul Burwell (1949 – 2007) and Richard Wilson lived and worked in Butlers Wharf in the 1970’s, where they explored the Thames and other waterways, mostly by boat, sharing their excitement of the countless visual dynamics and unexpected sounds…

Shelagh Atkinson is a multi-disciplinary artist working across print, painting, drawing, photography, sound and mail art. Since the 1990s she has exhibited in a variety of national and international contexts including the International Print Biennial, Kanagawa…

David Batchelor creates sculptural installations, photographs and paintings primarily concerned with colour and urbanism. Salvaged fluorescent plastic objects and cheap household products are carefully brought together to create ‘vehicles of colour’…

Claire Barclay is a Scottish artist. Her artistic practice uses a number of traditional mediums that include installation, sculpture and printmaking, but it also expands to encapsulate a diverse array of craft techniques. Central to her practice is a sustained exploration of materials…

Richard Billingham is a British photographer and video artist living and working in South Wales and concerned largely with human relationships and the landscape. He is known especially for his candid photographs and film that explore his family life. His work presents a stark, painful and often humorous…

Vanley Burke is frequently defined as the Godfather of Black British photography. His practice represents one of the largest photographic records of the Caribbean Diaspora in Britain, documenting an important era of migration and settlement in Birmingham from the late 1960s onwards…

Working across a range of disciplines including painting, drawing, film, video, and photography, Sutapa Biswas was born in Santinikethan, India and educated in the UK. She now lives and works in London. Her works possess a stark but poetic resonance. Drawing from her training…

Rut Blees Luxemburg is a German photographer, based in London. She investigates the urban, metropolitan landscape and its effect on the human condition. Her work ranges from large-scale photographic prints, through public art works and operatic mise-en-scène…

Born in Cologne in 1974, Bettina Buck studied at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne before completing an MA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. Working with assemblage, collage and reconfigurations of existing, mundane, often found materials…

Michelle Charles moved back to London in 2001, having lived and worked in the United States for the previous two decades. Since her return, she has established a London studio and had significant solo exhibitions including Kettles Yard and the Museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. Guy Brett in a…

Monster Chetwynd (b. 1973, London) lives and works in Glasgow. Chetwynd graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in painting (2004), following a BA in Fine Art at the Slade School of Art (2000) and a BA in Social Anthropology and History at UCL (1995) (all London). Known for her bric-a-brac style…

Exhibiting work nationally and internationally since 1991, Adam Chodzko is an artist whose multidisciplinary practice explores the interactions and possibilities of human behaviour. His artworks includes video, installation, photography, socially engaged practices, drawing and performance…

Angela de la Cruz disrupts the gallery with unruly works that sit between painting and sculpture. She engages with the discourse about the ‘problem’ with painting by targeting its basic anatomy: the stretcher, normally left to its job of keeping the canvas smooth and pliant. De la Cruz breaks convention…

Jeffrey Dennis is a painter, born in Colchester, who has lived and worked in London since graduating from the Slade School of Fine Art in 1980. His work has been exhibited internationally since the mid-1980s. Jeffrey recently wrote about his paintings: 'My work is rooted in daily experience…

Alan Dimmick was born in Glasgow in 1961. He studied photography at Glasgow College of Building and Printing from 1979–82 and was a founding member of Glasgow Photography Group, exhibiting at their inaugural exhibition in Hillhead Library in 1988. Early works were purchased by….

Katy Dove (1 December 1970 - 27 January 2015) was born in Oxford and grew up in the village of Jemimaville on the Black Isle in north-east Scotland. She was an artist working across a variety of media including animation, painting, music and installation. Katy studied Psychology at the University…

Nina Edge is a visual artist, writer and urban design activist. Her work includes radical textiles, ceramics, street performance, public art and short films. All her work is informed by her experience as a dual heritage Asian British woman. Having trained as a ceramicist, Nina has developed a cross media practice that…

Born in 1950 Rose English has been writing, directing and performing her own work for over 35 years in venues including Tate Britain; Royal Court; Queen Elizabeth Hall; the Adelaide Festival and Lincoln Center, New York. Her productions feature a diversity of co-performers including musicians, dancers…

Maggie Evans (1932 – 2015) came from Wigan art school to the Slade School of Art in 1954. There she was championed by William Coldstream who greatly valued her unique talent. Her work was highly original, she won many prizes including the Prix de Rome and the John Moores Junior Prize and she was…

Ruth Ewan (b.1980, Aberdeen) is an artist based her Glasgow. Her work stems from context specific research resulting in a wide variety of forms including events, performance, writing, installation and print. For some time, Ewan’s practice has extended beyond making artworks and exhibitions…

I studied Fine Art on the innovative four year Honours degree course at Kings College, Durham University (now Newcastle University), taught by Richard Hamilton, Victor Pasmore and Louisa Hodgson. Now based in Edinburgh - exhibiting locally, nationally and internationally, for some years my…

Born in 1921 in France, Peter de Francia studied at the Brussels Academy and the Slade, and for a brief but formative period lived in post-war Italy. Deeply influenced by the neo-realist political climate there – he shared a studio with Renato Guttuso – much of his work of the 1950s, based on close…

Armet Francis was born in St Elizabeth, in rural Jamaica in 1945, moving to London in 1955. After leaving school at 14, he worked for an engineering firm in Bromley, before finding a job as an assistant in a West End photographic studio and forging a career as freelance photographer for fashion…

Born May 1940, Malcolm Le Grice studied painting at Plymouth College of Art and the Slade. In 1965 he started making film video and computer art which he exhibited in Europe, the USA, Australia, New Zealand and, Japan. He is widely recognised as a pioneer of 'Expanded Cinema' and has been featured in many…

Susanna Heron grew up in Cornwall and studied at Central School of Art and Design, London. She currently lives and works in East London. Heron is recognised internationally for her large-scale site-specific work. The artist’s most recent work, a stone relief occupying the western face and its interior…

John Hilliard, born in Lancaster, 1945, studied in the sculpture department at St Martin’s School of Art, London, 1964-7. His work has been the subject of numerous solo shows in galleries and museums in the UK, France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Poland, Spain, the USA…

Alexis Hunter was born in 1948 in New Zealand. She obtained an honours degree in painting and History of Art and Architecture at the Elam School of Fine Art in 1969. After travelling around Australia for a year she joined the Women's Workshop of the Artists Union in London whilst working…

Artist, Kevin Hutcheson, was one of Scotland's most influential artists of the last twenty years and was especially respected by his peers in the Glasgow art community. Born in Hamilton, Scotland in 1971, he graduated with a First-class honours degree from the prestigious Fine Art course at Duncan of…

Tina Keane, a Lecturer in Film & Video and later Research Fellow at Central St Martins until 2012, has exhibited both nationally and internationally. A pioneer of live performance art, multimedia and electronic art: she has worked with film, video, installation and neon sculpture. From painting to producing light…

Jeff Keen was born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire. After being drafted into National Service during WWII, he studied for a short time at Chelsea School of Art and Design, after which he moved to Brighton (UK) where he lived and worked until his death. Keen was an important contributor to the countercultural…

John Latham was born in Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia (now Maramba, Zambia) in 1921. After serving in the Royal Navy, he enrolled at Regent Street Polytechnic and then studied painting at Chelsea College of Art and Design (1947–51). Solo exhibitions include Serpentine galleries, London, UK…

LIN Show Yu (林 壽 宇) was born in Taiwan during the Japanese occupation. He was descended from the Wu-feng LIN family of Taichung, the former capital. He was educated at Dong Men Elementary School in Taipei, then briefly the Diocesan Boys School Hong Kong…

Born in New York in 1939, Liliane Lijn now lives and works in London. Lijn studied Archaeology and History of Art at the Sorbonne in Paris, where her interest in science and her friendships with Greek sculptor Takis, and Beat poets William Burroughs, Bryan Gysin and Nazli Nour inspired her early works with light and text. Best known for her work with language…

Painter and poet, John Lyons arrived in 1959 from Trinidad to study at Goldsmiths College School of Art and Design. He graduated as a painter in 1964 and in 1965 went on to the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne for an Art Teachers’ Diploma. During a 27-year teaching career he continued his painting and writing…

The internationally-acclaimed performance artist, Alastair MacLennan, was born in Blair Atholl, Perthshire, in 1943 and trained in Drawing and Painting at Duncan of Jordanstone College in the 1960s. After completing his Masters’ Degree at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago, in 1968…

Goshka Macuga’s sculptural environments include unlikely displays of other artists’ work alongside disparate collections of objects – books, souvenirs, scraps, artefacts and curios – thus blurring the roles of artist, curator and collector…

Cathy de Monchaux lives and works in London. She was shortlisted for the Turner prize in 1998 for her solo show at Whitechapel Gallery. Her works are held in many public collections including Tate, the Arts Council, the British Council, Contemporary Arts Society, Hirshorn…

Hayley Newman’s broad ranging work explores humour, subjectivity, documentary practices and fiction. She creates performances, interventions, music and texts and has made work in nightclubs, shops, on trains and marches as well as for the concert hall or gallery. Her practice incorporates…

Horace Ové, a Trinidadian-born British filmmaker, photographer and artist, emerged as a prominent figure from within the Windrush generation, alongside his peers, spearheading a formidable creative movement in Britain. Internationally recognised as a leading black independent filmmaker to emerge…

Keith Piper is a British artist and academic. In addition to his work as a visual artist, he has worked as a curator, writer and researcher. His creative practice responds to specific social and political issues, historical relationships and geographical sites. Adopting a research driven approach…

Born in Liege, Belgium, Jacqueline Poncelet has a background in ceramics, having studied at Wolverhampton College of Art and the Royal College of Art from 1966 until 1972. She is well-known for her early work in bone china, and for her more sculptural works in ceramics after 1980. From the mid 80s…

Franklyn Rodgers is an award-winning artist whose practice centres on evolving, innovative approaches to re-examining the portrait in contemporary visual culture. He has been described by Professor Stuart Hall as part of a generation of artists who redefined the idea of Black British representation…

Eva Rothschild, born 1971, is an Irish artist now living and working in London. She makes sculpture primarily for the eye, working in a range of materials. She is interested in the transformative power of looking. Recent solo exhibitions and public commissions have included A Gated Community, Sonnaveld…

Monica Ross was an artist, educator and organiser, working with video, drawing, installation, text and performance. She was involved in landmark collective initiatives informed by feminism, including The Women’s Postal Art Event, aka Feministo (exhibited at the ICA-Institute…

Through a radical juxtaposition of the natural, artificial and synthetic, Sarah Staton’s aesthetic refers to both traditional fabrication cultures; textiles, woodwork, metalwork and so on, as well as to digital culture; its screens, colours, textures and its incursions into lived time. One central trope and architectural…

Born in Iran, Barbara Steveni is a British artist, who conceived and co-founded the Artist Placement Group (APG) in London in 1966. APG actively sought to reposition the role of the artist within a wider social context, including government and commerce, while at the same time playing an important part…

Terry smith studied BA Fine Art at Goldsmiths School of Art in 1974-78. In 1998 he was awarded the Henry Moore Fellowship at the Byam Shaw School of Art, the Sargent Fellowship in Rome in 1998/9, a research fellow at Field Institute, Hombroich Museum, Dusseldorf, 2002. In November 2008…

Anne Tallentire has lived and worked in London since she came from Ireland to study post graduate Fine Art, at the Slade 1986-88. She works with assemblage, video, sound, text, performance and photography to explore the social/cultural conditions and structures that determine daily life, especially…

David Ward (b. 1951) attended Wolverhampton School of Art (1968 – 69) and Winchester School of Art (1969 – 1973). He lives in Wiltshire, UK. He is known for his work in a range of light and time based media including installation, photography, performance, film, sound and painting…

Alison Wilding makes abstract sculpture. She is known for the wide range of both materials and processes she employs, as well as her capacity to work at the extremes of scale: from the hand held object to all but monumental sculpture. Born in Blackburn Lancs in 1948, Wilding graduated from…

Tim Stead was born in Cheshire in 1952. He studied sculpture at Trent Polytechnic and completed his education with a post-graduate diploma in Glasgow School of Art in 1976. In 1979 Tim fitted out the visionary Café Gandolfi in Glasgow, his first large-scale commission. In 1980 Tim and his wife…

Maud Sulter (1960–2008) was an award-winning artist and writer of Ghanaian and Scottish heritage. She was born in Glasgow, lived in England for several years and returned to Scotland for the new century. She exhibited widely in Britain, Europe and North America and represented Britain at the first…

Born in Hertfordshire in 1943, Edward Woodman began taking photographs when he was given his first camera, a Brownie. The turning point for Woodman was in 1981 when he was invited by Sandy Nairne to photograph sculptures for the ICA / Arnolfini ‘Objects and Sculpture’ catalogue…

Austin Wright (1911 - 1997) was a sculptor who lived and worked in Yorkshire for 60 years. He produced sculpture which reflected his interest in the Yorkshire landscape, the human figure and botanical forms. He used a variety of media – wood, plaster, lead, bronze – but was most known for his distinctive…