Gerry Buxton
Gerry is part of a new generation of print-makers combining cutting-edge digital illustration and the time-honoured discipline of screen-printing. His work focuses on the relationship between people and iconic places.
Buxton's prints are based on his photographs. By combining many photographs from the same location he captures much more than just a snap shot of a single moment of time. The final prints are an idealised version of the scene and capture a progression of time into one single image, charting the progress of different characters as they make their way through the scene.
Gerry has exhibited widely in the UK and has produced commissioned work for amongst others London City Airport, The Science Museum, The Margate Gallery and the V Festival.
Anne Desmet RA
Anne Desmet gained a BA & MA at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Printmaking at Central School of Art and Design, London, UK. In 2011, Anne was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Arts and is only the third wood engraver ever elected to the RA in its entire history. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE) and the Society of Wood Engravers (SWE). In 2018, she was elected an Honorary Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.
Anne’s prints feature in selected solo and group shows worldwide. Since 1987 she has received over 40 national and international awards including (1989-90) a British School at Rome Scholarship in Printmaking. She has had 18 solo shows in London since 1990, including 6 with Hart Gallery, which represented her from 2003-2012.
Her work is held in public and private collections internationally.
Gareth Fuller
Gareth Fuller was born in Carmarthen, Wales and has travelled the world to create his work. By mapping events, Fuller provides a relatable, personal and imagined story. In doing so, the artwork places prominence on collective knowledge and experience, a distinctive characteristic of his work.
It is in the moments of contemplation that a dialogue begins while poring over the map, whether the intended story is teased out or new stories added, the art creates conversation. He explores the identity and culture of places and he investigates topics and ideas through the detail in his work. Fuller's works can be found in public and private collections across the world.
Luke Adam Hawker
Luke Adam Hawker is a practicing Artist, Designer, Illustrator living and working in London. He studied Interior Architecture and Design at Nottingham Trent University, this architectural background is evident within his work. Drawing on location in pen and ink, Hawker 's main focus is London's architecturally rich urban environment and our interaction with it.
He specialises in drawing on location, working in Pen & Ink, his observations over the hours and sometimes days enable the collective layers of the drawing to capture a sense of motion, juxtaposed by the immovable architecture. His loose line depicts accurate detail which brings new life to the old icons of the city.
Joshua Kerley
Joshua is an early career glass maker, artist and designer having recently completed his MA Ceramics & Glass at the Royal College of Art in London. Joshua graduated from Falmouth University in 2011 with a BA honours degree in Contemporary Crafts, where he later worked as a senior glass technician.
Specialising in kiln formed glass, Joshua’s practice is rooted in play, experimentation and progressive engagement with materials and processes. Taking inspiration from architecture, interiors and construction Joshua pays particular attention to the junctions between adjoining components and surfaces and the transition from one material to another. Through the playful yet sensitive juxtaposition of glass with other media, Joshua strives to challenge orthodox perceptions of materials and their inherent hierarchies, value and resonance.
Graham Martin
Graham Martin is interested in the ephemeral nature of the built environment. The subject of much of his work is the quietly ageing post war housing estates which occupy sites on the fringes of the city or co-exist with the glass and steel structures that dominate the London skyline - places of temporary relief from the insidious pressures of today’s society. His paintings respond to the scale of the vast developments, the geometric aesthetic of the architecture, and associated notions of the sublime, as well as the inevitable entropy to which they succumb. He is interested in the ideas which shaped the original social and architectural concepts, the gradual transformation of these spaces and the dystopian themes associated with them.
Graham is a Scottish born artist based in East London. He originally trained at Edinburgh College of Art before retraining as a lawyer and practicing law for 8 years in Geneva, Paris and London. He has since returned to painting full time.
Jo Peel
Jo Peel spends her time documenting in detail her fascination with everyday scenes and scenarios. From abandoned east London construction sites to the streets of Tokyo and Pittsburgh, all are captured in her well observed and uniquely executed style. By drawing, Peel offers her view that it is these cityscapes that are as important to the topographic psyche as the natural beauty of the nature that surrounds it. This is not finding beauty in the dust; this is offering a new language to understand what is beautiful. This exploration of the urban metamorphosis is executed in a variety of mediums ranging from huge public murals and hand painted animations to canvas and fine art editions.
Jo has created a number of short animated films based upon huge wall murals which she painstakingly paints and repaints for each frame in a time-lapse process which may take three or four weeks for a 3-minute edit. Her “Things Change” short film painted on the Village Underground Wall in Shoreditch, London was shortlisted for best animation as part of the 2012 programme at Encounters Short film and Animation festival and went on to become a Vimeo online sensation with over 100,000 views.
Jo has worked with: Chanel/ The Southbank Centre/ Moniker Projects/ London Legacy Development Commission/ Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park/ Enfield Council/ Sheffield University/ Sheffield Council/ East Street Arts/ Leeds BID/ The Canal and River Trust/ Chelsea Flower Show
The Soft City
The Soft City is Daniel Speight, an East London based artist with a love for London’s architecture. This unusual pseudonym is in direct reference from Jonathan Rabian’s book on his experience of London in which drove Dan to combine his abilities as a visual artist with his obsession of depicting the modern city experience. His current ‘Book Block’ project is street art in the most literal sense; in which illustrations of the city’s streets are screen-printed directly onto the sides of reclaimed books.
Combining the digital and the handmade, ‘Book Block’ transforms shelves into streets, breathing new life into old reading material. The results are considered pieces of work that draw a new connection with the materials and space around us. Books and cities share something in common; they both hold stories. And it is with this relationship that generates the will and inspiration to investigate new ways of making buildings from books.
Daniel Speight
Also known as ‘The Soft City’, Daniel Speight, an East London based artist with a love for London’s architecture. This unusual pseudonym is in direct reference from Jonathan Rabian’s book on his experience of London in which drove Dan to combine his abilities as a visual artist with his obsession of depicting the modern city experience. His current ‘Book Block’ project is street art in the most literal sense; in which illustrations of the city’s streets are screenprinted directly onto the sides of reclaimed books.
Combining the digital and the handmade, ‘Book Block’ transforms shelves into streets, breathing new life into old reading material. The results are considered pieces of work that draw a new connection with the materials and space around us. Books and cities share something in common; they both hold stories. And it is with this relationship that generates the will and inspiration to investigate new ways of making buildings from books.
Mairi Timoney
Mairi Timoney is an artist living and working in Edinburgh. She studied painting at Edinburgh College of Art and at L'École Superieure Des Arts Decoratifs in Strasbourg, France. Since graduating Mairi has continued to make and exhibit work in both group and solo shows. She has shown work in The Whitechapel Gallery in London, The National Gallery of Modern Art and The Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh. She was awarded the Edinburgh University Barnson Bequest Award, The Artspace to Let Award and was featured as an emerging artist to invest in on Saatchi Art.
Mairi is interested in collecting imagery and materials from various sources to piece together visuals which are aesthetically and compositionally engaging. She enjoys using the juxtaposition of different media to consider surface, space, pattern and colour whilst the overlaying imagery, both found and personal, allows her to explore her interest in place and narrative. The fragmented landscapes which appear in her work come from an attraction to unfamiliar surroundings, quiet landscapes, architecture and the lives and stories of the people that inhabit these spaces.
Peter Wylie
Peter Wylie has been painting the ‘Buildings’ series for over a decade. It’s a response to the legacy of Modernity that is evidenced all around us in our cities. Completing a MA in Fine Art Printing at Camberwell, London a few years ago, where his work focused on the same subject, several are a response to the Bauhaus at Dessau in Germany. On metal for the printing, traces of modernity, describes in duality a notion of time passing, an historic distance, etched on the zinc or steel plate on which the image sits, as much as upon the concrete itself. He is interested in what happens within the work; such as the wear and tear, the patina of a building, the unclear ideals considered more often out of context, and his subjection of the plate to the spoil bite, the serendipity the chance and the accident. On canvas for the paintings we see as, Owen Hopkins, a writer, historian and curator has remarked ‘the building as alive with use and inhabitation, as a frame for the lives that play out inside it, rather than as a disembodied sculptural object to be marvelled at on a screen. Brutalism is without doubt the most contested of architectural styles. Wylie side-steps the polarisation in views that so often occurs when considering Brutalist buildings by revealing this (one) in all its compelling complexity.'