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Gaia Giacomelli

Gaia Giacomelli

Bio Gaia Giacomelli is a London based Italian curator. Following her BA in Cultural and Linguistic Mediation at the University for Foreigners in Siena, Italy, she completed her MA in Curating and Collections at Chelsea College of Arts in 2017. Gaia has worked in commercial galleries and not-for-profit art organisations in London and Oslo and […]

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Eilís Otway

Eilís Otway (b. 1991, London) is a London based artist. Eilís has worked in commercial galleries and cultural institutions in Manchester and London and is currently studying towards her MA in Painting at Royal College of Art. Eilís took time away from painting, returning to her childhood home in rural isolation and her practice has […]

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Cherie Silver

As the Chelsea Arts Club Trust Research Fellow I had the opportunity to curate and assist on 16 exhibitions at Chelsea Space! The opportunity to work with Director Donald Smith in this unique gallery where there is such a diverse exhibition programme meant that my curatorial practice developed considerably. I curated, ‘We are watching: OZ […]

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Eva Gold

MA Materials and Research Award Eva Gold (b. 1994, Manchester, UK) works across sculpture, installation, moving image and writing. Her practice is centred around pleasure, positioned at the threshold between feelings of desire and disgust. Gold conjures bodies in states of trauma or quiet violence: fragmented or imagined characters which shape shift through materials and […]

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Arianne Churchman

Working predominantly through film, performance and sound, my practice focuses upon the folklore of the British Isles. Beginning with research it uses folklore as its primary material, drawing out folk’s inherent wonky temporalities and histories as it travels through other idiosyncratic and time-stamped cultural tendencies. These histories are then placed within a fictional space and […]

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Antonia Showering

‘Twenty-seven’, 2019, oil on canvas, 160 x 130 cm STATEMENT: I paint those I love, or have loved. Intimate moments are often stacked upon one another, leaving hints of previous decisions visible on the final surface. This technique is called pentimento. It seems appropriate to use this method because what interests me most is the […]

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Rachel Mukendi

My practice aims to question pop culture, I am particularly interested in the Americanisation of British culture. We are constantly surrounded by images, that tell a specific narrative. Our identities and our existence are consistently up for political debates. I work with the moving image and photography and appropriate images and sounds that are a part of the pop culture […]

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Adam Shield

Adam Shield

Adam Shield makes drawings, paintings, and collages. Recently he has been producing a series of large scale, multi-layered, sequential drawings on transparent paper. The work plays with visual drama, dystopian narratives and comic tone through shifts in scale, perspective and unreconciled pictorial zones. Alongside his studio practice, he also works on independent and collaborative publishing projects.

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Tom Varley

The Eccentricity of an Ellipse (2016), Video Still Tom Varley is an artist working with film, video, text and installation. His artworks explore themes of prediction, prophecy and projection, considering the effects of advanced technology and the internet on human thought, speech and memory. Previously based in Glasgow, Tom is currently a postgraduate student at […]

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