Mark Allen (b.1970, Vermont, USA) is a former curator, occasional graphic designer, profligate mail art sender, and professor of art at Pomona College. Between 2003 and 2018 he was the executive director of Machine Project, a non-profit art space which produced over 2000 events in 15 years, including operas for dogs, vacations for plants, and concerts for dentists, as well as shows with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Hammer Museum at UCLA, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, the Walker Museum in Minneapolis and the Tang Teaching Museum in Saratoga Springs, New York.
Eric Bainbridge (b. 1955, Consett, ENG) is known for his absurd and playful sculptural assemblages. Rising to prominence in the 1980s, Bainbridge is celebrated for recontextualising Modernist principles using everyday materials such as synthetic fur, melamine, and reclaimed steel to investigate domestic culture and traditional sculptural hierarchies. His work has been exhibited widely, including at the Walker Art Centre, the Stedelijk Museum, the Royal Academy of Art, and two Venice Biennales.
Laure Carré (b. 1968, La Roche Sur Yon, FR) suggests a universe, in her drawings and paintings, where the improbable rubs shoulders with the real, where the humorous verges on the cruel, and where the human meets the animal. Intriguing figures appear as if in dreams, which leave a fleeting memory when you wake. Carré studied at Parsons School of Design, New York (1991), the École supérieure des arts appliqués Duperré, Paris, (1989–90), and the École supérieure des arts appliqués Olivier de Serres, Paris (1988). Her work has been exhibited widely in Europe, the USA and Japan, including Galerie Amélie Du Charlard Paris/New York, Galerie Schönfeld Bruxelles/Anvers, Galerie Gratadou Paris, Galeries Airspace et Landon New York, Galeries Yokohama, Sawada et Biwa, Tokyo. She lives and works in Nantes.
Meredith Donnachie (b. 2000, Cambridge, ENG) is a Glasgow-based artist, illustrator, writer, and Glasgow School of Art graduate. Her work is concerned with nostalgia, heartbreak, anxiety, guilt, and friendship, and expresses a tentative hope for the future through a kitschy, naïve lens. She makes multimedia artworks, often consisting of sculptural elements, painting, drawing, collage, and text. She is part of Night Nurse, a Glasgow-based art collective. She had a solo exhibition, Pharmacritical, at R.A.T. Glasgow in 2026, and recent group exhibitions include New Waves at Transmission and Bad Art: Fandom at London Art Services.
Michael Fischer (b.1971, Edinburgh, SCO) explores the interplay between organic and industrial processes of growth and disintegration. Existing in various stages of fragmentation and assembly, the works emerge and submerge within scattered, amorphous or reclusive states. They appear both familiar and alien, evoking a shifting landscape that invites contemplation of potential functions and shifting meanings. Michael has exhibited internationally and is an alumnus of De Ateliers in Amsterdam and the Mass Correspondence Course. Alongside his artistic practice, he works part-time as an art therapist within the NHS.
Moyna Flannigan (b.1963, Kirkcaldy, SCO) lives and works in Edinburgh/Dunbar, primarily in drawing, collage, painting and sculpture. She is best known for her imagined paintings of women in psychological situations. She has an MFA from Yale School of Art (1987) and a BA from Edinburgh College of Art (1985). Recent solo exhibitions include Space Shuffle, a Collective Gallery commission for Edinburgh Art Festival 2024, and MATTER at Ingleby Gallery 2021. Group exhibitions include New Acquisitions, Arnheim Gallery, Netherlands, Frontiers, RSA Edinburgh (both 2024) and Scottish Women Artists Transforming Tradition, Dovecot Edinburgh, 2023. Her work is in numerous public collections in the UK, Europe and the USA.
Dana Frankfort (b. 1971, Houston, USA) addresses both the linguistic and formal qualities of text in her paintings, which occupy a hazy space between verbal and visual communication. Simple words or statements are scrawled, painted over and repainted until they become abstracted, their meanings amplified through reflection and repetition. Frankfort received a BA in Art History from Brandeis University (1995) and a MA in Fine Art from Yale School of Art (1997.) She has held residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Yaddo, Ox-Bow, and the MFAH Core Studio Art and has received an Artadia Award and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship Frankfort’s work has been exhibited widely in Europe and the USA and her paintings are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, TX), Rice University (Houston, TX), St. Edward’s University (Austin, TX), and The Jewish Museum (New York, NY).
Mark Haddon (b. 1964, Peebles, SCO) is an artist based in the Scottish Borders. Working across drawing, sculpture, painting and installation, he makes, materially attentive works from found objects, paper, wood and other materials. His practice brings together fragments, traces and evidence to create works that are at once poetic, playful and unsettling. Alongside his studio practice, Mark Haddon is the founder and curator of No31 Gallery, an independent contemporary art gallery in Duns, where he presents a programme of exhibitions by emerging and established artists.
Riccardo Iacono (b. 1969, Blackburn, ENG) works across film, drawing, collage, sculpture and installation. Conversational and open-ended in nature, and often nonsensical or difficult to define, his works evolve through improvisation and play, continually testing and re-evaluating his relationship with the world, with an emphasis on process and incompletion rather than object. Iacono has an MSc in Electronic Imaging from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art (2001) and a BA (Hons) in Fine Art (Painting) from Glasgow School of Art (1991). His work has been exhibited widely, including on Channel 4 (1997, 1999), at the European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück (2007), and in A Century of Artists’ Films at Tate Britain, London (2003). Solo exhibitions include This Orientation, Summit Gallery, London (2013); Lamp Posts, Project Rooms, Hull (2013); and The No Show, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (2007). He was artist in residence at Acme Fire Station (2005–10), Lucca Film Festival (2007), and London College of Communication (2007).
Karsten Krogh-Hansen (b. 1997, Oslo, NOR) is a painter based in Antwerp, Belgium. His practice explores the relationship between images, memory, and materiality through painting. Images sourced from digital platforms, popular culture, historical references, and everyday observations, serve as loose points of departure for works in which the painting process gradually transforms and displaces the original image. Through processes of translation, repetition, and recontextualization, his work investigates how images shift in meaning as they move between different cultural and material contexts. Krogh-Hansen holds an MFA from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. His work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Europe and the USA, most recently in his solo exhibition Something Spinning at de boer, Antwerp, 2025.
Michael Maskell (b. 1990, Reading, ENG) is a painter whose work explores the psychodynamics of his experiences. Michael’s paintings are unplanned and unrehearsed, as a way of gaining access to forgotten imagery, histories and the conditions in which they now sit. He seeks to expand this world through visualising narratives on canvas, a process akin to someone seeking narratives from the surface of disrupted water. Once expressed in the secrecy of night, images of hedonism are hard to recall in the sun. Michael’s work has been included in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, and various group exhibitions, including Queeriosities, Irving Gallery and Outsider Arts Club. In 2023 he had a solo exhibition at Oliver Spencer, Soho.
Katrina Moorhead (b. 1971, Coleraine, NI) is a conceptual artist whose practice centres on materiality – the physical presence, weight, transformation of, and weather around things. She has a BA and MFA from Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland, and lives and works in Houston, Texas. Moorhead has exhibited nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions across the USA and Europe, including at the Venice Biennale in 2005, and the International Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale in 2009. Solo exhibitions include A Thing Called Early Blur (Blaffer Museum, Houston, 2007) and seapinksea (Inman Gallery, Houston, 2019). She is the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award for Painters and Sculptors, an Artadia Award, and the Texas Prize from Arthouse, Austin and has held residencies and fellowships at the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the MacDowell Colony, ArtPace, San Antonio, and SIM, Reykjavik.
Samuel O’Donnell (b. 1992, Bolton, ENG) lives and works in Glasgow. His paintings attempt to understand something of the immediate, contemporary environment – in particular the aberrations and oddities found in the home, the city and the landscape, views glanced at while travelling or compositions found in domestic life. He chooses subjects that are both strange and familiar, aspects of the everyday that the artist is devoted to and puzzled by in equal parts. O’Donnel is founder/director of A_Place Gallery, Glasgow and together with Jamie Limond, runs the YouTube channel Painting Nerds. Exhibitions include Drive, Papple Steading, Haddington, Open Return, A_Place Gallery, Glasgow 2024, Good Morning Have You Had Breakfast Yet?, Hweg, Penzance, 2024, and The Very Hours Pass Unnoticed, Warbling Collective, Greatorex Street, London, 2023.
Richard Owen (b.1964, Llanharan, CYM) is a Welsh artist based in Glasgow. In his work, he merges the visual language and techniques of high art, popular culture, craft, fashion, text and music to reflect on and try to make sense of the images and information we are bombarded with each day. Recent artworks include embroideries, furniture and ceramics as well as paintings and drawings. Owen has a BA in painting from Cheltenham College of Art (1996) and an MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, London (1997). His work has been exhibited in the UK, Europe and South America, most recently in New Waves, at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow and in the VAS exhibition, A Seat at the Table at Wasps, South Block, Glasgow.
Jacqueline Peeters (b.1961, Eindhoven, NED) lives and works between Geraardsbergen and Brussels in Belgium. Peeters trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tilburg, was a resident at Ateliers 63 in Haarlem from 1984–6 and won the Royal Award for Modern Painting in 1987. In the early 1990s she started making invitation cards and posters for fictitious exhibitions of unsold paintings in non-existent galleries. This fake marketing became the subject of her work, with painted texts listing titles of unsold paintings and price lists of unsold works. These lists of terms often appear as something akin to a poem. Many of her recent paintings begin by painting over unsold paintings, creating a palimpsest where glimpses of the underlying painting can be seen, a play between past and present. Peeters is represented by Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp.
Steven E. Robertson (b.1980, Glasgow, SCO) is a painter whose work is informed by lived experience, exploring queer identity through themes of longing, nostalgia and self-worth. Balancing humour, irreverence and melancholy, he draws on borrowed lyrics, memory, and staged narratives to construct a personal visual language in which vulnerability, defiance, and self-recognition occupy the same space. Robertson studied Sculpture at Glasgow School of Art (2004–8) and has exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions throughout Glasgow, where he lives and works. Alongside his studio practice, he has also worked extensively within film and television art departments.
Ro Ho Fro (b. 1996, London, ENG) is a Welsh artist living and working in London. While painting and the languages it creates are the root of Ro Ho Fro’s practice, she is also a filmmaker and sees her work through the lens of theatrical production. She combines ideas around the natural and the theatrical as a way to translate a synonymity between chaos and order. The costumes, props, and backdrops she makes for her film productions often make their way into her paintings. Ro Ho Fro has an MFA from Glasgow School of Art (2025) and a BA from Camberwell College of Arts (2018). Her work has been exhibited widely, most recently in a solo exhibition at Berntson Bhattacharjee and as part of a collaborative project shown at Airside Hong Kong, supported by the British Council HK, Videotage HK and Film London.
Marc Vanderleenen (b. 1952, Mechelen, BE) Antwerp-based Marc Vanderleenen’s work is a reflection on the medium and history of painting from classical landscapes and the orderliness of Cezanne to the abstraction of Leon Kossoff, Frank Auerbach and Willem de Kooning. His approach involves both taking inspiration from and hollowing out classical influences from the past. Figuration is reduced to the strictly essential, and the pervasive mood is melancholy and world-weariness. Recent solo exhibitions include Inhabitence 2026 and The Pale Horse 2024 (both Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp) and Art on Paper with Marc de Blieck, BOZAR, Brussels 2021. Vanderleenen is represented by Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp.
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Maggie Hills (b. 1968, Pimu, DRC) is a painter who lives and works in Glasgow. She has an MA in Fine Art from the University of Edinburgh (1992) and an MFA in Drawing and Painting from Edinburgh College of Art (1994). She has had recent solo exhibitions at Inman Gallery, Houston, (Hopscotch, 2026), and A_Place, Glasgow, (This moment is not important, but it’s all there is, 2024) and her work has been shown in group exhibitions in the UK, Germany and the USA. Awards and residencies include SUPERDEALS, Brussels (2024), ACME Fire Station Residency, London (2005–10), Durham Cathedral Artist in Residence (2004) and The Core Studio Program, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1997–9). Alongside her art practice, Hills works as a learning content developer and producer within the museum sector.