Andy Burgess
b. 1969, London, UK

Lauded by Annabel Sampson, Deputy Editor of Tatler as “the next David Hockney” painter Andy Burgess, who hails from London but lives in Arizona, continues to expand upon his fascination with contemporary architecture. Burgess selects the subjects for his paintings with the discernment of the portrait painter. Buildings are chosen for their clean lines, bold geometric design, and dynamic forms. Burgess approaches his subjects with a fresh eye, simplifying and abstracting forms even further and inventing, somewhat irreverently, new colour schemes that expand the modernist lexicon beyond the minimalist white palette and rigid use of primary colours. Real places are sometimes re-invented, the architecture and design altered and modified, with new furniture and landscaping and a theatrical lighting that invests the painted scene with a dream-like quality and a peaceful and seductive allure.

Burgess explores in depth the genesis of modern architecture in Europe and the US and its relationship to modern art, avant-garde design, and abstract painting. Burgess explains his fascination with modernist architecture thusly:

‘Despite the huge impact of early modern architecture, the innovative and subtle minimalist buildings that I am researching, with their concrete and steel frames, flat roofs, and glass walls, never became the dominant mode of twentieth century building. We have continued to build the vast majority of houses in a traditional and conservative idiom, so that these great examples of modern architecture, designed by the likes of Gropius, Loos and Breuer to name but a few, are still shocking and surprising today in their boldness and modernity, almost a hundred years after they were built.’

Andy Burgess’s work combines two of his greatest artistic passions, mid-century and modernist architecture, and collage. In his series of highly intricate pieces, Burgess has used hand painted paper to construct renditions of his favourite modern architecture. Replacing acrylic paint with gorgeous permanent inks he has introduced another level of textural interest. The ink adds a beautiful translucency and wash-like textures to the surface of the image…. making the finished work somewhat tapestry and mosaic like. The pleasure of these works lies in the complex shapes, the analogue quality of the fabrication and the sparkling crystalline colors. Those familiar with his work will recognize some of the iconic subject matter such as Frank Lloyd Wright’s wonderful Guggenheim Museum and famous Fallingwater residence as well as Los Angeles classics such as The Stahl House and other desert modern masterpieces. But there is an eclectic range of architectural subjects that spans decades and continents in a quest to do justice to the architecture of modern times!

Alongside the large-scale paintings, Burgess creates collages which reflect his love of vintage graphics, particularly those from the 1930s–50s, a “golden age” in American graphic design and advertising. Burgess has been collecting vintage American ephemera for many years; this ephemera is then unapologetically deconstructed, cut up into tiny pieces and reconstructed into visual and verbal poems, dazzling multi-coloured pop art pieces, and constructed cityscapes.

Burgess has completed many important commissions for public and private institutions including Crossrail (London’s largest ever engineering project), Cunard, APL shipping, Mandarin Oriental Hotels, a new medical centre in San Jose, California and most recently, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London.

In 2021 Andy Burgess started creating a series of site-specific artworks for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London. The project, initiated by CW+ – the official charity of the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust – and facilitated by Cynthia Corbett Gallery, which represents Burgess internationally, aims to improve and enhance the NICU environment for patients, relatives and staff.

Working together with the NICU team, Burgess was reminiscing on the hospital’s neighbourhoods and its iconic views, sights and buildings in collaboration with hospital staff. Known for his unique, abstract and colourful style, Andy has transformed selected London scenes into incredible artworks to create a warm and welcoming environment for both parents and staff to enjoy. The display, installed on the 16th June 2022, includes a panorama of London, an image of Albert Bridge and another of a London Underground station. Additionally, Andy produced two smaller scale abstract pieces developed from the colour palettes of his larger works, which were gifted as part of the commission. CW+ also acquired two existing works by Andy for the unit through Cynthia Corbett Gallery.

Burgess’s collectors include the Booker prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro, actor and writer Emma Thompson, the Tisch family in New York, Beth De Woody, Board Member of The Whitney Museum and Richard and Ellen Sandor in Chicago, who have one of the top 100 art collections in America.

In March 2023, Burgess published of a new limited edition book of abstract ink on paper collages called Tiger’s Eye in conjunction with an exhibition at Laughlin Mercantile in Tucson, Arizona and the release of four luxurious silk scarf designs based on the collages.

Andy Burgess has been represented internationally by Cynthia Corbett Gallery since 2004.

Klari Reis
b. 1977, USA

Klari Reis has invented her own medium, using epoxy polymer (a form of liquid plastic) with many added ingredients including pure pigment, acrylic and secrets. Reis’s design is almost otherworldly, her colours unique and her patterns inventive. Her artwork is both object and fine art and she is at the forefront of innovative use of art resources.

Klari Reis’ new works are imaginative recreations and curious playful inquiries into our place in the world. The artist proposes new ways
of seeing and understanding our natural environment through painting and sculpture, testing the boundaries of logical systems. By considering the contradictory implications of the word natural and exploring the relationships between the human and non-human, Klari embraces possibility through work that is joyful and hopeful.

Klari Reis is an American artist with a Master of Fine Arts (2004) and an Associate Research Fellowship (2005) from the City and Guilds of London Art School. She lives and works in San Francisco and is represented internationally by Cynthia Corbett Gallery.

Klari Reis has been represented internationally by Cynthia Corbett Gallery since 2004.

Deborah Azzopardi
b. 1958, UK

America has Lichtenstein, we have Azzopardi!’ - Estelle Lovatt FRSA

Deborah Azzopardi acquired her worldwide fame for the joyous Pop Art images she has created over the past 39 years. Her unique and feminine take on contemporary art is best described by the esteemed art critic Estelle Lovatt: ‘America has Lichtenstein, we have Azzopardi!’ Lovatt goes on to comment: “Sometimes you just want to curl up under a blanket. With a good book. A piece of chocolate. A man. This is what Deborah Azzopardi’s pictures make me feel like doing. They are me. They remind me of the time I had a red convertible sports car. I had two, actually. And yes, they are you, too. You immediately, automatically, engage with the narrative of Azzopardi’s conversational visual humour. Laughter is the best aphrodisiac, as you know. ... There’s plenty of art historical references from... Manet’s suggestive ‘Olympia’; Boucher’s thought-provoking... ‘Louise O’Murphy’ and Fragonard’s frivolous, knickerless, ‘The Swing’.... Unique in approach, you easily recognise an Azzopardi picture. ... Working simple graphics and toned shading (for depth), the Pop Art line that Azzopardi sketches is different to Lichtenstein’s. Hers is more curvaceous. Feminine.”

The world is familiar with Azzopardi’s artworks, as many of them have been published internationally. Her original paintings, such as the Habitat ‘Dating’ series (2004/08), the iconic ...One Lump Or Two? (2014) and Love Is The Answer(2016), created by the artist at the request of Mitch and Janis Winehouse as a tribute to their daughter, are in great demand.

Deborah Azzopardi was awarded the Young Masters Focus On The Female Art Created During Lockdown Award 2021 for her work ‘Unabashed’.

Deborah Azzopardi has been represented internationally by Cynthia Corbett Gallery since 2010.

Margo Selby
b. 1977, Eastbourne, UK

Selby is an artist and designer working with colour and geometric form in textiles. She makes handwoven artworks, and oversees the design work of the Margo Selby Studio for mill production and commercial textiles applications – her tenet being ‘Art Into Industry’ – an approach to making art that is akin to that of the ‘Old Masters’ and mistresses, with their expanded studios and public commissions.

Selby uses thread to create abstract geometric artworks that explore repetition and transition, symmetry and asymmetry, the dynamic and the stable. She is interested in the relationship between the body and the machine, hand and industry, craft and technology. The loom, and the disciplined nature of weaving as a practice, provides boundaries and constraints which can be tested. The orderly nature of the craft of weaving is reflected in the developing designs of the artworks. She is satisfied by rhythmic and uniform repetition – where each element of a composition is changed in a methodical progression.

With the exhibition of Cynthia Corbett Gallery and in cerebration of Collect's 20th Anniversary presented Moon Landing —a groundbreaking collaboration between Margo Selby and Helen Caddick debuting at Collect 2024. This project marks Margo Selby’s first site-specific installation, featuring an immersive, suspended handwoven textile alongside an original string composition by Helen Caddick. Set within the Stamp Stairwell at Somerset House, the approximately 16-meter handwoven piece invites visitors to ascend and descend the spiraling stairs, experiencing the evolving abstract colors that mirror the dynamic journey of the music. Margo and Helen's site-specific installation at Somerset House is a stunning fusion of weaving and music, meticulously designed to respond to the architecture of the Stamp Stair. The 16-meter handwoven textile cascades down the spiral staircase, drawing visitors into its intricate play of color, texture, and rhythm. As one ascends or descends, the shifting abstract blocks of color mirror the fluid journey of the music. Inspired by the connection between weaving, mathematics, and music, the collaboration delves into the shared numerical patterns across these art forms. The installation also pays tribute to the women who wove the circuits for the Apollo 11 Moon Landing, with fragments of Navajo and Huguenot weaving traditions woven into both the textile and the score. Complementing the experience, a process-led film and a recording of the music will be available, with live performances at key preview events, offering an immersive exploration of the parallels between sound and fabric.

Margo Selby studied at Chelsea College of Art & Design and the Royal College of Art in London, with a term at Atelier National d’Art in Paris. She now teaches in various institutions, and has her own studio weaving workshops. In 2020, Margo was the recipient of the Craft Council’s Collect Open Award for her large scale textiles installation Vexillum at Somerset House, and, in 2021, the bi-annual Turner Medal for ‘Britain’s Greatest Colorist’. She also gave the Turner Lecture, reflecting on her practice. 2022 saw her showing at multiple applied arts and craft fairs including Collect, London Craft Week, London Art Fair. In 2023, Selby exhibited at Art Miami, British Art Fair and Collect.

In 2024, Selby received several notable commissions. She was co-commissioned by The National Festival of Making and the British Textile Biennial to create a vibrant, celebratory textile installation, immersive in colour, form, and sound—designed to evoke joy and uplift. Situated in the North Transept of Blackburn Cathedral, this site-responsive sculpture reflected the flow of fabric through a factory, with waves and folds mirroring the movement of cloth through machinery. The suspended form began on the cathedral floor, rising to tower 9 metres into the vaulted ceiling, before gracefully descending back down.

As part of the London Design Festival 2024, Margo Selby's striking textile creations were included in the 'Living in a Material World' Exhibition at the Lyon & Turnbull London Gallery.

Margo Selby is represented internationally by Cynthia Corbett Gallery.

Cristina Schek
b. Transylvania

Cristina Schek is the photosensitive kind. She thinks in pictures; her imagination is always in focus. A Transylvanian Surrealist now rooted in London, Schek crafts conceptual work that explores identity and the nature of representation, with literature, films, and art history as her muses. Her true passion lies in storytelling—venturing into the unknown, layering, and crafting images into creative compositions.

Esteemed art critic Estelle Lovatt, FRSA, notes the departure from traditional representations in Cristina's work: “Away from the worn-out out-of-date academic portrait of the female muse, Cristina Schek’s attention-grabbing images are inspired by literature and history. I marvel at her unique quirky portraits of modern life, in interiors brimming with warm comfy chintz and cosy furniture. But the real clout and muscle comes from the lone woman masked, in her flowing gown, inspiring powerful messages of caution for women today. Different to a man’s representation of the female, Schek inspires us to be the victor not the victim. As a woman, though the lens of her eye, she created a new, unique, visual language influencing and motivating us to be as progressive and visionary as we are. To be assertive, bold, self-assured powerful, and confident. To develop and enlarge our value(s). To think, feminist weight solid enough, in images not just of her, but of you and me, in Schek’s sumptuous, surrealistic, delightful imaginings.”

‘Diving Upwards’ Series – Glamour Edit, 2025

Glamarine (2025) is a new body of work debuting at British Art Fair and it revisits Schek's earlier divers, but here the figures rise from the sea in a weightless ascent. These glamorous swimmers lift toward the light, suspended between water and sky, pausing for a breath of air; a moment that celebrates beauty and the pure joy of being. "Everything real begins with the fiction of what could be. Imagination is therefore the most potent force in the Universe. Imagination is 'Diving Upwards'! And you can get better at it. It's the one skill in life that benefits from ignoring what everyone else knows. Over the long term, the future is decided by optimists. To be an optimist you don’t have to ignore the multitude of problems that arise, you just have to 'Dive Upwards' and imagine how much your ability to solve problems improves." Cristina Schek

'Diving Upwards' Series 2022-2024

"Everything real begins with the fiction of what could be. Imagination is therefore the most potent force in the Universe. Imagination is 'Diving Upwards'! And you can get better at it. It's the one skill in life that benefits from ignoring what everyone else knows. Over the long term, the future is decided by optimists. To be an optimist you don’t have to ignore the multitude of problems that arise, you just have to 'Dive Upwards' and imagine how much your ability to solve problems improves." Cristina Schek

"In my mind’s eye, I see carefully choreographed women and the sky-high lunar cycle of the Moon being celebrated. For (e)very good reason. The Moon’s gravity stabilises us. This image is an inspirational message; dream big and take chances. More than synchronised swimmers or water ballerinas, it’s Sisyphus rolling with huge stones as big as your troubles. Push giant rocks up the steep incline of life symbolising suffering, heaven forbid heaven bound, because you are strong enough. To wear a Titian-like shade of red swimsuit and bathing cap, a figure hugging skin-tight illusion of being naked, almost. Surely.

Rise up, propel yourself high. Believe. Nothing. Nothing is in the way to stop you. We are all capable of being top flyers, diving upwards and flippin’ hell. Being over the moon… The saying “Over the Moon” is used to describe how it feels when feeling extremely pleased and very, very, happy. Skyrocket, soar, fly. The sky isn’t the limit, since man walks on the moon, right? Right! More than a picture-maker, Schek is a visual influencer." Estelle Lovatt FRSA

'Diving Upwards Miniatures' is a collection of 3 miniature artworks elegantly framed in jewel-like antiques, in celebration of 100 Years of Surrealism. Inspired by André Breton's legendary Surrealist Cabinet of Curiosities, a revolutionary collection that embodied the surrealist passion for unusual, thought-provoking objects - each piece serves as a portal to the blurred boundary between imagination and reality. These miniature reveal their secrets up close; take a moment to peer in, explore, let your mind wander. After all, imagination lives in the tiniest of details.

Schek's portfolio is celebrated internationally and her notable achievements include Young Masters Focus On The Female Art Created During Lockdown Award 2021 for her work 'Florence Lightingale', receiving recognition at Phillips Auction House with the BFAMI Art Exhibition 2022 and winning the W4 Fourth Plinth with 'The Ceiling In The Sky' monumental 4x4m public art installation in 2023. This prestigious recognition follows in the footsteps of Sir Peter Blake, whose artwork was the inaugural work on display.

Recently, Cristina Schek has been honored with two prestigious accolades at the Young Masters Awards 2025: First Prize in the People’s Choice Award, generously sponsored by The Brownhill Insurance Group, as well as a Highly Commended recognition in the Rudolph Blume Foundation Acquisition Award.

Yinka Shonibare CBE
b. 1962, London

Yinka Shonibare was born in 1962 in London and moved to Lagos, Nigeria at the age of three. He now lives and works in London. His work explores issues of race and class through the media of painting, sculpture, photography and film. Having described himself as a ‘post-colonial’ hybrid, Shonibare questions the meaning of cultural and national definitions. His trademark material is the brightly coloured ‘African’ batik fabric he buys at Brixton market. The fabric was inspired by Indonesian design, mass-produced by the Dutch and eventually sold to the colonies in West Africa. In the 1960s the material became a new sign of African identity and independence.

Yinka Shonibare is an internationally well renowned artist and in just 2023 alone exhibited at Lagos Peckham Repeat at South London Gallery, To Be Free at Salisbury Cathedral, Trace at Haus der Kunst in Munich, The Art of Fabric at Kunsthalle Vogelmann in Germany, Sharjah Biennial 15 at Sharjah in UAE, Between Before and After at the Cristea Roberts Gallery in London, The Fest at MAK in Vienna, Austria and Constellations at Kura Kura in Bali, Indonesia.

Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, celebrated guest artist for the 2012 and 2025 editions of the Young Masters Art Prize.
Courtesy of Yinka Shonibare CBE and Cristea Roberts Gallery, London.

Isabelle Van Zeijl
b.1978, Netherlands

In a contemporary art world that condemns beauty as camouflage for conceptual shallowness, championing high aesthetics is nothing short of rebellion. Dutch photographer Isabelle Van Zeijl takes female beauty ideals from the past, and sabotages them in the context of today. As a women she experiences prejudices against women; misogyny in numerous ways including sex discrimination, belittling/violence against women and sexual objectification. Van Zeijl aestheticises these prejudices in her work to visually discuss this troubling dichotomy, presenting a new way of seeing female beauty. An oppressive idealisation of beauty is tackled in her work through unique female character and emotion.

Van Zeijl is invested in her images. By using subjects that intrigue and evoke emotion, she reinvents herself over and over and has created a body of work to illustrate these autobiographical narratives. Her work takes from all she experiences in life - she is both model, creator, object and subject. Going beyond the realm of individual expression, so common in the genre of self-portraiture, she strives to be both universal and timeless.

Isabelle Van Zeijl, born and based in the Netherlands is an internationally acclaimed Fine Art Photographer. She was nominated for the Prix De La Photographie Paris, The Fine Art Photography Awards and was one of the winners of The Young Masters 2017 Emerging Woman Art Prize, London. Her work is held in prominent private & public collections in the USA, Europe, UK, Australia and Asia.

Isabelle Van Zeijl is represented internationally by Cynthia Corbett Gallery and was the winner of the Young Masters Emerging Woman Art Prize in 2017.

Fabiano Parisi
b. 1977, Rome, Italy

“I use only natural light and execute my shootings early in the morning. The colours and chiaroscuro are at their best at this time of day and are left untouched by digital image manipulation software.” - Fabiano Parisi.

Parisi’s photographs have an honesty and integrity that is part of what makes them so inviting. The artist often selects buildings with frescoed walls, which create an illusion of a painterly surface in his photographs and a textural sensibility that belies the photograph’s flat surface. His method highlights the patina of these forgotten places.

The artist prints his work himself onto carefully chosen papers that enhance and maximise his colours and tones. Parisi has a strong relationship to Art History; the subject of the ruin was prevalent in the 18th and 19th Centuries, and interest is still strong today as evidenced by Tate Britain’s 2014 exhibition ‘Ruin Lust’. From painters such as Piranesi to Turner to Constable, Parisi is part of an important genre in art.

Fabiano Parisi began his career as a photographer following a degree in Psychology, coming to photography through a project photographing derelict asylums, which sparked his interest in the abandoned buildings which are the subject of his art practice today.

He has two ongoing series: The Empire of Light and Il Mondo Che Non Vedo (The World I Do Not See). The latter title is taken from a collection of poems by Fernando Pessoa, a hint at the poetic qualities of Parisi’s work.

What is so striking about Parisi’s work is his use of light, his relationship not just to history but to the theme of the ruin in Art History, and the composition and surface of his work. The power of Parisi’s work lies in the strength and command of his image-making, never straying from a strictly symmetrical approach, which allows the viewer to assume his viewpoint within the building, the wide-angle lens giving a sense of depth and breadth, without compromising on detail.

Parisi participated in the 54th Venice Biennale, Italian Pavilion and in Fotografia Festival Internazionale di Roma in 2012 at the Macro Museum.

In 2010 he was the winner of the Celeste Prize International for photography in New York; in 2012 he was shortlist for the Arte Laguna Prize, Venice where he was awarded a special Prize and in 2012 & 2014 he was shortlisted & announced finalist for the Young Masters Art Prize (a not-for-profit initiative presented by The Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London).

Fabiano Parisi was a finalist for the Young Masters Art Prize in 2012 and 2014.

Fabiano Parisi is represented internationally by Cynthia Corbett Gallery.

Ghost of a Dream

Ghost of a Dream is the moniker of the ongoing collaboration between Adam Eckstrom and Lauren Was, who respectively have backgrounds in painting and sculpture. The pair make sculptures and installations about common fantasies and desires—fame, wealth, true love, and salvation—from detritus and images from pop culture. Their common raw materials include dismembered trophy parts, romance novels, clips from Hollywood films, playing cards from casinos, and used lottery tickets. “Our sculpture and installations embody the essence of opulence while being constructed of materials that typically end up in the trash,” the pair write. “We mine popular culture searching for discarded materials that people use trying to reach their goals.”

Recent Public Art Installations include REMEMBER WHEN TOMORROW CAME, a permanent installation at IS653 Brooklyn New York, 2024,THE DREAMER OF DREAMS, a Site specific full room permanent installation at La Napoule Art Foundation, La Napoule, France, 2024 and Aligned by the Sun (connections), a site specific full surround installation in the departure hall at Penn Station as part of Art at Amtrak, New York, NY 2023.
Ghost of a Dream also recently hosted their Solo Museum Exhibition I know a place where they perform miracles at the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, Arlington, VA in 2024.

We were honoured to host our inaugural winners of the Young Master's Art Prize in 2009 at our 'Sweet Sixteen' anniversary exhibition in London, 2025. We are pleased to exhibit Ghost of a Dream as part of our Young Masters curation at Art Miami 2025.

Lottie Davies
b. 1971, Guildford, UK

Lottie Davies’ work is concerned with stories and personal histories, the tales and myths we use to structure our lives: memories, life-stories, beliefs. She takes inspiration from classical and modern painting, cinema and theatre as well as the imaginary worlds of literature. She employs a deliberate reworking of our visual vocabulary, playing on notions of nostalgia, visual conventions and subconscious ‘looking habits’, with the intention of evoking a sense of recognition, narrative and movement.

Davies was born in Guildford, UK, in 1971. After a degree in Moral Philosophy, Logic & Metaphysics at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, she moved back to England and has since been based in London and then Cornwall as a photographer, artist and writer. She is regularly invited to speak about her work internationally and throughout UK, in galleries and institutions as well as universities and colleges. Davies is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Lecturer at the Institute of Photography at Falmouth University in Cornwall.

Lottie Davies has won recognition in numerous awards, including the Association of Photographers’ Awards, the International Color Awards, and the Schweppes Photographic Portrait Awards. Her work has garnered international acclaim; Quints (‘Memories and Nightmares’) won First Prize at the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Awards 2008 at the National Portrait Gallery in London, Viola As Twins won the Photographic Arte Laguna Prize in Venice in 2011, and she won the Young Masters Art Prize in 2012. Her seven-year long project Quinn was widely exhibited across the UK and subsequently published in a limited-edition monograph of the same name in 2021.

Sandy Nairne, director of the National Portrait Gallery in London, described Davies’ work as “brilliantly imaginative”.

Charles Moxon
b. UK

Charles Moxon (b.1990) is a British painter working between London, New York, and Mexico. He studied in Aix-en-Provence and Camberwell College of Arts, London, later developing his practice through an extensive self-directed study of classical painting techniques. Moxon has been twice selected for the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery, London (2016, 2020), was awarded a Certificate of Excellence by the Portrait Society of America (2022), and was a finalist in their Members Competition (2024). He has exhibited with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, and in 2025, two of his works were welcomed into the collection of the Black Cultural Archives in London. His portrait of Colin Jackson CBE is held in the permanent collection of Wrexham University. Moxon’s practice draws on classical European painting traditions, particularly the compositional clarity and controlled light of 17th-century portraiture. Working with meticulous underpainting, subtle glazing, and a refined, often subdued palette, he creates portraits that merge technical precision with an atmosphere of stillness and psychological depth. Extended periods living across multiple countries have shaped the contemplative direction of Moxon’s work.

A nomadic life introduced a heightened awareness of impermanence, making stillness not a description of circumstance, but something deliberately sought and held within his paintings. Whether depicting solitary figures, symbolic objects, or flowers emerging from near-black grounds, Moxon’s paintings explore presence, fragility, and the narratives suggested by gesture and silence. His work reflects a contemporary pursuit of stillness in an increasingly accelerated world, offering viewers a space for contemplation, emotion, and pause.

In 2022 he was Awarded a Certificate of Excellence by the Portrait Society of America and exhibited at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition in London. Charles Moxon was the youngest finalist for the Young Masters Art Prize in 2012.

Amy Hughes
b. 1985, Dewsbury, UK.

“Amy Jayne Hughes reinterprets historical vase designs while nodding at the original aesthetic yet leaving space for the clay.

“Hughes’ vases resemble pixelated images of historic vases; they are sketched from the old but resemble nothing of the past - they occupy a place entirely of their own. Hughes’ blind contour drawing technique captures the object's essence while acknowledging the clay material and her role in the reinterpretation: Fingerprints left in the clay and drawn upon cardboard-like pieces stuck to the vase trace Hughes’ artistic process. The play is consciously left visible.

“Hughes’ work is both a celebration of our ceramic past and reclaiming space for clay.” - Jesper Nøddeskov, Homo Faber Guide.

Amy Jayne Hughes is a Ceramicist, a clay purist and enthusiast. She adores working with her medium and the possibilities that it allows. Primarily a hand builder in her practice, Hughes enjoys combining traditional making techniques and exploring form and decoration and establishing dialogues between the two. Working with an awareness of clay, she feels it is important to leave traces of material identity on a piece to celebrate the uniqueness of it and the wonderfully idiosyncratic ways in which it behaves, highlighting and drawing attention to rather than covering over. This allows for brushstrokes and dribbles of slip, raw cut and torn edges, exposed joints and considered application of glaze.

Taking inspiration from historically significant ceramic objects and collections, Hughes strives to reference the originals whilst reinterpreting and reinventing, to make them more accessible and breathe a fresh life into them. Working with a cultural awareness, Hughes seeks to take such pieces to new audiences and find a place in contemporary culture for them. Sources for her recent ceramic explorations include Grecian, Islamic and 18th century French Porcelain.

Hughes loves to draw and her collections often involve exploring different methods of interpreting her drawings into clay. Most recently, taking a collage-like approach, Hughes uses enlarged elements of her sketches, tracing them directly onto her clay surfaces in decorating slip and attaching them onto her coil and slab-built forms, creating exciting patterns and shapes and working with a colourful and lively painterly approach. The making process informs the composition, not knowing how the final piece may look.

Amy Jayne Hughes studied MA Ceramics & Glass at Royal College of Art, London, 2008-2010 and BA Ceramics at Loughborough University, 2004-2007. She also won the City and Guilds Life Drawing Award.

Notable solo exhibitions include: ‘Garniture’ Croome Court, Worcester, Arts Council England funded (2018), and ‘Vase & Cover’ Room 141, V&A Museum, London Design Festival (2018). Hughes’ notable group exhibitions include: Art Miami, Cynthia Corbett Gallery (2022-23), COLLECT, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, Somerset House (2021-23), British Art Fair, Cynthia Corbett Gallery (2022-23), London Art Fair, Cynthia Corbett Gallery (2022), ‘Piranesi 300: A Visionary Revisited’ Dublin Castle & the Casino at Marino, Dublin (2022), ‘Leach 100’ The Leach Pottery, St Ives (2022), ‘Artefact’, Vessel Gallery (2021), ‘Out Of the Blue’ 50 Years of Designers Guild, The Fashion and Textile Museum, London (2020), COLLECT, Vessel Gallery (2019), ‘Renewed Past’ CODA Museum, Netherlands (2016), ‘AWARD’, British Ceramics Biennial (2015), and 'SWEET 18’, Castle of Hingene, Belgium (2015).

Hughes has been nominated for many prestigious awards and prizes. She was a shortlisted Artist for the Brookfield Properties Craft Award (2023); nominated for the Perrier-Jouët Arts Salon Prize by Barney Hare Duke (2016); shortlisted for the Young Masters Maylis Grand Ceramics Prize, (2014); shortlisted for the Constance Fairness Foundation Award, December (2011); awarded the Anglo-Swedish Scholarship Bursary (2010); and selected to represent the UK in ‘New Talent’ at the European Ceramic Context, Denmark (2014). Hughes was also winner of Best Community Public Art 2013 project with Pump House Gallery for ‘Imaginariums’

Hughes has undertaken residencies in the UK and Internationally including: V&A Ceramics & Industry Artist in Residence in collaboration with 1882Ltd (April – September 2015); Siobhan Davies Dance Studio with Manifold Studio, (July – September 2013); Anglo-Swedish Scholarship Exchange, Konstfack School, Stockholm (January – April 2011)

Hughes’ work has been featured in Ceramic Review, ‘A Modern Decadence’, CR 309, Annie La Santo (2021); ‘Encore! The New Artisans’, Olivier Dupon, Thames & Hudson, (2015); ‘Collectives: The Model for Success’, Edith Garcia, Ceramics Monthly, (2020); ‘Studio Ceramics’, Alun Graves (2023); ‘Getting to know Amy Hughes’, India Miller, FAIRE Magazine (2023). Hughes was recently included in the Homo Faber Guide of Artisans and Master Craftsmen, curated by The Michelangelo Foundation (2023).

Hughes’ work has been acquired internationally. Collections include: Hendelsbanken, Sweden (2011), ‘Tryst’, V&A permanent collection (2016), and Private Collections in USA, UK, France, Sweden, and Netherlands.

Amy Hughes was a finalist for the Young Masters Maylis Grand Ceramics Prize in 2014 and is internationally represented by the Cythia Corbett Gallery. She was highly commended for the Brookfield Properties Craft Award 2023.

Freya Bramble-Carter
b. 1991, UK

Freya Bramble-Carter is a London-based ceramic artist, known for creating contemporary designs, often strongly inspired by a balancing flow of femininity and masculinity, with an appreciation for the power of nature and the universe we live in. Freya combines her lifestyle of imagining and working with clay, as well as her life experiences and personal philosophies, into one—changing delusion and enjoyment into a unified expression. She strives to live in the most authentic way true to herself, in order to learn about life and expand.

Freya’s work ranges from fine homewares, including plates and bowls, to large outdoor sculptural pieces and water features for interior or outdoor spaces. Applying her talent to artisan glazes and handcrafting unique silhouettes, Freya's limited-edition pieces are designed to elevate spaces and evoke awe, often through beauty and tactile appeal. Freya’s connectivity to her practice extends to her body of work within international workshops. The practice connects mind, body, and soul, allowing her creative expression to be shared with all.

Freya’s collaborative work with her father, renowned ceramicist Chris Bramble, explores intergenerational creativity, identity, and heritage through clay. One of their joint pieces was recently acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, marking a significant milestone in both their practices and celebrating the power of family legacy in contemporary ceramics.

In her series last year for the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair 2024, Freya's inspiration comes from the everyday, shaped by her unique upbringing. With a clowning mother and a potting father, Freya has recently begun to share how these early experiences influence her work. Childhood memories—echoes of serene moments in British schools—find their way into her art, flowing through her imagination like a quiet stream of reflection.

Freya is fascinated by the way we filter our complex thoughts through personal narratives, like a sieve that shapes our perspective. Her art invites us to question the roles we play and the characters we embody, often unconsciously.

"I like to think of my pieces as people, whether they are figurative or not," Freya says. "Throughout the making process, I feel a connection with the final outcome—and here they are: fantastical, otherworldly creations. Alien clay. So, I have to ask—do you believe in aliens?"

Freya, a 2013 graduate of Chelsea School of Art, has been represented by Cynthia Corbett Gallery since 2021. Notable exhibitions include Collect 2022–2024, Art Miami debut 2022, "Body Vessel Clay" curated by Dr. Jareh Das, and "Like Paradise" at Claridge's, curated by Ekow Eshun. In 2023, Freya was featured on Alexa's Art Tour with British Vogue, where she and Alexa Chung delved into discussions about change and artistic expression during an insightful interview held in Freya's studio. Earlier in 2024, Freya was one of six London-based artists featured in the Uniqlo & JW Anderson Spring/Summer 2024 collection, celebrating its rich historical context.

Freya Bramble-Carter is represented by Cynthia Corbett Gallery.

Saeri Seo
b. 1992, Korea

The ‘Moon Jar’ is a representative piece of Korean traditional pottery of the Joseon Dynasty that has contributed the elevating the reputation of Korean ceramics worldwide. Historically, the moon jar was associated only with male roles, as women were not allowed to produce or access the studio due to the belief that they brought bad luck. To overcome a childhood and adolescence coloured by this belief (and accompanying abuse), SaeRi began destroying her works to reveal her trauma, incorporating shapes from Korean representative ceramics as her cultural background influenced her mental struggles. By detonating the beautiful pottery, she stepped forward and started communicating with the world.

SaeRi Seo studied ceramics for her BA at Seoul Women’s University, and went on to complete a Masters in Ceramics and Makers at Cardiff Metropolitan University in 2022. Recent exhibitions and awards include: NAE Open 2023, New Art Exchange (2023), RBA Rising Stars Exhibition, The Royal Over-Seas League (2023), and nominated as a finalist for the BADA Art Award (2022).

SaeRi Seo was selected for Homo Faber 2024: The Journey of Life, coinciding with the Venice Biennale, further establishing her presence in the international art scene. SaeRi Seo made her debut at Collect with Cynthia Corbett Gallery in 2024 and will soon showcase her work at the prestigious British Art Fair later this year, marking another significant milestone in her artistic career.

SaeRi Seo was the winner of the Young Masters Emerging Woman Artist Award in 2023.

Ebony Russell
b. Australia

Ebony Russell is an Australian ceramic artist who uses an unorthodox approach to construct ceramic sculptures. Her unique technique was developed out of an interest in gendered aesthetics, labour and traditional craft practices where Russell methodically pipes porcelain in series of intricate layers to build gravity- defying forms. Challenging the traditional making processes of decorative vessels; in her works the decoration becomes the structure, and the boundaries between the two are erased. Exploring established perceptions of cultural and artistic practices that were once exclusively coded as feminine and thus insignificant, Russell’s work celebrates the decorative, promiscuous aesthetics and politics of purity; the superficial, excess and delight – with pleasure.

Russell completed a Bachelor of Applied Arts (Honours) at Monash University in 2003 and in 2019 graduated from The National Art School Sydney with a Masters of Fine Art. Russell has won many awards including the Franz International Rising Star Award in 2018 and the Meroogal Women’s Art Prize in 2023. Major exhibitions include ‘Think Pinker’, Gavlak Gallery Los Angeles (2023), ‘SABOTAJE ESTEìTICO’, Yusto Giner Gallery, Spain (2022), ‘Halcyon Days’, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco (2022), ‘Clay Dynasty’, The Powerhouse Museum (2022), ‘Interconnected’, NERAM (2022), Young Masters Art Prize, London (2023), Teetering on the Brink, Claire Oliver Gallery, Harlem New York (2024), and Homo Faber, Venice (2024).

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Ebony Russell was Highly Commended for the Young Masters Maylis Grand Ceramics Prize 2023 and winner of the Brookfield Properties Craft Award 2025 in collaboration with Collect Art Fair, Crafts Council and Cynthia Corbett Gallery.

Susanne Kamps
b. 1967, Munster, Germany.

“The paintings of Susanne Kamps are chromatic organisms, entirely of their own kind. On the one hand, they assert their obligation to tradition, on the other hand they celebrate individuality and boundless independence, as if they never heard of the great role models, they evoke…” - wrote one art critic, adding: “And the beholder, the more he or she tries to grasp the tension, experiences deja-vu - the ´aha´ effect. Who would not, while looking at the painting of Susanne Kamps, think of Matisse…” - and indeed, her painting Behind the screen, shortlisted for the 5th Edition of the Young Master Prize, pays homage to Matisse´s Intérieur aux aubergines (1911).

Here is the story of Susanne Kamps's tea paintings, as told by the artist: "I have several tea paintings. Fortnum & Mason is one of two twins born from an earlier still life called Smokey Earl Grey: this is the name of a tea flavour sold by Fortnum's which I love. Smokey Earl Grey is a table setting with a lot of grey walls in the background – made with some metal paint rollers I found in a flea market in Budapest (that’s another story). However, it is big, and many people do not want to buy big pieces. So, I focused on what was on the table – the cake stands, tea pots and cups – and the twins were born – Fortnum& Mason being the things on the left side of the table and the things on the right I called High Tea. All these paintings were done in 2017".

Susanne Kamps studied under the late Prof Herman-Josef Kuhna at the Academy of Art in Munster, Germany she also studied in London at Chelsea College of Arts where she mastered her portraiture techniques.

She works in Dusseldorf and has also worked in France during several extended stays in Paris (Cite des Arts) and at Roquebrune on the Cote d´Azur. She has also worked in Israel at the Ein Hod artists’ village.

Notable solo exhibitions include: “Let’s Travel More”, Galerie Hovestadt, Nottuln by Munster Germany (2023), “Under the Rooftops of Paris”, Kaktus Art Forum, Luedinghausen Castle (2022), and at Galerie Niepel bei Morawitz (2019).

Kamps notable group exhibition include: “Group exhibition of Artists” sponsored by CultureWithoutBorders, Nepal Academy of Fine Art, Kathmandu, Nepal (2023), “Dot, Dot, Dash ...,” Dusseldorf Artists' Association, Düsseldorf (2022), “A Belles Dents,” BienvenueArt, Paris, “Summer Show”, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London (2023), “Focus on the Female,” London Art Fair, Cynthia Corbett Gallery (2022), “Pret a Montrer,” BienvenueArt, Paris (2022), “Fine Mix,” Mettmann Art House, Mettmann, Germany (2022).

In 2021 Kamps was awarded three-month Residence at Cité internationale des Arts in Paris.

Her paintings have been shown in Germany, France and Israel and are in several collections, including the German Re-Insurance Company, WGZ Bank and the Heuking, Kühn law firm.

Susanne Kamps was the recipient of the 2019 Young Masters Art Prize Highly Commended award.

Susanne Kamps is represented internationally by Cynthia Corbett Gallery.

Elaine Woo MacGregor

b. 1981, Scotland, UK

"I am an expressive cross-cultural painter trained in the Glasgow School of Art 1999 - 2003. Rhythmic calligraphic brushstrokes, exacting moments of drawing, suggestive mark-making that bridges between figuration and abstraction, eclectic colour palette and painterly techniques of surface play all features strongly in my work. My painted stories and memories are of people based on my personal experiences and experiences of others found in books, films, fashion and photography. Painting for me is a voyage of discovery and a sensation felt. I want my viewers to peer through layers of paint, dapples of colour and a smudge of a mark to enter an alternative reality.’’ – Elaine Woo MacGregor

Elaine Woo MacGregor is a Scottish-born Chinese painter and an alumnus of the Glasgow School of Art (1999–2003). Her work is defined by rhythmic, calligraphic brushstrokes, an eclectic colour palette, and a painterly tension that bridges figuration with abstraction.

A committed cross-cultural storyteller, MacGregor has built a critically-recognised practice, exhibiting internationally from the UK to the USA (LA Art Fair, Art Miami, Expo Chicago) and holding works in prominent collections, including the Atkinson Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of South Australia, and 21C Museum and Hotel, USA and she is the recipient of multiple awards, including the RSA Blackadder Houston Mid-Career Travel Award (2023), which fuelled her recent art research in Hong Kong and Shanghai.

The 'Daughters of the Silk Road' Context

MacGregor's latest body of work, 'Daughters of the Silk Road,' is a profound journey across history and myth. Drawing on her extensive travel and research, the series recasts powerful female figures from the Eurasian trade routes—from the Tang Dynasty to the Achaemenid Empire—as contemporary nomads. Her vivid, Fauvist colour application and expressive layering transform these solitary expeditions into surreal, incandescent visions. By collapsing time and incorporating explicit references to ancient astronomy, MacGregor creates a visual nexus where global heritage, personal quest, and the reclamation of female agency converge in a dazzling, painterly spectacle.

Solo exhibitions include Maman et Muses in Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh (2023), Sound & Vision with Art on a Postcard, Iconic Images Gallery, London (2025) Reframing the Muse curated by Ruth Millington for Oxford Art Festival (2024) and Platform 2023 in London Art Fair, exhibiting with Cynthia Corbett Gallery. Tales from the North in York Street Gallery, London with Cynthia Corbett Gallery (2024), Art on a Postcard in Fitzrovia Gallery, London (2024 and 2023), Women in Art Fair, Mall Galleries, London (2023), ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London (2023), LA Art Fair, USA (2024), Palm Beach Art Fair, USA (2024), Art Miami, USA (2023 and 2025), Expo Chicago, USA (2023) Young Masters, London (2022) and The British Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, London (2022, 2023 and 2024).

Artist Residencies include Visiting Artist and Lecturer in Guizhou Art Academy, China in 2008, and Artist in Residence with Partial Fellowship Award in Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, USA in 2009.

Elaine Woo MacGregor is represented internationally by Cynthia Corbett Gallery.

Giggs Kgole

b. 1997, South Africa

Kgole’s works are an exposition of the interplay between the identities of people living in rural Limpopo and the world which they inhabit. The artist grew up in a Limpopo village, South Africa and tells vivid human stories about the experiences of people who live there. They are stories that are untold to an urban audience, to whom rural South Africa is a hidden landscape. They tell tales of struggle, of abandonment, of promises broken and dreams deferred. They speak of resilience in the face of everyday injustice, of resistance through the simple act of living.

Kgole’s work is typified by his use of Anaglyphs, whereby two versions of his composite photographic images are printed in different colours (typically blue and red) onto canvas. A technique called Anaglyphing of which was used in films in the 1850s, Kgole brings back to life in his masterpieces to tell Untold African Stories. Kgole is also a multi Award Winning young master who was recently named as one of the Mail & Guardian Top 200 Young South Africans, he is widely collected in Africa, Italy, France, London and Privately collected in Monaco.

Giggs Kgole was the winner of the Young Masters People's Choice Award in 2019.