{"id":808068,"date":"2026-10-20T00:18:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T00:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/808068\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T00:18:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T00:18:30","slug":"the-15-coolest-new-art-stars-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/808068\/","title":{"rendered":"The 15 coolest new art stars in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Corbin Shaw, 28, East London<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Corbin-Shaw.jpeg\" width=\"5000\" height=\"3894\" alt=\"Corbin Shaw\" class=\"sc-dkPvMp YXmIZ\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Corbin Shaw<\/p>\n<p>Ki Price<\/p>\n<p>I work in traditional crafts, trying to make sense of the modern experience of living in this strange England that we\u2019re in today.<\/p>\n<p>I think a lot of artists in London get pigeonholed. You\u2019re either a painter or a sculptor or all these rigid things. My brain can\u2019t work like that. I want to be an artist where you go to a show and it feels like the British Museum. I don\u2019t want to be summed up.<\/p>\n<p>What do you hope people get from your work?<\/p>\n<p>Funnily enough, somebody said to me recently, \u201cI feel a real strange sense of national pride that I think you put a finger on quite well.\u201d I\u2019m proud to be English, but it\u2019s a complicated relationship. I want to help people try to understand that relationship.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/02_Press-Image_Feast-of-Fools_-Corbin-Shaw_The_Groucho-Club_Photo-by-EOIN-GREALLY.jpeg\" width=\"1001\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"&lt;p&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-dkPvMp YXmIZ\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Corbin Shaw, from Feast of Fools<\/p>\n<p>Eoin Greally<\/p>\n<p>Shaw is curating Feast of Fools, a group exhibition at the Groucho Club until November 14 <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/corbinshaww\/?hl=en\">@corbinshaww  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tom Hardwick Allan, 30, East London<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Tom-Hardwick-Allan.jpeg\" width=\"5000\" height=\"3549\" alt=\"Tom Hardwick Allan\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-dkPvMp YXmIZ\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tom Hardwick Allan<\/p>\n<p>Ki Price<\/p>\n<p>I have a background in printmaking, but what I\u2019m doing now is more like expanded printmaking, moving into sculptural territory with carved and cast reliefs. I\u2019m using it on an analogous level to explore the phenomenon of imprinting, which is when a newly born or hatched animal comes to know itself. <\/p>\n<p>The way that the capital dictates things can be so deadening \u2014 this privatisation of time and space. I think there are a lot of amazing things that are surviving despite that, but it\u2019s despite, rather than because.<\/p>\n<p>What do you hope people get from your work?<\/p>\n<p>I hope they\u2019re able to have an encounter with the work that prompts a recalibration. I feel like my best experiences with work reset me on some level.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Tom-Hardwick-Allan-artwork.jpeg\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2800\" alt=\"Tom Hardwick Allan artwork\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-dkPvMp gCkgyu\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tom Hardwick Allan<\/p>\n<p>Hardwick Allan is studying at the Royal Academy and spending Frieze, \u201ctrying to learn or unlearn something\u201d. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tomhardwickallan\/?hl=en\">@tomhardwickallan  <\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Okiki-Akinfe.jpeg\" width=\"5000\" height=\"3697\" alt=\"Okiki Akinfe\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-dkPvMp YXmIZ\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Okiki Akinfe<\/p>\n<p>Ki Price<\/p>\n<p>I have my own lens, a black lens, which is my way of questioning what is allowed to be deemed important within our history. In contrast to that, I have what may be considered a sophisticated way of handling painting. It\u2019s traditionalist, and I contrast that with cartoon imagery or hip hop references, contemporary elements.<\/p>\n<p>I think the need to be specifically a figurative or abstract painter doesn\u2019t really exist anymore. It\u2019s very much moving in the direction of a personal story from the artist. I\u2019m specifically interested in the topic of black Britishness. <\/p>\n<p>What do you hope people get from your work?<\/p>\n<p>I hope it opens people\u2019s minds and encourages them to think about these references. I want people to go down the rabbit hole with me.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Okiki-Akinfe-artwork.jpeg\" width=\"3452\" height=\"4922\" alt=\"Okiki Akinfe artwork\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-dkPvMp gCkgyu\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Okiki Akinfe<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Ella-Fleck.jpeg\" width=\"5000\" height=\"3549\" alt=\"Ella Fleck\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-dkPvMp YXmIZ\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ella Fleck<\/p>\n<p>Ki Price<\/p>\n<p>I work undercover a lot, pretending to be men online in sexual or seduction communities. For Frieze, I took a course for men training to be \u201cchatters\u201d, speaking on behalf of female OnlyFans creators. My alias was Elliot and I tried to make friends and observe the interactions. Not to make a point about men but out of curiosity for this peculiar world. From there, I make sensory installations, using sound and scent and vibration, trying to replicate the atmosphere of being in that experience. <\/p>\n<p>I think it\u2019s really exciting, there are so many different practices, strange hybrids of performance or sculpture. There is a lot of freedom.<\/p>\n<p>What do you hope people get from your work?<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t want to be too didactic. I just lay it out and hope they get from it what they want. And have some questions.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Ella-Fleck-artwork.jpeg\" width=\"3335\" height=\"5000\" alt=\"Ella Fleck artwork\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-dkPvMp YXmIZ\"\/><\/p>\n<p>www.robharrisphotographe\u200br.com<\/p>\n<p>Fleck is showing at the Ehrlich Steinberg booth at Frieze <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fleels\/?hl=en-gb\">@fleels<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marcus Jefferson, mid-thirties, London<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Marcus-Jefferson-artist.jpeg\" width=\"5000\" height=\"3750\" alt=\"Marcus Jefferson\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-dkPvMp YXmIZ\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Marcus Jefferson<\/p>\n<p>Ki Price<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m an anonymous artist, but I like to keep my work domestic. As much as people put me down as a conceptual artist, I want my work to be accessible. I always try to make work that can get people who have come from similar places to me \u2014 low income, social housing \u2014 more interested in the galleries. That\u2019s always at the forefront of my mind.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s wild. But it can\u2019t be that wild because I\u2019ve infiltrated it. Now I\u2019m inviting people to shows with people who didn\u2019t get to come to shows growing up.<\/p>\n<p>What do you hope people get from your work?<\/p>\n<p>I hope they get the vibe that you can make art from anything. I want them to understand that it doesn\u2019t always need some intellectual essay attached to it. You can like something because you like something.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Marcus-Jefferson-artwork.jpeg\" width=\"1397\" height=\"1126\" alt=\"Marcus Jefferson artwork\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-dkPvMp YXmIZ\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Marcus Jefferson<\/p>\n<p>Jefferson\u2019s solo booth is exhibited at Harlesden High Street <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/marcjeff905\/\">@marcjeff905  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amanda Mostr\u00f6m, 35, Brockley and Albo<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Amanda-Mostrom.jpeg\" width=\"5000\" height=\"3549\" alt=\"Amanda Mostrom\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-dkPvMp YXmIZ\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Amanda Mostrom<\/p>\n<p>Ki Price<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a multidisciplinary artist, I make installations and work with a lot of varied materials. It comes back to things that I relate to, or want to relate to. I also work a lot with silent choreography \u2014 figuring out how you enter a room, for instance \u2014 so movement-orientated installation.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s such a love-hate relationship. It\u2019s fast, it\u2019s difficult, it\u2019s exciting and as it stands currently it\u2019s really wealthy. I could at least enter art when I was studying, but now I don\u2019t think I could.<\/p>\n<p>What do you hope people get from your work?<\/p>\n<p>I hope that people just feel comfortable to be with the work. It\u2019s such a big ask to want people to respond strongly to things. I want people to feel like they are welcome to have an in, an entry, and that they don\u2019t feel alienated.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/AMANDA-MOSTRM-artwork.jpeg\" width=\"5000\" height=\"3333\" alt=\"AMANDA MOSTR\u00d6M  artwork\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-dkPvMp YXmIZ\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy the artist and Rose Easton, London Photography by Jack Elliot Edwards<\/p>\n<p>A solo presentation with new work by Amanda Mostr\u00f6m is at Rose Easton\u2019s booth at Frieze <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/amandamostrom_\/\">@amandamostrom_<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lewis Hammond, 38, South-east London<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Lewis-Hammond.jpeg\" width=\"5000\" height=\"3911\" alt=\"Lewis Hammond\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-dkPvMp YXmIZ\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lewis Hammond<\/p>\n<p>Ki Price<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a painter. I work in quite a traditional manner \u2014 oil on linen, canvas, panels \u2014 and the works are figurative. I paint recognisable things in the \u201ceasy\u201d way, then there\u2019s something slightly askew. One of my favourite pieces is an amalgamation of my mum and grandmother that\u2019s quite dear to me. At some point I discarded the source imagery and conjured them from memory \u2014 there\u2019s a surrealism there. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s vast and varied. Getting space in London just seems to be quite tough. But there\u2019s a real mix of younger or artist-run spaces alongside blue-chip galleries.<\/p>\n<p>What do you hope people get from your work?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d enjoy it if there was an open, directed read of the work, and that the ambiguity requires them to complete that narrative loop.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Lewis-Hammond-artwork.jpeg\" width=\"3750\" height=\"5000\" alt=\"Lewis Hammond artwork\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-dkPvMp YXmIZ\"\/><\/p>\n<p>2025 Tom Carter Photography<\/p>\n<p>Hammond\u2019s work is at The Hepworth Wakefield until November 1 <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/LewisLHammond\/\">@lewislhammond  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ella Lynch, 33, Tottenham<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/-ELLA-LYNCH.jpeg\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2500\" alt=\"ELLA LYNCH\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-dkPvMp iibsvv\"\/><\/p>\n<p>ELLA LYNCH<\/p>\n<p>Ki Price<\/p>\n<p>I mainly make sculptures. I use a lot of pop iconography and cultural references \u2014 things associated with celebrity, glamour, tackiness, trashiness, things that are deemed to be lowbrow, and I collage them together using found objects.<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t come up through art school or the traditional art world scene. Most of the artists I\u2019ve known and worked with I met in the nightlife scene: performers, costume makers, people more involved with clubs than galleries. That\u2019s my art world, this vibrant network running alongside the inner circle of the art gallery world.<\/p>\n<p>What do you hope people get from your work?<\/p>\n<p>I want it to be amusing. I really enjoy when people pick up on all the little references I put in there. I want it to feel familiar and recognisable, but you can\u2019t quite work out why.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Ella-Lynch.jpeg\" width=\"3024\" height=\"4032\" alt=\" Ella Lynch artwork\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-dkPvMp YXmIZ\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Apple Photos Clean Up<\/p>\n<p>Lynch is part of Sarabande\u2019s House of Bandits residency at Selfridges during Frieze; her work Stripper\u2019s Feet is on show until October 18 <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/_ella.lynch_\/?hl=en\">@_ella.lynch_<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings 35, London<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Hannah-Quinlan-Rosie-Hastings.jpeg\" width=\"5000\" height=\"3811\" alt=\"Hannah Quinlan &amp; Rosie Hastings\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-dkPvMp YXmIZ\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Hannah Quinlan &amp; Rosie Hastings<\/p>\n<p>Ki Price<\/p>\n<p>Quinlan: We\u2019re a collaborative duo and we\u2019ve worked together since we met on our Fine Art BA at Goldsmiths. We primarily work in fresco painting and egg tempera painting. One fresco is called Night and is a scene in a park with a group of gender-ambiguous people ready for a night out, but there\u2019s an atmosphere of tension. We\u2019re interested in how different people occupy public space and the different types of power there.<\/p>\n<p>Hastings: Historically, frescos were used for religious imagery to impart moral guidance. We began to see them not as a reflection of how society truly was but how people in positions of power wanted society to function. Our work is thinking about and subverting those structures.<\/p>\n<p>Hastings: We have an incredible network of peers, but it is increasingly challenging to get by as an artist in London. The pressure is ramping up because so much funding has been removed. It makes sense to decentralise art funding but the London scene is feeling the impact. <\/p>\n<p>What do you hope people get from your work?<\/p>\n<p>Hastings: We\u2019re conscious of making work that is generous to the viewer. We want it to be beautiful and draw you in. <\/p>\n<p>Quinlan: When we started we had the feeling that every artwork had to serve a purpose, disrupt something or activate it. Now we\u2019re more confident the work can exist in its own world.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/HANNAH-QUINLAN-AND-ROSIE-HASTINGS-artwork.jpeg\" width=\"3750\" height=\"5000\" alt=\"HANNAH QUINLAN   AND ROSIE HASTINGS  artwork\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-dkPvMp YXmIZ\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings<\/p>\n<p>Alex Margo Arden, 32, Croydon<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Alex-Margo-Arden.jpeg\" width=\"5000\" height=\"3677\" alt=\"Alex Margo Arden\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-dkPvMp YXmIZ\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Alex Margo Arden<\/p>\n<p>Ki Price<\/p>\n<p>I work primarily in research projects and what I make includes sculpture, performance, painting, drawing and installation, with each project determining its own form. In my practice I\u2019m interested in interrogating value, authorship and the processes through which histories are constructed and historicised.<\/p>\n<p>London is such a special city, it\u2019s the only place I\u2019ve ever lived. It has such a vibrancy and vitality, an energy like no other. What a beautiful melting pot of so much culture, experience, ideas, and passion. London is a city of artists.<\/p>\n<p>What do you hope people get from your work?<\/p>\n<p>I really hope people find my projects to be conversation starters, places to think from. I think art galleries should be discursive places, places we raise questions, places we express thoughts aloud. In the gallery, we discuss the art in front of us, and our feelings, and bring our own knowledge into the space. <\/p>\n<p>Art is such an incredible springboard to generate really profound and meaningful conversations. Galleries shouldn\u2019t be silent spaces. These are spaces to express ourselves as an audience as much as artists.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Alex-Margo-Arden-Jigsaws-2026.jpeg\" width=\"3750\" height=\"5000\" alt=\"Alex Margo Arden, Jigsaws, 2026\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-dkPvMp gCkgyu\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Alex Margo Arden, Jigsaws, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy the artist and the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation<\/p>\n<p>Arden\u2019s exhibition Nothing Personal is at the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation until January 23 <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/olddrag\/?hl=en\">@olddrag<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mia Wilkinson, 35, east London<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Mia-Wilkinson.jpeg\" width=\"5000\" height=\"3549\" alt=\"Mia Wilkinson\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-dkPvMp YXmIZ\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Mia Wilkinson<\/p>\n<p>Ki Price<\/p>\n<p>I paint figures in a domestic sphere and engage with the relationship of gender, class, identity and labour. My practice also extends into sculpture and drawing, based on my upbringing in County Durham and personal experiences. But the figures make use of excess, they\u2019re cloaked in humour as a way to enter difficult topics of discussion. My work starts with my own personal specific experiences but then it becomes quite abstract. Disgust and pleasure go hand in hand in the works. It\u2019s about the body and gender, the body and politics. When dealing with the female body, humour is a huge way to connect and to cope. It\u2019s a coping mechanism to deal with hard things, but also a way to express yourself truthfully.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone is so different and it\u2019s exciting seeing what other artists are doing. Although we can all be a bit shy. Making art often involves spending an extraordinary amount of time alone in a room, so opportunities to meet and engage discussion are really valuable.<\/p>\n<p>What do you hope people get from your work?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not interested in prescribing how people should respond to my work. Humour is a way into difficult subjects. Why shouldn\u2019t women be funny, grotesque, vulgar or completely ridiculous? There is pleasure in being excessive and rebellion in refusing to behave. I want people to laugh, even when they are feeling slightly uncomfortable.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Mia-Wilkinson-artwork.jpeg\" width=\"2348\" height=\"2543\" alt=\"  Mia Wilkinson artwork\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-dkPvMp YXmIZ\"\/><\/p>\n<p>  Mia Wilkinson<\/p>\n<p>Wilkinson is artist-in-residency at the art\u2019otel Hoxton until October 31. Follow <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mia__wilkinson\/?hl=en\">@mia__wilkinson<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ella Turner-Bridger, 28, Bloomsbury<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Ella-Turner-Bridger.jpeg\" width=\"5000\" height=\"3549\" alt=\"Ella Turner Bridger\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-dkPvMp YXmIZ\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ella Turner Bridger<\/p>\n<p>Ki Price<\/p>\n<p>I was previously working in film, but I had my first performance work last year [709 Reckoning at Bolding Gallery], which was a big deal for me. It gave me a new language. It\u2019s so extreme to shove myself in the middle and do something wild and dangerous. It\u2019s like a desire to be out there but also to be embarrassed. Wanting to be seen and not wanting to be seen. This strange denial, shame, frustration loop. It\u2019s therapeutic and ritualistic. I\u2019m working on my next performance, which involves a skirt made out of cameras. They\u2019re all pointed outwards, filming, and my skirt will be spinning about videoing the audience.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s to do with me feeling more like an artist than I ever have and suddenly being now super aware, but there\u2019s pretty good art at the moment, and a freshness. It feels like a frustration that\u2019s like being released. I think we\u2019ve been quite frustrated for a long time. I think I\u2019ve realised you can only feel like that for so long before something snaps.<\/p>\n<p>What do you hope people get from your work? <\/p>\n<p>I hope they feel odd and good and bad. <\/p>\n<p>All of that. My brother had a good take on the first performance. He said, \u201cIt\u2019s about masturbation.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Ella-Turner-Bridger-artwork.jpeg\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" alt=\"Ella Turner-Bridger artwork\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-dkPvMp YXmIZ\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ella Turner-Bridger<\/p>\n<p>Rene Mati\u0107, 29, south-east London<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Rene-Matic.jpeg\" width=\"3822\" height=\"5000\" alt=\"Rene Matic\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-dkPvMp YXmIZ\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Rene Matic<\/p>\n<p>Ki Price<\/p>\n<p>My work is mostly concerned with organising images. In all their differing forms. I think most people know me for taking photos. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m interested in the people that I love. I look at how we learn to survive within the conditions that we are burdened with. The modes of care from the margins, how we keep each other safe. At the club, the protest, the party and the peaceful times in between.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are so many differing, converging scenes! In my head, I like to think of everyone together smoking inside pubs, passionately discussing the work and the research and disagreeing but kissing each other on both cheeks. One can dream!<\/p>\n<p>What do you hope people get from your work?<\/p>\n<p>Love, for sure. Just love and an appreciation of the generosity of the people around me, because it\u2019s hard to show the whole of you. And I\u2019m very fortunate that my friends and my loved ones are so generous with themselves, with me.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Rene-Mati-photography.jpeg\" width=\"3543\" height=\"2657\" alt=\"Rene Mati\u0107, photography\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-dkPvMp YXmIZ\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Rene Mati\u0107,<\/p>\n<p>Rene Mati\u0107 is included in the Sixth New Museum Triennial: The Outside Expands, in New York, opening February 4 and running until May 16 <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rene.matic\/?hl=en-gb\">@rene.matic<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/George-Rouy.jpeg\" width=\"5000\" height=\"3950\" alt=\"George Rouy\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-dkPvMp YXmIZ\"\/><\/p>\n<p>George Rouy<\/p>\n<p>Ki Price<\/p>\n<p>  I\u2019m predominantly a painter working with figuration. When I left university, it felt like figurative painting was almost irrelevant. To locate what I wanted to achieve, I had to reduce it down, strip away all the symbolic aspects, the clothes, the surroundings, so they exist in a liminal space. It\u2019s about the internalised representation of ourselves, the psyche, but the physical as well, and how we exist autonomously but as collectives. I engage with collage, photography and the screen, too. I\u2019m also working on a project called Bodysuit with the choreographer Sharon Eyal, which will be in Paris next month \u2014 a contemporary dance performance, with a music installation and a huge painting.<\/p>\n<p>What I always admire is the relentlessness of artists and the way that they endlessly find ways to create. Being moved out of studios, being moved out of areas because it\u2019s too expensive\u2026 there is still this real will.<\/p>\n<p>What do you hope people get from your work?<\/p>\n<p>If they can walk away from it feeling inspired. It\u2019s such a weird, vague word but it\u2019s such a great feeling when you walk out of a show feeling like it was wild or made them uneasy but energised. That\u2019s what I want. When they trusted the experience.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/George-Rouy-artwork.jpeg\" width=\"4038\" height=\"5000\" alt=\"George Rouy artwork\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-dkPvMp YXmIZ\"\/><\/p>\n<p>DAMIAN-GRIFFITHS<\/p>\n<p>Rouy\u2019s exhibition REPRISE is showing at Hauser &amp; Wirth, New York, until October 17. Rouy\u2019s work is also on view at Hastings Contemporary as part of Edge: Where the Land Meets the Sea, until January 3. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/georgerouy\/?hl=en\">@georgerouy  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hettie Inniss, 26, Whitechapel  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Hettie-Innis.jpeg\" width=\"3883\" height=\"5000\" alt=\"Hettie Innis\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-dkPvMp YXmIZ\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Hettie Innis<\/p>\n<p>Ki Price<\/p>\n<p>I challenge myself a lot in my paintings. I\u2019m handling materials that are quite unpredictable and there are many technical things to consider when you\u2019re trying to get consistency. It feels like a dialogue between me and the material. I\u2019ve actually been using the practice as a way of liberating myself from my identity. I examine memory, playing with what that looks like, to build these compositions. It\u2019s very intuitive. I will have a compositional plan but it never ends up looking like I want it to. But that\u2019s the fun of it. It\u2019s part of the practice, this performance of memory where there\u2019s pockets of information that then dissolve.<\/p>\n<p>Some of my friends and peers are doing amazing work and it\u2019s such an exciting time to just be able to witness them. It feels as though there is a lot bubbling right now.<\/p>\n<p>What do you hope people get from your work?<\/p>\n<p>I hope that people just spend time with them. What I find really beautiful about painting is you can look at the best works for hours and find something new. I think a lot of my work centres around slowing down time and trying to be present. I\u2019d love it if there\u2019s an opportunity for someone to have that experience with my work.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Hettie-Inniss-Rooted-2025-Acrylic-oil-and-oil-stick-on-linen.jpeg\" width=\"5000\" height=\"3750\" alt=\" Hettie Inniss 'Rooted'\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-dkPvMp YXmIZ\"\/><\/p>\n<p> Hettie Inniss &#8216;Rooted&#8217;<\/p>\n<p> Hettie Inniss<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Corbin Shaw, 28, East London Corbin Shaw Ki Price I work in traditional crafts, trying to make sense&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[26420,6225,6485,6486,1120,96,78024,85101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-808068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-artists","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-frieze","tag-frieze-art-fair","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}