Benjamin Phillips is a visual artist working between the fields of fine art and illustration. He takes inspiration from the world around him, often domestic settings, his relationships and contemplating the past. He is interested in the space where reality and the imagination meet and often my work is making sense of things. Sometimes this contemplation leads to strange and surreal outcomes.  

Themes explored in his work include: autobiography, family dynamics, anxiety, desires, surrealism, art history and cultural influences. He is trying to create visions from his inner world or products and stories that contain these sensibilities.

Charlie Duck works with printmaking, painting, sculpture and ceramics to explore painting and its expanded field.

His work combines references from art history and personal narratives, responding to multi-layered histories and temporalities to draw connections between disparate sources. He is interested in the webs of meaning that can be brought into being through exploratory and speculative thinking and making. 

Charlie Duck studied at the University of Brighton and the Royal College of Art. His work has been included in group and solo shows across the UK and Europe.

Isabel’s work explores themes such as storytelling, folktales, mythology and motherhood. Alongside her graphic novels, she works across a variety of mediums to tell stories including textiles, ceramics and animation.   

Most recently she is interested in the intersection between superstition, myths and motherhood, and the pressures that the latter can place on creativity. The body of work she is displaying here is a collection of pieces entitled ‘The Midwife and The Witch.’ Using earthenware and slip she works primarily in sgraffito with trail details, treating the clay as a drawing surface to be carved into.   

Katy predominantly works in ceramics, building each piece by hand. Each work is planned with multiple sketches, and whilst some follow the Greek ceramic tradition of urns and vessels, others are more akin to still life scenes with ceramic appendages attached. Beer bottle lids, posters, cigarettes and food pieces are often integrated into clay. Her work evokes a witty commentary on everyday life, societal problems and the fine line between comedy and tragedy. Aside from her ceramics practice, she creates paintings on metal which tap into her myriad of interests; including but not limited to magic and magicians, Americana and both natural and man-made disasters. The language of these is often taken from Stubbs’s training in illustration and from her love of comic books.