SCHOOL Director
Michael HAll
I include my profile as I undertake everything as an artist first. I have never wanted to represent myself, or show my work through the programme I present at SCHOOL. I also don’t want to hide behind the cloak of a gallerist so share my profile to hopefully offer a better understanding of my approach and intentions, and a glimpse at my studio practice that does inform my curatorial decisions.
Represented ARTISTS
Simon Patterson
Simon Patterson is one of the most consistently inventive of the generation of London-based artists who came to international prominence in the 1990’s. A complex manipulation of systems of classification, documentation, description and understanding, his work urges us to reconsider how and why we think we know what we know.
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Fleur Yearsley
Fleur Yearsley is a Northern visual artist based in Manchester. Her work explores themes of memory, humour, gender and unfolding narratives, often drawing on pop culture to create a relatable connection with the viewer. Offering a fresh, immersive perspective, Yearsley reclaims the tradition of ‘the gaze’, which has historically objectified women in art and shifts the power dynamic, encouraging viewers to reflect on how they perceive subjects and their own role in the act of looking…
Fleur Patrick
Fleur Patrick is a contemporary painter who works with and adapts found images, sourced from a wide range of mediated origins. She selects imagery which is non-specific, and yet strangely familiar to her, becoming catalysts for the uncanny. This draws on and reflects her own experiences of displacement and alienation.
Bob Matthews
Working with archives is central to his practice. Recent work examines the complexity and formation of collections, and the role artworks can play in revealing new connections across disparate sources, bringing together elements and artifacts from physical and online collections.
Emmely Elgersma
Surrounded by buckets of PVA glue and stacks of newspapers, Emmely Elgersma uses her studio like a surreal kitchen, concocting wonky sculptures and wobbly objects that look good enough to eat (but probably don’t taste very good). Creating clay from kitchen products and papier-mâché out of household chemicals, Elgersma’s work is rooted in her formal training as a ceramicist, just with a couple of jokes thrown in.
Catherine Haines
Catherine Haines was born in Cornwall in 1979. At 18 she studied for one year at Falmouth School of Art, from there she went onto study fashion at Central St Martins in London. She cut her teeth in the fashion industry working for designers: Copperwheat Blundell, Magnus Magnussen, and Myoung-Hee Zo in London, Milan, Copenhagen and Seoul.
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Colin Booth
Colin Booth has exhibited widely throughout the UK and Europe, with solo exhibitions at the De La Warr Pavilion, James Hockey Gallery, Herbert Read Gallery, Laing Art Gallery, La Cambre University in Brussels, MOCA, London and V&A Museum of Childhood. In 2021 he was selected for a residency at the prestigious Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in Belgium.
John Bartlett
John Bartlett studied at the Royal Academy Schools from 1991-4. Bartlett’s painting practice is eclectic. He creates large scale works highlighting historical happenings; notably the Poll tax riots or a memory of a past dwelling or moment. Other works are more cinematic, depicting masked figures in an apocalyptic environment, often fleeing from something in the distance, normally unseen but recognisably referencing the genre of sci-fi or horror.
Terry Perk
Terry Perk is a visual artist whose practice examines our relationship to landscapes and place through investigations of historic technologies. Site-responsive, his projects often explore esoteric systems and spatial logics that influence the experience of specific locations. His recent sculptural works focus on the land and seascapes of the South-East of England, where he lives.
Julian Rowe
Julian Rowe’s work has developed from a sculptural exploration of repetition and randomness, into a multidisciplinary engagement with weighty, and even epic, narrative themes drawn from history and literature. Such ambition is unsustainable without a pinch of irony, and his work is underpinned with hints of sardonic humour.
Associate Artists
Andrew McIntosh
Andrew McIntosh is a Scottish artist originally from the Highlands and currently based in London. His paintings have the air of a Highland gothic mystery, but shot through with cosmic undercurrents. They often look to the Scottish landscape, capturing its drama in the Romantic tradition of painters such as Thomas Cole and Albert Bierstadt.
Bruce mclean
Bruce McLean is a Scottish sculptor, performance artist, filmmaker and painter. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1961 to 1963, and from 1963 to 1966 at St. Martin's School of Art, London, where he and others rebelled against what appeared to be the formalist academicism of his teachers, including Anthony Caro and Phillip King.
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MaTTHEW COLLINGS
Matthew Collings is an artist, writer, and broadcaster based in the UK. He was born in 1955. His drawings depicting an alternative art history have been a massive success and are in collections all over the world, sought after by artists, curators and critics and, remarkably, ordinary people who otherwise wouldn’t buy art.
Ana Milenkovic
Ana Milenkovic (b. 1988, Belgrade, Serbia) graduated from Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London, and Faculty of Fine Art, University of Arts Belgrade, Serbia. She was winner of The Griffin Art Prize 2016, winner of UAL/Clifford Chance Sculpture Award 2015, and Award for Creative Innovation from the Miloš Bajic Fund.
Rebecca Byrne
Rebecca Byrne’s fantastical natural scenes are flooded with colour. The American artist’s paintings, drawings and ceramics are held in a careful balance between abstraction and figuration, observation and the imagination. Her dreamy worlds offer a place of escape and solace for both the viewer and the artist, a space for the mind to wander free from the body.
Steph Goodger
Steph Goodger lives in Bordeaux, France. She was a prize winner in the John Moores Painting Prize 2020, having previously exhibited in John Moores Painting Prize in 2016 and 2004. She was selected for the Brewers Towner International, in 2022, an exhibition and prize at Towner eastbourne. In 2023, she had a solo exhibition, Lusitania, with De Queeste Art, Belgium, and showed, Carried on the Wind, at Cornerstone Gallery, Liverpool Hope University.
Daniel Rapley
Daniel Rapley is a visual artist living and working in Nottinghamshire, UK.
His practice broadly examines structures of authorship and to what extent our perceptions of authenticity, originality and value could be haunted by the vestiges of animistic thought.
Tony Plant
Tony Plant (born 1962) graduated from Chelsea School of Art in 1990. He is a painter working with found objects and creates large scale drawings in the landscape - most regularly the beaches of Cornwall where the artist resides.