Helen McCusker (b.1991) lives and works in Glasgow and has recently graduated from The New York Academy of Arts and Turps Banana London. McCusker has participated in group shows in New York and London, her work is held in private collections in USA, UK and Japan.

Freya Croissant (b.1999) is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Brighton. Working across painting, drawing, print, and textiles, her practice explores memory and observation—seeking out moments of emotional familiarity within the act of image-making.

Freya is drawn to the way certain places linger in the mind. Her work often begins with impressions of the outside world, but it is memory—how it softens and reshapes those impressions—that guides her. Through instinctive mark-making and an intuitive approach to colour and material, she creates quiet, reflective compositions that hold space for intimacy and tenderness.

Kaja Stumpf (b.1987) is a Norwegian artist living and working in London.She gained her MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, UAL in 2022. Stumpf’s recent work examines memory, self-representation and the mind-body connection. She explores the idea of selective memory and cognitive bias as a means of self-preservation and through painting, visualises the rumination of potential scenarios between past and present. Utilising staged images and the photographic family archive, she crops the scene and alters the colours to create a sense of delayed familiarity.

Ned Elliott (b.1995) is an artist born and raised in London. He graduated from the Royal Drawing School’s Drawing Year in 2023 having previously studied History at University of Bristol. Recent group shows include the London Art Fair, 2025, Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, 2024, Social Tapestry, Chilli Art Projects, 2024, Drawn Together, Royal Drawing School, 2024, Works on Paper 6, Blue Shop Gallery, 2024, Transparency, Bankside Gallery, 2024, A Curious Cloud, Soho Revue, 2024, RBSA Print Prize, RBSA Gallery, 2024, The Very Hours Pass Unnoticed, Warbling Collective, 2024, Best of the Drawing Year, Christie’s, 2023. Prizes include The Janie Roberts Prize for Excellence in Drawing (Royal Drawing School, 2023), and The Young Artist Award (Royal Watercolour Society, 2024). In 2023 he was awarded a residency at Rhode Island School Of Design in the USA. His work is held in the Royal Collection.

Phoebe Evans (b.2000) is a painter living and working in London. She studied MA painting at The Royal College of Art after achieving a First Class BA Hons in Fine Art Painting at Camberwell College of Arts. Phoebe Evans has shown with Blue Shop Gallery in our group show IN ABSENTIA (2024) and London Art Fair (2025). Past group shows include Shipton Gallery (2024) Buffer 2 Guts Gallery (2023), Liliya Art Gallery (2023), Gillian Jason Gallery (2023).

Jemima Moore (b.1992, Sharjah, UAE) lives and works in London.  She studied History of Art at The University of Cambridge (2011-2014), Fine Art Diploma at West Dean (2021-2022) and completed a Masters in Painting at the Royal College of Art (2023-24).  She has been nominated for the Contemporary British Painting Prize (2024) and has undertaken a residency with Megafield Gallery in Beijing, China (2025).  Recent selected group shows include: Taste, OHSH Projects (Los Angeles, 2024), South Open 2, OHSH Projects (London 2024), Caper, Greatorex Street (London 2024), All This Wrath, Blue Shop Gallery (London 2024) and Works on Paper 5 and 6, Blue Shop Gallery (London 2023).

Blue Shop Gallery is exhibiting at London Art Fair 2025 on main gallery stand Stand 2 with all our 5 represented artists and many more. The Fair runs 22-26 January at Islington Business Design Centre. Exhibiting Artists: Vivien McDermid, Kaja Stumpf, Orla Kane, Sam Douglas, Roya Bahram, Ned Elliott, Jemima Moore, Roy Aurinko, Frances Featherstone, Plum Cloutman, Samantha Fellows, Lucy Ray.

Orla Kane (b.1999) is a Scottish artist based in Glasgow. She graduated from The Glasgow School of Art in 2021 before attending the Royal Drawing School's Intensive Term in 2022. Recent solo show's include Star Face, Boardroom Committee Room, Glasgow, 2023 and Daisy Chains, Stallan-Brand, Glasgow, 2022 as well as being selected for 130 Years of Scottish Society of Artist's Annual Show at the Royal Scottish Academy, 2022-23. Orla Kane’s first solo show ‘Fields Adrift’ was at Blue Shop Gallery in January 2024. Orla Kane is represented by Blue Shop Gallery.

Drapery has always been used to symbolise a variety of ideas. In portraiture, silks, furs and linen signify a sitter’s wealth and status, in religious painting shrouds and veils are commonly associated with the divine. By contrast, the folds of bedsheets or the curve of clothing often might hold an erotic undercurrent. Where curtains and veils might conceal, the shape of a satin dress serves to accentuate the human form, inviting our touch rather than prohibiting it. From Giotto’s ‘Kiss of Judas’, to Cezanne’s ‘Still life with drapery’; Magritte’s ‘The Lovers’ and Tracey Emin’s ‘Unmade Bed’, drapery has been a preoccupation of painters and sculptors throughout art history. 20 exhibiting artists include Sophie Vallance, Plum Cloutman, Alma Berrow, Kaja Stumpf, Vivien McDermid, Alice Neave and many more.

Blue Shop Gallery returns for a 4th time to the brilliant Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair bringing original unique works of painterly print by Liorah Tchiprout, Sammi Lynch, Greg Stevens, Ines Fernandez de Cordova, Cameron Mowat, Ollie Marr, Ned Elliott and Katy Papineau. From 21 - 24 November 2024 we’ll be joining over 500 independent artists, famous names and specialist galleries at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, the UK’s largest celebration of contemporary print.

Sam Douglas (b.1978) is a contemporary British painter born in Somerset. Douglas graduated from the Royal College of art in 2007 and has exhibited internationally including Japan, China, Poland, Switzerland, Norway and Berlin, with solo exhibitions in Arles, London, Dublin and Edinburgh. During this time he has been selected for the John Moores painting prize and has been on numerous residencies.

Roy Aurinko (b.1972) lives and works in Heinola, Finland. He graduated as a Master of Arts from the University of Lapland in 2007. Aurinko's abstract paintings incorporate elements of drawing, and are created using a mixed-media technique combining oil, acrylic, pastel and cement. The work process and the feel of the material are present in Aurinko’s works. Often channelling childhood memories, Aurinko’s works aestheticise this subject, evoking emotions ranging from nostalgia to environmental responsibility.

Tom Robinson (b.1979) lives in Norfolk, England. Robinson’s latest show ‘Rising (and falling)’ continues the artist’s longstanding fascination with paintings as visceral, bodily experiences. Robinson emphasises our experience of the fundamental components of painting – colour and shape – as individual forces. To look at his paintings is to experience the lively relation between each of these component forces, as, in the artist’s words, they ‘jump, run and slide’ into each other to amount to something vibrant and animated, at once harmonious and dissonant.

‘In Absentia’ gathers work depicting inhabited spaces absent of the human figure. This absence allows an unnoticed corridor, street corner or garden to become the painting’s proper subject. By paying close attention to these backdrops of human activity, the works in this show evoke the way memory and association become powerfully integrated into the environments we once occupied, or continue to do so. Perhaps it is the pervasive sense of memory across this show that entails the dreamlike quality to so many of the images on display. They often feel at once the faithful rendering of a particular place, as well as an evocation of a deeply familiar, personal scene.

Roya Bahram (b.1998) is a British-Iranian sculptor based in London. She is a classically trained stone carver, with a BA from City and Guilds of London Art School in Historic and Architectural Stone Carving, and a foundation degree in Fine Art from Working Men's College. Working primarily in marble and semiprecious stones, Bahram creates playful trompe l’œil sculptures with a focus on enhancing the textures and colours that naturally occur within the stone, whilst simultaneously challenging the rigid nature of the material, turning blocks of solid stone into gloopy, squishy, and gelatinous still-life sculptures inspired by pop art and the mundane.

Salvatore (b.1976) is a painter based in Hackney, East London. He was born in Cardiff, Wales, to an Italian father and British mother. After spending his early childhood in the Canary Islands and the Caribbean, he returned to the UK in the mid 1980s. He completed his BA in Birmingham in 1998 and MA in painting at the Royal College of Art in 2000. Salvatore’s work explores peripheries within the landscape, reoccurring motifs such as fences, trees/foliage and windows act as both boundaries and portals, offering suggestions of what might be happening beyond the frame or behind what is visible.

Ceramic artist Rosa Nguyen (b.1960) is of French Vietnamese parentage and was born in London. She gained a BA in 3D Design at Middlesex Polytechnic and an MA in ceramics from the Royal College of Art in 1986. She lives and works between London and the South-West of France where she has established a studio and a garden. Rosa Nguyen is a close neighbour of Blue Shop Gallery and her studio in Camberwell neighbours Blue Shop Cottage close to Camberwell College Of Art where she taught 1996-2010 on the celebrated ceramic course.

Olly Fathers (b.1987) is an artist based in Brixton, London. His work explores the relations between abstract shapes, different materials, and forms. Creating well finished, often playful pieces that encourage the viewer to take a closer look to understand the balance and precision involved. With a strict eye for detail, Fathers takes great satisfaction in the making process and this often becomes influential in the outcome of his work.

Kaja is a Norwegian artist living and working in London. Stumpf’s recent work examines memory, self-representation, and the mind-body connection. She explores the idea of selective memory and cognitive bias as a means of self-preservation, and through painting, visualises the rumination of potential scenarios between past and present. Utilising staged images and the photographic family archive, she crops the scene and alter the colours to create a sense of delayed familiarity.

Vivien McDermid (b. 1981) is a painter based in Edinburgh, Scotland. She graduated with a degree in fashion from Edinburgh College of Art in 2005 and began to paint after the birth of her first child in 2007. In recent years she has exhibited in group and duo exhibitions but ‘Burnt Milk & Honey’ is her first solo show. She describes painting as the language in which she feels she can most fluently communicate and untangle the experiences of being human. For her, the act of painting is a continual strengthening of the bridge which joins the inner and external worlds.

Blue Shop Gallery presents a duo show by Kyungseo Lee and Hannah Lim. Both artists are living and working here in London and we are thrilled to present their work alongside one another as a celebration of the body as a vessel and the vessel as a body. Kyungseo Lee (b.1995) is an artist based in London. She earned her MA at the Royal College of Art in Painting (2023) and BA at Hongik University in Painting and Visual Communication Design (2020). Hannah Lim (b.1998) is a London based artist working between sculpture, installation and drawing. She received her BA in sculpture from the University of Edinburgh and her MFA from The University of Oxford’s Ruskin School of Art.

’All This Wrath’ is an exhibition that serves as a visual dialogue on the prevailing state of our world. Through the eyes of artists grappling with the complexities of our time, this group show delves into the looming claustrophobia imposed by the current state of affairs.

As multiple wars rage on and a cost of living crisis intensifies, artists find solace and expression in the power of paint. In these works, emotions unfold and materialize, capturing the spectrum of human experience in the face of adversity.

Orla Kane (b.1999) is a Scottish artist based in Glasgow. Orla’s practice is a poetic exchange between personal memories and landscapes. The idea of a landscape is disrupted and abstracted into vessels often reflecting bodily forms. Working predominantly with coloured pencil and watercolours she saturates the surface and then washes the pigments away leaving hollow traces. These soft impressions allude to dreamy environments and use anthropomorphic forms to inhabit the narrative in these fluid spaces.

In ‘Shaken Ground’, the paintings consider how landscapes are internalised and adjusted in their recollection. They hint at an inborn pliancy in both the land and the hazy figures cradled by it. When channelled through such mutable conduits, what is real and what is unreal in the landscapes are made equal in their retelling. The paintings acknowledge this by presenting figures as dissoluble in their surroundings, some literally treading water but all afloat on a mire of hearsay.

From 26 - 29 October 2023 we’ll be joining over 500 independent artists, famous names and specialist galleries at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, the UK’s largest celebration of contemporary print. Featuring 1000+ limited edition original prints, this is the ideal opportunity to discover new artists and find *that* artwork to compliment that space perfectly. Moreover, there’ll be an accompanying programme of interactive talks and workshops, covering everything from art investment to home interior design.

Alice Neave works predominantly with raw calico & canvas, raw pigment, thread, and an assortment of other mediums. Neave washes the material over & over, builds on it, then hand- stitches pieces together to create a painting in which process and materiality is at the heart of the work. Neave uses these seasoned surfaces along with gesture, and texture to explore personal themes and motifs whilst bringing to the forefront a strong material image that leaves the viewer with a huge amount of ambiguity.

Rosalind Howdle (b.1997) is a British/American artist based in London. Howdle studied Painting at The Royal College of Art (2022) and Camberwell College of Arts, UAL (2019). She has also studied the Rhode Island School of Design (U.S.) and Emily Carr University of Art and Design (Canada). She was awarded the Vanguard Prize in 2019. Howdle attended the RCA as a recipient of the Ali H. Alkazzi Scholarship (2020-22). She was shortlisted for the ‘Now Introducing Prize 2022’ and included in Artlyst’s Ones to Watch 2023.