Organisation
ONEOFTHE8
BatterseaThere are almost 8 billion people on our planet and every single one of us has a story to tell, every one of us has something valuable to share. ONEOFTHE8 is a movement that has…
Profiles
Discover the rich diversity of Wandsworth’s creative scene here by exploring profiles of incredible local artists, cultural organisations, projects and groups. To search for specific art forms, areas, or profile types use the filters below.
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Area
Organisation
Putney School of Art & Design
PutneyPutney School of Art and Design was originally founded in 1883, and has been in Oxford Road, Putney since 1895. The school has a superb life drawing studio, complete with vast north-facing windows and vaulted…
Artist / Individual
Emily Tatford
PutneyEmily Tatford is a London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London graduate, who now specialises in contemporary oil paintings and female figurative art. Emily’s paintings are designed to be bright, bold, proud and…
Artist / Individual
Slavica Struthers-Kennedy
SouthfieldsA designer and maker of unique jeweller based in Southfields. Slavica works in Sterling Silver, semiprecious stones and anodised aluminium. Slavica’s jewellery is elegant, contemporary and easy to wear. For many years, Slavica has exhibited…
Artist / Individual
Ralph Anderson
BatterseaRalph Anderson’s paintings bring the transient qualities of light and the viscous nature of paint together in works that analyse visual language and separates a painting’s component parts.
Painting with acrylic on aluminium or plywood,…
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Dr Velma McClymont
BatterseaDr Velma McClymont is a writer, poet, storyteller, community activist and an international speaker who has spoken in Austria (Vienna), Scotland (including the Scottish Parliament), Wales (Cardiff), Southern Ireland, England, America and Jamaica. A first…
Project
Estate Art Roehampton
RoehamptonEstate Art was set up as a voluntary project to help Roehampton residents express themselves through art and have an outlet from the mentally exhausting repercussions that the coronavirus pandemic is having on individuals' mental…
Artist / Individual
Sunshine Negyesi
BalhamBorn in London 1983, Afrooist was raised in a biracial family in Tooting, South London. Her mother is Filipino and father from Guyana. She studied classical studies at Warwick University (2005) and trained as an…
Artist / Individual
Megan Ross
BalhamMegan Ross is a digital collage artist, originally making them solely for Instagram but now offering prints on request. Utilising her own photography and the tools of Photoshop, Megan combines neon, saturated colours, space and…
Artist / Individual
Judith Watson
EarlsfieldJudith is primarily a figurative artist with a selection of original paintings on canvas, linen, board and paper, including limited edition prints. Recently she has started working on still life paintings and has discovered a…
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Fengjin Yu
BatterseaFengjin Yu sees their work as a process or a part of progression. They will have a narrative or simple concept at first and explore it from there. During this progression, narrative is gradually abandoned.…
Artist / Individual
Nur Ali Sheikh
RoehamptonA painter of beauty and his images of neo-cubist themes, and of landscapes have won world-wide acclaim and inclusion in Who's who in art, and he has painted and exhibited all over the world for…
Artist / Individual
Nina Coulson
BatterseaNina is a recent graduate of the RCA (MA Contemporary Art Practice 2020). Between 2002-16, Nina worked in collaboration as part of Yoke and Zoom, an artist-led duo/family, whose practice combined universal concerns with domestic…
Artist / Individual
Emma Sullivan
FurzedownEmma is a self-taught embroidery artist from Tooting with a love for maps, nature and colour. Emma finds embroidery very therapeutic and often her creations form as her mind wanders.
Project
S.M.I.L.E-ing Boys Project
BatterseaS.M.I.L.E-ing Boys project is a creative arts project that aims to address the mental health needs of black boys and challenge the negative portrayal of this demographic in the media. It is a public health…
Organisation
Black Heroes Foundation
BatterseaBlack Heroes Foundation brings joy, using the arts to celebrate and tell the stories of our Heroes, educating, celebrating and empowering our audiences. Black Lives Matter.
Our aim is to eradicate ignorance of Black Heritage…
Artist / Individual
Mark Nader
Wandsworth TownMark Nader is an internationally exhibited artist based in Wandsworth, whose work looks at cultural iconography and how it morphs and changes.
Artist / Individual
Helena Maxwell-Jackson
PutneyHelena Maxwell-Jackson is an artist and art(ist) teacher based in Putney. She practices under the label Nouveau Cyborg.
Nouveau Cyborg explores the cross-fertilisation of the organic with the inorganic to create unfathomable landscapes (or…
Artist / Individual
Louise Gillard
BatterseaLouise Gillard is a figurative painter and art teacher, living and working in Battersea. Gillard finds inspiration everywhere, from the simplest dinghy moored in a west country harbour to the bustling streets and commons near…
Group
Guyana SPEAKS
TootingEstablished in January 2017 as an initiative to bring together the Guyanese diaspora, Guyana SPEAKS runs a programme of events at the Classic in Tooting Bec (nearly always) on the last Sunday of each month.
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Artist / Individual
Nnena Kalu
BalhamNnena Kalu (b. 1966, Glasgow). Lives and works in London. Driven by an instinctive and determined urge to build repeated marks and forms she creates raw and intense two-dimensional works, sculptures and installations. Through binding,…