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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Fengjin 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.…
A 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…
Nina 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…
Emma 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.
S.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…
Black 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…
Mark Nader is an internationally exhibited artist based in Wandsworth, whose work looks at cultural iconography and how it morphs and changes.
Helena 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…
Louise 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…
Established 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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Nnena 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,…
Louis is an autistic artist who also suffers from fibromyalgia, a chronic pain condition which means he is house bound. This personal history is central to his artistic identity, as over the years making art…
The Museum has been described as 'Niche of the Niche', nestled in the private home of the collector and her family. Open by appointment, the tour includes opportunities to style, photograph and handle the collection…
Lesley finds her crafts work very therapeutic; having suffered from COPD and breathing problems, and with everything currently going on with the pandemic, she finds making work in her dedicated garden shed brings her great…
Vera De-Gernier is a self-taught, mixed media artist who has an eye for found objects. Vancouver, Canada is Vera's sweet home where she has her lovely family but Putney is where she lives, works, and…
Ben has enjoyed many forms of observational drawing and painting since childhood, but has gradually specialised in studying the figure from life (and sometimes from photography). Ben has kept up life drawing as a practice…
Esuantsiwa Jane Goldsmith is a writer, Feminist activist and development consultant of English-Ghanaian heritage. Her prizewinning Memoir, 'The Space Between Black and White', about Mixed Race identity, was published by Jacaranda in March 2020.
She…
art-K Wandsworth is a dedicated art studio offering educational and inspirational art classes for both children and adults. We are committed to promoting the value of art for wellbeing and self- expression, through our tried…
Susan is a designer and maker working in glass, ceramic and print. Certain pieces of work combine the three media to create unique forms. Natural forms are the inspiration for her work, mainly being absent…
Jane Bain is a screen printer who specialises in variable mono screen prints: a number of prints that are similar - from the same series - but all slightly different. Each print is unique. Jane…
Bern is an artist and graphic designer from Ireland that has worked in film and TV for many years. They have exhibited around the world while working as a designer and creative in advertising and…