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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Raksha Patel

Battersea

Raksha Patel visual artist based in Battersea. She studied MFA painting, Slade School of Art, 1998. Her practice looks at ideas of place and identity.

Recent works depict juxtapositions between the everyday, and the surreal…

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Chukwudi Enyiorji

Roehampton

Chukwudi Enyiorji is a thirteen (13) year-old from Nigeria who was born in Wandsworth. Chukwudi's art technique is based around a variety of anime but shows clear originality. His inspiration is from a collection of…

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Jonathan Schwochert

Battersea

Jon Schwochert is an artist and illustrator working in both traditional and digital media with a passion for storytelling. His work has been used in video games, magazines and private commissions, but most often he…

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Diana Gandraman

Wandsworth Town

Diana Gandraman is a documentary family and wedding photographer based in Wandsworth.

For Diana, photography is more than just pretty photos. It's a celebration of you and your family, a moment frozen in time. Diana…

Organisation

ArtLacuna

Battersea

ArtLacuna is an artist-led space established in early 2013 by Chris Cawkwell, Amelia Critchlow, Jane Harris and Alex March. Located in an old coroner's office near Clapham Junction, we accommodate artist studios, a residency and…

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Lee Mundy

Battersea

Lee Mundy is a freelance graphic designer, photographer and abstract artist based in Battersea.

For his abstract art, he lets his emotions and feelings guide him as he cuts through paper left over from previous…

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Lia Matos

Roehampton

Lia Matos is a confident and dedicated photographer with experience in both professional and freelance photography. Holding nearly five years of working experience, she is able to transform her creative ideas into her own realities…

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Gee Elliott

Battersea

Namatovu is a British design and accessories brand with African influence founded by Gee Elliott after moving back to London from rural Uganda.

Born out of Gee's passion for East Africa and sustainability, coupled with…

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Andrew Gibson

Tooting

Andrew Gibson is an artist based in Tooting. His work uses light and objects found on the streets of London, onto which he paints images relevant to the place and the object's function.

The works…

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Matt Mounsey

Wandsworth Town

Matt Monsey is a painter living and working in Wandsworth. Painting is a mystery – Matt loves the way that things just happen that you would never expect and then running with them. The paintings…

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Miriam Catherine Gonzalez

Tooting

Miriam González is self-taught artist who uses her art primarily as therapy for her epilepsy and anxiety disorder, although she has been commissioned for a number of pieces by private individuals.

She was born and…

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Birgitte Sheard

Wandsworth Common

Brigitte Sheard is a Danish artist who uses mixed media to create abstract land and seascape paintings. She has exhibited in London, Copenhagen, Yorkshire and Northumberland.

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Jan Wilczur

Putney

Jan Wilczur was a bird Illustrator for many years, his work appearing in books such as 'Handbook of The Birds of the World' (Lynx Editions), 'Birds of The Western Palearctic (concise edition)' and field guides…

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Rose Long

Tooting

Rose Long's interest in painting in oils and acrylics emerged while learning to paint portraits.
The roses and Indigo and Blueprint architectural series of paintings are painted in acrylics. Shape, pattern and form are dominant…

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Monette Larsen

Tooting

Monette is an artist working primarily with glass. She holds a degree from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and a masters from the Royal College of Art both specialised in glass. Her work…

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Susan Barnard

Earlsfield

Susan's work grows out of a collection of found images; old family photographs, pictures from newspapers and magazines, alongside Susan's own sketches and photographs.

This combination of the intensely personal and the unknown, sparks ideas…

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Anuj Kumar

Tooting

Inspired by the raw emotional energy and gestural mark making of abstract expressionists, Anuj's art explores human thought. Paintings emerge as colour romances the canvas with a desire to express the universality of basic emotions…

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Asanka Lekamalage

Tooting

Asanka Lekamalage has been interested in art since childhood but has only had the chance to pursue this interest further in the last few years. His work includes a variety of subjects, techniques and media,…

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Isabel de Cordova

Furzedown

Isabel de Cordova works with ceramics and mixed media, often up-cycling unloved vintage items into handmade pieces. She has a good eye at antique fairs and markets for hunting out objects, such as chandelier droplets…

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Tracey Downing

Earlsfield

Tracey Elizabeth Downing is a painter who writes poems, or 'moems' as she likes to call them, and has written and illustrated her first book 'Moems in Mind' during lockdown, a response which has resonated…