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.

Artist / Individual

David Barreiro

Battersea

David Barreiro (b.1982, Pontevedra, Spain) is a photographer and visual artist currently living and working in London. In his practice, he focuses on social constructions and their role in the configuration of identity categories and…

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Marcy Richardson

Southfields

Marcy Richardson is a British-Canadian artist, working in multiple mediums, including painting and printmaking. Marcy’s work was recently on display at the Royal Academy of Arts in the ‘Summer Exhibition 2021’, and the Southbank Printmakers…

Judy Digney

My career has been as an Arts Manager at Tate, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and other London based arts organisations, and I am now retired. During Lockdown I made a…

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Joseph Cashmore

Southfields

Joseph Cashmore is a Southfields-based painter and creator of ART JC. Joseph's work and hobbies revolve around creating, and he's also colour blind. This obstacle has been turned into a style, with a series of…

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Benjamin Duffield-Harding

Putney

Benjamin Duffield-Harding is a painter based in Putney. He paints in an impressionist style, and enjoys capturing nature and people in an objective way - in order to produce an image that captures the feeling…

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Ksenia Kazintseva

Putney

I am an installation artist and painter focusing on the connection between tradition, folklore and modern-day life. I reflect on my cultural roots by drawing on traditional pattern, song, fragrance and ritual to create immersive…

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Monica Mardare

Furzedown

I graduated from the London College of Contemporary Arts with an HND in fashion and textiles and I specialized in Prints and Graphics. I have studied fashion photography for 2 years and also done art…

Organisation

Oily Cart

Tooting

Based in Tooting, Oily Cart reimagines theatre to include all young people. We create interactive, sensory shows that tour across the UK and internationally. Performances use sounds, smells, touch, lights, music and movement, and can…

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Martin Lore

Southfields

Martin Lore is an urban sketcher working mostly around London but also when on visits to other cities and locations. He enjoys exploring different areas in London, seeing what's there, drawing it and then rewarding…

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Paul Ettedgui

Earlsfield

Paul Ettedgui has had a studio in Wandsworth for the last seven years. He studied at Camberwell School of Art followed by a Fine Art Degree at The Kent Institute of Art and Design at…

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joe palermo

Putney

I am a creative actor I always try to get close as possible with the director views and try to make everything rights. I won the 2011 award as best comedy actor at the FILM…

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Helen Swanton

Southfields

Helen Swanton is a mosaic artist creating individual, unique, handcrafted artwork. Helen Swanton's previous career in recycling and sustainability inspired her to explore and recently exhibit at London Design week how vintage ceramic can be…

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Maddy Gyselynck

Battersea

Maddy Gyselynck (pronounced ‘Giza-link’) is an artist from London. She is inspired by many great artists of the past, including Caravaggio, Turner, Constable, Boudin, Lawrence, De Laszlo, and Sargent. Her primary media are oil paintings…

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Mark Chen

Battersea

Mark Chen is an awarding wining portrait painter based in Battersea. He is a senior tutor at London Fine art Studio and was granted the Del Laszlo foundation scholarship from 2018-2020. Mark had exhibited in…

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Annam Butt

Battersea

Annam Butt is a de László scholar and represent by Cicek gallery. She is a classically trained artist at London fine art studio specialising in figurative art with a touch of orientialism.

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Abigail Lipski

Earlsfield

Abi Lipski is a London-based multi-disciplinary fine artist who creates fantastical visual narratives based on intuitively developed fiction and lore. Often working with oil paint and watercolour, she utilises vibrant colours and bold brushwork, reminiscent…

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Sonja Bessant

Balham

Sonja Bessant is a jewellery designer maker based in Balham. She specialises in silver jewellery for all budgets. Her pieces are all handmade using a range of contemporary and traditional jewellery making techniques. Sonja loves…

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Archie Wardlaw

Battersea

Archie Wardlaw is a contemporary painter specialising in portraiture, landscapes and still life paintings. Having first studied Classics and Philosophy with Mandarin at the University of Exeter he trained for five years in the Classical…

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Tomas Harker

Battersea

Tomas Harker’s paintings address the nature of meaning in conditions of mediated experience and hyperreal saturation. Sources are treated indiscriminately of hierarchical values, collected from varied systems of image production and distribution. These include film…

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Nicholas Mackey

Wandsworth Town

Nicholas Mackey is on a perennial creative journey.

As a photographer based in Wandsworth, in search of timeless imagery, he records what he sees around him in London and elsewhere. Drawing on his experience…

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Tom Genower

Furzedown

Tom Genower has lived in Tooting, Graveney and Furzedown for the last twelve years. After studying at Camberwell College of Arts and Falmouth College of Arts, he followed his dream of working in the creative…