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Ella Merriman

Ella Merriman is a London-based artist and designer whose practice centres on the endangered craft of rush basketry. Harvesting rush by hand from slow-flowing rivers across the UK, her work reflects a deep engagement with material, place, and process, while exploring the growing disconnection between humans and the natural world.

Combining traditional techniques with found objects collected from London streets, Ella Merriman creates a dialogue between urban and rural environments. Her practice is rooted in slow, tactile making, guided by intuition and the inherent qualities of her materials.

Through experimental forms, she reimagines everyday and discarded objects, extending rush basketry beyond its functional origins into conceptual and decorative realms. Her work engages with themes of preservation, renewal, and the subtle presence of nature within contemporary life.

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Categories:

Sculptures
Installations
Wall Panels

Mediums:

Sculpture – Land
Sculpture – Mixed Media
Sculpture – Mobile
Sculpture – Wood
Sculpture – Other
Sculpture – Tabletop

Subject:

Abstract
Animal/Botanical
Interiors

Selected Exhibitions

2026 – Selected for Collect Open 2026, Collect at Somerset House
2025 – Exhibited in ‘A Moment in Time’ at the Van Gogh House
2025 – Exhibited with Cox London during London Craft Week
2025 – Exhibited in Undoings at the Sussex Contemporary
2024 – Worshipful Company of Basketmakers’ Award – prize of a studio at Cockpit Bloomsbury in London
2018 – First Class Honours, BA Furniture & Product Design, The School of Art, Architecture and Design
2014 – Distinction, Art and Design Foundation Diploma, Falmouth University

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Carl Rowe

Carl Rowe studied Fine Art at Manchester Polytechnic, graduating with an MA in 1985. He currently lives in Norwich and is a former Associate Professor and Course Leader in Fine Art at Norwich University of the Arts. He is an artist member and studio holder at OUTPOST in Norwich and is also a member of the Printmakers Council. Carl Rowe has an international profile as both an artist and an academic. His work has been exhibited widely in the UK as well as in Germany, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Canada, US, Estonia, Japan, Malaysia and Egypt. In addition to studio production he has also worked on public art including billboards, print portfolios and hospital art. In 2018 Rowe was commissioned by Hospital Rooms to make work for Woodlands Mental Health Unit at Ipswich Hospital and is currently engaged in a new project with Hospital Rooms.

“My art switches back and forth between an engagement with socio-political issues and subconscious renderings.

I can’t escape my concern for the wrongdoing in the world and within my art a surface layer of humour, absurdity and the arcane masks a strong undercurrent of concern for humanity. When I ease off the direct engagement with current affairs, symbols, objects and graphic devices float up from somewhere in my memory and arrange themselves in unlikely compositions.”

Carl Rowe works with both paint, sculpture and print process. The materials that I use are often intrinsically connected with the images they portray such as the work Drool, an installation made with ink containing herbs and spices from the G20 countries and the Serbian paprika used in Deprecated Location, a screen print depicting Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Recent paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints present an obsession with clay pipe fragments, hazard warnings, cylindrical containers and clouds of particulates.

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Categories:

Paintings
Prints
Sculptures
Installations

Mediums:

Collage
Mixed Mediums
Paintings on Canvas, Panel and Paper
Sculpture – Mixed Mediums, Recycled Materials and Wood

Subject Matter:

Abstract

Carl Rowe - Exceeding the Limits of the Box

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My art switches back and forth between an engagement with socio-political issues and subconscious renderings. I can’t escape my concern for the wrongdoing in the world and within my art a surface layer of humour, absurdity and the arcane masks a strong undercurrent of concern for humanity.

Carl Rowe

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Patricia Mitchell

Patricia Mitchell draws inspiration from experiences gained through her extensive travels and conservation work in Africa, Patricia’s love of nature, botany and global culture and tradition clearly resonates through her work as a mixed media artist.

PAPER: From the magic of a murmuration of starlings; the plight of global deforestation; a myriad of majestic African animals; origami diamonds; sculptured paper fish; origami Japanese slippers to even a colourful selection of bees, dragonflies and beetles – every piece Patricia sculpts from paper comes with a thought provoking narrative.

MESH: The other genre of her portfolio are her signature abstract elephant sculptures made with aluminium mesh,

coated with a mix of 24ct gold and Fools Gold. Her golden elephants can either be seen in family herds or alone, marching along on pieces of ancient drift wood, sourced from the Jurassic coasts of New Zealand. “No other wood will do – drift wood has withstood the test of time, yet it still holds its beauty, strength and power, much like our beloved elephants.”

Behind the awe inspiring intricacy of Patricia Mitchell’s paper and mesh sculptures, there always lies an empowering story which can be either be absorbed, be viewed in passing or can be used as an interesting topic to research and to discuss.

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Categories:

Sculptures
Installations
Wall Panels

Sculpture Type:

Internal
Table Top

Mediums:

Mixed Media
Gilded Aluminium Mesh
Sculpture – Paper
Sculpture – Wood
Sculpture – Other

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Animal/Botanical
Geographical
Interiors

Patricia Mitchell - Walk of Life - Detail

Patricia Mitchell - School of Fish with Leaves

Patricia Mitchell - The Golden Elephants

Patricia Mitchell - Postcards from the Tropics

Patricia Mitchell - Pap Du Cong - Framed

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“No other wood will do – drift wood has withstood the test of time, yet it still holds its beauty, strength and power, much like our beloved elephants.”

Patricia Mitchell

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Jad Oakes

London-based Jad Oakes explores the possibilities of photography and the moving image for sculptural installations, prints and photogravures.

His works are presented as collections or bodies of work that are connected by their process, theme and technique. The main thread that ties these bodies of works together is a fascination with memory and time.

Since 2014 he has developed and nurtured an ongoing series of small scale silent looping film installations housed in wooden sculptures titled Vessels.

Condensed Vessel Videos:

Dreams of Somewhere Else
Moonscape 50
Memory Vessel

Using timbers of Oak, Walnut and Bog Oak these moving image sculptures seek to connect with the viewer by projecting them into an alternative space and time.

Of the Vessels series he notes a desire to “create intimate emotive sculptures, enticing contemplation and memory.”

Jad Oakes was awarded the Aesthetica Prize at the 2019 ING Discerning Eye Exhibition.

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Categories:

Prints
Photography
Sculpture

Sculpture Type:

Interior
Tabletop

Medium:

Collage
Digital
Mixed Media
Photography
Photomontage
Prints – Artist
Prints – Other
Sculpture – Wood
Sculpture – Other
Video/Film

Subject:

Historical
Landscape
Portrait/Figurative

Selected Exhibitions

2019

Discerning Eye Aesthetica Award
ING Discerning Eye – Mall Galleries
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair

2018

Residues – By Other Means Gallery, London
ING Discerning Eye – Mall Galleries
Meet the Members – London Print Studio
Identity – Kindred Studios, London

2017

Unique Beauty – Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield
Affordable Art Fair, London
Portrait 17 – Degree Art, London

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Lizzie Farey

Lizzie Farey’s intricate structures capture a still moment, a distillation and order. Calm after a storm.

Intimate forms provide a hint of the process of creation. We can see and even feel points of tension in the work. Our eye can follow the artist’s hand, the choices made in twisting and turning this flexible medium.

Born in Singapore, for the last 30 years Farey has been based in rural Galloway, in Scotland’s South West. The rural setting of home and studio are her guiding inspiration, her sensitivity with wood revealing an interaction with nature that is deeply personal.

Lizzie Farey grows much of her own pallet of artist’s materials. Planting, tending and harvesting a range of willow which is grown for both texture and colour.

Willow, it’s flow of flex and tension is often manipulated into rhythmic patterns, Artist, willow, form, each unique, reach a perfection as the work comes together, inner creative process and final form working as one.

‘My work engages with nature. I focus on recreating the essence of natural form through the medium of willow, larch, ash, hazel and other locally grown woods. Influences from Japan continue to inspire my attempts to capture the simplicity, practicality and beauty of the materials.’

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Categories:

Sculpture
Wall Panels

Sculpture Type:

Interior

Mediums:

Sculpture – Wood
Woven Willow

Subject Matter:

Abstract

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‘My work engages with nature. I focus on recreating the essence of natural form through the medium of willow, larch, ash, hazel and other locally grown woods. Influences from Japan continue to inspire my attempts to capture the simplicity, practicality and beauty of the materials.’

Lizzie Farey

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Zac Greening

Zac Greening draws his inspiration principally from nature – ‘the ultimate sculptress’. He finds the sculptural forms created by the sun, moon, waves and trees particularly inspiring as symbols of sustainability.

He works in a wide range of media from discarded plastic bottles to organic matter. Often these materials are fused together to reinforce the aesthetic or narrative that he’s looking to express.

A narrative is created that highlights the relationship between man and the natural environment.

Common themes found in his work often abstractly express or make a comment on current issues. Issues such as sustainability, environmental degradation, or consumption. Alternatively they may simply be an expression of the marvel and awe he sees in a sunset or the kinetic and meditative experience found in the rolling of sea waves.

Zac Greening communicates and reminds the viewer of mankind’s inextricable socio-economic and spiritual link with the natural world

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Artist Biography

Categories:

Sculptures
Installations
Wall Panels

Sculpture Type:

Exterior
Interior

Medium:

Mixed Media
Recycled Materials
Wood
Other

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Animal/Botanical

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A narrative is created that highlights the relationship between man and the natural environment. Common themes found in my work often abstractly express or make a comment on current issues.

Zac Greening

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My art switches back and forth between an engagement with socio-political issues and subconscious renderings. I can’t escape my concern for the wrongdoing in the world and within my art a surface layer of humour, absurdity and the arcane masks a strong undercurrent of concern for humanity.

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“No other wood will do – drift wood has withstood the test of time, yet it still holds its beauty, strength and power, much like our beloved elephants.”

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‘My work engages with nature. I focus on recreating the essence of natural form through the medium of willow, larch, ash, hazel and other locally grown woods. Influences from Japan continue to inspire my attempts to capture the simplicity, practicality and beauty of the materials.’

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A narrative is created that highlights the relationship between man and the natural environment. Common themes found in my work often abstractly express or make a comment on current issues.

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