Artists

  • Artist in residence, Co-curator of Slipping the Veil.

    London-based painter and artist in residence at Saint Bartholomew the Great.

    Elena Unger (b.1997) is a London based artist and curator and Artist in Residence at Saint Bartholomew the Great where she curated Eleven Twenty Three. Unger is an alumnus of Fine Art at both Central Saint Martins and Goldsmiths, as well as a graduate of philosophy at the University of Cambridge. Unger paints meticulously detailed oil paintings on a miniature and monumental scale. Tiny, hidden figures and epic vistas form her apocalyptic tableaus.

       Additionally, Unger combines painting, sculpture, performance, sound, film, and installation to produce immersive, extra-liturgical installations. As an academic, she is concerned with the ontology of artistic making, arguing that works of art do not merely represent the ineffable but participate in it. Unger frequently exhibits in the UK and Canada and is featured in collections internationally.  

  • Musician, author and artist Nick Cave provides us with the album Seven Psalms, produced alongside Warren Ellis, to be used as a sound installation in eight parts throughout the exhibition. 

    ‘While in lockdown I wrote a number of psalms, or small, sacred songs—one a day for a week. The seven psalms are presented as one long meditation—on faith, rage, love, grief, mercy, sex and praise. A veiled, contemplative offering borne of an uncertain time.’ 

    -Nick Cave

  • Stockholm-based sculptor and installation artist.

    Diana Orving is a Swedish artist known for her textile sculptures and paintings, which explore themes of origin, memory, and the subconscious. Her work blends techniques, materials, and formats, examining the relationship between the tactile and the visual, as well as body and space.

     

    Orving treats her sculptures as organic beings with their own temperament, with seams flowing like living lines—veins or branches—expressing relationships, conflicts, and emotions. Her large-scale installations create immersive environments, encouraging movement and sensory interaction, balancing monumentality with intimacy.

    Diana Orving lives and works in Stockholm. Her work has been exhibited internationally at Carvalho Park Gallery (New York), Tempesta Gallery (Milan), Warbling Collective (London), and P Gallery (Palma). In Sweden, her work has been featured at Galleri Arnstedt (Båstad), Gothenburg Museum of Art, Borås Museum of Textiles, Varbergs Konsthall, Sven Harrys Konsthall, Liljevalchs Konsthall, and Nässjö Konsthall, among others.

  • Cardiff-based sculptor

    Claire Curneen creates figurative sculptures that poignantly reflect on humanity. Universal themes of loss, suffering, sacrifice and rebirth underpin her works. Hand-built in white porcelain, sometimes with touches of blue or gold, their translucent and fragile qualities offer metaphors through which we can consider the human condition and experience. Born in Ireland, Curneen studied at Cork, Belfast and Cardiff, where she now lives and works.

  • London-based sculptor.

    Edgar Ward is a London-based sculptor working predominantly with ceramics, stone carving and digital modelling. He was born in rural Australia in 1995 and grew up in New Delhi, India and Paris, France. Edgar trained in architectural stone carving at the City and Guilds of London Art School and graduated with an MA from the Royal College of Art in 2021.

  • London-based painter.

    Ben Jamie is a London-based artist whose work blends figuration and fragmented, abstract forms with a limited palette.  His paintings, often exploring themes of urban decay and mythology, evoke a sense of fluidity and change.

    Jamie’s work touches on universal mythological themes, exploring how these stories transcend time and place.

    He studied at Turps Art School and the University of Gloucestershire. Notable solo shows include Realm (2023) and Threshold (2022-23) at Castor Gallery, London. He won the John Moores Painting Prize in 2016. His work has been featured in international exhibitions, including British Painting 2019 in South Korea

  • Maxim Burnett, born 1996, is a British and Irish figurative oil painter based in London and a graduate of the City & Guilds MA fine art course. Due to the immunocompromising nature of his cancer diagnosis, Maxim trained himself throughout much of his 20’s in clinical isolation. Consequently, his work possesses an outsider quality that’s uniquely his own. Influences of muralists such as Rivera, symbolists like Blake, alongside echoes of constructivism, futurism, brutalism, purism; though somewhat reminiscent of a mid-century aesthetic, Maxim’s paintings are distinctly concerned in telling a contemporary narrative. Maxim venerates his themes both materially and pictorially, be it through his expressive and textured handling of traditional materials or his poignant allegorical depictions.

     “My paintings […] serve as reliquaries of sorts, they’re vessels within which to guard and convey a reflection of contemporary times. It’s the pursuit of immortalising, visually eulogising the 21st century, and myself, that compels my practice”.

  • Carolein Smit is an internationally renowned ceramic artist who currently lives in Belgium. Her sculptures feature in many important interational collections, including the Victoria & Albert Museum in London; Drents Museum in Assen (NL); Grassi Museum, Leipzig; Koc Collection, Istanbul; Asante Collection, Switzerland; Olbricht Collection, Germany, Treger/Saint Silvestre Collection, Portugal, Fuled International Museum (FLICAM), Fuping, China; and many more. Her artworks have been exhibited at the Bonnefantenmuseum (Maastricht), Art Basel, La Maison Rouge (Paris), me Collectors Room (Berlin), the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen (Rotterdam) to name but a few. Carolein Smit was the subject of a solo exhibition at both the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Drents Museum in the Netherlands in 2018, and a solo exhibition at the Musee de la Chasse et de la Nature in Paris in 2022.

  • Anne von Freyburg  (b. 1979) is a Dutch artist based in London. She received her MFA from Goldsmiths (2016) and holds a BA in Fashion Design from ArtEZ Arnhem, The Netherlands. Von Freyburg is the winner of Robert Walters UK New Artists Award (2021) and exhibited several times at Saatchi Gallery, London. She was nominated for The Ingram Prize (2021). Her work was part of the Tapestry Triennial at the Central Textile Museum in Lodz, Poland (2022) one of the most prominent international Textile Museums worldwide. Von Freyburg’s work is in several private collections all over the world.

    In her artistic practice, Anne von Freyburg actively engages in the ongoing discourse surrounding femininity and the construction of female identity. Departing from historical norms that sidelined traditionally feminine materials, her work serves as a reclamation of the value of textiles and embroidery in fine art.

    A notable aspect of her approach involves disrupting the traditional hierarchy between craft and fine art. By concealing her own paintings with fabrics, she challenges the prevailing notion that painting holds the highest artistic value. The under-painting serves as a guide for fabric placement, with Rococo masterpieces repurposed into fashion fabrics as a nod to the traditional medium.

  • London-based sculptor and installation artist.

    Jack Evan’s work questions and examines the ideas of form and beauty, especially in regard to the places we occupy and inhabit, whilst alluding to what may be the banal and farcical nature of it all. 

    Evan’s has exhibited widely. Solos and group shows include Buried (2024), Slugtown Fundraiser (2023), and Realm (2023), the RA Summer Exhibition 2020 and Bold Tendencies 2020. Awards include the RSS Gilbert Bayes Award (2024) and the Arts Club Award (2020). Residencies include Thorp Stavri x Two Temple Place.

  • London-based sculptor and installation artist.

    Kate McDonnell is a visual artist based in Bath, UK. Her practice explores the interplay of materiality and process, embodying uncomfortable mental states through site-specific installations and sculptural works. McDonnell’s work has been exhibited widely, including solo shows at The Art House, Wakefield, and group exhibitions at Wells and Chichester Cathedrals, Maximillian Wölfgang in London, and the RWA in Bristol. Her accolades include the Gilbert Bayes Award, being shortlisted for the John Ruskin and New Emergence Art Prizes, longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize, and was named an Artist to Watch by ArtConnect. She holds an MFA from Bath Spa University, having previously studied at Central Saint Martins and De Montfort University.

  • Design Director

    London-based painter and installation artist.

    Juliette Losq (b. 1978 London, UK) studied Fine Art at the University of the Arts London (2004- 2007) and the Royal Academy Schools (2007-2010), as well as studying English and History of Art at Newnham College, Cambridge (1997-2000) and History of Art at the Courtauld Institute, London (2000-2001). She received her PhD from UAL / AUB in 2023. Losq won the Jerwood Drawing Prize in 2005, was one of five shortlisted artists for the John Moores Prize in 2014, receiving the Visitor's Choice Award, and received the John Ruskin Prize in 2019. Losq is included in The Women's Art Collection, Southampton City Art Gallery, The Newnham College Art Collection, All Visual Arts, The Royal West of England Academy, the Fountainhead Collection, and private collections in the UK and internationally.