Suckle: 19-30 January 2025
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Siobhan Lynch
Siobhan is a London-based painter and sculptor working to explore uncomfortable playfulness and challenge perceived innocence in children’s games through painted visuals. Her Fine Art BA from Kingston was focused on anthropomorphism and speciesism hidden within children’s media. Within her research a pig/man creature emerged – ageless, not bound by size or colour- it seems a clumsy whimsical being which craves contemplation and play. It’s an addictive character to depict and remains a prevailing motif. Her current practice bridges these paintings and drawings which describe her own connections with oddity, nature and embracing inelegance.
Previous exhibitions: Solo show: ‘My Playground’ Richmond 2023. Group shows: ‘Temporary Landing’ – Avionics Kingston 2022, ‘Out Of The Pan’- NotMyBeautifulHouse 2022, ‘(IN)action’ – ‘NotMyBeautifulHouse’ 2022, ‘X-COLLAB – BLUE’-Stanley Picker Gallery 2021, ‘X-COLLAB – SENSORY’ – Not My Beautiful House 2021, ‘INPUT OUTPUT’ Stanley Picker Gallery 2021, ‘EXTRA EXTRA’- Stanley Picker Gallery 2020.
IG: siobhanbonbonnie
Alice Qianhui Sun
Alice Qianhui Sun is a London-based artist and researcher working across painting, ceramics, and museum education. She holds an MA in Museum and Gallery Education from UCL and a BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths. In her art practice, she employs inventive and fantastical interpretations of emotive, psychologically troubling subjects such as the politics of birthrights and gender representation. She believes that mythologies are a combination of fact and fantasy, with meaning that is never fixed but ever-fluid. Due to its flexibility, her work can be allegorical—designed to speak of other things with alternative narratives. She has expanded her practice to food anthropology, incorporating culinary elements into her performances to navigate difficult themes of history, identity, memory, and diaspora.
She co-curated the shows Oriented by Dialect: Those Diffracted Scenes among Us at Mayfair University Women’s Club and Words from the Sky at Resources for London. Selected group shows include MMG x StART Art Fair at Saatchi Gallery, Duty-Free Art School at Marquee Chelsea, The Way We Rise at Hartslane Gallery, It’s All Fun Until… at Peckham Safehouse, Pull Over and Take a Cig at Espacio Gallery, and Redirecting at Tree Art Museum in Beijing…
IG: alice.artroom Contact: [email protected]
Heidi Pearce
Heidi Pearce (b. 1996) is a London based artist, originally from Kent. Predominantly working in textile, sculpture, and installation, Pearce’s work usually takes the form of the same dog-like form, almost like a signature. The use of this repetitive ‘signature dog’ allows her to question ideas of belonging, social interaction and humour through an uncanny lens. Pearce takes inspiration from quips and one liners of everyday interactions; whether they be funny, awkward, bizarre or frightfully boring.
After graduating from Goldsmiths University in 2019, Pearce has exhibited extensively across London and elsewhere in the UK with solo shows at Bermondsey Project Space and with Danuser & Ramirez, London, 2022. Other exhibitions include Just a Bunch Of String, Hypha Studios, 2023; Creature Comforts, JGM Gallery, 2023; Bern, Switzerland, 2022; Permanent Temporary, London Design Festival, 2022; Let Them Eat Fake, Bad Art presents, 2023; StART Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, 2021; Honey I’m Home?! with Tobias Bradford, Limbo Collective, London, 2018. Exhibiting in both galleries and public spaces, she has completed The School of the Damned Alternative Masters programme and has been part of exhibitions in non-traditional gallery spaces such as a church, a law firm, multiple pubs/breweries and other public settings.
IG: heidipearce_art
Website: heidipearce4.wixsite.com/heidi-pearce-art
Contact: [email protected]
Iseult Bailie
Born in Dublin to creative parents, Iseult grew up on top of a mountain in South-West France. She is an artist whose work transcends traditional artistic boundaries, merging the worlds of research and visual storytelling. With a profound passion for exploring the depths of human experience, Iseult delves into the realms of history, science, and culture to craft narratives that captivate the imagination. Driven by insatiable curiosity, Iseult begins each project as a researcher, diving deep into the subject matter that piques her interest. Exploration is marked by rigorous investigation, uncovering hidden truths, untold stories, and lesser-known facets of the world. Iseult’s commitment to thorough research is the bedrock of her artistic practice.
IG: @iseultbailieart
Website: https://iseultbailie.wordpress.com/
Masha Barks
Working under the name Masha Barks, the artist explores the complexities of human-animal relationships through absurdism, gender, and companionship. Her artistic practice primarily focuses on oil painting but extends into material and conceptual experimentation, including virtual reality and collective participation. Inspired by posthumanism, queer studies, and internet culture, she creates works that challenge anthropocentric perspectives. Her year-long painting and drawing series, Mother, dismantles human-centric paradigms by theatricalising everyday themes into unexpected images that reverse the subjects’ roles—such as painting a rooster furry breastfeeding baby piglets. Concerned with the ethics of animal representation, she uses furry subculture as drag in the artistic sense, referencing the performative cross-dressing and exploration of identities, assembling cryptic narratives, and encouraging varied interpretations.
IG: @mashabarks
Website: https://www.mashaannenkova.com/
Contact: [email protected]