Sara Barker (b.1980, Manchester) lives and works in Glasgow. Graduated from Glasgow School of Art (2003); and University of Glasgow (1999). Select solo exhibitions include The faces of older images, Mary Mary, Glasgow (2017); Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2016); for myself & strangers, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (2014); Images, Mary Mary, Glasgow (2010); Present Future, Artissima Art Fair, Turin (2008); and New Work Scotland, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (2006). Select group exhibitions include NOW, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (2018); L’immagine e il suo doppio, Eduardo Secci Contemporary, Florence (2018); Transparency, The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (2017);Geographies of Dust and Air, Mary Mary, Glasgow (2016); Signal Failure, Pace, London (2015); Drawing: Sculpture, The Drawing Room, London (2013); Tracing the Century: Drawing from Tate Collection, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (2012). 

Born 1972 Plymouth, Anna Barriball lives and works in London. Graduated from Foundation Studies at Falmouth School of Art (1992); BA (Hons) Fine Art from Winchester School of Art (1995); and MA Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art (2000).

Barriball’s work seeks to pin down the fleeting and reveal something unseen. Her intensely haptic sculptural drawings develop alongside moving image works that evolve from spontaneous discoveries and the channelling of natural forces. The works meditate on the relationship between proximity and distance, and explore the subjectivities of experience, memory, and impression.

Moving across different mediums Barriball demonstrates how the aesthetics of everyday life can be reimagined or transformed in unexpected ways. Her work investigates what lies beyond the surface, often working at the boundary between interior and exterior, she combines the real with the felt or sensed. Recently referencing the language of colouring techniques from early cinema, employed to indicate the time of day or emphasise atmosphere, Barriball’s work continues to reflect her enduring interest in temporality across still and time-based mediums.

Her works are held in public and private collections including The Arts Council Collection, London; The British Council Collection, London; The United Kingdom Government Art Collection; Herning Museum; Tate Collection, London; UBS Art Collection, London; and RISD Museum, Rhode Island. 

Selected solo exhibitions include Anna Barriball and Dirk Braeckman, KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2020); Fade, Frith Street Gallery, London (2019); Anna Barriball, Art Centre Pasquart, Biel/Bienne (2018); Anna Barriball & Hannelore van Dijck, Be-Part, Waregem (2017); New Works, Frith Street Gallery, London (2016); Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen (2013); and The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (2012). Selected group exhibitions include Real Time, online exhibition, Seventeen Gallery, London (2020); Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, London (2019); On Paper, Arts Council Collection Exhibition touring the UK (2019); Find your world in ours, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2018); Drawing Now, Albertina Museums, Vienna (2015); Drawing: The Bottom Line, S.M.A.C.K., Gent (2015); Drawing: Sculpture, The Drawing Room, London and touring to Leeds Art Gallery (2013); and Slow Looking: Contemporary Drawing, Tate Britain, London (2012).

Born 1977 Oxford, Alice Channer lives and works in the edges of London. Graduated from BA Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London (2006); and MA Sculpture from Royal College of Art, London (2008).

Channer uses sculpture, in its broadest possible definition, to stretch out, slow down and speed up industrial, post-industrial and ‘natural’ production processes. Her work is a 21st Century Process Art. The artist aims to make these processes more visible to herself and to others, and to attune us to the multiple embodiments and disembodiments involved. Using materials ranging from spider crab shells and stainless steel to limestone, pelletized and recycled plastic and pleated silk, her work traces the disappearance, mutation and possible evolution of multiple bodies in post-industrial environments.

Selected exhibitions include Look! Exposing Art and Fashion, Marta Herford, Marta (2021-2022); Breaking the Mould, Sculpture by Women since 1945, An Arts Council Collection Touring Exhibition, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield and touring (2021); 60 Years, Tate Britain, London (2019-2020); The Weather Garden: Anne Hardy curates the Arts Council Collection, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne (2019); Der Flexible Plan, Das Rokoko in der Gegenwartskunst, Museum Morsbroich (2019); ISelf Collection: The Upset Bucket, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2017-2018); Actions: 'The Image Of The World Can Be Different', Kettles Yard, Cambridge (2018); Crash Test, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, La Panacée, Montpellier (2018); Those who do not want to think are thrown out - instructions for action according to Beuys, Museum Kurhaus Kleve (2016) and R o c k f a l l, Aspen Art Museum (2015). Selected projects include Nanowires, permanent public sculpture commission, for the Engineering Department of The University of the West of England (2021); The Stomach and the Port, (curated by Manuela Moscoso) a group of works as part of Liverpool Biennial (2021); a new outdoor large scale interactive sculpture as part of High Desert Test Sites 2021, curated by Iwona Blazwick, (2021); and Burial, an outdoor sculpture as part of Sculpture In The City, London (2021).

Born 1979 Dublin, Aleana Egan lives and works in Dublin. Graduated from BA Hons. Painting, The Glasgow School of Art (2003).

"Aleana Egan creates abstract sculptures that are assembled in multi-layered constellations. Materials such as metal, wood, pigment, and fabric refer to their own properties, while also remaining indeterminate. In this ambiguity, the objects evoke immaterial moments—ideas, thoughts, feelings, moods, energies, and relationships both towards each other as well as interpersonal. Manifested in form, the internal is turned outwards. Translated into sculptural gestures, latent allusions are made visible, and the processual shifts into focus" - Melissa Canbaz, 2021

Egan's works are held in public and public collections including The Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Dallas Museum of Art, Landesmusuem Münster and Frac des Pays de la Loire.

Selected solo exhibitions include Void, Derry (2022); Künstlerhaus Bremen (2021); New People, Konrad Fischer Gallery, Duesseldorf (2020); Shadowy Forms, NICC Vitrine, Brussels (2020); and Spitze, Farbvision, Berlin (2019). Selected group exhibitions include Yuugen, CCA Andratx (2021); The Classical Museum, University College, Dublin (2020); from narrow provinces, Cample Line, Scotland (2019); staring forms, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin (2019); and Aleana Egan/Pearl Blauvelt, Mary Mary, Glasgow (2018).

Knut Henrik Henriksen (b. 1970, Oslo, Norway) works in Berlin.  Select career highlights include exhibitons at Kunsthalle Basel; South London Gallery; Kunstmuseum Bern; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Bergen Kunsthall; Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim; Galerie Denise René, Paris; Sommer & Kohl, Berlin; and Standard Gallery, Oslo. He produced two permanent public sculptures at Kings Cross St. Pancras Station with Art on the Underground (2009 and 2011). He is represented in England by Hollybush Gardens, London.

Dan Shaw-Town (b.1983, Huddersfield, UK) lives and works in New York and London. Recent solo exhibitions include: Unosunove, Rome (2011); China Objects, Los Angeles (2011); Khastoo Gallery, Los Angeles (2010). Group exhibitions include: Room East, New York (2012); Surface/Tension, Lisson Gallery, London (2011); Library of Babel in and out of place, 176 Gallery, London (2010); MOT, London (2010); Tactile gaze, Unosunove, Rome (2010); Seventeen Gallery, London (2010); and Contested Ground, 176 Gallery, London (2009).