The Hide Installation + Sculpture Showcase 2025

14 & 15 / 21 & 22 June - 11am-5pm

Will Cruickshank (b.1974 UK) has a multidisciplinary practice which includes sculpture, film, photography, and printmaking.  His recent work has focused on making objects through a studio based development of experimental machinery, materials, and production methods.

He studied Fine Art (Sculpture) at Manchester Metropolitan University 1994-97, and has taken part in exhibitions and residencies nationally and internationally.  He was awarded an Arts Council England International Artists Fellowship for a residency in Yunnan Province, China in 2007, and Arts Council England DYCP funding for studio research 2018-19.

Barbara Beyer is a Sculptor living and working in London. She is member of the Royal Society of Sculptors, The London Group and Studio Member at Rochester Square Ceramics. Her work addresses and celebrates but also questions the consequences of our fundamental ability to shape, change and make. 

Barbara was born in Rheydt Germany, where she studied Fine Art, History of Art and German Literature, at Johannes Gutenberg University. From 1993 to 1997 she joined the Sculpture Class of Prof Ansgar Nierhoff. In 1998 she moved to Edinburgh where she was a member of the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop until 2002 when she moved to London.

Luke Chin-Joseph (b. 2000) is an artist working across sculpture, installation and photography. He is interested in the constant flux of urban city landscapes, the materials and processes that shape these environments. Luke works with industrial and found objects, woven into fabricated sculpture – with an element of play. 

Luke graduated from Camberwell College of Arts in Sculpture and is currently exploring notions of time and modes of archiving, rhyming with undertones of humour and whimsical cartoon. Objects and images are exaggerated and pushed, with often the gesture being the focal point of the work.

Liz Elton was born in Bristol.  She works across a wide range of media including painting, photography, video, print and large scale installation.  She has completed a Hospital Rooms commission, is the recipient of a Mark Rothko Memorial Trust Artist in Residence Award, and has been shortlisted for the John Moores three times.  Other residences include Florence Trust, Groundswell Regenerative Farming Festival, and the Bothy Project on the Isle of Eigg, supported by Winsor and Newton. She has a BA in Painting and an MA in Fine Art, both UAL, and a BA in History of Art from UCL.  Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors.

Chantal Powell is a British artist born in 1977, whose practice blends Jungian psychology, alchemical symbolism, and personal exploration of the unconscious. With a PhD in psychology, she utilises a Jungian art-based research approach to engage with archetypal material and the psyche. Working across ceramics, glass, textiles, and painting, her research into alchemical manuscripts informs her practice. 

Powell has exhibited at galleries and institutions internationally, including The Lightbox Museum, Woking; La Boulangerie, Paris; and Guildhall Art Gallery, London. She is the founder of Hogchester Arts residency program and a faculty lecturer at JungAcademy. She also offers talks on archetypal symbolism and psychological alchemy and has co-curated exhibitions focusing on archetypally symbolic art.

Flora Bradwell's generously grotesque practice encompasses painting, sculpture, performance and installation. Flora completed her MFA in Painting at The Slade School of Fine Art in 2021, receiving the Felix Slade Award, The Jeanne Szego Prize and Sarabande Emerging Artist Bursary

while there. In 2023 Flora received the Gilbert Bayes Award and a-n Artist Bursary. Flora's work has recently been exhibited The Royal Society of Sculptors, Matt's Gallery and Saatchi Gallery, London, Wakefield Art House, Wakefield, Liminal Gallery, Margate and Future DMND, LA.

Selected residencies include Vincent VanGogh Huis, Zundert Elephant Lab, London, Cyprus College of Art, Paphos, and SIM, Reykjavik.

Valentino Vannini, born in 1976 in Florence, Italy, is a London-based multidisciplinary artist. He holds an MA in Fine Art from City & Guilds of London Art School, where he is currently a fellow in the glass and cast department. He has received the Sculpture Award from Studio West Gallery, London, and completed a residency at Standpoint Gallery, followed by a solo show.

Recently, Vannini participated in group shows at Somers Gallery, SET Lewisham, Greenfield Project, Meeting Point Projects, The Phoenix Garden and White Conduit Projects. He has exhibited with New Contemporaries at Karst, Plymouth and the ICA London (March 2025).

Andrea V. Wright (b.1967) is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Somerset, UK. She graduated from Chelsea College of Art & Design before establishing a career in fashion, styling, and music. 

In 2016 Wright completed an MFA at Bath School of Art & Design and has since been selected for the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2017, the Royal Society of Sculptors Bursary Award 2017/18, and the Ingram Collection Purchase Prize 2019. In 2021, Wright was awarded an AN Bursary for the PADA residency in Lisbon, Portugal.  Wright’s work is held in private collections in both the UK and abroad.

Jessica Akerman (b.1978, Wellington, UK)  lives and works in Bristol. Her material-led practice includes sculpture, textiles and painting.

Akerman grew up in Ironbridge, Shropshire and Bradford, West Yorkshire. These industrial settings have informed her interest in the physical and social experience of work, an ongoing theme in her practice.

She studied Sculpture at Chelsea College of Art, and History of Art & French at UCL. She has exhibited in the UK and Ireland, has received funding from Arts Council England and a-n, and was a Lead Artist on Artichoke’s national artwork Processions in 2018.

Residencies include TheCoLAB Body and Place Residency 2024, Kent Cultural Baton Artist Retreat and Metal Time and Space Residency.

Alice Sheppard Fidler (b.1966, Birmingham, UK) works across sculpture, installation and sound. She is a founding member of Studio Voltaire Gallery and Arts Charity, London, and runs the artist-led initiative The Hide Artist Retreat in Gloucestershire. Before completing her MA in Fine Art at the University of the West of England in 2020 she worked in design for television, film, and fashion. She was a recipient of the Gilbert Bayes Award from the Royal Society of Sculptors, the CAS Emerging Sculptor Development Award, and Arts Council DYCP in 2023/24, and is a current Spike Island Associate.

Recent exhibitions include: Trinity Buoy Wharf Working Drawing Prize finalist 2024, Gilbert Bayes Award Show - Arthouse, Wakefield and Royal Society of Sculptors London 2024, Fluxus Museum Video Prize finalist, Paros 2024, Mother Art Prize finalist, London, 2023. Residencies include: PADA Studios, Portugal, 2023, Casa Regis Italy, 2022.