Explore Artists in United Kingdom

Find Contemporary, Modern, and Emerging Artists in United Kingdom

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Cecily Brown

Painting

Cecily Brown is a British painter celebrated for her dynamic, gestural canvases that teeter between abstraction and figuration. Her work is characterized by explosive brushwork and a vibrant palette, exploring themes of eroticism, mythology, and art historical references with raw energy and sensual complexity.

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London, United Kingdom

Nick Goss

Painting

Nick Goss is a British painter known for his atmospheric, often dreamlike canvases that blend figurative and abstract elements. His work frequently draws from personal memory, literature, and urban landscapes, creating evocative scenes that hover between reality and imagination, imbued with a sense of melancholic narrative.

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London, United Kingdom

Sarah Lucas

Mixed Media Photography Sculpture

Sarah Lucas is a British artist, a pivotal YBA figure, known for her provocative sculptures and installations. Her work boldly confronts gender, sexuality, and the human body using everyday objects and raw materials, often with dark humor and an unflinching, visceral directness.

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Macclesfield, United Kingdom

Helen Marten

Drawing Mixed Media Sculpture

Helen Marten is a British artist, a Turner Prize winner, celebrated for her intricate and poetic sculptural assemblages. Her work transforms ordinary objects and materials into new, often whimsical, configurations, exploring the tactile qualities of form, language, and the semiotics of everyday life with intellectual playfulness.

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London, United Kingdom

Steven Claydon

Installation Art Mixed Media Sculpture

Steven Claydon is a British artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans sculpture, painting, video, and sound, often exploring the intersection of ancient history, technology, and occultism. His work creates enigmatic narratives through carefully selected objects and materials, evoking a sense of fractured time and hidden knowledge.

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London, United Kingdom

Nicola Tyson

Drawing Painting

Nicola Tyson is a British painter whose distinctive figurative works depict distorted, often hybrid, female forms. Her intensely psychological canvases explore themes of identity, embodiment, and the fluidity of the self, pushing the boundaries of traditional portraiture with a unique blend of surrealism and visceral expressionism.

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Kent, United Kingdom

Angus Fairhurst

Drawing Performance Art Sculpture

Angus Fairhurst was a British artist, a key figure among the Young British Artists, known for his witty and often melancholic work across various media. His practice, spanning sculpture, painting, video, and performance, frequently explored themes of identity, failure, and the absurd, notably through his recurring gorilla motif.

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Glasgow, United Kingdom

Victoria Morton

Drawing Painting

Victoria Morton is a Scottish painter known for her evocative abstract compositions that explore the interplay of color, light, and form. Her work often draws from personal experiences and sensory perceptions, creating complex, layered surfaces that suggest both interior psychological landscapes and external environments.

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Halifax, United Kingdom

Hilary Lloyd

Installation Art Photography

Hilary Lloyd is a British artist acclaimed for her compelling video installations that scrutinize mundane activities and overlooked details of daily life. Her work often highlights the apparatus of display, foregrounding the monitors and cables to integrate technology into the artistic narrative itself, challenging viewership.

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Glasgow, United Kingdom

Katie Paterson

Installation Art Photography Sound Art

Katie Paterson (b. 1981) is a Scottish conceptual artist whose practice delves into the vastness of cosmic and geological time. Her work, spanning diverse mediums, translates complex scientific phenomena—from moonlight to stardust—into poetic and accessible experiences, pushing the boundaries of art, science, and human perception.

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