ART AT WRAP
A space that breathes…
From textiles and photography, to painting and prints, we pride ourselves in providing a free exhibition space to local artists in our Business Centre
Reciprocity is where it’s at with art at WRAP! By providing free space to exhibit work, WRAP’s spaces are brought to life with the varied and vibrant work of local artists. In turn, the artists’ work - which would otherwise be taking up much needed space in their studios - can be seen and sold in between proper exhibitions, shows, and sales.
We look for work to fill our spaces for around 6 months at a time, and the work can be sold through WRAP. See below for the current artists exhibiting with us…
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Currently on Display
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Hugh Fox
Hugh has been working as a fine art and commercial photographer for over 10 years, and in 2022 was awarded the first place in the Sony World Photography Awards, Portfolio category – and a selected winner of Portrait of Britain for three years running.
‘As a neurodivergent person I navigate a world that often feels chaotic and overwhelming, and my photographic process is a place to focus and find clarity -a way of bringing order and meaning to this seemingly nonsensical reality. I seek out quiet moments away from the endless noise and distractions that pervade our increasingly fast-paced lives.’
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Steve Thompson
Steve is an artist from the North of England though resident in the South of England for most of my adult life and Brighton for the last decade. Steve’s background resides in English studies and graphic design. The latter, along with photography, has particularly informed his recent works which have made use of software and digital technology in the production of complex imagery using relatively simple processes like layering, phasing, looping and repetition.
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Cecilia Volpi
Cecilia Volpi is an Italian photographer based in Edinburgh, who completed her studies at Edinburgh Napier University with a Bachelor degree of Photography.
She shoots a diverse range of subjects, focusing on film unit stills, behind the scenes, event photography and portraiture. Her personal work is characterised by a cinematic style and a love for experimental lighting and neon aesthetics.
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Abigail Downey
Photography is a deeply personal creative outlet and a way for me to connect and hold onto the fleeting moments of passing time. Only pursued as a hobby, I capture everyday, mundane, intimate, personal moments of nature and people. Snapshots that happen by chance, are spontaneous and not-posed.
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Michael Boyd
Michael Boyd’s imagination is occupied by magical creatures and far-away lands. Through a combination of observational drawing and detailed rendering of these mystical places and beings, he builds a visual landscape that is eerily familiar.
Collaging from various natural imagery and an archive of whimsical daydreams collected since his childhood, Michael creates drawings that emerge as postcards from a world not too distant from our own.
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Zeynep Kocayusufpasa
Graphic Designer / Artist from Brighton UK. Her works are inspired by nature’s everyday elements. She’s exploring new combinations by placing shifting geometric forms in the middle of natural platforms like the sky or sea. This contrast adds an excitement to the prospect of a new beginning. She works on wood which represents our roots, and all the colours and shapes transform into relationships which express the timelines of our lives. Her attempt is to balance our personal safety zones with the unknown experiences that the future holds, while celebrating the exciting journey called life!
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Nina Garstang
Nina’s practice currently has two strands: traditional oil paints onto canvas or panel and enamel style paints on to glass. Her work contemplates the middle ground between what is real and what is not, pushing the view of the objects she paints to the point where they lose their identity, thus revealing an altered view, that could be looking to the universe or travelling deep inside the body.
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Ian Boutell
Ian Boutell is a hard edge abstract artist, trained originally as an architect where he worked on Trellick Tower, now a listed brutalist building. Currently a painter based the Phoenix Artspace in Brighton where with colleagues he has co-curated two H_A_R_D_P_A_I_N_T_I_N_G exhibitions. Boutell also curates #cottage_of~moden_art an Instagram and Facebook gallery that show a single artwork at a time to best interest the audience and concentrate the mind
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Luca Johnson
Luca Johnson is a multi-disciplinary queer artist based in Cardiff. A recent Illustration graduate from the University of Brighton his practice is inspired by abstraction, modernist sculpture and mid-century design.
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Riley Wallis
Riley is a Canadian abstract painter and designer currently based in London. She creates vibrant and playful abstract paintings that celebrate the magic in the everyday. Her paintings are intuitive translations of experiences; impressions of what it means to be human through an abstract lens. The paintings often illustrate a sense of movement to mimic the fluidity of experience, with bold brushstrokes to strike balance between control and chaos.
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Calum-Louis Adams
Calum-Louis Adams is an Artist and Researcher based in Cardiff. Their work explores the intersection of parody, queerness and heritage. Utilising traditional methods of sculpture and drawing alongside contemporary modes of design, they navigate the borders of the autobiographical and notions of wider pop cultural & sociological critique through‘inward-looking’ objects and personal artefacts.