Her Court: The Role Wimbledon Played in the Suffragette Movement : A Young Masters Exhibition Project In collaboration with Wimbledon Museum

ALASTAIR GORDON
b. 1978, Edinburgh

Alastair Gordon is a London-based artist working in painting and drawing. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art and Wimbledon School of Art, and his work has been shown in galleries and museums in the UK and internationally, including recent exhibitions at An Lanntair in Stornoway and Cynthia Corbett Gallery in London. Early in his career he won the inaugural Shoosmiths Painting Prize, and has since been shortlisted for a number of awards including the Griffin Art Prize and the Threadneedle Painting Prize.

Alongside his studio practice, Gordon teaches and supports emerging artists. He is Course Leader for the Professional Practice programme at Leith School of Art and co-founder of Morphē Arts Trust, which provides studios and residencies for early-career artists.

He presents meticulously illusionistic landscapes shaped by en plein air expeditions in the Scottish Highlands and Lake District, where hyperreal wilderness meets the studio’s marks and residue, reframing landscape as both artifact and “painting about painting.” 

CAROLYN TRIPP
b. London

Working out of her studio at Wimbledon Arts Studios Carolyn loves to create stories in both 2 and 3 dimensions. On first observation her work sits within the blue and white ceramic tradition with the surface pattern and recurring curves, necks and bellies all thrown in porcelain. Up close the jewel-like surface reveals the hidden visual diary that she collects. Overheard phrases, lyrics, flowers, patterns and memory, are recorded in photography and drawings, leading to the creation of sheets of story. Printed onto paper and then torn or cut to disguise them (so that she retains ownership and privacy of some very personal memories,) each piece is placed individually onto the surface of the vessel. This creates a new “story” each time, full of references that may connect with the viewer, so sparking imagination and memory.


CHRISTOPHE DONOT
b. 1986, France

Christophe Donot (Christophe Ceramics) is a French-born ceramic artist based in London. Originally trained and practicing as an architect, he brings an understanding of structure, material behaviour, and systems thinking to a contemporary ceramic practice that explores themes of memory, transformation, visibility, and collective experience. Working across vessels, sculptural forms, and tile-based compositions, he investigates the relationship between control and unpredictability through the physical properties of clay. Cracking, deformation, fragmentation, and reconstruction are treated not as defects but as integral elements in a process that examines how meaning is formed, disrupted, and reassembled. His work is grounded in material research, using ceramics to explore broader questions of perception, history, and narrative construction, often employing fragmentation and pixelation as formal and conceptual tools that move between legibility and abstraction.

Influenced by his architectural background, Donot approaches each piece as a negotiation between individual components and larger systems, where discrete units accumulate to generate meaning and disruptions reveal tensions around visibility, absence, and change. He is particularly interested in how identities, memories, and cultural histories are mediated through partial information, and how object and image, craft and digital language, can intersect. Central to his practice is the agency of clay itself: by working with different clay bodies and manipulating forms at critical stages of drying and firing, he embraces uncertainty as part of the creative process. The resulting works preserve traces of movement and transformation, reflecting a dialogue between intention and material response, and his ongoing practice continues to bridge contemporary ceramics, material experimentation, and cultural inquiry.

CRISTINA SCHEK
b. Transylvania, Romania

Cristina Schek is a London-based Transylvanian Surrealist working across photography, digital montage, textile and installation. Her practice begins with self-portraiture but often moves beyond the frame: she prints on textile, uses the body as support, thinks sculpturally and blurs the boundary between portrait, object and staged apparition. Drawing from literature, cinema, art history and the subconscious, Schek constructs layered visual worlds where identity is performed, fractured and reimagined. Her work turns the photographic image into something theatrical and uncanny.

Her work has been exhibited internationally at major art fairs and museums, including Elmbridge Museum and Kingston Museum. Schek has received multiple Young Masters distinctions, including First Prize in the 2025 People’s Choice Award, Highly Commended for the Rudolph Blume Foundation Acquisition Award 2025 and the 2021 Focus on the Female Award. She also has three auction records, including two with Phillips London, and won the W4th Plinth in 2023 with The Ceiling in the Sky, a monumental 4 x 4 metre public artwork installed in West London.

Selected Press Quote: Following Schek’s 2026 exhibition Line of Beauty at The Exhibitionist Hotel, South Kensington, leading UK art critic, art historian, author and lecturer Estelle Lovatt FRSA wrote: “In a league of her own, Cristina Schek’s incredible visual adventures embrace life, beyond life. Piloting artistic vision between reality and imagination, I’m calling it Surreal Neo-Romantic Universalism. Questioning what’s factual by what’s make-believe, Schek bends Einstein and Newton, making her new artwork fairytales for grownups.” Estelle Lovatt FRSA

Cristina Schek’s Her Court is a mixed-media installation that transforms an antique Carver Chair into a symbolic seat of remembrance, resistance and female presence. Through textile, portraiture and sound, the work responds to Wimbledon’s suffrage history and the women who fought to be seen, heard and represented. Discover the full story behind the work here.

ELIZABETH O'FARELLY
b. 2002, England

Elizabeth O'Farrelly is a London-based artist who has a multi-media practice, having studied BA (Hons) Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts and completed a Foundation diploma in Animation at Camberwell College of Arts.

Her practice spans painting, 2D and 3D animation, sculpture, installation and miniature model making and she uses these mediums to explore ideas of memory, nostalgia and home. These concepts arise in the mural, 'The Gift of Life' that she and three fellow students designed for King's College Hospital and also in her work created at her recent residency at the Muse Gallery, London.

Her installation, ‘Are We There Yet?’ was recently exhibited at The Sotheby’s Institute of Art, New York and her miniature sculpture, ‘Shrinking, Shrinking’ was included in the 16th East Wing Biennial and is currently on show at the Courtauld Institute.

JO HOLDSWORTH
b. England

Jo Holdsworth is an award-winning contemporary British artist known for her paintings of elongated and reflected figures often in blue and grey tones. Represented by galleries in the UK and the USA, Jo’s work has featured on book, album and magazine covers and is held in public and private collections.

Often embracing themes such as hope and loyalty, Jo’s life-affirming paintings attract a strong following and are collected throughout the world. Her striking and unique paintings have bold, cinematic appeal as well as being admired for their distinct colour palette and loose, spontaneous brush work.

Jo exhibits regularly at the Affordable Art Fair in London. Her highly successful Solo Show at 60 Threadneedle Street in the City of London finished at the end of January 2024. Jo also had an incredible Solo Show at stunning Neptune Wimbledon in July 2024 and her paintings were also on display at Farrow & Ball in 2025 where Jo gave a talk about her work and on the impact of art on interiors. Jo was honoured to have been shortlisted for the Young Masters Art Prize ‘For the Love of Art History’ with the Cynthia Corbett Gallery in 2025.

Jo paintings in public and private collections include Cambridge University. Her painting in the Young Masters ‘For the Love of Art History’ exhibition was highly commended and acquired by the Rudolph Blume Foundation in Houston, Texas.

‘It’s the mixture of calm beauty and ambiguity throughout all of Jo Holdsworth’s paintings that mesmerises the viewer.’ London art critic Tabish Khan writing about Jo Holdsworth’s work in World of FAD.

LAURA DZELZYTĖ
b. 1991, Lithuania

Laura Dzelzytė is a Lithuanian multidisciplinary artist based in London. She studied at the University of Cambridge and received an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art. Working across painting, sculpture, conceptual publishing, and immersive installations, she investigates how cultural, political, and technological systems shape personal decision-making. Drawing on philosophy, historical narratives, and contemporary data, she transforms familiar symbols, stories, and objects into frameworks for examining agency, responsibility, and belief. Her paintings engage with the visual language of the Old Masters to address contemporary dilemmas, while her sculptural and conceptual works use participation, research, and institutional formats to reveal the structures that govern everyday life.

Recent projects include 500 Opportunities to Be Unequal (2024), an immersive installation exploring the impossible choices surrounding fertility, and The Next Day Delivery (2025), which reimagines Sandro Botticelli’s Annunciation through the aesthetics and logic of consumer culture. These works reflect an ongoing interest in how inherited narratives intersect with contemporary systems of value, choice, and control. Together with other students, she relaunched and later edited the Royal College of Art journal ARK as a participatory publication-exhibition, now held in the National Art Library at the V&A. She is currently developing Philosophy of the Home, a research and sculpture project in Bhutan that uses wax to explore domesticity as a form of knowledge and power. Upcoming exhibitions include Beelden aan Zee Museum and Birds of Passage at Museum of Contemporary Art Matino in 2026.

LESLEY BOERIO
b. 1983, United Kingdom

Lesley Boerio is a British ceramicist based in Margate specialising in hand-built work; moulds and sculpting. Her work is a collection of colourful ceramic vases adorned with carefully selected words and lyrics. Each piece is a fusion of visual and literary art, creating a unique synergy between form and expression which aims to evoke emotions and connections through the powerful combination of language and visual aesthetics.

Exploring the intersection of language and art, each piece celebrates the beauty of communication through the medium of ceramics. Each vase tells a story, conveying emotions, memories, and reflections through the carefully chosen words and lyrics that adorn its surface.

Designed for art enthusiasts, language lovers, and anyone who appreciates the fusion of creativity and craftsmanship. The colourful and expressive nature of the ceramic vessel appeals to a diverse audience, making them an engaging experience for viewers of all ages.

By blending the beauty of colourful ceramics with the power of words and lyrics, Boerio’s pieces promise to be captivating and thought-provoking for art enthusiasts and language aficionados alike.

LORAINE RUTT
b. 1962, Wimbledon

Loraine’s background as a map maker informs her ceramics practice. Clay provides a tangible connection to the earth’s surface, through which her work explores how maps shape our sense of place and belonging. By playing with scale and volume—whether through a pocket globe that places the world in the palm of the hand, or topography with amplified relief— her work addresses specific themes, including environmental and social inequality, and monumental journeys.

Her practice is honed through three decades of intimate engagement with clay. Relief maps and domestic scale vessels are decorated with cartographically accurate drawings. Many works begin as sculpted, topographically accurate porcelain models, which are then translated— primarily in porcelain—as handmade variable editions. Fine line work is carved into the surface of the clay with custom-made needle tools, creating precise, map-like definition.

Loraine is fascinated by the liminal traces of geographical experience revealed through maps, and by ceramics as a commemorative medium. Drawing on traditions of souvenirs, domestic ware, and studio pottery, her work functions as a means of sharing stories of place. Her work is in the collections of The Royal Museum Greenwich, The London Museum, The Royal Geographical Society, and has been commissioned by an Apollo Astronaut and as gifts for world leaders.

LOUISE BROOKE
b. 1991, Scotland

Louise Brooke is a textile artist, based in Newcastle upon Tyne. Graduating in 2015 with a Fashion Design degree, and following a 10 year career in e-commerce, Louise returned to creative practice in 2025, following her partner’s diagnosis with Becker Muscular Dystrophy.

With an empathetic approach and love of words and stories, Louise expresses lived or imagined perspectives, through her word-based textile work. Inspired by the rich heritage of women’s work, Louise creates contemporary banners to celebrate personal stories, tenderness and vulnerability. Louise is interested in the intimate relationship we have with textiles, instinctively knowing how a fabric will feel, its weight and texture. She is particularly drawn to silk and velvet for their relationship with light.

Louise exhibits across the UK and is a member of the Collective Studio 25-26 at The NewBridge Project and NEEDLE North East Textile Artists.

NTIENSE ENO-AMOOQUAYE
b. 1985, United Kingdom

Ntiense Eno-Amooquaye’s practice integrates the visual, written and spoken word through print, text, image and live performance.

‘I am a writer, performer and maker of artwork. I explore the relationships between words and images, the artist as someone who listens, recording to collect the writing as well as the drawings. I want to present what I am doing in performance and reading in performance but also ask -where do people find me in the exhibition when I am not there?’ Ntiense Eno-Amooquaye

Ntiense Eno-Amooquaye’s dress ‘Jewellery Becomes Law’ from her exhibition ‘Crashing the Glass Slippers’ features in Design and Disability at V&A Kensington in 2025 touring to V&A Dundee in 2026.

‘Crashing the Glass Slippers’ (2024) at Chapter, Cardiff is Ntiense Eno-Amooquaye’s largest solo exhibition to date, presenting her collection of sculptural garments including dresses, capes and trouser suits. Referencing historic costume and avant-garde couture, they feature her kaleidoscopic drawings. Worn and embodied by her in a striking series of photographic self-portraits and filmed performances, they become portals of transformation.

ROBERT HODGE
b. 1979, United States

Robert Hodge is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and cultural strategist based in Houston, Texas. Working across collage, painting, sculpture, installation, music, and public art, his practice examines the intersections of memory, place, and African American cultural production. Through a process of collecting, cutting, sewing, scorching, layering, and painting, Hodge transforms reclaimed materials—including record sleeves, maps, posters, found imagery, and urban ephemera—into complex visual compositions that investigate the ways history is preserved, transmitted, and reimagined.

Rooted in the traditions of assemblage, sampling, and improvisation, Hodge's work celebrates resilience, self-determination, and cultural stewardship while honoring the individuals, communities, and histories that have shaped Black life in America. His compositions function as both archives and acts of reclamation, weaving together fragments of popular culture, personal memory, historical narratives, and contemporary experience. By collapsing distinctions between fine art and vernacular culture, Hodge creates works that illuminate the layered and ongoing continuum of African American history and expression.

SARAH MCALISTER
b. 1964, United Kingdom

Sarah chooses to use found materials that are often embedded with narrative. Her ethos as a textile artist is to re-use existing resources.

‘Place’ and ‘heritage’ are important to Sarah’s work and she explores and uses textiles that resonate with a particular place or the time they were made and used.

Sarah approaches her making in a meaningful way that adopts a number of intuitive methods which are highly considered and committed to the use of sustainable materials that are often embedded with narrative.

Her ethos as a textile artist is to recycle, re-use and re-purpose existing resources. Her works are made entirely from found objects including cloth that take on different forms depending on the materials’ properties.

Jaffe received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in ceramics and glass in (1980), from The Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During college she studied in Rome, Italy where her love for implementing mixed media into assemblages was born. She later founded Germantown Glass, which became renowned for their refined objects d’art. Stephanie’s work has evolved to include mixed media mosaic painting and sculpture.

For the past two decades she has also worked as an accomplished public artist in Florida.  Her work has been in galleries and museums across the country. She had a solo show titled “Treasures Reconstructed” 2018 at The Sol Taplin Gallery, Miami Shores, Florida. Sample group exhibitions “Just for Fun” (2018) A.E. Backus Museum in Fort Pierce, Florida, “All that Glistens” (2019) at The Laundromat Art Space, Miami, Florida and “I Want Candy, the Sweet Stuff in American Art (2007) at The Hudson River Museum of Art, Yonkers, New York. Her public art pieces are in several collections including Florida Art in State Buildings (2018), The City of Boynton Beach, Florida AIPP (2010) Town of Miami Lakes AIPP (2014), and City of Fort Pierce AIPP (2009)

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