Wednesday 21 August 2024
Announcing the 2024/25 Emerging Artists at Orleans House Gallery
We are thrilled to announce the three artists taking part in Orleans House Gallery’s 2024/25 Emerging Artists Programme. The exhibitions will take place in the Stables Gallery from Saturday 28 September 2024 through Spring 2025.
The programme is dedicated to supporting early-career artists within the first 10 years of their practice. It provides a platform for artists to strengthen their work and develop their careers.
This year, we received proposals from 206 artists and collectives from around the globe, each presenting a diverse array of exhibition ideas, and we whittled this down to three artists. Our Stables Gallery will come alive with immersive installations, sculpture and paintings, guiding us through imaginative stories.
The gallery promises to be a vibrant and dynamic space, and we extend our gratitude to the artists for sharing their projects with us. We hope you will spend time exploring their work and discovering the powerful, new voices they bring to Richmond.
Featured Artists
Lucy Gregory
Lucy Gregory graduated from The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford in 2016 and the Royal College of Art, Sculpture in 2018. She creates large-scale, figurative ‘kinetic collages’ that rely on audience participation to activate surreal mechanisms. Her sculptures take inspiration from real-world events and narratives, hierarchies of power, and the way we consume images in a post-internet world.
More about Lucy’s upcoming exhibition, Muscle Memory, here.
Mingzhang Sun
Mingzhang Sun is a Chinese-born multidisciplinary artist currently based in London. With extensive training in both Chinese and European painting, fashion design, costume design, soft sculpture, installation, and performance art, Ming’s artistic practice spans various mediums. An alumnus of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and the University of the Arts in London, Mingzhang won the prestigious 2013 CAFA President’s Choice Award and the 2017 UAL Excellence in Design and Realization for Performance Award. Mingzhang’s artworks have been showcased in solo and group exhibitions across the United Kingdom, China, New Zealand, and Europe.
Visit Mingzhang’s website here.
Gina DeCagna
Gina DeCagna is an American artist who has been living and working in London for the past six years. She earned her MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2020, following her BA in English, Creative Writing, and Fine Arts from the University of Pennsylvania in 2016 in Philadelphia, PA. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions across London, Philadelphia, and New York. In addition to her visual art, her critical writing and poetry have appeared in various small-press and independent cultural publications.