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An artist whose practice is focused on performance and drawing, yet spans sculpture, video/photography, sound and writing. In exploring the role of the body, McCall is interested in physicality and the thresholds of materials. Artworks have been made by either carving through the landscape while running, drawing a continuous line with graphite on paper, or holding a bit of the landscape (a rock) as an act of endurance as a performance. Through movement and stillness, the work aims to address what it might mean to be human and expand conceptual-based art practices. 

Awarded MFA at Slade School of Art UCL, PhD at Central Saint Martin’s UAL; 

McCall is co-author of the Bloomsbury publication, Performance Drawing: New Practices since 1945 (2020); recent projects include movement director for Editorials and written academic article on Live Art for Routledge; recent ‘Circle Drawing’ and ‘Performing Rock’ performances have been included at Blunk Space in California; Guggenheim in Bilbao, CLOSE Ltd Gallery in Somerset. 

Katherine Perrins, born in London, 1983.  Perrins studied at Falmouth College of Art, followed by City and Guilds of London Art School and now lives and works in Somerset, UK.  As Artist in Residence here at Close Ltd, she has exhibited her work at Close Ltd gallery as well as solo and group exhibitions in Cornwall, London and locally in Somerset.

Her seductive work lies between still life and investigation. She is concerned with the psychic memory of interior spaces through painting, particularly the domestic. She uses paint as a way of exploring these spaces, an attempt to capture the aura of a home and all it contains. Her work has the mastery reminiscent of the Dutch Masters and an honesty of the everyday. Her work is unique and refreshing.

Born in Guildford in 1971, Hammick now lives and works in London and Somerset. A painter and performance artist he has exhibited widely, and was a Lisson Gallery artist 1993 – 2009, now solely represented by Close Ltd. 

Magnus Hammick graduated from Oxford in 1992, Grenville Davey was a tutor of his during these years. He continues his aesthetic of non-representational works derived from the natural landscape and tempting us to see the rationale behind them. The overlaying of a repetitive instructions, with a process based mechanism, masks an underlying landscape.

Anna Mossman's practice explores line, duration, and the hand-made through processes of repetition, pattern, and variation. Working within the expanded field of drawing, she produces finely wrought, long-term line drawings alongside large-scale ink and watercolour works on paper. Her work foregrounds sustained attention and the accumulation of marks over time, inviting close, embodied engagement.

Mossman's current practice developed in the mid-2000s from an extensive body of photographic work examining recorded action and the extended moment. This early engagement with time-based processes continues to inform her approach to drawing, where duration, rhythm, and persistence remain central concerns. Her photographic work used analogue cameras as performative tools rather than purely descriptive devices, she treated the camera as an active collaborator, staging durational actions in which bodily gesture, perception, and time collapsed into the photographic image. Series including Confessions, Blue Throw, Yellow Throw, and the Condom Pictures tested the limits of visibility and authorship through long exposures, improvised filters, and sensory substitution, establishing concerns with duration, rhythm, and persistence that continue to inform her approach to drawing today.

Stewart Geddes studied Fine Art at Bristol Polytechnic from 1980-83, MA at City University, London 1995-97, and MPhil at the Royal College of Art 2004-2007.  He was Head of Painting at Cardiff School of Art and Design until 2010, and Head of Third Year Fine Art at Cheltenham School of Art, Gloucestershire University until 2019. Having been an Academician of the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol (RWA) since 1996, he became its President from 2016-19. He is an Honorary Academician of the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.

Geddes has exhibited both nationally and internationally, and has work held in a number of public collections including the UK Parliamentary Art Collection (House of Commons), The Royal Collection and Cardiff School of Management, Cardiff Metropolitan University.

Simon Hitchens graduated in Fine Art from the University of the West of England in 1990 and his work has been exhibited around the world since then. He frequently exhibits in solo and group exhibitions, undertaking private commissions and numerous large-scale public commissions. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors in 1998, is an RWA Academician, the Grandson of Ivon Hitchens and the fourth generation of artist in his family.

His large-scale public commissions for private companies, public bodies and town councils are always concerned with the specifics of place whilst retaining the integrity of his sculptural voice. Over the years he has built a robust ability to proactively work alongside art consultants, property developers, planners, project managers, builders, architects and engineers etc. in order to deliver projects of the highest calibre. They can be seen in many locations across England.

Drawing on the language of 17th century Dutch art with it’s readymade gravitas - mortality, fragility, ostentation - I have been staging narratives using digital collage, photography, kitsch objects, fairies and animated vegetables, investigating the tension between high and low art.

My cultural heritage is reflected in the paintings, a blend of Polish exotica and Cockney humour, which influences the work both atmospherically, emotively and aesthetically. Lockdown 2020 gave me time to take an in-depth look at the flora and fauna of the domestic garden and to reevaluate it as subject matter alongside art historical sources. I now grow and photograph my own flowers, using the bouquet as a stage or backdrop, and intertwine my daily living with my art practice.

Jane Harris was born in Dorset in 1956. She received a Higher Diploma Fine Art from the Slade School of Fine Art in 1981 and an MA Fine Art from Goldsmiths College in 1991. She was a lecturer in Fine Art at Goldsmiths from 1991 until 2006 when she moved to France.

Her work is held in many major collections including Arts Council England; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery ; Colorado University Art Museum ; Ernst & Young, London ; Fidelity Worldwide Investment; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge ; FRAC MÈCA La Nouvelle Aquitaine, FRAC-Artothèque Limousin, FRAC Poitou- Charente ; Marsh, London ; Pallant House, Chichester (Golder-Thompson Gift) ; Pictet & Cie, London ; Rhode Island School of Design Museum ; Southampton City Art Gallery and the UK Government Art Collection.