LBF at the Lake

Julia Bennett is an American artist living and working in London. Bennett completed a Master’s in Painting from the Royal College of Art (2022) and a Bachelor’s of Fine Art in Photography/New Media at Seattle Pacific University (2017). Bennett’s process weaves old and new paintings together, the original image split, creating a fracture between time and perception. As paint and clay are layered to coalesce the pixelated fragments of canvas, a new truth appears. The spectres of history and the lands come together for a brief moment of healing – a symbol of remediation. Bennett’s paintings become a reflection of our entangling with a colonised and over-consumed Earth; remembering the ghosts of our making and bridging the threshold to possible futures.

Annice Fell graduated from the Masters Painting Programme at the Royal College of Art in 2023 and earned her BA in Painting at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL in 2020. Fell’s bold paintings sit between automatic painting and gestural abstraction, drawing on surrealist techniques such as decalcomania and automatism. Her works respond to the shifting meanings of the world, registering thought and feeling through mark-making rather than depiction. What emerges are residues of action and reaction –moments rebuilt from undoing– where medium and matter transform internal states into visceral presence. Fell was the recipient of the Betty Malcolm Prize and the Richard Ford Award. Her work can be found in the collection of the Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX, US.

Joe Grieve holds a First Class Honours Degree from the City & Guilds Art School in London. Through making landscape paintings, Grieve finds himself engaging in reveries and nostalgia from remembered landscapes and experiences. They reference actual places merging poetic rural ideals, sometimes underpinned with fragments and marks from urban angles and the sound of the city. In bringing together these elements, Grieve celebrates the unique qualities of painting, constructing illusory spaces through mark-making and strokes of colour. Using primary drawings and found imagery as starting points, these references go through a transformation as the paint takes on a life of its own; the act of painting and its vivacity being key to Grieve’s practice. His approach is playful, and often relies on experimental mark making. However, Grieve’s aim is to evoke emotions that relate to his experience. He creates work that simultaneously provides a space in which we feel engaged with the familiar, whilst also getting lost within the spectacle of abstract accidents. Grieve’s painting are held in collections globally, with artworks on 5 continents and in private collections in over 20 countries.

H. E. Morris completed her PhD in Fine Art at Newcastle University in 2025, after receiving a MA from Goldsmiths in Contemporary Art Theory, a MFA from the University of Iowa in Painting and Drawing, and a BA from Hampshire College. Morris was a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA in 2019, and a Soho Revue Artist in Residence in 2023. Her practice is interested in working through a place of emotion to search for a truth. Structuring her paintings through memory, she explores the temporalities of narrative in order to test a notion of time that splits between working through absence and presence. Morris’s work can also be found in the collection of the Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX, US; and in Museu Inimá de Paula, Brasil.

Gaia Ozwyn is a Caribbean-British artist, who completed an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art in 2024, supported by the Sir Frank Bowling Scholarship. Originally trained as a biomedical scientist and in Medicine, she spent several years working as a doctor in the NHS before committing to a full-time painting practice. Ozwyn’s work explores transitional spaces – borderlands and peripheries – as sites of tension, transformation, and truth. Rooted in the shared experience of inhabiting a corporeal and shifting world, the paintings reflect a dynamic interplay between material presence and transience. In 2025, Ozwyn was selected for the RCA BLK x Yinka Shonibare Foundation residency, held at the G.A.S. Foundation in Lagos, Nigeria.

Min Woo Nam is a Korean artist based in London. He holds a Master’s degree in Painting from the Royal College of Art and a degree from the London School of Economics. His formative experience serving with the United Nations peacekeeping force in South Sudan deeply informs his ongoing enquiry into consciousness, perception, and moments of meaningful coincidence that shape lived experience and selfhood. By pairing delicate tonal transitions with measured brushwork, Nam’s work probes the spatial limits of abstraction, creating a field of depth that exists between the known and the unknown. His practice focuses on the liminality between recognisable form and abstraction. This ambiguity is achieved through accumulated layers and subtle transitions in hue, which allow him to evoke internal luminosity and the canvas’s spatial depth.

Highlights of recent exhibitions include Nothing New under the Sun, a solo exhibition at LBF Contemporary, London (2024); Within and Beyond, Rosenfeld Gallery, London (2023); Nouvelle Vague, LBF Contemporary, London (2023); Timescapes, Shtager & Shch, London (2023); Passages, D Contemporary, London (2023); and the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London (2022). In 2024, Min Woo was an artist-in-residence at the Vannucci Artist Residency supported by The Deighton Family Foundation in Umbria, Italy.