Dr Narbi Price studied at Northumbria and Newcastle Universities. His PhD explored the legacy of The Ashington Group, and looked at the post-industrial landscape of Northumberland through the lens of previous artistic activity.

Narbi was the winner of the Contemporary British Painting Prize in 2017, Journal Culture Awards Visual Artist of the Year in 2018, and Prizewinner in John Moores Painting Prize in 2012, his work is featured in Phaidon’s ‘Vitamin P3 – New Perspectives in Painting.’

He is a trustee of The Ashington Group collection, and the current Chair of Contemporary British Painting.

www.narbiprice.co.uk

Living and working in the city, Munro’s connection to nature comes in many forms - the organic life that co-exists in her urban environment; the fungi found and foraged; the plants that she nurtures and maintains at home; and hiking into the wild. An ongoing study of fungi, plants and ecological systems has long inspired Munro’s work, as has the reciprocal relationship between human beings and the natural world, the individual and the collective.

A personal exploration of the connection between mental health and the great outdoors, Munro’s work offers an optimistic vision, with dynamic designs painted in sunny colours and swirling brush marks.

www.ailsamunro.com

Fiona Grady is a site-responsive artist known for her architectural interventions that transform their setting by utilising light, colour, shape, surface and scale with impactful outcomes. Her practice recognises the relationship between architecture, installation art and decoration; through lighting gel window installations, wall drawings, projected animations, printmaking and watercolour studies. Her public commissions can be seen across the UK and Europe.

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Artist image © David Lindsay

www.fionagrady.co.uk/