Embracing interruption and disturbance as a catalyst to shift perspective brings these artists together. Whether through channelling the immensity of digital time, exploring concepts of deception via simulated realities and voyeuristic spaces; or processing the psychological impact of environmental collapse, Disturbances speaks of states of unsettlement, a longing for reconnection and of finding new ways forward.

By reconstructing objects from history to question inherited narratives and examine collective thinking or by probing the archetypes of landscape and painting’s relationship to truth, these artists share an interest in disrupting dominant ideology. This sense of rupture is echoed in their methodology: a deliberate glitching of the printing process, unravelling and reworking stitching, provoking and showcasing accidents, or using instinctive mark making to form painterly gestures that step away from the human hand. In all instances, there is a common interest in resistance and in creating alternative, multitudinous realities.

Embracing error and play and engaging with the discomfort of not knowing, these works create spaces for the imagination and for new avenues of thought. Within these charged spaces, Disturbances become a potentially generative force, exposing out-dated, socio-political thinking and sowing the seeds of possible regeneration.


About the artists:
Benjamin Deakin
Lives and works in London, UK.
Benjamin’s work is often based on experiences from travels to remote parts of the world, but focuses on the familiar as much as the exotic. He is interested in the ideas we often take to places rather than from them. A recent series of paintings were based on the interiors of modest tea lodges he visited in the Himalayas. Featuring everyday looking domestic objects placed before the spectacular backdrop of the mountains, they upend the Romantic archetypes often attributed to mountain scenery. Patterns and fabric designs from different cultures also feature in the interiors, indicating that cultural ideas are mutable and constantly shifting. Other works deal more explicitly with relationships between art and the environment and the impacts that these have. Benjamin studied Fine Art at Kingston University and completed his MA at Central Saint Martins, London. His work has been acquired by several private collections. He has been shortlisted twice for the Contemporary British Painting Prize in 2023 and 2018. www.bendeakin.co.uk @benjamin_deakin


Recent Exhibitions: Close Distance, JGM Gallery, London (2022), The Tea House Paintings, TM Lighting Gallery (2022). Group exhibitions include: Wurly, JGM Gallery, London (2026), Edgelands; Turps Gallery, London (2024); Cubitt 30, Victoria Miro Gallery, London; Horizon, The Cello Factory, London (2022), Contemporary British Painting Prize 2023 & 2018 (Finalist). Residencies include: Xenia Creative Retreat, UK, (2025); PADA studios (2018), Joya Art+Ecologica, Andalucia, Spain (2017); Listhus, Olafsfjordur, Iceland in 2015; KIAC Dawson City, Yukon, Canada (2008), University of Kathmandu, Nepal (2005), Hospitalfield Trust, Arbroath, Scotland (2002).

Caroline Macdonald
Lives and works in London and Oxford, UK
Caroline’s practice navigates the space between the physical and digital, where history is fragmented and reimagined into new contemporaneous forms. She treats the museum like a garden, a site of cultivation, harvesting artifacts and imagery "ripe for the picking” to reflect on her personal history and our collective moment. Time jumps to reveal anxiety, fragments as we glimpse the immensity of digital time, and backward glances to grasp at something long forgotten or never known. Drawing, photography and painting begin the process, capturing fragments. Back in the studio, these are unravelled and reconstructed using a range of traditional and digital print techniques. Tension slides between the encounter with the scale of the work and the precarity of its materiality. Timelines fold; Baroque grandeur crumples and ancient forms disintegrate. Caroline uses the language of error; the slip and blur of the digital glitch to create chromatic fissures which dissolve the usual boundaries between past and present, object and image, physical and digital. Caroline completed a master’s in Fine Art Print at the Royal College of Art, 2023. @caromacstudio

Recent Group Exhibitions: Irving Gallery Open 2026 Oxford, What if, St Johns College, Oxford University, 2024, Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair London, 2025, 2024, 2023, RSBA Gallery Print Biennale 2024, Birmingham. FORMED with Future Heritage, Chelsea Design Centre, London, 2023. Residencies: Ovada Gallery Summer Residency Oxford, 2024. Awards: Editorial prize at the RBSA Print Biennale 2024 awarded by Printmaking Today who featured her work in the June 2024 Issue.

Luisa Mascaro
Lives and works in London, UK
Luisa’s practice engages with disturbance as a generative space, using interruption, play and material accident to unsettle inherited narratives. Working across printmaking, painting, ceramics, books and sculpture, she deconstructs images drawn from art history, reconfiguring them into fractured and speculative narratives. Her process is intuitive and exploratory, often inviting error through deliberate provocation of materials, chance encounters and process-led decision making. Shifts between inner perception and external form are central to her work, where disruption becomes a means of re-seeing and re-structuring reality. Through acts of fragmentation and reassembly, Luisa creates spaces where uncertainty is held open, allowing alternative ways of thinking, sensing and imagining to emerge. Luisa completed her MA in Print at the Royal College of Art in 2023. www.luisamascaro.com @luisamp6

Recent Group Exhibitions include: Gasp 2 at Worldly Wicked & Wise Gallery (2024); Ego Dialogue at Greatorex Street Gallery (2023); Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair (2023); RCA Show at The Truman Brewery (2023); Shadows We Cast at The Koppel Project (2023); Two Fold at Lake Gallery (2023). Recently, she has been developing collaborative projects with SOW Studio and Chalkie Cloonan.

Nina Ogden
Lives and works in London, UK
Nina draws inspiration from her background in the film industry. Her paintings explore deception, trickery, and illusion, delving into the nature of simulated reality and its relationship to truth. While colour and texture entice the viewer, a closer inspection reveals an unsettling disturbance. The natural rhythm of nature is disturbed, revealing alternate realities and voyeuristic spaces behind the initial facade. She completed her MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art in 2023 supported by the Paul Desty scholarship. www.ninaogden.com @nina_ogden

Recent Solo Exhibitions: Sleight of the Canopy, Incubator gallery, London (2025). Group exhibitions include: Female Artists of Tomorrow, the Hari Hotel, Mayfair (2025), The Hari Art Prize, London (2024, awarded second Prize), The National Eisteddfod of Wales at Y Lle Celf in Pwlleli (2024), Transcendence, Gate 45, Dubai (2024) . Her work was recently acquired by the Ashurst Art Collection at the London Fruit and Wool Exchange (2025). Currently, Nina is exhibiting in Resemblance at Michelin-starred restaurant La Bombe, Old Park Lane, Mayfair.

Carrie-Ann Stein
Lives and works in London, UK
Carrie’s practice explores how emotional life is shaped and carried through images by re-staging figures from lesser-known historical paintings whose gestures persist across time. Her process moves from digital intervention to cutting, transfer-printing, abrasion and over-painting. Visible seams, pressure and wear record labour and decision-making. More recently, she has begun applying paint into surface grazes as an ointment-like gesture, treating repair as an active, embodied act in response to damage. Psychoanalytic thinking informs her attention to recurrence, resistance and the unresolved. Carrie holds an MA in Print and a Postgraduate Diploma in Art & Design from the Royal College of Art. Previously, she trained and worked in theatre design, and in 2024 was shortlisted for the V&A Adobe Creative Residency Programme. www.carrieannstein.co.uk @carrieannstein

Recent Group Exhibitions: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (2025), Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (2025) and Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair (2024).

Cassie Vaughan
Lives and works in London, UK Cassie’s work is concerned with our disconnection from the natural world and the commodification of the earth’s systems and species. Her paintings explore the psychological impact of living in a world we are changing beyond recognition. She draws upon Glenn Albrecht’s concept of solastalgia and species loneliness, a term coined by Michael Vincent McGinness to describe the isolation we feel as we destroy and distance ourselves from other species. Her work is rooted in this atmosphere of fragmentation and the potential for new growth it implies. She sees her paintings as nature based spaces that deliberately disrupt the artifice of landscape and the language we use to exploit the natural world. Cassie completed her MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art in 2023. She was shortlisted for the Hari Art Prize in 2025. www.cassievaughan.co.uk @cassievaughan

Recent Group Exhibitions include: In Place, WIP Project Space, London (2026), Painting - A Changed Environment, Messums London (2025), Tracing Space, Irving Gallery, Oxford (2025), Shared Origins, Winns Gallery, London (20205), The Winter Show, Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, (2024) and The Lido Open 2024, The Lido Stores, Margate (2024).



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