Serie: Open House

Archie Proudfoot

Archie Proudfoot’s prints explore our relationship with words using bold colours and playful styles. Throughout lockdown, he’s been using traditional techniques to hone his craft of bespoke sign painting.

KV Duong

KV Duong uses painting and performance to explore ideas of cultural and sexual identity.

Alice Irwin

We might be back in lockdown, but the UK’s artists are still creating and they've invited us into their home studios. In episode 1, sculptor and printmaker Alice Irwin shows us how the playground inspires her work.

Rebecca Gilpin

Rebecca Gilpin creates visual rhythms on canvas. In episode 9, she tells us how listening to music shaped her latest series, Magic Carpet ride; and why the sea plays an important role in her work.

Tom White

Tom White’s colourful oils explore the vulnerability of the human condition. In episode 6 of Open House, he takes us through his artistic journey from pop culture to deeply personal self-portraits.


Ian Bruce

Ian Bruce describes painting portraits as “somewhere between a haircut and a therapy session”. In episode 4 of Open House, he shows us how he’s adapted his intimate methods to lockdown, and finally found the time to launch his long-imagined animation project.

Millie Suu Kyi

Millie Suu Kyi’s ceramics and illustrations depict personality traits through playful characters and vivid scenes, inspired by childhood nostalgia. In episode three of Open House, she shows us how lockdown is shaping her work, and shares her hopes for the future of the arts.

Conor Rogers

Conor Rogers’ intricate miniatures of daily life in the north of England are authentic, emotive depictions of working-class society. In the second episode of Open House, he takes us round his studio where discarded objects become the canvases for his work.

Pie Herring

Pie Herring’s vivid, visceral depictions of womanhood are both disarming and exhilarating. In the first episode of Open House, the artist invites us into her studio to explain why lockdown isn’t holding her back.