Good Eye Projects was founded in 2022 by Scott Franklin, Sam Senchal and Anna Woodward. GEP is a London based residency that runs 3 residencies a year providing 6 artists per residency with a studio. The artists are selected with the assistance of our selection panel Hector Campbell (Soup Gallery) and Marie-Claire Thijsen (Christie’s London).

Founders

Scott Franklin

Scott Franklin is the founder of Property Guardian Protection and supports Good Eye Projects through providing the studios for the residency. Scott is also a collector of emerging artists. Property Guardian Protection has an incredible focus on creating community which Scott has bought over to Good Eye Projects. Alongside providing the residency studio Scott has been able to support the project in exhibition spaces and helping artists beyond the residency.

Sam Senchal

Sam Senchal is a London based collector whose collection has a particular focus on abstraction and supporting early career stage artists. Sam also has be focus on community and creating opportunities and introductions for young artists.

Anna Woodward

Anna’s is a London based artist who studied at City and Guilds of London Art School for her BA and MA in Fine Art, graduating in 2022. Anna is the residency host and program co ordinator, working directly with the artists in the studio and organising gallery/studio visits with industry professionals throughout the residency.

Since graduating from Ma Anna has exhibited in London and Internationally including solo show at Duarte Sequiera, Portugal 2022 and Frestonian Gallery, London 2023. Anna’s practice looks to create fantasy worlds that sit between utopia and dystopia, creating a space that is beyond the realm of the viewer's reality. A space where biomorphic forms grow freely yet there is still evidence of the human made. Woodward works predominantly in oil on linen, working in a series of layers to create intensity, perspective and depth. Being particularly interested in ways of painting and drawn to contemporary artists such as Julie Curtiss and Jane Hayes Greenwood, whose practices sit between the surreal and the skill of the artist. Working in a series of layers that are broken into different painting languages, from the loose washes of oil paint, to highly rendered and voluptuous biomorphic forms that snake their way around the painting, and metallic rods that are engulfed by the biomorphic forms. All of these aspects come together to create an overgrown and wild world. Furthermore, there is an aspect of obsession and repetition in the way that Woodward approaches painting and her subject, evidenced through the repeated motifs and finite detail found within the work.

In 2020 Anna founded an art platform The Artists Contemporary that supported early career stage artists through interviews, exhibitions and a Podcast. Anna also works as the curator for ARC Salon by ARC Stays, curating exhibitions at their different locations and also on acquisitions for the permeant collection. 

Selection Panel

Hector Campbell

Hector is an Art Historian, Writer and Curator based in South London.

In 2023, Hector co-founded Soup Gallery in Elephant & Castle alongside Betty Guereta.

Recent curatorial projects include 'Pounding The Pavement' at Galeria Pelaires (Palma de Mallorca), solo exhibitions with Gianna T and Luisa Me at Oneroom Gallery (London), 'First Light' and 'Old Friends, New Friends' at Collective Ending HQ (London).

Hector has written for galleries such as Saatchi Yates (London), De Brock (Antwerp), Tick-Tack (Antwerp), Galeria Pelaires (Palma de Mallorca), Lungley Gallery (London), Roman Road (London), imlabor (Tokyo) & YBL Creative House (Budapest). He has written for publications such as FAD Magazine and Elephant Magazine, and has contributed to the catalogues of artists Sujin Lee, Yulia Iosilzon, Gori Mora, Billy Fraser & Euphrosyne Andrews.

Hector currently writes a weekly email newsletter, The Shock of the Now, which includes Recommended Exhibitions & Artist Opportunities.

Hector has been a guest-lecturer or guest-tutor at Goldsmiths, Chelsea College of Art, Camberwell College of Art, The Royal Drawing School, City & Guilds of London Art School and Bristol University (his alma mater). He is currently a mentor on the Plop Residency and Good Eye Projects residency programmes.

Finally, Hector is currently a founding member of Collective Ending HQ, a collectively run studio and gallery complex in Deptford, South East London.

Marie-Claire Thijsen

Marie-Claire is a specialist in the Post-War & Contemporary Art department at Christie’s and is passionate about discovering and promoting emerging and overlooked artists from all parts of the world. Having worked across the Evening, Day and online sales in London, Marie-Claire is currently based between London and Dubai and focussed on the Middle East and North Africa region. In her role as Head of Sale for Modern & Contemporary Middle Eastern Art, she has contributed to the growth of the category and has helped to give it a contemporary and international profile through successful auctions and private selling exhibitions in London, Dubai and Paris.

Marie-Claire joined the Selection Panel of Good Eye Projects in June 2022 and organised the residency’s first pop-up exhibition and series of events at Christie’s London in January 2022. She is excited to continue supporting artists towards the next stage in their career by tapping into London’s diverse cultural capital and providing exposure to the next generation of collectors.