Spring 2025
Mark Burch, Sofia Clausse, Roudhah Al Mazrouei, Sonya Derviz, Parham Ghalamdar, Amelie Mckee
Spring 2025 Residency GEP has collaborated with galleries and their programs to bring together 6 artists
Mark Burch (Soup Ldn), Sofia Clausse (Night Cafe), Roudhah Al Mazrouei (Iris Projects), Sonya Dervis and Amelie Mckee (Sherbet Green), Parham Ghalamdar (Pipeline Gallery)
Mark Burch
Mark Burch (b.1996, Wiltshire) is a British painter living and working in London. He graduated with an MA in Fine Art from the Bath School of Art in 2020, having previously completed his BA in Fine Art at Southampton Solent School of Art & Design (2017).
Burch's painting's explore our mind's tendency to daydream, replaying selective memories in a nostalgic, cinematic loop. By collecting, collating and editing pre-existing VHS footage, he is able to present scenes from an otherwise unexplained narrative.
Both these de-contextualised compositions, as well as a painting style that embraces the digital distortions and disruptions found in archival film, express the imperfections evident in a memory. Instead, emotion is idealised over accuracy, with feelings of nostalgia, desire or dreams foregrounded.
Sofia Clausse
Sofía Clausse (b.1989) is an artist originally from Argentina, currently based in London. She completed her BFA at the Rhode Island School of Design (2014), and the postgraduate program at the Royal Academy Schools in London (2022).
She mainly works with painting, paper, diagrams, and ceramics, to create a visual cosmos of her research into time, repetition, cycles, and language. Her process in the studio is influenced by tools, systems, symbols, typography, textiles, and a circular way of working with materials.
Roudhah Al Mazrouei
Roudhah Al Mazrouei, born in Al Ain in 2003, is an Emirati visual artist whose work is deeply rooted in cultural memory formation, ecological symbiosis, and archival preservation. She holds a BA in Art & Art History from New York University Abu Dhabi and is currently pursuing her MFA at the Royal College of Art.
Roudhah Al Mazrouei’s work blends tradition and modernity, using materials like rocks from the Hajar Mountains and charcoal sikham to create narratives that honor the cultural and ecological heritage of the UAE. Focusing on themes of identity, memory, and heritage, particularly from the village of Siji, her art reflects the resilience and adaptability of the Bedouin way of life. By reimagining natural elements, Al Mazrouei celebrates the region’s ecological diversity and challenges stereotypes of arid landscapes, portraying them not as barren, but as vibrant and interconnected archives of knowledge. Through her work, she captures the enduring spirit of the land and its people in a rapidly modernizing world.
Sonya Derviz
Sonya Derviz (b. 1994, Moscow) lives and works in London.
She graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Slade School of Fine Art in 2018, having previously completed her Foundation Diploma at Central Saint Martins.
Shifting and layered, so often obliterated into her own dialect of soft chaos, Derviz’s compositions react to collated, ephemeral visual sources, from found drawings, illustrations, paintings and film stills. Focusing on the specific elements contained within it, she draws in and repeatedly readjusts these pictures until they dissipate into new metaphysical shapes. This fragmentation allows her to consider these strands as if solely visual, re-writing them into an intuitive artistic language that veers towards expression and emotion over linearity and fixed ideas.
Wrongness and wildness are central components within this praxis, in which a violence is produced through the culmination of elements not known to naturally coexist. In their intensity, they probe the visual experience of limitations and the psychological boundaries of the self. Yet these ideas remain grounded in the process of painting itself, the resultant forms directly correlated to the rhythm, action and doubt of applying paint to canvas. As she repeatedly exercises and reworks the motifs and bodies that form here, there is the sense that she moves closer to them, in their world-less guise.
Solo exhibitions include Closer, Sherbet Green, London (2023); The eyes have all the seeming, of a demon's that is dreaming, Daniel Benjamin Gallery, London (2022); and Pas de Corps, V.O Curations, London (2018). Selected group exhibitions include: Into My Arms, Sherbet Green, London (2023); Bury a Friend, Roman Road, London (2023); First Light, curated by Hector Campbell, Collective Ending, London (2022); Inside Out, The Artist Room, London (2022); It Seems So Long Ago, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2020); Minimal | Maximal, LVH Art, London (2019); Parfum d’épines, Phillips x V.O Curations, Paris (2019); and Paintings by, Alex Vardoxoglou, London (2019).
Parham Ghalamdar
Parham Ghalamdar is a multi-disciplinary artist. Parham's recent works explores his historical and philosophical heritage, utilizing a decolonial lens to reinterpret and innovate within the genres of futurism and science fiction. His recent solo exhibitions include "Painting, An Unending" at the main gallery of HOME in Manchester and "Deep Desert Objekt" at Pipeline Contemporary Gallery in London. He has exhibited at venues such as Caustic Coastal, the Rebecca Hossack Gallery, Castlefield Gallery, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester Art Gallery, and The Lowry. Recognized with awards like the UK New Artists bursary 2023, DYCP grant, and Innovative Grant, his art is collected by notable institutions, including the Government Art Collection.
Amelie Mckee
Through her practice, McKee (b.1996, France) investigates the intersection of scientific positivism with technological consumerism. She uses common parts like cables and switches to explore technological aesthetics. Her practice investigates high tech glorification and its deceptive quailities, creating fictional and functional antennas to examine telecommunications ambivalent use in everyday life and authoritarian contexts.