Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop

A Decade of Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop Over ten years, Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop has grown into a sustained, artist-led ecosystem built on trust, rigour, and exchange. Founded by Stacie McCormick, it was never simply a gallery, but a space for artists to develop in proximity to one another—through residencies, exhibitions, and ongoing dialogue. Hundreds of artists have passed through, supported at pivotal moments in their practice. What has emerged is a community that extends far beyond the programme itself—artists who continue to connect, collaborate, and champion one another. At its core is a clear belief: that meaningful artistic growth is not driven by competition, but by generosity, attention, and shared understanding. In a landscape often shaped by market pressures, Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop has held a different position—one where the work comes first, and where artists strengthen, rather than compete with, each other. That is its legacy—and the foundation of what follows. #Unit1GalleryWorkshop #StacieMcCormick #ArtistLed #ArtistSupport #contemporaryart CreativeGrowth ArtMentorship ArtEducation

It was great to contribute to the judging of the Liberty Specialty Markets presents: The Liberty Art Award and so grateful to be invited by @parkerharris Thank you Penny & the team - Congrats to all the selected artists - all winners and such a great cohort ! Check out and follow them - ones to watch ! Congrats to the winners @polinasuleimanka @lukasleisingerart @mollythompson.art #LibertyArtaward #Meettheartist #Artists #LifeAtLiberty @karyn_johnstone @jackwoolleyartist @polinasuleimanka @Elliottoak_art @merriecarltonart @macey.c.art @lukasleisingerart @yin.wang.art @mollythompson.art @wink_king_moe @hwianman #contemporaryart

It’s so great to have a chance to share some of the artists that have given their time and energy here @unit1galleryworkshop - I would love to have listed everyone - thank you to you all & @theauctioncollective •for the opportunity to share @theauctioncollective Top 10 Emerging Artists | Stacie McCormick Our next Top 5 Editorial features an extended format from our usual style, including a spotlight on the top 10 next gen artists from those that know. This week’s Top 10 comes from London-based abstract painter and cultural leader Stacie McCormick. Stacie’s practice explores awe, endurance, and the passage of time through immersive, gesture-driven work that balances vulnerability and strength, and has been exhibited and collected internationally. Alongside her studio work, she founded Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop, developing residencies and non-profit initiatives that have supported over 600 artists and curators, fostering rigorous, collaborative environments. As both practitioner and organiser, she creates and participates in structures that strengthen the artistic community from within. She has also led and contributed to wider sector change, serving as Chair of a-n Artists Information Company and founding Fair Art Fair, with all her work grounded in the belief that serious artistic practice depends on time, support, and strong infrastructure. Read the full article via our website. Ubada Muti | @ubadamuti Image from the artist’s instagram Jia Xi Li | @jiajiajiaxi_li Image taken from the artist’s website Sanne Vaassen | @sannevaassen Image taken from the artist’s website Nemo Nonnenmacher | @nemo.nonnenmacher Image taken from the artist’s instagram Shinuk Suh | @shinuksuh Image taken from the artist’s website Tinaye Makuyana | @tinayemakuyana.studio Image taken from the artist’s website Harrison Pierce | @_harrison_pearce Image taken from the artist’s instagram Ana Barriga | @anabarrigaoliva Image taken from the artist’s instagram Sarah Dwyer | @sarahdwyer1 Image taken from the artist’s instagram Marco Bizzarri | @bizzarri Image taken from the artist’s instagram

WOMEN ARTISTS - OVER 50 - WE ARE TO BE CELEBRATED AND APPLAUDED Hi, Stacie McCormick (painter) I’ve been thinking, I’ve been thinking about mature female artists, mostly because we’re seeing so much about Rose Wiley, 91 years old, didn’t get solo representation until she was 70, as more nurse picked her up. And I’ve just really been thinking about durational, mature women who have raised families, who have done their master’s degree in their 40s, have really stood the test of time. I mean, Rose raised a family and was married to Roy Oxlade, extraordinary painter and really extraordinary writer, if you haven’t read his works. I think the really interesting thing right now is no one knows better than me how much I love emerging artists. In my now 11 years here in the space, it’s 500 emerging artists that have come through the door. But I’m growing very, very aware (for obvious reasons) of this category of women of a certain age that have actually kind of stood the test of time. And despite all kinds of reasons why we shouldn’t, we still are here and we’re still painting. So I am today really thinking about women over 50 who have never given up, still in their practices, and have so much to give. And this maturity of practice, this devotion that means that really the practice has this chance of really, really telling something and a substance that can, in many ways, only be achieved by this durational dedication, I would call it.So I’m today celebrating women artists over 50. I include myself in the category. There are mothers out there that wish they could be in the studio and when they’re in the studio they wish they could be with their children. There are women who have found themselves in professions to support a studio that they only get to sneak into whilst they’re doing their real job. And it’s so, so, so important to celebrate those mature women artists. And I applaud us. I applaud myself. I’m still here. I’m still painting and I still really consider it a privilege, an honour, and the most important thing I do. Maybe to my children. But here is two really women artists over 50. #womenartists #femaleartists #maturewomen

🚨BIG NEWS🚨 Each year it gets harder and harder to choose a selection of artists from the huge amount of incredible submissions that we receive, and this year was no exception! With works ranging from illustration to photography, and abstract to figurative painting we can’t wait to show the works in our winners exhibition at @unit1galleryworkshop later this year where the artist’s work will be showcased and limited edition prints will be available to add to your collection. As always with the Delphian Open Call 100% of the profits of the print sales go directly to the artist, we take no commission (it’s also totally free to enter). Without further ado, here are this year’s winning artists: Wills Asamoah, Aleksandr Biruk, Shane Bonsujet, Julia Boot, Libby Bove, Arch Budzar, Charlie Chesterman, Ellen Claes, Caroline de Chaunac de Lanzac, Mara Faundez, Elena Fiorenza Gatti, Alejandro Javaloyas, Joe Katzman, Swea Kittel, Alexander Koch, Katya Krasnova, Bety Krňanská, Darcy McCrae, Williams Merenini, Dan Morgan, Rosie Park, Elliot Pittam, Julia Rehme, Patrick Rosche, Syd Sauer Wilson, Sim Sim, Olga Survillo, Miguel Ulmann, Selin Uyar, Julia Valtanen, Ellie Walker, Renjie Wang, Wojciech Wos, Tania Yakunova, Danning Yu #delphianopencall2026 #delphianopencall #delphiangallery #delphian #opencall

Celebrating 10 years at Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop, we continue revisiting the Radical Residency Programme, an experimental strand of our residency model that has supported 8 Radical Residencies to date. Each four-week residency culminated in a group exhibition, offering artists time, proximity and shared space to test ideas and expand their practices. Radical Residency VIII brought together artists working across sculpture, painting, photography and installation, united by material experimentation and personal narrative. Amale Freiha Khlat (@afk10 ) translates memories of war through objects and installations, exploring creation through destruction and inviting viewers to reconsider perception. Emily Stevens (@emilyv_stevens ) treats paint as a living, sensuous medium—a companion, a distraction, and a form of self-soothing, holding moments in a state of possibility. Sojung Park (@xo.rek ) investigates the sensory hierarchy, creating sticky kinetic sculptures that emphasise touch over visual dominance in a hyper-mediated world. Sang-Mi Rha (@sangmirha ) builds immersive metaverses in her paintings, reimagining childhood memories and global experiences through animal-shaped masks and whimsical narratives. Reed Wilson (@reedelizabethwilson ) transforms everyday objects into marvels of light and character, making sweets, twine, and tea towels extraordinary in small, meticulous acrylic works. Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop continues to provide artists with time, space, mentorship, and exposure to expand their practice. #unit1galleryworkshop #radicalresidency #artistresidency #contemporaryart #processbasedpractice

Celebrating 10 years at Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop, we continue revisiting the Radical Residency Programme, an experimental strand of our residency model that has supported 8 Radical Residencies to date. Each four-week residency culminated in a group exhibition, offering artists time, proximity and shared space to test ideas and expand their practices. Radical Residency VIII brought together artists working across sculpture, painting, photography and installation, united by material experimentation and personal narrative. Ingrid Berthon-Moine (@ingridberthonmoine ) examines language, gender and the body, using humour and provocation to challenge cultural and linguistic power structures. John A. Blythe (@johnblythe65 ) works with expanded photography, exploring material processes while foregrounding art’s role in learning, confidence and community. Sasha Bowles (@sashabowles1 ) creates provisional environments where objects, film and painting operate as fragments of illusion, transformation and artifice. Jo Chate (@jochate ) transforms everyday observations into layered, enigmatic paintings that repeatedly obscure and reveal traces of the familiar. George Georgiu builds diaristic, large-scale works that expand the intimacy of sketchbooks into raw, public visual records of lived experience. Ethan Caflisch (@ethancaflisch ) works across painting, sculpture and film, with a focus on ceramics, exploring material memory through rigorous, process-led making. Join us in applauding our commitment to artists thriving. #unit1galleryworkshop #radicalresidency #artistresidency #contemporaryart artistcommunity

Celebrating 10 years at Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop, we continue revisiting the Radical Residency Programme, an experimental strand of our residency model that has supported 8 Radical Residencies to date. Each four-week residency culminated in a group exhibition, offering artists time, proximity and shared space to test ideas and expand their practices. Radical Residency VII brought together artists working across painting, sculpture, installation, ceramics and mixed media. Here we introduce the second group of the Radical Residents. Diana Zrnic’s (@dianazrnic ) work encompases figurative painting and sculpture. Her art questions notions of hybridity, simultaneity, and displacements of our lives and world. Daisy Billowes (@daisy_billowes ) combines drawing, text and image to interrogate myth, female restraint and post-internet visual culture. Her work bridges materiality and digital influence, using tactile mark-making to question how meaning is constructed today. Amir Dehghan (@amirdehghanart ) works across installation, painting, sculpture and sound to address identity, exile and political censorship. Drawing from his Iranian heritage, his practice creates dialogue between Western visual language and Iranian sociopolitical realities. Camilla Bliss (@camilla_bliss ) explores liminal spaces and states of transition through sculpture. Drawing on ritual, myth and historical practices, her work investigates the multisensory relationship between the human, non-human, conscious and unconscious. Ethan Caflisch (@ethancaflisch ) works across painting, sculpture, photography and film, with a longstanding focus on ceramics. Drawing on material experimentation and process, his practice moves fluidly between image and object. Radical Residency VII further reinforced Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop as a vital platform for experimentation, exchange and artistic risk. Join us in applauding our commitment to artists thriving. #unit1galleryworkshop #radicalresidency #artistresidency

Celebrating 10 years at Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop, we’re continuing to revisit the Radical Residency Programme, an experimental strand of our residency model that has supported 8 Radical Residencies to date. Each four-week residency culminated in a group exhibition, offering artists time, proximity and shared space to test ideas and expand their practices. Radical Residency VII brought together artists working across painting, sculpture, installation and mixed media. Here we introduce the first group of the Radical Residents. Marcia Teusink (@marcia_teusink ) is a multidisciplinary artist exploring climate change, environmental collapse and regrowth. Working across painting, sculpture, video and printmaking, her practice often unfolds through collaboration and research-led processes. Olivia Strange (@olivia_strange_ ) works across sculpture, installation, moving image and poetry to construct layered, visceral narratives. Drawing on mythology, the female body and queer subjectivity, her work challenges patriarchal structures through embodied storytelling. Sayan Chanda (@sayanchanda ) creates ritualistic, totemic forms using fibre, clay and found textiles. Through labour-intensive processes, his works act as vessels for memory, mythology and personal and collective anxieties. April Dublin-Beeton (@aprildublinbeetonart ) works intuitively with painting and drawing, often on unstretched canvas and paper. Her practice centres colour and gesture as a means of processing emotion, memory and lived experience. Diana Zrnic (@dianazrnic ) works with figurative painting and sculpture to explore hybridity, simultaneity and digital–physical duality. Her work reflects on contemporary life as a condition shaped by overlapping realities and constant displacement. Radical Residency VII continued to affirm Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop as a vital space for experimentation, dialogue and artistic risk-taking. Join us in applauding our commitment to artists thriving. #unit1galleryworkshop #radicalresidency #artistresidency

Celebrating 10 years at Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop, we continue revisiting the Radical Residency Programme, an experimental strand of our residency model that has supported 8 Radical Residencies to date. Each four-week residency culminated in a group exhibition, offering artists time, proximity and shared space to test ideas and expand their practices. Radical Residency VI brought together artists working across painting, sculpture and interdisciplinary practices. Here we introduce the second five artists. Noa Ironic (@ironic.noa ) works between painting and sculpture, drawing on personal history and transformation. Her practice blends humour and grotesque elements to animate space and confront identity, belief and selfhood. Liam Mertens (@lsmertens ) explores presence, absence and the idea of home through painting. His works are quiet, reflective spaces that hold memory, distance and emotional residue. Ally Rosenberg (@allyrosenbergartist ) approaches sculpture through the body, slicing and casting materials to examine the relationship between image, structure and perception. His work is informed by both artistic practice and neuroscience research. Diana Savostaite (@diana.savostaite ) creates expressive, semi-abstract oil paintings driven by colour and gesture. Her work balances emotion and structure, resulting in dynamic compositions that sit between figuration and abstraction. Alexandra Searle (@alexandrasearle_ ) is a sculptor whose practice explores material tension, balance and fragility. Her works often suggest precarious states, testing how form occupies and negotiates space. Radical Residency VI continued to affirm Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop as a vital space for experimentation, exchange and artistic risk-taking. Join us in applauding our commitment to artists thriving. #unit1galleryworkshop #radicalresidency #artistresidency #groupexhibition

Celebrating 10 years at Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop, we’re continuing to revisit the Radical Residency Programme, an experimental strand of our residency model that has supported 8 Radical Residencies to date. Each four-week residency culminated in a group exhibition, offering artists time, proximity and shared space to test ideas and expand their practices. Radical Residency VI brought together a diverse group of artists working across print, painting, installation, sculpture, performance and film. Here we introduce the first five artists. Matthew Dowell (@matthewjamesdowell ) works with research-led processes across expanded print, performance and sculpture. His practice interrogates reproduction, labour and material systems, often unfolding through iterative and investigative making. Laura Hudson (@laurahudsonstudio ) is a trans-disciplinary artist whose practice spans film, horticulture and digital technologies. Her work investigates ecology, systems and speculative futures through experimental and materially rich approaches. Stefano Giordano explores painting as a space of quiet tension and observation. His work reflects on memory, gesture and restraint, shaped by a sensitivity to surface and atmosphere. Noel Hensey (@nhensey ) is a multidisciplinary conceptual artist working with installation, sound, photography and video. Balancing philosophical enquiry with humour, his practice examines perception, paradox and the limits of understanding. Sam Hodge (@samhodgeart ) is a painter and printmaker whose background in science and conservation informs a deep engagement with material transformation. Her work reflects on natural processes, entropy and the passage of time. Radical Residency VI continued to affirm Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop as a vital testing ground for experimentation, dialogue and risk-taking. Join us in applauding our commitment to artists thriving. #unit1galleryworkshop #radicalresidency #artistresidency

Celebrating 10 years at Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop, we continue revisiting the Radical Residency Programme, an experimental strand of our residency model that has supported 8 Radical Residencies to date. Each four-week residency culminated in a group exhibition, offering artists time, proximity and shared space to test ideas and expand their practices. Radical Residency V brought together a dynamic group of artists engaging with identity, materiality, performance and social structures. Here we introduce the last five of the ten residency artists. Navot Miller (@navotmiller ) explores religion, architecture and identity through drawing, film and painting. His work navigates social encounters with both intimacy and tension, reflecting on belonging and exclusion. Inês Neto dos Santos (@inesns ) works between performance and installation, using food, people and shared experiences as tools for dialogue. Her practice centres on sustainability, collaboration and the relationships between humans and nature. Sophie Percival (@sophie_percival ) operates at the intersection of fine art, architecture and photography. Through installation, film and sculpture, she examines spatial structures and how built environments shape lived experience. Marianne Walker (@mariannelwalker )is known for her distinctive approach to drawing as an act of incarnation. Applying ink and graphite to three-dimensional surfaces, her work expands drawing into sculptural and performative space. Emily Woolley (@emwwoolley ) works across sculpture and installation, foregrounding process, material transformation and repetition. Her practice reflects an ongoing enquiry into making as a physical and temporal act. Radical Residency V reinforced Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop as a vital site for experimentation, exchange and sustained artistic development. Join us in applauding our commitment to artists thriving. #unit1galleryworkshop #radicalresidency #artistresidency #groupexhibition #contemporaryart