New Voices in Contemporary Art
10 January - 14 February 2026
Overview
New Voices in Contemporary Art
The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery is delighted to announce a new collaborative exhibition with Crème Fraîche, presenting a group show of paintings by compelling new voices in contemporary art. This exhibition marks a unique partnership between the gallery and Crème Fraîche, bringing together a group of recent graduates for their first major presentation beyond art school.
 
Crème Fraîche selects the most promising graduating artists from London’s art school degree shows, and aims to equip them with the understanding, exposure, and skills to progress towards a successful and sustainable career. As these artists near the completion of the Crème Fraîche programme, Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery co-curates a group exhibition showcasing their diverse practices to new audiences at their flagship space in Fitzrovia. The exhibition features work by five painters, each with a distinct artistic voice. Some draw on humour as a means of storytelling, others on nostalgia or memory, together offering individual perspectives shaped by their experiences and sense of identity.
 
Showcasing highly original work and fresh perspectives, the exhibition celebrates creative experimentation and curiosity. Together, these works capture the spirit of contemporary artistic practice and offer a compelling glimpse of the talents poised to shape its future. 
 
Introducing the Artists:
 
Guanyi Chen creates astonishingly detailed and meticulous works, meditating on the nature of systems - how they emerge, evolve, and ultimately reflect the delicate balance between order and chaos, precision and imperfection, the universal and the particular. She is especially attracted to the imperfections found in those rhythms; where, how, and why they arise, and what impact they might have on the greater whole.
 
Grace Mcnerney’s paintings are a pursuit through popular culture in search of the undercurrent of sex, religion, and death that underpins consumer imagery. Her work challenges the algorithms and images we are exposed to everyday, simultaneously informing and describing our tastes.
 
Isidore Bishop-Sauve’s artistic practice is a conduit through which he understands and establishes his place in the world, a celebration of joy, intimacy, and expressions of the self. Bishop-Sauvé starts by creating intimate assemblages inside cigarette tins that later unfold into his large-scale paintings. Through dramatic scenes in which animals and male figures appear in simultaneous states of emergence and rupture, he captures brief moments of connection and transformation, drawing poetic parallels between animal and human nature.
 
Marium M. Habib explores gender, power, and societal constraints through depictions of nature, the animal world, and the human figure, using humour as a way to approach subjects that might otherwise feel impenetrable or uncomfortable. Her work is shaped by her ongoing movement between Pakistan and England, creating a continual cultural dialogue within her practice.
 
Ella Trott draws on family stories and photographic relics to construct dreamlike visions of distant times and places. Rooted in what she calls ‘life-dysmorphia’, a restless dissatisfaction with the present and a belief that the desired elsewhere is inherently more compelling, her paintings revive spaces of longing and nostalgia with lyrical romanticism. In this way, though grounded in her family archive, the works hold universal resonance by becoming meditations on longing and the malleability of memory. 
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