People

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Modern Painters, New Decorators is made up of artists, makers, and community organisers who together shape how our organisation runs and evolves. As an artist-led organisation, our team are practising artists who develop projects, curate exhibitions, and support others to sustain their creative work. Our members, studioholders, team, and management committee form an active network — growing an ecology of ideas, skills, and opportunities that help artists to develop, connect, and share their work. You can become a member to join our network, access exhibition opportunities, and contribute to this growing ecology, or volunteer with us to gain experience and support our public programme.

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Adetunji Onigbanjo (Studioholder) is a Nigerian artist based in Loughborough. Adetunji aims to challenge the skewed perception of Nigerian art as trauma-centric, choosing instead to create from a place of nostalgia, fun and experimentation. His work, characterised by carefree yet meticulous details. He has worked with the Cartoon Network, Google, Adidas, Rick & Morty and Art X Live.

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Becca Ogden (Associate) is an artist currently studying textiles at Loughborough University. Her practice is rooted in an exploration of texture, working across fabric, biomaterials, clay and, more recently, wood. Through a tactile and process-led approach, she explores themes of connectivity, grief and the body, creating work that reflects on personal and environmental relationships.

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Beth Lukockyj (Studioholder) is a multimedia artist whose work bridges the fields of textile craft and printmaking. She uses techniques like weaving, stitch, quilting, and photolithography to explore how memory, emotion, and texture can be embodied in material. Her prints combine family photographs with drawn elements, turning memory into form and revealing hidden layers of experience.

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Evelyn Silver (Associate) is a performance artist whose practice spans radical community arts, feminist activism and disability-led performance. Beginning in the 1970s within street theatre and drama in education, she went on to co-found the 1980s feminist anti-nuclear art collective Sister Seven and to collaborate with Shirley Cameron on performances now held in the Tate’s Women in Revolt exhibition.

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Hannah Bruton (Studioholder) is a mixed media illustrator specialising in children’s books. Her practice is rooted in play, experimentation and joy, working across a range of materials and techniques. She is currently working on her debut author-illustrated picture book with Tate and is represented by Lucie Ludds at Luddington Creative.

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Jacqui Gallon (Associate) is an artist and educator whose work spans printmaking, papermaking and textile sculpture. Her research-led practice explores grief, memory and the presence of absence, often focusing on clothing as a material trace of lived experience. Jacqui studied MA Fine Art at Loughborough University and has exhibited at Leicester Society of Artists and Two Queens.

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Jake Pink (Associate) is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, photography and experimental image-making. His practice combines making, design and analogue processes, often building or modifying cameras to produce portraits and large-format images. Recent projects include sculptural works and photographic series developed through self-built tools and home studio experimentation.

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James Chantry (Studioholder) explores the supernatural, ecology and queer identity through performance and found materials. Often working in rural and liminal spaces, they reimagine the past to speculate on queer futures and forms of kinship. They have exhibited with Humberside & Taoyuan Art x Technology Festival (Taipei), Two Queens (Leicester), and Siao Long Cultural Park (Taiwan).

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Nenagh Watson (Studioholder) is a puppeteer who combines craft, image-making and materials such as wire, shadow, and light — transforming puppetry into a form of visual poetry. A co-founder of the 1990s company Doo-Cot, once described as “Britain’s most innovative puppet company,” she has produced work with Z-arts (Manchester), Southbank Centre (London) and BACKLIT (Nottingham).

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Pamela Clarkson (Associate) is a painter and printmaker. She has taught extensively in British Art Schools, exhibited widely and practiced in North and South America and West Africa. In 1989 she travelled to Senegal and Mali, drawing in and around the Dogon villages. Two years later, she went to Ghana to set up a printmaking studio at the College of Art, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology.

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Pasha Kincaid (Studioholder) is an arts activist who uses autoethnography to weave intergenerational experiences and narratives. Pasha also facilitates creative practice with vulnerable adults and young people with special educational needs and disabilities. She has curated several group exhibitions at Leicester Gallery, De Montfort University and Attenborough Arts Centre (Leicester).

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Selene States (Associate) is a British–American artist, translator, and dress studies scholar. Her PhD at Bauhaus University Weimar explores the history of women “wearing the pants” through art and fashion. She uses re-enactment to explore how identity is expressed through dress. She has shown work at Milton Keynes Gallery (UK), Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (Germany) and l’Aubette Strasbourg (France).

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Sheila Ghelani (Studioholder) is an artist whose work spans performance, installation, social art and moving image. Recent work includes sharing Common Salt in museums, libraries and arts spaces around the UK with artist Sue Palmer as part of her ongoing Rambles with Nature series. Sheila was also part of Land Body Ecologies, a collaborative residency at the Wellcome Collection.

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Tayler Fisher (Studioholder) works in painting, sculpture, collage and sound: deconstructing to core elements that are filtered and maximised. Alien environments, sampled imagery, altered figuration and echoed languages combine to discover comfortable spaces in the uncanny. He has exhibited with Gasleak Mountain (Nottingham), Trace Gallery (Nottingham) and Reference Point (London).

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Ama Dogbe (Management Committee, Treasurer) is a British-Ghanian artist. Ama builds video games, animations and audio-visual installations exploring autobiographical and utopian themes through world-building. Ama has exhibited at Spike Island (2023), Fermynwoods Contemporary Art (2023) and Attenborough Arts Centre (2021). Ama lives and works in London.

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David John Scarborough (Co-Director: Exhibitions, Finance & Research) leads on exhibitions and financial planning at Modern Painters, New Decorators. He works with artists and partners to develop the programme, oversees fundraising and budgets, and leads on practice-led research that informs the organisation’s direction as an artist-led space. He leads on organisational strategy with Ursula.

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Elizabeth Hawley-Lingham (Management Committee, Chair) is a visual arts specialist with skills gained within public galleries, artist-led spaces, arts funding, and professional development. She is a teacher in Professional Practice in Art & Design, Loughborough University. She has worked at Contemporary Visual Arts Network East Midlands, Arts Council England, Tate Liverpool and Spike Island.

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Iona Lee-Wardell (Learning Assistant) supports the delivery of MPND’s learning programme, assisting with workshops and activities for young people. She works closely with participants and facilitators to help create inclusive, engaging environments. Her role supports the consistency and quality of the organisation’s learning offer.

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Josie Jones (Operations Coordinator & corita, Project Lead) supports the day-to-day running of MPND, helping to ensure the space is operational, welcoming and well-managed. She coordinates on-site activity and supports the delivery of the programme. Alongside this, she leads corita, a microbakery based within the building, open on selected Saturdays.

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Natasha Brzezicki (Management Committee, Secretary) is an arts psychotherapist and interdisciplinary artist based in Coventry. Her creative practice brings together sound, movement, and material processes, often using collected data or natural elements to explore how environments shape emotional and sensory experience. Recent work includes a commission for the Coventry Biennial.

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Ursula Rae (Co-Director: Learning & Audience Development) leads the development and delivery of MPND’s learning and public programmes. She designs and facilitates workshops for families and leads the Art Club, creating inclusive, hands-on experiences. Her role shapes how audiences engage with and access the organisation’s wider programme. She leads on organisational strategy with David.

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