ArtEvol London 2026 - Shortlisted

I was delighted to have my work shortlisted for ArtEvol 2026: A View from Everywhere, an international open call organised by London Art Collective, with the final exhibition held at Saatchi Gallery in London.

The 2026 call attracted an overwhelming number of submissions from artists around the world.

Shortlisted works were selected before the final exhibition stage, so reaching that point from such a broad international field felt like a lovely recognition of the work and an encouraging marker for the direction my practice is taking.

My shortlisted piece was a large A2 watercolour and mixed-media response to Phlegm’s mural in Ventnor on the Isle of Wight. It forms part of a small body of work I’ve made in response to that mural over the years. This fourth work is the largest, at 42 × 59.4 cm, and I think it will be the final one.

I was particularly drawn to the ArtEvol theme because the work itself already involved several layers of looking: Phlegm’s original image, my own relationship with the place in which it sits, my interpretation of his work, and then the viewer’s experience of mine.

That felt especially apt for A View from Everywhere, which considers how differently the same world can be seen, understood and represented, and how individual perspectives can sit alongside one another without resolving into a single point of view.

To have this final and largest response shortlisted for ArtEvol 2026: A View from Everywhere felt like a particularly lovely way to bring that small body of work to a close.

A3 fine art prints from this final version are available for the first time.

A catalogue documenting ArtEvol 2026 will be available shortly, and I’ll add the link here once it is published.

ArtEvol 2026: A View from Everywhere

London Art Collective

Final exhibition: Saatchi Gallery, London

October 2026