BY THE LIGHT OF THE CANDLE

Eloise Knight (b.1999, UK) explores nostalgia, memory, and the passage of time through the lens of antiques and sentimental objects. Drawing inspiration from the delicate porcelain animals, Knight examines the way these seemingly ordinary figures become vessels for personal and collective memory. Her paintings reflect on the shifting nature of recollection, where once-clear moments blur and transform over time. Through distortion, abstraction, and fragmented compositions, she reimagines familiar objects, mirroring the way nostalgia can be both vivid and elusive.

Megan Menzies (b. 1995, Essex, UK) is a London based artist. She received an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art in 2022 and a BA in Art History from the University of Bristol in 2016. Her work has been exhibited internationally with galleries such as LKIF gallery (Seoul) and Palazzo Monti (Italy) amongst others. In 2025 she took part as an exhibiting artist in the John Moores painting prize exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool). She has upcoming shows in 2026 with Huxley Parlour (London) and LKIF gallery (Seoul). Megan is a two-time recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant (2022 and 2025).

Grace Tobin (b. 1993) is a British artist who grew up in New York City. She is currently living and working in London. She attained her BA in Visual Arts from Oberlin College (2016) and MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art (2022). Grace has exhibited both in London and internationally, including shows in New York, Belgium, Milan, and Shanghai.

Tobin’s practice explores our relationships to the environments we inhabit, considering how these connections impact our sense of self. Her practice stems from ideas of space holding personal narrative, documenting the physical and psychological impact such environments have in informing our identity. Tobin challenges our sense of space through subtracting material and softening edges, presenting a segmented reality, a blurred memory.

Maud Whatley makes drawings which layer images and motifs taken from art-historical paintings, online archives, her camera roll and google image results. Her work intends to explore some of the politics of looking at things, the unexpected eroticism of placing different ideas in the context of one another and the ways in which the repetitive insistent touches of drawing can be sexy and weird.