STUDIO MEMBERS

East Place Studios encompasses a broad and talented community of creators. Read more about each of them below and please follow their Instagrams!

  • Alex Barrow grew up in the suburbs of London to Filipino and English Parents before moving to South London to study illustration at Central Saint Martins. Today, Alex is a regular contributor and an Art Director for popular science and arts themed children's magazine OKIDO magazine His first book for children, A Possum's Tail, was published in 2014 and was quickly nominated for the 2015 Cilip Kate Greenaway Medal. his latest books with award winning writer and poet Gabby Dawnay are a series 'If I had a pet" - the first was "If I had a Dinosaur" which won the "made for moms" Silver award, and was read on Cbeebies 'bedtime stories' by Eddie Redmayne. the second book "If I had a sleepy Sloth" was also read on Cbeebies bedtime stories by David Schwimmer

    In his spare time, Alex plays accordion in his band Malphino!

  • Artist statement:

    My practice is pre-dominantly engaged with two mediums in parallel: printmaking and hand-embroidery. Moving between these modalities - one pressing the surface, the other piercing it - I puzzle through the subjects that preoccupy me: loss, time, memory, the space of home. Proceeding from these pillars of interest, many strands and layers of enquiry develop, overlap and find shape. A connection with literature - from poetry to psychoanalytic theory - underpins the evolution from idea to artwork. Finally, at the heart of my practice lies a fascination with the creative encounter itself, with the border-space between experience and expression, for which my work inherently seeks to lend form.

  • Eddie is our in-house stop-motion animator working entirely with plasticine.

  • Georgia works in textiles and printmaking.

  • Artists statement

    My wall-based and free-standing ceramic sculpture and installation starts with the idea of energy within the unseen interior of a ceramic object, and its actions on a surface. The work explores a territory between ideas of what is natural and unnatural. Recent works in both ceramic and mixed materials deal with un-locatable resemblances, repetitions, echoes and memory; between material culture, body, extra-terrestrial and earth.

    Planets, moons and meteorites... Their battered or smooth, scratched and stained, inlaid and exploded shapes and surfaces result from unseen interior actions, and unstoppable exterior energies. The shapes are coiled, punctured, pushed, bombarded and encrusted. They are chemical portraits too - of oxides, silica, carbonates...

    Test Dummys...I very rarely make tests for surfaces and glazes, preferring to encourage disaster and unknown consequences. These small forms are based on baby dummy and bottle teats, and are often tests for trying out new processes. I am building their numbers to make a wall-full.

  • “He is a cheerful child who is anxious to please and get things right. Martin works consistently well and is probably working to the best of his abilities and derives pleasure from art: just occasionally he has a day when, for some unknown reason, things go wrong.’ J K Campbell, 1971 (Class Teacher)”

    Some things do not change. This consummate realist painter and screenprinter is a minor revelation as he continues his wayward odyssey.

    Martin studied at Croydon College, Trent Polytechnic and the Royal Academy Schools, sometime in the last century. He works out of his studio in South London and exhibits continuously.

    As an accomplished and inventive screen printer, he eschews photographic and digital techniques and hand paints his stencils directly onto the screen, creating richly coloured densely layered prints. His procrastination series reveal sharp observation and a wry humour.

    His other paintings, prints and bus stop sculptures are beautifully crafted from observation. He captures local cityscapes and parks in Brixton, West Norwood and beyond. Other haunting and melancholic compositions are based on anecdotes, poems and songs.

    An important facet of his work is his portraits of records, informed by a life-long love of music and of collecting old 45’s. The songs and artists may be the main attraction, but each painting lovingly reproduces the graphics, design, ageing, personalisation and ephemeral nature of the paper record sleeves themselves. Painted tromp l’oeil or dramatically enlarged, these works are poignant and nostalgic laments to a golden age that continues to resonate.

  • Nicola was born and lives in London. She studied Fine Art at UCA Farnham.

    Her work is intuitive, experimental, and often mischievous, utilising layering, collage, text, colour and mark-making. She is inspired by music and its subcultures, dance, typography, symbols, language, patterns and process.

    Since 1997 she has been involved in projecting bespoke visuals specialising in analogue slide, 8mm and 16mm film to produce projections for various music-based events: club nights, live bands, dance performances, corporate events and pop promos, in venues all over London and beyond. Through working at the Notting Hill Arts Club, where she is one of the resident visual artists, Nicola fell into graphic design, creating flyers and posters for the various club nights, and this, in turn, led to her interest and art-based practice in screen printing.

    An acute visual literacy underpins her printmaking. Graphic forms in our everyday lives are carefully disassembled, processed and re-applied to present a new and irreverent collage. The sophisticated language of graphics and semiology is rendered as spontaneous and dynamic, immediate and rude.

    Nicola's work is hand-printed by her, in London.

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  • Ria is inspired by the energy of stillness and yet vitality of life within that moment. The process is about capturing and evoking some emotion or energy. Through photography, painting and small sculptures, there is drama to Ria work that attempts to transcend.

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    Sarah Ria, Graduated from Wimbledon school of art in film design and is an Art Director in TV and Film. Ria spends time imagining spaces for scripts, with budgets and production constrains. The painting frees her to capture the essence of the scripts.

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    "I look for the Raw and the Wild in people and places. There is often a magic felt when this happens and if you can capture it and re-capture it in painting then it feels like it honours and integrity of life".

    Sometimes film and tv have narratives that capture our imaginations but painting means the viewer to loose themselves in their own stories and views. It can transcend religious beliefs and speak to in many languages.

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  • The early 90s seemed to be a breeding ground for influential dance music and this is precisely when Silverlining penetrated the underground electronic scene. What started out as a bit of fun turned into a lengthy and wholesome love affair with music that’s still all-systems-go to this day. From the first record he made over 25 years ago, to the present, his work continually has been animated by a uniquely vibrant and authentic energy that blurs the lines between a multitude of electronic genres. A born natural to the studio and the booth alike, Silverlining (real name Asad Rizvi) was recently cited as a “master of groove” by XLR8R Magazine. Whether it be budding producers dissecting his techniques, crate diggers on a voyage through his seemingly never-ending back-catalogue, or partygoers dancing to his sounds through a stack, Silverlining is a name constantly on the tips of tongues.

    Under a whole spectrum of aliases, Asad has turned out countless top shelf releases and remixes that exceed 150 vinyl titles. The majority of this vast catalogue can still be heard being spun regularly in clubs and selling for a substantial buck online. This has led to him channelling the aforementioned energy into the Silverlining Dubs imprint where he has made his sought-after and expensive tracks from his early discography readily available for collectors to own again, whilst intermingling them with his forward-thinking and slick productions of the present. The label was also home to his ‘Simulacra’ double pack that received wide critical acclaim in 2021.

    Today, Asad continues to construct a concrete reputation with his compelling and genre-melding DJ sets, whilst remaining as humble as they come. Heaps of experience in music seem to pay dividends for him as he manages to manoeuvre through his collection with real tenacity and flair, proving his inner knack for reading a room and dancefloor. Since the mid-90s, this has continuously landed him in hundreds of venues across over 40 countries from Berlin to Buenos Aires, Mexico to Paris, Tokyo to Vancouver, and, of course, countless times in the ‘big smoke’ during his illusive and integral journey that began in London.

    There are no doubts that Silverlining’s sound will continue to develop over many more years to come, just as it blossomed organically over the last twenty plus years. There seems to be no boundaries and limits to where Asad can take us, so the best we can do is buckle up and enjoy the ride of his inventive, dynamic and singular dance-floor sounds.

  • Royal College of Art MA (Painting); Exhibiting London & Berlin; Performed Tate Britain; Books 'Texture of Consciousness', 'Signs of our Time'.