GREER LANKTON (1958-1996), born in Flint, Michigan, is recognised as one of the most significant artists of the revolutionary art scene of New York City’s East Village during the 1980s, known for her visceral doll sculpture, photography, and performances. She studied Fabrics at the Art Institute of Chicago (1975-1978) and received a BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in 1981. She relocated to Chicago in 1992 and notably participated in the 1995 Whitney Biennial in New York, followed by the presentation of her work at the Venice Biennial that same year. She is the first transgender artist ever to be exhibited at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney, and LACMA. Lankton’s works are included in significant private and public collections, including The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, and The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Greer Lankton’s participation in this exhibition has been made possible by Paul Monroe and the Greer Lankton Archives Museum (G.L.A.M.), to whom we extend our thanks. J C. MCCORMACK (b. 1996, Barnsley, UK) is an artist and writer based in London. Their conceptual and sculptural practice works with abstraction as a form of methodology, shaped by theatrical and choreographed aesthetics. Reworking desire and histories into new meanings, the erotics and tensions of McCormack’s work unfold in small gestures, found objects, and textural materials that aim to draw the viewer into a mode of seduction and unease. They have previously exhibited at Kupfer, The Koppel Projects and Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien. Their writing has been published in TISSUE PAPERS #01: MAKING, and their work has been performed at the Bloomsbury Theatre, Hot Wheels London, Goldsmiths CCA, and the Whitechapel Gallery. They are studying at the Slade School of Fine Art.

KI YOONG (b.1988, Bradford, UK) lives and works in London. Yoong’s paintings are marked by a quiet tenderness, underscored by his distinctive use of tightly cropped compositions. The removal of visual information opens space for projection, inviting the viewer to bring their own associations and memories into the process of looking. His works simultaneously explore portraiture and object-making. Rendered with meticulous detail, Yoong’s paintings are constructed from multiple translucent layers of oil paint, each applied with a fine brush in a process akin to drawing. Rather than bold, expressive brushstrokes, Yoong favours subtle accumulation and delicate gestures that coalesce into images that are at once precise and ephemeral. Yoong received his BA in Fine Art from the University of Leeds in 2010 and his MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins in 2013. His work has recently been shown at Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (2025); Workplace, London (2025); Hurst Contemporary, London (2024); Studio West, London (2024); MEGA Art Fair, Milan (2024); Plop Residency, London (2024); Slugtown, Newcastle (2023); Brooke Benington, London (2023); Marlborough Gallery, London (2023).

OLIVER ELPHICK (b. 2000, Kent, UK) is an artist living and working in London. His practice explores nested realities, shifting identities, and overlapping layers of fiction. Drawing on methods of facade and impersonation, with a leaning towards appropriating iconic totems of camp, his work aims to illustrate the euphoric apocalypse. Mainly using writing as both a starting point for film work and drawings, the work is constantly fed back into a writing process, allowing meta-fictions, lore, and imagined worlds to appear. Elphick received his BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths University in 2022 and was nominated for the Circa film prize in 2022 for his film Pebbledash Decadence & Velveteen Secretion.

TIINA VANHATUPA (b.1978, Finland) is a contemporary doll artist whose practice centres on the customisation and reworking of the popular Blythe Doll into singular, emotionally resonant sculptures. Rooted in the global community of doll artists, Tiina's work challenges conventions of value and authorship by elevating commercial readymades into unique collectable pieces. Her process is meticulous and deeply tactile, with factory features stripped away and reimagined through hand-painted details, rerooted hair, and bespoke costuming.