Meet the Artists

Jobe Burns

Jobe Burns is a British artist and designer working across sculpture and spatial practice. Born in Walsall in the West Midlands, his work is informed by industrial history, architectural salvage and the politics of land. A graduate of the MA Sculpture programme at the Royal College of Art, Burns draws on both his family history of industrial labour and his formal training to create sculptural works that explore the tensions between the built and the grown, and the public and the private.

For this exhibition, Burns debuts a sculptural series in which the material interplay of rock and steel evoke the quiet poetry and sensibilities of craftsmanship. Raised in England’s ‘Black Country’, Burns draws on a region shaped by manual labour and a geology rich in minerals that fueled the Industrial Revolution and fostered a tradition of exceptional stone and metal craftsmanship. This heritage, increasingly eroded by capitalist pressures and faster, more “efficient” production, inf

Marian Drew is a renowned Australian photographic artist, widely recognised for her interrogation of colonial visual traditions and the myth of photographic objectivity. Based in Brisbane, she worked as lecturer and Associate Professor at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, and completed her PhD at the Canberra School of Art and Design, Australian National University in 2023. Her work is held in major public collections including the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the National Gallery of Australia; and the Fonds National d’ArtContemporain (FNAC), Paris.

For What lasts doesn’t always hold shape, Drew returns to video installation after two decades to mark her artistic debut in London. This return builds directly on her 2023 exhibition rock, fruit, flower, where stones were staged amidst softened, blurred grounds, appearing suspended, almost asteroidal. Printed on aluminium and physically bent and folded, this body of work pulled photography intos culptural space, further teasing out perceptual and spatial concerns.

Marian Drew

Levent Ozruh

Levent Ozruh is an architect and designer, and the founder and director of OZRUH, a London-based architectural studio working across research-led, material-driven practice. His work explores adaptive design systems that challenge architectural permanence, bridging advanced manufacturing, elemental material cycles and open-ended spatial strategies. Ozruh is a Design Expert at the UK Design Council and has contributed to the European Space Agency’s lunar architecture research as part of Hassell’s Space Architecture team. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Barbican Centre, Royal Academy of Arts and the London Design Festival.

For this exhibition, Ozruh presents an iteration of
Anti-Ruin, a multi-phased architectural experiment which was recently exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Through a system of aggregated, molecule-like blocks, the installation rejects architecture’s fixation on completion. While its monumental structure evokes ancient classical architecture, Anti-Ruin is not destined to become a crumbling artefact. Instead, it allows for addition, removal, and reconfiguration, proposing a built environment open to being shaped by inevitable change rather than defined in opposition to it.