OLI EPP (CREATOR OF PLOP)

Oli Epp (b. 1994) is a painter living and working in London. Deformed, quirky and exuberant figures inhabit Oli Epp’s canvas, often staged within theatrical settings. Easy to read at first glance, these hyper-dramatised characters reflect upon our complex relationship to technology and social media. Epp’s idiosyncratic aesthetic fuses realistically painted details in oil with graphic techniques in airbrush and linear masking.

Oli Epp’s recent solo exhibition includes: ‘Nine Lives’, Semiose Gallery (2022), ‘Don’t You Want Somebody to Love’, Perrotin Gallery (2022), ‘Stockholm Syndrome’, Carl Kostyal (2022); 'Souvenir’, Division Gallery, Montreal (2021), ‘Friends and Friends of Friends’, Schlossmuseum (2021); ‘Black Swan’, Semiose Galerie, Paris (2020); ‘Oxymoron’, Carl Kostyál Gallery, London (2020) ‘Contactless – Oli Epp’, Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles (2019) and ‘Oli Epp – Epiphanies’, Semiose Galerie, Paris (2018). Oli Epp was included into the following museums shows: ‘Link in Bio, Art After Social Media’, at the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig (2019) and ‘Friends and Friends of Friends’ which he co-curated at the Schlossmuseum in Linz, Austria (2020).

www.oliepp.com

MOLLIE BARNES (RESIDENCY MANAGER)

Mollie (b.1996) is a Curator and Residency Facilitator. Mollie is dedicated to championing artist development across all sectors, stages and disciplines. Mollie has been a voice for equality in the art world for 10 years.

Mollie has leveraged her passion for access for artists through working with institutions to facilitate revolutionary residencies, exhibitions and programming. Mollie’s exhibition-making, programming and research lives at the intersection of contemporary art, queer and feminist histories.

www.mollieebarnes.com

Our Advisory Panel for the Open Call Residencies

  • JEREMY LEVISON

    Jeremy Levison is a practising family and divorce lawyer of some 40 years' standing.

    His great passion, however, is the art world (which he refuses to delineate as the "art market").

    A keen collector, Jeremy now has over 500 paintings in his ever-expanding collection. His particular interest is in young, unknown artists, helping them at the beginning of their careers and following them as they emerge.

    Jeremy was responsible in the 1980s for the creation of the Collyer-Bristow gallery which was formed in the offices of the eponymous law firm in order to connect emerging artists with otherwise redundant wall space.

    He is currently the chairman of the Old Carthusian Art Society.

    More recently he has opened his own gallery, namely the Bermondsey Project Space in London's trendy Bermondsey Street.

  • AINDREA EMELIFE

    Aindrea Emelife is a 27-year-old art critic, independent curator, art historian and presenter from London. Starting at The Courtauld Institute of Art, where she completed a BA in History of Art, she has quickly gone on to become a ground-breaking new voice in an art world otherwise steeped in tradition.

    Aindrea has featured in programming on Sky Arts and presented art films for such prestigious institutions as The Royal Academy of Arts, The Hepworth Wakefield Museum.

    She is currently working on her first two books, A Little History of Protest Art (Tate, 2022) and How Art Can Change The World: A Manifesto (Frances Lincoln, 2022)

  • MARCELLE JOSEPH

    Marcelle Joseph is a London-based American independent curator, collector and founder of Marcelle Joseph Projects, a nomadic curatorial platform that has produced 38 exhibitions in the UK and the rest of Europe, featuring the work of over 200 international artists, since its founding in 2011.

    Joseph's expertise is in early career artists based in the UK, in particular, female-identifying and non-binary artists, and has an academic specialisation in feminist art practice after completing an MA in Art History with Distinction from Birkbeck, University of London. In 2013, she executive edited ‘Korean Art: The Power of Now’ (Thames & Hudson), a survey of the contemporary art scene in South Korea.

  • CLAUS BUSCH RISVIG

    Claus Busch Risvig is a proud collector and supporter of emerging artists because, as he says, “it takes more investigative work to find them”. Always on the lookout for new talent, he is regularly seen at international art fairs and is very active online, where he shares art discoveries with his many followers on Instagram. Buying with his girlfriend, Risvig has amassed one of the most important collections of the work of emerging artists in Denmark, with a focus on paintings and works on paper.

    In 2016, Risvig was a curator at the first edition of CODE, Scandinavia’s only international art fair. In 2018, Risvig was on Apollo Magazines 40 under 40 list of the most inspirational young people in the European art world. In 2017 and 2018 parts the Bech Risvig Collection was exhibited at public spaces in Denmark.

    Bech Risvig Collection has donated work to ARoS Aarhus Art Museum and HEART Herning Museum Of Contemporary Art.

PLOP Tutors

  • ROSALIND DAVIS

    Rosalind Davis is an artist-curator and a graduate of The RCA (2005) and Chelsea College of Art (2003). As an artist Davis has exhibited nationally and internationally and has had a number of solo shows in London and over 100 group shows in her career.

  • HECTOR CAMPBELL

    Hector Campbell is an art historian, curator and writer based in London.

    His recent curatorial projects include Elliot Fox’s solo exhibition Idol Hands at Platform Southwark, group exhibitions Old Friends, New Friends and HOUSE §1 at Collective Ending HQ and RedivideЯ, a two-person exhibition of works by India Nielsen and Yulia Iosilzon.