This year, The London Group is thrilled to announce that we have 10 new members. Keep reading to find out about them and their practices.
Please join us in welcoming Amanda Cornish, Annie Wasdell, Ash Xu, Inga Tillere, Jan Frith, Marcia Teusink, Melissa Alley, R. James Healy, Simon Betts and Simon Head to The London Group.
Amanda Cornish
Amanda Cornish is a London-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice begins with the shared vulnerability of human and ecological systems, exploring how both endure cycles of use, degradation and renewal.
“I am excited and honoured to have been elected as a member of The London Group, and to become part of a supportive community of artists connected by shared interests and collaboration.
I was fortunate enough to exhibit at The London Group Open 2025 and was delighted to have been awarded the London Group Prize. I am especially grateful to Paul Bonomini for nominating me to join, and I look forward to engaging with and, playing an active role in shaping the group’s exhibitions and impact.”
Annie Wasdell
“I am a multi-disciplinary artist with a wide-ranging practice spanning drawing and printmaking, to mould-making, lost wax casting, and kiln-formed glass.
My practice is a way of distilling thoughts and emotions that seemingly defy being summed up in words.
I am encouraged by the breadth and diversity of art practice within The London Group – and I hope that I can extend this even further as an artist who is committed to the use of materials often overlooked within a contemporary fine art context – such as glass, which has traditionally been side-lined into the functional, or the decorative and ornamental.
I believe that being part of a ‘collective’ is a reciprocal relationship, and that as well as hugely benefitting from the kudos of being a London Group member, I will bring enthusiasm and a sharing of expertise, knowledge and experience.
Thank you Victoria Rance and Tisna Westerhof, for nominating me and for your belief in my work.”
Ash Xu
“After participating in the The London Group Open 2025, it was a privilege to meet such a passionate artistic community and to become part of the London Group. As a historic arts organisation known for its interdisciplinary exploration and diverse creative energy that fascinates me.
In my practice, I advocate using technology to reflect on technology itself, encouraging audiences to engage in deeper contemplation and reconsider their relationship with emerging systems. I focus on interactive art forms such as BCI (brain computer interface) art and immersive digital experiences. I look forward to contributing my creative perspective and collaborative spirit to the London Group.”
Inga Tillere
Inga Tillere’s practice explores perception, temporality, and ways of seeing through experimental, alternative, and historical photographic processes, as well as moving image. Her work engages with materiality, light, and the passage of time as agents of transformation, often challenging conventional narratives of representation and reality. She is currently pursuing an MA in Fine Art at Falmouth University.
“I am honoured and delighted to be elected as a member of The London Group, an artists’ collective I have long admired for the consistently high quality and diversity of its exhibitions. It was a privilege to exhibit with the Group at Copeland Gallery in 2025, and I am deeply grateful to Sayako Sugawara for nominating me and for her support throughout the application process. I very much look forward to getting to know other members, exchanging ideas, contributing to and growing within this respected and independent artist-led community.”
Jan Frith
“I am thrilled to be joining The London Group as part of the 2026 cohort. Being awarded the Schauerman Digital Art Prize at the 2025 Open was both a surprise and a real affirmation, and it feels very special now to be welcomed as a member. I had followed the Group for some time, particularly enjoying 111 Not Out in 2024, which brought founding past and present members into conversation. Experiencing the Open from within, I was struck by the generosity of spirit, the quality of dialogue around the work, and the shared effort that makes the exhibitions happen and the Group so dynamic. Having trained and worked in London, I’m very pleased to reconnect professionally with a peer community here, and looking forward to contributing to the life of the Group and exhibiting alongside fellow members.”
Jan Frith is an artist working across film, sound and 3D objects of technology, exploring analogue and digital systems, machines, and the interplay between chance and control. Her work bridges past and present, examining how technological systems shape human experience, memory and belief. Rooted in social commentary and participation, her practice often invites interaction, using systems and feedback to reveal hidden narratives, collective thought and shared authorship. As an artist, she positions herself as both participant and instigator within these structures, questioning how control operates within larger social and technological frameworks.
Marcia Teusink
Marcia Teusink’s practice explores the intertwined histories of people and plants, through painting, video, and mixed-media sculpture and installation. She examines historic human interventions in nature, how ecosystems have responded, and the lasting consequences of relocating species across continents. Colonial explorers and plant hunters transported plants out of curiosity, ambition, or greed, often without understanding the broader ecological impact; some introduced species became “naturalised,” others “invasive,” yet in every case ecosystems were rapidly and profoundly altered. Having grown up in the United States and lived in the United Kingdom and Europe for over two decades, Teusink feels closely attuned to the language surrounding plants and to the experience of transplantation and adaptation. Her approach combines research and lived experience: she consults archival materials in institutions such as the Linnean Society and the British Library, collects historic maps and books, visits botanical gardens, and spends time walking in woodlands and urban margins. In the studio, she transforms these references in various media, using poetry, abstraction, and moments of absurdity to question extractive, rationalist frameworks and reflect on the uncertainties of the ecological crisis.
Melissa Alley
“I am absolutely thrilled to be elected to The London Group because of its longstanding role as an artist-run organisation supporting serious, independent practice. I value the Group’s commitment to peer exchange, professional rigour, and openness to a wide range of approaches. Having previously exhibited with The London Group on several occasions with both painting and performance, membership feels like a natural progression and an opportunity to contribute my experience within a collective and critical framework. I am very grateful to Clive Burton and Tisna Westerhof for nominating me.
I studied at Central School of Art & Design, now University of the Arts London and recently completed the Turps Off-Site Program under the guidance of Marcus Harvey. In 2006, following a trauma, I began working with automatic drawing and painting. This approach has since become a central methodology within my practice. My work frequently takes individuals as its starting point, emerging from diverse source materials, including portrait photography, recorded conversations and handwritten signatures. The work shown in the 2025 London Group Open (see photo), was informed by research in to a couple, The Fussels, who lived in Safehouse 1 in Peckham. I connected with them through their signatures which I found on census records from 1891 and 1901. My intuitive working practice is filtered through and enhanced by my long experience within the art world and knowledge of art history. Alongside my studio practice, I work with hypnosis and mesmerism, incorporating these techniques into live performances and selected paintings.”
R. James Healy
“My practice explores perception. I am interested in how we see, interpret and assign meaning to the world around us. My work combines technology with traditional craftsmanship. Drawing on my experience in computer animation, it often incorporates kinetic, sequential and algorithmic elements.
The London Group holds a significant place in the history of twentieth century British art. I first encountered the contemporary group through the 2025 Open. My sequential sculpture 20 GOTO 10 was selected for exhibition and awarded the Vic Kuell Memorial Prize. During the exhibition and related events I met many members of the group.
Collaboration is central to animated film-making. This was something I immediately recognised in the group. There was also an energy for creating and showing work. These are qualities I value and a community I am pleased to join. I look forward to contributing as an active member.”
Simon Betts
“I am delighted and thrilled to have been selected to join The London Group, and I would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to Paul Bonomini and Ian Parker who both nominated me. I look forward to not only repaying their faith in me but taking an active part in the life and activities of this wonderful community of practice. I look forward to meeting the many members.
My work in the last five years has centred on the practice of drawing. Using humble materials, I have been working on a series of works, “Variants of Concern” that explore my responses to, and journey through, the Covid-Sars19 pandemic. These drawings are a personal document: a testimony to a specific time. A very personal account. The drawings are material witnesses.
These drawings are also allowing me to develop my thinking on the relationship between writing and drawing. I believe writing is drawing. As I draw, I write and as I write, I draw. No hierarchy; an echo of the democracy of the practice of drawing.”
Simon Head
“Part of my membership application mentioned the sense of community I had felt during my selected participation in the London Group Open 2025, it was a pretty special exhibition.
I am honoured to be elected as a member of this historic group, and would like to thank Stephen Carley for nominating me, and the group as a whole for welcoming me; I am excited at the prospect of collaboration and look forward meeting everyone.
I walk a line between language, philosophy, and materiality; I occupy territories of translation and reinvention which often involve personal reflexive memory, concepts that are not necessarily about myself.
I overlay systems and structures of the world with my own rules of loose logic; “inquiries carried out during field trips reveal essential discoveries that assume a responsibility of truth which in turn awakens the realm of invention”.
Always speculating the conceptual interface between analogue and digital experiences, I continue to make work which combine aesthetic value with things that are going on at the edges, behind the aesthetic surface.
My career path as an engineering draughtsman, typographer, and photographer, form the toolbox and rigour of my art practice.”
