Fountain
Saturday February 7th - Sunday March 1st 2026
One hundred and nine years ago, Duchamp’s Fountain turned the art world upside down. As artists and critics debated whether this was art or a hoax, the artist’s designation of the porcelain urinal as a readymade changed the course of modern art.
In 1636, Queen Henrietta Maria, together with her husband Charles I, visited the Rock of Enstone in Oxfordshire. The object which gave its name to the place was a garden fountain shaped like a large stone and completely covered with plants. The fountain required a “fountaineer” to manipulate the valves on its many water pipes and was situated on an island. The island was reached by a foot bridge. According to Robert Pole writing in 1677, the Rock of Enstone was a place where people might come to marvel. It was not the first Italianate water feature to be built in Early Modern England, but it was one of the most striking.
Numerous artists respond to their idea of fountain.
Vivian Chan, Pato Bosich, Ruth Dupré, Michael Bucknell, Stephan Hausmeister, Margarita Zafrilla Olayo, Tom Wiggins, Juliane Bethany (Vienna), Jess de Zilva (Suisse), Scott Schwager, Stella Carr, Laureana Toledo (Mexico), Natalia Mali, Matt Humphrey, Ziggy Phang Chan, Alison Dalwood, Tadashi Moriyama, Rod Young, Kristina Kurylo (Kiev/Cambridge), Frank Pinsent, Evgeniy Kazannik (Berlin), Marina Collard, Matt Hale, Frances Boyle, Rachael Pease and Simon Quinn.
Opening Saturday February 7th 2-8pm, 4-4:30pm Music by Mona & the Reverend Doctor 6-8pm Vermouth reception with some short performances by Marina Collard & Margarita Zafrilla Olayo.
The exhibition will be open daily 2-6PM from Saturday February 7th to Sunday February 15th
thereafter by appointment
Artist's texts
Juliane Bethany (Vienna),
Juliane Batthyány (b. 1974, Vienna) studied photography and African studies in
Florence, Vienna, and Paris. She has worked with galleries in Paris and New York,
carried out projects in Southern Africa, and received several awards. Her photo
books have been published internationally. She is now based in Vienna, where her
work focuses on science and cultural history.
1- The Hochstrahlbrunnen at Schwarzenbergplatz in Vienna was inaugurated in
1873 to celebrate the completion of the first direct water pipeline from the Alps to
the city. This pipeline supplied Vienna with fresh, clean mountain water and led to
dramatic improvements in public health, marking a turning point in the city’s modern
history. To this day, Vienna’s Alpine spring pipelines remain the quiet secret behind
the city’s exceptionally high-quality tap water.
digital photograph on paper, 30x 40 cm,
2 - A wetland and water cascade of flowforms built in the courtyard of the
Waldorf High School in Budapest. According to British sculptor J. Wilkes, the
creator of flowforms:„The flowform is a vessel capable of inducing rhythms in water
streaming through it. The rhythms induced may not only be of aesthetic and visual
interest but also support life proceses.”
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digital photograph on paper, 30x 40 cm,
Jess de Zilva (Suisse),
Jess de Zilva is a British-Liechtensteiner painter of psychological allegories. She currently works in Switzerland.
She studied Fine Art at Camberwell College of Arts in 2001 and later in 2015, focused on portrait painting at the
Sarum Studio, Atelier of Fine Art, in Salisbury under the tutelage of Nicholas Beer.
About the paintings (same text for all paintings)
In autumn swim protagonists from the first Art & talking show (banana) take centre stage once more. Now they
are hanging out in the fountains of Winterthur, the Swiss city I recently moved to. Weird? Maybe. There are lots
of fountains here and a culture of people bathing in them.
Works details:
Names:
autumn swim 1
autumn swim 2
autumn swim 4
Medium: Original paintings, oil on canvas board prepared with several layers of gesso with marble dust.
Framed & size: Framed in 6cm deep black box frame 23.2 x 28.3 cm (painting size 15 x 10cm)
Year: 2025
Other: Certificate of authenticity attached.
Vivian Chan
Vivian Chan is a Malaysian-born British architect and artist. Her large-scale installation, The Floating Ghetto, was exhibited at Documenta 15. She lives in London with her wife, their son, and a 16-year-old Jack Russell.
Still/Moving
Oil & watercolour on canvas
61 x 61cm
The night at the square is still and quiet, but the water from the fountain and the grief are moving.
The fountain mirrors the enduring weight of emotion.
Pato Bosich,
Riverine view from the Castle
113 x 67 x 6.4 cm
Acrylic and oil on canvas
2026
50 words about the work:
The Son of Vertigo, inconsolable, hurled himself into the Void upon a barge’s mast.
Distant —dim or fixed on the horizon— he saw the memories of a Flower, a Grotto, a
Siren.
Prince of Aquitaine! King of Fools! He believed he tasted the Sea, the warmth of a
Black Sun.
50 words Bio:
Pato Bosich is a Chilean-born, London-based artist whose work spans
painting, drawing, printmaking, and collaborative projects. His
practice explores memory, myth, and transformation through layered
imagery and process-driven techniques. Engaging with both the personal
and the archetypal, his work evokes a timeless, contemplative space
rooted in visual storytelling and poetry.
Ruth Dupré,
Ruth is RCA trained. She works in different media- glass,ceramics, paint and film. She won the
sculpture prize at the RA summer show, and also the Bombay Sapphire prize for a film. She has
exhibited world wide in group and solo exhibitions. Emeritus professor University of the Arts
London.
Painting based on the Fountain of Neptune, God of the sea,
in Florence Commissioned by Cosimo I de’ Medici in 1559.
By Bartolomeo Ammannati. The fountain was initially disliked
by Florentines, who found Neptune’s proportions odd and
nicknamed him “Il Biancone"” (“the big white dude”). This
painting pursues this theme.
47 x 31 cm oil on board.
The Trevi fountain in Rome was completed in 1762, it is the largest Baroque fountain in the city and one of the most famous fountains in the world.There was even an Italian stamp featuring it. It’s so obviously a celebration of manhood, and my painting rather undermines that element.
Trevi Fountain
Michael Bucknell, Berlin
Michael Bucknell, MA went to UCS, read Art History at Edinburgh, went mad on a boat opposite the Louvre, then studied Painting at Camberwell. He organised 6 Luxury Goods art festivals in London investigating the cost, value, rôle, illusion, & reality of art in 50 words, stuck on the psychosis.
Fontaine tant pis (/tɒ̃ ˈpiː,tɑ̃ pi/)
reflects on human vanity and the illusion of choice. Through repetition our minds are colonised through passive annexation of objects and originality. Intellectual property protectionism limits our thought and expression. Plasma, the fourth state of matter, allows expression to conquer, or at least modify.
Stainless steel urinal and plasma cut divider mounted on façade, edition of 5,
Fountain2
Giclée inkjet print on Hahnemühle cotton paper 106.16mm * 135.47mm with 1.5 inch borders, signed
Edition of 15,
A meditation on origin and age, beauty and truth. The print takes the rarely seen "Fountain" definition from the first edition of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary 5 April 1755, overlaid with Alfred Stieglitz's iconic photograph to form a palimpsest of reflexions on source and original, meaning and visual, text and image.
Fountain3
Two meditations on origin and age, beauty, truth and locality in palimpsest. The print takes the rarely seen "Fountain" definition from the first edition of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary 5 April 1755, and overlays Alfred Stieglitz's iconic photograph and a detail from Bar's 1677 illustration of Enstone Waterworks, 3 miles away.
2 giclée inkjet prints on Hahnemühle cotton paper 106.16mm * 135.47mm with 1.5 inch borders, signed
Each - edition of 15,
Stephan Hausmeister, Chipping Norton
Fountain
Stephan Hausmeister is a German artist and curator whose interdisciplinary practice crosses
cultural, geographic and media boundaries. He initiates international collaborations such as Field
of Vision and has presented performances at Documenta. Working in painting, woodcut and digital
print, he explores how images construct and destabilise shared perceptions of reality.
Hausmeister’s pencil drawing presents a strange, hybrid object transformed into a spouting
fountain, hovering between utility and absurdity. Water flows without clear source or function,
quietly disrupting expectation. The work reflects his ongoing interest in instability, where familiar
forms dissolve and meaning circulates, leaks, and reforms within contemporary visual culture.
Stephan Hausmeister:
Fountain
2025
Pencil on paper
21 x 26 cm unframed
32.5 x 35.5 cm framed
Ziggy Phang Chan
Ziggy is a 7-year-old boy who loves to draw. Born in London, Ziggy has two mums who are Malaysian-born. Ziggy draws every single day, loves to read Horrible Histories, and his favourite comics are Calvin & Hobbes because they are so funny. He has a dog called Tiger.
The Blue Path
Acrylic, ink & watercolour on paper
70 x 50cm (artist-framed)
A bamboo fountain that shoots out sparkly water, with crystal pillars coming down from thick, cold branches. There are poisonous mushrooms and crazy jellyfish bouncing around, making a magical world.
Margarita Zafrilla Olayo
Artist, dancer and choreographer, Margarita balances across practices, contexts and forms, working with dance, performance, choreographic projects, painting, and still and moving-image, both solo and in company, presenting in theatres, museums, galleries, site-specific, and diverse educational contexts worldwide. Born in Madrid, she has lived in London since 1999.
Enchanted Mirror 1 &2
(Acrylic ink on mount board paper and wood, 42 x 29.7 cm)
I flow, fall, pour, soak, seep, swirl, drip, spill, trickle, slide, wave, freeze, melt, rise, emerge, spray, splash, well up, condense, descend, branch, cloud, dissolve, settle, darken, stagnate, evaporate, circulate, contain, rest, distill, steam, crystallize, ripple, moisten, run, surge, overflow, clear, stream, glide, rise, slide, disperse, shake, stream, cleanse and sink.
Tom Wiggins, Chipping Norton
Tom Wiggins is a letter carver and artist. He served his apprenticeship under master letter carver Fergus Wessel for four years and then as his assistant for a further four. He now has his own workshop in Chipping Norton, designing and carving bespoke commissions from all over the UK.
The FOUNTAIN carving was made to exemplify the majesty of Roman capital letters. The inscription at the base of Trajan’s Column in Rome forms the basis for the modern western alphabet. With a hammer, chisel and the skills from a prestigious master-apprentice lineage, the traditional method of carving letters lives on.
Hand-carved lettering in Portland limestone,
Scott Schwager,
Isola Bella, Mixed media on canvas, 40.5 x 50 cm, 202
Perched in the Mediterranean, Isola Bella is a small island near Taormina, Sicily walked to on a narrow sand strip. Magnificent flora and rock walls from the 1950s and 60s construction of a ‘hidden’ villa blend into the scrub woodland. In 2026, outside Victoria Miro, a gallery in London, are two mesmerising water features. The painting presents a landscape that reimagines how Isola Bella was transformed and features two fountains in the forefront.
Scott Schwager (b. 1969, New York) grew up in the US before moving to London and studied at Camberwell College of Arts and Chelsea College of Arts. He created Walk&Talk artworks at Matadero Madrid, Spain (2011); Nuit Blanche Calgary, Canada (2014); and Wimbledon Common, UK (2016). His paintings sometimes include places walked. Many blend memories, photographs, and places reimagined.
Stella Carr,
Stella Carr is a painter inspired by the symbiotic relationship between humans and the natural world. Her paintings focus on trees as a locus of pattern and energy, honouring deep ecology and exploring the tensions between manmade landscapes and wildness. Her paintings document an inextricable connection between the evolution of her work in response to nature and the inner ecology of the self.
All There For The Feeling
Mono print and white ink on Atsukuchi paper
21x29cm
2022
The fountain is all around. This image offers an understanding our place in a living cosmos, a way of being that pulses with life. Seeing the world as a living, breathing community where everything is interconnected and participatory. Its about need to balance and use both sides of the brain, to blend with and acknowledge our reciprocal relationship with nature.
Laureana Toledo (Mexico),
Description: fuentes diversas
With this type font (Oxford Modern) draw or vinyl letter the phrase
“The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”
£265.48
50 words for snow. Kate Bush
1 drifting
2 twisting
3 whiteout
4 blackbird-braille
5 Wenceslasaire
6 avalanche
7 swans-a-melting
8 deamondi-pavlova
9 eiderfalls
10 Santanyeroofdikov
11 stellatundra
12 hunter's-dream
13 faloop'njoompoola
14 zebranivem
15 spangladasha
16 albadune
17 hironocrashka
18 hooded-wept
19 phlegm-de-neige
20 mountainsob
21 anklebreaker
22 erase-o-dust
23 shnamistoflopp'n
24 terrablizza
25 whirlissimo
26 vanilla-swarm
27 icyskidski
28 robber's-veil
29 creaky-creaky
30 psychohail
31 whippoccino
32 shimmerglisten
33 Zhivagodamarbletash
34 sorbetdeluge
35 sleetspoot'n
36 melt-o-blast
37 slipperella
38 boomerangablanca
39 groundberry-down
40 meringuerpeaks
41 crème-bouffant
42 peDtaH 'ej chIS qo'
43 deep'nhidden
44 bad-for-trains
45 shovelcrusted
46 anechoic
47 blown-from-polar-fur
48 vanishing-world
49 mistraldespair
50 snow
Positive Words to Describe Yourself on Your CV. Laureana Toledo
1. I use a creative approach to problem solving.
2. I am a dependable person who is great at time management.
3. I am always energetic and eager to learn new skills.
4. I have experience working as part of a team and individually.
Natalia Mali, Cambridge
Natalia Mali is an international artist, performer, and choreographer whose practice moves between
collage, photo-montage, film, photography, and video installation. Rooted in feminist discourse, her
work examines fragmentation as a method for re-reading identity, cultural memory, and national
narratives. Educated at the Yale School of Art and Architecture and the University of London, Mali has
exhibited internationally, including at the Museum George Pompidou, Saatchi Gallery, Cairo Biennale,
and LOOP Barcelona. Her works are held in collections such as MoMA and the Tretyakov Gallery.
She currently lives and works in Cambridge, UK.
The FOUNTAIN series brings together collage and assemblage works constructed from
found materials, vintage magazine cut-outs, and subtle ink interventions. Drawn by
methodologies associated with the Italian Arte Povera movement, the works privilege
modest, everyday materials and analogue processes as a critical artistic strategy. Through
fragmentation, reuse, and recomposition, each piece resists reproduction, operating as a
singular material gesture that reflects on memory, authorship, and the politics of value within
contemporary visual culture.
Works vary in size,
Matt Humphrey,
Mat Humphrey
Fountains
Oil on board 27cm x 32 cm
From the ongoing black and white series focusing on water, this piece is a
delicate abstraction of the effect of light diffraction.
Mat Humphrey is an artist based in East London. For the last decade he has been
making monotone work that tries to capture the serenity of light travelling
through water, and the relationship between physical waves, light waves and
music frequencies.
Alison Dalwood, Chipping Norton
Alison Dalwood is a British painter and Fine Art lecturer. Her work examines perception through
the materiality of painting, using layered pigment and an economical pictorial language to create
spatial phenomena and perceptual disturbance. She has exhibited internationally, including the
John Moores Exhibition and a solo show at the Hatton Gallery, and received Arts Council England
support.
Dalwood’s painting for Fountain explores light as a shaping force rather than a descriptive
element. Loosely based on Stanway House Fountain, it evokes a single vertical jet catching
moonlight against surrounding darkness, transforming water into a suspended luminous presence
where form emerges through atmosphere, reflection, and perceptual uncertainty.
Alison Dalwood:
Fountain
2026
Oil on canvas
30 x 27 cm unframed
33 x 30 cm framed
Tadashi Moriyama, Chipping Norton
Tadashi Moriyama
Temperance
Artwork size: 12 × 18 in (30.5 × 45.7 cm)
Framed size: 19.7 × 13.7 in (50 × 34.7 cm)
Acrylic and ink on paper.
Tadashi is a multidisciplinary artist exploring painting, drawing, animation, sculpture, culinary arts, dance, and family life. Grounded in Japanese traditions of sumi ink and Soto Zen meditation, his practice is informed by science fiction, sacred geometry, and everyday life, forming a process guided by intuition and attention.
50 about the art
A goddess stands at the center of collapse, a fountain of water flowing from her as the world burns. Men remain frozen between power and surrender. It is a vision of renewal amid chaos. Drawn from my dream series, this work acts as a prayer for peace, inviting a quiet awakening
Rod Young, Chipping Norton
The photographer.
Rod Young is currently in his final year of a Photography degree at the Open College of the Arts. He has a deep interest in documentary photography that shows cultural shifts and developments. He started photography developing and processing his work in his own darkroom and now works mainly digitally.
The photograph.
Title: The Gaze 1.
2019 Leamington Spa
Photo inkjet print. 1/20.
260mm x 180mm.
This photograph is part of a series of six portraying people looking out at a scene with the camera looking at them looking out. This is a reflection on the idea of the gaze, in this case a double gaze– at the people and at the fountain beyond.
Kristina Kurylo (Kiev/Cambridge),
In a cold, twilight landscape, the fountain emerges as the conceptual center of the image. Black water streams from the figure’s mouth—not as decoration, but as a ritual of purification. As the ancient mask of canonical perfection is removed, an imperfect human presence is revealed beneath. The fountain becomes an inner eruption: a confession, a rupture, and a rejection of imposed ideals.
Kristina Kurylo is a Ukrainian artist from Kyiv with an MA from the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture. She explores social and psychological themes, revealing human vulnerability and contemporary identity through oil painting, combining classical technique with a sensitive, contemporary artistic vision.
Title: Fountain of Purification
Size: 50 × 60 cm
Medium: Oil painting, canvas
Evgeniy Kazannik (Berlin),
Evgeniy Kazannik is a visual artist working with analogue photographic
processes and synthesized sound. A former commercial photographer, he
studied at London College of Communication. His camera-less analogue
work explores perception, memory and light. Kazannik has exhibited
internationally, and his work is held in both private and
institutional art collections.
Evgenie: STATEMENT:
Ow flow, oh staining, may the light to gather in suspension. This images descend into depths where time hesitates. I return to first principle or first cause, sensing the fountain of all goodness as a quiet source, endlessly giving, dissolving form, memory, and image through patience, chance, touch, breath alone
Blue and Teal
Size 20x27
Medium: Digital print on Hahnemuhle Cotton,
Marina Collard,
Lunch Break – Piazza Farnese, Rome
2026
acrylic on canvas
85x55cm
The normality of daily life meets the extraordinary historical monuments that fill the eternal
city of Rome. Basking in the sun, he rests his lunch on the edge of the pool surrounding one
of the Fontane della Piazza Farnese, two enormous basins taken from the ancient Roman baths
of Caracalla.
Sink – Piazza Dante, Rome
2022
acrylic on canvas
80x70cm
A dive into the culture of Roman drinking fountains. The figure, conceived behind closed doors
in a studio in Piazza Dante, becomes immersed in the water that is everywhere in the city.
Water runs, pours and flows throughout the often sun-soaked city.
No Time like the Present – toilets Maxxi Museum Rome
2023
Directed by Virginia Farman in collaboration with Marina Collard
Video loop
The act of transgression here, is not a large gesture. A discrete public space becomes theatre.
Occupying the toilets at the Maxxi Museum Rome, the performance borders on the edge of
being disruptive and being invisible. Confusing ideas of what is appropriate, the figure spills
around the sink.
Artist blurb
Marina Collard is an artist working across performance, painting and video presenting
multidisciplinary projects internationally. Her work points towards everyday labour and asks
questions concerning visibility and status. About what is appropriate. These questions are
posed with warmth, cloaked in the absurd. A catch of the eye, a backward glance.
Matt Hale,
Piped 2012
170cm wide x 77cm high x 19cm deep
Wooden panel oil and acrylic painting , plastic pipe, gutter and engine grease.
ARTIST NAME: Matt Hale
TITLE: Piped 2012
MATERIALS: Engine Grease, oil and acrylic paint, plastic guttering & pipes on/in plywood.
[1.70m wide x 77cm high x 19cm dee
Matt Hale Studied M.A Fine Art at Goldsmiths College and his studio is in a rural setting in West London. Over the last 40 years Hale has exhibited in the UK, Europe and the USA. Hale is also the presenter of the Art Monthly Talk Show podcast and ran City Racing Gallery for 10 years.
“First we had Nature.
And then came the Environment
Environment is the smoke humanity has put on Natura”. Gustav Metzger 1992
Piped 2012 is one from a series of Grease works, all fundamentally paintings, but stretching that form- motor grease is used as paint and some works are back lit by fluorescent lights..
Frances Boyle
Daughters of Poseidon ” 100x150cm Acrylic
Frances Boyle is an eclectic artist, poet and film-maker, driven by storytelling and her place in the World. Captured moments in time create unsettling and emotional work that explores existential and mythological themes, juxtaposed with the liminal space of personal memory and dreams. Cinema, film grain, stained glass, ephemera, frescoes, all inform the materiality of her painting.
Part autobiographical, part history painting, The ‘Daughters of Poseidon’ is a postcard sent from the past, present and future. Scraped back layers of jewel bright paint , bold brush strokes ,texture and glazing, portray tourists navigating a patriarchal world of ideology and ecological collapse.
Simon Quinn.
Straddling the disciplines of art and craft, I am an artist working in assemblage, collage, painting and carving as well as being a picture framer, prop maker cabinetmaker and amateur entomologist.
Current obsessions include chalk stream ecosystems, industrial heritage and finding uses for two tons of terracotta tiles, accidentally acquired
Merda d’Artista, 2026, mixed media, 12x12x24cm
The devil is not the prince of matter; [but] arrogance of spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in moving, he always returns from whence he came.
Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
Rachael Pease ( Chipping Norton )
300 Years Later
Artwork size: 10 × 10 in (25.4 × 25.4 cm)
Framed size: 13 × 13 in (33 × 33 cm)
Mixed media (giclée print with unique acrylic painted detail) on paper
50 about the artist
Rachael Pease is an internationally exhibited landscape artist whose work documents real trees and locations, woven with strands of fantasy and memory. Born in Indiana, she earned her MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and is now based in Chipping Norton, UK. Her work has been featured in Hi-Fructose and My Modern Met.
50 words about the piece
300 Years Later envisions a return home after three centuries to a transformed landscape. Inspired by Bryce Canyon, this collaborative work brings together Rachael Pease’s giclée print landscape and an acrylic figure by Tadashi Moriyama, evoking nature’s rhythms and renewal.