Zoë Barker
Gill Clarke
Vincent Dupont-Blackshaw
Fran Farrar
Jan Frith
Barbara Gowan
Violet Mareck
Richard May
Karen Mead
Fiona Schindler
The Ryde Art Collective is a group of professional, contemporary artists, based on the Isle of Wight UK. They work in a range of traditional and technology media. Each artist makes concept driven work informed by personal experience and context.
COLLECTIVE’S HIGHLIGHTS
ARTISTS’ NEWS
Now & Upcoming
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2026
Barbara Gowan - Materiality: The Life of Matter - 🗓️ 29 Jan – 2 Feb 2026, 📍 Espacio Gallery, London
Jan Frith - John Ruskin Prize 2026 - 🗓️ 29 Jan – 21 Feb 2026, 📍 Trinity Buoy Wharf, London
Zoe Barker - Subject to Disruption, Aspire - 🗓️ 4 Mar – 2 May 2026, 📍 Aspex, Portsmouth
Gillian Clarke - Isle of Wight Open Studios - 🗓️ 15 – 25 May 2026, 📍 Newport, Isle of Wight
Barbara Gowan - Isle of Wight Open Studios - 🗓️ 15 – 25 May 2026, 📍 Ryde, Isle of Wight
Richard May - Isle of Wight Open Studios - 🗓️ 15 – 25 May 2026, 📍 Ryde, Isle of Wight
Fran Farrar - This Green and Pleasant Land, Printmakers Council Exhibition - 🗓️ 27 May – 13 June 2026, 📍 The North Wall Arts Center, Oxford
Fran Farrar - 35 Year Anniversary Show, Cupola Contemporary Art - 🗓️ 11 July – 6 September 2026, 📍 178–178a Middlewood Road, Sheffield, S6 1TD
2025
Fran Farrar - Held (Group Exhibition) - 🗓️ 8 - 13 Jul 2025, 📍 Wymondham Arts
Violet Mareck - Of The Mind (Solo Exhibition) - 🗓️ 26 – 30 Aug 2025, 📍 One Pave Court Gallery, London
The Ryde Art Collective - Re-collections - 🗓️ 30 Sept – 11 Oct 2025, 📍 Department, Ryde, Isle of Wight
The Ryde Art Collective - 2026 Exhibition, Quay Arts - 🗓️ 26 September – 8 November 2026, 📍 15 Sea Street, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 5BD
