The Channel Islands Contemporary Art Show
ArtHouse Jersey and Art for Guernsey's partnership exhibition celebrating art inspired from the Channel Islands
Open at ArtHouse Jersey at Capital House, from Friday 20 March to Sunday 3 May to 2026, 12pm to 6pm (closed Mondays).
Celebratory launch event taking place Friday 20 March, 5.30pm to 7.30pm
There will be artist talks on Saturday 21 March, 12pm, Thursday 9 April, 6pm and Saturday 25 April, 12pm.
ArtHouse Jersey and Art for Guernsey are delighted to announce the second edition of The Channel Islands Contemporary Art Show following the inaugural joint show in 2024. The exhibition will feature an exciting gathering of seventeen artists from the Channel Islands, Brittany, and the UK. Bringing together bold sculpture, richly layered painting, photography, and compelling digital art, the exhibition offers fresh and thought-provoking perspectives on island life, community, and connection. The work will be showcased first at ArtHouse Jersey at Capital House and then tour to Art for Guernsey in St Peter Port in autumn 2026.
Each artist draws on personal experience and place, responding to the unique landscapes and cultural histories of the Channel Islands while opening up new ways of seeing, feeling, and imagining their future. This dynamic showcase celebrates creativity across borders and invites audiences to engage with the vibrant artistic voices shaping the region today.
Participating artists include: Charlie Buchanan, Ruby Butler, Hayley Gibault, Vincent Girard, Victor Guerin, Helen Glencross, Gabrielle Herveet, Louise London, Emilie Knight, Malgorzata Krzysztofik, Vincent Malassis, Charlie McFarley, Toby Rainbird, Nicole Sheppard, Bridget Spinney, India Silvester, Iwan Warnet.
The Channel Islands Contemporary Art Show is produced by ArtHouse Jersey and Art for Guernsey in association with Passerelle Centre d’Art Contemporain in Brest, Brittany.
ABOUT THE 2026 ARTISTS
The seventeen artists selected to feature in The Channel Islands Contemporary Art Show are:
Charlie Buchanan (Guernsey)
Charlie is an artist and illustrator who has exhibited in both solo and group shows in the UK, Spain, Jersey and Guernsey. She will be presenting a watercolour triptych on aquaboard titled I am the Sea and Nobody Owns Me. This is the collective title of 3 new paintings which explore the relationship of the body in water as a metaphor for freedom, independence, change and authenticity.
Ruby Butler (Jersey)
Ruby is a writer whose work explores language, perception, and the subtle rhythms of thought. In the Space Between is a large-scale hanging textile installation that uses writing as both source and structure. Texts are digitally printed onto lightweight fabric and suspended in space, where they fragment, overlap and drift.
Hayley Gibault (Jersey)
Hayley is an award-winning mixed media artist and ceramist. Her project in this exhibition explores her dual island identity, shaped by growing up in Jersey and her Portuguese (Madeiran) heritage. She will be exhibiting ceramic tiles which combine surface, pattern, and illustration. The colour palette uses reds, yellows, blues, and greens inspired by Bailinho folklore, alongside the blue and white tones of traditional azulejos (Portuguese tiles).
Vincent Girard (France)
Vincent is a visual artist currently living and working in Rennes. He graduated from the École Supérieure d'Arts & Médias in Caen in 2021. Girard is presenting a series of drawings. Most of these works were created following a residency at ArtHouse Jersey’s HQ at Greve de Lecq Barracks, based on analogue photographs he took along the coastal path.
Victor Guerin (Jersey / France)
Victor is a Franco-British artist and engineer working across sculpture, installation, and painting. Loudspeaker presents a partially burnt, drifted tree trunk suspended vertically from the ceiling, as if it has passed through the architecture of the gallery itself. The trunk appears to breach the ceiling plane, its weight arrested mid-descent, while the exposed roots hover above the floor.
Helen Glencross (Guernsey)
For more than 25 years, Helen has pursued photography as an amateur, using both analogue and digital cameras. Her hobby deepened in 2023, and since then, she has been building a portfolio that reflects her evolving practice. Nature Doesn’t Grieve: Notes on Impermanence is a meditative study of quiet change.
Gabrielle Herveet (France)
Born in Brittany, France, Gabrielle has exhibited work and completed residencies across France and Europe, over the past sixteen years.By using science in an empirical way, without numbers or equations, she induces a poetic reading of the mechanics of landscapes. She will be presenting a set of sculptures and drawings, all of which speak of landscapes: those of Jersey and those shaped by the Channel Islands.
Louise London (Jersey)
Louise is a multidisciplinary artist based in Jersey, working primarily in ceramics, painting, and mixed media. Their practice explores the intersections of identity, history, and place—often through tactile, symbolic forms that reimagine storytelling. Tides of Influence is a ceramic-based narrative exploring the Islands’ layered identities — where isolation and connection co-exist.
Emilie Knight (Jersey)
Emilie’s recent work has been focused upon an introspective navigation of her lived experience following a recent autism diagnosis. The large-scale painting that she will be presenting in this show explores concepts of identity, belonging and crisis. It is centered in diversity and explores how small communities such as Jersey respond to diversity.
Malgorzata Krzysztofik (Jersey)
Born in Krakow, Poland, Malgorzata’s journey of art making started after a brain tumour diagnosis in 2017. As a result of the illness, she partly lost her eyesight but also gained more appreciation for the beauty of life. She will be presenting a collection of abstract paintings which hold deep personal meaning.
Vincent Malassis (France)
Born in Brittany, France, Malassis lives and works in Rennes and Paris. A photographer, composer and sound artist, he develops work at the intersection of documentary and experimental practice, exploring the relationships between people, places and memory. His project combines portraits, landscapes, textures and field recordings, creating fragmentary works where image and sound coexist.
Charlie McFarley (UK)
Charlie is a professional artist and arts educator based in Minehead, West Somerset. Following a residency with Art for Guernsey, he created a painting inspired by one of the large stained glass windows in St Peter Port Town Church. His practice centres on tight line work and bold colour, qualities that naturally echo the structure and intensity of stained glass.
Toby Rainbird (Jersey / UK)
A British artist and curator based in London.He completed an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art, where he was awarded the Hine Painting Prize. His work in this show focuses on Martello towers, seeing these apertures as points of entry and obstruction.
Nicole Sheppard (Jersey)
Nicole is a sculpture and installation artist whose practice is driven by research and experimentation. Avau-l’ieu / Downstream visually explores the historical and aesthetic significance of lavoirs, spring fed communal washing areas, popular in the 17th -19th centuries, and water pumps across the Channel Islands.
Bridget Spinney (Guernsey)
Since 2016 Bridget’s work has been based on the theme ‘The Art of Nature on Paper’ concentrating on facilitating nature to interact with paper. She has developed techniques of printing the patterns left by the tide on beaches, in charcoal powder. Printing fish, birds and seaweed in cuttlefish ink.
India Silvester (Guernsey)
India is an Art Director, Motion Designer, and Illustrator using mostly digital tools to create visual art. Tidal Portals is an abstract motion project inspired by the Channel Islands, particularly Guernsey, during a time of environmental and cultural change.
Iwan Warnet (France)
Through his painting, Iwan blurs the boundaries between abstraction and figuration, exploring, through the ambiguities of representation, the active role of the viewer in the perception of an image. Before The Water Rises, is a new body of paintings, made like a succession of high and low tides.
The Channel Islands Contemporary Art Show 2024
The nineteen artists that featured in The Channel Islands Contemporary Art Show 2024 were:
Leo Boyd (N. Ireland)
Originally from Hastings, Leo is a screenprinter and painter who likes to depict mundane things with a skewed sci-fi lens. He sees screen printing as a liberating art form, democratising the visual image and encompassing street art, sculpture, collage, photography and painting. Leo’s Channel Island collages combine historical and pictorial research with his own photographic groundwork to create a series of new visions of Guernsey and Jersey.
Charlie Buchanan (Guernsey)
Charlie is an artist and illustrator who has exhibited in both solo and group shows in the UK, Spain and Guernsey. Guernsey is littered with the broken backs of huge greenhouses which are slowly crumbling into the landscape. Charlie uses these monuments to explore the changing relationship the island has to the natural world, both cultivated and wild.
Jason Butler (Jersey)
Jason is an artist who paints in oils. He has been exhibited on three occasions at the National Portrait Gallery, London, and he has been commissioned twice by Jersey’s government to commemorate royal visits. Jason’s work for this show is an attempt to process the life of a painter on a small rock who, when he is in his studio, thinks he could be in New York or London - an abstract painting that places the viewer in the eyes of someone trying to transcend the ‘local’ whilst also acknowledging its debt.
Paul Chambers (Guernsey)
Paul used to work in the field of restorative justice and now uses the wetplate collodion technique, most recently as part of the Renoir in Guernsey, 1883, exhibition which took place in Giverny and Guernsey. Paul is passionate about photographing the people we usually do not see or hear. He has a unique perspective on people’s backgrounds and is skilled at depicting social realities.
Notta Caflisch (Switzerland)
Notta is a Swiss artist from the Grisons with Canadian roots. Her work addresses global trade, consumerism and how these issues affect our society, the legal system and one's own identity. Notta’s great-great-great grandfather, John Le Boutillier, was born in Jersey in 1797 and moved to the Gaspé, Canada, where he opened his own codfish trading company. He is still well known in the region, where there is a museum and documents in the Gaspé Archives. Notta’s family history has inspired a unique embroidered piece accompanied by audio footage.
Connor Daly (Jersey)
Connor’s work explores varying levels of colour and compositional effects that provoke spatial ambiguity, using a painterly and abstract style that is evocative of nostalgia, memory and the passing of time. Connor is exhibiting a series of photographs titled, ‘From Here to Eternity’, exploring areas of the island that are deeply connected to his childhood. The work is melancholic and reflects a view of the island that is isolated and unfamiliar, alluding to the rapid socio-economic changes within the Island he calls home.
Emily de Gruchy (Jersey)
Emily is an experimental, multidisciplinary composer specialising in musical cryptography, aleatory and sonic art. Many people, over hundreds of years, sought refuge in the Channel Islands without fear of persecution to practise their faith and, in tandem, their music. Emily’s sound installation takes listeners on a journey through the different forms of sacred and secular bellringing, from the year 1000 to the beginning of the millennium.
Sally Ede-Golightly (Guernsey)
Figurative artist Sally was awarded the Heatherleys Portrait Prize in 2019 and has exhibited with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and the Society of Women Artists. Her work will explore the connection between Guernsey and Hong Kong, where her family lived in the 19th century before moving to Guernsey, two islands of the same geographical size but which chose very different paths. It will exemplify how Channel Islanders created an historical, economic and social footprint across the globe.
Eugen Gorean (Moldova)
Eugen is a watercolourist of global renown with a host of international accolades. His artworks have been exhibited in London, Moscow, Paris, Venice and Shenzhen. He was also invited by the European Parliament in Brussels and by the Council of Europe in Strasbourg to show his art. Eugen was Art for Guernsey’s first artist in residence, and the island has inspired him to produce a piece which reflects upon the relationship between people and the place from which they come.
Tim Le Breuilly (Jersey)
Tim is a multidisciplinary artist and co-founder of Luddite Press. Tim was shortlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize as well as the BEEP painting biennial. Photography in the form of the Daguerreotype was first demonstrated in Jersey in May 1840, only nine months after the details of the invention had been first revealed in Paris. Tim’s work for this show is inspired by the history of the Channel Islands as a testing ground for new techniques of image making.
Yulia Makeyeva (Jersey)
Yulia grew up in Russia and now lives in Jersey. She explores memory, heritage and time, language, boundaries and borders, drawing inspiration from personal experiences and public and private archives. Yulia’s installation encourages a dialogue about displacement and integration, and is based on her own experience of immigration and the story of a woman who has lived and worked in Jersey for 30 years and still hears xenophobic comments from her clients.
Oleg Mikhailov (Russia)
Artist and printmaker Oleg is one of the best stone lithographers in the world and his works can be found in most of the major Russian and Chinese museums. His artwork is inspired by Victor Hugo’s Toilers of the Sea and Okusai’s Wave. For Oleg, Victor Hugo and the theme of the ‘rock’s hospitality’ is a great way of building a bridge between the three places.
Peter Mammes (South Africa/UK)
Peter travels extensively around the world to find ideas and imagery for his work, collecting patterns that he finds on stone carvings and reliefs on temples, facades and graves. He was commissioned to design a commemorative coin for circulation for the South African mint, released in 2019. Peter challenges preconceived notions surrounding the Channel Islands, from their recent history as tax havens and their stance on the European Union to the cartoonish stereotypes that often pop up in conversations about them.
Shan O’Donnell (Jersey)
Guys and Dolls is a photographic and audio-based project documenting Jersey’s Drag Queens both in and out of drag. Shan aims to elevate and hold space for the queer lived experience on the island, immortalising them through the eventual donation of the work to the Société Jersiaise Photographic Archive.
Vesna Parchet (UK)
Vesna’s work revolves around themes such as growth/transformation, conscious/subconscious and real/abstract, fusing imagery from personal experiences with magazine and newspaper cut-outs in order to explore the complexity of the human form and the body as a convoluted entity. Vesna’s painting is inspired by the folklore history and mythical beliefs that exist on the islands, and explores the traditions that have shaped its people.
Hugh Rose (Guernsey)
Hugh is an illustrator who has worked in a variety of styles and approaches, including graffiti, sculpture and graphic design. Hugh explores the lives of the patron saints of Guernsey and Jersey, focusing on their legendary aspects and the many stories told about them. These digital illustrations offer an opportunity to engage deeply with the cultural DNA of the Channel Islands as well as allowing viewers to explore the significance of these saints in the wider early medieval and Celtic milieu in which they lived.
Martin Toft (Jersey)
Martin was born in Denmark and moved to Jersey in 2004 to teach photography. He combines documentary and fine art to explore social, anthropological and cultural themes, often immersing himself in communities for long periods of time. Through the prism of colonialism and family history, Martin looks at how Jersey's original wealth generated by the proceeds from the North Atlantic fisheries and maritime trade lay the foundation for the island’s future prosperity.
Philipp Valenta (Germany)
Philipp is a visual artist currently based in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. He reflects upon definitions and the generation of values conceptually in different media, with emphasis on drawing, video, performance and installation. Philipp’s works have been exhibited in numerous shows, including in the Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris. His work for this show is based on two significant industries in the Channel Islands - fishing and finance - combining them in an experimental video installation.
Aaron Yeandle (Guernsey)
Aaron is an award-winning photographer who has exhibited nationally and internationally with solo and group exhibitions. His photographs observe and reflect on communities and places that are often glimpsed but rarely pondered upon. Aaron’s work for this show delves into the complicated relationship between memory and landscape; the Channel Islands tell their unique and troubled history through their landscape and folklore.
