Artists in Residence, June 2025

Blair Saxon-Hill
Blair Saxon-Hill lives and works in Los Angeles, California. While adept in many art mediums including collage, assemblage, and sculpture, Saxon-Hill is primarily an oil painter at this time. Her works are vibrant and playful; they are filled with an overarching sense of empathy and love for the world and people around her. She often moves from using larger gestural marks to more fine detailed expressions in a single canvas; rewarding the viewer in different ways at all distances from the work.
Blair also has an observational still life practice. After gathering flowers from the market, she returns to the studio to compose bouquets and paint them from life. Collectively the works harken to the line work of masters like Matisse and Picasso, while looking forward with her new and distinct voice that can serve as an emotional balm.

Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker (b.1990, London, UK) lives and works in London. She completed her BA at Central Saint Martins in 2012, and received her postgraduate diploma from the Royal Academy Schools in 2017. Recent solo exhibitions include: Prime Movers, Nir Altman (2024); Water-resistance, St. Chads, London (2023); Frieze London Focus Section solo presentation (2022); Clear Out the Wounds Closest To the Sun, V.O. Curations, London (2021); The Land Lies, ChertLüdde, Berlin (2020). Her work has been included in institutional exhibitions at the British Museum (London), MACA Beijing (China), Gustav Luebcke Museum (Germany), and the Drawing Room (London). Her book Submarines, produced in collaboration with writer M. Ty, was published in 2022. She is an Associate Lecturer in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art, London.
Photo by Alastair Levy

Zohar Fraiman
Zohar Fraiman is an artist who examines the influence of digitalization on gender identity and our lives in general as reflected in our obsession with social media and our addiction to smartphones. Her work explores how identities are formed and through which mechanisms they are reconstructed in digital spaces such as Instagram, Tinder and Tik Tok. With an abundance of humour, bright colours and fractured characters that bear reference to Disney films, retro advertising, iconic pop culture and the works of old masters, Fraiman questions the practice of internet-based self-staging and criticizes exaggerated and distorted ways of expressing both gender and the self within image-based networks and social plaHorms. She delves into the phenomenon of the selfie, the effect of swiping as a form of modern self - subjectification, the increasing interchangeability among subjects on the internet and touches upon themes such as compulsive online shopping, sexting and doomscrolling. In her complex worlds it is not certain whether we are viewing an illusion or reality. Fraiman’s work demands that, at least for one step, you go behind the looking glass that is the painting’s surface, to not apprehend it as a mirror of the world, but a world that mirrors, magnifies and distorts. Zohar Fraiman explores these issues in a playful manner, and it is up to us to feel invited to question ourselves and our habits.
Photo by Dale Grant

Aneta Kajzer
Aneta Kajzer was born in 1989 in Katowice in Poland and lives and works in Berlin. She graduated from the Kunsthochschule Mainz and was awarded a residency at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. In 2018, she participated in the Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt, a development program for female visual artists. Her work is regularly exhibited, particularly in shows dedicated to the contemporary rejuvenation of German art such as Now ! Painting in Germany Today in Deutschland, shown at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Kunstsammlung Chemnitz and Museum Wiesbaden in 2019-2020. She has also enjoyed numerous solo exhibitions, most notably at the Conrads Gallery in Düsseldorf, the Künstlerhaus Bethanien and the Institut für Moderne Kunst in Nuremburg.
Photo by Arshia Maljaei, 2025