Isaac Andrews | Katja Farin | Harriet Gillett | Conor Quinn | Jordan Rubio
All Eyes on Me brings together five painters defining the new energy in contemporary figuration: Isaac Andrews, Katja Farin, Harriet Gillett, Conor Quinn and Jordan Rubio. Each explores the human face and figure in both direct and metaphorical forms, drawing viewers into encounters that are at once intimate and declarative. Presented during Frieze week, the exhibition positions these artists at the forefront of a generation reclaiming visibility through paint.
Isaac Andrews distils memory and tenderness through sparse gestures and close framing, turning quiet exchanges into lasting portraits of connection. Katja Farin captures everyday life with emotional tension, transforming casual social settings into psychologically charged portraits. Harriet Gillett slows down the speed of digital life, layering oil and spray paint to transform fleeting moments into dreamlike reveries. Drawing on post-Impressionism and religious iconography, her works oscillate between past and present, intimacy and universality. Conor Quinn merges painting and soft sculpture, using his background in puppetry and stop motion to explore queer identity, ritual and the performance of intimacy. Jordan Rubio transforms the ordinary into the mythical, creating figures that are playful yet haunting, his dreamlike settings probing identity, duality and the conflicts within.
Within the exhibition, a site-specific installation by the artist project The Way to You (Wuchao Feng & Yue Yin) responds to the painters’ works, extending their dialogues into spatial and sensory form.
The title All Eyes on Me speaks on several levels: the heightened visibility of Frieze week, the act of seeing and being seen at the heart of portraiture, and the confidence of artists stepping fully into view. Ranging from small headshots to immersive compositions, these works generate a shared intensity, an insistence on presence, vulnerability and individuality. Each painting is both subject and statement, asking, quietly or boldly, to be seen.
Featuring Artists
Isaac Andrews is a 22 year old London based fine artist and curator. He did his BA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art, and his MA at the Royal College of Art, graduating in 2026. His work is held in private collections internationally, and he has worked with brands including Miu Miu, Off White and Converse. Andrews has exhibited works in multiple solo and group exhibitions, curated group exhibitions, and has been featured in multiple press sources including i-D, Dazed, 10 Magazine, Office Magazine, Hypebeast and Shadowplay Magazine.
Katja Farin (b.1996 Los Angeles, CA) works in figurative painting depicting the interactions between the subconscious and reality. The relationship between figures is uncertain; the everyday life of sitting at coffee shops, wandering in backyard gardens, answering boring phone calls becomes the backdrop for the internal dialogue with the self that contemplates traumas, coping mechanisms, dreams and distortions. The works are dream spaces that allow the viewer to peek into the interior worlds of the figures, their relationships with the self and others. Bright colors, glowing hands and distorted bodies create the dreamlike dysphoric space that these androgynous figures embody.
Harriet Gillett (b. 1995 East Yorkshire) is a London-based artist whose work explores the intersections of memory, emotion, and time through painting. She received her MA in Fine Art from City & Guilds of London Art School in 2022, following a BA in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh in 2017. She was shortlisted for the Ingram Prize in 2020 and selected for New Contemporaries in 2023. In 2024, she completed the Palazzo Monti Residency, and her debut solo exhibition opened at LAMB Gallery, London. Gillett’s recent exhibitions include shows at Brooke Benington, Roman Road, Delphian x Saatchi, Badr El Jundi Gallery, Tube Culture Hall, Melzi Fine Art, and duo presentations with Soho Revue and New Normal Projects. She currently has a solo opened at Maison Bertaux in Soho curated by Hotsheet.
Conor Quinn is a British Irish painter and soft-sculptor living in London with a background in stop-motion animation. In 2025 he will graduate with a Masters in Painting from the Royal College of Art, having achieved a BA from the Arts University Bournemouth (2021) and studied at the Royal Drawing School (2018). Group exhibitions include Becoming of Memory, Arts Archive, London (2025), Chiasmata, Greatorex Street, London (2025), Earthly Bodies of Then, Now & When, BWG Gallery, London (2025), Open Studio - Pictorum Gallery, London (2024), and All Great Ideas Start In a Garage, Cicek Gallery, London (2023). He was awarded the British Animation Award in 2022.
Jordan Rubio (b. 1998, France) is an artist living and working in London. He holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art (2025) and a BA in Product and Graphic Design from École de Condé, Nice (2021). His work has been exhibited widely across Europe and the United States, including two solos in New York in Room 57 and Taglia and group shows at Beers London, Ohsh Projects, Contemporary Cluster in Rome, and Galleri Christoffer Egelung in Copenhagen. He has participated in international art fairs such as Future Fair (New York), Art Scope (Miami), and Luxembourg Art Fair. He’s participating in Art Cologne with Setareh.
