15/10/2026
Meet our Young Artist Residency cohort! Swipe to find out more about
Franka Matthes Thompson Franka Matthes Thompson
Katie Evans Katie Evans
Katie Farrell Katie Farrell
Maddie Willis Maddie
FRANKA MATTHES THOMPSON
Franka Matthes Thompson is an artist based in Norwich, having graduated with a BA from Norwich University of the Arts earlier this year. Their practice revolves around an object or structure that, through repetition, is broken down to its most basic form, allowing it to tell a story. Using a primary colour palette and raw materials, these objects are interpreted into drawings, sculptures, and installations, becoming a playground for obsession and the complexities of space, time, and personal identity. Sofas, bikes, bridges, and cars have become vessels for exploring destructive tendencies, the intricacies of masculinity, spaces of in-between, and the queerness of the body.
KATIE EVANS
Katie is a socially engaged artist working in East Anglia who enjoys experimenting with history and storytelling. This has led to working in schools, community centres, care homes, and galleries. She wants different stories and experiences to be explored in empathetic and embodied ways: this could be through dancing, 3D scanning objects, painting, interviewing each other, making maps, or exploring new technology together.
KATIE FARRELL
Katie is a story-driven, multidisciplinary artist based in Suffolk who creates the strange, the whimsical, and the wonderfully odd. Her diverse portfolio ranges from textured collages and oil paintings to large-scale murals and stop-motion animation - including recent concept, set, puppet and animation work for the film, The Forgotten Church. Embracing the philosophy that āthe stranger, the betterā, Katie creates enigmatic visuals that spark curiosity.
A recent personal journey to faith has opened up a brand new chapter in her creative life, inspiring her to explore spiritual concepts along side her love for unanswered mysteries. Her intense studio process involves looking at her art from every possible angle, chasing the irreplaceable sense of achievement that comes when a piece finally makes sense. The feeling of that impossible
