CV
Seren Metcalfe
(b. 1997) York, UK
Lives and works in London
Education:
Royal Academy Schools 2025 - 2028
BA Hons Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, 2016 - 2020
Foundation Diploma, Leeds College of Art, 2015 - 2016
Prizes:
Forbes 30 under 30, 2025
New Contemporaries, 2021
Clare Winsten Memorial Award, 2020
Herbert Seaborn Memorial Scholarship Prize, 2019
Residencies/ Development:
Cement Fields Foundations Mentorship Programme 2024 - 2025
AWITA Sponsored Membership and Mentorship 2024
Hospitalfield New Writing Weekend 2022
UCL EAST Artist in Residency, 2019 - 2020
Selected Exhibitions:
Duo:
Hard Drives, Soft Walks, Chemist Gallery, London, January - February, 2023
Group:
Dream Weaver, Grove Collective London, March - April 2022
New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, Dec 2021 - Feb 2022
New Contemporaries, First Site Colchester, Sept - Nov 2021
Slade BA Degree Show, Sept 2021
Curational Projects:
Forever Moving, Working Class Creatives and Outpost Gallery, Norwich, August 2025
GLORY BOX, Working Class Creatives, The Shop Sadie Coles, London, July - August 2025
Many Hands, Working Class Creatives, Sunnybank Mills, Leeds, July - October 2025
Ending soon!, Plaster Magazine, London, December 2024
It’s a joy to be here, Working Class Creatives, 87 Gallery Hull, Jan - April 2023
Gatherings, Working Class Creatives, SET Woolwich, August 2023
Writing:
The Hannah Montanas of the Art World, Bricks Magazine Resilience Issue, July 2025
Hard Drives Soft Walks, Publication, 2023
Half Truths, Publication, 2020
Panel Discussions/ Talks:
Political Art in the Digital Age, Creative Talks, Koppel Projects, London, Sept 2025
Creative Infrastructure: Loss and Potential, Outpost Gallery, Norwich, August 2025
All Spaces are Creative Spaces, The Art House, Acrylicize, London, Feb 2025
Working Class within Creative Industries, Factory International, Manchester, November 2024
Communities, Class and Creative Access, Woolwich Print Fair, November 2024
How to Overcome Classism in the Creative World, Lost Village Festival, Lincoln, Sept 2024
Class and Queer identity in the North, Yorkshire Art Space, Sheffield, April 2024
Class in the Arts, Lighthouse Brighton, March 2023
Workshops and Events:
Working Class Creatives Guide to Self Organising, Joy @ Acrylicize London, June 2025
Networking with Weird, Community is everything with Working Arts Club and AWITA, Lisson Gallery, London, June 2025
Making it Work: Tools & Tactics for Creative Growth, Somerset House, May 2025
Class Convos with Second Act Gallery, June - August 2024
Press:
Bricks Magazine, Working Class Creatives Database presents GLORY BOX, July 2025
Plaster Magazine, Is the London art scene actually back? April 2025
Service95, How WCCD is Opening Doors In The Elite Art World, November 2024
The Sunday Times, Meet the gallerists shaking up the art world, October 2024
The Face, The hottest new names in film, TV, fashion, writing, art and music, Sept 2023
Dazed, This new exhibition shines a spotlight on working-class creatives, August 2023