We first showed Jemma's work in the gallery as part of The Arborealists exhibition in March 2025, and we are thrilled to be showing her work in our show 'Work on Paper' opening in October, 2025.
Appleby's drawings amplify each environment's simplicity and purity with an aim of clarification. These clean minimal spaces offer little information yet have an authority to describe a magnitude. The non-narrative architectural spaces make enquiries of the memory, knowledge and experience of human space.
Jemma Appleby (United Kingdom, 1987) is a graduate of City and Guilds of London Art School. Her works have been shown in the UK, France, Italy, Spain and Colombia, in exhibitions such as; the Summer Exhibition at Royal Academy of Arts; Architecture As Metaphor, with Phyllida Barlow, Rachel Whiteread, and Richard Deacon at the Griffin Gallery; and LA.CU.NA at LAMB Arts. Her works are featured in the permanent collections of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Macaulay Library in Kent and Hartnett Holder & Co restaurant.
She is the recipient of The Arts Club Prize for Finest Drawing at the National Open Art Competition in 2010 and The Haworth Trust Award for Painting. Appleby recently had exhibitions in Gibraltar, Madrid and London, with the critically acclaimed exhibition "The Light in the World is Without a Significant Plan".