Linda Lencovic

I hold an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art and Design and a BA in Fine Art from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. My work is represented in collections across the UK and internationally, and I have exhibited extensively, including group shows at Sotheby’s London, Christie’s London, Tate Modern, Whitechapel Gallery, the Freud Museum, and Garboushian Gallery. I’ve been shortlisted for several awards, including the Celeste Art Prize (2007), the Barbican Surreal Competition (2010), and the FRINGEMK Painting Prize (2010).

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Residues of the past surface in this new ceramic work - cracks visible, revealing what memory cannot let go. The push and pull of clay mirroring an interior world warped by ideas of race, normality, gender, and the dark shadows of violence.

At times the self ruptures; at others it is barely held together. The mends do not hide the cracks but draw attention to them, marking each fracture as a badge of survival. In the kiln, heat brings forward what was already there: memories embedded in the clay. What remains is both vulnerable and powerful, fragmented yet alive.

QUALIFICATIONS

2006 MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, United Kingdom

1999 BA Fine Art, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada

2026
Sotheby’s | FiredUp4, London – London Craft Week 2026 – Secret Ceramics
Vessels + Sticks, Toronto – Porcelain Reconsidered

2025
Electro Studios | Fresh Salad Art , St. Leonards-on-Sea – Pylos
APT Gallery, London – Between Two Worlds
Christie’s | FiredUp4, London – London Craft Week 2025 – Secret Ceramics

2024
Linden Hall Studio, Deal – Winter Show
Pictorem Gallery, Kafka Projects, London – Fight, Flight or Freeze

2023
Thrown Contemporary, London – Winter Exhibition
Rye Society of Artists, Rye – Summer Exhibition
Electro Studio, St. Leonards – Summer Exhibition

2022
Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, Hastings – Hastings Open

2021
Hastings Contemporary, Hastings – A Generous Space

2013
Transition Gallery, London – Lunar Sea

2012
Chapel Gallery, Lancashire – The Uncanny
Greenwich, London – Out Of The Stable
Pie Factory, Margate – Water Cure
Cultivate, London – Little Benefits

2011

Solo show
Art Work Space, London – Magic, Madness or Miracle, catalogue essay

Group shows
Freud Museum, London – 25th Anniversary Auction
Opus Art Gallery, Newcastle – Answers on the Front of a Postcard
Spring Place, London – Big Deal Sexy 100
Opus Art Gallery, Newcastle – Summer Exhibition
Garboushian Gallery, Los Angeles – Polemically Small,...