THERE IS NOT A FASHION
JASPER LAW// ELIZABETH OMOTOSHO // FINN O'ROURKE // SKYLA isabella WEST
EXHIBITION 28.09.25- 01.12.25 - Open daily 10-5pm
EXHIBITION 28.09.25- 01.12.25
Open daily 10-5pm
LINKED EVENT - SUN 12.10.25
in Conversation 1.30-3.30pm
with PV 3.30-5.30pm
Hyde Park Art Club, 27-29 Headingley Lane, Leeds, LS6 1BL
HPAC is delighted to present, There is Not a Fashion, an exhibition which celebrates a
selection of exciting new works by recent graduates from across the Fine Art courses in the city.
These works focus on individual contemporary approaches to image making, through
experimentation and material transformation which are explored widely in various mediums.
The five artists were chosen from the annual degree shows by renowned Leeds artist, educator
and HPAC Steering group member Howard Eaglestone, supported by the team at
Hyde Park Art Club.
‘These works make me question the subject... the matter. Their makers appear to both
know painting and the skills of making painting. By this, I mean they are adding to the
canons they reference as much as they borrow, making moves to learn and create anew.
these are not prima-donnas they are painters - they have skill but it’s put to the right
purpose. Namely to create an understanding of the methods of painting - with a
confidence to use these methods for purpose and not simply effect.
These artists for me, seem to have a visual voice that represents the emergence of what
we could call an anti-trend in painting and image making in leeds... although perhaps
we don’t need to call it anything... I’m delighted to have selected them as my chosen
exceptional examples of the fresh, risk-taking, and innovative talent coming out of the city’s
art schools.’
(Howard Eaglestone, 2025)
JASPER LAW is an artist from Beverley, England, he studied Fine Art at Leeds Arts
University from 2022 to 2025, and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Fine Art:
Painting, at UAL Camberwell College of Arts. He works in oil paint and usually bases his
ideas around the mundane and ordinary objects such as fabric, rubber, etc. with a focus on
finding beauty in the ordinary and the overlooked.
Follow Jasper @jasperlawart
ELIZABETH OMOTOSHO (21) is an artist of Nigerian heritage, born in Italy and currently based
in London, where she is pursuing a Master’s degree in Painting at the Royal College of Art. Her
work explores themes of identity, culture, and belonging, working primarily through painting
while also engaging with digital designs.
Omotosho’s practice draws from both her Nigerian roots and her European upbringing,
reflecting on the experience of navigating between two cultural worlds. She often incorporates
references to orikis (praise poetry), Aladura church traditions, and the layered realities of
bicultural life.
Through her work, Omotosho celebrates heritage while also questioning how identity is
constantly shaped and reshaped. She invites viewers to reflect on diversity as both
connection and transformation.
Follow Elizabeth @lizomo._ and TikTok @lizomoo.
FINN O’ROURKE (b. 2002, Nottingham) is a painter living and working between Chester and
Manchester, His practice is concerned with interior space, the everyday, the domestic, and
the materiality of paint. Painting everyday interiors to notice the unnoticed, indicating ordinary
realities that shift into the fabricated realm through the process of painting. represented
space.
O’Rourke graduated from the University of Leeds with a BA, Hons in Fine Art (First Class) in
2025 and received the inaugural Louise Giovanelli Materials Bursary award. Selected group
exhibitions include ‘Make No Bones’, University of Leeds degree show, Leeds (2025);
Comme Ca Art x AWOL Studios open call, Comme Ca Art Gallery, Manchester (2025); ‘AWOL’,
Assembly House, Leeds, (2024); Refresh Art Award, AMP Gallery, London (2021).
Follow Finn @finn.orourke.art
SKYLA ISABELLA WEST completed her BA Fine Art at University of Leeds, graduating in 2025.
West is a Leeds based experimental printmaker from Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Her practice
combines photography, photomontage, print, and sculpture into a holistic process of chemical
printing.
Her works investigate how nostalgia shapes perception, connections, and passing time through
these experimental modes of making. Creating a private language of vulnerable and personal
experience, fluctuating between abstraction and representation that can be universally
understood.
Follow Skyla @skyla.isabella.art