Soho Solos

Four concurrent solo presentations by Soho Open prize winners

Great Pulteney Street gallery is delighted to present Soho Solos , four solo presentations by Soho Open prize winners Mandy Hudson, James Robert Morrison, Conor Quinn and Alice Sheppard Fidler. Selected from around 100 artists shortlisted for the inaugural Soho Open exhibition, each of the winning artists returns with a solo presentation in one of the four galleries at GPS. Running concurrently, the Soho Solos provide a snapshot of the exciting variety of approaches in contemporary art today. Alice Sheppard Fidler and Mandy Hudson find inspiration in and give new meaning to discarded, overlooked and found objects. Whereas Hudson elevates everyday items by arranging them into still lifes, immortalising them in her paintings, Sheppard Fidler combines objects and materials into sculptures and installations that shift and evolve in relation to the space they inhabit. Conor Quinn and James Robert Morrison reclaim memories of secrecy and shame shaped by their experience of growing up gay within heteronormative and adversarial environments. While Quinn combines elements of self portraiture and handmade puppets into surreal oil paintings, Morrison translates imagery from personal vintage gay pornography into delicate pencil drawings, using cigarette (fag) papers as a fragile, unconventional surface. Presented in separate spaces under one roof in Soho, the four solos come together as a collection of visual short stories. The four artists in Soho Solos were selected from more than over 2,000 entries for the inaugural Soho Open exhibition last November. They were then each awarded the prize of a fully supported solo presentation at the gallery by GPS gallery director Monika Bobinska, critic and curator Paul Carey Kent, local businessman and collector Mervyn Metcalf, painter Shanti Panchal and sculptor Frances Richardson. Submissions to the 2026 edition are now accepted until 3 September.

What to expect:
Drawing, Sculpture, Painting