ON BEHALF OF PAUL SMITH’S FOUNDATION & WINSOR & NEWTON. P.O.V IS A GROUP EXHIBITION SHOWCASING THE SIX WINNING ARTISTS OF THE INTERNATIONAL ART PRIZE.
THE EXHIBITION FEATURES NEW WORKS BY THE WINNERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL ART PRIZE 2025: CECILIA LAMPTEY-BOTCHWAY // CHARLOTTE WINIFRED-GUÉRARD // LAURA BASTERRA-SANZ // MICHELLE
HERON // SILKE WEISSBACH // ZHONGWEN HU, ALONGSIDE A GROUP EXHIBITION PRESENTED BY PAUL SMITH SPACE.
P.O.V INVITES AUDIENCES TO ENGAGE WITH POWERFUL AND INDIVIDUAL POINTS OF VIEW THAT EXIST AROUND THE WORLD. CELEBRATE THE ARTIST’S UNIQUE PERSPECTIVES THROUGH DIVERSE MEDIUMS AND PERSONAL NARRATIVES.
Cecilia Lamptey-Botchway
New York
Cecilia, a mixed media visual artist producing contemporary African art, versed in figurative painting, performance, abstraction and textile making. She epicycles mopping cotton/wool fibres and invites the viewer to explore the versatility of contemporary African women in her textured portraits. Her practice also encompasses ideas about gender roles and womanhood, crafting works and performances that comment on societal challenges she and her fellow African women face.
Cecilia’s recent exhibitions include: 2024 Cecilia Lamptey-Botchway: CHROMATIC CHOICES, ARTCO Gallery, Aachen, Germany 2023 Spirit and Rhythm of Africa Dance, for Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) as part of DanceAfrica 2023 2022 Celebrating the Black Body, Janet Rady Fine Arts (London, UK), online show. 2022 Make We Dance, Nubuke Foundation, Accra, Ghana 2021 Cecilia Lamptey-Botchway, Online show on Artsy with Nubuke Foundation (Accra, Ghana).
Resiliance 2025
Charlotte Winifred-Guérard
London
Charlotte’s practice centres around painting and the ways in which those can be viewed, activated and displayed. Her work explores the notions of painting in space and paintings in motion while the narrative of her images is influenced by her immediate surroundings, landscapes, the everyday and memory. Often times her work will introduce new elements to add to the possibilities of painting, set into motion with metal and wood to build machines and structures that hold the paintings & set them into motion.
Charlotte’s recent exhibitions include: Royal Academy of Arts Schools Show, class of 2025, “Heavenly Skeletons”, Coleman Project Space, (2025), “Postcards for Seyòisfjöròu”, Island, Hardpainters (2025) “Matthew’s Boat’, Palmer Gallery (2024), “Lobster Legs / An unwanted Present”, Royal Academy of Arts (2024),‘Three Years’, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2024), “Inner Worlds”, Fitzrovia Gallery, London (2023)
Laura Basterra Sanz Antwerp
Currently, Laura is expanding her practice through sculpture and spatial art at the RHoK Academy in Brussels. Since settling in Brussels in 2018, she has focused on abstract painting. Her gestural compositions address social themes like health and freedom, exploring the power of colour to unveil the infinite dimensions and qualities of the self.
Laura’s recent exhibitions include: “Essential: Essence In A Space”, RHoK Academie Woluwe, Brussels, BE (2025), “A Letter From A Friend”, Bacio Collective, Bern, CH (2024), “Separation, Connection, Circulation”, GC De Rinck, Brussels, BE (2024),”We Art XL Coup De Coeur”, Abbaye de La Cambre, Brussels, BE (2024), “La Fin Des Semelles”, Les Semelles, Charleville-Mezières, FR (2024),”April’s Abstract Explosion”, Ideelart Gallery, London, UK (2024), “En Vogue Now”, online Artland, IdeelArt Gallery, London, UK (2023), “Intimate/Synergy”, MOTOCO, Mulhouse, FR (2023), “Mostly Looking For The Same Things”, XIV LAB, London, UK (2023), “Remain”, The Performing Arts Forum, Saint-Erme-Outre-etRamecourt, FR (2023).
Windows of Possibility 2025
Michelle Heron
Nottingham
Michelle Heron (b.1980) is an urban landscape painter from Norfolk, England. Working in acrylic she is known primarily for her paintings that immortalise the many threatened independent shops that make our high streets what they are. Her work has been compared with Edward Hopper and George Shaw for her sensitive use of colour and light and the way her paintings capture the mood and emotion of a place.
Michelle’s recent exhibitions include: Chelsea Art Society 75th Annual Summer Exhibition, Chelsea Old Town Hall, London (2025), Revival, Well Hung Gallery, London (2025), Jackson’s Painting Prize extended longlist The Royal Society of British Artists, Mall Galleries, London (2025). ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London (2024), Rogue Women 3, Rogue Studios Manchester (2024). The Lynn Painter-Stainers’ Prize (2016), the 157th Society of Women Artists Annual Open Exhibition (2018), The National Open Art Competition (2016), The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (2017), Jackson’s Painting Prize (2020) and was a heat finalist on Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year 2018. Michelle has twice been a finalist of The John Ruskin Prize ( 2016 & 2019).
Silke Weibbach
Copenhagen
Weißbach (b. 1984, Germany) is a London-based artist whose work engages with material transformation, emotional resonance, and ecological consciousness. Working across painting, sculpture, and video, she combines organic and synthetic substances—such as sugar, wax, seaweed, and hyaluronic acid—to explore cycles of growth, decay, and crystallisation.
She studied Illustration and Sculpture in Hamburg, Germany before completing an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art, London (2020). In 2024–25 she took part in residencies at Xenia (Hampshire), Porthmeor Studios (Cornwall), and Arizona State University’s Imagination Fellowship.
Recent exhibitions include Landscapes of Time and Memory, Fred Levine Gallery (2025); At Midland Road and Ember, Informality Gallery (2025, 2024); Kooperation, Nizza Gallery, Berlin (2024); Lavender, Hibernation and Neon, Crypt Gallery (2024); Taking the Light out of the Prism, Duplex, Lisbon (2023); Homegrown, Hauser & Wirth London (2020).
Eden 2025
92 x 183 cm
£5000 inc VAT
Zhongwen Hu Shanghai
Zhongwen Hu is a Shanghai-based painter, illustrator, and animator. Her work emphasizes scenes of positive energy — joy, tranquility, love — that spring up in the seemingly mundane motions of everyday life. Bringing emotional sensitivity to the canvas, her work can be found in galleries, books and commercial products. Zhongwen’s work has been published in It’s Nice That, Artmaze Magazine, IFLA!, Lungs Project, etc.
Zhongwen’s recent exhibitions and publications include: The Hole, LA; Mur Mur Lab, Shanghai; Studio Gallery, Shanghai; Vox Populi, PA; The Bishop’s Palace, Wells, UK; Zhou B Art Center, IL; Viridian Artists, NY; Huntington Beach Art Center, CA; Axis Gallery Sacramento, CA; ArtHelix, NY; Point of Contact Gallery, NY; and Baton Rouge Gallery, LA; among others. Zhongwen’s work has been published in Wallpaper*, Kinfolk, It’s Nice That, Colossal, Creative Boom, Booooooom, Artmaze Magazine, Shoutout SoCal, etc.
