Soho Solos: solo presentations by Alice Sheppard Fidler, Mandy Hudson, James Robert Morrison, Conor Quinn June 2026
Soho Solos – Great Pulteney Street gallery – PV 10 June
10th – 28th June 2026
Gallery hours Wednesday- Saturday 12-6pm / Sunday 12-5pm
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 uplifts 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, in association with Parker Harris. 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. With no set theme, the Soho Open again invites creatives at all stages of their careers to submit their work for consideration. This year gallery director Monika Bobinska is joined by Kate Bryan, Darren from LondonArtRoundup, James Payne and Lisa Wright to choose up to 100 works to be exhibited at Great Pulteney Street Gallery from in November 2026.
Alice Sheppard Fidler works across installation, sculpture and performance, often operating outside the gallery context. Before completing her MA in Fine Art at the University of the West of England in 2020, she worked in design for television, film and fashion.Sheppard Fidler received the Gilbert Bayes Award from the Royal Society of Sculptors and the CAS Emerging Sculptor Development Award in 2023, and was selected alongside three others to exhibit with AWITA X Brookfield, London, March 2025. She has exhibited nationally and internationally and has work in private collections.
After graduating with an MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins in 2002, James Robert
Morrison worked in the cultural sector for 17 years before returning to his art practice in 2019. He has been highly commended for the Young Masters Art Prize, shortlisted for the Bridget Riley Fellowship, selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, won the Mervyn Metcalf Purchase Prize at the ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, and received a special commendation at the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize.His work is held in the UK Government Art Collection, the Neal Baer Collection, the Rudolph Blume Collection, and private collections worldwide.
Conor Quinn is a British Irish painter and soft-sculptor living in London with a background in stop- motion animation.He graduated with a Masters in Painting from the Royal College of Art in 2025, having achieved a BA from the Arts University Bournemouth (2021) and studied at the Royal Drawing School (2018). Recent group exhibitions include Becoming of Memory, Arts Archive, London, Chiasmata, Greatorex Street, London, and Earthly Bodies of Then, Now & When, BWG Gallery, London.
Quinn’s presentation for the Soho Solos White Bread takes place against the setting of his family’s Irish pub where he hosts a surreal wake.
Working with the concept of car-crash eroticism, Quinn explores the fetishisation of one’s own death and the balance between fear and curiosity. His paintings hold an uneasy tension and his sculptures an uncanniness, intending to overstimulate and cause a sense of claustrophobic discomfort.
Mandy Hudson is a painter based in Kent, working from her studio near the Thames Estuary. Her still life oil paintings are inspired by the accidental compositions of everyday objects. Hudson studied for her BA (Hons) degree in Illustration but her main interest has always been painting. Her work has been included in the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize and Marmite Painting Prize. Recently she has most frequently been exhibiting at The Lido Stores, Margate.
