Hester Finch (b. 1981, London) lives and works in London and holds an MA Painting from the Royal College of Art (2024, recipient of the The Vice Chancellor’s Achievement Scholarship); she gained her BA Fine Art from The Ruskin, Oxford University (2002). She was shortlisted for the Ingram Prize 2024 and was shown as part of a 2-person presentation by the Ingram Collection at the London Art Fair 2025. Finch has shown a number of times with OHSH Projects (2021-24) including in Los Angeles in collaboration with Wonzimer (2024), she has also exhibited in New York with David Krut and Kenny Schachter. She has shown extensively in London at TJ Boulting, Alma Pearl, Rove Gallery, White Conduit Projects etc. She recently co- curated an exhibition at Safehouse 2 and multiple works are held in the Soho House collection (including at the forthcoming Dean Street Kitchen) and at The Ned.
Finch’s paintings focus on themes of identity, power, sex, motherhood, bodies, the scatalogical and viscera, often through the frame of the ubiquitous screen. She subverts narratives and obscures imagery, disrupting the compositional structure with different painting registers and source material, for instance the life model, objects that her children collect, films and the internet, or her imagination and memory. Her interest lies in the places where pleasure and disgust meet and her paintings play tongue in rules of painting.
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