Our Guest Judges
We are proud to announce our selection panel for 2025.
Narbi Price
Contemporary painter, curator & lecturer
Dr Narbi Price studied at Northumbria and Newcastle Universities. His PhD explored the legacy of The Ashington Group, and looked at the post-industrial landscape of Northumberland through the lens of previous artistic activity.​
Narbi was the winner of the Contemporary British Painting Prize in 2017, Journal Culture Awards Visual Artist of the Year in 2018, and Prizewinner in John Moores Painting Prize in 2012, his work is featured in Phaidon’s ‘Vitamin P3 – New Perspectives in Painting.’​
He is a trustee of The Ashington Group collection, and the current Chair of Contemporary British Painting.
Ailsa Munro
Mixed media artist and Print Designer
Living and working in the city, Munro’s connection to nature comes in many forms - the organic life that co-exists in her urban environment; the fungi found and foraged; the plants that she nurtures and maintains at home; and hiking into the wild. An ongoing study of fungi, plants and ecological systems has long inspired Munro’s work, as has the reciprocal relationship between human beings and the natural world, the individual and the collective.​
A personal exploration of the connection between mental health and the great outdoors, Munro’s work offers an optimistic vision, with dynamic designs painted in sunny colours and swirling brush marks.
Fiona Grady
Contemporary multidisciplinary artist working with light, colour and geometry
Fiona Grady is a site-responsive artist known for her architectural interventions that transform their setting by utilising light, colour, shape, surface and scale with impactful outcomes. Her practice recognises the relationship between architecture, installation art and decoration; through lighting gel window installations, wall drawings, projected animations, printmaking and watercolour studies. Her public commissions can be seen across the UK and Europe.
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Artist image © David Lindsay
Our Team
Fair Director
Hannah Buchanan
Hannah Buchanan (b.1997) is a British landscape painter based in Kent. Her focus on the landscape is stimulated by her sense of tranquillity in rural settings and her interest in Biocentrism. Buchanan studied Fine Art with History of Art at the University of Leeds where she developed her ability to capture the delicacy of the English countryside through oil and pastel painting.
Fair Assistant
Scarlett Woodman
Scarlett Woodman collects both her imagery and materials from her surrounding landscape, usually that of the Kent countryside just outside her studio. She takes discarded objects, mostly old building materials, which she feels reflect and capture a sense of that landscape, then gives them a second life by piecing them together to create her artworks.
Fair Assistant
Willow Stacey
My name is Willow Stacey, I am a sweary stitcher based in Ashford. My practice is centred around every day sexism, highlighting the things that men have said to women. Having moved down to Kent two years after growing up in Lincolnshire, I am keen to meet and work alongside creatives in, and around Benenden.
Fair Assistant
Polly Bennett
Polly is an environmental artist “portraying the land, with the land” through traditional craftsmanship, using locally sourced materials that guide her process. Looking at site-specific historical context, combined with a museological approach to materials, she collaborates with, and investigates the surrounding rural environment to re-visualise her experience within it.
Work With Us
Benenden Art Fair wouldn't be where it is without a dedicated team of art enthusiasts committed to putting on a great fair. There are currently no job vacancies available, however, if you'd like to volunteer your help at the next fair, we'd love to hear from you.
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Please get in touch with a CV and cover letter by clicking here or emailing us at benendenartfair@gmail.com. Please note, we are not able to take on volunteers under the age of 18.