NAMI Creative Network directory
There's a lot of brilliant art being made up here. Get to know the North East artists and illustrators behind it, see what they're creating and find someone whose work stays with you.
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Sunderland
Albert Bluett B-C is an artist creating paintings, drawings, murals and prints that explore truth, justice, war and the contemporary landscape, informed by his experiences and cultural surroundings as a native of the North East based in Sunderland.
Newcastle
A local graffiti artist creating work across the North East.
Newcastle
An illustrator and mural artist working across traditional and digital media, paint and aerosol.
Newcastle
All Things Bloom Art creates North East art prints, exploring iconic regional places to craft prints that evoke stories and memories. Located in Newcastle. Instagram @allthingsbloom_art; portfolio at allthingsbloomart.etsy.com.
Wallsend
Amanda Jo is a multidisciplinary artist and paramedical tattoo artist specialising in realistic areola tattooing for people following cancer and other surgeries; she co‑founded the North East Nipple Project and Bloom, a hyperrealistic prosthetic areola, and as a neurodivergent creator becomes absorbed in the process.
County Durham, Bishop Auckland
A multimedia illustrator specialising in editorial and conceptual work inspired by film, television, music and pop culture.
Gateshead / Newcastle upon Tyne
A visual creative and educator working principally with screen print and solar plate printmaking.
Newcastle
A Scottish Indian visual artist based in Newcastle, working across painting, murals, gilding, bookbinding, modelling and arts education.
Newcastle/Gateshead
Bobby Page is a Gateshead-based street artist specialising in surface patterns and murals across the North East.
Northumberland
An artist based in Northumberland.
Blyth
Helen Richardson creates Canny Cool Prints of familiar places using lino and traditional carving and printing methods.
Gateshead
TwentyMinusTwo is the creative identity of Dale Binney, a multimedia artist based in North East England.
Durham
A full-time artist who left a corporate career to build an independent creative practice.
Durham and Northumberland
A mixed-media textile artist.
Tynemouth
An artist painting delicate birds and mice onto carefully sourced antique and vintage paper, giving time-worn pieces a new life.
Newcastle
Elliott McCann trades as Red Rockette, creating original lino prints and illustrations that spotlight queer culture and northern life, drawing on vintage Americana, traditional pin-up art and mid-century style.
Newcastle Upon Tyne
A freelance illustrator who returned to Newcastle after studying illustration in Kent.
Gateshead
A lesbian fantasy artist developing two queer fantasy novels, Fire Angels and Rosa the Earth Elemental.
Horden, County Durham
An illustration graduate developing an independent art business alongside postgraduate study.
Northumberland
Artist based in Northumberland.
Sunderland
An illustrator and surface-pattern designer available for licensing and commissioned work.
Newcastle
A collage artist developing an original card project inspired by Pokémon and years of personal practice.
North Shields
Tattoo artist Izzy Curran works out of Skin n Ink tattoo studio in North Shields and has been tattooing since 2012, covering all styles and specialising in American traditional and blackwork.
Newcastle
A painter and maker whose practice moves across several creative forms.
North Shields
An artist creating wall art and smaller pieces from clay, handmade paper and broken pottery.
Newcastle
An artist creating original paintings, art prints and homeware.
Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne
A Byker-based visual artist specialising in charcoal landscapes, wildlife and gothic illustration.
Newcastle
A Geordie painter creating work that shifts between surreal, creepy, cute and sinister.
Newcastle
A printmaker creating limited-edition linocuts inspired by the landscapes and nature of the North East.
Whitley Bay
Artist exploring abstract painting, sculpture and printing, Katie Brydon creates multi‑medium works, custom murals, cushions, wallpaper and an exclusive tote-bag collection and is owner and CEO of Katie’s Craft House studio in Whitley Bay.
North Tyneside
A self-taught Whitley Bay artist creating landscapes and seascapes shaped by a love of the outdoors.
Ouseburn,Newcastle
A glass painter making work full of colour, character and life.
Teesside
An artist based in Teesside.
Sunderland
Larissa Padgett is a Sunderland-based contemporary artist who creates mixed-media portraits exploring identity, healing, feminine power and the journey back to oneself; her Unlearning Silence: The Courage to Be series examines moving from people-pleasing and self-silencing to authenticity and self-worth.
South Shields
A tattoo artist and the founder of Dead Happy Tattoo, an independent studio with creativity beyond the chair.
Gateshead
An artist based in Gateshead.
Newcastle/Tynemouth
Laura Moore is a Newcastle-based illustrator and visual artist who works primarily by hand in watercolour and gouache and is also comfortable working digitally; available for commercial illustration, hand-painted murals, book illustration, merchandise design and licensing.
Newcastle
An oil painter documenting Newcastle’s alternative scene through figurative work.
Gateshead
A queer, non-binary transfeminine artist, model and photographer focused on alternative subculture and fashion.
Whitley Bay
An oil painter working from life, with experience across gallery exhibitions and projects for North East festivals and organisations.
Hartlepool
A painter exploring her experience as a queer woman and creating work intended to help others feel seen.
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Illustrator based in Newcastle Upon Tyne specialising in nostalgic early-2000s Myspace-style digital work, using textures, saturated colour and Clip Studio Paint brush packs for editorial and photo-illustration projects.
Newcastle
A classical oil painter using the visual language of historic painting to explore queer identity and alternative communities.
Choppington Northumberland
Leggy Bird Creative makes neuroaffirming art, including long-legged bird sculptures formed from brightly coloured rolled paper.
Sunderland
A contemporary artist using expanded painting to explore the move from childhood into adulthood and the search for play.
Sunderland
Artist in Sunderland creating alternative paintings and mixed-media work, prioritising sustainability by repurposing thrifted materials; currently developing Scenic Roots Studio, a retail and studio space for alternative artists to sell and socialise.
Durham/Sunderland/Newcastle
An artist working across Durham, Sunderland and Newcastle.
Gateshead
An artist creating detailed pet portraits in pastel.
Newcastle
An artist building tiny scenes inside spray cans and other unexpected objects.
Newcastle
Artist based in Newcastle.
Newcastle upon Tyne
RFH is the creative behind C.A.T.S., a completed limited-run project comprising 233 pieces.
Newcastle
A painter capturing the urban life and pop culture around him.
Sunderland
Artist based in Sunderland.
Sunderland
An abstract artist whose practice draws on a former fashion-design career, years spent living in Cyprus and a life shaped by travel and change.
Durham
Artist based in Durham.
Perth
Scott Laird is an artist in Perth creating bespoke power-carved artwork and modified axes; Instagram: Axe & Grain Bespoke Works.
Newcastle
Seher Sadiq is a mixed-media illustrator and designer based in Newcastle, creating silly character stickers and a range of North East postcards.
gateshead/newcastle
Sophie Stewart is a 22-year-old artist based in Newcastle and Gateshead creating pop-culture-inspired prints and collages influenced by films, music and artists such as Andy Warhol, René Feracci and the Guerrilla Girls, using screen and gelli printing, collaging and Poscas.
Newcastle, Gateshead
An artist bringing Thai and Scottish influences together within her creative practice.
Wallsend
Artist creating work from post-apocalyptic sculptures warning of the advancement of technology to silly doodles; creating serves as therapy. Based in Wallsend. Instagram: Stephen.Fowler.Art
Gateshead
Artist and teacher working in the North East.
B.Box Studios, Shieldfield, Newcastle, upon Tyne.
A local artist inspired by the North East and Northumberland coastlines.
Sunderland / South Shields
A glass artist and MA student based at the National Glass Centre.
Lincolnshire
A professional pixel artist designing a video game shaped by horror, 1980s and 1990s culture and nostalgia.
