BIOGRAPHY
Soul Baraitser studied Fine Art Painting at the University of Brighton, graudating in 2023, and later went on to study at The Royal Drawing School (Drawing Year), finishing in 2025. Currently living and working in London.
Soul Baraitser’s work explores large-scale drawing with charcoal, pastels, inks, collage and handmade papers, alongside smaller works of woodblock printing and etching. She is interested in testing materiality—pushing fragile paper media toward disintegration, tearing, and fraying, while also repairing and mending during the process, allowing images to slowly appear from the surface itself. Through their scale and texture, these works become sculptural, existing as both image and object whilst demonstrating how drawing can hold presence and weight despite its perceived delicacy.
Thematically, Baraitser’s practice engages with the unconscious, dreams and nightmares, and how such psychological phenomena might be given material form. The imagery often centres ambiguous groupings—gatherings, huddles, crowds, families—caught in dramatic yet uncertain events. She is drawn to the ambivalence of human interaction: the vulnerability of gesture to misunderstanding, the visceral experience of shame, the tension between violence and care, and the shifting atmospheres of emotional and physical presence.
GALLERY EXHIBITIONS
Cass Art Prize 2026 November, The Bomb Factory, London.
July 2026, ‘Sidney Nolan Art Prize Exhibition’, Sidney Nolan Trust, Presteigne.
March 2026, ‘Five-Times-Five’, Acme Glassyard Studios, London.
March 2026, ‘Drawn Together’, The Royal Drawing School, london.
December 2025, ‘Drawing Year’, The Royal Drawing School, London.
December 2025, ‘Studio Show’, Space Studios, London.
October 2025, ‘Best of the Drawing Year’, Christies, London.
June 2025, ‘Distese-queerness oltre I confini’, YAG Gallery, Pescara Italy.
January 2025, ‘Creatures in Orbit’, Gallery 19A, Brighton.
June 2024, ‘Soles’, solo show, Dorset Place Gallery, Brighton.
September - October 2023, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton.
June 2023, Grand Parade University of Brighton, Degree show.
April 2023, Copper Lane Gallery, London.
March 2023, ‘The Hanging Garden’, Fresh Salad, Gallery 19A, Brighton.
January 2023, ‘The Directory’, Koop Gallery, Brighton.
November 2022, ‘Phase Magazine’, Apiary Studios, London,
February 2022, ‘Coalescence’, Edward Street University of Brighton, Brighton.
December 2021, Presuming Ed's, Brighton.
December 2020, BRIT School, London Border Control.
Jan 2020, Royal Academy Future Talent.
June 2019 - Aug 2019 Chelsea School of Art, Triangle Space.
Sep 2018 TMRW Croydon.
June 2019 Dulwich Picture Gallery Show.
AWARDS
Sidney Nolan residency prize as part of the Sidney Nolan Award
Nominated for the Platform Graduate award.Brighton/Freelands Foundation
Nominated for the CASS Art/Phoenix Studio Award
COLLECTIONS
Royal Collection
Michael Moritz Collection
George Bingham Collection
YAG Gallery Collection
Cavendish Collection
PULBLICATIONS
2025, T’art press,’Trans Tongues’ Volume 2, print cover art.
2023, T’art press, Issue no. 6, artwork page spread.
2023, Zone 6 Press, ‘North-Minded’ Keye Song, print cover art