Megan Rooney's studio 8 Artists Tells Us About Their Most Interesting Studio Spaces

Verity Babbs

Studio spaces come in all shapes and sizes, from the home studios in the corner of an artist’s one-bedroom apartment to the palatial. Some choose to kit them out like a place of work, some as an extension of their homes, and others like a place of worship.

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This year, we’ve chatted to some of contemporary art’s most exciting rising stars, asking them about their studio spaces, from their most memorable (not necessarily in a good way) to their ultimate favorites.

Megan Rooney: Best of Both Worlds Across London

[At the King’s Cross studio] the light is incredible, as it pours in from all sides and this has hugely impacted the way I work as my paintings have their own unique ecosystems and sort of act as weathervanes or barometers.

I always paint from a position of motion, so I like to run to Vauxhall where my other studio is. I collect images and weather temperatures (wind, rain, sun, heat) so in a way I’m already painting before I arrive. As these images and impressions lodge in my memory bank and spill out when I’m faced with a blank surface.

Just a short five-minute walk away [from the Vauxhall studio], you get a good bit of London where the original fruit and vegetable or flower market is. The place is buzzing with activity and color. I wander around and look at enormous containers brimming with bright orange carrots; the next one is full of pale green cabbages or electric lemons and so on. In a way, it’s like walking through a colossal painting. So I go there almost every day, drink a coffee with the food packers, and steal some images for my memory bank.