Antonia Showering

Antonia Showering was born in 1991 in London, where she still lives and works, alongside a studio in Somerset. She completed a Foundation Diploma in Art and Design at Chelsea College of Art in 2011, then a BA (Hons) in Fine Art at City and Guilds of London Art School (2012 to 2016), before earning an MFA in Painting at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL (2016 to 2018).

Her work is built from layered, often hazy oil paintings that fold together domestic memory, family history, and half-remembered landscapes, with figures and settings that seem to dissolve into one another through pentimento-like layers of paint. Her profile rose sharply in 2018, when she was included in the Bloomberg New Contemporaries survey at the South London Gallery and received the Henry Tonks Award and a residency at Palazzo Monti in Brescia through The Great Women Artists Residency programme. She received the New Contemporaries x SPACE Studio Bursary Award in 2019, though some exhibition texts have since misdated it to 2018.

White Cube presented an online solo exhibition of her work in 2020, and she joined Timothy Taylor in late 2021, opening her first solo show with the gallery, Mixed Emotion, in London in January 2022. Her paintings entered institutional collections soon after, including the British Museum and the Government Art Collection, and the New Orleans Museum of Art acquired her painting Sacrifice (2021) in 2022. In May 2025 she opened In Line at Timothy Taylor's New York space, her first solo exhibition in the United States.

Early critical attention framed Showering as part of a wave of young London-based painters working in an emotionally charged, dreamlike register. Writing in the Los Angeles Times in 2018 on a two-person exhibition at Baert Gallery, critic David Pagel described the show as one in which "Painters Simone Kennedy-Doig and Antonia Showering capture the pastoral dreams and urban realities of young Londoners." Subsequent gallery and museum texts have consistently returned to the same vocabulary: memory, intimacy, and layered, half-visible imagery built from her family's history and her own recollection of place.

Showering's auction record is We Stray (2020), which sold for GBP 239,400 (about USD 290,000) at Phillips in London on 30 June 2022, well above its high estimate of GBP 60,000; Phillips described the result as a new auction high for the artist. A second painting, It Wasn't to Be (2017), sold for GBP 226,800 (about USD 300,000) at a Phillips London day sale in March 2022. A third work, Don't Make a Ripple, sold for GBP 114,300 at Phillips London on 30 June 2023. These three lots, sold across two auction seasons in 2022 and 2023, form the basis of her public auction profile to date.

Showering is an early-career artist. Her secondary market is built on a small number of recorded sales across the 2022 and 2023 auction seasons, so any headline result should be read as a data point rather than a settled trend line. She has no catalogue raisonne, and provenance research currently depends on records held by her representing gallery rather than an independent scholarly authority. Her strongest signals for durability are the pace of her institutional collecting, at the British Museum, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and the UK Government Art Collection, and the relatively swift progression from art-school MFA to a well-known commercial gallery. Collectors should also note that her exact date of birth and the full scope of her current gallery representation beyond Timothy Taylor are not consistently documented in public sources as of this writing.