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Vanessa Brassey is a London-based figurative painter and academic philosopher, celebrated for her evocative paintings of wild swimmers and landscapes around Hampstead Heath. Her practice combines traditional techniques with a contemporary, cinematic sensibility. Her award-winning series The Swimmers has been exhibited at the ING Discerning Eye, Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, Bankside Gallery, Tryptich Gallery (next door Tate Modern), and the Affordable Art Fairs. A finalist for the BTA Art Prize and British Contemporary Art Awards (2024), Vanessa’s work featured in the 2024 film We Live in Time, starring Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield. She co-directs the Centre for Philosophy and the Visual Arts at King's College London, where she explores the interplay of movement, memory, and time.