Blue Shop Gallery

Ocki Magill has made it her mission to nurture emerging artists, providing a space to showcase their work to a wider audience and connect with other artists and collectors - without the stuffiness that often accompanies commercial galleries. Opening her first art space Blue Shop Cottage in Camberwell, south London in 2016, she's been working with fresh artistic talent ever since, curating sold out solo and group shows including a series of wildly popular online open calls for 'Works on Paper' exhibitions, in reaction to the pandemic. Realising there was potential for more, but limited by space, Ocki recently threw open the doors to her new larger Blue Shop Gallery nearby on Brixton Road in November 2022, christening it with an opening show by painter Jess Allen.

Blue Shop Galleries is proud to have a female artist focus and has launched the careers of many including Jess Allen, Li Hei Di, Catherine Repko, Mary Herbert, Georg Wilson, Sophie Vallance-Cantor, Liorah Tchiprout, Alexis Soul-Gray, Plum Cloutman, Alice Hartley, Amy Beager, Nettle Grellier, Sarah Cunningham, Kemi Onabule, Charlie Boothright and many more.