Another Cigarette

Jameela Stenheden Gordon-King (b. 1998) is a London-based painter whose practice operates through a gestural and material language in which painting becomes a physical and cathartic act. Working across charcoal, oil, and distemper, her abstract-figurative forms emerge through movement, instinct, and bodily rhythm, where mark-making functions as a direct trace of physical and emotional states. Her work considers painting as a form of release — echoing how the body negotiates, absorbs, and sheds the pressures of contemporary life through rhythm, repetition, and intensity of gesture.

Recent exhibitions include Urban Dwellers at LVH at The Painting Rooms (London, 2025) and a duo presentation with Matt Carey-Williams at Matt Carey-Williams (London, 2025). She completed her MA in Fine Art (Painting) at the Slade School of Fine Art (2025), following her BA at the Glasgow School of Art, where she was recognised through awards including the Sarabande Foundation Emerging Artists Fund (2025) and the Richard Ford Award (2025).