About the Artist: OOAOO Fancy

Devon Osborne grew up near Ashford, Kent, where she went to school. Her father was an HGV driver, her mother worked in a care home, and Devon was the first from her family to go on to further education. She gained a BA in Graphic Communication Design in 2017 from Central School of St Martins, University of the Arts London. She works in a variety of media, from oil to watercolour to gold-leaf signwriting and currently lives in North London.

The theme of Devon’s first solo exhibition, “Oh, Go On Then!”, was pub culture. It was held in the upstairs room of an Archway pub in 2024, and showcased some of the unsung moments that take place in pubs across the country. It included traditional gilded mirrors, sign-written in gold leaf with timeless phrases like “Fancy a pint?”, oil paintings of splitting the harp of a pint of Guinness; and lino prints of pub moments. Devon’s work will be for sale in a group show, “Lives Less Ordinary: Working Class Britain Re-seen”, at Two Temple Place, until April 2025. She is Currently planning a second solo show on the theme of gambling and its ambivalent pleasures.