Raine Storey: Gallery Representation & Collector Liquidity

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Image: Artist Raine Storey working in fronf of her new sculpture. Taken by Cenk Usel.

Raine Storey (b. 1995, Ontario) is a Canadian oil painter and sculptor based in London. Her large-scale compositions fuse surrealist-inflected abstraction with precise figuration — fragmented imagery, gestural brushwork, and deliberate areas of negative space. She completed a BFA (Hons) at Queen's University before relocating to London in 2017. Represented by Gillian Jason Gallery, she held a solo exhibition, Exquisite Corpse, at The ARX gallery during Frieze London 2022 and a second solo, Just As I Remembered, at Gillian Jason Gallery in January 2026. Apollo Magazine profiled her in May 2022. She received the People's Choice Prize at the 2021 British Art Prize and participated in the 2021 London Art Biennale. Her undergraduate studies were funded in full by the Loran Award — the largest Canadian post-secondary scholarship — making her only the second visual artist to receive it.

No Disclosed Prices, No Benchmark

Artnet records zero auction results for Storey. Her single work listed on the platform — Hang Tight (2025) — is held through Gillian Jason Gallery at price on request. MutualArt notes that her work has appeared at auction, but no realised prices are disclosed in the public record. A collector seeking to triangulate primary pricing against an independent secondary benchmark has nothing to work from. Price is controlled entirely by the gallery, and the collector has no external reference point against which to test it. That is common at this stage of a career, but it structures every other question a collector needs to ask.

When Critical Recognition Runs Ahead of Collector Infrastructure

Apollo Magazine — a press title with a credible record of engaging with emerging painters — covered Storey's practice in 2022. Gillian Jason Gallery, the first commercial space in the United Kingdom to work exclusively with women artists, is a substantive institutional commitment. Two solo exhibitions in three years at named London spaces is a coherent trajectory. None of that translates automatically into a collector market. The absence of disclosed pricing means a collector cannot assess whether gallery prices have been calibrated to generate secondary activity, or set at a level that deters it. Museums acquire; collectors hesitate. That gap between critical recognition and market formation is precisely where the risk in her career sits.

Is the London Platform Wide Enough to Hold a Position?

The unresolved question is not whether the work is serious or the gallery commitment credible — both appear to be. The question is whether the infrastructure has been sufficient to build a collector base with depth and geographic spread, or whether sales remain concentrated among London buyers with a direct relationship to the gallery. A career with two London solos, Apollo coverage, and Gillian Jason representation could mark the beginning of sustained international collector demand, or it could represent a plateau where institutional signals have not yet converted into a secondary market willing to set prices. That distinction matters enormously to a collector building a position.

The gallery has an interest in the sale. The auction house has an interest in the estimate. This report has neither.

A full Artist Career Trajectory Report on Raine Storey examines thirteen analytical dimensions independently — from education and art-historical positioning through gallery structure, publication coverage, award history, and auction establishment — and delivers a single rating with a structured risk assessment, based on a proprietary analytical methodology. The report gives you the complete picture, not the highlights. Available now at collectorsarch.co.uk .