Millie Earthy

Millie Earthy (b. London 1999) is an artist working across photography, print, sculpture and installation. Using an intuitive and experimental approach, Millie looks at modes of framing, containment, and the infinite potentials of material. Balancing utility and whimsy, her practice agitates categories of the personal, the domestic, the industrial, and the sacred.

Millie completed her BA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins. She has gone on to participate in numerous exhibitions such as Coop, Stokkøyart Norway (2024), Paper, Boardroom Committee Room Glasgow (2024), Appendix | Index, Hypha Studios (2025), The Plane Crashed But I Survived, SET Woolwich (2025). She has also participated in international residency programmes such as Stokkøyart, Norway (2024) and Red Corner Residency, Mongolia (2025). 

Joe Garcia

Joe Garcia (b. 1996) is a ceramicist based in Deptford, London. He works as a production potter while maintaining an independent practice specialising in print on ceramics. Joe has developed techniques to make ceramic materials as paper like as possible, allowing them to be worked like collage and print processes. He moves fluidly between pots, wall pieces, and paper collage.

He approaches materials as central to the work, not passive or replaceable, but integral to its emotional impact. For him, form and feeling are inseparable. He does not see the work as symbolising ideas, but as the idea itself, something arrived at through working, thinking, and feeling in materials and actions.

Pots remain an essential reference point within his practice, not necessarily as the primary form, but for what they can do. He sees them as more than symbolic objects, closer to living entities with distinct characteristics and personalities. This sensibility carries across all areas of his work, whether in ceramic objects, wall pieces, or paper.

Although he works as a production potter, Joe maintains a conflicted relationship with the world of craft. He holds a deep appreciation for it, alongside a strong irreverence toward technical and utilitarian constraints. Ultimately, his focus is on making work that is sensuous and materially grounded and that operates as a bodily and emotional experience.

Francisco Zhan

Francisco Zhan is a visual artist working with ceramic sculpture, writing and performance. He is interested in skeletons in closets, as much as closeted skeletons.

Francisco’s work takes shape through questions of queer practice, auto-ethnography and transhumanism. He borrows the language of ceramic relics, fashion phenomena and pop symbols to investigate history as a material – one that’s not inert, but alive, persistent and embodied in our everyday lives.

Francisco received a BA in Fine Art  Fine Art from Goldsmiths University in 2016. His love for making has taken him to residencies at Sanbao Ceramics Institute in Jingdezhen, and Casapiena in Sicily. His work has been shown nationally and internationally. Francisco was a recipient of a Grand Plan Fund project grant in 2024. In 2025 he was awarded the RCA President and Vice-Chancellor Scholarship to study a MA Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, which he is due to complete in 2027.

Co-curated by Ellie Dobbs and Verity Monroe

Heat Seeking marks the first exhibition in SET 91’s second six-month programme of curated shows. This programme is led by the SET curatorial team and invited guest curators, and encompasses exhibitions, performance and cross-disciplinary projects.

More details on future exhibitions will be announced soon.   

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SET 91 is SET’s first in-house curated contemporary arts gallery, located in Old Street. Dedicated to supporting early-career contemporary artists, the gallery provides a non-profit platform for experimentation, collaboration, and the presentation of new work beyond commercial pressures.