Hannah Bartos
Hannah is a visual artist, researcher and author, living between the UK and the Middle East (Qatar). In her artistic practice, she is fascinated with boundaries. That is, how society is organised and patterns of human interaction. Alongside medium-format photography, her work encompasses moving image, audio and the fabrication of 3D sculptural installations. Her creative […]
Vanessa Walters
Working in analogue photography, Walters’ accumulating archive of photographs operate as gentle observations of everyday life, as she seeks to expose both the stillness and chaos in how we inhabit the contemporary world. By casting our attention to things through the richness and weightlessness of colour and light, her images encourage the viewer to look […]
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Rebecca Stenfors
Rebecca Stenfors is an artist, writer and filmmaker based in London with a Finnish-Swedish background. Her practice meditates on homecoming as a chosen fiction where narration, diary-keeping and oral storytelling traditions become processes of returning to that which is out of reach. She is fascinated by the illusory proximity and connection of the souvenir, which […]
Sayan Chanda
Sayan Chanda reimagines votive objects, folk divinities, and mythic narratives as hybrid, ambiguous forms through the lens of identity, gender perception, and postcolonial theory. Working intuitively with fibre and clay through weaving, stitching, quilting, dyeing, and hand-building, he makes work that occupies a speculative landscape untethered from place, culture, and period. He’s interested in the […]
Aprille McShane
Aprille McShane is a Sheffield based visual artist whose work responds to the natural world around her, with a particular interest in changing seasons, growth and renewal. Through regular drawing, printmaking, photography, and painting, Aprille has developed a practice rooted in observing and reflecting.
Ruth Francesca Mogan
Ruth Francesca Mogan is a visual arts teacher based in Singapore, specialising in guiding students aged 4 to 17 through a wide range of fine art mediums. With a diverse foundation in painting, drawing, sculpture, graphic design, and more, she draws on both her formal training in Art Teaching at the Nanyang Academy of Fine […]
Dierdre Pearce
Dierdre Pearce is an artist currently living in Canberra, Australia. Originally from far northern Australia, she explores materiality, material cultures, landscapes and rituals of place making, with a focus on rootlessness, fragmentation and alienation. Her approach is based in sculpture and spatial practices including MPhil research (2021) and is informed by past experience in science […]
Demelza Kingston
Demelza Kingston is a Glasgow-based artist working in photography and moving image with processes that span the analogue, digital and cameraless. Her work considers how humans of the ancient past, the present and the future are dis/connected with the more-than-human. Informed by research, from archive to fieldwork, her work can be seen as a kind […]
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Jackie Bell
After a career in health and a personal health related stocktaking of life goals, Jackie Bell returned to education as a mature student, completing a HND in Contemporary Art at Edinburgh College and then a BA Hons in Sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art, graduating in 2023. She was awarded one of the John Kinross […]
Jo Arksey
Jo Arksey is an artist and creative facilitator who relishes working across various media. Although essentially abstract, her individual pieces evoke something recognisable. Reclaiming discarded materials through papermaking has for Jo, been a process of discovery and evolution, combining pulp with text, hair, metal and print in sculptural works and installations. Threads running through Jo’s […]