INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTIST

Theresa Weber grew up in Düsseldorf, Germany and graduated at the Düsseldorf Kunstakademie in 2021, after studying in the classes of Ellen Gallagher and Katharina Grosse.

She is now based in London and studying her postgraduate Master in sculpture at the Royal College of Art. Her first institutional solo-shows and several group shows took place in Germany, Slovakia and Italy in 2021, in addition to several collective projects and group shows in Belgium, Germany and the UK in 2022.

PAINTER

Miyeon Yi is a South Korean artist based in London. Yi obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA (2013-2017), and is currently undertaking an MA in Fine Art at the Royal College of Art, London (2021-2023).

Yi’s work is inspired from traditional Korean culture with a contemporary twist. She has held solo exhibitions at the Era Gallery (Milan) and Ojiri Gallery (London) this summer. Her works have also been featured in group shows in USA, UK and France.

CERAMACIST

Yurim Gough is a British-based Ceramic visual artist who comes from Korea, a country with a historic tradition of ceramics, where she was a fashion designer and had been designing high heeled shoes for over ten years in Seoul then in Tokyo and London.

She emigrated to England in 2007, the first time she had set foot outside Asia. Learning English from scratch and being influenced by the radical change in culture she went back to being an artist, which was always her first calling. Starting with life drawing and experimenting with other media, She found herself drawn to her cultural roots in ceramics, mixing the two.

PAINTER

Renin Bilginer is an emerging contemporary artist from London, with dual British and Turkish heritage. Renin graduated from The University of Brighton in 2019 and is currently studying MA Painting at the Royal College of Art.

In 2019, she exhibited at Hove Museum and Art Gallery, The Truman Brewery and was selected for Hastings Art Forum's 'Rising Talent' show. In 2020 she was selected for the Zabludowicz Collection exhibition ‘Women’s Lockdown Art’. Recent exhibitions include RCA WIP 2022 and RAW at Soho Revue.

PHOTOGRAPHER

Tayo Adekunle is a Nigerian-British photographer originally from Wakefield, West Yorkshire, now based in London. Working predominantly with self-portraiture and digital collage, she uses her work to explore themes surrounding race, gender and sexuality as well as racial and colonial history. Since recently graduating with a BA (Hons) in Photography from Edinburgh College of Art, Adekunle has been a recipient of the SSA New Graduate Awards and the Degree Show Purchase Prize, resulting in her work becoming part of The University of Edinburgh Art Collection. She has also exhibited in exhibitions including Futureproof with Street Level Photoworks, Coupe de Foudre with Insurgency Gallery and Five Years, RSA New Contemporaries and the SSA 123rd Annual Exhibition. Most recently she was nominated as one of the British Journal of Photography One's to Watch and as a FUTURES talent.

CURATOR & ARTIST

Chantelle May Purcell (b. 1985) is a London-based curator and artist. Her work explores the intertwined histories of Britain and the Caribbean, inspired by personal experiences, folklore and the ways in which culture is preserved through storytelling. Whether working as a curator or artist she seeks to gain a deeper understanding of the world through connection and empowering communities. Her work involves objects and sound to create sensory and multi-layered installations. Purcell graduated from Kingston University with a MA in European Practice.

INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTIST

Alya Hatta (b.1999, Malaysia) is an interdisciplinary artist based between London and Kuala Lumpur. She graduated from her BA Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London before finding herself in the MA Painting Course at Royal College of Art. She has exhibited internationally in London, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, and Tübingen amongst others and is exhibiting her third solo show in Milan in February of 2022. Hatta is a member of ‘FloorFive’ collective, who are currently part of a year long residency at Goldsmiths CCA.

NEON ARTIST

Eve De Haan the artist behind Half a Roast Chicken was recently named by Dezeen as one of "Fourteen black architects and designers you should know". Her degree in Theology promoted her love of the written word, and propelled her into investigating how emotive it can be to use neon whilst exploring semantics. Eve uses a powerful mix of electric colour and charged words bringing a modern take on personal storytelling. Eve has been working on public art installations and focussing on what wellness means to us as individuals. She has shown work in the Saatchi gallery & The museum of Neon LA, lead talks for 'Tate lates' with the Tate modern, and worked on campaigns with Nike, Monica Vinader and Browns. She has been featured on the BBC and has created billboard campaigns across London for female charities focusing on womens safety.

MIXED MEDIA PAINTER

Imogen’s practice explores her representation within both the White British and Indian communities. She uses collage as a tool to fuse heritages whilst altering the placement of both urban and rural landscape. She also addresses the concept of ‘otherness’ and its relationship with diaspora and race in a post-colonial Britain

INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTIST

Kathy Bailey (b. 1992, London) is a London based artist who works across painting, found object and textile based installations. A recent Graduate from the university of Brighton she has shown as a local artist in Deptford and as an artist in residency in First Floor Space in Croydon. She is currently study for an MA at Royal College of Art.

INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTIST

Maddalena Zadra (b. 1996, Italy) is a London based Italian artist who works across painting, drawing, printmaking, textile based installations.

The artist’s work touches upon aspects of the tactile and the sensual whilst remaining playful through subtly contrasting vulnerability and eroticism. Referencing a variety of cultures and historical aesthetics, she explores symbolic meaning and storytelling in her practice, creating multi-layered, open scenarios.

PHOTOGRAPHER

Natalia González Acosta (b. 1997) is a Mexican photographer based in London. Her practice has a social-documentary approach, often with collaborative processes, and explores people’s relationships to their environments. Drawing from her own experience as a foreigner in the UK, her work focuses on topics of belonging, migration, identity and the concept of home. González received her MA in Photography and Urban Cultures from Goldsmiths in 2021. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally with Noorderlicht International Photo Festival, Photo North, Shutter Hub and most recently, An Indian Summer. She has also been featured on Undisclosed Resource, It’s Nice That, Redeye, and more.