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Olivia Albanell is a Barcelona-based artist whose work is often about not knowing what one is doing or where one is going with something.

Fan Bangyu is an interdisciplinary practitioner working with sculpture, picture, installation, and sound. Their method is akin to drafting a non-linear narrative novel by starting with visual language, auditory language, and smell. They assemble and combine structures and supports designed in context, aiming for the installation site to present visual puzzles, suggest multiple meanings, and pursue an abstraction in language that evokes a mysterious atmosphere and is difficult to categorize precisely.

They are interested in those events defined as history that disrupt and intrude upon the present space and time, which resonates like aftershocks, as the antennas of modern industry connect to the permanently shelved hard drives of hidden narratives. Bangyu wants to explore the topography of sound and the relationships between space and time, viewing it as a container of sound, auditory hallucinations, and memories.

Their sound practices aim to build a space where chaos and cacophony can find their layers in the tapestry of auditory innovation. To disrupt the equilibrium of familiar tonal landscapes, they invite the audience to question preconceived notions of harmony and melody.

Hayett Belarbi-McCarthy is a sculptor who works with wood, textiles, resin and found objects.

She is interested in drawing parallels between cultures and eras, opening discussions about history and in re-interpreting, re-imagining those in her work, in an almost fictional way.

She creates an anachronistic world sometimes combining antique materials (such as the repeated 18th century French silk) with symbols  nodding to her Arabo-Amazigh heritage forever oscillating between the estranged and familiar, the obsolete and the current, the clumsy and the confident.

Her, at times, humorous approach undertones a yearning for clarity in today’s “post-colonial” world.

Hayett is first generation French, born to an Algerian mother and London-Irish father, this widely informs her practice, curiosity and research about diasporic cultures, geo-politics and untold  histories.

She graduated with an MFA at Goldsmiths University of London in 2024 with a Lisson Gallery Scholarship.

Ellis Berwick is a London based, Brixton born artist making sculptures, sounds, things that move, and sculptures which make sounds by moving.  Looking at the contexts of sound and movement through the experiential, mythological and historical.  His work is rough and delicate, industrial and organic, and always noisy.

German artist Zoe De Caluwé's (they/them, b. 1997, Hamburg, Germany) diverse practice encompasses sculpture, painting, and found objects. Informed by memory and emotion, they create consciously flawed and playful pieces that delve into themes of identity and anxiety, evoking a deep sense of melancholy.

When Zoe immigrated to the UK in their teens they learned English through informal conversation. In their artistic practice, akin to their experience of language, informal processes seamlessly intertwine with their unique vernacular, becoming integral to the essence of their work. While having an academically informed understanding of art history, their practice is rooted in experimentation rather than formal training.

Zoe undertook their Art History masters at Oxford University in 2022 and are now based in Margate. They have previously exhibited with TRA Collective, Gallery at Home, Irving Gallery and Liminal Gallery.

"Over the last 10+ years I have worked as an artist making performances and sculptures. My artistic output can be split between two different mediums: the physical and the performative. Within my performances I employ the modes and traditions of storytelling to engage with the audience. The sculptural element takes the form of sets and props which are used and activated within the performances.

I have exhibited and performed in many different contexts, internationally as well as within the UK; Including at Glasgow International, Glasgow UK. Neoterismoi Toumazou,  In Nicosia, Cyprus. Catalyst Arts, FIX Art Festival, Belfast, UK. The Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable, UK, the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. Amongst others. I graduated from the MFA program at the Glasgow school of art in 2014. Where I received a full scholarship from the Leverhulme fund.

Throughout my artistic carrier I have been selected for many different prizes. I was shortlisted for the Converse x Dazed Emerging Artist Award, The Royal Academy, London in 2015; included in the Catlin Guide, 2015; received Performancepreis, Filigran Trägersysteme GmbH & Co KG, in 2014 and was included in Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2013."

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Verity Coward is an artist based in London. She was born in Sharjah, UAE and raised between Queensland, Australia and the UK. Coward graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths University London in 2017.

Coward has exhibited nationally across the UK and has an upcoming, Arts Council funded solo exhibition at Flatland Projects, Bexhill in November, 2024. Recent exhibitions include: Guts Projects, London (2024); Eastside Projects and Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham (2024); Goldsmiths CCA, London (2023); Horse Hospital, London (2023); Massimo de Carlo Gallery, Vspace (2023); The Bomb Factory, (2023); London Bronze Editions, London (2022); Well Projects, Margate (2022); Jupiter Woods, London (2022); VSSL Studios, London (2022); The Turner House, Penarth, Wales (2021); OD Arts Festival, Dorset (2021); Bowes Parris Gallery and Harlesden High Street, London (2020).

Mandeep Dillon makes ephemeral sculptures that are an ongoing investigation into the passing physicality of human and non-human entities. Conflicted about occupying space and adding to a crowded world, temporality is an integral aspect of works that are made primarily from inflatables. Their physical stability depends on a delicate balance between the inner and outer pressure of their gossamer skins. Reacting to subtle environmental changes, their swollen buoyancy hints at a sense of imminent collapse. Experiencing something both abstract and visceral, the onlooker’s presence may trigger a kinetic reaction and an awareness of their embodied relationship with the sculpture.

Mandeep Dillon has an MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art (Distinction 2019) She is a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors. Madame Tussauds Fine art Prize for MA show, Ingram Prize shortlist 2022, Orleans House Residency 2022, AA2A Residency 2024.

Natalya Marconini Falconer's work emerges from gaps in familial and regional memories of southern Italy. Moving across sculpture, installation, and writing, they create layered narratives that attempt to hold multiple lived experiences of the region.

In their research they sift through the material aftermaths of industrialisation, natural disasters/geophysical events, cycles of labour and migration. In exploring often forgotten, undocumented, or rather surreal past events and their friction with the archive, they question art's potential as a form of anthropology.

Born 1996 in Albi France

Lives and works in London UK

Alia Hamaoui (b.1996) is a British/Lebanese artist living and working in London, UK. Hamaoui completed her undergraduate studies at Camberwell College of Arts, and is currently studying for an MFA at Goldsmiths, University of London. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘HINO 500’ at San Mei Gallery (London, 2023) and ‘Passing Pari-daiza’ at Soup Gallery (London, 2023). Alongside, Hamaoui has exhibited widely in London, as well as internationally in Dubai, Lisbon and Warsaw. She is a member of artist cooking collective: gobyfish collective.

Hamaoui aims to advance our understanding of the interrelationship between cultural identity, the object and place, as viewed from within our increasingly digitised society. Particularly interested in cultural artefacts that have been co-opted or utilised by the cultural industry in shaping broader narratives of regional or national identity within the SWANA.  Hamaoui’s work combines ancient objects, architectural locations, and mass media moments into materially rich sculptural amalgamations that fold the body, heritage and space into abstracted entanglements. Often utilising tricks of haptic allure, Hamaoui’s interested in the tantalization of the senses as a mechanism to question the gaze.

Whilst working predominantly as a fashion designer, Ellen Poppy Hill’s practice includes drawing, sculpture and multimedia artworks. Her practice focuses around repurposing found fabrics and objects which are then re-contextualised in to her own fantasy world, with her unique penmanship and assembly of cutting cloth each item of clothing is a one-off-one-size piece to treasure.

Her recent body of work was a tongue-in-cheek play on the personification of clothes that have been abandoned and fallen in to a state of disrepair, using symbols of repair as a gimmick of falsely repairing ‘broken’ clothes. Her collection had three-dimensional giant zippers, embellished moths and trompe l'oeil tape. These same tokens are used in her art practice, through the assembly of found scraps from her sewing studio from a bricolage of multifaceted objects to form her cyclical body of research toward forthcoming collections.

Joseph Bradley Hill is an artist, designer & producer engaging with organisation, permutation and improvisation.

He is the founder and host of Late Works, editor of plates (x5) & releases music under 'one-four' & 'Nothing Doing'.

Athen Kardashian & Nina Mhach Durban (both b. 2000) are a British-Asian artist duo based in London. Their collaborative practice is founded on an open and ongoing dialogue examining their shared experience of being raised in London by Indian mothers. Community noticeboards reminiscent of schools, offices and social clubs serve as sculptures onto which the duo curate their collection of found images and assorted ephemera, pictures and trinkets engaging conversations surrounding family, displacement and migration. By utilising glamorous Bollywood headshots alongside domestic objects, Athen & Nina reminisce on matriarchal upbringings, diasporic femininity and the nostalgic impulse to reflect upon one’s teenagehood.

Athen Kardashian & Nina Mhach Durban (both b. 2000) are a British-Asian artist duo based in London. Their collaborative practice is founded on an open and ongoing dialogue examining their shared experience of being raised in London by Indian mothers. Community noticeboards reminiscent of schools, offices and social clubs serve as sculptures onto which the duo curate their collection of found images and assorted ephemera, pictures and trinkets engaging conversations surrounding family, displacement and migration. By utilising glamorous Bollywood headshots alongside domestic objects, Athen & Nina reminisce on matriarchal upbringings, diasporic femininity and the nostalgic impulse to reflect upon one’s teenagehood.

Pheobe riley Law (1997) is an installation artist with a focus in sound, performance, photography, and sculptural activation.  Using a symbiotic approach, she builds dialogues between different bodies, borders and devices, activating, flexible new relationships.

Prevailing interests include sonic mapping, exploring the life of non-human actors / inanimate objects & thinking about aspects of human activity through the lens of division and borders. She sometimes playfully reverses the roles of humans & non-humans, revealing the object-hood of the human essence, and an animate character of the ‘inanimate’ being. In one of her recent installations and performances Machine Equities she explores the sonic landscape of machines as actors and singing collaborators. Previous and ongoing explorations focus on: the relationship we have to the natural world; machine technologies as our collaborators; the role salt has on aquatic life and the activation of micro-worlds such as moss, soil and motorised machines.

Recent work includes my work  ‘dep.can.gre.sou’, currently showing at RCA Battersea, Moss Listening at Sonic Acts Biennale (Amsterdam, Netherlands),  Bell (auto) + 2 at Apt Gallery and Crossovers collective (London), Machine Equities at Fabrica Research Centre (Treviso, Italy), Oh O Salinity at Humber Street Gallery, Hull Arts Research and Initiative centre, (Hull), The Hancock Museum, 36 Lime Street Gallery (Newcastle). Emerging Artist Installation at Delaval Hall (Northumberland), A layer of Liquid Water at Spikersuppa Gallery (Oslo, Norway), Residency and tour with Making tracks at Cove park (Scotland). Herd (Newcastle University) and further works at The Baltic, Hatton Gallery New- castle, The Republic Gallery (Blythe), Funen Art Academy Odense (Denmark), LevelOne Gallery Hamburg (Germany), Paradise Air (Japan), Detroit Gallery (Stockholm), Iklectik (London), Cafe Oto (London) & the Coachhouse (Brighton) and sound / score based performances at Ftarri (Tokyo), Permian (Tokyo), Science Art Festival (Japan), for BBC Radio 3, Fort Process.

Currently based in London, Vita Lerche is a conceptual artist. She works with mechanisms and performative actions to observe structures of power and control in the everyday.

Joe Moss is an artist and trained mosaicist based at The London School of Mosaic. Working mainly across video and sculpture, Moss brings together different fictional registers, playing with hierarchies of the materially real, intersubjectively real, fictional and fantastic. His output ranges from screenings to solo presentations to collaborative exhibition-making.

Moss was selected for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries award 2023 and recent projects include Conditions Retrospective (2024) at ICA Cinema 1, UK, That's the world I'm going to send you to! (2024) at Well Projects, UK, Supersublime (2023) at Giant Gallery, UK, Future Artefacts Takeover (2023) at Shoreditch Arts Club Cinema and Model Village (2023) at NN Contemporary. Between 2019-2022 Joe Moss was part of the Conditions Studio programme. Joe graduated from the Slade Media MFA in June 2024.

Eleni Papazoglou is an artist and graphic designer, based between London and Athens. Through assemblage and experimental use of print, their work explores languages of value and exchange, making alternative propositions about what is worth, who is it for and where is it found.

They exhibit in self organised, institutional contexts. Recent project include: Products & Services (2024) published by Foolscap Editions, Hole Hold Whole, reclame (2023), Hall of Mirrors, PLOP Residency (2023), Prizing Eccentric Talents II, P.E.T. Projects (2022), Collective Displays of Affection, Camden Art Center (2022). Eleni lectures at the London College of Communication [UAL] and takes on design commissions in collaboration with Ashley Kinnard.

Alexandra Phillips (b.1988 Port Chester NY) is an American artist currently working in Rotterdam. She spent much of her formative years in North Carolina, attending an art-centered high school program at University of North Carolina School of the Arts. She holds a BFA in Painting and a BA in Art History from the Kansas City Art Institute. Her work comments upon our fleeting and insatiable existence with a light touch and a witty sense of humor. She works with the intrinsic albeit often overlooked characteristics of everyday materials and by doing so shows us their unforeseen potential and appeal. Phillips attended Penland School of Crafts (2006), received a Van Lier Fellowship (2013), was resident artist at Atelier Mondial in Basel, Switzerland (2016), and attended Jan van Eyck Academie in 2017. In 2020 she received a research and development grant from the CBK of Rotterdam. Her work was nominated for the Royal Award for Modern Painting 2021. She has received support from Stichting Droom en Daad and Mondriaan Fonds. In 2011 Phillips and artist Jan Henderikse (b.1932 Delft NL) founded Purepropaganda.org Magazine, an absurdist design firm that continues to operate in various forms today.

Gillies Adamson Semple is a Scottish artist based in London. He obtained his BA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins and the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm and his MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2022. His work is interested in using sound as a resource to be treated as physically as any other material, and in doing so approach resonance as a sculptural tool. Selected exhibitions include solo shows at Cedric Bardawil, ZÉRUÌ and Des Bains, and will show work with Space of Time Gallery (Beijing), Weather Proof (Chicago) and ZÉRUÌ in the near future. He was recently awarded the Boise Scholarship, from which he conducted an extensive body of research using the oldest pipe organ in the world in Sion, Switzerland. This research resulted in a 12" vinyl edition released through Forth Sounds in 2024. He is currently a recipient of a grant to undertake research into understanding relationships between sonic field recording, the drone, architecture and certain ecologies that exist in his own studio.

Thirza Smith makes sculpture at the moment.

Dominic Watson born in Sunderland 1986, lives and works in Margate, UK. Watson studied sculpture at Camberwell College of Art, London and received an MFA from the Glasgow School of Art in 2014. He was the 2017 recipient of the Fellowship for Contemporary Art Practice at The British School At Rome. His work is included in The Royal Scottish Academy and Ingram collections. Recent exhibitions include "Goody-Goody Lumpsome", St. Chads (London), "God Bless Strawberry Jam", Cob Gallery (London) and TESTAMENT at Goldsmiths CCA.

Stanley Welch (b.1997) is an artist and musician from Cornwall. He studied sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art and is currently based in Glasgow. His debut album Virgins was released in June 2024. He is one half of the record label North <3 South Records.

otta is a Finnish-British musician based in South London known for her distinctive blend of experimental pop, textured percussion, and emotionally rich songwriting.

otta's new EP 'WITH LOVE FROM EVERYWHERE' marks her long-awaited return after a lengthy pause from releasing music. Acting as a postcard from the edge, the project moves between genres with ease — its playful yet heavy production balances moments of emotional clarity with densely textured sonics. Featuring captivating contributions from some of London’s finest musicians, it takes us deeper into otta’s collage-like approach to making music.

Having first surfaced on SoundCloud, otta has since featured in Slow Dance's 3rd annual compilation ('18), and released three EPs, including 'after it all blew over' & 'Songbook' on kwes.’s label Bokkle in 2020. 'WITH LOVE FROM EVERYWHERE' was self-released on 4th April through her own label ‘löyly’.

Previous support for otta has come from Pitchfork, The Quietus, Clash, NME, Best New Music (I.D), New Music Friday (Spotify) with spins on BBC from Mary Anne Hobbs, Lauren Laverne, Iggy Pop & Mike Skinner.

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