Artists

Who we are

57 Artists

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Artist David Blandy looking at the camera in front of shelves of books

David Blandy

David Blandy is primarily a video artist whose work investigates the cultural forces that inform and influence him, using himself as an anthropological subject.

Lottie Child

Lottie Child’s practice includes participatory, live art explorations of public space, utilising strategies of collaboration and spontaneous interaction

Artist Sarah Cole pouring talc on herself

Sarah Cole

Sarah Cole’s practice involves the orchestration of collaborative encounters as a form of live research into lived experience.

Headshot and portrait of the artist Koby Martin

Koby Martin

Koby’s work is an introspective autobiographical exploration of his life as he believes knowing of self is pivotal in the exploration of any subject matter.

Garudio Studiage flat pet owl next to three classic books

Garudio Studiage

The creative collective in south east London was set up in 2004 by Chris Ratcliffe, Laura Cave, Anna Walsh and Hannah Havana. With individual specialisms in screen printing, jewellery and painting, the group also work together and with friends, taking part in exhibitions and events, as well as making props, displays and products.

A portrait of a young man in profile with his eyes peacefully closed and his locs held back in a bun.

Drew Sinclair

Drew is an Artist/Graphic designer, creating graphic harvests and facilitating creative embodiment workshops, incorporating Art, sound, movement and origami.

Tyreis Holder

Tyreis Holder, a South London artist with Jamaican/St. Vincent heritage, explores self, identity, and colonial spaces through installation, textiles, poetry, and more. Her work, embracing textiles as healing language, addresses trauma among Black women. She sparks conversations on race, disability, community, class, sexuality, and culture through lived experiences.

Yvonne E. Maxwell

Yvonne E. Maxwell is a Saint Lucian-Nigerian self-taught documentary photographer, writer and columnist whose work covers stories on migration, social justice, culture and identity of the Black communities within London and the wider UK. Yvonne also extends her focus to stories surrounding ancestral ties, cultures, familial relationships, health, sexuality and human rights of people from […]

Barbara Steveni

Barbara Stevenivi was born in Iran (Persia) and raised in Devon and India.

Daryl Stenvoll-Wells

Daryl Stenvoll-Wells is a socially engaged artist based in Peckham.  As founder of Art Responders she produces international exhibitions and events centred on racial and environmental justice.

Louis Vann Johnson

Louis Vann Johnson is a multi-instrumentalist and South London singer songwriter whose talents span across genres. Louis Vann Johnson is a creator of “mixed music” with sounds that blend R&B, Soul & Jazz. With a strong nod to the Pop world, his music is equal parts groovy and sensual. Coming from a highly musical family, […]

Portrait of artist Michael McMillan

Michael McMillan

Born in the UK of Caribbean migrant parents, artist and writer Michael McMillan uses mixed media as part of a creative collaborative process that brings in other artists and local people for performances and exhibitions.

A.G.

A.G is a DJ, producer and presenter from east London. Her work takes inspiration from American underground club music in Baltimore and New Jersey to Bollywood soundtracks.

portrait image of artist Zuleika Lebow

Zuleika Lebow

Zuleika Lebow is an artist and cultural producer born and raised in London. The diverse cultural wealth of the city and its history as a home for migrant communities is central to both her practice and her personal identity

Artist Harold Offeh

Harold Offeh

Harold Offeh is an artist working in a range of media including performance, video, photography, learning and social arts practice.

Head & shoulders portrait of artist Marc Bauer

Marc Bauer

Marc Bauer studied at the École Supérieure d’Art Visuel in Geneva and attended the post-graduate program at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.

Artist Francoise Dupre

Françoise Dupré and Rebecca Snow

Françoise Dupré is a London-based French-born artist who creates large textile and sculpture installations that celebrate the everyday and cultures.

Neal White

Neal White is a UK artist based in Brixton, London. His art practice engages with the ongoing impact that science and technology have in shaping our relationships to one another and to the environments we live in.

Artist Gayle Chong Kwan holding salad leaves in a outdoor market

Gayle Chong Kwan

Working primarily with photography and installation, Chong Kwan creates fantastical landscapes and environments consisting primarily of waste materials.

Artist Manu Luksch standing on concrete stairs

Manu Luksch

Manu Luksch, founder of Ambient Information Systems, is a filmmaker who works with moving images. The core theme of her works is the evolution of film in the digital or networked age.

Artist David Cotterell standing with miniature stunt helicopter as part of the film Slipstream

David Cotterrell

David Cotterrell is an installation artist working across varied media including video, audio, interactive media, artificial intelligence, device control and hybrid technology. His work exhibits political, social and behavioural analyses of the environments and contexts, which he and his work inhabit.

Yoruba Londoner, Visual Artist and Storyteller.  Using analogue photography and poetry as creative mediums, Elusadé aims to document, archive and preserve ideas cultivated from the desire to deeply understand themselves and the world around them. At the heart of her practice, she connects intergenerational communities with art activism, preserving aural and tangible histories through authentic creation. Aiming to create and share imagery to illuminate the magic in the mundane, Elusadé curates dialogue reflective of their own experience in an effort to highlight the delicate and nuanced ways in which they choose to manoeuvre through the complexities of being.

Tolu Elusadé

Yoruba Londoner, Visual Artist and Storyteller. 

Using analogue photography and poetry as creative mediums, Elusadé aims to document, archive and preserve ideas cultivated from the desire to deeply understand themselves and the world around them.

At the heart of her practice, she connects intergenerational communities with art activism, preserving aural and tangible histories through authentic creation.

Aiming to create and share imagery to illuminate the magic in the mundane, Elusadé curates dialogue reflective of their own experience in an effort to highlight the delicate and nuanced ways in which they choose to manoeuvre through the complexities of bein

Mhairi Macaulay

Mhairi Macaulay’s work is characterised by a fascination with ‘The Social’: the way individuals interact with each other. Without a fixed aesthetic, Macaulay plays with the preconceptions we have about different communities, from grassroots groups to large corporations.

Artist Kimathi Donkor

Kimathi Donkor

Kimathi Donkor is a British artist living and working in London. His work re-imagines mythic, legendary and domestic encounters across Africa and its global Diasporas.

Portrait of Lola Komolafe

Lola Komolafe

Lola Komolafe is a London- based illustrator and graphic designer engaging with the role of design to provide visibility and representation, particularly for minority and underrepresented groups.

image of Resolve Collective, three pioneering creatives, Akil Scafe-Smith, Seth Amani Scafe-Smith and Melissa Haniff

Resolve Collective

Resolve is an interdisciplinary design collective of three creatives: Akil Scafe-Smith, Seth Amani Scafe-Smith and Melissa Haniff.

Yes Make

Yes Make specialise in public spaces and community projects in London and beyond.

Portrait of artist Eileen Perrier

Eileen Perrier

Eileen Perrier is of Ghanaian and Dominican descent and has explored questions on identity, diversity and placement. Perrier lives and works in London and is a graduate of The Royal College of Art.

Nana Varveropoulou

Nana Varveropoulou is a photographer, artist and lecturer. Varveropoulou’s practice and research is focused on various issues relating to human rights and social justice, often through the process of collaboration.

Artist Ruth Beale sitting at a desk in a library

Ruth Beale

Ruth Beale’s practice considers the evocative relationships between culture, governance, social discourse and representation.

Lesley Asare

Lesley Asare is a British Ghanaian Multidisciplinary Artist, Tamalpa Teacher training graduate, Somatic Coach, Breathwork Practitioner and Mentor, based in Milton Keynes, UK Led by a quest for truth and desire to deeply listen, her practice explores identity, personal histories and the experiences of Black People. Through her work, she aims to create the space […]

Artist Melanie Manchot

Melanie Manchot

Melanie Manchot is a London based visual artist who works with photography, film and video as a performative and participatory practice.

Sarina Mantle

Sarina Mantle is an artist, designer and singer-songwriter based in Barking and Dagenham, London. Mantle works across print, fashion and music, incorporating patterns, florals, sacred geometry, intuitive tribal and ancient visuals to reconnect with the cosmic and natural world. 

Artist Barby Asante wearing a red coat and looking at the camera

Barby Asante

Barby Asante is a London based artist, curator and occasional DJ. Her work is concerned with the politics of place, space memory and the histories and legacies of slavery and colonialism.

Artist Ana Laura Lopez wearing a blue jumper and leaning on a brick wall

Ana Laura López de la Torre

Ana Laura López de la Torre is an artist and writer based in Uruguay. Using the overlooked and the underrated as a starting point, her work creates visible and unexpected connections between things, people and places.

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