Philippa Brown (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist looking through portals and hovering between enlightenment, fantasy and bogus wisdom, making sculptural forms, installations, films and paintings, as a means to explore the ambiguous, magical and sometimes fragile interconnectedness between histories, materials, beliefs and bodies of all kinds. Based in Cardiff, in 2021/22 Philippa was awarded the g39 Fellowship, as part of the Freelands Artist Programme.
Exodus Crooks (they/he) is a British-Jamaican multidisciplinary artist and educator who was recently shortlisted as a 2025 Arts Foundation Future Awards artist. Exodus is interested in self-determination and how it is steered by religion and spirituality. Informed by a fractious domestic life, their practice is auto ethnographical and exists in the orbit of their educational role where they work to reimagine Western pedagogy. Exodus is currently experimenting with gardening, text, filmmaking, and installation to better understand the complexities of the human experience.
Charlie Duck (he/him) works with printmaking, painting, sculpture and ceramics to explore painting and its expanded field. He studied at the University of Brighton and the Royal College of Art. His work has been included in group and solo shows across the UK and Europe.
Tom Ireland (he/him) is a Blackpool born, raised and based artist and curator. He is the co-director of Abingdon Studios, Blackpool, where he delivers the Abingdon Studios residency programme Work/Leisure. Ireland is Operations Manager at Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool and an associate lecturer in Fine Art at the Institute of Education, Arts and Society, University of Cumbria. He ran the artist-led, iterant project Supercollider Contemporary Art Projects from 2008 until the project’s current hiatus since 2016. He maintains an arts practice.
Lady Kitt (they/them) is a disabled sculptor and drag king, who does ‘Mess Making as Social Glue’. Kitt works on long term, collaborative endeavours driven by insatiable curiosity about how art can be useful. Projects usually culminate in largescale, vibrant installations made from natural and recycled materials.
Harold Offeh (he/him) is an artist working in a range of media including performance, video, photography, learning and social arts practice. Offeh is interested in the space created by the inhabiting or embodying of histories. He employs humour as a means to confront the viewer with historical narratives and contemporary culture. He is currently a Head of Programme for MA Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art, London.
Ro Robertson (they/them) is a contemporary artist based in West Cornwall. Their practice spans sculpture, drawing, painting and video, mediums through which they explore the boundaries of the human body and its environment.
SHARP (they/she) is a queer working class artist, activist, producer whose interdisciplinary approach moves between experimental video, photography, sculpture, and sound installations. Their works originate from a vital urge to document their own life, their butch identity and the spaces around them, in order to take over and illuminate the shadow left by section 28, and provide an inter-generational connection with repetitions in histories that continue to infringe on the liberties of LGBTQIA+ people.
Lucy Steggals (she/her) lives and works in London. She is an artist and integrative arts psychotherapist. Her practice is process led. She co-creates with diverse groups invisible containers that allow space to sit with unknowns and play. She is currently developing her own interdisciplinary methodology, shifting to working in a more embodied way with materials (clay, collage, text and textiles); creating a living collection of images/objects that can be engaged with by others. She works part-time as a therapist with young adults in Hackney. She also works with The Artist Wellbeing Company facilitating reflective therapeutic spaces for artists and creative practitioners.
Kate Thackara (she/her) is an artist and teacher exploring pedagogy as practice, with specific interests in expansive notions of the Artisteacher.