Artists

Artist

Karolina Dworska is a Polish-born multidisciplinary artist based in London. Her practice explores surreal dreamscapes, personal mythology, ritual and ecology, drawing on recurring dreams to reflect contemporary anxieties. Working between the corporeal and spectral, she creates immersive worlds where bodies, landscapes and desire intersect. Dworska was selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2021 and has exhibited nationally and internationally.

Karolina Dworska

Artist

Heidi Pearce is a London-based artist from Kent working across textiles, sculpture and installation. Her practice explores belonging, social interaction and humour through the uncanny, centred around a recurring dog-like figure. Drawing on the awkwardness and banality of everyday conversation, Pearce uses repetition and shifts in context to unsettle the familiar and question everyday social rituals. Since graduating from Goldsmiths in 2019, she has exhibited widely across London and completed The School of the Damned alternative MA programme.

Heidi Pearce

Artist

Andia Coral Newton is a London-based artist working primarily with textiles, alongside sound and installation. Through weaving, they explores psychological survival, the body and domestic environments, using recurring symbols such as human-animal hybrids and elemental forms to reflect personal and collective anxieties. Their practice also considers the gendered histories of textile-making and craft. Newton has exhibited nationally and internationally and was shortlisted for the 2023 Evening Standard Art Prize.

Andia Coral Newton

Artist and Researcher

Mariam Menteshashvili, a Tbilisi-born artist/researcher, embarked on a photographic journey following her studies at Central Saint Martins in London. With a master's degree in Social Anthropology from Goldsmiths, University of London, Mariam explores the complexities of culture, society, and the human condition using visual language as her primary tool of expression.

Mariam Menteshashvili

Photographer and Filmmaker

Charlotte C Mortensson is a Swedish photographer and filmmaker based in London and Trench Town, Jamaica. For almost two decades, she has recorded the social housing in Trench Town, working closely with local historians, builders, artists and residents.

Charlotte C Mortensson

Artist

Caroline Ashley is a British emerging artist based in London. Her practice explores assemblage, soft sculpture, referencing repetition and hand-driven processes. Textiles and fabrics are at the forefront, working intuitively; collecting, thinking through her hands, using vibrant found objects.

Caroline Ashley

A black and yellow illustration of a person with long hair lying on a bed, embracing a figure with exaggerated facial features, a long nose, and a large open mouth. The scene is set outdoors with a silhouetted forest and a full moon in the background. The artwork has a surreal, expressive style with bold lines and textures.

Painter and Printmaker

Sadiq Kareem Toma (b. 1952) studied at the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad. He went into exile in 1978, moving to London to continue his design and illustration work. He uses printmaking, painting and calligraphic traditions in his artwork. 

Sadiq Kareem Toma

Artist

Born in former Yugoslavia and shaped by more than three decades of nomadic living, Sonja Kresojevic’s practice emerges from an ongoing inquiry into identity, belonging, and memory. Working across visual and textile art, installation, writing, and embodied practices, she creates immersive and relational works that explore how stories, memories, and lived experiences can be woven into new shared realities.

SONJA KRESOJEVIC

Painter

Born in Budapest, Réka Ritt Laklia explores the connection between nature and culture through the lenses of folklore, non-dualistic philosophies, mystical practices and other systems of metaphysical exploration as possible pathways to reconcile the two through her paintings, using copper as her medium.

Réka Ritt Laklia

A narrow cobblestone street with a cyclist riding away in the distance, flanked by tall, closely packed buildings on both sides, some with small plants on balconies, and black street lamps hanging above.

Photographer and Filmmaker

Like shards of broken mirrors, collected over time and from faraway places, the words and images of Yamam Nabeel reflect the fragmented self of a life in exile.

Yamam Nabeel

A colorful painting of two musicians, one holding a violin, with a large golden horn in the background and a geometric green and black pattern.

Painter

Faisel Laibi Sahi was born in Basra, Iraq in 1945. He graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad, before completing his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Baghdad in 1971.

Faisel Laibi Sahi

A black and white photo of a crowd of people at a protest holding signs and banners with German text, advocating for workers' rights, education, and social issues.

Filmmaker

Samir is a proflic documentarian and producer. He left Baghdad in the 1960s with his family, studying design and training as a cameraman in Switzerland. He’s been producing films – shorts and features for cinema and television - since the 1980s.

Samir Jamal Al Din

Three men walking on a train station platform with a red train and a large yellow building in the background.

Photographer and Filmmaker

Koutaiba Al-Janabi is an award winning, truly independent filmmaker and photographer from Baghdad. He has been directing and producing his own short films, documentaries and feature films for 30 years, as truly independent productions.

Koutaiba Al Janabi