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Magdalena Steflova
Magdalena is a London-based artist who works mainly with oil and acrylic paints. She specializes in portraiture, using luminosity and space to convey the unique qualities of her subjects. Her passion lies in creating art that speaks to the viewer and evokes emotion.
Athena Stevens
Athena Stevens is an acclaimed writer, performer director and social activist. She is the Artistic Director of Aegis Productions Ltd, writer on attachment at the Finborough Theatre and Creative Council member and Associate Artist at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.
Simon Lowe
Be Bold As Brass is the dynamic creation of Simon Lowe, combining creativity and passion for the beautification of the world around them. Consisting of antiques, collectables and bespoke creations the Be Bold As Brass has created a seductive, colourful world of their own bombastic vision. Purveyor and creator of fabulous goods, Bold As Brass is presented to you in all of its vulgar glory.
Gavin Challand
Gavin is a contemporary portrait painter, working in Elephant & Castle, south London. He paints primarily in oils.
Sarah Grochala
Sarah is a multi-award-winning Anglo-Polish playwright based in London. She writes bold poetic political plays about the experiences of ordinary people caught up in the whirlwind of big events.
Scarlett Crawford
Crawford is an Artist and Educator with a successful record of working in London’s inner city communities and across the UK for over 10 years.
Matilda Laird
Matilda Laird multidisciplinary artist, including sculpture, installation, performance, drawing, video and digital drawing. Her generally large-scale architectural works address broad themes of consumerism and the manipulations of retail. With a focus on ideas of elevation and display, I appropriate a retail aesthetic as a means of critiquing retail aesthetics.
Urte Janus
Urte Janus explores the corporeal relationships between bodies and their environments in her sculptural installations, writing and video work. She blends raw elements such as gelatine, charcoal, ash, limestone, natural binders, rubble, and concrete to build pieces that can later disintegrate back into their surroundings. Rocks, bones, minerals, debris, and various chemical substances are the main protagonists of her works. They are not dead or passive but operate as active agents capable of changing the histories and destinies of landscapes and bodies that inhabit them.
Viola Wang
Viola Wang is a children's book author and illustrator. Born in China, Viola graduated from Tsinghua University with a major in oil painting. She then moved to London, where she completed her master’s in animation and illustration while working as a graphic designer. Viola is also a graduate of the Children's Book Illustration MA at Cambridge School of Art, and a winner of the Sebastian Walker Award.