Blog
Explore our blog for a selection of useful guides, articles of interest and our member’s profiles.
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.
Set Sisters
Set Sisters are a London-based creative duo specialising in design that's playful, bold and refreshing. Always pushing boundaries to make unique statements within the design that are engaging and inspire emotion. They create fantastic set designs, props and installations.
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.
Elena Shvab
Elena Shvab is a London-based milliner and textile designer of Russian- Israeli heritage. Taking inspiration from nature, history, contemporary art and modern culture she continually working with bold shapes and experimental textile techniques to create dramatic silhouettes that she handcrafts in her studio.
Collage Club
Embracing hands-on techniques and using scissors as a drawing tool, Collage Club is perfect for anyone keen to flex their creative muscles and get making without having to produce perfectly proportioned, boring drawings. Each session features a range of activities including speed-collaging and collaborative image-making, and every workshop is packed with top-notch magazines and colourful paper for participants to rip, snip, glue and stick into something brand new. All levels of experience are welcome and all materials are provided!
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.
MHR studio
MHRstudio is a knitwear label from London, founded by Minnie Hill-Reid. Each piece is made to order by Minnie, in her London studio. A domestic knitting machine is used to hand-make each garment. Every design is unique and a limited edition, due to the use of dead stock yarn.
Martin Galton
As an art director, Martin has won over 120 awards in a career spanning over 30 years, working both at Bartle Bogle Hegarty and Leagas Delaney and then starting his own agency, Hooper Galton in 1997. He has had work accepted by The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and has had numerous sell-out exhibitions of his Ten O’ Clock News work.