Through performances and video, Satya Yogyatmaja explores the state of being present in the moment. “I use simple gestures of body movement and stillness to become aware of the little moments in life. Glimpses of breathing, standing, walking, and lying down become repeated motions in my practice”. “These actions respond to different locations, switching between nature and […]
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Millie Layton
Millie Layton is a sculptor based in London. Layton studied her BA (hons) in Sculpture and The Glasgow School of Art and is currently at the Royal Academy Schools. Layton’s sculptures exist as a break from reality and an opportunity to rest your eyes from the constant scrolling. Existing alongside the sculptures are a large […]
Temitayo Shonibare
Central to Temitayo Shonibare’s practice is creating critically engaged interventions that reveal the backstage of the indoctrinated performance that is life. Conducted as social experiments, she brings the subjective interiority of daily encounters to public space using her body as the medium. Through staging actions that disrupt general socialised norms, she plays with the imagined […]
Emma Stone-Johnson
Emma Stone-Johnson graduated in 2004 from Chelsea College of Art with a BA in Textile Design (First). Moving back to her first love of painting, she is now halfway through an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art. Part of her studio practice includes an investigation into pigments, what is colour, constructing new […]
Alex Akiwumi
My practice explores the traditional parameters of photography and the materiality of the negative. It also investigates the relationship between the photograph, memory and the degradation of memory over time. As memory begins to fade, the line between fact and fiction becomes blurred. Experimentation with the material leads my practice. My working environment can […]
Olu Ogunnaike
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Kelly Ballett
Dinner party for disgraced cabinet ministers (series of drawings) graphite on paper, 21cm x 29.7cm, 2020 Kelly Ballett b. London, UK 1990 MA Painting Royal College of Art 2021 BA Fine Art Central Saint Martins 2013 I approach painting as a speculative technology, staging a reenactment of Western epistemology. Set on deconstructing normative […]
Ben Doherty
Skirt an edge for long enough and eventually you might fall off… Ben Doherty makes sculptures and multimedia installations that inhabit the edges. Representation begins to give way to the uncanny or unknown as structures and objects hover between absurdly interpreting reality and downright defiling it. The work tips over into a parallel present where […]
Grace Mattingly
Grace Mattingly is a London-based artist whose light-filled figurative paintings explore the transformative potential of pleasure and fantasy. She has shown at ASC Gallery in London, Big Pictures Los Angeles, and more, and has been featured in artist publications such as Art Maze Mag and Field Projects. She is a recipient of […]
Bryan Giuseppi Rodriguez Cambana
La Maldad/Baby Room Salsa Club 2019-2020 Installation/salsa club London, UK +++ Bryan Giuseppi Rodriguez Cambana Callao, Peru Nomadism has shaped the core focus of my practice through my participation in art residencies outside of the U.S. My work in both public and private spaces, which in the context of the “third world” are frequently the […]