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Madalina Zaharia

Madalina Zaharia (b.1985, Sighetu Marmatiei, Romania) is a Romanian artist who lives and works in London. She graduated from the Royal College of Art (London) with an MA in Printmaking in 2012, having gained a Postgraduate diploma in Fine Art at Byam Shaw School of Art (CSM) in 2010. Zaharia’s practice combines design and personal […]

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Lauren Keeley

Lauren Keeley’s practice encompasses multiple processes of image-making mixing the cool, computer-precise style of digital fabrication with the warm, tactile quality of hand-made processes. Her lifelike works are made up of wooden panels which are layered together to create a relief: whilst portraying two-dimensional imagery they are physically very sculptural, acting as a sort of […]

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Panicattack Duo

Panicattack Duo was selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2018. As part of this exhibition, we realised a durational performance piece titled entitled “Nothing Really Mattress” [NRM] on a double size mattress which is our ‘mobile studio’ where as a duo we would exchange conversations, research, readings, opinions and debates. These conversations peaked into more performative actions, experimental […]

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Gaia Giacomelli

Bio Gaia Giacomelli is a London based Italian curator. Following her BA in Cultural and Linguistic Mediation at the University for Foreigners in Siena, Italy, she completed her MA in Curating and Collections at Chelsea College of Arts in 2017. Gaia has worked in commercial galleries and not-for-profit art organisations in London and Oslo and […]

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Eilís Otway

Eilís Otway (b. 1991, London) is a London based artist. Eilís has worked in commercial galleries and cultural institutions in Manchester and London and is currently studying towards her MA in Painting at Royal College of Art. Eilís took time away from painting, returning to her childhood home in rural isolation and her practice has […]

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Cherie Silver

As the Chelsea Arts Club Trust Research Fellow I had the opportunity to curate and assist on 16 exhibitions at Chelsea Space! The opportunity to work with Director Donald Smith in this unique gallery where there is such a diverse exhibition programme meant that my curatorial practice developed considerably. I curated, ‘We are watching: OZ […]

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Eva Gold

MA Materials and Research Award Eva Gold (b. 1994, Manchester, UK) works across sculpture, installation, moving image and writing. Her practice is centred around pleasure, positioned at the threshold between feelings of desire and disgust. Gold conjures bodies in states of trauma or quiet violence: fragmented or imagined characters which shape shift through materials and […]

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Arianne Churchman

Working predominantly through film, performance and sound, my practice focuses upon the folklore of the British Isles. Beginning with research it uses folklore as its primary material, drawing out folk’s inherent wonky temporalities and histories as it travels through other idiosyncratic and time-stamped cultural tendencies. These histories are then placed within a fictional space and […]

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