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Anouk Verviers

Anouk Verviers is an MFA candidate at Goldsmiths (London UK) and holds a BA in visual and media arts from UQAM (Montréal, CA un-ceded territories of Tiohtià:ke and Mooniyang). Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions, artist residencies, and community projects in Canada, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. “Relying on nonsystematic processes, […]

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Olha Poliakova

Olha Poliakova is a dancer and choreographer, currently studying at London Contemporary Dance School. “My dancing pathway has started from a very young age. I have trained in many dance styles including jazz-modern, ballet and contemporary. In Ukraine I was exposed to a number of movement approaches through workshops, intensives, and day to day training. […]

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Isabelle Tustin

Isabelle Tustin is an aspiring fashion designer based in London, currently studying a Masters in Fashion at Kingston School of Art. Whilst studying her MA, Isabelle has won the annual achievement postgraduate award and been selected for the FIDA international Illustration Awards 2022 longlist. She has made impact on the denim world through an interview […]

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Yero Timi-Biu

From ‘SIGNS’, Yero Timi-Biu Yero Timi-Biu is a writer-director for TV and film with projects for BBC, Channel 4, BFI, Audible, and has been a staff writer on original shows for Sky One and Netflix (US). Her award-winning short films ‘Signs’ and ‘Beneath the Surface’ have played at international festivals such as Encounters, Aesthetica, Animation […]

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Mary Modha

“I explore social structures through my experience of being a woman. I use domestic objects as proxies, using the meanings and assumptions assigned to them to unpick gender and class and their functions both in my own life and in today’s society. By manipulating and subverting those objects, I seek to reveal the hidden, the […]

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Abbas Zahedi – Sonic Support Group

Sonic Support Group is an interdisciplinary collaboration seeking to release the innate therapeutic potential within certain art exhibitions for NHS staff and frontline workers. This project was piloted in a disused sorting office in Chelsea – during the winter lockdown of 2020/2021 – as a joint initiative between Neurofringe – a group of Neurologists working […]

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Greta Papa

Greta Papa is a Greek-Albanian violinist who is based in London, UK. In 1996 she moved from Korçë, Albania, to Thessaloniki, Greece, where she continued her studies at the Synchrono Conservatory and obtained the Diploma in Solo Violin Performance (distinction and First Prize). In 2012, she graduated with distinction from the University of Macedonia with […]

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Nabiha Qadir

Nabiha Qadir, a British-Pakistani aspiring Architect based in London, is currently studying a Masters in Architecture at the University of Cambridge, where her research explores Migrant safe spaces in London, with a focus on interrogating the addition of new architecture to culture rich communities and areas. She also works as a part time Part 1 […]

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Anna Choutova

Anna Choutova is a visual artist and curator working and studying in London. Anna is currently studying for an MFA in Painting at Slade School of Fine Art. Coming from an Eastern European background, then thrown into a Westernised upbringing in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, Anna’s practice functions as a […]

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