YoHa's work involves the use of art as a mode of enquiry into technical objects, most recently within the fields of health, war, oceans, and death. Their enquiry is often populated by an interconnection of technical objects and other kinds of bodies, as seen in clinics, hospitals, battlefields, or at sea.
For the last two decades, YoHa have lived and worked in and around the Thames Estuary - firstly, in 2004 to 2007, with the Free-Media space Mediashed. Over the same time they restored an 80 year old gaff rigged yacht helped by members of the Belton Way Small Craft Club. In 2014/15 “Wrecked on the Intertidal Zone” was co-produced with Arts Catalyst, exploring different approaches to thinking with the Estuary. The project involved local artists, fishermen, divers, and boat builders, as well as the US-based Critical Art Ensemble and artist Fran Gallardo (Spain), who later formed FRAUD with Audrey Samson. Wrecked became a precursor to the first Estuary Festival in 2016.
YoHa went on to produce the “Wasted” series including “Wasted Bird Hide” for Estuary 2021 and “Wasted Museum” for the Exchange, Erith in 2022. These projects worked with local people to enquire into waste, pollution and rubbish in and around the Thames estuary. This year, they are producing Sleeping with the Dead for Estuary 2025
Contemporary visual artist exploring possibilities of our beliefs and behaviours.
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New collaboration between We Live Here and award-winning photographer Allie Crewe.
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Research and creative practice exploring sculpture and public space.
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Community engagement from an experience of queerness and working class culture.
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