Artists

Chloe Cooper

Chloe Cooper is a socially engaged writer and artist based at Bow Arts in Thamesmead.

Marley

Often found immersed in the natural world, behind the lens of the camera.

Sonia Hughes

Sonia Hughes is an artist, writer, performer currently working with Jo Fong on their conversation project Neither Here Nor There. 

Tim Burrows

Tim Burrows is a journalist and author who writes about culture and place for publications including the Guardian, Vice and the Quietus.

Andy Merritt

Andy Merritt is one half of the duo Something & Son. They explore the social and environmental issues that define our time via everyday scenarios, criss-crossing the boundaries between the visual arts, architecture and design.

Lora Aziz

Lora Aziz is an interdisciplinary artist - visual anthropologist, herbalist and experimental calligrapher. 

Paul Tunkin

Paul Tunkin grew up in South-East Essex and began his music career as a local DJ and club promoter whilst at Southend Tech Art College.

Syd Moore

As well as writing novels for Faber&Faber and regularly appearing on The Culture Show, Michael Smith is a film-maker who's made films for the Barbican's 2012 Olympics programme, among others.

Cliff Hammett

Cliff is an artist, educator and technologist who creates interdisciplinary projects.

Justin Hopper

Niall Finneran is an archaeologist at the University of Winchester where he specialises in historical and maritime archaeology in the UK and the Caribbean.

Robert Macfarlane

Robert Macfarlane is the author of bestselling and prize-winning books about nature, people and place.

Akeim Toussaint Buck

Akeim Toussaint Buck is an interdisciplinary performer and creative, born in Jamaica and raised in England.

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