Artists

Heidi Wigmore

Heidi Wigmore is a Southend-based visual artist. She utilises drawing for its immediacy, its concentrated reality and for its transformative possibilities.

Bryony Gillard is an artist, curator and educator whos work attempts to create a space for genealogies of intersectional feminist practice that are elusive, messy and entangled in contemporary concerns.

Chris Watson

Chris Watson is a sound recordist and composer with a passionate interest in the sounds of the natural world.

Ackroyd & Harvey

Ackroyd & Harvey's multi-disciplinary work intersects art, activism, architecture, biology, ecology and history, and references memory and time, nature and culture.

Tom King

When not walking, reading or writing, writer, Tom King tends to his hilltop garden, overlooking the Thames Estuary

Billy Childish

Billy Childish is an extraordinary and prolific artist. His paintings, woodcuts, poetry, writing and music share a common acerbic honesty that, rather than being nombrilistic, is deeply compelling…

The Hoy Shanty Crew

Back in 2013 several members of The Hoy at Anchor Folk Club got together and started singing folk-based chorus songs, particularly shanties and became The Hoy Shanty Crew.

James Marriott

James Marriot is an artist, activist and naturalist.

Rees Broomfield

Rees Broomfield is a freelance recording engineer, producer, musician and owner of SS2 Recording in Southend on Sea.

Emily Whitebread

Working across diverse media ranging from performance and video work to written publications, Emily investigates breaks down and reimagines utopian futures.

Jara Rocha

Jara is a culture mediator working through techocultures.

Breakwater

Korean diaspora artists duo of Youngsook Choi and Taey Iohe.

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