Contributors
Hannah Lees
Hannah Lees's practice investigates ideas of cycles, constancy and mortality; the sense that things come to an end and the potential for new beginnings. This constancy, be it in religion, science, history or in matter, is made visible through her attempts to make sense of and recognise traces of life. Traditional processes, materials and rituals are often reworked to explore how ideas and beliefs can live, die and be reborn across times and cultures. There is a particular interest in how civilizations form and end around an ever-changing relationship between what is valued and what is discarded.
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Dr Kerry Harker
Dr Kerry Harker is a curator and researcher based in Leeds, UK. She was the Co-founder and inaugural Artistic Director of The Tetley, a contemporary art space in Leeds that existed from 2013-23. Since 2017 she is the Founder and Artistic Director of the East Leeds Project, a visual arts organisation working with art as a social action. Her research focuses on artist-led initiatives and feminist urbanisms.
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Kate Dent
An MA graduate with a background in London-based arts administration, Kate Dent lives near Stroud, Gloucestershire.
Lydia R. Figes
Lydia R. Figes is an arts writer, editor and art historian who is currently studying as a Postgraduate at Cambridge University. She has written for numerous arts magazines and platforms such as the Guardian, Dazed, AnOther, i-D, Elephant, Apollo, The Critic, TANK and many others. She recently finished writing her first book with Thames & Hudson.
Rachel Carney
Rachel Carney is a creative writing tutor and PhD student based in Cardiff. She won the Pre-Raphaelite Society Poetry Competition and was voted runner up in the Bangor Poetry Competition in 2021. Two of her poems have been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize. Her debut collection Octopus Mind is published by Seren Books.
Nell Leyshon
Nell Leyshon is a playwright and novelist, born in Glastonbury. Her novel The Colour of Milk has been published worldwide and has been adapted for the theatre and BBC Radio 4. Her play FOLK about Cecil Sharp’s song collecting in Somerset was performed 2021 and 2022 at Hampstead Theatre and BBC Radio 3.
Lily Cheetham
Lily Cheetham is an artist who works with textiles and mixed media. She comes from a long line of patchwork quilt makers, and has worked for many years in the contemporary art world. She is also a dancer with Stroud Morris dancing side Boss Morris.
Mathew Weir
Mathew Weir is a London based artist. He graduated from the Royal College of Art, London in 2004.
Amelia Stout
Amelia Stout is a full-time TV researcher and freelance writer, based in London.
Leo Temple
Leo Temple is completing a PhD on imaginary and instrumental technologies in Latin American vanguard poetics (~1921 - ~1931). He also writes and translates poems and essays. These have appeared in the Oxonian, Poetry Wales and Firmament. He was the 2019 recipient of the Wales Poetry Award for his ‘Towards a Bucolics of Contactless’.
Alice Godwin
Alice Godwin is an arts writer, editor and researcher based in Copenhagen. Previously an in-house writer and researcher for Gagosian, Alice now works on a freelance basis with a number of artists and galleries, and contributes to publications including Wallpaper, Frieze, The Brooklyn Rail, Gagosian Quarterly and e-flux.
Isabelle Young
Isabelle Young
Isabelle Young is a London-based artist and writer who graduated from the Royal College of Art, London with an MA in Photography (2022). Sight and the novel are central to her work. Isabelle Young: Stills, her first solo exhibition in London with Galerie Fabian Lang, presented a new photographic series rooted in neorealist cinema (2023). She recently curated the exhibition Painting with Light at 79 Wardour Street with Vortic Curated (2023) and will be taking part in Open Studio at 21 Plympton Street, Marylebone, London (11 May - 2 June 2024).
Nastia Svarevska
Nastia Svarevska is a Latvian-born writer and postgraduate student in Curating Art & Public Programmes at the Whitechapel Gallery, London. Her writing practice spans creative non-fiction, artist interviews, exhibition reviews and poetry. She is interested in using art as a catalyst to bring different people together.
Sofi Naufal
Sofi Naufal is a writer and artist based in Berlin and London. As a writer, she publishes intimate portraits of artists. She is most interested in the power of vulnerability in art. In her own art practise she explores this through music and poetry.
Henry Hussey and Sophia Olver
OHSH Projects is a nomadic project space, conceived in 2021 by Henry Hussey and Sophia Olver from the desire to create tactile conversations between artists and spaces. The project has currently taken up residence at 106 New Oxford Street, a former restaurant, appropriated and transformed to present art in the centre of London. OHSH Projects is a collage of ideas explored through the artists we work with and the dialogues that emerge between their processes.
Jody DeSchutter
Born in Lake Country BC Canada, she received a Bachelor’s in Visual Arts in Victoria BC. DeSchutter now lives and works in London UK. Her work spans spoken word, painting, sculpture, printmaking, and tattoo.
Eloise Bennett
Eloise is a researcher, writer and curator based in Yorkshire.
Rosalyn Frances
Rosalyn Frances is an art fanatic who studied for her BA and MA in History of Art at the University of Cambridge and the Courtauld Institute respectively. Rosalyn is a fan of the weird and wonderful in art history and obsessed with textiles and learning Czech.
Colin Glen
Colin Glen is an artist and writer, concerned with the translation from object to image. He initially studied Art and Art History at Goldsmiths College, then has completed postgraduate degrees in Art History at Birkbeck College and the University of Bristol and he has recently begun a degree in Mathematics at the Open University. He has four children and lives in Stroud.
Dr Helen Pheby
Helen is Head of Culture, Heritage and Sport with the West Yorkshire Combined Authority. She was previously Associate Director, Programme, at Yorkshire Sculpture Park and has a specialism in the socio-economic benefits of culture and creativity.
Anna Souter
Anna Souter is an independent writer, researcher and curator. She is interested in the intersections between contemporary art and ecology, and has published criticism, essays and fiction. Anna has written for publications including The Architectural Review, The Guardian, Burlington Contemporary, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, this is tomorrow, and Resurgence & The Ecologist. She also works on exhibitions about art and ecology. In 2020, she was appointed writer-in-residence by Corridor8 for the project Thinking Through Extinction, created in partnership with University of Leeds and Manchester Museum.
Molly Hunloke
Molly Hunloke is a writer based in London. She recently graduated from Goldsmiths College, London University and specialises in Science Fiction and Japanese Animation.
Malene Engelund
Malene Engelund is a writer and translator. Her pamphlet The Wild Gods was published by Valley Press and she is currently writing her next book Wolf Zone. Her translation of Christel Wiinblad’s collection My Little Brother - a morning in heaven, at least in green was published by Valley Press in 2020 and it was the PBS recommended translation for Spring 2020. She lives in Copenhagen with her husband and their two sons.
Kirsty Lorenz
Kirsty is an artist based Scotland. Flowers have been the central subject in her work since 2003, depicting them in different ways and contexts through painting, drawing, mixed media and installation.
Roisin Dunnett
Roisin Dunnett is a writer and a collaborator across film, installation, and audio. Her short fiction pamphlet Animal, Vegetable is published by Broken Sleep Books. She is currently undertaking an MA in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths.
The pamphlet: Roisin Dunnett - Animal, Vegetable | Broken Sleep Books.
https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/roisin-dunnett-animal-vegetable
Will be released 31st May 2021
Alice St Clair
Alice started her career working in Los Angeles for Weed Road Pictures for Akiva Goldsman before moving to New York City and attending the New York
Conservatory for Dramatic Arts on an acting scholarship. Her first film appearance was in 2011 in ‘Sarah’s Key’ and she has gone on to star as Kate Middleton in ‘William & Catherine: A Royal Romance’ and Flora Marshall in BBC 1’s ‘Crimson Field’ alongside many other television and theatre productions.
Alice is also a spoken word artist, performing around the world and creating her own shows. Alice is a regular voice on BBC Radio most notably Homefront, Words and Music and Saturday Drama. She is also the voice of Air BnB.
Elaine Tam
Elaine Tam is someone who sometimes does something. And this includes writing for Doris Press.
William Davie
Sharon Butler
A painter and arts writer, Sharon Butler is widely known as the founder of Two Coats of Paint, a project which includes an influential art blogazine, an artists residency, a small press, and other initiatives.
Joseph Emmett
Joseph Emmett is an artist, illustrator and cartoonist.
Sue Hubbard
Sue Hubbard is a freelance art critic, novelist, award-winning poet, lecturer and broadcaster.
Will Self
Will Self is a writer
Zoe Lewis
Matthew Burrows MBE
Matthew Burrows was born in the Wirral UK in 1971. He currently lives and works in East Sussex. He studied as an undergraduate at Birmingham School of Art in 1990-93 and graduated with a Master’s degree in painting from the Royal College of Art London in 1995.
Amie Corry
Amie Corry is a London-based writer and editor. She writes on contemporary art for titles such as the Times Literary Supplement and Burlington Contemporary. She edited Damien Hirst's publications between 2015 and 2020 and now heads up artist Do Ho Suh's publishing projects and studio. She also writes short fiction. In 2014, taking inspiration from Guerrilla Girls, Amie co-produced an audit with the East London Fawcett Society of London’s galleries, to establish the gender disparity between the city’s exhibited artists. In 2019 she co-founded an inclusive literary festival – Primadonna – alongside a group of women that includes Jude Kelly, Catherine Mayer, Sandi Toksvig and Kit de Waal. Conceived to give prominence to work by women and those from the margins, the inaugural year featured appearances from Bernardine Evaristo and Elif Shafak among others. She is a trustee of the arts and mental health charity Hospital Rooms.