Artists

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56 Artists

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Artist Melanie Manchot

Melanie Manchot

Melanie Manchot is a London based visual artist who works with photography, film and video as a performative and participatory practice.

Enam Gbewonyo

Enam Gbewonyo is a British Ghanaian textile and performance artist based in London. She is founder of the Black British Female Artist Collective, a platform that supports emerging Black women artists’ careers and advocates inclusivity.

Artist Meera Shakti Osbourne standing in front of trees wearing an orange t-shirt

Meera Shakti Osborne

Meera Shakti Osborne has a practice of collective healing through creative self-expression.

Artist Ana Laura Lopez wearing a blue jumper and leaning on a brick wall

Ana Laura López de la Torre

Ana Laura López de la Torre is an artist and writer based in Uruguay. Using the overlooked and the underrated as a starting point, her work creates visible and unexpected connections between things, people and places.

Black and white portrait photograph of Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen

Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen

Nikolaj Larsen works in a variety of media and materials to create visual responses to challenges within today’s society.

Artist David Cotterell standing with miniature stunt helicopter as part of the film Slipstream

David Cotterrell

David Cotterrell is an installation artist working across varied media including video, audio, interactive media, artificial intelligence, device control and hybrid technology. His work exhibits political, social and behavioural analyses of the environments and contexts, which he and his work inhabit.

Artist Azarra Amoy

Azarra Amoy

Azarra Amoy is a producer of public art installations in the form of murals. Her practice can be defined in three overlapping strands: artist, designer and creative strategist.

image of Resolve Collective, three pioneering creatives, Akil Scafe-Smith, Seth Amani Scafe-Smith and Melissa Haniff

Resolve Collective

Resolve is an interdisciplinary design collective of three creatives: Akil Scafe-Smith, Seth Amani Scafe-Smith and Melissa Haniff.

Nana Varveropoulou

Nana Varveropoulou is a photographer, artist and lecturer. Varveropoulou’s practice and research is focused on various issues relating to human rights and social justice, often through the process of collaboration.

Neal White

Neal White is a UK artist based in Brixton, London. His art practice engages with the ongoing impact that science and technology have in shaping our relationships to one another and to the environments we live in.

Garudio Studiage flat pet owl next to three classic books

Garudio Studiage

The creative collective in south east London was set up in 2004 by Chris Ratcliffe, Laura Cave, Anna Walsh and Hannah Havana. With individual specialisms in screen printing, jewellery and painting, the group also work together and with friends, taking part in exhibitions and events, as well as making props, displays and products.

Daryl Stenvoll-Wells

Daryl Stenvoll-Wells is a socially engaged artist based in Peckham.  As founder of Art Responders she produces international exhibitions and events centred on racial and environmental justice.

Artist Barby Asante wearing a red coat and looking at the camera

Barby Asante

Barby Asante is a London based artist, curator and occasional DJ. Her work is concerned with the politics of place, space memory and the histories and legacies of slavery and colonialism.

Artist Kathrin Bohm posing for a portrait picture in red scarf

Kathrin Böhm

Kathrin Böhm is a London based artist who considers herself local in Hackney and Höfen.

Artist Beverley Bennett wearing a blue top and looking at the camera

Beverley Bennett

Beverley Bennett is an artist-filmmaker whose work revolves around the possibilities of drawing, performance and collaborative experiments with sound.

Artist David Blandy looking at the camera in front of shelves of books

David Blandy

David Blandy is primarily a video artist whose work investigates the cultural forces that inform and influence him, using himself as an anthropological subject.

Portrait of artist Michael McMillan

Michael McMillan

Born in the UK of Caribbean migrant parents, artist and writer Michael McMillan uses mixed media as part of a creative collaborative process that brings in other artists and local people for performances and exhibitions.

Black and white image of artist Barbara Majek.

Barbara Majek

Majek is a multi-disciplinary artist and researcher who experiments with the complexities of her bicultural identity.

Lottie Child

Lottie Child’s practice includes participatory, live art explorations of public space, utilising strategies of collaboration and spontaneous interaction

Artist Sonia Boyce talking to a group of people on a microphone

Sonia Boyce

Sonia Boyce came to prominence in the early 1980s as a key figure in the burgeoning black British art-scene of that time – becoming one of the youngest artists of her generation to have her work purchased by the Tate Gallery, with paintings that spoke about racial identity and gender in Britain.

Sarina Mantle

Sarina Mantle is an artist, designer and singer-songwriter based in Barking and Dagenham, London. Mantle works across print, fashion and music, incorporating patterns, florals, sacred geometry, intuitive tribal and ancient visuals to reconnect with the cosmic and natural world. 

muf architecture/art

Established in 1995, muf architecture/art has never had fewer than 80% female members, including founders Katherine Clarke and Liza Fior.

Vote Art logo

Vote Art

Vote Art is an arts initiative inspired by the theme of democracy that aims to encourage people to take part in the democratic process.

Headshot and portrait of the artist Koby Martin

Koby Martin

Koby’s work is an introspective autobiographical exploration of his life as he believes knowing of self is pivotal in the exploration of any subject matter.

Artist Sarah Cole pouring talc on herself

Sarah Cole

Sarah Cole’s practice involves the orchestration of collaborative encounters as a form of live research into lived experience.

Artist Kimathi Donkor

Kimathi Donkor

Kimathi Donkor is a British artist living and working in London. His work re-imagines mythic, legendary and domestic encounters across Africa and its global Diasporas.

Lesley Asare

Lesley Asare is a British Ghanaian Multidisciplinary Artist, Tamalpa Teacher training graduate, Somatic Coach, Breathwork Practitioner and Mentor, based in Milton Keynes, UK Led by a quest for truth and desire to deeply listen, her practice explores identity, personal histories and the experiences of Black People. Through her work, she aims to create the space […]

Artist Harold Offeh

Harold Offeh

Harold Offeh is an artist working in a range of media including performance, video, photography, learning and social arts practice.

Artist Manu Luksch standing on concrete stairs

Manu Luksch

Manu Luksch, founder of Ambient Information Systems, is a filmmaker who works with moving images. The core theme of her works is the evolution of film in the digital or networked age.

The People Speak

The People Speak

The People Speak is an art collective that primarily takes its practice into the public domain of everyday civic space.

A.G.

A.G is a DJ, producer and presenter from east London. Her work takes inspiration from American underground club music in Baltimore and New Jersey to Bollywood soundtracks.

Yes Make

Yes Make specialise in public spaces and community projects in London and beyond.

Chisara

Multi-disciplinary artist Chisara (Agor) is a musician, actor and theatre maker based in Peckham and Madrid.

Mhairi Macaulay

Mhairi Macaulay’s work is characterised by a fascination with ‘The Social’: the way individuals interact with each other. Without a fixed aesthetic, Macaulay plays with the preconceptions we have about different communities, from grassroots groups to large corporations.

A portrait of a young man in profile with his eyes peacefully closed and his locs held back in a bun.

Drew Sinclair

Drew is an Artist/Graphic designer, creating graphic harvests and facilitating creative embodiment workshops, incorporating Art, sound, movement and origami.

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