Introducing David R. Watson
David R. Watson is a photographic artist living and working in Essex. He has exhibited in solo and group shows across the UK and Europe, most recently, “Put Away Childish Things?” at Imperial College, London in April 2024 (which he also co-curated). His work has been published in the British Journal of Photography. Watson’s work involves the creation of abstract objects which are then photographed and presented like glossy, advertising images. The objects, often made of latex, draw on the vocabulary of Abstract Art and things such as pre-school toys, sex toys and botanical illustrations.
Image 1: Untitled, 2024, Display Transparency in Lightbox, 50cm x 50cm
Image 2: Untitled, 2024, Display Transparency in Lightbox, 50cm x 50cm (Detail)
Image 3: Untitled, 2024, Display Transparency in Lightbox, 50cm x 50cm (Detail)
Image 4: Untitled, 2024, Display Transparency in Lightbox, 50cm x 50cm (Detail)
Image 5: A Child’s Rattle (Object of Inspiration)
Image 6: Artist Statement
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Introducing Aisha Olamide Seriki
‘Iyarun’ is a sculptural component of the Orí Inú Visual Project. It explores the photograph as a haptic object, emphasizing the social relationships that form between individuals and keepsakes, such as lockets or cameos. Inspired by this connection, the ‘Iyarun’ photographic bronze comb sculptures engage in a dialogue with the photographic prints. The comb serves as another metaphor, chosen for its deep connection to African diasporic histories, where it transcends mere functionality to become a cultural symbol of empowerment, ritual, and self-care. The integration of spatial elements into my practice builds on my refusal to conceive of photography as solely a visual experience and my sculptural practice aims to encourage a slow and embodied viewing, where the audience spectatorship becomes the final process of activating my work.
Image 1: Íyarun 7, 2024, Bronze, Patinated Bronze, Photogravure Print on Somerset Book Paper 80, 13.5 cm × 12 × 4 cm (Approximate
dimensions)
Image 2: Íyarun 7 (Detail)
Image 3: Íyarun 5, 2024, Bronze, Patinated Bronze, Photogravure Print on Somerset Book Paper 80, 15.5 cm × 15.5 cm × 4.5 cm
(Approximate dimensions)
Image 4: Íyarun 5 (Detail)
Image 5: Abolitionist Button, ca. 1850s (Object of Inspiration)
Image 6: Artist Statement
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Introducing Scarlett Pochet
Scarlett graduated in May 2024 with a First Class Fine Art degree from The Slade School Of Fine Art, UCL. Her work often incorporates her interests in still life, story-telling and historical fashions, engaging with contemporary politics of sex, power and violence with regards to women’s bodies. Fundamental sculptural processes of casting and melding visceral materials such as latex, intersect with a range of other media, including costume, print, ceramics and photography. She has recently started to explore in her work, her own identity and dual nationality of French & English, inspired by the trinkets found during childhood trips to ‘les brocantes’ (carboot sales) in France; she is also inspired by the symbolisms within French historical fashions and objects. Scarlett has taken part in group shows, including ‘Bedrock’ at the Crypt Gallery, curated by the collective, Era Journal; ‘The International Women’s Day Auction, 2024’ organised by Art On A Postcard; she also recently featured in ‘Antigone Revisited’, curated by Marcelle Joseph at Hypha HQ.
Image 1: Possessions Of Self, 2025, Calico, taffeta, cane, wax, galvanized steel, sourced mannequin wheel base, Dimensions variable
Image 2: Possessions Of Self (Detail)
Image 3: Possessions Of Self (Detail)
Image 4: Possessions Of Self (Detail)
Image 5: Possessions Of Self (Detail)
Image 6: Possessions Of Self (Detail)
Image 7: Pair of Silk Pockets, 1740, England. (Object of Inspiration)
Image 8: Artist Statement
This work was shown in our recent group show, 'A Pocket Full Of Plenty.'
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Introducing Grace White
Grace Anna White is a collage artist and printmaker from South London. She studied Foundation at Camberwell College of Art, UAL and recently graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art. Grace’s art practice explores urban ecology, mythology and weeds, drawing inspiration from fables. Her work weaves together photography and collage with craft processes of printmaking, paper cutting and bookbinding. Her interest in collage and printmaking draws from the gendered, craft history of the technique but also its political history and material accessibility. Her narrative prints, collages and books imagine and consider systems of entanglement in the city. Shaping paper into fiendish forms to represent the knotted web of London.
Image 1: Grace White, Nightcycling, 2024, Linocut Print, Approx 20cm x 15cm &
Loverbikes, 2024, Linocut Print, Approx 20cm x 15cm
Image 2: Nightcycling, 2024, Linocut Print, Approx 20cm x 15cm
Image 3: Nightcycling (Detail)
Image 4: Loverbikes, 2024, Linocut Print, Approx 20cm x 15cm
Image 5: Loverbikes(Detail)
Image 6: Bike Spokes, Cogs and Bolts (Object of Inspiration)
Image 7: Artist Statement
These works were shown at our recent group show, 'A Pocket Full Of Plenty.'
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Introducing Juliet Dodson
Juliet Dodson is an interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, costume, performance, and painting. Dodson’s work explores the fragility of bodies and human existence, with a focus on self-inflicted evolution and philosophical ideas surrounding death, failure, and bodily anxieties. Dodson interweaves archetypes of nature's adaptations, such as talons, wings, and skeletons, into sculptural hybrids with the body to evoke an uncanny sense of transformation. Her practice is a continual ‘making-sense-of the world’ without seeking to resolve ideas, focusing on protective moments that conceal and reveal the self.
Image 1: Juliet Dodson, Bone Dome, 2024, lead, rivets, thread, 26cm x 20cm x 20cm
Image 2: Bone Dome (Detail)
Image 3: Anchored Descent (without parachute), 2024, lead, rivets, thread, Approx 35cm x 30 cm x 40cm
Image 4: Anchored Descent (without parachute) (Detail)
Image 5: Flight helmet and parachute harness (Object of Inspiration)
Image 6: Artist Statement
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Introducing Marla-Sunshine Kellard-Jones
Marla-Sunshine Kellard-Jones’ practice employs universal archetypes, symbols, and commonly enacted rituals as a means of opening discussions around often unspoken and inescapable aspects of life, such as death and familial relations. These themes are explored through sculptural, text-based and audio work.
Image 1: Marla-Sunshine Kellard-Jones, Comfort, 2024, Plywood, suede vinyl, wool mix, foam, cotton ribbon, cover buttons, wire, found objects, 84 x 60.5 x 17cm
Image 2: Comfort (Detail)
Image 3: Comfort (Detail)
Image 4: Comfort (Detail)
Image 5: ‘Mum’ and ‘Auntie’ charms (Object of Inspiration)
Image 6: Artist Statement
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Introducing ekabo donyi
ekabo/lekha donyi is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist and writer. Born and raised in India, their practice stems from the country's hyperdiverse, creolizing culture. After acquiring a BA Honours in Fine Art from Arts University Bournemouth specializing in painting, they relocated to London in 2022. There they ventured into a solely collaborative practice, organising exhibitions with emerging artists, musicians, and designers, exploring curation, conceptual art, fashion, costume, performance, AI, and animation. Following a year of traveling India on an artistic pilgrimage, they are developing a new body of work within the MAFA Extended program at University of Arts London: Central Saint Martins.
Image 1: ekabo donyi, Guardian, 2024, ekabo donyi & Aluminium, 45 x 70 x 3cm
Image 2: Guardian (Detail)
Image 3: Guardian (Detail)
Image 4: Kirthimukha (the Glorious Face) (Object of Inspiration)
Image 5: Artist Statement
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Introducing Florence Bennett
Florence Bennett is a London-based artist whose work explores the intersection of fine art and historiography. Through experimental film and cyanotype print, her work draws on historical objects and narratives to create an anachronistic, illustrative, and playful ahistorical world. An interest in the physicality of analogue film has led her to develop a practice of using hand-painted costumes and props in short films, which aim to obscure the boundary between fact and storytelling.
Image 1: Florence Bennett, Theatre Blues (For Good Luck), 2024, Cyanotype print on Cotton, 190 x 143cm
Image 2: Theatre Blues (For Good Luck) (Detail)
Image 3: Theatre Blues (For Good Luck)
Image 4: Theatre Blues (For Good Luck) (Detail)
Image 5: Amulet (Object of Inspiration)
Image 6: Artist Statement
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Introducing Kirsten Franks
Kirsten Franks is a London based artist who dissects and reimagines contemporary reality by situating her practice between material and conceptual research. Integrating various unstable, natural materials, such as kombucha cellulose, seaweed and moss, she encourages the work to emerge from contingency. Kirsten nurtures a strained relationship between contingency and agency, allowing the work to simultaneously inhabit and abstract our existing ontologies and lived experience. Themes of queer ecology and communal potentiality root the work in an exploration between care and violence. These conceptual questions underscore her largely sculptural practice.
Image 1: Kirsten Franks, What Gets Stuck? (Between the Teeth), 2024, Steel, ceramic, shell, kombucha cellulose, Dimensions variable
Image 2: What Gets Stuck? (Between the Teeth) (Detail)
Image 3: What Gets Stuck? (Between the Teeth) (Detail)
Image 4: What Gets Stuck? (Between the Teeth) (Detail)
Image 5: Shell (Object of Inspiration)
Image 6: Artist Statement
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Introducing Jun Rui Lo @ryanmoyii_
Jun Rui Lo (b. Hong Kong) is an artist-curator based in Leeds and Manchester. After receiving a First-Class BA in Fine Art from the University of Leeds in 2024, Lo held their debut solo exhibition, A Nostalgia Akin to Love, at Village Gallery, Leeds, and is now a graduate resident at Serf, Leeds. Rooted in their gender non-conformity and diasporic experience, Lo’s practice responds to the fluidity and rootlessness that arise from their refusal to be anchored to any fixed identity. Through their expanded-drawing and sculpture, Lo creates allegories from everyday made strange—queered, in every sense of the word.
Image 1: Jun Rui Lo, Untitled (Lacuna), 2024, Graphite on book, disassembled wooden chair, nails, 100 x 38 x 12 cm
Image 2: Untitled (Lacuna) (Detail)
Image 3: Untitled (Lacuna)
Image 4. Untitled (Lacuna)
Image 5: Chair (Object of Inspiration)
Image 6: Artist Statement
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Introducing Bethany Stead @bethanystead_
Bethany Stead is an artist working across drawing, painting, sculpture and textiles. She draws upon allegory, iconography, feminist theory, psychology and sci-fi through visual storytelling and object making, culminating in symbolic spaces that disrupt our fragile socio-political fabric. She attempts to explore the discomfort and awkwardness of inhabiting bodies, both biological and artificial, the history of bodily health, the human connection to clothing and costume, notions of worship and religion, and our relationship with the non-human sphere through the lens of class. Recent works are informed by textile histories, the evolution of the sewing needle, belief systems, and more-than-human entanglement.
Image 1: Bethany Stead, First prick, 2025, Felt appliqué, embroidery, glass beads on cloth, 63 x 47 cm
Image 2: First prick (Detail)
Image 3: First prick (Detail)
Image 4: Needle (Object of Inspiration)
Image 5: Artist Statement
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Introducing Maria Dragoi
Maria Dragoi is a writer and researcher interested in ideas of agency and possession in institutional spaces. Framing natural history museums as sites of colonial accumulation and control, her current work attempts to map the networks of power which enabled their creation. Her artistic practice satirises the perverse dynamic of the ‘wonder’ of the natural world presented in museums filled with dead things. She has written for Worms Magazine, Polyester Zine, Saatchi Yates, Camper Mag, Landscape Institute Journal, and others. She is also the founder of Zgriptor, an interdisciplinary journal and press which aims to promote discussion around themes of time, labour, technology, community action, and communication - unpacking the em(body)ment inherent in all of these topics. She is currently completing an MA in Museum Studies at UCL.
Image 1: Maria Dragoi, Glossinidae, 2024, Wood, PLA, Resin, Metal, 20 x 15 x 40 cm
Image 2: Glossinidae (Detail)
Image 3: Glossinidae (Detail)
Image 4: Glossinidae (Detail)
Image 5: Pinned Glossinidae Specimen (Object of Inspiration)
Image 6: Artist Statement
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