Preparations i

Aitor González Valencia lives and works in London. His practice explores the poetic possibilities of objects, processes and stories taken from the everyday. Uprooted from their context, materials and signs are transformed in order to create new narratives. Aitor’s production moves between the liminal spaces of knowing and understanding. His work explores associations with subjects such as the collective memory, family myths, the diaspora experience and childhood.

Amanda Moström lives and works between London and Ålbo Sweden, with a discipline that is straddling the intersection of object making, photography and creating sites of interaction.

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Amba Sayal-Bennett lives and works in London. She received her BFA from Oxford University and her MA in Sculpture from The Royal College of Art. She was awarded her PhD in Art Practice and Learning from Goldsmiths and has published her practice-based research with Tate Papers. Amba is a co-founder of Cypher Billboard, an artist-run public program of site-specific billboard artworks and off-site projects based in London.

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Angus McCrum’s work is motivated by the stories and materials that connect people with the land. His assemblages, carvings and found objects attempt to scrape back some kind of meaning beyond their status as artworks in a system of value and exchange.

aga ujma is a Polish-born multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and composer living between London, Indonesia and Poland. she mixes her classical music upbringing and folk influences from Poland with traditional music studies at the Indonesian Institute of the Arts in Surakarta, Central Java and SOAS University of London. her intimate solo performances focus on exploring and connecting Indonesian, Polish and English folk music with the accompaniment of unique Indonesian instruments.

she was recently signed to Slow Dance and announced her debut EP 'songs of innocence and experience' via CLASH Magazine in 2021, which is "shaping up to be a wholly unique experience, placing her at the cutting edge of folk music in Britain" (The Line of Best Fit). she was recently commissioned to sing the theme song for the new Resident Evil Village game as well as to create a new composition and a special performance for the latest Serpentine Gallery Pavillion, which was showcased on Boiler Room.

Finlay Clark (b. 1995, London) is an interdisciplinary artist and multi-instrumentalist. They have studied at GSA, SAIC, PARTS, Darmstadt, MSCP, CAMPfr, and with Wandelweiser collective. Clark is currently working on a collaboration between Moog and Ligeti quartet, a collaboration between pianist Luciano Rossi and AI specialist Atay Ilgun, as well as releasing an EP with artist Vera Karlsson on Primordial Void and publishing a collaborative text between Jennifer Lucy Allen and Still House Plants in Yes & No magazine.

Clark also writes and performs with Still House Plants, who are selected artists for Shape Platform 2021. Fast Edit LP (Blank Forms, 2020) was The Guardian writers’ choice album and track of the year and #7 album of the year in Wire magazine. The group have performed at Empty Gallery (Hong Kong), Hyperlocal Festival (with NTS/British Council, Buenos Aires), various DIY spaces in Santiago de Chile (supported by Creative Scotland), as well as undertaken a six-month residency at Cafe OTO as recipients of the OTO Projects UK Artists Residency Fund (supported by Jerwood Arts). 2021-2022 sees the trio touring Europe, North America, as well as shows in Mexico and Japan. They are currently working on their third studio album.

Clark has also curated a multi-disciplinary group exhibition in Havana, Cuba (supported by Creative Scotland/Glasgow City Council).

𝔐ax Syedtollan (b.04/07/1994) is an artist-composer living and working in Glasgow, with a multi-disciplinary practice spanning music, text and image. Interests include world-building, anachronism, affect, melody, improvisation, comedy and the naïve. His pieces have been broadcast on BBC Radios 3, 4 and 6, and performed in places such as Café Oto and Snape Maltings. Besides composing under his own name Syedtollan produces music as ‘Horse Whisperer’ which has been featured on NTS Radio, Resonance FM and Radiophrenia. In 2019 he was selected as one of Sound and Music’s ‘New Voices’, and released his second album of DIY chamber music on Glasgow label GLARC (supported by the Arts Council). In 2020 he made some radio plays & worked with Plus Minus Ensemble. In 2021 he is writing for Apartment House.

Through their own personal metabolism of selected source material, Greene seeks to repurpose both logic and association. The work relays obstacles found in testing physical capabilities. When thinking of energy circuits that support impending action, they are focused on what precedes or follows utility, resting after or charging prior. Before understanding what is necessary for energy to permit action, the qualities of a tool are evaluated. What are the potential roles and how can they be anthropomorphised? Resilience and persistence are sought throughout the process of the works, refining them into new tools, new hybrid bodies.

Jack Bidewell was born in 1994 in Cambridge, UK and he currently lives and works in London. In 2018, Bidewell graduated with a BA and MA in Fashion from the University of the Arts in London. Jack Bidewell creates works across a wide range of media, including painting, sculpture, text and photography. In his work, Bidewell aims to explore what cannot be expressed in words through the language of abstract painting and sculpture. Bidewell’s practice is rooted in his autobiographical experiences and studies into the human condition, exploring human psychology in relation to a visual language. The artist applies the practice of sketching as a way to think, thereby welcoming the accidental, display layering and mark making. Hence, Bidewell emphasises the value of sketching by using large canvases and sculptures as drawings in a notebook.

Her work comprises of sculpture and installation often in reference to architecture and industrial process. The physical engagement of the body is notably present in Fitz's practice where traces of her creative method draw the viewer into an exploration of the work. She often uses traditional processes such as mouldmaking, casting and plaster turning to create and activate sculptural form. Fitz questions the hierarchy and value of objects and imports jigs, tools and moulds into the exhibition space to bridge the gap between the studio and the gallery atmosphere.

Daisy Harvey is a London based artist. She holds a BA(Hons) in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Arts and has since worked primarily in set design. She most often explores realms of sentimentality, symbols and storytelling through objects. Repeatedly working from her accumulated collections of found objects, concepts are formed from the most minute details.

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Joe Highton graduated from UCL Slade in Summer 2017. Whilst studying there he co-founded Limbo, an arts space, which focused on group projects (between the different universities in London) and cross-practice experiments. Since 2017 Highton often works together with Victor Ruiz Colomer, developing the objects, promotion and detritus which followed various forms of activity, including: club nights, open seminar sessions, live broadcast theatre; with contributions to Manifesta 12 Palermo and Moscow 6th Biennale for Young Art. Through winter 2019 Joe was living back in the UK, working as a domestic solar panel installer. He has been based in Germany since February 2020, and in 2021 received the Research Stipend from the Department of Culture, Berlin.

Siyi Li, (b. 1999, China) is an artist who currently lives and works in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He often works with one media at a time, such as drawing, painting, sculpture, photography or music. Adopting humble conceptual gestures and particular production processes, Li preserves ephemeral emotions as antidotes to shattered contemporary life.

Li received a BA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London in 2021 and is finishing his Meisterschüler at Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main in 2024. His recent solo and group exhibitions include, Crybaby, CIBRIÁN (San Sebastián, ES, 2023); Half Life, Franz Kaka (Toronto, CA, 2023); Softpretty, fffriedrich (Frankfurt am Main, DE, 2023); Mostly Sunny, Fragile (Berlin, DE, 2022) and +1, Tor Art Space (Frankfurt am Main, DE, 2021).

Working across image, video and sculpture, Laila Majid’s practice can be situated within slimy liminal zones - including those between synthetic and natural, and optic and haptic. She explores the ways in which the body actives and is activated by surfaces, materials, images and objects, frequently looking to the materials of fetishwear such as latex, leather and plastics, used in order to transform the body, embody a given character or role, and to actualise fantasies. Investigating such transformative processes enables her to interrogate both the boundaries of the corporeal form, and the desire to move and shape- shift beyond these boundaries.

Faye Milburn’s work explores writing in an expanded sense, with no fixed medium. Moved by the arbitrariness of neutral forms and objects, she often respond to the language of things in their own vernacular. Milburn finds a humour in the makeshift, and pairs this with an awe for the bespoke in the hope of a pure but clumsy thing.

Tawfik Naas’s practice is reliant on the evolving shifts around the periphery of past historical events. Exploring how these instances have the ability to be in perpetual motions or re-enactments both in present and future time. Naas forms cosmologies around these now isolated moments to unearth certain energies unwitnessed from that history.

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Isobel Neviazsky is a multidisciplinary artist with a practice rooted in drawing and a prolific output spanning painting, printmaking, writing and publications. Their work is immediate and their interest is focused on the act of making itself. The focus of their output is picture making and the main visual themes are working from life, drawings documenting life from memory, working from other art, and what they call drawings about drawings: this is making pictures where the main importance is spatial relationships of objects interacting with each other in the picture plane, most often utilising recurring motifs and symbols as a way of creating or exploring composition. Accessibility is a focus of their practice and the ways they share their work are online, through publications, and by having a pricing structure for their work that is affordable and transparent because it is important that people can enjoy their work as well as funding them to continue their rigorous practice.

Ralph Parks is a London based artist who's practice is largely concerned with truth and understanding. He creates sculptural questions in hope of confronting our methodologies for the acquirement and discernment of information. Often using the manipulation of found objects and common materials as a means of discussing the process of perception and our relationship with the external world.

Hamish Pearch (b. 1993, London, UK) earned his BFA from Camberwell College of Arts (UAL) in 2015 and received a Postgraduate Diploma from the Royal Academy Schools, London, 2019.

Selected solo exhibitions include: Thames Mud, front, Brussels (2021), Head Above Water, Belsunce Projects/Manifesta 13, Marseille (2020); Nights, Soft Opening, London (2019) and On a day like this, Sans titre (2016), Paris (2018).

Curated and selected group exhibitions include: La Psychologie Des Surres, Centre d’Art de Neuchâtel, Swizterland (2021), 5th Edition, Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, London (2021), Mushrooms, Somerset House, London (2020); Schools Show, Royal Academy of Art, London (2019); Ana Prata and Hamish Pearch curated by Kiki Mazzucchelli at Kupfer, London (2018), Go, Soft Opening, London (2018), New Relics, Thames-side Studios, London, (2018), Premiums, Royal Academy of Arts, London, (2018), Addams Outtakes, Roaming Projects, London, (2017), Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (co-curated and exhibited in with William Rees) at J Hammond Projects, London (2017), Le Laboratoire, Sans titre (2016), Marseille, (2017), Bloomberg New Contemporaries at Primary, Nottingham and ICA, London (2015). In 2016 he was a finalist at the Caitlin Art Prize. In Autumn 2020 he was a participant at Launch Pad LaB residency in France.

Jonas Pequeno is a London based artist, recent BA Fine Art Central St. Martins graduate and current Associate Studio Programme resident. Working predominantly with sound, Pequeno explores concepts around phenomenology, semiotics, absurdism and technological mediation.

Tom Sewell's work is involved in trying to understand human relationships with the world using found or repurposed things and symbols. Sewell uses research into (pre)history, mythology, archaeology, language, landscape and life to offer ideas of a space that can be used to confuse the porous border between nature and culture.

Gwenllian Spink is an artist whose work is predominantly rooted in the Welsh landscape where she grew up. Her practice, often site-specific, is materially led. Most recently, she was an artist-in-residence at the Heatherwick Studio Space at Aberystwyth Arts Centre (2021) and currently has a solo exhibition at Brockley Gardens, London (2021).

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Stanley Tilyard-French performs counterproductive tasks and builds work to perform it for him. Often using digital components such as servos and motors, he makes work considering movement, functionality, and non-functionality. His work is playful and silly, often directing the joke at the viewer or itself.

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Oona Wilkinson is a London based artist attempting to hold a rotating axis of parts through sculpture, photography and installation. Drawing from experiential modes of perception for registering the economic/emotional/philosophical conditions of built (psychological) environments. Situating object and exhibition making within conversational form and practised potential for way finding in the world.

Joseph Bradley Hill is an artist, designer & producer engaging with organisation, permutation and improvisation.

He is the founder and host of Late Works, editor of plates (x5) & releases music under the pseudonym “one-four”.