Preparations ii

Composer and pianist Finn Carter has spent the last year playing a string of sold-out shows with his quartet including 3 late shows at Ronnie Scott’s and headlining Brick Lane Jazz Festival. His approach to playing is to try to remove the ego from improvising and serve the music.

Isabelle Thorn is a singer and multi-instrumentalist who most often records and performs under the name Dear Laika. After quietly self-releasing music online for five years, she released her latest album "Pluperfect Mind" in 2021 on NNA Tapes and Memorials of Distinction to acclaim from publications including Pitchfork and The Wire. The suite of songs on "Pluperfect Mind" is ambitiously mercurial, its rhythms ever shifting, its harmonies contorting as the pieces metamorphose from delicate chamber pop and dense choral writing to brutally manipulated string ensembles and finally into a blissful ambient oblivion. She draws equally from classical composers of the past eight centuries and electronic sound artists of our current one, blending the organic and digital as she meditates on dis- and reconnection and the fluidity of time and identity.

She currently teaches piano and also plays high-strung guitar and sings in Kiran Leonard's Trespass on Foot Group. Other than that, she tends to keep to herself.

Ted Mair is an instrumentalist and composer, who enjoys combining experimental textures with direct music. He currently plays in The Golden Dregs, as well as leading avant-pop group Sculpture.

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.

Jasper Appleby-Sherring is an artist and gardener making and growing on his South London allotment.

Grace Black is an artist from London who makes installations, performances and radio shows. These incorporate mechanical and electrical assemblages, images, instrument building, and live and recorded sound. This work is concerned with social and municipal infrastructure, memory and play, and how these are interlinked. She works mostly collaboratively in groups: as a part of Mosquito Farm, part band /part object theatre with artist Maddie Banwell. As well as Ashley's fit up, a group consisting of artists and musicians who create and score short narrative performances. She also works on an art and play project in an adventure playground in North London.

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”.

Yasmine Brennan (Gremlin) practice is an active practice that fall within the cracks of lost time. How in which this practice stays alive is through the means of retelling a new Albion. An Albion that is founded from neglection but is set forth to a new means of reform and renewal. The individual is compelled to look closer, to be pulled to the nostalgic satire that live within the archive. The artefacts used hold a closed past that truly permits us into the English psyche.

Gabriele Ciulli lives and works between London and Rome. His practice explores the impossibility of inhabiting a territory without partaking in the negotiations that it implies. The functional distance found in the action of drawing and film act as methods of perception. Sculpture and installation diminish this distance, accessing the environment as a form of spatial punctuation, fragmenting, dissociating and recomposing space.

Chin is a British-Singaporean artist working across animation, ceramics, sculpture and installation. She explores our relationship to increasingly digitised environments and devices, presenting technocratic premonitions through fictional archaic objects and ceremonies. Works have explored the extremities of transhumanist ideologies, biohacking, and ecological disaster, and how these exacerbate a haunting of the present by the future. Chin delivers these subjects with injections of humour, combining a variety of materials, audio-visual media, organic and synthetic matter, and animatronics, into bizarre narratives and chaotic configurations.

Chin lives and works in Newcastle, UK. She holds a BA in Fine Art from The Slade School of Fine Art (2018). She was featured in Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2018, and has been awarded the Woon Foundation Painting and Sculpture Prize (2018); The Duveen Travel Scholarship, UCL (2018); The Alfred W Rich Prize, Slade (2017); Max Werner Drawing Prize, Slade (2015). ​

Chin has exhibited at galleries and museums including: Humber Street Gallery, Hull, UK; The 8th International Triennial of Art and Ecology, Maribor, SI; BALTIC39, Newcastle, UK; South London Gallery, London, UK; ADM Gallery, Singapore; DKUK, London, UK; Gallery North, Newcastle, UK; CBS Gallery, Liverpool, UK; Science Museum, London, UK; APT Gallery, London, UK; Fieldworks, London, UK; Quench, Margate, UK; VITRINE, London, UK; VITRINE, Basel, UK; VITRINE, Digital; The Embassy Tea Gallery, London, UK;  Subsidiary Projects, London, UK; Pineapple Black, Middlesbrough, UK; The Milton Gallery, London, UK; UCL Art Museum, London, UK; San Mei Gallery, London, UK; IMT Gallery, London, UK; Fold, London, UK; The Pallent House Gallery, London, UK; Off Site Project, Online; Huxley Parlour, London, UK.

Jacob Clayton is a multidisciplinary artist making investigations into the expanded field of visual art as speculative fiction. His works bridge analogue photography and mixed-media sculpture practices, in a process of reducing and re-composing fragmentary realities. With a defining set of symbols and visual language, Clayton's work makes reference to an evolving philosophical web, forming links between Video-game physics, New-Wave science fiction literature, and avant-garde musical structures. Regarding the Artwork as a container/ vessel, outputs are the product of an open-ended world-building in which meditations on playfulness deny singular readings, and champion entropy as a creative force.

Leo works with film, resin and drawing as a means of webbing textures of the past and the present, suspended between contradictory points of becoming and belonging.

Their work is informed by creative solutions to limitation, tales of migration, movement and people as infrastructure. There is an element of circuitry, surrealist assemblages and play present throughout their work.

enorê is a Brazilian interdisciplinary artist working between digital and physical media through 3D printed ceramics, textile and video, currently based in London where they are a Somerset House Studios resident. Their work revolves around the fluidity of digital media into materiality and back, relating to ways in which the body processes information using 3D scans and digital data to establish links between physical and digital realms.

Georgia is an artist, facilitator, gardener, baker and seasonal shepherd working from a motor home on a sheep farm in Cornwall. Her practice takes on many forms; ranging from ludicrously impractical human powered contraptions and snappy ‘epic fail’ videos to curious ceramic sculptures, animal collaborations, cyclical sculptures, enduring sound works and public events. Her wry eye and attention to life’s smaller details underpins her work and she adapts everyday objects to redirect, interject, mimic and rethink how we interact with familiar places, people and local ecologies. Georgia also runs The Allotment Club; a project space on an allotment in Penryn and Falmouth Worm Charming Championships; an annual community worm charming day.

Harley Kuyck-Cohen (b.1994, UK) lives and works in Newcastle upon Tyne. Using sculpture, installation and mixed media, Kuyck-Cohen explores spaces, colliding them often together to abstract and revisit past histories. Recent exhibitions include Brown Carpet (Slugtown, Newcastle-upon-Tyne), Remedial Works (Quench Gallery, Margate), EKO8 International Triennial of Art and Environment (Maribor, Slovenia). Harley Kuyck-Cohen is represented by Lungley Gallery, London.

Kiran Leonard is a musician and office administrator from Saddleworth, UK and based in South London. He mostly works with guitars and other implements you can strike and his voice; words and pictures not so much.

Ruoru Mou’s most recent lines of enquiry concerns the complexity of labour and trade marked by her own experiences with migration, working through and with the idea of displacement while paying heed to the cultural identities of Chinese diaspora communities in Florence, Italy. Her practice spans sculpture, installation, performance and moving-image. Advocating for different modes of play, the act of making becomes a process of recollection that maps the transnational movement of both people and objects. The artist currently lives and works between London and Florence.

Siân Newlove-Drew is a London based artist, working across mediums, including sculpture, installation, and writing. Her practice is led by feelings of specialness, involvement, and overwhelm. She is concerned with objects as containers of emotion and materiality facilitatory to glowing sites of processing, personal discovery, and the relationship or unison between what is mess and what is succinct.

Recent shows include:

❥・✧ ⁺ ⁺ In search of our ❆ ೃ⁀➷ most ҉◌•★ precious resource… ˚ ༘♡⋆˚★˚ ➶-͙˚ ༘ ✶　·˚ ༘₊· ͟͟͞͞꒰➳・❥ (with Billy Crosby, Well Projects, Margate, July 2022), BAITBALL ( Palazzo San Giuseppe, Polignano a Mare, Italy, January 2022), Smok Gang (Penthouse Margate, Margate, October 2021), Photocopies, (Recent Activity, Birmingham, October 2021), It’s not you, it’s me’ (Lewisham Arthouse, London, September 2020) and solo show Magic Craic (Brockley Gardens, London , September 2020).

Karanjit Panesar (b. 1992) lives and works in Leeds. Recent solo presentations include: Clarence Pier (2022), Aspex Portsmouth; Parts of Wholes (2022), Workplace Foundation, Newcastle; Actor, Container (2021), Two Queens, Leicester; Strange Loop (2019), Turf Projects, Croydon; THE WAY THINGS ARE (2018), arebyte Gallery, London.

Lou Lou Sainsbury (she/they) is a trans artist based in Margate, UK & Rotterdam, NL, working across film and live-performance, poetry and drawing, installation and textiles. She identifies as a time traveller, making things that unwrite histories of living beings into tricksterish dreamscapes, informed by queer & ecological activisms. She often works in collaboration, developing intimate long term research-led projects guided by improvisation, cinematic processes and sonic thinking.

Lou Lou’s work explores trans-sensual poetics, questioning how we can become better listeners and how to trouble historicity and geography. Recently her work maps a constellation of saints, holes, mist, vampirism, aliens, hauntings, musicality and elemental passions, writing slippery narratives in the realms of science-fiction and gothic-horror.

Lou Lou graduated from the MA in Art Praxis at the Dutch Art Institute in 2021, and was awarded Freelands Gasworks Partnership Programme. Previously she was an associate artist at Open School East in 2017, after completing her BA in Moving Image at the University of Brighton in 2016. She is currently an associate artist at Conditions Studio Programme.

She has exhibited individually at Gasworks, London; Humber Street Gallery, Hull (2022) and Well Projects, Margate (2020). Recent performances and group exhibitions include: Motto Books, Berlin and Whitstable Biennale (2022); Centre for Contemporary Arts, Prague (2021); Yaby and La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2020); Tate Modern, London; Nottingham Contemporary; Yaby, Madrid (all 2019) and Flat Time House (2018).

My name is Gabi Dao (she/they) and I'm an artist and organizer currently based between the unceded and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh Nations (colonially known as Vancouver, Canada) and Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

I'm interested in sensory entanglements and affirmations— the ways these can insist on counter-memory, multiple truths, other ways of knowing and blurred temporalities, against the capitalist linearity of cause-and-effect. Often these manifest through long gestating, fragmentary periods of research, eventually becoming sculpture, installation, collage, moving image, sound, miscellaneous forms of writing and community events.

I've screened, exhibited and participated in projects across Turtle Island, Europe and Asia. I also hustle my slow, small batch, indie perfume PPL’S PERFUME on the side. I was honoured to be shortlisted for the 2021 Sobey Art Award.

Harry Smithson is an artist living and working in London. Graduated from Central Saint Martins Product Design in 2018 he is currently studying an MFA at The Slade School of Fine Art, 2021-2023. His work manifests as sculpture and sound installations, investigating the physicality of sound and how it resonates, entangles, and attaches different bodies and spaces. The installations create their own worlds, systems or landscapes pulling influences from traditional rituals surrounding sound and objects, as well as experimental DIY electronic music and instrumentation with imagery from the architectural, biological and technological worlds. He also co-directed gallery and performance initiative fivehundredthousand from 2018-2020.

Jake Vine is a graduate of Graphic Communication Design at Central Saint Martins. His works often tread the line between graphic design and fine art. His work experiments with the conventional relationship the designer has with the viewer. His mediums often involve digital rendering or analogue printing methods.

b.1996, Kingston, Jamaica
Lives, works & loves in London

Ed Bernez is a drummer known for his inventive use of found objects in modifying typical drum setups. He currently plays in Lichen and Last Living Cannibal.

A multi-media artist whose work encompasses drawing, painting, sculpture and sound.

A Japanese-Korean working with installation, performance and composition, residing in Huddersfield, UK.

Her works sculpt domestic appliances and scrap wastes with invisible energy, especially interested in heat, magnetism and gravity, into kinetic contraptions. Her site-specific works infuse both aural / visual occurrence as one entity, creating ephemeral situations that magnify silence, time and space. Interested in nature of relativity, culture and system, her artistic practice examines architecture, environment, conflict and fluidity.

She also composes and performs alternative scores and text works in collaboration with other artists and musicians worldwide. She is a member of the lappetites, electronic musician collective since 2000 and a member of the 9-piece band a.hop.

She is an artistic director for ame c.i.c., supporting DIY culture and underground art/music scene. She also co-runs the independent publisher mumei publishing and melange edition.

Selected installations include: not a matter but it really matters (Lo Pati, 2022, Spain), inefficient ways to comprehend the matter (Exhoraum, Austria, 2022), the way they are (Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 2019, UK), composition of happiness (Spanien19C, 2019, Denmark), kosetsu (Stedelijk Museum, 2019, Amsterdam), ploughs and harrows (Konfrontation Festival, 2018, Austria), listening with the city (Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, 2018, Germany), odds and ends (Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, 2018, Poland), loiner or (Industrial Museum of Leeds, 2018, UK), Object Migration (Avant Art Festival + Sanatorium Dź wię ku, 2017, Poland) and 1→ 5 (Uppsala Art Museum, 2016, Sweden).