Amelia Brokenbrow is a potter based in Brighton. She makes functional tableware for everyday use.

Archie Fooks-Smith (b.1995, Bury St Edmunds) lives and works in London. Recently graduating from Slade in 2021, his work is often inspired by shamanic and magickal practices, manifesting itself in intricate sculptures and dense graphite drawings.

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Celeste McEvoy (b. 1994, London) is an artist exploring her personal relationship with social mobility and the desire for total assimilation. Often presenting roadside debris and found objects alongside her ceramics as means of ethnographic collection, her work investigates themes of aspiration, hierarchy and the need for cultural capital. Recent solo shows include (IF YOU DON’T PLAY), YOU CAN’T BE A WINNER (213 Kupfer Projects, London), Thirst Prize (with Corbin Shaw, Changing Room Gallery, London), SAVELOY SPEEDWAY (MocaThanet, Kent). Recent group shows include Into the Fire (Grove Collective, London), Material Curing (Thames-side Studios, London), Smok Gang (Penthouse Gallery, Margate), McEvoy studied painting at Camberwell College of Arts.

Duncan is Head of the Ceramics Department at Morley College and Associate Lecturer BA Ceramic Design at Central Saint Martins. He has co-authored The Workshop Guide to Ceramics with Tony Quinn, published by Thames and Hudson. He is a long-standing member of the Craft Potters Association. Duncan is co-director of Clayground Collective, with his colleague Julia Rowntree, an arts educational organisation committed to skills sharing around ceramics.

Ellie is an artist and ceramicist from Cambridge, currently based in South London. She studied at UAL: Camberwell College of Arts where she received a BA in 3D Design.

Fergus Polglase paints colourful highly imaginative & often humorous works that predominantly explore subjects on pop culture, violence & masculinity in various forms. His paintings are frequently semi-improvised, letting the story of the piece unfold as he paints; with layer upon layer slowly revealing & presenting new ideas & directions until the finished work has finally formed.

Gareth Barker is a ceramic artist, maker & workshop facilitator making wheel thrown, hand built & slip cast objects.

Hannah Buckman studied Illustration at Camberwell College of Arts in 2015 and now maintains a career in freelance illustration. She joined The Drawing Year in 2019 seeking space and time to draw without a specific end goal, and has since developed a practice around painting and drawing, building psychological spaces from experience and imagination in the hope of unearthing and interrogating subconscious biases. 

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Born 1980, Shoreham by Sea, Jess Parnell is an artist based in the UK and online. A graduate in the BA Fine Art at Westminster, and the MA in Art Psychotherapy at Goldsmiths University; She is a multi-media artist whose practice has encompassed sculpture, drawing, performance, video-making, installation, and poetry. She works professionally as an Art Psychotherapist, specialising in addictions treatment. As an artist Jess works in connection with liminal states of experience; transformation, stagnation and growth. Meaning, Art in spontaneous action, the process, mess, slap-stick, humour, carelessness, intuition and slap-dash execution. In direct and indirect ways her artistic practice draws into play aspects of psychoanalytic theory, folklore, ritual, alchemy, dream, and myth. These provide essential food for her own creative ‘senses’ and inward and outward connection. The making of her work is as much about creating meaning, making sense and non-sense out of existence as it is a spiritual journey. 

Kaivalya Brewerton is a multidisciplinary artist, specializing in dance, performance art, and moving image. Born. 1995. London - Los Angeles.

Melina Doumy graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design with a BA in Fine Art in 2018 and joined The Drawing Year in 2019. Melina’s practice is rooted in drawing from memory and observation, sourcing a rich bank of experiences from her Mediterranean heritage as well as imagery from art history and archaeology. Interested in the function of mythical narratives as metaphors for the human nature, she creates imaginative spaces inhabited by creatures shrouded in ambiguity.

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Nathalie Hollis translates visual scenes into physical experiences through lyrical and expressive mark making. Often drawing from theatre and performance, her work harnesses the urgency and dynamism of life in movement, articulating on paper lives moving in sticky synchronicity. Capturing the immediacy of the medium, Nathalie’s drawings tread the careful line between chaos and composure. Alongside her own artwork, Nathalie runs a costumed life drawing class which combines her love of theatre, set design and costume to create an immersive artistic experience for others.

Otis Blease (b. 1996 Bristol, lives and works in London) is influenced by the city’s constant state of motion. In contrast to where he grew up in Cornwall, this adds an energy and spontaneity to his practice. Through a mixture of observation and imagination, Otis often creates scenes of figures engaged with either themselves or others in mysterious activities. Working with mixed media materials he explores feelings of excitement and anxiety in his work, interested in the way the polarities of life can seem both thrilling and mundane simultaneously. His recent works start to draw on memories from childhood, a time where feelings of excitement and boredom were both regularly experienced. This was the time when he learnt his place in the world, exploring and making mistakes.

Rosie Broadhead is an apparel designer and researcher specialising in biomaterials in the fashion industry. Founder of therapeutic clothing brand Skin Series and Textile Scientist at Ghent University. Her current research focuses on the skin microbiome and probiotics therapy as a solution for antibacterial finishes in textile which utilises technology that works in synergy with the body.

Rosie is a graduate of Central Saint Martins’ MA ‘Material Futures’ course and has a background as designer and Head of Sustainability at sportswear brand Perfect Moment and R&D at Rapha. Rosie’s work has been showcased during Milan Design Week, Dutch Design Week, London Design Festival and exhibited at Museum De Fundatie, The Design Museum, Naturalis Museum. Her work has been featured by the BBC and in publications including Forbes, British Vogue, i-D and The New York Times. Through her interest in the skin and clothing interaction, her research focuses on how science and technology will influence the future of fashion. More recently she has co-founded, Surface Tension platform centred around realising the positive potential of materials.