As the year comes to the end, we catch up with Creative Land Trust Artis Ambassador Florence Peake.  Known as one of the UK's most distinctive performance and visual artists - working since 1995 - Florence moves between sculpture, painting, dance, text and film, building work around the body and the materials it meets. Florence’s performances and paintings have been shown at the Venice Biennale (2019), in the Hayward Gallery's touring British Art Show 9 (2021–22), and at venues including the De La Warr Pavilion, the Palais de Tokyo and the Whitechapel Gallery. In this conversation we delve into the clash and collision between forms, how materials choreograph the body, and why making work with others matters to her. She also reflects on what it has taken to keep making in London.

Over the autumn season, we are getting to know our ambassadors more. We settled in with Haroon Mirza, a celebrated artist who was previously a Creative Land Trust (CLT) Trustee, and now an ambassador. Mirza's work explores electricity, sound, light, and the blurred boundaries between natural and artificial worlds. He's shown work internationally, won the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale.