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.
We visit artist, Daniel Jackson at his studio at Wallis Road Studios, Cell Studios where he discusses returning to painting after a career in digital.
This month, we speak with Thomus, founder of Shipton, a contemporary art platform rooted in Hackney Wick.
We speak to artist Faye Gosling, a Basketmaker and craftswoman working primarily with willow about her recent move to Suffolk whilst reflecting on her studio in London.
This month, we spent fashion week down in our Fashion District at Wallis Road Studios with knitwear and denim designer Otto Alexander. Otto is a denim designer running both a design and repair business from his studio in Mainyard Studios, one of our two studio providers based at Wallis Road, Hackney Wick.
We spoke with Sam Ikhuoria, the artist in Residence for the Inspector of Nuisances project at Alice Billing House, and founder of The SHAPES UK, who describes his work as expressive abstracts that explores events, emotion and connection to places.
We caught up with multidisciplinary artist Tamsin Kavanagh, at her Alice Billing House studio, a desk with an editing screen is surrounded by paintings in progress on one side, and shelves with ceramics and studio equipment on the other. Tamsin works across moving images, sound, writing, painting, drawing, and ceramics.
Telling Tales – Artists' Pandemic Stories is a recent qualitative longitudinal study by Dr Susan Jones which provides insights into the impact of the pandemic on the lives of artists.
