The Lobby is a collective made up of 17 members: artists, curators, and writers.

Drawing on the definition of a ‘lobby’ as a central entry point from which we access other spaces, as well as lobbying as an action intended to change political outcomes. Our collaboration is an entry point to a sustainable model for our individual practices at Hypha Studios and beyond.

Chris Chapman is an artist, curator, and mental health worker. He studied at University of St. Andrews, LSE, Goldsmiths and the Institute of Group Analysis and is the events co-ordinator for the Red Clinic.

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Felix del Campo is a writer and researcher. His work focuses on reactionary representations of capitalism.

Olamiju Fajemisin is a writer, editor and curator. She studied at the Courtauld Institute, London, and the Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam.

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Diogo Gama is an artist working across varied mediums. His practice deals with subjects of instability, sexuality and domesticity through dualist visual poetics.

Ilê Sartuzi is an artist who sneaks into different spheres of the art system, from a conceptual practice in institutional exhibitions to commodity-form works in art galleries and elitist fairs

Chris Owen is an artist, working primarily with live performance and theatre making. Chris also has a studio-based drawing practice, using pen and pencil on paper.

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Scott Young is a musician primarily working with oil painting whose work explores how images and objects hold significance in strange and uncanny ways dependent on context and lived experience.

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Sophie Sekine is an artist and writer, who is interested in language, relationships and politics. Her work spans across drawings, performance, installation and film.

e.g. King is an artist using performance, sound and video to explore the intersection of improvisatory techniques and contemplative practices.

Catarina Moura is an artist primarily working with objects. Between science and fiction, she creates constellations of work that trace material conditions, care and the spirit.

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Umi is an artist and filmmaker. She create experimental narrative films that connect personal memories with social realities, focusing on the lived histories of marginalised communities.

Philip Steele is a Croatian-Irish-South African artist based in London. Steele’s practice investigates queer necropolitics through themes of sex,death, grief, and desire.

Katie Shannon is an artist based between Glasgow and London whose work moves across visual art, performance, writing, and event-making. Often collaborative and situational, projects unfold through relationships, encounters and shared spaces; contextually arriving through the connections they explore.

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