Just a Bunch of String

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Patrick Stratton combines mechanics and weaving in his moving tapestries that often have humorous and relatable compositions. Stratton graduated from City and Guilds School of Art in 2021 and recent exhibitions include duo-show Wobblegob, and the Saatchi StART Art fair.

Tanya Northando Wilson is a contemporary artist born in South Africa to a Zimbabwean mother and Malawian-born British father and bought up in England. Wilson combines the two halves of her identity by juxtaposing traditional methods and contemporary themes into experimental and personal expressions of her lived experiences. Graduating from Camberwell College of Arts UAL in 2019 Wilson’s recent work was shortlisted for the Cordis tapestry prize in 2021 and her work was included in the Watching Trees festival in 2022

Rooted in the cultural context of her mixed British and Turkish heritage, contemporary artist Renin Bilginer interrogates what it means to exist as a woman between Eastern and Western cultures. Bilginer is currently studying MA Painting at the Royal College of Art and her work explores the transformative power of masking in relation to identity and the reclamation of the female body. Renin’s vibrant narrative compositions explore the parallel worlds of her mythologised experiences and her imagined alternative realities.

Bobby Hefferman is a London based fine artist, working with a specialism in contemporary weaving. A self-taught weaver, working with a humorous combination of materials to create dysfunctional compositions. Often combining high and low value materials. Heffernan Graduated from City and Guilds of London Art School in 2022 and was the winner of the Sir Denis Mohan sculpture project grant and the David Ballardie travel prize. Heffernan has shown around London, and is currently involved with the Koppel Studio Project.

Karolina Dworska is a British-based Polish artist who works predominantly in sculpture and rug-making. Her artistic practice explores dreams, mythologies and delves into the subject matter of the in-between. Dworska graduated from Goldsmiths in 2020 and was one of the artists selected for the 2021 Bloomberg New Contemporaries. Her work has also been exhibited internationally, in Madrid and Seoul.

Andia Coral Newton works across textiles and installation whom primarily dwells on the place of human-beings in the ecology of planet earth, the adaptability of sea-creatures, ‘scavengers’, and how we perceive history through images. Newton graduated from Goldsmiths in 2020 and recent exhibitions include the London Open Takeover at Whitechapel Gallery and Creature Comforts at JGM Gallery. Newton is also the current exhibitions coordinator for the Bermondsey project space in London

Selby Hi grew up in Brighton, moving to London to study at Central Saint Martins, receiving the 2019 Graduate Art Prize. Hurst Inglefield is known for her rug-punched technique to create colourful sculptures and wall pieces. Hurst Inglefield’s textile connection runs through the generations as memories of her mother’s textile artworks in her childhood home inform the stories her tufted pieces embody. Brighton often forms the settings of her portraits, featuring landscapes inspired by the body of the sea and recognisable white cliffs of the coast. Recently she has turned to look at the domestic space and how joyful objects can transform a home’s atmosphere.

Llinos Owen is a contemporary artist who works in textiles. Beginning with personal written and visual material from her diary, Owen makes hand tufted pieces as a way to process different experiences and thoughts relating to vulnerable themes. Owen graduated from Wimbledon College of arts in 2020 and has exhibited with Delphian Gallery, at the The Other Art Fair, and had a solo show at Orleans House Gallery in 2021.

Heidi Pearce is a contemporary artist who works mainly in soft sculpture focusing on introducing a new mode of uncanniness within contemporary art though animal-like sculpture. Pearce graduated from Goldsmiths in 2019 and recent exhibitions include Creature comforts at JGM Gallery and a solo show at Bermondsey Project Space