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Zeiko Duka  

Georgia born London based artist Zeiko Duka’s style is harmonic mix of Modernism, Impressionism, Abstract painting and like photorealism and surrealism, are all part of her art family. She has always managed to slip away from the real modernism definitions, had to draw a line, radical way of thinking by own way, with no boundaries set by traditional method. The thin brush strokes, common and ordinary subjects, unusual angles are some features of Zeiko's style of art painting.She graduated from the faculty of Architecture and she done postgraduate studies in Industrial Design.Always art was her life, her breath.

Sands-De Freitas Sammy-John

My art revolves around synaesthesia, i.e. I use colour, pattern and mark making to create painterly compositions of sound.I began painting to combat mental health and have recently had a successful collaborative exhibition with artist Rob Sands (MENtal) aimed at combating suicide in young men. I believe free art is key to combating mental health - there is no wrong within abstraction and therefore no failure due to expectation - something that young men really struggle with.

Sands-De Freitas Sammy-John applied for our recent exhibition on Men’s Mental Health ‘Be A Man’

Kaitlynn Webster

Kaitlynn Webster received her BA in Art with Honors from California State University, Fresno in 2017, and is currently pursuing her MFA at the Burren College of Art/NUI Galway. Her work has been shown in various galleries in California and Ireland, as well as featured in several arts and humanities journals. The ideas of self-knowledge and being willing to look at things with a different perspective are vital to her practice. Her work seeks to push against the human trend of becoming trapped in the comfort of the things we believe to be true, and push towards open-mindedness.

Cody Choi

Cody Choi is an exceptional dance photographer whose journey into photography began when he toured the world as a dancer with Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake. Over the course of the three-year tour, Cody photographed his fellow dancers and their performance spaces. The rest, as they say, is history... We love Cody’s shots of dancers mid-air in which he captures not only the overall movement of the dancers’ bodies, but also the distinctive movements of their clothing and hair.

Darren Withey

Made in response to a philosophical and psychoanalytic inquiry into subjectivity and the unconscious, and drawing upon personal experience of mental ill-health, these compositions are comprised of reproductions of x-rays, and diagrams/visualisations of abstract concepts. Psychoanalysis shares an affinity with the clinician’s scrutiny of the x-ray, in looking both through and beneath surfaces and appearances, towards underlying structures, finding it's parallel also in the examination of blueprints, schematics and diagrams in the worlds of technology, engineering and architecture.

Sam Mattacott

I use 3D software as a tool for formalist abstraction. My work currently focuses on the reconfiguration of objects through their construction histories. When making an object in virtual space every action is recorded as a mathematical function, allowing for parameters to be changed after they are first applied. In theory this sounds extremely useful but in practice it often isn’t. Each function is applied on top of the previous, like a chain of sequential events. Changing an earlier state in the sequence causes later operations to become distorted. This peculiarity has become the focus of my practice.

Later Ago

Later Ago draws inspiration from a wealth of real world experiences, with a vision and passion engrained in travel and exploration. Working in the medium of both cyanotype and screen print, Later Ago digitally manipulates her own photographs, creating graphic and abstract images for her hand-printed work. She often uses bright, bold colours or the cool blue of the cyanotype to capture the viewer’s imagination.

Harrison Mills Brown

The content of my work depicts an autobiographical narrative that responds to the evident divide within western 21st century culture relative amongst class, culture, and entitlement. By appropriating items found within the mass media such as; symbols, motifs, object, image, and text, that is explored through the analysis of semiotics and visual language; I manipulate recognisable content to portray a series of obscured personal conflicts.

Louie Halpin-Parr

A 22-year-old visual artist and recent photography graduate, based in the North West of England. My work has a very experimental approach, combining multiple mediums and visual techniques. Concepts change from series to series but all share a common interest in the limitations of representation and relationships between images and objects.

Kelly Frank 

is a young British painter whose sensitive portraits capture the layered personalities of her sitters. Kelly explores portraiture through the lens of a psychologist and investigator, and her portraits of friends focus on their vulnerabilities. By using a wide range of mediums such as charcoal, oil pastel, acrylics and oil paint, her paintings show a meticulous hand. The focal points of her portraits are the eyes. 'The eyes are the windows to the soul’, a phrase Kelly Frank takes more seriously than most. She believes ‘people are a process in which they simultaneously reveal and hide themselves’.

Kelly’s work was included in ‘Be A Man’ an exhibition about men’s mental health curated by Dark Yellow Dot and Theatre Deli in 2018 and was a featuring artist on DarkYellowDot.com

Keisha JP

Painter @keishjp on Instagram