Artist Directory
Annie Lee is interested in both personal experiences and universal feelings, and responds to these in various ways, from humorous interventions to thought-provoking paintings. Her process centres around expressing daily observations and emotions in a way that reflects the fragmentary nature of memories and life.
Annie (b. 1999) studies Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art (UCL), having completed her Art Foundation at Central Saint Martins. She was featured on TV as a semi-finalist in Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2019, and has been commissioned by the Barbican for Young Barbican Nights: Masculinities.
Selected exhibitions: Juice, Shenzhen, China (2020), Spaceship Dungeon Zoo, Hackney Studios, London (2019), Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year, Clarendon Fine Art Mayfair, London (2019), Waterlow Art Park, Waterlow Park, London (2019).
Website: annabellalee.co.uk
Instagram: @annieannabella.art
Arabella Turner is a filmmaker and writer. A primary theme in her work considers how our relationship with ourselves is formed and affected by technology, the environment and neuroanatomy. Her process begins in research, observation and free writing; soon a dialogue or narrative will form to connect the ideas. This narrative/dialogue then becomes the framework for a film.
Arabella Turner (b.1995) has exhibited at The National Poetry Library (Southbank Centre), Camden’s People Theatre and Guest Projects among others. She also works as a videographer and filmmaker, often collaborating with musicians.
Website: belturner.co.uk
Becca Lynes works with music and moving image. She aims to explore the contemporary digital/economic/social subject, big data, political communication and pink plastic.
Lynes’s creative process draws upon her academic experience, collecting cultural and personal sources and bringing them into dialogue as found footage films using creative softwares.
Alongside a video practice, she produces experimental electronic music under the name Becca Forever, but has been developing lyrical pop for accessible political messaging, to be introduced in subsequent chapters of BECCA BECOMES A REAL GIRL. On the use of a pink plastic aesthetic, Becca describes Forever as “alternating between a camp, imaginative relationship with Y2K girlhood and a deeply uncomfortable one, given where my twin love for tech and the princess shit got me.”
Becca Lynes (b. 1996) completed her Masters at Cambridge University in 2019, critiquing the use of VR in humanitarian campaigns. She now lives in London.
Website: beccaforever.com
Instagram: 😇️ @beccalynes / 😈 @becca_f0rever
Defne Ozdenoren is a visual artist currently studying and living in London. Her work is currently exploring emotional healing, though she has often seen the process of making as a way to look inward.
Instagram: @defneyuan
Emily’s practice is an exploration into the materiality of the photographic object. Through strata of materials, the work moves between image and object, using shape, light and colour to frame a fractured and ephemeral experience. By deconstructing photographs into abstract forms, her work questions whether the outcomes are imagined or an interpretation of reality. The compositions that emerge are built from contrasting forces which together, create a sense of place and balance.
Selected exhibitions: Duende Print - Safehouse 1, London (2018). LCC (UAL) Show 1, London (2018). Panta Rhei - Total Refreshment Centre, London (2017).
Selected Prizes: Metro Imaging Mentorship Prize - June 2018. Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, shortlisted - June 2019.
Instagram: @_e.marshall
Website: emilymarshall.work
Jordan Robertson works in photography, and has previously exclusively shot nature and landscapes. For It All Comes Down, Jordan has explored the themes of transformative experiences and duality, incorporating portrait photography and lighting techniques.
Website: vsco.co/jejrobertson
Lay Stevens is an Architecture student, currently studying at University College London. Lay works with architectural designs, sculpture and collage to create works that reflect her relationship to buildings and the people who reside in them. She is interested in the ways in which media, sculpture and film influence different aspects of our lives, and how the designs of structures help contribute to relationships between us.
Instagram: @layislost
Molly Morphew works and lives in London. She was invited to be the first artist-in-residence at the Silk Mill, Frome, UK (2020).
Molly Morphew works in mixed media, including sculpture, painting, performance, and poetry. She uses her body and adopts discarded possessions, exploring their textures, scars, and the memories they hold, and transforming them into figures that convey new emotions and meanings.
Selected performances and exhibitions: Flower Flower, [SPACE], London (2019); Asking for it, AMP Gallery, London (2019); Liminal, Tapir Gallery, Berlin (2017); Naked mail, Artspace/Interlude gallery, Sydney (2017); Here in the subject of our everyday lives VIII by Julian Talarico, Oxford Art Factory, Sydney (2016); 16, Alaska Projects, Sydney (2016). During lockdown she curated an online exhibition, Small Talk My Animal, featuring 11 emerging artists. She studied at Sydney College of the Arts.
Website: mollymorphew.com
Instagram: @peachymoe
Rebecca Cromwell is a visual artist and photographer. She works with a variety of different media; photography, collage and sculpture. Her work is often based on personal experiences and draws upon her background; her experience growing up in London, her mixed heritage and her interests in a wide range of things such as maths, psychology, dance and art.
Rebecca lives and works in London. She graduated with a degree in Mathematics from the University of Manchester in 2019, having previously completed a Foundation Diploma at Camberwell College of Arts (2016).
Selected exhibitions: The Signal, The Photographer’s Gallery, London (2020); Foundation Summer Show, Camberwell College of Arts, London (2016), exhibition at Islington Museum, London (2015); Source, Tate Britain, London (2014).
Instagram: @rkc.creative
Safiye Gray is a visual communicator based in London. She studied Illustration Animation at Kingston School of Art and since then has been building her practice as a researcher, designer and maker. Her research-based practice revolves around book-making and printed matter. Using research methods that range from reading, image-making and conversation, she explores the everyday through (its) materiality. For Safiye, the process of exploring a subject is more important than the realised outcome; often the heart of a project is found within her sketchbooks.
Instagram: @safiyegray
Sam Ahern is a time-based artist, who works in illustration, sound, photography and film. Her work focuses on autobiographical events explored through illustration, interviews and documentary. In addition, she explores the coalition of personal and professional events on an individual's life.
Sam’s work has been shown at Camden Arts Centre, Red Gallery (Shoreditch) and Lumen Café (Bloomsbury). In 2018, Sam was one of the co-presenters alongside Georgia Harper and Anna Richardson of Channel 4’s ‘Are You Autistic?’ She studied at Wimbledon College of Arts and lives and works in London.
Website: samchown-ahern.com
Instagram: @samchownahern
Sneha Alexander (b. 1995) is a visual artist from Stoke-on-Trent, now living and working in London. After studying English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford, she combined her passions for art and literature in an MA in Postcolonial Studies (SOAS University of London) where she focused on queer and postcolonial interventions into the art world. Sneha’s work has been commissioned for Kew Garden’s upcoming exhibition, Grow Wild.
Website: snehalexander.com
Instagram: @sneha_aoishi
Vangelis Trichias creates short films and digital videos. He is interested in digital culture, pop culture and politics. For It All Comes Down, he aims to explore the themes of power and manipulation, both in its content and form.
His creative process can’t help but involve the use of symbolism, elements from club and queer culture, politics and contemporary internet.
He has been a member of the Design Yourself Collective since 2019.
Website: vangelis.hotglue.me
Instagram: @bigvague