A letter, founded by Matt Empringham and Freddy Coomes, champions hands-on making and the value of amateur experimentation with high craft. They rework historical dress with a mix of traditional and improvised techniques, prioritizing character and vitality over craft hierarchy.

Anna-Lena Krause is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, performance and image-making. Her practice explores human connection in shifting physical and digital realities, drawing from psychology and phenomenology.

Antonia Caicedo Holguín is a painter whose work explores memory, intimacy and diasporic experience. Through colour, composition and spatial tension , her work reflects how personal and cultural histories shape relationships and spaces.

Furmaan Ahmed is an artist whose staged photography, film and set design explore decadence, diaspora and folklore. As a South Asian trans artist, Furmaan reimagines cultural iconography, ancestral loss and matriarchal societies within changing landscapes.

Georgina Odell is an artist who makes sculptures using textiles and metalwork. Her work examines personal and collective histories—childhood, family, memory—and how stories are retold.

Jane Preston is a ceramicist creating sculptures inspired by nature’s shapes, balance and metaphors. Her work explores communication through form, responding to the pleasure and pain of lived experience.

Here for one more year, Jo Grogan's practice explores nostalgia, social class, taste and humour through sculptural modelling and hand wood carving. Using techniques like water gliding and verre églomisé, she blends traditional craft with instinctive composition to question how we interpret and celebrate our collective past.

Joy BC is a goldsmith and sculptress whose practice honours and deconstructs classical representations of femininity, mythology and beauty. Her work is rich in narrative, blending wearable art with miniature sculpture to explore themes of deconstruction and reconstruction.

Louis Petit is an artist working in painting, drawing, writing, and etching, whose work is shaped by his experiences with severe epilepsy and the hallucinatory effects of misprescribed medication in adolescence.

Olubiyi Thomas is an independent fashion label that investigates archaic textiles, multicultural identity and historical reinterpretation through an artisanal, avant-garde lens.

Siphiwe Mnguni is an artist and curator whose work in painting, collage and ceramics explores identity, womanhood and community, celebrating marginalised figures through abstract figuration with joy and play.

Sophie Mei Birkin is an artist exploring material transformation, using salt, industrial waste and residues to create works that provoke psychophysical responses and unsettle human perception.

Taiba Akhuetie is a multidisciplinary artist who uses hair as both material and metaphor, creating sculptural works that explore identity, memory and belonging while highlighting hair’s emotional and historical significance.

Victoria Ruiz is a Venezuelan multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans photography, sculptural garments and performance. Her work explores identity, cultural resistance, Afro-diasporic spirituality and the relationship between spirituality and nature.

Zoya Smirnova is a ceramic sculptor working with stoneware and porcelain. Her practice explores vulnerability, repair and transformation through abstracted human forms that sit between body and psyche.

Amelia Cross is an artist who merges painting with pattern-cutting and sewing to explore how garments shape identity and social systems, creating her signature ‘sewn paintings’ that blend painterly and sculptural forms.

Bisila Noha is a Spanish-Equatoguinean artist, researcher, and writer whose work challenges Western distinctions between art and craft, critiques capitalist ideas of productivity and value, and explores themes of home and interconnectedness inspired by her experiences in pottery communities.

Cha’ky is a contemporary, abstract painter whose work blends chaotic harmony with introspective detail. Tracing an organic path of growth, reflection, and becoming, Cha’ky’s paintings consist of simple yet profound shapes and spontaneous, expressive gestures.

Darcey Fleming is an artist working in sculpture, photography, video, and performance, often exploring the body. Her practice combines traditional techniques with discarded materials, reflecting an obsessive drive to create.

George Wilkin is a painter of large-format oils exploring the tension between fixed forms and their dissolution, revealing new possibilities between the familiar and the unknown.

Jack Laver is a multimedia artist and musician whose sculptural, painterly works explore dependency and dissonance. His pieces, inspired by natural systems like roots, veins, and rivers, transcend human perspectives, offering contemplative reflections on nature’s hidden depths.

Helena Palmeira is a Brazilian artist and designer who creates sculptural jewellery using culturally and historically significant materials. Her work preserves and reactivates the narratives embedded in these materials, treating jewellery as a space for reflection, storytelling, and cultural reclamation.

Jet McQuiston is a self-taught artist using jewellery to eternalise important worlds such as fragile ecosystems, love stories, and historical narratives. Jet sees jewels as the perfect setting to store data, a tiny precious vessel that - if made carefully - can endure and communicate for thousands of years.

Jingyi Li is a artist whose work interlaces feminist narratives, material culture, and soft forms. Lace-making is central to her practice, transforming traditional forms into sculptural and domestic objects to examine female desire, submission, and BDSM dynamics.

John Spyrou is a portrait and fashion photographer who employs personal alchemical techniques and alternative printing methods. His work captures subjects in introspective, voyeuristic moments, balancing technical precision with the tension between calmness and intensity.

Kay Doble is a visual artist who combines traditional taxidermy techniques with a unique sculptural approach, highlighting the beauty of natural materials through meticulous craftsmanship that inspires curiosity and shifts perspectives.

Philip Pope is a jeweller specialising in enamelling, drawn to the unique qualities of fired glass as a medium for reflecting the forms and colours of the natural world. His practice is informed by the stillness and wild beauty of the English countryside.

Phoebe Corker-Marin is a sculptor interested in internal narratives and the stories we tell ourselves. For Phoebe, these experiences are physical, grounded in the body, which shapes how we perceive, remember, and respond to the world.

Rizza Zahid is a self-taught British-Pakistani artist whose ink and charcoal drawings blend surrealism and narrative, exploring human relationships through detailed, psychologically charged imagery influenced by her South Asian heritage, working-class British life, and punk culture.

Sinéad O’Dwyer is a London-based womenswear brand, founded in 2021, defined by a blend of soft sensuality and striking toughness. Its emotionally driven, personal narratives are deepened through projects that highlight the brand’s close relationships with its community and models.

Tom Hallimond is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores care, resilience, and lived experience, reflecting on human adaptation and the isolation of the 2020 COVID-19 shutdown.

Tom Hemingway is a figurative artist who reworks traditional drawing techniques, using bold graphite and charcoal contrasts to examine the human form. Influenced by classical and modern figurative art, he creates detailed, uncanny figures that explore identity, emotion, and personal experience.

TORISHÉJU, founded by Torishéju Dumi, is a womenswear and menswear label exploring form, fabric, and surreal proportions, drawing on her Nigerian-Brazilian, Catholic heritage and North-West London upbringing.

Yijia Wu is a multidisciplinary artist exploring home, migration, and everyday life. Through
performance, sculpture, and installation using mundane materials, she reinterprets their cultural significance, creating narratives that are simultaneously absurd, familiar, nostalgic, and present.