Scholars & Artists

  Tom Hemingway is an artist who adopts and subverts traditional drawing techniques to create figurative artwork. Influenced by modern and classical figurative art, he examines conventions of the human form through graphite and charcoal, using bold tonal contrasts to...
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  Bisila Noha is a Spanish-Equatoguinean artist, researcher and writer. With her work she aims to challenge Western views on art and craft; to question what we understand as productive and worthy in capitalist societies; and to reflect upon the...
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  Siphiwe Nokukhanya Mnguni is a British–Zimbabwean artist and curator whose multidisciplinary work explores the Black female figure and themes of identity, womanhood, community, and perception. Her work uses abstract figuration to celebrate diverse figures and reimagine how they are...
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  Georgina Odell is a London-based artist working primarily in sculpture using textiles and metalwork. Her work examines personal and collective histories— childhood, family, memory—and how stories are retold. Using familiar materials and objects, she explores how nostalgia can feel...
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Furmaan Ahmed is a Scottish artist living and working in London. Through set design, photography and film, Ahmed explores decadence, theatricality and diasporic memories. Furmaan creates dream-like documentary work through highly staged photographs often including large casts and props in...
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