Kasia Wozniak is an artist whose work investigates the tangibility of the photograph and how we view photographs today. Using predominantly the wet plate collodion technique, she interrogates ‘truth’ in photography and questions how we experience the time present and time past. 

Working with the analogue enables Wozniak to stretch and distort the experience of time. While using long exposures, laborious darkroom experimentations and manipulations she explores the idea of approximation, moving away from veracity to something more liminal. Each anomaly is present and exposed on the surface of the created photograph. 

Stephen Akpo is a British Nigerian multidisciplinary artistwho uses the mediums drawing, painting and fashion, to create artworks which encapsulate the broad process of self-healing. His artistic odyssey is rooted in the profound experiences of grief and the loss of cherished ones, sparking a profound exploration of his melancholic introspection and unwavering optimism, mirroring the dualistic nature of existence itself.

Being partially sighted, Stephen makes his work using his hands, working from dark to light. This creates a great sense of movement as he blends straight onto the canvas, using minimal colours.

Martina uses a diverse array of techniques in her craft, including gem carving, hand engraving, andstone setting. Her innovative design approach extends to incorporating mushroom mycelium into jewellery and it’s environment. From foraging mushrooms to cultivating mycelium, Martina intricately incorporates these elements into her creations, blurring the boundaries between nature and art.

Designer Martina Spetlova’s scientific background influences her experimental approach that restlessly challenges materials, elements and expectations. Her highly identifiable handwoven leathers in unexpected juxtapositions become a trademark off her brand and are applied on jackets, accessories and larger scale interior design projects.

Alongside her uncompromising design aesthetic, Martina is committed to sustainability and ethical sourcing throughout her supply chain.

Urant’s work reveals an inner world of personalstories, memories, and figurative characters.

He creates his paintings, through a long process ofpainting, washing, scraping off and applying drypigments of what later on becomes a dreamy pictorial image with multiple layers of colours and narratives. Through it, he lets us into his worldof colours and space, moving on the border of dreaming and living reality.

Surrounded by buckets of PVA glue and stacks of newspapers, Emmely Elgersma uses her studio like a surreal kitchen, concocting wonky sculptures and wobbly objects that look good enough to eat (but probably don't taste very good).

Creating clay from kitchen products and papier-mâché out of household chemicals, Elgersma's work is rooted in her formal training as a ceramicist, just with a couple of jokes thrown in. The result is an exploration of what objects mean to us as human beings, be it turning an old tennis ball tube into a luxury functioning lamp or turning piles of disused packaging into a 14ft shark for a brewery in Scotland.