Scholars & Artists
Lewis Payne is a designer from Glasgow and based in London. Lewis’s design practice is deeply influenced by his upbringing in Glasgow where conformity is a survival strategy and expressing individuality can invite ridicule. Lewis’ work subverts this norm by blending into the city's architecture rather than its social fabric, capturing the essence of navigating through a cityscape covered by dark clouds, rough weather and Glasgow's harsh, fast-paced atmosphere.
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Anna’s practice intertwines personal narratives with broader cultural and social observations. She employs presentation techniques to explore the transient nature of aesthetic preferences. Rather than dismissing surface appearances as superficial, she perceives them as sites for constructing meaning.
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Chloe is a painter whose work engages with the politics and poetics of space, how it is both freeing, restrictive and connected to accessibility. She explores the associative qualities of varying materials and how they link to time, place and space.
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Bowen Zhang is a multidisciplinary Chinese artist currently based in London. Drawing inspiration from his family's deep roots in fisheries and manual labour, his islander and Chinese diaspora identity, and vast travelling experiences, Bowen’s practice delves into the topics concerning the fishing industry/labour market, power structure regarding gender and class, and leisure tourism.
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Ya Luo’s practice encompasses drawing, painting and sculpture. She explores the possibilities of drawing, and how drawings inhabit space as 3-D propositions, and considers the role of pictorial space in relation to real space. Her work is based on the feelings derived from lived experiences and her relationship with the body, looking into vulnerability in the world. She emphasises the physicality and tactility of drawing and painting. Each mark and shape embodying distinct feelings and generating a heightened sense of emotional awareness.
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