Freddy Coomes and Matt Empringham are a London-based design duo who have spent the last five years cultivating a collaborative approach that began with a shared university project. Their work explores British identity and their relationship with modern Britain, blending tradition with a fresh perspective. Central to their process is a tactile connection to materials, with fabric, colour, and texture shaping each piece.

Bex examines the role of painting and the language of display in the face of popular culture. Bex amalgamates simulacra and allegory to investigate notions of ‘worth’ via motifs and tones extracted from her childhood. Massey’s previous works and exhibitions have engaged the codes and history of queer culture, along with markers of selfhood and Northern identity.

Settling into our High Road studios, Cherry works at the intersection of art and science by exploring themes from technology to nature, philosophy to religion, fundamental physical and metaphorical elements taken from ancient wisdom.

Daniel is a Venezuelan-Spanish multidisciplinary artist working across performance, painting, moving image, and installation to create Meditative Environments. Daniel's practice challenges traditional constructs of masculinity within patriarchal societies, exploring the intersection of queer bodies, the built environment, and spirituality.

Françoise is an artist and contortionist investigating the subject of body manipulation. The human form, modes of bodily self-expression, the notions of body augmentation and abstraction, and the body’s relationship to its environment are always at the centre of Odill's interest.

Giulia is a surrealist artist practising across photography, video and digital art. Giulia's work focuses on the fusion of self-portraiture and surrealism, exploring photography in a contemporary context. Grillo turns familiar situations into extraordinary visual narratives by blending the beautiful with the disturbing.

Jan's work reveals an inner world of personal stories, memories, and figurative characters. Jan creates his paintings, through a long process of painting, washing off, scraping off and applying dry pigments of what later on becomes a dreamy pictorial image with multiple layers of colours and narratives.

Jet is a self-taught artist using jewellery to eternalise important worlds such as fragile ecosystems, love stories, and historical narratives. Jets’ practice focuses on the different ways that jewellery can hold meaning via symbology and semiotics.

Working across sculpture and printmaking, Lucy creates portraits of the people and places she knows intimately. Through labor-intensive processes, Lucy transforms disposable, everyday objects—loo roll, bin liners, scampi fries—into meticulously crafted souvenirs of contemporary culture.

Salvatore is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores themes of grotesque theatricality, camp, and remembrance, drawing inspiration from the customs and traditions of his Sicilian homeland. Salvatore's practice infuses a queer narrative that challenges the machismo rooted in Italy’s strong Catholic culture, reimagining hyper-masculine Sicilian imagery through a homoerotic lens to create a dialogue between past and present.

As an award-winning textile artist dedicated to exploring the intrinsic connections between gender, textiles, and modern-day computing, Shannon's work aims to highlight the often-overlooked contributions of women in emergent technology. Shannon uses speculation, counterfactual histories, and material storytelling to bring these narratives to the forefront.

Yijia is a multidisciplinary artist that explores the everydayness, fluid notion of home, and both collective and individual experiences of migration. Through performance, sculpture, and installation, Yijia utilises mundane, often domestic materials to create paradoxical situations for everyday life.

Darcey engages with sculpture, photography, and performance, often featuring the human body. Darcey’s practice, transcending fashion and fine art, embodies a dynamic interplay between the lighthearted and the formal, concealing a deeper emotional undercurrent of loneliness and isolation. 

Here for one more year, Jo Grogan, fascinated by our shared cultural history and the natural world which surrounds us, Jo’s work is a celebration of two of her greatest passions; craftsmanship and nature. Examining the space between the past and present, Jo combines ideas from her past as a fashion designer with her present transition to a wood carver.

Renata Brenha is a London-based Brazilian womenswear designer with an MA in Fashion from the Royal College of Art. She stands as a Latin American female voice in the context of contemporary fashion, researching artisanal techniques and intuitive methods to regain the human aspect in design, with the largely mixed Latin America culture defining both her aesthetics and approach.