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  • Alex MacDonald

    Location: West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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    My work is based on what I notice in the natural environment from day to day, it might be a tree, plant, overgrown border, the sky through leaves or sun on a pond. I am a self-taught artist and have exhibited in Leeds and surrounding areas.

  • Nga Quynh Ngo

    Location: North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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    Based in North Yorkshire, I create expressive landscapes exploring colour, light and the boundary between observation and abstraction. Working primarily with soft pastel and mixed media on a range of artists’ papers, including traditional Vietnamese Dó and Điệp, my practice embraces tactile surfaces, spontaneous mark-making and the expressive possibilities of exposed paper.

  • Natalia Kolpakova

    Location: Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom
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    Natalia Shamrai (Kolpakova), award-winning graphic artist from Kyiv now UK-based, crafts narrative silk scarves and art prints blending fine art with fashion. From book illustration roots, her surreal designs explore dreams, time, and reality—wearable stories that distort space, evoke timelessness, and spark personal connections through layered mystery.

  • Louise Brooke

    Location: Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
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    An artist with a love of words, forever chasing shadows.

  • Finn Dobson

    Location: West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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    Finn Dobson (b.1992) is a Leeds-based self-taught visual artist and poet. Working with textiles and mixed media, they address themes of queer, trans, disabled embodiment, whilst noticing the nuances and interconnectedness of experiences. Community involvement and research, and repurposing found and inherited materials, is integral to their practice.

  • Sarah Shaw

    Location: East Sussex, United Kingdom
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    Sarah Shaw (b. 1973, Halifax) is a painter based in Brighton, UK. She graduated in 2001 from Falmouth College of Art with a first class honours degree in Fine Art. She is represented by Whistleblower Gallery in Brighton.

  • Becky Atherton

    Location: United Kingdom
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    Through my work I want to explore the mythological representation of women and how stories have been influenced and reengineered by patriarchy. How women have been written out of folklore and how stories have been changed to fit in with this ideology.

  • Lesley Wood

    Location: Durham, United Kingdom
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    Lesley Wood is an award winning mixed media textile artist with a Fine Art degree. Her hand embroidered work has been widely exhibited in the U.K. and abroad. Her hand embroidery often has a narrative being created from reclaimed cloth, vintage domestic fabrics and ephemera. Subject matter includes portraits, figures and birds. She accepts commissions and delivers talks and workshops

  • Ngo Chun Tse

    Location: United Kingdom
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    Ngo Chun Tse is a Hong Kong born artist-curator-writer living and working in London. His practice works with moving image, text, installation, and lecture performance, critically engaging with the historiography of decolonisation, the production of technological and cinematic images, and the hauntology of diasporic experience.

  • paul talbot

    Location: United Kingdom
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    Graduating in 1987 from Maidstone College of Art, with a Fine Arts BA (hons) degree I entered the world of teaching after gaining a PGCE at Bretton hall. My role as art teacher rapidly developed to head of department, head of faculty, to becoming an AST, and deputy head at a SEND School, Recently I was a teacher of nurture after 2 years of art, photography, teaching before retiring in Dec 2024

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