Associates 2025-26

Milly Aburrow is a 2023 graduate of Bath Spa University with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art. Her work employs a bold, playful stylisation with vibrant colours and exaggerated forms, transforming familiar everyday objects into humorous yet thought-provoking sculptures and installations.
Inspired by food culture, consumerism, and personal experience, Aburrow creates uncanny simulations inspired by everyday experiences. She seeks to foster a sense of community, inviting audiences to engage with the artwork and immerse themselves in a space that evokes personal memories and reflections while gaining insight into the artist’s own life.
Her installations allow her to revisit lived experiences and reclaim agency as a creative practitioner. By stepping into a fictionalised service industry role blurring the boundaries between reality and performance, Aburrow explores the limitations and inaccessibility of certain professions within her personal life as a disabled artist.

Serena Mirambeau Brey (they/them) is a participatory artist and facilitator, with roots in France and Spain. Their practice focuses on collaborative filmmaking and writing, exploring play, improvisation, and tenderness. Their work is textured by excursions in stop-motion and live animation, dives into gifted archives, anonymous Google Doc storytelling, and group games. The process is their favourite part of any project, and perhaps the very point.
They received an MA in Visual Anthropology from Goldsmiths University in 2021. Their time there deepened an interest in anthropological methodologies, collaborative storytelling, and experimenting in the playful space between the documentary and fiction forms. Serena is the co-founder of Stone Soup, a series of writing workshops developed and facilitated in collaboration with artist Hannah Machover.
Their short film barnacled (2022) was commissioned by Tour de Moon and screened at the BFI for the London Short Film Festival. Recent projects include Sábado TV, a kitchen-based DIY broadcast with neighbours, screened at TACO! for the Viddy Horror Show exhibition; and Clara’s Hard Drive, a speculative docu-fiction imagining the caretaking of memories in a post-cloud-storage world, screened at Siobhan Davies Studio, The Theatreship, Cubitt Gallery, and Three Wheel Drive.

Hannah Chaney is a multidisciplinary sculptor with a background in classical and contemporary dance. A graduate of Fine Art from Goldsmiths University, her practice centers on materiality as a vehicle for human connection and shared experience. Rooted in a sensitivity to play, proximity and care, Chaney’s sculptural work investigates how materials hold memory and meaning, functioning as tactile invitations for interaction and collective reflection.
Chaney treats material as both substance and system, she is increasingly focused on the use of bio-materials and earth based objects, responding to their histories, textures and the communities they touch. Her work often challenges the parameters of the public space, using sculptural interventions intended to seed new forms of togetherness, bridging formal sculpture and socially engaged research.
She is driven by a deep responsibility to understand how artistic production affects the wider ecological fabric, demanding her practice to turn toward the ground both literally and figuratively.

Ffion Colquhoun-O’Brien is an artist based in Margate, Kent. Her practice explores aspects of contemporary popular culture and the Anthropocene, primarily through sculpture and installation.
Mapping environments of the “other,” she uses found and discarded materials to create pieces in which the remnants of society are brought together. Blobby, vulgar, and fragmented forms grapple with the construction of identity and narrative—both in the physical and digital realms—and examine how these constructs can malfunction in everyday life.
Ffion also works with clay, analogue photography, and print publication. She graduated with first-class honours in Art Writing from the University of the West of England in 2024.

Annabelle Edginton is an artist working with machines, systems, and language to explore how objects and experiences connect across distance. Her constructed worlds often operate on their own internal logic, testing whether function can exist outside natural law.
Her practice is rooted in a fascination with non-locality and non-centralised systems—how things interact without fixed hierarchies or physical contact. Using both technological and natural structures, she creates playful investigations into dysfunction, control, and the absurd. Language, approached through a dyslexic lens, becomes a tool for dismantling linear thought and reimagining structure.
Edginton graduated from the University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury (BA Fine Art) in 2022. She has recently exhibited at Kavel Rafferty, Yellow Door Double Floor (2025); Louie at the Turner Contemporary, Off Season (2025) and Joseph Wales, Schmooze (2024).

Ezekiel is a Filipino artist specialising in photography, filmmaking, curation and publishing. Their work often explores the intricacies and nuances of gender, sexuality, and identity through an intimately queer gaze. Their practice is also deeply informed by their transnational upbringing and experiences as a first-generation immigrant navigating the tensions between Eastern and Western cultures. Through this lens, Ezekiel’s work seeks to critically examine the politics of modern representation and colonial frameworks, challenging our dominantly white, heteronormative visual culture.
Ezekiel is also the founder and creative director of SMUT, an acclaimed photobook series, independent publisher, and creative studio.

Clara Frain-Atallah is a London-born Irish-Egyptian artist with an interdisciplinary practice. Through predominantly painting, sculpture and cooking Clara navigates how food stories can be used as a vehicle to explore themes of nostalgia, legacy and connection. Her
compositions unfold like scenes in a play, these restaging’s are sites where the drape of a tablecloth might echo the fall of a stage curtain. Through recurring motifs and visual investigations everyday objects transform into symbolic anchors, allowing food to function both materially and metaphorically. Graduating from Goldsmiths University in 2022, Clara then went on to study an alternative MA in Food and Art. Her work now straddles these two spaces.

Imogen-Naomi Herd is a Margate-raised, multidisciplinary surrealist artist whose practice explores memory, place, identity, and loss through collage, installation, and cultural writing. With an academic background in History and History of Art from the University of Edinburgh, and a Research MA in Cultural History from the University of Kent, her work is deeply influenced by spatial history, oral culture, folk ritual and material culture.
Inspired by the comfort and terror of growing up against and within the liminality of a coastal town, her work takes on a fragmentary nature reflecting core themes throughout her work of impermanence and the ephemeral.

Eve Jefferies‘ work reflects the optimistic search for an alternative mode of living and the disillusionment encountered on the journey in discovering it’s impossible. By exploring the untranslatable, Eve investigates language, its boundaries/ confines and traps; and the space between knowing something and understanding something, to convey a gestalt, for an internal world, pogo-ing between these dual forces.
Weaving together a myriad of references, Eve hopes to open passages in time, to reflect on past, present and future, what will become and how things could have been different.
Eve has exhibited internationally in Seyðisfjörður in Iceland and Telšiai in Lithuania and graduated from Goldsmiths University in 2021.

Suds McKenna is an artist and community worker from Belfast. He makes work across drawing, airbrush painting and sculpture; often articulating populated scenes of social and individual bodies. These works approach the notion of “the assembly” through a referential drawing practice that explores the citation of history, belief and humour as expressions of resistance. Concurrent to this practice runs an interest in developing methods for collective production, learning and building within community settings.
He has exhibited at 16 Collective (Glasgow), Glasgow International, CCA Derry, CCA Intermedia Gallery (Glasgow), Market Gallery (Glasgow), Edinburgh Art Festival and South London Gallery. His illustrations have also featured in SAM’S EDEN #2, Letters to Assynt #2, Communal Leisure #4 and various issues of Elephant Magazine. Additionally he was a Co-op Member at Bonjour (2021-2023) a Queer bar and venue in Glasgow, and has worked across health and social care, disability justice and digital inclusion.

Cara Murray is a Scottish artist originally from the Highlands, and a recent graduate from Art and Philosophy at DJCAD, Dundee. She considers herself a sculptor and a friend of the snails. Interested in ideas of selfhood as emerging with and embedded in the sensual and social world, her practice calls into question what it means to be an animal that calls itself “I” and the ways in which this “I” is produced not merely through reflective thought (“I think”), but through the possibility of embodied action in an open world (“I can”).
Cara is interested in challenging traditional static separations of mind/body, self/other and human/animal, choosing to engage in the open fuzziness of ambiguous space and towards a philosophy that is dynamic and living. Her recent sculptural work has taken form through organic materials and subjects such as mud, snails, flowers and plants.

Dre Spisto (he/they, b. Venezuela, 1989) is an artist working across live performance, film, and embodied practices. Their work unfolds through a lens of anarchic charisma, embracing unpredictability, softness, and disruption as tools for dismantling normative performance structures. With a focus on neuroqueer approaches, Dre prioritises access as methodology, favouring sensory immersion and fragmentary, affective dramaturgies over linear narrative.
A graduate of Arthaus Berlin in Lecoq and embodied practices, with a specialism in clown through mask, Dre merges movement, improvisation, and autobiographical character play with live and projected film. Their performances have been described as genre-defying, exuberant, and intimate—moving between surrealism, tenderness, and subversive humour.
Recent works include 50 Ways to Kill a Slug, funded by Arts Council England and Shape Arts, and The Stimming Pool, an experimental film with the Neurocultures Collective and Steven Eastwood. Their work has been presented at ICA, Battersea Arts Centre, Staffordshire Gallery, Shape Arts, Jupiter Artland, CASA Festival, Brixton House, and The British Museum.

Helen Savage is a writer and educator. Her writing is usually in the first person and moves between fact and fiction.
Helen’s writing has been published by Somethingother.org and by Cipher Press in their anthology ‘Nights Like This’. In 2021 she was awarded a master’s in creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths University and she was long listed for the Pat Kavanagh life writing award.
Helen likes to work with and in groups and has delivered many writing workshops to children and adults in the community, in school and custodial settings, in and around London. From 2023-2024 she ran at open mic night titled ‘Unwritten’ at London’s iconic Retro Bar.

Awra Tewolde-Berhan is a British-Eritrean artist and filmmaker working across moving image, sculpture, installation, and site-responsive forms. Her practice traces the eroding architectures of statecraft, disciplinary systems, and ancestral presence—often through deforming strategies such as withholding, de-narrativising, and sonic excavation. Projects like Kol’uso, Arb’Ate Ayni, and Poor Old Phones explore defaced memory, “poor images,” and the sculptural afterlives of technology.
Awra works with activated public sites—such as launderettes, recycling centres, and thresholds—to engage material and spectral logics. Roaming, lingering, and trespassing are tools of her inquiry.
She holds an MFA in Film and Media Arts from Temple University, Philadelphia, where she taught courses on race, space, and decolonial cinema. She has participated in artist-led programmes including the Flaherty Seminar and Orpheus Institute.