Holly Hunter is a multidisciplinary artist and facilitator based in Margate, Kent. Her work involves film, writing, sound, performance and workshops.

Her interests include ecology, queer embodiment, science fiction, murky waters and sneaky creatures. She is committed to collaborative practices, non-hierarchical learning spaces and the importance of supportive community as a means of radical growth and resistance.

Alice Davies is an Art Psychotherapist, Artist, and Artist Educator and she holds her private practice in one of our studios.

Alice offer’s a safe, confidential, and non-judgemental space to be heard and seen. She has many years of experience in a range of settings working with children, adolescents, young adults and adults, and within schools, organisations, the community and the NHS, facilitating both groups and one-to-one sessions.

She takes an intersectional approach, and her experience is with people from socially, culturally and ethnically diverse backgrounds. She is a neurodiversity-affirming psychotherapist.

Ollie Briggs is an artist educator, researcher, coach and consultant working in the field of alternative arts education, community resource building and organisational development.

He is the founder and Leader of Arts Education Exchange  (AEE), a registered charity based in Margate, UK. AEE provides alternative   arts education, creative therapies and advocacy for young people, who are marginalised from mainstream education and society.

Ollie is a qualified teacher of Art and Design and taught in secondary schools for 6 years before setting up AEE. He has a Masters called Artist Teacher and Contemporary Practice (Goldsmiths college, UK)  and he’s a certified coach (Level 7, Relational Dynamics).

Ollie is also a sound and visual artist.

Kit Griffiths is an internationally screened, award-winning artist-filmmaker, a published, award-winning poet, and an award-winning writer-performer described as “Tender and compelling” (The Times). Kit is 34 years old, Cardiff-born and raised (Merthyr on weekends), Cambridge-educated, London-established and happily Margate-based. White, queer, quite able-bodied, educated povvo with Trauma CV available upon request. (Really, I made it. You can request it.)

11 years’ professional experience in writing and performance, 4 years’ in fine art and film. Recent/current exhibitions include Queer ART(ists) Now London 2022 & 2023, Turner Contemporary Open 2022, Art Basel Hong Kong with Videotage & British Council 2023 and Beneath this Mask alongside Hayward Gallery touring of Claude Cahun, at the Beaney Museum Canterbury 2023.

Cherelle Sappleton is a British-Caribbean interdisciplinary artist based in Ramsgate (UK) working across collage photography, sound & installation. A trained Somatic & Sound Therapist with a background in experimental theatre, she uses music, movement & sound to tune into emotional states, which informs her creative practice.

After earning an MA Fine Art from the Central Saint Martins in (2013), Sappleton has been exhibited both in the UK and internationally, with solo shows at Phoenix Gallery, Exeter & Sutton House, London. Sappleton has also been commissioned by a variety of orgs & institutions, including  Great Ormond Street Hospital, National Trust, Hospital Rooms and National Theatre.

Anka Nash Wolbert is a cross-disciplinary artist. Through painting, photography and sound, they experiment with both traditional methods and 2D/3D computer software.

Starting out as a musician, photographer & screen printer in Amsterdam, their professional music career brought them to the UK and took centre stage for 20+ years. 

Anka’s practice is rooted in an interest in nature and abstraction, the subconscious, and the embodied experience. This includes the human voice, the making of sound together, and how sound connects us.

Anna Presilia is an Italian artist whose work spans sculpture, drawing, and photography.

Her work explores the coexistence of contradictions in today’s world through Feminist New Materialism. Driven by autobiographical experiences, she delves into themes of domesticity, ecology, and transformation. Employing humble materials like food waste, bio-yarn, and found objects, Anna creates “nonsculptures”—hybrid forms that blur the line between art and life. These works, inspired by Arte Povera and childhood memories, embody ephemeral qualities, evolving like living creatures. By listening to the whispers of materials, Anna becomes a facilitator, assembling pieces to reveal their inner mechanisms.

Sayuri Ichida, a Margate-based Japanese artist born in Fukuoka in 1985, explores self-identity and personal experiences through photography.

Her work examines emotional states through the human form and everyday objects with a sculptural approach. She completed an MA in Photography Arts at the University of Westminster in 2022 and often incorporates photopolymer photo etching techniques in her recent projects. Ichida’s art has been exhibited internationally at venues such as IBASHO Gallery, Unseen Amsterdam, and Art Paris. As an artist-in-residence at Light Work in 2023, her project ‘Ctrl Shift +J’ received the Benrido Award as part of the Hariban Award 2023.

Her work is included in the collection of Museum Voorlinden.

Tomasz Laczny is an artist and educator based in Margate, Tomasz’s work explores themes of displacement and migration, rooted in his personal experiences as an immigrant. His practice primarily revolves around bookmaking, photography, and drawing, often incorporating a mix of photography, drawing, text, and archival interventions. Tomasz has been involved in photobook production since 2015, with his work “Erna Helena Ania” featured in the MoMA collection library. Currently, he serves as a Special Lecturer at the University of the Arts London and has conducted workshops globally, including in Germany, the UK, France, Belgium, Poland, and refugee camps in Algeria.