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about the artists

Renata Cassiano Alvarez is a Mexican-Italian artist, who works predominantly in the medium of clay, in a search for developing an intimate collaborative relationship with material and material language. Influenced by archeology and history, she is interested in the power of the object as survival - objects with a sense of permanence and timelessness, and language as transformation; specially how adopting a different language can affect the physicality of the human body, and how this translates into material. Educated in Mexico, Italy, Denmark and the US, she has had the opportunity to work in different artistic environments, a cross-cultural and multimedia experience which has lead to the belief that craft is an evolving field and something that exists in motion. Her work has been exhibited internationally and can be found in public and private collections in Mexico, Estonia, Italy, Taiwan, Germany, Denmark, Latvia, China, USA and Slovenia. Renata is the Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Arkansas School of Art, and works between her studio in Veracruz, Mexico and Springdale, Arkansas.

Antonia Low is a Berlin based artist and Professor at Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart. Her sculptural and conceptual art is concerned with the interaction between architecture, narratives, materiality and aesthetics. With her interventions she explores and combines various procedures and strategies. In her space filling installations she reflects on spatial situations, pursuing the overlap of different layers of temporality and space.

Low’s installations were presented at GIBCA Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, ISCP New York; Ginkgo Space Beijing; K21 Kunstsammlung NRW Düsseldorf; Palazzo Altemps National Museum of Rome, Kunstmuseum Bonn; Kunstverein Braunschweig; MACRO Testaccio Rome; Städtische Galerie Nordhorn; Saarlandmuseum, Saarbrücken. Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen and Neuer Berliner Kunstverein n.b.k..

Kirsty Russell is based in Aberdeen. Her work is concerned with support, and structures that underpin and maintain. With reference to the women in her family who work in positions of care, she often returns to the physical and emotional weight of the work that they do and to the repetitive nature of maintenance. Her work expands into places of care, such as hospitals and schools, through project worker and other supporting roles.

Kirsty featured in Syllabus IV, a collaboratively-produced alternative learning programme, jointly delivered by Wysing Arts Centre, Spike Island, Studio Voltaire, S1 Artspace, Eastside Projects and Iniva. She was resident at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh College of Art (2022-24) and received a bursary and funding from Jerwood. Kirsty’s work has been exhibited at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Mimosa House, London, Platform: 2021, Edinburgh Art Festival, Glasgow Women’s Library and the Jerwood Staging Series, Jerwood Arts Space, London and her first solo exhibition Practising Bodies at Cubitt Gallery, London - in June 2024.

Amba Sayal-Bennett is a British-Indian artist based in London, who works across drawing, projection, and sculptural installation. Her practice explores how methods of abstraction are exclusionary and performative, crafting boundaries between what is present, manifestly absent, and othered. Her recent work focuses on the migration of modernist forms and their role within fascist and brutalist architecture. Using translation as method, she explores the movement of bodies, knowledge and form across different sites, processes inherent to the diasporic experience.

Following a Sculpture MA at the Royal College of Art, Amba was awarded a PhD in Art Practice and Learning from Goldsmiths University, her research was published with Tate Papers. Amba was The Derek Hill Foundation scholar at the British School at Rome (2022) and currently lectures at Camberwell College of Arts. Recent exhibitions include Geometries of Difference, Somerset House, London, Horror in the Modernist Block, IKON, Birmingham, My Mother Was a Computer, indigo+madder, London and Tomorrow, White Cube, London.

Del Hardin Hoyle is an Artist, Designer and Musician currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Del operates an open and dynamic studio practice that combines interior and furniture design with sculpture, installation, sound and drawing. His work is often saturated with color and riddled with detail. There is a disarming and chaotic humor to his exhibitions that attempt to subvert our experience of place.

Selected exhibitions include ‘slippy’ at Miriam Gallery, Brooklyn, ‘Sprout, Hinge, Nap, Wobble’ at EFA Project Space and ‘Artist’s Tools’ at Special Special both in Manhattan.

In 2023 he co-founded the experimental design studio Outgoing with artist and designer Brett Gui Xin. Del was awarded the President's Scholarship to attend Parsons The New School for Design (graduated in 2017).

TC McCormack works in the field of interdisciplinary art and curatorial practice, his artistic methods interrogate the constituents of sculptural space, image making (moving & fixed) and text. Central to his curation is an interest in more agile and commutable forms of address. Based in London, McCormack is the director of the exhibition space: EUCA Annex, he is a Researcher and Senior Lecturer, in Fine Art, at Sheffield Hallam University. TC has exhibited at Forum Exposition Bonlieu (France), Viborg Kunsthal (Denmark) Kunstraum (Linz) Nationalmuseum (Berlin), ICA (London) Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin) Centre pour L’image Contemporaine (Geneva) Platform (Istanbul) FACT (Liverpool) Kunstnernes Hus (Olso) and European Capital of Culture (Cork).

Ivan Seal lives and works in Berlin, he is a painter and sound artist who specializes in surreal and abstract works centered around concepts of memory and the creation of imagined objects.

He has exhibited internationally in institutions, galleries and alternative spaces. Recently, these have included Podo Museum (South Korea), Frac Auvergne (France), Unsound (Poland), Alma Pearl (UK), Richard Heller (USA), Monica Cardenas (Italy) and Allouche Benias (Greece). Seal also collaborates with the musician James Kirby, particularly in the project The Caretaker.

Ivan studied at Sheffield Hallam University and he lectures at the Royal College of Art.

Heidi Sill lives and works in Berlin, she works across a variety of media including: ink drawings, collages and installations. An examination of the phenomenon of the surface, such as symbolic inscriptions on the outer appearance, injuries and marks, and thus concepts such as the trace and the imprint, play an essential role in her work.

Sill studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg, the Institut des Hautes Etudes en Arts Plastiques, Paris. She has lectured at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin), Ecole Supérieure d'Art et Design Grenoble-Valence (F) and currently at the HAW Hamburg, Department Design. Sill is a spokesperson for and board member of; bbk berlin (Professional Association of Visual Artists).

Heidi has been commissioned for Public Art projects and has exhibited internationally,

including: a.o ZAK Zentrum für Aktuelle Kunst, Zitadelle Spandau; Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden; Neues Museum Nürnberg; Kunstpavillon Munich; n.b.k. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein; Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin; Centre d’Art Contemporain d’Istres (F); Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Le Magasin - Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble; Bonner Kunstverein; Club Transmediale Berlin; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; kunst galerie fürth; Griffin Gallery, London; Kunsthaus Erfurt; Kunsthalle Nürnberg; Artothek Munich; Kunsthaus Nürnberg; Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Potsdam; Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich, London

Tommy Støckel’s projects draw inspiration from everyday objects, spaces and situations as well as from found digital material. These are meticulously reworked and transformed into artworks in a wide range of media, including site-specific installations, sculptures, photographs, typefaces, emojis and various digital formats.

Støckel was born in Copenhagen and is based in Berlin. He has had solo exhibitions at Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main; Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen and Arnolfini, Bristol. His work has also been shown in The Atlantic Project, Plymouth; Eastside Projects, Birmingham; CAPC, Bordeaux; Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm and the Gwangju Biennale.