BIOGRAPHIES

Alchemy is an evolving collective of professional artists, youth workers and Goldsmiths university student ambassadors and placement students working with Lewisham organisations and schools to offer a wide range of professional music skills training, mentoring and performance opportunities to local 13-18 year olds. The project was founded by musician and associate lecturer in music and education Mikey Kirkpatrick and made possible by Goldsmiths (Widening Participation, Music, Social, Therapeutic and Community Studies Departments) in partnership with The Albany, Deptford and the CCA Residents Programme.  

A Particular Reality (APR) is an inter-institutional collective formed by students, alumni and educators from the Fine Art departments at Goldsmiths University, Kingston School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University and Middlesex University. With a commitment to building creative learning environments upon the values of equity, care and collaboration; APR addresses art, learning and anti-racism, within and beyond practice-based education.

Avril Corroon is a visual artist born in Ireland working with sculpture, installation, moving-image, performance, and social practice. Her work examines inequity and health through questioning how architecture manifests governance. She has made cheese from toxic mould, collected 1800L of dehumidifier water, and performed on a city rooftop as the Airbnb logo. Corroon has focused on housing crisis’s and living conditions, collecting and using materials that hold distinct relations to these issues such as toxic mould. For her last major work GOT DAMP (2023) Corroon worked with members of a housing union, as well as the wider public in Dublin at Project Arts Centre and TACO in London, to create an exchange system for harvesting damp and collecting stories, circulating back evidence for claims with thermal imagery, equipment (dehumidifiers), and fees.

Iarlaith Ní Fheorais (b. 1995) is a curator and writer based between Galway and London. As the curator of the 21st edition of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts she staged exhibitions, public programmes and a publication responding to the legacy of mass psychiatric incarceration in Ireland entitled honey, milk, and salt in a seashell before sunrise. She’s the author of the book There’s a Tunnel Under Ballybrit Business Park (2026), a critique of the MedTech industry and the politics of healthcare in Ireland. She has an essay on John Broderick’s 1965 novel The Waking of Willie Ryan in the forthcoming Abolish Europe and is currently co-directing the film Going to Ballinasloe with artist Sarah Browne. 

Lou Lou Sainsbury is an artist and filmmaker based in London, working across moving image, live-performance, sculpture and textiles. Sainsbury’s work seeks to tell stories exploring histories of resistance, transformation and entanglement. With collaboration at the core of her practice, rituals and invocations, collective study, domestic intervention, adaptation, songwriting and make-shift mutations make up some of her idiosyncratic research methods. Making connections between spirituality, medicalisation, colonialism and technology, her tricksterish work attempts to excavate a historical and imagined past of queer and trans life within the brokenness of human and more-than-human worlds. 

Resonance Poetry is a poetry collective based in South East London. They’re a group of friendly queer volunteers who love poetry and people. Resonance believes that poetry is for everyone and everyone can write poetry. They’re committed to creating community, amplifying and providing opportunities for early-career artists at all stages of life, and championing access to the arts for underrepresented groups. They host free monthly open mic poetry nights at arts club SET Social and deliver free poetry workshops at The Feminist Library in Peckham. They also publish work from emerging writers, and partner with local charities and community groups to bring poetry to places it isn’t usually found. 

Rosa-Johan Uddoh is an artist working towards maximum self-esteem (but not in an individualist sense!), inspired by Black feminism.  She is interested in how different types of Black performance are encouraged at different times, the limits and consequences of ‘representation’ and ‘hard work’ and how different scripts might prompt us toward freedom. A performance artist in her heart of hearts, she also works with film, installation, writing, audio, drawing & print. Through thorough research, and by engaging nostalgia, humour and popular culture, she aims to tap into a place in herself, participants and audience that’s deeply-felt and politically charged. 

Sofia Asir fka Danu is an actress best known for her roles as Ammit in Marvel Studios’ Moon Knight (Disney+), Dinah in Terrence Malick’s The Way of the Wind, and Diyala in Annemarie Jacir’s Palestine 36. She began her theatre journey with The Freedom Theatre in Jenin before training at Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance UK. Her stage credits include Salwa in the Olivier Award-nominated Royal Court production Two Palestinians Go Dogging. She will next be seen as Faten Karkouti in Channel 4’s The Siege.

TISSUE is a trans publishing and events initiative based in London. Arising from a hostile political landscape for trans* people in 2022, TISSUE is a trans* literary initiative, which curates reading events and publishes anthologies with an emphasis on fostering communal spaces that develop trans thinking and writing. Their events offer a social nexus for the community to meet, showcase and exchange ideas, and their publishing archives these conversations and work in print. Their first anthology, MAKING, was launched at the Whitechapel Gallery in 2023, while the second, CRINGING, will be published later this year. Their pamphlet series The London Review of Trannies, produces community-led criticism of contemporary trans exhibitions in London.

Yasmin Huleileh is a researcher, writer, and curator whose practice engages visual culture, cultural heritage, and the social contradictions that shape everyday life in Palestine and the wider Arab world. Working across research, exhibition-making, sound, and publishing, she is interested in the political and cultural structures embedded within contemporary artistic practice. Her writing has been published by Studio Safar, Collective for Architecture Lebanon, Discontent Magazine, and Stuart Magazine. She is also co-founder of the Fana’ Collective.

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