Sarabande supports creatively fearless minds of the future; our aim is to nourish emerging artists on all fronts to ensure they have the means to realise their distinctive visions. Sarabande offers scholarships at leading universities, houses the best value artist studios in London, and runs a pioneering public programme of events. Once a Sarabande artist, always a Sarabande artist. We continue to mentor our alumni to help build a successful and sustainable business that is true to them and their practice. We believe that artists work better in a creatively nourishing environment – our peer-to-peer community ensures that our artists get just that. Our creatives’ work is also multifarious. We welcome a range of disciplines from jewellers and designers to animators and performers – all of whom have a unique vision and dedication to their craft.
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StephenJonesOBE
Thank heavens for Sarabande…
Life is fashioned from good and bad, positive and negative. When in 2011 I visited the legendary Alexander McQueen exhibition ‘Savage Beauty’ at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I was blown away by the electrifying energy of his creativity in times of lightness and darkness, in good and evil.
Lee’s legacy was not only this astounding power, but also in philanthropy with the creation of the Sarabande Foundation, named after his collection from Spring 2007 which celebrated his illustrious repertoire.
Sarabande is a home, even a refuge, for those who are starting their artistic journey – a constant in times of turbulence, of lightness and darkness. How wonderful that they can flower at their own pace but spurred on by like-minded neighbours, colleagues and friends. The tenacity of its trustees and directors has enabled Sarabande to be a cradle of creativity for over 280 individuals from across Fashion, Jewellery, Art, Sculpture and even Millinery!
Sarabande is a focus for all that is good; from its internal synergies to its status as a hub for the crossflow of the new with the established. Its courage sets it apart, giving it a reputation for excellence in diversity and pushing the boundaries of what we are, and what we can become.
Home Partner Mentor Friend - Stephen Jones, London 2025
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Our Ethos
Lee Alexander McQueen established Sarabande in 2006; named after his Spring/Summer 2007 show. Knowing that access to the arts isn’t always plain sailing, Sarabande was established to support those with enormous talent and artistic vision by giving them the means to push boundaries, overturn prevailing orthodoxies and fulfil their potential. Put simply, Sarabande’s mission is to inclusively nurture the intrepid creatives of our future.
In 1994, two years after showing his final MA collection at Central Saint Martins, Lee founded the Alexander McQueen label, which has grown to become one of the foremost creatively led fashion brands in the world. Lee’s collaborative spirit was essential to the brand’s success.
He sought out and invited fellow artists, artisans and creatives to work on collections, shows and campaigns. This merging of skill and vision allowed Lee to continually push the limits of fashion –expanding its relevance, artistry and meaning. It is this sentiment that runs through Sarabande’s core and, in the light of this – that mixing with other creatives is intrinsic to our ethos – we provide an encouraging space for our artists to collaborate and be explorative with their work.
Sarabande’s support for creatives is threefold: we offer scholarships to study at top-level arts institutions in London, a subsidised studio programme with bespoke mentoring and a pioneering public programme of on-site events for the wider creative community. When we speak of the Sarabande ‘family’, we are true to our word; our alumni have continual access to our support even after they have flown the nest.
A note to our supporters
A BIG thank you to all the brands, companies and individuals who have contributed to this manifesto and supported Sarabande over the past year.
We know we are not alone in feeling that the economic landscape continues to be challenging for our industry. We are grateful to those who continue to support our mission in spite of, and even because of, the current environment.
Together, we comprise a global group of like-minded companies and individuals who share our mission to elevate and guide future generations of visionary thinkers to follow in your footsteps.
Sarabande was kickstarted by Lee’s vision and direction, but it is with your help that we have changed the lives of more than 280 artists and designers through scholarships and access to affordable studio space. Through workshops, exhibitions, and inspirational and educational talks, we have opened up our artistic realm to tens of thousands of curious creatives.
With your support, you have shown that the creative community cares for its members and pulls together, forming a strong, tightknit community around the world, almost more than ever in time of need. Sarabande could not do it without you.
Marina Abramović is one of the most influential and groundbreaking artists of our time, redefining performance art and its role in contemporary culture. Born in Belgrade in 1946, Marina has spent more than five decades exploring the intersection of endurance, vulnerability, and connection, crafting works that push the boundaries of human potential and artistic expression. Marina has not only shaped the history of performance art but has also inspired a new generation of artists to embrace the transformative power of presence and self revelation.
In Marina’s words:
“Sarabande Foundation is a very special and unique combination of many media – art, fashion, architecture, film, video and mixed media.
Creatives are offered endless opportunities to develop and create new languages, influencing not just art, but culture, society and the way we think.”
“Creatives are offered endless opportunities to develop and create new languages, influencing not just art, but culture, society and the way we think.”
Marina Abramović, Artist
“Every time I visit, I leave feeling inspired, invigorated and, above all, humbled by the work I see and the conversations I have with each and every resident”
Andrew Bolton OBE, The Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Andrew Bolton OBE has been the curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute since 2006 and is widely recognised for curating several of the museum’s most pioneering and successful fashion exhibitions, including; Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between, Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, and most recently, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.
In Andrew’s words:
“Lee’s legacy lives on through his extraordinary body of work, which still has the ability to generate visceral emotions. Perhaps more essentially, however, it thrives through the incredible ambitions of the diverse range of artists and designers that have passed through the Sarabande Foundation. Their unique creations not only channel the astounding originality and imagination of Lee, but also his astonishing bravery and fearlessness.”
“Sarabande Foundation is a thriving incubator of creativity. It fosters a community of likeminded individuals, who are encouraged to express themselves in the truest and purest of ways. Every time I visit, I leave feeling inspired, invigorated, and, above all, humbled by the work I see and the conversations I have with every resident. Sarabande emboldens its artists and designers to think differently and empowers them through an inimitable camaraderie of creativity. Born out of Lee’s noble vision, it stands as his proud and eternal legacy.”
Sandy Powell CBE is a multi awardwinning Costume Designer. Amongst her many accolades her work has earned her 3 BAFTA Awards, 3 Academy Awards and 3 Costume Designer Guild Awards.
In 2023 she was the first Costume Designer to receive the prestigious BAFTA Fellowship in recognition of Outsatnding Achievement in the Art Forms of the Moving Image.
Over the last three decades, Powell has collaborated with some of the most highly regarded filmmakers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries including Martin Scorsese, Todd Haynes and Derek Jarman.
In Sandy’s words:
“I am honoured to be an ambassador for The Sarabande Foundation as I am in awe of the incredible work they do supporting creative talent by providing not only Scholarships for emerging visionaries but studio space for artists of varying ages to further develop their skills. It is truly inspiring to visit the studio space and be in the company of such a diverse range of skills and talent.”
“It is truly inspiring to visit the studio space and be in the company of such a diverse range of skills and talent”
Sandy Powell CBE, Costume Designer
“When I’m trooping through the Sarabande studios, I’m transported”
Tim Blanks, Fashion Critic and Editor-in-Chief of BoF, Commentator and Writer on the global world of fashion
Tim Blanks is a leading fashion critic and editor-in-chief of BoF – a greatly respected and loved commentator and writer on the global world of fashion. Tim moves effortlessly between art and fashion and has helped the foundation with several talks and introductions.
In Tim’s words:
“I know Sarabande was a stately court dance in 17th-century Europe, though its earlier incarnation as a notoriously lively Central American fandango might have been more up Lee McQueen’s street. Either way, the word has a connotation of otherworldly culture that makes it an ideal label for Lee’s foundation. When I’m trooping through the Sarabande studios, I’m transported. Where did these people come from, with their passions and their quirkiness and their extraordinary craftsmanship? The heady combination of art and fashion and jewellery and strange ambitions is more than an artful testament to the legend of the man whose bequest made it all possible. It’s the best possible living legacy.”
“On a more pragmatic front, Sarabande is also a smart investment in the future of the British fashion industry because it encourages and celebrates what we’re best at: storytelling, craft, idiosyncrasy, fearlessness, and a style heritage like no one else’s. I can’t remember a moment when we were more in need of a reminder of all that. If Sarabande had a banner, I’d be marching under it, in joyful humanist defiance of blinkered political orthodoxy.”
“I’m proud to be a patron for Sarabande. That his legacy supports a charitable foundation for artists and designers means he is alive through the work he supports”
Sam Taylor-Johnson OBE, Artist and Film Director
Sam Taylor-Johnson OBE was born in Croydon and graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London, in 1990. Her first solo exhibition was at The Showroom, London, in 1994, and she was the youngest artist to be granted a solo exhibition at the Hayward Gallery for a major retrospective of her work. She traverses directing major films and her personal artistic practice.
In Sam’s words:
“From my perspective, it is really important to support the foundation, as it was so important to Lee. Sarabande is an extension of his creativity. It creates a thread linking his thought processes to his love of collaborations with other artists – musicians, artists, jewellers, image-makers – and keeping that thread alive is magical.”
“Sarabande is curated with absolutely the right spirit, with artists working at a consistently high level. Lee was a fantastic collaborator and image-maker, which was reflected in every single aspect of what he did. There is no one like him, but having these young creative minds coming through Sarabande is starting to fill that emptiness. It is a gift for me to be involved as a patron of the foundation – it is so alive.”
Nick Knight CBE is one of the world’s most influential and visionary photographers. He is also the founder and director of award-winning fashion website, SHOWstudio.com.
In Nick’s words:
“Artists see the world in a way that the rest of us do not, tuning into the subtleties that we would normally bypass. Sarabande Foundation provides the structure, the caring, education, and community to create work. There is a wide range of artistic skills that are supported, ranging from jewellery making to image making, and Sarabande is always looking towards the future.”
“Lee sent out images into the world that were as important as paintings, and they stay in the consciousness. We want our artists to show us things we cannot see – good and bad – and we need to put time and effort into protecting them, and giving them the time, space and support they deserve.”
“Sarabande Foundation provides the structure, the care, education, and community to create work. There is a wide range of artistic skills that are supported, ranging from jewellery making to image making, and Sarabande is always looking towards the future.”
Nick Knight CBE, Photographer
The Studios
Sarabande is proud to have two pioneering studio complexes in London, boasting 32 of Europe’s best-value artist spaces. Our HQ is based in a converted Grade II-listed Victorian stable block in Haggerston, while its sister site – two Grade II-listed Georgian townhouses – stands on Tottenham’s High Road. Both sites have 24-hour access, forming a creative community with designers and artists from multiple disciplines.
Costing a fraction of the local average, our studios are among the cheapest in London. At only £1 per square foot per month, the heavily subsidised studios ensure that our residents can focus on creative development and expanding their business to establish sustainable models for growth. Sarabande has endowed these original studio spaces for the past nine years, with no increases to rent.
Set in two of London’s richest creative hubs, Sarabande epitomises its surrounding creative spheres. Our buildings are home to a plethora of artists, including sculptors, fashion designers, jewellers, textile designers, painters, performance artists, silversmiths, costume designers, ceramicists and dancers. Alongside these, Sarabande also houses filmmakers, animators, photographers, digital designers and visual artists.
The studios house a comradeship of creatives who bolster each other’s practices and provide the drive to capitalise on other opportunities provided by the foundation. In addition to subsidised rent, residents have access to bespoke business mentoring, pro bono support from accountants and lawyers, discounted tickets and networking within our educational events, assistance for press and marketing strategies, professional filming and documentation, free use of the exhibition space, support in realising ambitious projects, and inclusion in the global creative activities led by the foundation such as retail events and exhibitions.
This year marks 10 years of the Sarabande Studios! You can read more about our journey on page 75.
Cherry Song
Scholarships
Since 2012, Sarabande has awarded students with scholarships for fashion at Central Saint Martins and art at Slade School of Fine Art. Both being of the most prestigious and generous scholarships available in London, beneficiaries are selected for having a fearless approach to creativity, but who lack the financial means to fulfil their vision. As of 2020, Sarabande bolstered this aid: increasing our full scholarships to BA Fashion at Central Saint Martins two-fold and introducing final-year bursaries to all courses. In 2022, these bursaries were increased by 50% to BA Fashion at Central Saint Martins. In 2023, we increased scholars’ living stipend by 30% in line with the increased cost of living – this has been maintained throughout 2025. In addition to financial support, students have access to bespoke mentoring from the Sarabande team and network, use of the building for development and exhibitions, and coverage in Sarabande’s international press. Unlike most scholarships, we are not just a final-year bursary. Instead, we financially support each student every year of their study, from start to finish, with a promise to support their practice beyond their years in education.
Yodea Marquel
Our award-winning scholars have been chosen by industry experts from the foundation’s network, including Sarah Burton OBE, Dinos Chapman, Sølve Sundsbø, Shaun Leane, Katy England, Tim Blanks, Hannah Barry, Nick Knight CBE, Matthew Slotover, Craig Green MBE, Sadie Coles, Giles Deacon, Todd Lynn, Jake Chapman, Kim Jones, Chris Ofili CBE, Marina Abramović, Daniel Roseberry and Maria Balshaw CBE. This year, we welcomed Sophia Neophitou and Maureen Paley to the roster. Starting at the beginning of a creative’s career by supporting their education and continuing to position opportunities in their way, our scholarship programme embodies Sarabande’s work and all that we do to champion visionary artists of future generations.
Tom Hallimond
As a foundation, it is our wish and our duty to honour the charity commission stipulations. In true Sarabande fashion, we go above and beyond the mandatory minimum by satisfying four of the 13 charity requirements. Not only do we address and relieve financial strain, but we also bring accessibility to the arts and education to the public realm. Sarabande is a foundation, not just a talent pool. We insist that neither we, nor anyone else, loses sight of that.
Linus Stueben Sarabande
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2024-2025hasn’t
been just any year at Sarabande; this year marks the 10th anniversary of our studios. So naturally, it has been one of our busiest yet. Our second year with two studio complexes, we’ve now well and truly nested into our North London home. Keeping operations running smoothly, we’ve aced our pioneering events programme, grown our AFOS mission, thrown our weight behind House of Bandits and taken on quite a few punchy projects. Something that sets this year apart from those before is dipping our toes into discipline-focused projects but, as always, we place championing our artists at the helm.
The Year at Sarabande
The summer brings with it its namesake group exhibition. This year’s iteration, A Place, was split into two parts to accommodate the growing roster across two studio complexes: Can I Just… and Stay Longer. The opening act, featuring Dean Hoy, Lulu Wang, Stephen Akpo, Sophie Lloyd, Emmely Elgersma, John Hui, Noah Berrie, Daniel The Gardener, Matija Cop and Banita Mistry, was a hot ticket, with 270 people joining the opening party to celebrate. Among the 270 guests were Dazed, The British Museum, Quintessentially, Sam and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, McQueen’s Sean McGirr, Burberry and more. Over the course of three weeks, there were takeovers by artists and performance evenings hosted by Noah Berrie and Lulu Wang.
Part II kicked off with a live durational performance by Electric Adam, viewed by Dom Pérignon and Bistrotheque. Stay Longer featured works by Darcey Fleming, Jo Grogan, Leyman Lahcine, Malgorzata Lisiecka, Kuniko Maeda, Koby Martin, Electric Adam, Anna Nicolò, George Richardson and Almudena Romero. The closing evening was activated by another stellar Electric Adam durational and welcomed over 100 guests to see in its close.
Tours were enjoyed by Burberry, The Standard Intl, Gemfields, Gagosian, Alexander McQueen, Hermès and SXSW among others. Elsewhere, mentoring roundtables were held for all by Sutton PR and Alice Black.
While the Summer Group Show stands front and centre, the Sarabande team hums along in the backdrop. Application season was in full swing with more than 500 applications and 300 interviews for the next cohort of Sarabande creatives. October would see the High Road studios welcome in sculptors Frances Pinnock, Lucy Ellerton, Cherry Song and Shannon Swinburn, painters Bex Massey and Daniel Rey, multidisciplinary artist Jennifer Jones, intimate ceramist Adele Brydges, performance contortionist Françoise Odill and installation artist Beverley Duckworth. We were thrilled to offer second years to Renata Brenha, George Richardson, Electric Adam, Darcey Fleming and Shola Branson.
George Richardson, One More
Can’t Hurt
The Year at Sarabande
The Hertford Road Studios soon became home to artist Tom Hemingway, stone sculptor Yijia Wu, textile sculptor Camila Barvo, jeweller Jet McQuiston, mixed media sculptors Fredrik Tjærandsen and Salvatore Pione, digital artist Shan Hua, photographer Giulia Grillo, ceramicist Helena Lacy, painters Jan Urant and Christian Hiadzi, fashion duo Aletta and functional sculptor Natalia Triantafylli. Staying for a second year were sculptor Jo Grogan and fashion designer Aaron Esh.
Before we got there, September heralded the main space’s annual spruce and, straight off the bat, Lulu Wang was in for rehearsals and Aaron Esh across both sites for casting, styling, HMU and pre LFW prep. Lulu joined us back in the space before Rachel Fleminger Hudson took over for a shoot and Renata Brenha set up her showroom to host Ssense and Selfridges among others. WED studio used the gallery space to shoot the new season before Aaron Esh returned to shoot the line sheet for the season just gone and Dean Hoy settled in to document his new works. Lulu Wang held almost daily rehearsals in the run up to her solo show, Human Puzzle, which opened on 26th September to a standout audience.
Elsewhere in the High Road Gallery, Kasia Wozniak held a shoot, followed hot on her heels by Daniel The Gardener to prep canvases. Electric Adam and George Richardson also tag-teamed the gallery space – Adam for practising and install and George to document his works. Matilde shot her collection and Electric Adam returned to test run his summer group show offering. Anna Nicolo was next on the booking list, using the gallery space for a shoot, followed by George and Renata Brenha who split the gallery and bar space on the same day for a shoot and appointments with buyers, respectively. Kuniko Maeda was next to book out the space before Rachel Fleminger Hudson made a home for a week-long shoot and Renata Brenha used the meeting rooms for appointments. Kasia returned for a shoot and Sarabande alum Lucy Jagger made the trip over to use the gallery space for an upcoming project.
For the first time ever (!), the Sarabande studios were opened up to the public: exclusively at our High Road Studios, we took part in London Open House. This was an opportunity to invite the local community into the world of Sarabande, raise the foundation’s profile and to give the general public a look-in to what goes on behind the scenes in the Sarabande studios. We were delighted to experience such enthusiasm for the studios, with more than 125 people touring throughout the day.
Kasia Wozniak,
Dior for Dazed Magazine
After the summer holidays, our public events came back in full force. Kicking off the season was AR for Creative Businesses, followed by From A Piece of Clay, a workshop led by Jo Grogan where attendees learned to masterfully sculpt a loved one in clay.
The September artist crit focused on nature, with Almudena Romero and Daniel The Gardener holding court, and our first INSPIRED talk of the season –Sir Tony Cragg CBE in conversation with Natasha Grabowska – was a sell-out. Wrapping up the month was the practical How To Build A Stand-Out Visual Identity with Studio Frith and Nicole Le-Surf.
This year we are delighted to have our Slade MFA scholar Claudia Ramirez Julio chosen by Maureen Paley. A warm welcome, Claudia, to the Sarabande community.
Tablescape by Paolo Carzana, A Night of Creative Assemblage
Jordan Fein, Eddie Redmayne, Hannah Redmayne & Tom Scutt Sarabande
And while we’re at The Roof Gardens, we’ve partnered with the rooftop oasis to host workshops led by our brilliant artists. An illustration class held by Daniel The Gardener focused on reconnection with nature while Karimah Hassan’s reflective poetry-inspired drawing session was the perfect weekend un-winder. Wrapping up the mini series was Shannon Bono who held a life drawing class. The following series featured a masterclass by Banita Mistry, Joshua Beaty’s legendary drawing class and the ever popular clay modelling workshop by Jo Grogan.
In the frenzy of Frieze and PAD, Sarabande’s House of Bandits was invited by Grosvenor Estate to take a leap west and pop-up at 5 Carlos Place for Mayfair’s Mount Street Neighbourhood Arts Festival. Our curation breathed life anew into the 7,000sq ft townhouse, bringing together over 160 exciting art, fashion, jewellery, craft and ceramics pieces from over 50 artists.
Also launched this week was Sarabande’s major feature in Harper’s BAZAAR’s Arts issue, where 11 established women in the arts spotlit an emerging female Sarabande artist. Pairs included Sandy Powell CBE and Daisy May Collingridge, Kate Bryan and Darcey Fleming, Maria Balshaw CBE and Clara Pinto, Michaela Yearwood-Dan and Harriet Horton, Gwendoline Christie and Judas Companion, Shona Heath and Jo Grogan, Sam Taylor-Johnson and Kasia Wozniak, Hikari Yokoyama and Hannah Norton, Sadie Coles OBE and Rachel Fleminger-Hudson, Maggi Hambling CBE and Laila Tara H and Sarabande’s very own Trino Verkade and Saelia Aparicio.
As part of a curated programme, Sarabande artists Stephen Akpo, Jo Grogan, Megan Brown and Shola Branson were invited to speak in conversation with A Vibe Called Tech to discuss the importance of creativity in the contemporary arts scene.
A highlight of the week was our Thursday late night shopping evening, where friends of the foundation and industry folk popped in for a tipple en route to Frieze evening plans and parties. Amongst the familiar faces were jewellery mastermind Wallace Chan, Camilla Lowther, Simon Chilvers, Gabriel Hendifar of Apparatus and Fremantle’s Andrew Llinares.
House of Bandits at Carlos Place
Kuniko Maeda, Nest
Never ones to waste an opportunity, upstairs at 5 Carlos Place became home to Sarabande’s Jewellery Showcase – a two-day event with a trade focus – an opportunity for buyers, press, clients and customers to view the newest pieces and collections from our 15 jewellers up close.
We invited all of our jewellers to participate and there was 100% uptake: Miya Kumo, Conor Joseph for HairWear (the collaboration between Conor and Taiba), Andrea Dritschel, Benjamin Hawkins, Shola Branson, Megan Brown, Emily Frances Barrett, Martina Kocianova, Charlotte Garnett, Matilde Mozzanega, Akiko Shinzato, Christopher Thompson Royds, Coline Assade and Castro Smith.
Notable guests included Vogue’s Sarah Harris and Naomi Smart, Sarah Royce-Greensill (former Jewellery & Watches Editor at The Telegraph), Jessica Diamond (Sunday Times Style), Carol Woolton (former Jewellery Editor at Vogue), Julian Vogel, Hannah Silver (Wallpaper*), Dover Street Market’s Mimi Hoppen, Stephen Webster, jewellery designer Annoushka Ducas, Zia Zareem-Slade, Vogue’s Sarah Bailey, McQueen’s Gaelle Collet and Hikari Yokoyama.
There’s no project too big for House of Bandits! In partnership with interior design company Spinocchia Freund, we curated Sarabande artist works for two Chelsea Barrack townhouses, Mulberry and Whistler. Featuring the rich breadth of Sarabande artists, the project included a large commissioned drawing by abstract artist Arthur Poujois, a colourful shag chair by Darcey Fleming, who repurposes baling twine into installation pieces, a papier-mâché clock by Emmely Elgersma, framed botanical sketches by Daniel the Gardener and even a taxidermied prawn by Harriet Horton.
We are so grateful to have the support of such brilliant seasoned professional minds in the industry and so, back on home turf, our mentoring programme has been going from strength to strength. A firm favourite, Gino Da’Prato has been dishing out his expert advice to Antonio Vattev, Koby Martin, Lulu Wang, Stephen Akpo, Kasia Wozniak, Jo Grogan and Miya Kumo. Our resident bookkeeper, Gynette, has been working her magic holding sessions with Lulu Wang, Stephen Akpo, Matilde Mozzanga, George Richardson, Dean Hoy and Banita Mistry. We are thrilled to welcome Calum Knight to our mentor roster. He has hit the ground running with his first mentees being Renata Brenha, Kasia Wozniak, Hannah Norton, Rachel Fleminger Hudson, Zongbo Jiang, Banita Mistry, Jo Grogan, Stephen Akpo, Dean Hoy and Lulu Wang. Alice Black held one-to-one sessions with Stephen Akpo and Almudena Romero. The wonderful Moin Roberts-Islam held an introductory roundtable to meet all of our new artists. From there our mentoring programme takes a break until the new year when the new artists in residence have made themselves at home.
As always, we have welcomed the wider creative community to discover our Sarabande creators. These introductions kickstart conversations, partnerships, projects, exhibitions and opportunities for our artists to prosper. Before wrapping for the winter break, tours were enjoyed by The Royal Mint, Skydiamond, Andrew Keith, Christie’s, Clare Smyth, The Royal Academy, McQueen’s Sean McGirr, Jimmy Choo’s head of comms
Bruno Busson, director of Saatchi Gallery Paul Foster, Burberry, Dom Pérignon, Peter Reed, Bistrotheque, McQueen’s Gaelle Collet, Hermès, Jonathan Akeroyd, Vivienne Westwood and the Wellcome Collection.
Let’s boomerang back to our events programme – this quarter was punchy! An INSPIRED conversation between Robert Wun and Pierre M’Pelé was delivered to a packed room and George Richardson held a workshop where guests were encouraged to render familiar domestic objects in pen and pencil.
House of Bandits partnership with SPINOCCHIA FREUND LONDON .
Image by Felix Speller
The next week we welcomed jewellery brainboxes Dominic Jones and Darren Hildrow to explain Going from Commission to Collection, followed closely on its heels by Acing Your Social Media Strategy with Purple PR and Liberty London. These talks sandwiched an INSPIRED conversation between Campbell Addy and Ibby Njoya.
Kicking off the season’s artist events, WED held a spellbinding showroom for private appointments, culminating in a celebratory presentation. And more fashion followed with CSM scholar Neil Zhao taking over the main space to show his most recent collection, If You Don’t Get It, This Is For You
In the run up to his show, you could find Dean Hoy pitched out in the main space more often than not. His
solo presentation The Vigil saw his bears who care paying their respects to Julien – lost on his travels. Lulu Wang returned for an exclusive performance followed by an ‘in conversation’ with Emily Steer, and hot on her heels was new artist-in-residence Camila Barvo. Alumnus Robert George Sanders also popped in for a weekend ahead of the winter break to pull off a shoot.
On the subject of scholarships, 10 Magazine’s Sophia Neophitou chose our MAF CSM scholar this year – we were thrilled to award this to Yodea-Marquel Williams Braham who Sarabande also supported with full board scholarship throughout their BAF at CSM. Yodea later took up residence in our HQ’s main space for three days to prepare their collection for an editorial.
Dean JF Hoy, The Vigil
Ahead of the holidays, the main space swiftly shapeshifted from party zone back into workspace and the decks were stashed to allow space for new fashion design duo in residence, Aletta, to shoot next season’s collection. Taking ‘nose to the grindstone’ to new heights, Hertford resident Fredrik Tjærandsen took over the main space for a shoot on Christmas Day.
Joshua Beaty took over the main studio space with second year Fashion Design students from CSM who installed their sculptures reflecting on their practice with a medium that is not their main one. Lively crits and collaborations could be overheard.
Elsewhere, in the High Road Gallery, Adam was preparing for his Bistrotheque installation and James Tailor dismantled his sculpture for his solo show Runt. Renata Brehna was preparing her new collection and even had a model casting organised in the main space, which had the whole place full of energy. Frances was the first one out of our new 2024/25 artists cohort to book the main space and have her work professionally photographed.
With January came the largest House of Bandits venture so far: a nine (!!) week pop-up at Selfridges complete with three windows on Orchard Street, artist residencies, celebrity evenings and an events programme to boot.
With this House of Bandits iteration, we wanted to champion the idea that art should be, and is, for all. We got everyone involved – mothers, friends, brothers, journalists, artists, makers, Selfridges staff, OBEs, CBEs and the rest, to make this the most exciting pop-up destination in town.
The space showcased over 400 original artworks and new exclusive merchandise pieces developed for the pop-up such as Jake Chapman designed T-shirts, Sarabande exclusive tea towels, mugs and notebooks, posters done in collaboration with four of our artists and generous donations from Thom Browne, Craig Green, Peter Reed and Soho Home. Some sales highlights were a Jan Urant painting going to Millie Bobby Brown and Selfridges taking a very on-brand yellow Darcey Fleming chair.
WED Showroom
We certainly kept ourselves busy: artist residencies were held every day to engage customers with the making process; we held champagne evenings with friends of the foundation such as Hannah Redmayne, Cora Corré, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Serena Rees, Sandy Powell, Jake Chapman and Brigitta Freund. Together, Selfridges and Sarabande held a VIP lunch for collectors, personal shoppers and patrons in the Jackson Boxer Corner Restaurant where we were able to commission Sarabande alum Emma Witter to dress the table inspired by four artworks from the House of Bandits collection. AND we programmed fortnightly talks on subjects such as Investing in Art with HSBC’s Daniel Lancaster, Let’s Talk Interior Design with Jermaine Gallacher and William Morris Gallery’s Roísín Inglesby, and The State of Fashion Now? with BOF’s Tim Blanks and Calum Knight. A slightly different style to our usual talks, these topical discussions allowed us to flex our muscles and show off our flexible programming scope.
Back at HQ, we kicked off the year’s events programme with an annual favourite: Setting Up A Creative Business with Letica’s Ben Hooper and Mischon De Reya’s Haley Cross. Hot on their heel was INSPIRED: Alison Wilding OBE and a drawing workshop led by High Road resident Françoise Odill.
Sandy Powell CBE and Damian Lewis CBE
Inspired: Alison Wilding OBE in conversation with Jo Applin
Bouncing up to High Road Studios, we held the first crit of the season with Bex Massey and Jo Grogan, and back down in the Hertford Road Studios Blue Gaydon and Everyman’s Adam Reynolds led How To: Write A Pitch Deck. Next up in the practical realm was The Critical Path with Benedetta Pezini, followed by an assemblage workshop with Sarabande alumnus James Tailor. Wrapping up the quarter was an entertaining INSPIRED: Francesco Risso, Creative Director of Marni in conversation with Tim Blanks.
Exactly as it’s intended, our artists continued making good use of the main space: Yijia used the space not once, not twice, but three times to shoot and document her work. Electric Adam popped down south for a test and Antonio Vattev popped in to shoot his e-comm. Sarabande scholar Carson Lovett was in town from LA using the space for casting, styling and e-comm. Aaron Esh had production galore with his campaign shoot and Freddy Coomes & Matt Empringham followed quickly on their heels with their own.
Unusual Canvas with James Tailor
Artist Crit with Jo Grogan & Bex Massey
Timestamp: it’s March. The annual International Women’s Day Exhibition welcomed visitors to dismantle the conventional idea of ‘home’ from 5th-12th March.
Curated by Sarabande alumn Shirin Fathi, this year’s show – Homesick – featured works by Yijia Wu, Bex Massey, Rosie Gibbens, Adele Brydges, Helena Lacy, Jennifer Jones, Jia Xi Li, Kasia Wozniak, Mairi Millar, Semin Hong and Shan Hua. The show opened to a brilliant reception and was jam-packed with an exciting schedule of curator tours, panel talks discussing the topics explored in the show and even an artists’ breakfast!
Our women’s day show is always a great celebration of camaraderie: working together across cohort years and locations to make a truly strong exhibition. The supportive and collaborative energy is palpable and we are so happy it shines through.
In Tottenham, Françoise made the first booking of the year for rehearsals, with Adam following to photograph his upcoming installation and Renata’s team popping in and out for more space to lay out their pleated works. Contractors gave the space a spring refresh to make it ship shape for the exhibitions booked over the coming months. We rounded off the quarter with Darcey booking the newly painted space to photograph her recent work, and an artists crit led by Jan Urant and Kate Goodrich.
The gifts that keep on giving: our mentors are back. New to the roster has been the brilliant Candice Fragis, Daljit Singh, Katherine Benson and Dominic Jones. We have been delighted to have frequent visits from Gino Da’Prato, Moin Roberts-Islam, Gynette Dowou Yonkio, Hannah Ridley, Emily Steer, Calum Knight and Jeii Hong – each continuing to dish out expert advice on everything from fashion distribution and augmented reality to bookkeeping and curatorial advice.
International Women’s Day Exhibition ‘Homesick’
Yijia Wu, Three Homes Sarabande
In anticipation of their final year degree show, Sarabande always bestows a handful of Final Year Project Awards to BAF students preparing for their last college collection at CSM. With the guidance of Sarah Gresty, this year’s Sarabande Final Year Project Awards went to Isobel Dickens, Joe Fearon and Linus Stueben to be financially supported with their final year project. Welcome to the clan!
Back over in west London, our partnership with The Roof Gardens allows a platform for our artists to flex their class-teaching skill and share their creative pursuits to a different audience. Continuing this series, Daisy May Collingridge held a drawing workshop in her distinct signature style, Jo Grogan returned for a tile relief clay workshop, Hamed Maiye led a music infused session and later Tom Hemingway held a masterclass on illustration.
Visitors to the foundation this quarter included journalist Emily Zak, Cora Corré, Jermaine Gallacher, Zero + Maria Cornejo’s Marysia Woroniecka, WWD, SXSW, Reference Point’s Jonah Freud, Vortic and Victoria Miro Gallery, set designer Tom Scutt, Tish Weinstock, Everyman’s Adam Reynolds, ArtReview’s Carsten Recksik, Issey Miyake’s Kerry Francis, Izena Gallery’s Stella Smith and The Curator’s Salon’s Gita Joshi.
We hit Q2 and things amped up another gear. This was a good month for learning: practical talks unpacked the trials and tribulations of Merchandising with Petra Kovas, A Photographer’s Guide To Good Business with New School’s Sam Ross and Monocle’s Alex Milne. On the workshop front, Tom Hemingway held a life drawing class and Helena Lacy steered the helm for our London Craft Week clay workshop. Shortly following, Jan Urant led a masterclass of mixing your own pigments.
Keeping our gallery space open for peer to peer learning, Beverley Duckworth and Jet McQuiston led this month’s artist crit.
Workshop: ‘Object Narratives’ with Artist Helena Lacy
Daisy May Collingridge at The Roof Gardens
Elsewhere, New York City to be exact, American Friends of Sarabande held the second iteration of What Now? NYC. On 6th May, 16 brands came together under the AFOS umbrella at The Standard, East Village to meet over 170 young creatives eager to break into the fashion industry. For the second year in a row, our tickets were sold out and a healthy line could be seen snaking out of The Standard’s doors. Thank you to all the brands, faces old and new, who joined us and made the event such a strong success: we were thrilled to be joined by Hermès, Marc Jacobs, KHAITE, Willy Chavarria, Altzuzarra, Art+Commerce, WWD, Zero + Maria Cornejo, KHC and more.
Hot on NYC’s heels, Photo London took us to another offsite venue: the House of Bandits booth in Discovery, Somerset House. Sarabande’s pilot at the fair, we chose to showcase nine of our female photographers, showcasing the breadth and strength of the discipline within our Sarabande cohort. We peppered the fair with our own programming, including private tours for Alexander McQueen clients, meet and greets with exhibiting artists and a camera demonstration by Kasia Wozniak. We were thrilled that Hannah Norton was shortlisted for the Nikon Emerging Photographer Award.
Camila Barvo, Filaments Of A Memory
Hannah Ridley, Moin Roberts Islam, Gino da Prato, Calum Knight, Katherine Benson and Gynette Dowou Yonkio returned for monthly mentoring sessions, and the wonderful Eleanore and Domenico De Sole visited for a tour while on UK soil, as did the Rosewood art buyer. That weekend, our CSM final year scholar Linus Stueben took over the main space to shoot his final year collection ahead of his presentation.
Back to events! Camila Barvo transformed the High Road Gallery into an immersive forest of contorted hair sculptures for her solo exhibition, Filaments Of A Memory. Specialists from Mishcon de Reya shared their knowledge on Intellectual Property, and the High Road Gallery was home to inquisitive minds under the supervision of Adele Brydges and Tom Hemingway for June’s artist crit.
Drum roll please!! June also saw the return of What Now? LDN for its fifth iteration - our largest turn out to date. With over 500 (!!) attendees, we were thrilled to bring back our fondly dubbed ‘postcollege survival guide’ with the support of Alexander McQueen, Burberry, Victoria Beckham, Saint Laurent, Dazed, WWD, Karla Otto, 1 Granary, New School and more. On one of the warmest days of the year, new graduates from the UK and beyond joined us to meet with industry professionals to hear more about how the industry actually works and to demystify their next steps.
Hot (very hot given the heatwave) off the back of What Now?…, Jennifer Jones took the reins curating the group exhibition Family Portrait, showcasing works by Sarabandits across years: Bowen Zhang, George Richardson, Yijia Wu, Koby Martin and Jennifer Jones.
Over at Granary Square, we saw five of five final-year CSM BFA scholars present their final year collections on the runway: full board scholars Timisola Shasanya and Hannah Dixey, and final year scholars Linus Stueben, Joe Fearon and Isabel Dickens. We were delighted to see collaboration between Hannah Dixey and artist-in-residence Jo Grogan, who hand-carved bespoke pieces for Hannah’s collection.
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What Now? London 2025
Back in April, we chose the recipients of Sarabande’s Emerging Artist award – a fund that supports Slade students to realise their final year projects, in ways that may not have been possible without. Always a tough decision, the award was granted to Iris Su, Jameela Gordon-King, Maya Silverberg, Teodora Nitsolova, Tom Hallimond and Varvara Uhlik. Their June degree show was a triumph, with works including an immersive recreation of a Soviet playground, a reimagining of religious iconography and themes of care explored via pushchairs embellished with neon colour and print.
Back on home turf and next up on the exhibition front was Banita Mistry with her solo show Infinite Scroll: the Sarabande main space was transformed into a visually stimulating yet calming rendition on the action we love to hate and hate to love: doom scrolling.
We’ve had lots of visitors this quarter. Some of our lovely guests include Cob Gallery’s Cassie Beadle; Vogue Italia; curatorial and development teams at Whitechapel Gallery; Talk Art’s Robert Diament; BuildHollywood; Kennedy London, Burberry, The Roof Gardens, WWD, Inez and Vinoodh, United Arrows’ Hirofumi Kurino, David Bamber, Everyman.
With the season bestowing its best on The Roof Gardens, we continued our workshops with Robert George Sanders’ celebration of summer solstice with life drawing – bonkers and as brilliant as ever – and Jan Urant’s popular Interaction of Colour. The latter was a component of House of Bandits’ pop-up at the club, where we took over Esme’s for three days with opportunities to meet our artists and engage with and buy pieces by London’s hottest (Sarabande) artists. Cocktails aplenty and invites to our network and The Roof Gardens’ meant that House of Bandits had another stint at a high-profile and high-visibility location.
Not strictly a Sarabande venture, but with enough of our spectacular jewellers featured to make it into our ‘year at’, Dover Street Market launched its Jewellery Market Summer Exhibition. Martina Kocianova, Jet McQuiston, Miya Kumo and Emily Frances Barrett were in the spotlight, and it was so great to see such a strong Sarabande representation from across the years, each displaying a completely different and fresh perspective on how jewellery is the best bodily accessory.
Robert George Sanders’ workshop at The Roof Gardens
Banita Mistry, Infinite Scroll
A Letter from the Director
Trino Verkade
We have been 10 years in this beautiful old stable block, the original Sarabande building. Whilst it was once box fresh, the trees in the courtyard have now grown and the building is well lived in. And we have grown too – our support has expanded, as has our team, and our footprint has doubled.
As you’ll read elsewhere amongst these pages, it has been an eventful 10 years for Sarabande. It goes without saying, so too has it been for the world. There isn’t enough space in this manifesto to even attempt to cover the seismic changes and events that have shaken the world and will shape the values of the next generation, but there is the space to discuss how our creative community has been affected by some of the events of the past decade and how we might navigate the decade ahead of us.
Ten years ago we saw a rapid shrink in the availability of affordable, or any, artists’ studios as developers rode the boom of real estate – warehouses were prompty converted into more lucrative homes and commercial spaces. Just a few years ago, we saw the pendulum swing back in the favour of creatives when the pandemic enforced working from home and companies abandoned their offices in an effort to save
Image by Sølve Sundsbø
outgoings on rent: office blocks became studio spaces. This influx of studio availability was boosted by the rise of developers creating cultural quarters in the hope of bringing the cool factor and, in turn, business to their sites.
Just these two examples illustrate how fickle the commitment to artists’ studios are; almost all of the issues to do with availability are driven by property market fluctuations and developers’ capital-led, property portfolio incentives. As cities grow and areas are regenerated, often it’s at the expense of creative communities who are priced out of their previous homes. The creative arts is, of course, a global industry, and so the blow of Brexit to our arts ecosystem was sorely felt both by people and by trade. Our art and fashion colleges have long been regarded as some of the world’s best, therefore attracting students from all over the globe. But the closing of our borders, both literally and metaphorically, sent a message to scholars from Europe that the UK was not a welcoming destination and, with international fees doubling, scholars lacking financial means were priced out of a UK education.
For creatives in the working world, the increased barriers to job mobility have made it more difficult to secure jobs. Not only this, but increases in costs incurred and effort required to pull off creative output – exhibitions, photoshoots, campaigns – between European and UK cities has dramatically reduced international collaboration and the UK arts landscape, with our history of multicultural creativity, is slowly starving. Without global talent, the calibre of our artistic output – of which we are so proud – weakens.
When we look at trade, Brexit’s complicated and expensive paperwork and tariffs made any export – temporary or permanent, and of art, jewellery or fashion – just that much harder. We cannot ignore how this has negatively impacted trade and sales of UK creative output for the sole trader artisan and therefore UK’s arts exports on a macro scale.
This brings us to a trio of broken systems that, in our own small way, Sarabande hopes to provide an alternative mindset for: arts education, gallery structures and the wholesale model.
With universities fees now set at £9,500 a year, but MA courses much higher and without upper barriers, eyebrows raise as to what kind of curriculum can warrant that cost. When they lifted quotas on the number of students they could admit, universities’ status as business was confirmed. Students are no longer scholars, they’re customers. Tutors are heavily outnumbered, curriculums are outdated in a fast moving industry in flux, and students aren’t taught what they need to be relevant in the working world. More than this, there are more students admitted to arts school than there are jobs to sustain them on graduation.
This is a far cry from free arts education in the UK, which barely exists. Funding for arts education at primary school level is negligible, with the previous government placing emphasis on STEM subjects instead. This, coupled with the univiting implications of Brexit for international students to study in the UK means that more than ever, we are finding the halls of arts universities full of those that can afford the luxury of art as a vocation, and the voices in our arts become less diverse.
Beyond university, an artist may once upon a time have dreamt to be represented by a gallery; an institution that would invest into them and their career, supporting them long-term throughout their career whilst finding collectors for their work. Galleries can’t nurture anymore, they need to sell – a means of survival in the current landscape where rising operational costs, reduction in high street footfall, costs of shipping (to name a few) have led to a spate of gallery closures. From the smaller galleries to the established, many of those who put their artists first have closed; some of our favourites such as TJ Boulting, Simon Lee, Zabludowicz, Fold, Darren Flook, and even Marlborough closed their doors after 80 years.
Whilst the UK holds 17-18 % of the global art market, it’s an expensive business model. There is safety with blue chip galleries, but there are very few to nurture artists in their emerging stages and so the next generation are left unattended.
And this touches equally upon the fashion industry. In the past decade, everything has changed as major stores once global giants in their field have closed: the wholesale model has flailed. Online retailers are down to almost one player in the market and what used to be a vibrant and competitive retail market with multiple options to sell through, has now become stagnant. Stores have become risk averse and focus predominantly on big brand names that guarantee sellthrough. Insensitive payment terms and an unwillingness to take a risk on a young designer makes it almost impossible for a smaller designer to financially support themselves.
In both these cases, where stores and galleries are closing across the UK – indeed across the world – there is an indication that something is broken or wrong. During the past ten years, factors have compounded making these models that once bridged creatives’ to their sales unviable. This is detrimental for artists who have learned to rely on the middleman to meet their customer and to survive.
Unfortunately, there are no quick fixes. What’s really needed is a healthy economy surrounding the creative landscape, and building this will take time. Mixing creativity with commerciality is not a simple blend; it is a complex balance to which the answer lies in small changes that will aggregate to shift the health of the arts economy into one that has a sustainable future. The Sarabande way has always been to stay nimble; stay open to experimentation, to flip the switch and to have the tenacity to try something different.
We imagine throwing a dart into the future, visualising a strong creative landscape, a continuous pipeline of creatives, and how Sarabande can contribute to it, this can inform us make decisions that will help us reach that point in the future.
Our Trustees AFOS Board
Camilla Lowther OBE - Chair
Damian Bradfield
Francesca Amfitheatrof
Sheryl Needham
Benjamin Hooper
Reema Sharma
American Friends of Sarabande is a publicly supported, tax-exempt organisation under section 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code and is eligible to receive tax deductible charitable contributions within the limits prescribed by law.
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Its mission is to raise awareness for the activities and program of the Sarabande Foundation in the US and overseas to enhance the Foundation’s support for emerging creatives.
President – Francesca Amfitheatrof
Secretary – Nancy Chilton
Treasurer – Jay Sternstein
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Jo Grogan is a craftswoman to her core. Trained in traditional wood carving, her work is rooted in material knowledge and time-honoured technique, a natural fit for Sarabande. She joined the studios in 2023 and quickly made her mark, exploring new directions while staying grounded in the pace and discipline of craft.
During her residency, Jo expanded her practice into porcelain, creating delicate forms that sit in conversation with her carved sculptures. Her work featured in the House of Bandits takeover at Selfridges, with pieces shown in the window display – a fantastic opportunity for visibility. Around the same time, she was featured in The Times, offering insight into her craft to a wide audience.
Jo presented two works in the Flowers group show at the Saatchi Gallery, a major achievement, and began working on a private commission that allowed her to explore new forms through bespoke making.
Jo Grogan
Jo Grogan, Gilded Bindings
Collaboration has played a strong role in Jo’s time at Sarabande. For Central Saint Martins designer and Sarabande scholar Hannah Dixey’s final collection, Jo created two hand-carved brooches. The pieces were shown as part of the designer’s debut runway looks, bringing together fashion and craft in a way that felt instinctive and very true to Sarabande.
We brought Jo to the Roof Gardens in Kensington for two public clay workshops, inviting new audiences to experience the tactile, meditative nature of working with the hands. Beyond this, she’s continued her mentoring work with young people, passing on her knowledge and advocating for access in making.
Jo brings care, skill and intention to everything she does. She’s become family at Sarabande, a voice for true craft with real integrity.
Jo Grogan, Best Chair
Sarabande Sessions
The public events programme is designed to support the wider creative community. Held in Sarabande’s versatile exhibition spaces, these events are welcoming and open to all. All talks are digitally recorded, allowing us to share vital insights and stories to a global audience to advise, guide and inspire.
Sarabande recognises that many skills are transferable across disciplines. That’s why our Practical talks are designed to explore the essential elements of building a successful creative enterprise. From the everyday challenges of raising funds and managing hidden production and shipping costs, to launching an e-commerce site, understanding cash flow, and navigating trademarking and employment contracts, our Practical Series covers it all.
These talks bridge the gap between academia and industry, offering creatives the tools and insights they need to establish themselves with confidence and clarity.
Delivered by professionals already working within the creative industries, the sessions draw on realworld experience and shared knowledge. It is this peer-to-peer support that makes Sarabande’s programme so engaging and relevant. It amplifies the care and value that we, and our network, invest in to enhance the opportunities for future creative communities.
Keeping creative skills at the forefront, Sarabande holds workshops on a wide range of skills and techniques: portrait photography; life drawing; self-portraiture; jewellery design; sugar sculpting; pigment mixing; clay sculpting; book binding. These workshops invite the public to sharpen their skills or develop new ones: to inform their own practice with furthered understandings of traditional and modern processes.
The Inspiration Series is a forum to hear an individual’s journey in an intimate setting. So far, we’ve programmed talks with Oscar-winning costume designer Colleen Atwood and shoe designer Nicholas Kirkwood, designer Morag Myerscough, artists Maggi Hambling CBE, Rachel Whiteread
DBE, Cornelia Parker CBE, Jake Chapman, Mat Collishaw and Grayson Perry CBE, along with Martin Parr CBE, Juno Calypso and Yinka Shonibare CBE. Jewellers Wallace Chan, Christian Hemmerle, Silvia Furmanovich and Francesca Amfitheatrof have travelled from Hong Kong, Germany, Brazil and New York for rare talks in the UK, alongside designer Thom Browne and Sarabande ambassador Andrew Bolton OBE. We have also welcomed Simone Rocha, Polly Morgan, Tim Walker, Francesco Risso, Campbell Addy, Robert Wun, Samuel Ross, Nick Knight CBE, alumni Molly Goddard and Craig Green MBE, Sam Taylor-Johnson OBE, Daniel Roseberry, Nadège Vanhée, Liz Collins in conversation with Penny Martin, Sandy Powell OBE, Edmund de Waal CBE, Miles Aldridge and Peter Saville CBE.
The Inspiration Series aims to shed some light on the complexities of building a successful career, where speakers touch upon moments of struggle or revisit a time when they almost gave up. We are humbled that so many incredible visionary makers give time for free to speak with our network. Their generosity has allowed Sarabande to build a broad programme of talks spanning the vast range of disciplines covered by the foundation that is accessible to everyone, even those living outside of London.
Our second home in Tottenham has enabled us to expand our events programme even further. Its smaller gallery space provides the perfect setting for workshops tailored to more intimate crowds and for Artist Crits, the latest addition to Sarabande’s events lineup. The Crits offer artists of all ages, disciplines, and backgrounds the opportunity to receive feedback on their latest work and discuss their next creative steps. Led by Sarabande residents, the feedback is peer-to-peer, making the advice feel relevant and nonjudgmental. Since opening in September 2023, our Tottenham space has hosted countless events, in addition to the numerous solo shows our Sarabande artists have presented to the public.
INSPIRED: Robert Wun
INSPIRED: Campbell Addy
Aaron
Aaron Esh, the brand, holds a deliberate tension: elegant yet raw, precise yet chaotic, structured but never stiff. It’s in this contrast that Aaron, the designer, generates energy and anticipation among the fashion community. Since joining Sarabande, he’s continued to evolve his world that feels rooted in East London but entirely his own.
In his first year of residence at Sarabande, Aaron transformed the Sarabande HQ office and gallery, directly above his studio, for his AW24 show. Models lined up around our desks; guests were greeted with bowls of cigarettes and glasses of champagne in reception. It was fashion done the Sarabande way; fast-thinking, resourceful and alive.
His residency was extended into a second year, giving more space and time to grow the brand on his terms. For SS25, he presented a strippedback capsule collection through a lookbook and an intimate dinner during London Fashion Week, an intentional pause in the chaos of the season.
Image by Daniele Fummo
Esh
Aaron has also taken part in Sarabande’s bespoke mentorship programme, receiving business and financial support tailored to the needs of his growing label. He benefited from the foundation’s guidance in navigating collaborations and developing the commercial side of the brand, ensuring the creative momentum was matched by strategic clarity.
With 24-hour studio access, Aaron has used the space for fittings, castings, tour wardrobe prep, and those late-night moments where everything quietly comes together. What would usually cost thousands to hire has instead been poured back into the label, into people, process, ideas and production.
At Sarabande, Aaron has carved out a way of working that allows him to move quickly while thinking with clarity. The result is a brand that resists easy definition, and a designer pushing things forward entirely on his own terms.
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Summer Group Show
A tradition that began its journey back in 2017, the annual Sarabande Summer Group Show has grown and evolved each year. It has become a glinting highlight in our programming and is a true celebration where friends of the foundation, leading cultural institutions and the general public can get a snapshot of what our current roster of resident artists have been working on during their year under our roof.
Titled Sincerely, this year’s show brings together 20 Sarabande artists in a two-part exhibition that maps the journey of a shared year in residence. Framed as a letter, the exhibition unfolds in two chapters: To: and From:. These parts speak to one another; across space and through material, gesture and form.
Sincerely, is a letter still being written. Its narrative is unscripted, composed in real time through the dialogue between works and the moment of their collective presence. Here, writing extends beyond words: it is drawn, cast, carved, embroidered, projected and suspended, forming a visual correspondence that is both intimate and bold in its subtlety.
The two chapters create a living exchange, linking artists and artworks across time and space. Sincerely, is not a conclusion, but an open conversation; an evolving expression of process, collaboration and voice.
Part 1 will see works from Natalia Triantafylli, Shannon Swinburn, Shan Hua, Daniel Rey, Christian Hiadzi, Cherry Song, Helena Lacy, Adele Brydges, Françoise and Fredrik Tjærandsen.
Part 2 will include works from Giulia Grillo, Camila Barvo, Beverley Duckworth, Jennifer Jones, Jan Urant, Tom Hemingway, Salvatore Pione, Lucy Ellerton, Yijia Wu and Bex Massey.
This is truly an artist-led affair: the show is hosted, produced and curated by them. Although we are there to be the wind on their backs, supporting them with each of the above and guiding the execution of this large project, this is really an opportunity for and testament to the artists who spearhead the operation themselves.
We are passionate that at every opportunity and every turn, the artists are best prepared to apply all they have learned under the Sarabande umbrella in the ‘real world’. A true exercise in collaboration and sharing, it’s about just making it happen. We remove all barriers (without transgressing health and safety), so that they can be bold – anything (and we mean anything) goes.
These skills they learn, from how to work to strict timelines to presenting their work at a high level, are invaluable.
The show isn’t primarily about making sales; it’s about boldness, creativity and pushing the boundaries using everything our artists have learnt during their residency. Supported entirely by Sarabande, the exhibition comes at no cost to the artists and without any commission, allowing them complete freedom of expression.
In the heart of East London, we’re able to sidestep the mounting pressures often faced by artists and curators as rents soar and spaces become increasingly inaccessible. This is where our mission comes to life: championing equal access to opportunity and removing the barriers that stand in the way of raw, uninhibited creative potential.
As cocktails and emotions flow, we celebrate not only the extraordinary work on display but also the strength and spirit of the growing Sarabande family, and say a short goodbye.
Yijia Wu is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores everyday life, the fluid notion of home, and experiences of migration. Using performance, sculpture, and installation, she works with domestic and mundane materials to create paradoxical situations that reflect her journey and migrant identity. For this show, Yijia presents Home, Puzzle, Tale, a collection of small sculptural pieces, hand-carved stone keys and domestic fragments made from soap and mixed media, arranged like a puzzle. The installation invites viewers to piece together memories and meanings, creating an open-ended story about longing and belonging.
Camila Barvo is an artist and designer whose practice explores soft sculpture, through embroidery, video, and fabric manipulation; languages she uses to explore themes closely connected to femininity and identity. Her Latin American cultural heritage deeply informs her work. She often incorporates materials like fique, jute, and coffee, celebrating Colombia’s rich and tactile material culture. Her current work revolves around hair being a storehouse for emotional memory. Exalting the acts of braiding and knotting as sculptural forms, she weaves a link between hair filament manipulation and textile fibre manipulation. For this show, she presents a suspended soft sculpture, a woven, inverted nest, reflecting on nature’s power to hold into structure and its relation to the body.
Natalia Triantafylli is a designer and maker with a background in product design and ceramics. In this show, her work Echo’s Mirror draws from her Greek heritage and the myth of Echo, exploring transformation through the interplay of handmade ceramics and 3D printing. By scanning a handmade frame and reproducing it digitally alongside crafted flowers and vines, Natalia merges the organic with the digital. The piece reclaims Echo’s story, shifting her role from passive repetition to active transformation.
Christian Hiadzi is a self-taught artist and professionally trained architect. His work is a fusion inspired by visual fragments from his formative years in Ghana and his life in the UK. In the works exhibited here, Christian explores human conditions through a balance of figurative and subtle abstraction. Providing a platform for the figures in his work, he invites viewers to find their own meaning in scenes where faces give little away. Christian draws inspiration from photographs, dreams, social media, magazines, deep personal experiences and aspirations. Working primarily with acrylic, and occasionally oil and charcoal, his paintings shift between dark, nearly monochromatic figures and vibrant, colourful forms, driven by a desire to challenge and expand the viewer’s imagination.
Helena Lacy is a ceramic artist whose sculptures and one-of-a-kind furniture explore natural patterns through layered materials and glazing techniques that balance control and spontaneity. In this show, her work Re-print reinterprets classical blue and white ceramics, especially landscapes and nature scenes, through distortion and layering. The piece explores how familiar objects carry memories and stories, examining the tension between preservation and change.
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Tom Hemingway is an artist who adopts and subverts traditional drawing techniques to create figurative artwork. Influenced by modern and classical figurative art, he examines conventions of the human form through pastel and graphite, using bold tonal contrasts to reveal the intricate details of his uncanny figures. In Containment I, Tom explores bodily beauty by blending classical ideals with digital imagery, confronting how beauty standards contain bodies within heteronormative norms. His work draws increasingly from personal life to enrich his exploration of identity and emotion.
Salvatore Pione is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work engages with themes of grotesque theatricality, camp and remembrance. Deeply influenced by the customs and traditions of his homeland of Sicily, Salvatore often draws inspiration from the places and experiences of his childhood. For this show, he reflects on cultural memory and identity through a queer lens, reworking symbols of masculinity and religion drawn from Sicilian life. At the core of his practice is a handson approach, combining traditional techniques with contemporary sensibilities.
Fredrik Tjærandsen is an artist working across installation, sculpture, and performance. His practice probes the shifting boundaries of experience, sensation, and embodiment. Merging material experimentation with conceptual inquiry, he examines the delicate interplay between presence and disappearance, positioning the body as both subject and site, simultaneously internal and external, intimate and estranged.
For this exhibition, Fredrik presents a new work that navigates the tension between emergence and dissolution. The body is invited to fully appear, even as it risks vanishing into a broader flow where care and attention remain in flux. The piece reflects on the precarious visibility of the body, revealing subtle shifts in how it is sensed, held, or lost.
Jan Urant is a painter whose work unveils an inner world filled with personal stories, memories, and figurative characters. His creative process is a meticulous journey of painting, washing, scraping, and applying dry pigments, gradually building a dreamy, layered image rich with colours and narratives. Through his art, Jan invites us into a vibrant realm where colour and space blur the line between dreaming and waking reality. For Sincerely, Jan presents a figurative painting with an ambiguous narrative, containing mostly hidden metaphors in colour and space.
Shan Hua is a digital artist whose work explores identity perception and social change through fairytalelike narratives. In this show, her piece My Friend, Fear Not blends reality and fiction, reimagining Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice entering Kafka’s The Trial in a dialogue between two contrasting characters, one practical, one romantic, who reflect on beauty, death, life, and love within an empty house. Rejecting linear storytelling, Shan Hua creates an experimental space that explores fractured identity, generational trauma, and cultural transformation, inviting viewers into a space of genuine resonance.
Giulia Grillo, also known as Petite Doll, is a surrealist artist based in London who works across photography, video and digital art. Her practice focuses on the fusion of self-portraiture and surrealism, reimagining photography within a contemporary framework. By blending the beautiful with the unsettling, she transforms familiar scenes into extraordinary visual narratives. In her featured video work, a symbolic character, Crab Girl, is trapped in a fisherman’s net, expressing themes of identity, alienation and displacement. Through selfportraiture, Giulia adopts various characters, offering glimpses into her imagination, dreams and unconscious mind. She handcrafts her own sets and frequently collaborates with artists and sculptors from around the world.
Adele Brydges is a ceramic designer and artist whose work explores sensuality, connection and self-expression. In this show, A Thousand Different Women draws on her Irish heritage and the Sheela na-gig archetype to reclaim the void as a threshold of feminine force. Fired with symbolic organic matter such as menstrual blood, hair and nails, it becomes a votive of transformation and renewal. Adele creates functional erotic ceramics and immersive experiences that invite tactile dialogue and introspection, opening space for honest conversations about intimacy and the sacred.
Beverley Duckworth works with living sculpture and installation, creating spaces and moments that connect the smallest, poetic actions of plants with precarious issues facing humanity. Her practice is rooted in small acts of reparation, sewing scraps together, watering fragile seedlings, and nurturing the regenerative power of composting waste materials. In Anthesis II, exhibited in this show, a living seed drawing references William Morris’s botanical patterns as both homage and critique. As the seedlings grow, the structured design is gradually distorted, challenging our tendency to aestheticise and commodify the natural world.
Daniel Rey is a Venezuelan-Spanish multidisciplinary artist whose work spans performance, painting, moving image, and installation. He creates immersive environments that challenge conventional notions of masculinity and explore queer bodies, spirituality, and the built environment. For this show, Daniel presents Blow, a performance that navigates masculinity and kinship through unchoreographed gestures blending aggression and tenderness, and Translations, a series of paintings that deconstruct architectural language to explore shifting ideas of territory and spirituality.
Cherry Song a multimedia artist exploring the in-betweenness of various subjects. Cherry’s practice traverses through themes from technology to nature, philosophy to religion, fundamental physical and metaphorical elements taken from ancient wisdom. For this show, she presents a series of new works exploring the relationship of plantations and captalism: The Fountain of Supermarket Delights, an installation grown from supermarket vegetations within repurposed plastic containers; when the shelf life ends, the plant life begins.
Jennifer Jones is a multi-disciplinary visual artist whose practice centres on textile objects. Her work also spans painting, drawing, writing and photography. Often working from family photographs, Jennifer reimagines these images through redaction, collage and re-composition to create imagined yet familiar scenes. Her pieces include This is not a family heirloom, a hand-embroidered sofa exploring childhood nostalgia and inherited trauma; It Didn’t Start With You on a Skirt, a textile composition referencing memory fragmentation and family history; and Eighty Years on a Top, which memorialises a simple phrase from her grandmother, inviting reflection on the quiet significance of family interactions.
Françoise is an artist and contortionist whose work explores body manipulation and the expressive potential of the human form. Her multidisciplinary practice combines movement, experimental body art, drawing, writing, installation, photography, and video, using the body as her primary medium. She is committed to fluid self-expression, seeking personal authenticity and artistic excellence. For this show, Françoise presents a free-hanging latex object made with her blood, titled Head to Tail. The work reflects multiple selves and the non-linear cycles of life, alongside Ruminations/Tormentations, a video piece portraying raw, instinctual movement which visualises complex internal states. Accompanying these is The Ouroboros, a photographic print echoing the mythical tail-eating creature, a symbol of the natural world, self-sufficiency, and the unity of all things, laid on the floor before the video projection.
Lucy Ellerton is an artist whose work explores memory, domesticity, and obsession through precise replicas of overlooked everyday objects. She works across casting, CNC fabrication, print, and installation to recreate the familiar with humour and care. These sculptures, ranging from loo roll in Jesmonite to a dog toy in bronze, sit between parody and reverence. Her practice reflects on the things we keep, use, or forget, revealing how identity forms through small rituals and habits. What seems disposable at first becomes a lasting portrait, inviting viewers to reconsider the quiet objects that anchor our daily lives.
Shannon Swinburn is a textile artist whose work explores the intersections of gender, textiles and modern computing. Her latest piece, IBM 1401, reclaims the handwoven magnetic core memory module of a 1950s computer to reflect on the invisible labour of women in tech history. She sheds light on overlooked contributions through speculative narratives, counterfactual histories and material storytelling. Working across metalwork, weaving and physical computing, Shannon encodes archival data into her craft, weaving memory as a form of resistance. Her practice draws from cutting-edge innovation and endangered craft traditions, rooted in deep archival research and committed to uncovering marginalised stories.
Bex Massey is an artist whose work examines the role of painting and the language of display in the face of popular culture. They amalgamate simulacra and allegory to investigate notions of ‘worth’ via motifs and tones extracted from their childhood. In Cryobank Ben, Massey pairs seemingly incongruous images to allude to female bodies and build an underlying sexual tension, echoing their broader interest in the codes and history of queer culture, and markers of selfhood and Northern identity. With a titular reference to their fertility journey, the piece also draws on reproductive politics, extending their use of quotidian objects into charged, multisensory allegories. Recent works utilise image pairings to suggest potential noise or force, creating visual tension and dissonance.
Those of you who are well acquainted with the names of Alexander McQueen shows will know Sarabande is the name of SS07. The idea of Sarabande the foundation isn’t much younger than that runway.
It was in 2012, however, that Sarabande Foundation found four walls to call home: a ramshackle Victorian stable block on the Regent’s Canal. Working with the brilliant architect William Russell, by 2015 the block was transformed into the space we know and love today –a bright and airy complex of 15 studios and gallery space: a home for creative individuals and their ideas to flourish and thrive.
A Decade of the Sarabande Studios
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Koby Martin
Year Anniversary10
Let’s paint a picture of the area when we moved in – it wasn’t quite the hot spot that it is today. In a neighbourhood on the cusp of gentrification, we weren’t much of a welcome prospect for anyone except young artists living in the area. The main attraction for us when scouring for the perfect complex, however, was simple: we needed to be where the artists and fashion designers were working and living. Haggerston was the natural answer.
The very first artist to walk through our doors was Sarabande veteran Craig Green. Striking while the iron was hot – and while we were still ironing out the creases – Craig worked up to bagging himself a healthy four studios. Ten years later, anyone who’s applied to or walked through the studios knows this is a tall order these days. Now one of the most coveted artist residencies in Europe, we are much more considered with our curation to ensure that the walk through – as far as possible – represents the wider arts landscape.
“It has been amazing in all areas. I am proud and honoured to have been a part of the Sarabande family and appreciate everything the charity has done to support and help us to the stage we are now at.” – Craig Green
Since then, there have been more stories than these pages can (or should!) pen down. Some that spring to mind are Esna Su’s wonderful home cooked lunches; wine o’clock on Friday afternoons down on the canalside (TLDR: Picpoul and Thai Sweet Chili Sensations); the time a cork mat was set alight causing enough smoke to evacuate the building and call the fire brigade (no names named); a model who pressed the fire alarm button instead of the exit button (yielding the same result as before); a burst pipe causing a mini flood and requiring an army of buckets and mops.
Castro Smith
Fun, trials and tribulations aside, the Sarabande Studios are the heart[beat] of the foundation: They are where lifelong friendships and working relationships are formed. It always makes us so happy to see the idiom ‘open door policy’ taken so literally: music, conversations, ideas, collaborations, lunches shared. It’s heartening when we hear that studio mates go on to share their next work space with their Sarabande peers – the Sarabande community ripples beyond our walls and stands true in the wider creative world.
Joshua
Beaty and Grayson Perry
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Ten years on and our N1 pocket has changed drastically and, a far cry from the resistance to our moving in, in 2012, we’d even go as far as to say that the neighbourhood now uses the Sarabande association to market its desirability. As London property gets pricier and the catchment zone of ‘affordable’ space is forced wider out, those idea-rich but often cash-poor creatives are driven towards the city’s peripheral zones. We are lucky to have put down firm roots in N1, but we want to continue being there on the ground with and among the creatives we support.
Michaela Yearwood-Dan
Hence the move up to Tottenham…
If we’ve done our marketing correctly, you’ll know that in 2023 we found a second home on the north London High Road – a space where the magic community of the Sarabande Studios could grow to accommodate an additional 17 artists a year. After a few teething problems (we know now more than ever how long builders can stretch out a timeline…), we were thrilled to open the doors of our Grade-II listed Georgian townhouses.
Becoming the anchor tenant in Paxton 17’s creative quarter has meant staying true to our roots. A great many artists live in Tottenham – without a doubt, the creative energy is there, but there is not an abundance of work spaces for artists to come together and share ideas.
The Sarabande Studios in Tottenham is that home ground where intrepid creative ideas germinate and grow in the company of their own community. Providing spaces in artists’ back gardens, figuratively speaking, is just how it should be, and we are proud to prioritise a percentage of the High Road Studios for visionary artists from the local postcode each year.
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John Hui
But really, the best way to hear about anything is from those who’ve lived it. So without further ado, here’s just a snapshot…
“I leave Sarabande a stronger creative, with more confidence and an awareness of my voice and direction within the world of millinery. Your support and belief in creativity was inspirational and played a big part in me pushing forward against all the negative clichés of creativity I have previously encountered. It meant more than you can imagine.” – Jo Miller
“When I landed at Sarabande I couldn’t believe my luck: the studio was amazing, the location is great, the history of the building, central heating, clean spaces, a kitchen that works as a social area, where I could mingle with great creatives: I’ve learnt more about fashion and jewelry in one year than in my entire life. These relationships are going to crystallize in collaborations with some of the people I’ve met.” – Saelia Aparicio
“… being part of Sarabande is such an amazing thing –having the physical space to create work in a very supportive environment is a rare privilege. The foundation also takes a very holistic approach when working with the residents here, and there is a brilliant community and network.” – ROBERTS | WOOD
“I can honestly say that moving into Sarabande has changed everything. Every day there’s a group of passionate artists in one place working tirelessly but everyone is around to chat and share. And on top of that you have a few people overseeing the whole thing that care deeply for your progression and wellbeing.” – Sam Rock
“Sarabande opened up the possibilities of other ways of working as an artist. Especially being in dialogue with other professionals from slightly different disciplines. The spaces and people were very generous and I’m grateful for being able to take part in the residency.” – Hamed Maiye
Leyman Lahcine
Saelia
Aparicio
Yodea-Marquel Williams Braham joined Sarabande early in their creative journey, first selected as our BA: Fashion Menswear scholar in 2020 by Matt Williams. Their talent and dedication quickly became clear. In 2023, Yodea gained valuable hands-on experience interning with Paolo Carzana in his Sarabande studio, strengthening their skills within a studio setting. Their BA collection earned the Final Year Award, a recognition of both creative and technical excellence. Most recently, Yodea was awarded the Sarabande MA: Fashion Womenswear Scholarship, selected by Sophia Neophitou; another early milestone that confirms their rising presence in the industry.
Rooted deeply in their Jamaican heritage and shaped by their upbringing in innercity London, Yodea’s work explores identity, ancestry and personal history. Their creative practice is a bridge connecting culture and individuality, using fashion as a medium to reflect on and respond to lived experience. This perspective has helped define their voice as a designer – nuanced and fiercely authentic.
Williams Yodea- Mar
Sarabande has supported Yodea throughout their education, understanding the financial and professional pressures of emerging talent. When Yodea chose to take an unpaid internship during their industry year, Sarabande stepped in to supplement their income, enabling them to gain essential experience without compromise. Working closely within a small menswear atelier, Yodea contributed to production and helped shape a fashion show, expanding their network and honing their craft.
Through the foundation’s ongoing support, Yodea has been able to focus on their creative process and develop their work without the weight of financial stress. This support has been crucial in helping them pursue their education and build their career with confidence.
Closing the CSM BA show with their final collection was a moment that marked the culmination of years of hard work, and now, with the Sarabande MA scholarship, Yodea continues to push boundaries. Their journey with Sarabande is far from over; it’s a story still unfolding, one of growth, resilience and creative ambition.
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House of Bandits is the go-to place where you can immerse yourself in and purchase the most exciting art, fashion, jewellery and creative design. The project’s name comes from ‘Sarabandits’, a phrase coined by fashion journalist Tim Blanks, which perfectly describes our anarchic approach and our ground-breaking creatives. They’re by no means thieves and robbers, but many of them shrug off traditional paths to forge their own way. The ‘House’ describes both the space that we inhabit at 794 High Road in Tottenham - a décor that feels like a home, with listed fireplaces and a large green sofa to lounge on - but it’s also a house for a family, the Sarabande community.
Shapeshifting through pop-ups and available online at any time, House of Bandits was created to provide our artists with an alternative space beyond their studios where, in the true spirit of Sarabande, their work could be shown under one roof and be presented together. Our story began with a pop-up in Mayfair, where Sarabande took over the stunning space at 5 Vigo Street, adjacent to the Burberry Regent Street store. The venue showcased a vibrant mix of visual art, fashion, craft, photography, ceramics, jewellery and more, all representing the full breadth of creativity that Sarabande supports.
Fast forward to 2024, we celebrated International Women’s day with a day-long pop-up in Soho House. Named Art Invasion, it was supported by Porsche and we showcased a roster of 30 of our female-presenting artists. Building on that momentum, House of Bandits has not only grown but it has flourished and taken root in new, high-profile spaces, solidifying its place as a cultural force within the art, fashion and design worlds.
We marked Frieze and PAD week by popping up at the heart of Mayfair, transforming 5 Carlos Place into the artistic hub of Mount Street Neighbourhood Arts Festival. Surrounded by luxury creative giants such as Phillips, Apparatus, BDDW, Louboutin and Marni, it was a perfect time and location to attract new clients, HNWIs, collectors, curators and cultural innovators from across the globe. Bringing the energy of the studios to the Grosvenor Estate, our artists were present every day on the shop floor, talking with clients and participating in talks organised by A Vibe called Tech: Stephen Akpo discussed art with Jo Grogan and jewellery was covered by Megan Brown and Shola Branson.
2025 saw us set roots in the most iconic retail landmark –Selfridges. The adventure began with a generous commission from Selfridges to design three windows around the theme of ‘Wisdom’ to which we responded by offering an insight into our most creative and unique spaces: our studios. Passers by could take a peek into a fashion designer’s studio the night before the runway, the first look draped within a calico bag; a painter’s studio covered in layers of previous residents’ marks; a maker’s studio displaying a wealth of craft processes in progress. Each of these mock-ups allowed passers by to visualise the Sarabande Studios where artists share space and ideas, and grow and learn alongside each other.
Just beneath, on Selfridges’ lower ground floor, House of Bandits came to life in a 132m² pop-up space – the largest available. For nine weeks, from 20th January to 23rd March, the store became a living, working platform for Sarabande artists.
We presented more than 400 artworks by 80-plus creatives, alongside limited-edition merchandise and accessible art walls featuring work for under £500. Generous product donations from Thom Browne, Craig Green, Soho Home and Peter Reed were met with enthusiasm, as clients were excited by the support from such iconic names. Every price point was transparent, from a £15 notebook, to a £11,500 painting, illustrating our mission to show that art is and should be for everyone.
And it wasn’t just about presenting finished work – it was about inviting people into the artistic process. Daily residencies saw 32 artists and makers on site, eight hours a day, alongside rotating artist helpers who spoke with clients and demystified their practice. Visitors stumbled into creativity: the disorientated husband, the last-minute gift shopper, the regular drawn in from Dolly’s café – everyone was welcome. In true Sarabande spirit, we pulled out all the stops to make the experience as rich and impactful as possible. Every Thursday, we hosted VIP evenings with close friends of the foundation such as Sandy Powell, Jake Chapman, Brigitta Freund,
Cora Corré, and Sam Taylor-Johnson, to name a few, each bringing their own network and energy to the space to ensure more visibility and sales for our artists. We even ran a series of intimate cinema talks led by names such as Tim Blanks, HSBC’s Daniel Lancaster and Jermaine Gallacher, creating a full Sarabandeaway-from-home experience.
This spring, another first: our debut booth at Photo London. Marking our entrance into the photography fair circuit, we brought the Sarabande energy to Somerset House. Championing female-led photography, showcasing works from nine of our women artists, the booth was alive with friends old and new. A dynamic curation brough House of Bandits signature hang with a gallery style wall, an unexpected cabinet full of sculpture and supporting material as well as a calico-dressed wall that made the audiences do a double take. Our presence at the fair marked a shift from retail spaces to recognition within the established art world. It laid the foundation for deeper engagement with collectors, institutions and curators who value new voices and the energy we bring.
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House of Bandits at Selfridges
Representing Art, Jewellery, Fashion and Film, this limited-edition collection of 28cm Fine Bone China plates has been designed by leading figures Tim Burton, Alexander McQueen, Daniel Roseberry for Schiaparelli, Sir Ridley Scott, Francesca Amfitheatrof and Jake Chapman. Handmade in Staffordshire, England by Duchess China 1888, these unique plates celebrate the intersection of creative disciplines and craftsmanship.
Sarabande exclusive plats at fundraising dinner
Our concept of luxury is different. For us, luxury isn’t about expensive packaging or branding; it’s about the quality of the work and the experience of meeting the artist who created it. House of Bandits, primarily existing as pop-ups, is versatile: it’s able to shapeshift into whatever it needs to be. From creating bountiful, eye-catching high-street window displays to dressing floor-to-ceiling shelves, we make an impact wherever we go. Our displays combine countless disciplines, offering visitors a unique 360-degree view of the emerging creative sphere. That’s what makes us special; there’s no one like us.
House of Bandits window display at
Selfridges
Shola Branson
Shola Branson creates future artefacts, sitting at the intersection of jewellery, sculpture and cultural memory.
Drawing deeply on the aesthetics and symbolism of early civilisations, he creates pieces that feel both firmly grounded in history and strikingly sharp in their modernity; minimal, elemental and meticulously considered.
Shola held his first major solo show at Sotheby’s Paris, where jewellery was presented alongside furniture, film and sound. Since then, he’s launched exclusive pieces at Dover Street Market London and Hirshleifers New York, expanding his reach internationally.
In October 2024, we brought Shola to our House of Bandits jewellery showcase at Carlos Place, where his work was introduced to stylists, press, and clients in a high-profile, highvisibility setting. The event offered an opportunity to present his collection within a curated space, helping build industry connections and generating interest from potential new clients.
Earlier this year, Shola’s work hit the big stage when Beyoncé wore his one-of-a-kind 18K SMO gold Cartouche drop earrings, set with 6.5 carats of champagne and brown diamonds, during her Cowboy Carter tour performance at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium…just a stone’s throw from Shola’s studio at Sarabande High Road.
Shola has been in residence at Sarabande since 2023.
With a dedicated studio space and access to critical industry insight, he’s been able to shape his business
steadily and independently, on his own terms. Through our mentorship programme, we supported the business in securing the right strategic partnerships to fund a new collection and scale production thoughtfully, without compromising on craft, vision, or intention.
In the jewellery industry, where early financial barriers and lack of access often prevent emerging talent from moving beyond ideas, this kind of backing can be the difference between having a vision and realising it.
Spotlighting a discipline
Since their very beginnings, Sarabande’s studios have been filled with artists and designers across every discipline – from performance to photography, fine jewellery to sculpture and fashion, our studios have been home to it all. To best showcase this broad spectrum of work, we’ve tended towards curating exhibitions thematically rather than with an eye on any one particular practice. However, as we can now count more than 280 different artists as part of the ever growing Sarabande family, we thought it was time to start shedding light within individual disciplines, celebrating the rich diversity of each and fostering connections with specific communities.
In October 2024, Sarabande programmed its first ever discipline-specific activation: a jewellery showcase at the iconic 5 Carlos Place as part of Mount Street Neighbourhood Arts Festival. With 15 jewellers now part of the Sarabande community and a drive from current residents to host an exhibition, we were confident the time was right. Having been offered the venue by the Grosvenor Estate, we felt that the beautiful Mayfair townhouse provided fitting surroundings for the quality and creative talent of our group of makers.
After inviting current residents and alumni to exhibit, we had 100% uptake – proving our instincts were right – and building the foundations for an incredibly strong showcase of work. Partnering with sustainable jewellery brand Skydiamond and stepping away from our East London HQ for a hot minute meant we could connect with a strong client base who may never have visited Sarabande before.
Participating artists were Miya Kumo, Conor Joseph for HairWear (the collaboration between Conor and Taiba Akhuetie), Andrea Dritschel, Benjamin Hawkins, Shola Branson, Megan Brown, Emily Frances Barrett, Martina Kocianova, Charlotte Garnett, Matilde Mozzanega, Akiko Shinzato, Christopher Thompson Royds, Coline Assade and Castro Smith.
The showcase was curated with a strong trade focus, and coinciding with Frieze week meant we brought in footfall from buyers, press, clients and customers from the industry. With over 250 visitors over two days, we welcomed friends from Vogue, The Telegraph, Sunday Times Style, Wallpaper*, Dover Street Market and McQueen, as well as jewellery designers Stephen Webster and Annoushka Ducas.
Sarabande jewellers Megan Brown and Shola Branson were interviewed by A Vibe Called Tech agency, and the showcase was featured in The Evening Standard and well documented on the personal accounts of industry insiders.
With House of Bandits popping up downstairs, we were able to fill the house with artists, immersing visitors in Sarabande’s world.
Following the success of the jewellery showcase, and with a growing roster of photographers under our belt, this spring, Sarabande was able to shine the light on a different discipline –photography.
To date, Sarabande has provided studios for 13 artists for whom photography is central to their practice and many more who incorporate photography as a supporting part of their work, be that performance, film, fashion or digital.
Characteristic of the foundation, Sarabande photographers approach the medium in many different ways, some incorporating found photography, others working with instant film processing and one within the bounds of the wet plate collodion technique.
We exhibited at Photo London’s 10th anniversary edition at Somerset House, an opportunity to showcase our artists on an international stage and raise wider awareness of the foundation. House of Bandits took a large, central booth in Discovery, the section dedicated to the most exciting emerging galleries and artists.
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Following an open call to our artists, we selected nine female photographers to represent House of Bandits with new, unseen pieces for the fair – culminating in a body of work that explored themes of materiality and process and prompting the viewer to look deeper into the methods behind each image.
We embraced the temporality of the space, building a booth with our signature dark walls for black and white photography, a calico covered wall to enhance materiality and a display case of unique sculptural pieces used by artists to create their final work.
We made our voice heard at the fair with a series of on-booth artist activations, VIP tours and events, as well as producing a film that gave visitors an inside look at the artists’ studios and the processes behind their work. Sarabande photographer Hannah Norton was shortlisted for the Nikon Emerging Artist award for her portrait Mia, and Michelle Marshall and Rachel Fleminger Hudson were chosen to feature in the fair’s official programme for a panel talk, Fashion Photography and Nostalgia, reflecting on the ways their work is inspired by research into materials, costumes and the past.
As well as both the sales and opportunities generated for the foundation and participating artists, House of Bandits was able to take up space at a world-renowned photography event. And at a time where space and funding for the arts is increasingly threatened, Sarabande’s presence was more vital than ever.
Hannah Norton, Mia
Sarabande alumni and our current artists-in-residence have had an exceptionally busy year, filled with career-defining opportunities, prestigious awards, and standout exhibitions. The next few paragraphs will bring you up to speed on their many achievements.
Catching Up With...
Standing Ground’s Michael Stewart achieved a major milestone by winning the 2024 LVMH Savoir-Faire Prize, receiving a generous €200,000 endowment and a year-long mentorship designed to elevate his focus on craftsmanship and sustainability. He followed with his SS25 collection, continuing to refine wool jersey tailoring and intricate hand-beaded applications, and was later named a finalist for the 2025 International Woolmark Prize.
Paolo Carzana concluded his Trilogy of Hope with two acclaimed collections. SS25’s How to Attract Mosquitoes was shown in his own garden, while AW25’s Dragons Unwinged at the Butchers Block reimagined a Clerkenwell pub. Both collections received wide recognition and were featured in a cover story for Luncheon Magazine, further cementing Paolo’s reputation as a visionary in British fashion.
Craig Green unveiled his SS25 collection in Paris, marking a significant moment in his ongoing evolution as one of the UK’s most original designers. The show followed a standout season that included his first collaboration with Fred Perry and a nomination for the 2024 British Fashion Council Fashion Awards. For SS26, Craig returned to Paris Men’s Week with a striking and widely praised collection that reaffirmed his position at the forefront of contemporary menswear.
Standing Ground Woolmark Prize. Image by Rafael Pavarotti
Stefan Cooke released their AW25 collection, Altitude, as a digital lookbook, while also launching a new made-to-measure atelier service and unveiling a collaborative capsule created between London and Seoul in partnership with Solid Homme.
Designer Bianca Saunders unveiled her AW25 collection, Dichotomy, in Paris – a powerful study of movement, restriction and masculinity. Drawing on archive footage of Jamaican male dancers, the collection blended fluid tailoring with structural restraint. Saunders also released 38 Love Lane, a collaborative photo journal with photographer Kwabena Sekyi Appiah-Nti, which weaves together his striking images with photos Bianca took while travelling in her 20s, accompanied by contributions from writer Jordan Anderson and intimate interviews with Bianca’s mother.
Bianca’s work was also prominently featured in the 2025 Met Gala, not only dressing Stefon Diggs and Nick Jonas in bespoke suits, but also contributing three runway looks to the Costume Institute’s exhibition, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style. Bianca’s growing cultural impact was further highlighted when Usher, who wore a custom Bianca Saunders suit to the 2023 Met Gala, was named one of Vogue’s ‘57 Best Dressed Men in Met Gala History’.
Torishéju Dumi, now in residence at Sarabande High Road and previously a Sarabande Scholar, also had her work featured at the Met Gala 2025 when Kendall Jenner wore a custom tailored skirt and blazer. Torishéju was nominated for the 2025 LVMH Prize following her Paris SS25 presentation of La Nef des Fous or The Ship of Fools. The collection, inspired by nautical disaster and survival, explores themes of emotional endurance and creative buoyancy. It was featured in a Vogue editorial for the Met, photographed by Tyler Mitchell and styled by Law Roach. Dumi’s celebrity support also included Zendaya, who wore a custom look during her Dune Part Two press tour.
Kendall Jenner wearing
Torishéju
Paolo Carzana AW25 Sarabande
Artist Michaela Yearwood-Dan exhibited her solo show, No Time For Despair, at Hauser & Wirth in London, uniting painting, sculpture and installation. Her work also appeared in the group exhibition, Keeping Time, in Accra, Ghana, curated by Ekow Eshun and Karon Hepburn. Michaela was profiled in British Vogue and released a limited-edition print, Dream a Little Dream, with Artspace and New Contemporaries.
Artist Sayan Chanda presented Between the Two Fires at Scotland’s Cample Line gallery, featuring more than 20 woven tapestries, ceramic objects, and drawings rooted in his collaborations with Kolkata-based artisan weavers. He also showed Dwarapalika II at Frieze through Jhaveri Contemporary, further demonstrating his cross-cultural practice.
Artist Matija Čop presented In the Meantime at Zagreb’s Meštrović Pavilion, continuing his practice of crafting architectural sculptures that negotiate spatial presence.
Artist Saelia Aparicio continues to explore hybrid identities through sculpture and installation. In Mallorca’s Coster Sculpture Park she presented La Giganta Amable, a metal and ceramic hybrid-being that challenges human–animal boundaries, while at London’s St Chad’s she installed Between the world above and the world below, a charcoal-based intervention that interrogates spatial fragmentation and reflection. Later in the year, Saelia opened A Joyful Parasite at Baltic Gateshead and In the Blink of Collapse at Mestna Gallery, Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts.
Artist Camilla Hanney, finalist for the 2024 Ingram Prize, exhibited Slippery Endings, a ceramic vessel that juxtaposes beauty and disquiet, in the ICA’s New Contemporaries show.
Artist Daniel The Gardener contributed to Saatchi’s Flowers exhibition, using plant forms to reflect on natural cycles, memory and ecology
Artist Almudena Romero also featured in Saatchi’s Flowers group exhibition as well as its Metamorphosis, before staging her solo exhibition, The Pigment Change at Milan’s Ipercubo Gallery. She also published an accompanying Fisheye Editions book with a living cover and had five of her works acquired by Soho House for display at Soho Farmhouse.
Almudena Romero, Family Album
Matija
Cop, In the Meantime
Michaela Yearwood-Dan
Discover Sarabande artists in Soho House
‘32 Squares’ by Darcey Fleming at Soho Farmhouse
Artist Emmely Elgersma presented My Year of Rest & Relaxation at the Saatchi Gallery’s The Walls Between Us, and is currently completing a residency in South Korea where she presented work at Korea Craft Week.
Sian Fan unveiled a new series of drawings and sculptural works at Night Café gallery’s Another Self, continuing her exploration into how videogames and anime create portals into new worlds. She premiered Incantation at Hackney’s Digital Body Festival – a digital performance merging aerial dance, motion capture, and video-game environments. Sian also contributed new work Lure to Glimmer at Art Exchange and presented Deity during a V&A Friday Late event. She rounded out the year with a series of lectures at IGA Studio in Beijing.
Artist Sophie Lloyd had two of her sugar-based sculptural works: I love apple and apple loves me and Mannequin featured in the ICA’s New Contemporaries exhibition and was selected for the RBA Rising Stars 2025 show.
Artist John Hui exhibited new paintings and presented Capitalism Works For Me LOL (The Game) at Focus Art Fair, a witty, arcade-style interactive critique of economic systems.
Artist Malgorzata Lisiecka created a seasonal installation at the Polish Sculpture Centre in Orońsko, that considered the exchange between environment, memory and shared histories.
Lulu Wang, artist and co-founder of Diasporas Now, guided the organisation into its ICA residency with a programme titled Speaking Futures, showcasing interdisciplinary performance, music and workshops from more than 20 artists of colour across London, Hull and Northampton. Her practice was featured in 10 Magazine, and she was elected to the Royal Society of Sculptors in recognition of her curatorial leadership.
Sophie Lloyd I love apple and apple loves me 2023
Photographer Kasia Wozniak was honoured with a selection for the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2024 at the National Portrait Gallery. Her portrait of Stephen Jones, for 10 Men Magazine, was rendered as a collodion positive tintype: a 20-second exposure that captures a ghostly, timeless image of the milliner. Kasia also held a solo exhibition, Stillpoint, at London-based Incubator gallery.
Artist Izaak Brandt combined hand-drawn PLA sculpture with film, performance and sound in his solo exhibition, No Place Like Home, exploring dance as a spatial communicative practice in urban contexts.
Noah Berrie continued his interdisciplinary journey as composer and sound artist, producing scores for recent films by Lucca Lutzky and further combining narrative, sound and visual art in his practice.
Designer Connor Joseph gained recognition for his spiral glass earrings when FKA Twigs featured them on her EUSEXUA album cover and video.
Isabel Garrett directed A Film for the Future, Coldplay’s 44-minute multimedia short for Moon Music, premiered in immersive screenings across London, Manchester and Seoul. Her direction amalgamated stop-motion, 2D animation, live action and documentary from a 28-person global team, weaving environmental, communal and hopeful narratives.
Artist Urte Janus showed a powerful installation of sculptures in the Still Life exhibition at Editorial space in Vilnius, Lithuania. Her assemblages featured found objects preserved in sea salt and suspended on meat-curing hooks.
Urte Janus, Salting Rack II, 2024
Work by Kasia Wozniak from ‘Objects in Space’
Robert George Sanders contributed installations to London’s queer cultural scene, notably for the pop-up Club Are in Hackney. Drawing inspiration from parties, toys and scarecrows, Saunders created garments and sculptural ‘party totems’ from repurposed fabrics, photographed in moody, painterly light with subjects such as Princess Julia.
Karina Bond debuted her AW25 Memories of the Future, at London’s Mandrake Hotel, showcasing her innovative use of biodegradable TPU‘3D thread’ to create sculptural fashion and jewellery pieces.
’s work featured prominently at Shanghai Fashion Week, opening the Toy Story: showcase, while his video was included in Heritage Next, a fashion culture exhibition curated by WWD China. Additionally, he completed Protopia, the final film in his Toy Story Re-Imagined trilogy.
launched their 2025 collection, , evolving their signature star motif was highlighted in the Financial Times feature ‘Four Wedding Dress Designers You Need to Know’. Their designs have been made available on SSENSE, and their veils were styled for an editorial in Perfect magazine.
Rachel Fleminger Hudson, a photographer and filmmaker, saw her work published in AnOther Magazine, The Guardian, and Self Service Magazine. Notably, she shot the single and album covers for Wolf Alice’s Baby Bloom.
Zongbo Jiang, Toy Story, 30 Years & Beyond Collaboration
Rachel Fleminger Hudson, Wolf Alice Bloom, Baby Bloom Single Cover
Michaela Stark, Suspended Image by Lara Hughes
Av Vattev’s designs were worn by prominent performers: Charli XCX and Troye Sivan wore his looks during their Sweat tour, and Paul Mescal featured his Viper cardigan during the UK press tour for Gladiator. He launched his SS26 campaign, Bohème, in June.
Artist and designer Michaela Stark presented Suspended at SHOWStudio Gallery, performing a live sculpture piece in which she remained suspended by tulle and rope for three hours. Two of her sculptural works were also featured on a billboard at the Callie Hotel in Lisbon.
Artist Daisy Collingridge contributed to a WaterAid campaign exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery, transforming a toilet seat into a textile artwork to raise funds for global sanitation access. She showed work across galleries in the UK and staged a performance piece, Walking with Clive, for the Morecambe Bay Triennial.
Photographer Hannah Norton was invited to the Alexander McQueen Paris atelier, where she captured the final days of runway preparations; then returned for the Autumn/Winter 2025 show to document backstage moments. Building on these fashion-focused commissions, she completed Girlhood, a sensitive photographic series portraying girls aged 10–18. Hannah has also been deeply engaged with the Tottenham community, producing commissions celebrating local women and their stories.
Jewellery artist Benjamin Hawkins recently crafted a bespoke ring for playwright Jeremy O. Harris, drawing inspiration from 19th-century Fabergé eggs. The ring features a peach-toned pear-shaped diamond and an intricate enamel portrait; a remarkable fusion of historical reference and contemporary celebration.
Av Vattev, SS26 campaign, Bohème
Jeremy O. Harris wearing bespoke ring by Benjamin Hawkins
Designer Christopher Thompson Royds has launched a striking line of sculptural poppy earrings and pins. These wearable artworks debuted at the prestigious Louisa Guinness Gallery, spotlighting Royds’s capacity to blend botanical motifs with bold craftsmanship.
Painter Shannon Bono exhibited in The Future Room at Christie’s and won the London award for the Paul Smith Foundation x Winsor & Newton International Art Prize 2024. Her limited-edition A4 print was featured in the Binder of Women publication. Further expanding her international profile, Shannon took part in Art x Lagos, showing at the Berntson Bhattacharjee gallery.
Freddy Coomes and Matt Empringham launched their womenswear label exploring British identity through fabric, colour, and texture. Their work has been featured in British Vogue and Dazed 100, worn by Emma Corrin and Sienna Miller, and they’re preparing to release their first full collection.
Christopher Thompson Royds, Cherry Branch, Candelabra
Multi-disciplinary artist Anna Perach undertook a three-month residency at Fountainhead arts organisation in Miami. Her work featured at Villa Carmigna in France, under its iconic ‘water ceiling’, and included a performance beneath Louise Bourgeois’s monumental spider sculpture. Anna’s installation Makosh was recently acquired into the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, a significant institutional milestone. Her solo exhibition, A Leap of Sympathy, showcasing watercolour and textile pieces, premiered at Richard Soulton gallery in London before travelling to the East Gallery at Norwich University of the Arts. She also received a feature in The Guardian leading up to the show.
Artist and educator Louis Alderson-Bythell co-led Recompose, a three-day workshop for the RCA fashion programme, reimagining the curriculum toward sustainability and circularity. He also facilitated hands-on wool-recycling sessions, equipping emerging designers with eco-conscious fabric practices.
Silversmith Shinta Nakajima participated in Show Your Metal at Sheffield’s Millennium Gallery. His piece, Acanthus X, became the signature visual for Goldsmiths’ Fair 2024 – featured across printed and digital promotions. At Collect 2025 he was named Artist of the Fair, presenting an innovative new series in bronze that expanded upon his established metal work practice.
Shinta Nakajima at Collect 2025
Anna Perach, Olimpia, 2025
Emma Witter, Merman’s Goblets, 2024
Artist Emma Witter showcased her striking sculpture, The Only Genuine Promise, made from salvaged small animal bones meticulously arranged on a found wooden object, at the Homo Faber exhibition in Venice. Her sculptural series Mermans Goblets received significant attention, being featured in The New York Times and Wallpaper*. In September, Witter embarked on her Master’s in Arts & Humanities at the Royal College of Art, furthering her academic exploration of artistic practice. Her works have been displayed in prestigious galleries across London, Paris and Los Angeles, including the Flowers exhibition at Saatchi Gallery.
Sarabande’s MFA Slade Scholars and Final Year Project awardees culminated two years of study with their graduate show in June. Well done to Iris Su, Jameela Gordon-King, Maya Silverberg, Teodora Nitsolova, Tom Hallimond and Varvara Uhlik.
Single Mine Origin Gold hosted a gala auction at The Natural History Museum. Pieces were featured by Sarabande jewellers Castro Smith, Jet McQuiston, Shola Branson, Benjamin Hawkins, Martina Kocianova and Megan Brown.
Similarly, our Central Saint Martin’s BAF and MAF scholars and Final Year Project awardees brought flurries of colour, imaginative silhouettes and sass to the final year show. Huge congratulations to them all!
Hannah Norton sees photography as a tool for connection – slow, careful and honest. Her work is grounded in long-term collaborations with grassroots organisations and people often misrepresented or overlooked in mainstream media. It’s a practice shaped by presence, trust and conversation.
Since joining Sarabande in 2023, Hannah has developed projects that reach well beyond its walls. She published The Community Cook Up, documenting a community meal and food bank in Tottenham where she had been volunteering for four years. Images from the project were later presented in a solo exhibition at Coal Drops Yard in King’s Cross, bringing the stories of those photographed into a public space and inviting viewers to engage with the work on a deeper, more empathetic level.
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In May, Hannah was one of nine photographers we invited to exhibit at Photo London, the international photography fair held annually at Somerset House. For the show, she developed new work exploring the essence and complexity of girlhood. Following our nomination, she was shortlisted for the Photo London x Nikon Emerging Photographer Award, a well-deserved recognition of her thoughtful, socially engaged and evolving practice.
Hannah’s work moves fluidly across editorial and documentary spaces. She has shot portraits for the BBC, Financial Times, and Saatchi & Saatchi, and is a regular contributor to the British Journal of Photography. Her work has been featured in Portrait of Britain and awarded in the LensCulture Critics’ Choice Award, among others. For the past two seasons, after Sarabande’s introduction, Hannah has been the backstage photographer for the Alexander McQueen runway shows.
Sarabande has supported Hannah to consolidate, deepen and expand an already impressive body of work. What she’s building is both gentle and powerful; images that speak with and for others, challenging assumptions, and asking us to look again and leave with a different perspective.
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Become a Supporter
The Sarabande Foundation was established at the bequest of the late Lee Alexander McQueen CBE, as a charitable foundation to support creatively fearless emerging talent. Named after his Spring/Summer 2007 collection, Lee believed that creative minds, which have the potential to push boundaries and overturn prevailing orthodoxies, should be given the same opportunities he enjoyed during his career.
Sarabande supports talent through three main streams of activity: :
- Full-time scholarships and bursaries
- Subsidised/free studio space with extended support network for new businesses
- An extensive events programme with workshops and practical and inspirational talks
The support offered by Sarabande Foundation is not confined to a singular art form, medium or discipline but centres around our founding principles of craft, quality, creativity, passion and unique vision.
As an individual or on behalf of an organisation, there are several ways in which you can help support Sarabande and continue the innovative legacy that enables the fearless creative minds of the future. We rely on our family of benefactors to play a vital role in supporting Sarabande’s key activities. From conceptualisation of our talks programme to the provision of affordable studios for artists, your support directly contributes to the longevity and future development of London’s leading independent arts organisations. We develop a close reciprocal relationship with all our benefactors, giving you the opportunity to enjoy a bespoke package of benefits while enabling Sarabande support to flourish and increase artist opportunities.
The Sarabande family of patrons plays a vital role in supporting Sarabande’s key activities; from the development of our talks programme to the provision of scholarships and affordable studio space for artists. Each level of Patron Membership enjoys distinct special access to Sarabande and an individual set of privileges.
Patron Membership Levels: Sarabande
Guardian
From £30k per annum
Become a Sarabande Guardian and safeguard the support Sarabande offers to visionary emerging artists and designers. This level of support is for those who seek to make a paramount impact. A Guardian’s generosity will be instrumental to all that Sarabande aims to achieve.
- Use of the Grade-II listed Sarabande space for a private event
- A private tour of Sarabande studios for a Guardian and six guests, with refreshments at the Sarabande Bar
- Handmade Gold Moth Pin – Sarabande’s logo and emblem
- Recognition on the Sarabande Supporters’ Board and on the website
- Invitations to shows and private events at other leading cultural organisations in London, including the Royal Academy of Arts, The Design Museum and the Serpentine Galleries
- Complimentary tickets for you and up to three guests with reserved seating for all talks in our events programme, including the ‘Inspiration Series’, with famous names from the art and creative worlds
- An invitation to the Summer Group Show Benefactors’ Preview, attended by artists, gallerists and leading figures in the creative industries
- An invitation to preview exhibitions co-hosted by the exhibiting artist
- Advance invitations to onsite events
Sarabande Platinum Benefactor
From £20k per annum
Becoming a Sarabande Platinum Benefactor helps to safeguard the support that Sarabande offers visionary emerging artists and designers. It is an excellent way to enjoy a close involvement with Sarabande and directly influence what it can achieve.
In return, Sarabande Platinum Benefactors will enjoy:
- A private tour of Sarabande studios for you and six guests, with refreshments at the Sarabande Bar
- Handmade Gold Moth Pin – Sarabande’s logo and emblem
- Recognition on the Sarabande Supporters’ Board and on the website
- Invitations to shows and private events at other leading cultural organisations in London, including the Royal Academy of Arts, The Design Museum and the Serpentine Galleries
- Complimentary tickets for you and up to three guests with reserved seating to all talks in our events programme, including the ‘Inspiration Series’, with famous names from the art and creative worlds
- An invitation to the Summer Group Show Benefactors’ Preview, attended by artists, gallerists, and leading figures in the creative industries
- An invitation to preview exhibitions co-hosted by the exhibiting artist
- Advance invitations to onsite events
Freddy Coomes and Matt Empringham, AW25, Photography by Stanislas Motz-Neidhart
Sarabande Benefactor
From £10k per annum
Becoming a Sarabande Benefactor will engage you with our programme and foster a meaningful relationship with Sarabande Foundation. Your position as a Benefactor allows Sarabande to support the most creative emerging artists and designers.
In return, Sarabande Benefactors will enjoy:
- A private tour of Sarabande studios for you and six guests, with refreshments at the Sarabande Bar
- Recognition on the Sarabande Supporters’ Board and on the website
- Handmade Silver Moth Pin – Sarabande’s logo and emblem
- Invitations to private events at other leading cultural organisations in London, including the Royal Academy of Arts, The Design Museum and the Serpentine Galleries
- Complimentary tickets for you and up to three guests with reserved seating for all talks in our events programme, including the Inspiration Series, with famous names from the art and creative worlds
- Invitations to privately hosted offsite events, organised by Sarabande Foundation, including exhibition tours, studio visits and artist talks throughout the year
- An invitation to the Summer Group Show Benefactors’ Preview, attended by artists, gallerists and leading figures in the creative industries
- An invitation to preview exhibitions co-hosted by the exhibiting artist
-Advance invitations to onsite events
Sarabande Patron
From £5k per annum
Becoming a Patron is synonymous with being part of the Foundation. It allows for a high level of engagement with the Sarabande Foundation CEO and events throughout the year.
In return, Sarabande Patrons will enjoy:
- Complimentary tickets for you and up to three guests with reserved seating for all talks in our events programme, including the Inspiration Series, with famous names from the art and creative worlds
- Invitations to privately hosted offsite events with Sarabande alumni, including exhibition tours, studio visits and artist talks throughout the year
- An invitation to the Summer Group Show Benefactors’ Preview, attended by artists, gallerists, and leading figures in the creative industries
- An invitation to preview exhibitions co-hosted by the exhibiting artist
- Acknowledgement on the ‘Thank You’ page of our website
Sarabande Supporter
From £3k per annum
We are pleased to invite you to become a Supporter of the Foundation, whose tailored benefit package includes:
- Invitations to offsite events with Sarabande alumni, including exhibition tours, studio visits and artist talks throughout the year
- An invitation to the Summer Group Show Benefactors’ Preview, attended by artists, gallerists and leading figures in the creative industries
- An invitation to preview exhibitions cohosted by the exhibiting artist
- Advance invitations to onsite events
- Acknowledgement on the ‘Thank You’ page of our website
Sarabande
, London, 2019 by Tim Walker
Corporate Giving
By pledging your support to Sarabande, you will be joining a select group of patrons who are passionate about supporting the new and want to encourage innovation, and help emerging talent. Sarabande values creative freedom for artists, allowing them to express their thoughts, and upholding the values of uniqueness of vision, craft, passion, respect and creativity.
We would be delighted to discuss the following levels of corporate support with you and develop a bespoke and mutually beneficial package.
Headline Partner
£250k per annum ex VAT
As a company or organisation, we hope that there is brand alignment with Sarabande Foundation. As a Headline Partner, we would work with you to develop a tailored package of benefits that give you a range of opportunities to engage with us, our artists, and the wider creative community who support (and are supported by) Sarabande.
These could include, but is not limited to: using Sarabande’s space for events; tickets to talks for you, your staff, or any guests. Subsequently, you would have post-event access to online discussions adjacent to email bulletins, reports, and newsletters – to communicate your support and demonstrate your commitment to the arts
Sponsor The High Road Gallery
£60,000 per annum ex VAT
Accessibility to art is vitally important both in how approachable it appears and in terms of geography.
As a public space, The High Road Gallery offers an opportunity for the local community to engage and satiate their creative appetite in a beautiful Grade-II listed space. By supporting The High Road Gallery, you endorse this redistribution of cultural wealth and increase accessibility to the arts for N17 and neighbouring communities.
Your support will be honoured with a bespoke-designed identity plaque and you will also have the opportunity to hold private on-site events for your staff or clients in our gallery space and sculpture garden, invite them to a private tour of the Foundation and meet the artists, and access in-house produced digital content.
Sponsorship of the landscaped sculpture garden is available for an additional £50,000 per annum.
As a High Road Gallery Sponsor, we are delighted to offer you:
- A private tour of Sarabande and the artist studios for you and six guests, hosted by the director of the foundation, with complimentary refreshments at the Sarabande Bar
- Six complimentary tickets per event to all talks in our events programme across both venues encouraging your guests to engage with inspirational subject matter and meet artists and famous names within the art and creative worlds
- The opportunity to use the Grade II-listed Sarabande High Road space for a private event
- An invitation to the Summer Group Show Benefactors’ Preview, attended by artists, gallerists, and leading figures in the creative industries
- Your company name and logo on a premium plate located at the entrance of The High Road Gallery
- Your company name on the Sarabande Supporters board located in the entrance of the Sarabande buildings, visible to all visitors – more than 5,000 creatives, and professionals each year
- A visual logo on Sarabande’s website under the Sponsor page
- A printed page of your choice in the Sarabande Manifesto – the annual bible of the Foundation’s activities and mission shared over the year to our audience in the HNWI world in company with fellow creators
- A quarterly Impact Statement of the programme with insights into the artists working at the foundation, in addition to useful information and opportunities for integrated external engagement that will help bring corporate social responsibility to life
Jennifer Jones, Talking with Gran
Sponsor a Room
£20k-60k per annum ex VAT
Endorsing the expansion of Sarabande’s support to London’s international creative community, sponsors of our artist studios at Sarabande High Road are companies (and individuals) with a palpable connection to ‘hands-on’ artistry. Sponsoring a room means that you have the opportunity to demonstrate your direct support to artisans, makers, jewellers and designers with a strong visibility in our exceptional Grade-II listed space. At accumulative price points, you can choose to sponsor a small, medium, or large studio honoured with a beautifully designed identity plaque. You will also have the opportunity to hold private onsite events for your staff or clients in our gallery space and sculpture garden, invite them to a private tour of the Foundation to meet the artists, and access in-house produced digital content.
Sponsorships of the landscaped sculpture garden or public gallery space are available for £50,000 or £60,000 per annum, respectively.
As a room sponsor, we are delighted to offer you:
- A private tour of Sarabande and the artist studios for you and six guests, hosted by the director of the foundation, with complimentary refreshments at the Sarabande Bar
- Six complimentary tickets per event to all talks in our events programme across both venues, encouraging your guests to engage with inspirational subject matter and meet artists and famous names within the art and creative worlds
- The opportunity to use the Grade-II listed Sarabande High Road space for a private event
- An invitation to the Summer Group Show Benefactors’ Preview, attended by artists, gallerists, and leading figures in the creative industries
- Your company name on the Sarabande Supporters board located in the entrance of the Sarabande buildings, visible to all visitors – more than 5,000 creatives, and professionals each year
- Your company name and logo on a premium plate located at the entrance to your chosen studio or room
- A visual logo on Sarabande’s website under the Sponsor page
- A printed page of your choice in the Sarabande Manifesto – the annual bible of the Foundation’s activities and mission shared over the year to our audience in the HNWI world in company with fellow creators
- If relevant, invitations to join panel discussions that are appropriate to the area of your business, cementing your experience and connecting with the next generation of creatives
- A quarterly Impact Statement of the programme: insights into the artists working at the Foundation, in addition to useful information and opportunities for integrated external engagement that will help bring corporate social responsibility to life
The Creative Benefactor Programme
£15k per annum ex VAT
Our Creative Benefactor Programme is open to like-minded companies in the creative world. As a highly engaged workplace that fosters events and gatherings, Sarabande will help your employees connect with other co-workers and build relationships. By supporting Sarabande through the Creative Benefactor Programme, you will have the opportunity to engage with your staff by inviting them to our events programme of workshops, exhibitions, educational and inspirational talks. Patrons of this programme may also hold private onsite events for your staff or clients, invite them to a private tour of the Foundation and meet the artists, and access to our online content.
As a corporate benefactor, we are delighted to offer you:
- A private tour of Sarabande and the artist studios for you and six guests, hosted by the director of the Foundation, with complimentary refreshments at the Sarabande Bar
- Six complimentary tickets per event to all talks in our events programme across both venues encouraging your guests to engage with inspirational subject matter and meet artists and famous names within the art and creative worlds
- The opportunity to use the Grade-II listed Sarabande space for a private event
- An invitation to the Summer Group Show Benefactors’ Preview, attended by artists, gallerists and leading figures in the creative industries
- Your company name on the Sarabande Supporters board located in the entrance of the Sarabande building, visible to all visitors – more than 5,000 creatives and professionals each year
- A visual logo on Sarabande’s website under the Creative Benefactor Programme
- A printed page of your choice in the Sarabande Manifesto – the annual bible of the Foundation’s activities and mission shared over the year to our audience in the HNWI world in company with fellow creators
- If relevant, invitations to join panel discussions that are appropriate to the area of your business, cementing your experience and connecting with the next generation of creatives
- A quarterly Impact Statement of the programme: insights into the artists working at the Foundation, in addition to useful information and opportunities for integrated external engagement that will help bring corporate social responsibility to life
Lucy Ellerton, Charmin
Talks sponsors
£12k ex VAT per series of talks
You may feel a significant brand alignment with aspects of our programme imbuing a sponsorship of a series of talks. Your brand can be present in the educational and business development of the most visionary emerging artists and designers, enabling future generations to flourish and their unique vision to be actualized. Each talk is filmed in broadcast quality, and we will provide you with content to share with your employees and network. These films may be valuable in demonstrating your commitment to creativity, innovation, and design.
In return for your sponsorship, we are delighted to offer you:
- Tickets to the sponsored on-site talks and events for your clients or employees, with the opportunity to meet and engage with speakers and audiences from across the creative industries
- Usage of your logo across all marketing and PR collateral associated to the talks series – online, on our ticketing, slides at the talks, and any press releases and marketing materials
- Our co-operation ensuring maximum coverage across our social media platforms, and express our gratitude to you in all our social communications. You would benefit from our audience interaction and reach, which is significantly higher than industry average
- An Instagram video clip edited in-house for you to share on your social media
- Usage from a selection of photos taken throughout the events for internal distribution or to share on your social media
Creative Industries Supporters
Sarabande Foundation was founded upon the legacy of Lee Alexander McQueen to ensure that emerging talent are allowed the opportunity to be bold, fearless and creative without boundaries. The Foundation would not be possible without support from across the creative industries – individuals and companies sharing belief in our goals.
Tier 1: £5,000 – £15,000 ex VAT
In return for this support we are delighted to offer you:
- Credit for your support featured on our website following ‘With thanks to…’
- Three complimentary tickets to each talk in our events programme for you and your guests
- Access to online content for internal use
- A quarterly Impact Statement keeping you and your teams updated with our activities and the undertakings of the visionary creatives who make up the Sarabande alumni
Tier 2: £2,000 – £5,000 ex VAT
In return for your support, we are delighted to offer you:
- Three complimentary tickets to each talk in our events programme for you and your guests
- Access to online content for internal usage
- A quarterly Impact Statement keeping you and your teams updated with our activities, and the undertakings of the visionary creatives who make up the Sarabande alumni
Tax Effective Giving
As a registered charity, we welcome all donations, no matter what size. Your donation can qualify for tax relief under Gift Aid if the donor is a UK taxpayer. By which, the foundation can claim 25p for every pound donated. For example, if you have donated £1,000, we can claim an extra £250 from HMRC with no additional costs – a significant difference to our charity’s income.
Likewise, being a higher rate taxpayer would allow you to claim the difference between the rate you pay and the base rate on your donation. For example, if you pay 40% tax rate and donate £5,000, you are entitled to claim £1,000 (20%) from HMRC. Effectively, your donation to Sarabande Foundation would only cost you £4,000.
Our American Supporters
American Friends of Sarabande’s mission is to raise awareness for the activities and programme of the Sarabande Foundation in the US and overseas to enhance the foundation’s services for emerging creatives.
American Friends of Sarabande is a publicly supported, tax-exempt organisation under section 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code and is eligible to receive tax deductible charitable contributions within the limits prescribed by law.
If you are a US citizen and would like to donate to us, you can make your tax-deductible donation payable to American Friends of Sarabande, Inc. via the website: www.afosarabande.org.
For further enquiries, please email info@afosarabande.org.
TIN: 84-1472246
Getting in Touch
Sarabande Foundation extends its support beyond art forms, mediums and disciplines. It supports scholars studying art, design, and fashion at institutions of excellence across the UK and studio residents working in areas as diverse as jewellery, video art, performance, and photography. Your help is vital in ensuring the continued offer of world-class support to the next generation of creative talent in London. To arrange a visit to Sarabande Foundation and to discuss how to get involved, contact us here:
info@sarabandefoundation.org
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Residents
Aaron Esh
Blending Savile Row precision with the edge of British subculture, the brand crafts refined, rebellious clothing for a generation that lives in the in-between—worldly, genderless, and distinctly modern.
Adele Brydges
Adele Brydges is a ceramic designer and artist whose work sits at the intersection of sensuality, connection and self-expression. Adele’s practice spans functional erotic ceramics, workshops and immersive experiences that explore new dimensions of pleasure and intimacy.
Akiko Shinzato
Akiko is a jewellery artist and illustrator who crafts conceptual pieces that explore the profound connections between the physicality of the body and the workings of the mind.
A Letter
A letter, founded by Matt Empringham and Freddy Coomes, champions hands-on making and the value of amateur experimentation. They rework historical dress with a mix of traditional and improvised techniques, prioritizing character and vitality over craft hierarchy.
Alice von Maltzahn
Working with specialist papers, Alice’s practice explores temporality, our intimate bonds with the environment, as well as the traces we leave behind, through intricate paper constructions that prompt us to reconsider our relationship with materiality, nature, growth and decay.
Almudena Romero
Almudena applies her expert knowledge of 19th-century photographic processes to plants, creating new ways of experiencing photography.
Amelia Cross
Amelia Cross is an artist who merges painting with pattern-cutting and sewing to explore how garments shape identity and social systems, creating her signature ‘sewn paintings’ that blend painterly and sculptural forms.
Anna-Lena Krause
Anna-Lena Krause is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, performance, and imagemaking. Her practice explores human connection in shifting physical and digital realities, drawing from psychology and phenomenology.
Anna Nicolò
Anna is an illustrator and graphic artist working across editorial illustration, branding, and sitespecific installations in the public realm. Featuring bold, colourful geometric shapes, Anna’s work can be seen around Haringey Council and in Nine Elms.
Anna Perach
Anna is a fine artist who specialises in creating sculptures using the tufting technique commonly employed in carpet-making. Her sculptural pieces can be displayed as free-standing objects, supported by wooden frames, or dynamically worn and activated during performances.
Anouska Samms
Anouska is an artist and researcher who intricately combines ceramics and textiles made from human hair to sculpt a series of absurd, amorphous and ornate sculptures. Symbolising maternal themes, Anouska carefully selects materials and processes with shared symbolic associations, representing the womb and weaving as a universal mythic trope.
Antonia Caicedo
Antonia Caicedo Holguín is a London-based painter whose work explores memory, intimacy, and diasporic experience, using color, composition, and spatial tension to reflect how personal and cultural histories shape relationships and spaces.
Arthur Poujois
Arthur is a multi-disciplinary artist who proficiently merges painting, performance and installation. Through a perpetual flow of images, his performative abstraction disrupts the authenticity of the mark and challenges the deceitfulness of perception.
Auroboros
Auroboros is the first metaverse native luxury fashion house creating style and status for all realms. Presenting physical couture and digital ready to wear, reflective of the scientific and technological advances of the 21st century, their work stands for innovation, sustainability and immersive design.
Aurora Pettinari York
Aurora is a textile artist and embroiderer; she delves into the realm of mythology as she weaves intricate narratives. Drawing from a collective archive of profound tales that lay bare the human experience, her work explores the profound encounters between humans, animals and deities, serving as a rich tapestry of storytelling.
Av Vattev
Av Vattev was founded by fashion designer Antonio Vattev. Using more than 70% deadstock fabrics, Av Vattev produces collections that speak to the desire for community and create a universe exploring the sensory aspect of garments: sound, vision and touch.
Banita Mistry
A multi-disciplinary artist, Banita works across sculpture and painting. Through her work, she initiates conversations about our relationship with technology and its impact upon our perception and experience of the world.
Beverley Duckworth
Beverley Duckworth creates spaces and moments which connect the smallest, poetic actions of plants with precarious issues faced by humanity. Through living sculpture and installation, Beverley centres on the afterlife of the discarded and is rooted in small acts of reparation.
Berke Yazicioglu
Berke is a versatile designer and illustrator who expertly employs print and textiles as mediums to delve into bold themes of desire and censorship.
Benjamin Hawkins
Benjamin Hawkins is a British jeweller trained in goldsmithing and fine diamond ware; his work is influenced by historic artisanry. He engages creatively with every client, transforming their vision into bespoke pieces.
Bex Massey
Bex Massey’s work examines the role of painting and the language of display in the face of popular culture. Her work examines the codes and historical context of queer culture along with Northern identity to investigate the notion of ‘worth’.
Bianca Saunders
Addressing the tension between tradition and modernity, between the masculine and the feminine, the award-winning designer and creative director takes inspiration from her British and Jamaican background; she approaches design with a multi-disciplinary attitude that brings cross-cultural references into a modern and reinvigorated evolution of menswear.
Bisila Noha
Bisila Noha is a Spanish-Equatoguinean artist, researcher, and writer whose work challenges Western distinctions between art and craft, critiques capitalist ideas of productivity and value, and explores themes of home and interconnectedness inspired by her experiences in pottery communities.
Camilla Hanney
An Irish sculptor and ceramicist, Camilla expertly dismantles archaic identities by employing genteel crafts. With a deft touch, she reconstructs new figures from the remnants of the past, imbuing them with renewed significance and meaning.
Castro Smith
Castro Smith is a hand engraver and jeweller. Castro started training as a painter and printmaker, and his illustrative and painterly style comes through in the design of his rings. Having always been obsessed with creatures and their creations, his artwork is inspired by history, myths and biology.
Clara Chu
An art director and women’s accessories designer, Clara displays her visionary approach by ingeniously transforming ordinary everyday objects, such as kitchenware, into extraordinary fashion statements, resulting in a captivating fusion of art and functionality.
Camila Barvo
Camila Barvo is a Colombian textile artist and designer whose work explores soft sculpture. She pairs embroidery, video and fibre/fabric manipulation as powerful languages to document femininity and identity. Her practice draws attention to the knowledge inherent in hair and the cultural relevance of the medium within her culture and work.
Cha’ky Donnelly
Cha’ky is a contemporary, abstract painter whose work blends chaotic harmony with introspective detail. Tracing an organic path of growth, reflection, and becoming, Cha’ky’s paintings consist of simple yet profound shapes and spontaneous, expressive gestures.
Charlotte Garnett
Charlotte is a British young designer who handcrafts works that are ergonomically designed to encourage mental wellbeing. Charlotte works autobiographically, informing her meaningful concepts by drawing upon experiences and emotions.
Christian Hiadzi
Christian Hiadzi’s portraits explore the tensions between representation and abstraction. Using acrylics, brushes and palette knives, he fuses his past in Ghana with his present in London, and creates work that challenges and enhances the viewer’s imagination.
Christopher Thompson-Royds
An artist and jeweller, Christopher draws inspiration from his upbringing in the English countryside. This profound connection to the natural world permeates his work, shaping his artistic vision and the portrayal of nature within his creations.
Cherry Song
Cherry Song works at the intersection of art and science. Her work explores a rich myriad of themes from technology to philosophy to religion. Metamorphosis sits at the centre of practice as her imagination reshapes the world around her.
Clara Pinto
Clara is a fashion designer focused on working with wool. Aiming to highlight the possibilities that wool offers and preserving artisanal production methods, she works with hand-made felts, nuno felts, natural dyes and biomaterials as her core techniques.
Coline Assade
Coline specialises in crafting personal talismans – forest spirits that serve as protectors and sources of empowerment. Through her unique creations, she challenges traditional notions of femininity and gender, inviting contemplation and exploration of alternative perspectives.
Conor Joseph
Conor Joseph’s jewellery exhibits prevailing themes of otherness, fetishism and the macabre. The human form serves as a noteworthy influence in his artistic practice, with many perceiving his works as an extension of the body itself.
Craig Green
London-born Craig Green founded his label in 2012, redefining menswear through uniform, utility, and emotion. Fusing spectacle with substance, the brand balances concept, craft, and cult appeal— earning him a well-deserved place at the forefront of fashion.
Daisy May Collingridge
Daisy May Collingridge is an artist with an education in fashion design and a practice driven by craft. Her multi-disciplinary work investigates the human form as the central theme. The work sits in an awkward space between sculpture, performance and art.
Daniel The Gardener
Daniel is a multi-disciplinary artist whose painting practice is inspired by his freehand, large-scale botanical tattooing. His work is deeply rooted in botanical study and experimentation.
DANSHAN
DANSHAN explores the undervalued nuances of modern male life, examining how male body language develops, and looks at ways to make a masculine silhouette become effeminate, without breaking the austere boundaries that define menswear.
Darcey Fleming
Darcey Fleming is an artist working in sculpture, photography, video, and performance, often exploring the body. Her practice combines traditional techniques with discarded materials, reflecting an obsessive drive to create.
David Abrahams
David Abrahams is an established commercial photographer who explores diverse subjects through the lenses of still life, landscape, fashion and documentary photography. David’s thought-provoking work challenges capitalist social structures, examines consumer necessity and advocates for sustainability.
Daniel Rey
Daniel Rey is a Venezuelan-Spanish multi-disciplinary artist who explores the intersection of queer bodies, the built environment and spirituality. His work spans performance, painting, moving image and installation, aiming to generate ‘meditative environments’ rooted in challenging conventional constructs of masculinity within patriarchal societies.
Dean Hoy
A visual artist working between soft sculpture, film and photography, Dean’s soft sculpture examines the culture and his personal struggle with care. Using soft toys as a symbolic medium, he explores the spectrum of care, from genuine to neglectful.
Donal Sturt
Donal is a self-taught artist whose creative journey is influenced by graphic design. He produces tangible artworks by translating meticulously crafted digital drafts onto physical mediums.
Ella Lynch
Ella Lynch is a sculptor and 3D artist whose work playfully explores Britishness, nostalgia, and glamour. She combines humor, pop iconography, and found objects, often experimenting with scale and referencing British high street and ‘geezer’ culture.
Electric Adam
Adam is a performance artist whose practice combines sculpture, wearable art and installation for live performance. They create wearable latex pieces and perform them as living sculpture, sealing themselves inside airtight latex and using their breathing, pumps out the air to vacuum pack themselves into a sculptural form.
Emily Frances-Barrett
Emily is an artist and jeweller who celebrates the beauty of decay by elevating natural and found objects through laborious techniques to transform them into fine jewellery.
Emma Witter
Emma transforms salvaged and meticulously cleaned animal bones and shells into exquisite and intricate artworks that challenge the traditional and morbid associations commonly associated with the material.
Emmely Elgersma
Sculptor, ceramist and football coach, Emmely creates large paper-mâché works from upcycled materials and cast aside, found objects. From tennis ball tubes to disused packaging, functioning lamps and chairs emerge.
Esna Su
Esna is an award-winning artist who uses traditional Turkish techniques to create hand-woven wearable sculptures that depict the burden of displacement.
Evie O’Connor
A painter who envisions captivating territories, Evie draws inspiration from her rural upbringing in northern England. Her unconventional landscapes reflect a blend of beauty and wit, tainted with elements of industrialisation.
Françoise Odill
Françoise Odill is an artist and contortionist investigating body manipulation. The human form, modes of bodily self-expression, body augmentation and abstraction, and the body’s relationship to its environment, are always at the centre of her interest.
Freya E. Morris
Freya’s mixed-media artworks are both playful and analytical in nature. She starts with stock images and then manipulates them by enlarging, pinning, cutting and distorting them.
Fredrik Tjærandsen
Fredrik is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work explores the edges of experience, sensation, and the complex relationship between body and space. Working with installation, sculpture and performance, Fredrik merges elements of art and philosophy to create immersive experiences.
Fuchsia
Fuchsia is a mixed-media artist working primarily with watercolour, inks, and oils. She explores notions of good and evil through carefully selected colour palettes and spiritual iconography.
Furmaan Ahmed
Furmaan Ahmed is a Scottish artist in London whose staged photography, film, and set design explore decadence, diaspora, and folklore. As a South Asian trans artist, Ahmed reimagines cultural iconography, ancestral loss, and matriarchal societies within changing landscapes.
Frances Pinnock
Frances works with leather, vellum and horsehair to create compositional and surrealistic works. She marries hand stitching with gestural mark-making and playful metal fabrication to layer fragments of psychology, personal narrative and the body.
George Richardson
George works across painting, sculpture, drawing and performance, looking at community culture, identity politics and power structures within Britain. With humour and a tongue-in-cheek viewpoint, George creates work that pokes fun at daily ‘British’ practices.
George Wilkin
George Wilkin is a painter of large-format oils exploring the tension between fixed forms and their dissolution, revealing new possibilities between the familiar and the unknown.
Gergina Odell
Georgina Odell is a London-based artist working primarily in sculpture using textiles and metalwork. Her work examines personal and collective histories—childhood, family, memory—and how stories are retold.
Grzegorz Stefański
Grzegorz works primarily with multi-screen video installations, moving images and photography. His practice, strongly influenced by performance, is positioned at the nexus of choreography, psychology and film.
Hamed Maiye
An interdisciplinary artist who explores themes revolving around visual archiving, surrealism and portraiture, Hamed utilises painting, photography, sculpture and performance as research tools.
Hannah Norton
Hannah is a socially engaged documentary photographer who works with individuals and communities that have been misrepresented in the mainstream media. Through long-term engagement and collaborative practice, centred around portraiture, she aims to disrupt stereotypes and inform new ways of thinking.
Harriet Horton
Harriet is a self-taught artist who brings a fresh and imaginative perspective to taxidermy, breaking away from its traditional presentation. With a surreal and contemporary pop twist, she infuses the ancient art form with a vibrant and playful essence.
Henry Stanford
Henry is an inventor and artist who designs processes and machines to create garments around the human body, as a means to innovate fashion and encourage less waste.
Hendrickje Schimmel
Schimmel’s work focuses on the institutional archive and surrounding themes such as preservation, decay and cultural hierarchy. She transforms objects by viewing them as scientific or archival, and seeing how people respond to this change, often using square and rectangular shapes to represent the classic form of display.
Helena Lacy
A London-based ceramic artist, Helena creates sculptures and one-of-a-kind furniture pieces. Material exploration is central to her work, particularly how materials layer and interact to replicate natural patterns.
Helena Palmeira
Helena Palmeira is a Brazilian artist and designer who creates sculptural jewellery using culturally and historically significant materials. Her work preserves and reactivates the narratives embedded in these materials, treating jewellery as a space for reflection, storytelling, and cultural reclamation.
Isabel Castro-Jung
Isabel’s core practice materialises personal conditioners into artwork ideas. She explores narratives around migration, heritage, gender, and their consequences on identity and belonging, focusing on the connections between the individual and the community.
Isabel Garrett
Isabel crafts peculiar and subversive tales through the mediums of stop motion, puppetry and live action. Her narratives typically revolve around powerful yet tragically inclined female characters who inhabit fantastical and surreal cosmos.
Izaak Brandt
Izaak works across dance, sculpture, performance, filmmaking and drawing. His practice is rooted in his experience as a dancer and the energetic relationships between dancers, identity, movement and the human body.
Jack Laver
Jack Laver is a multimedia artist and musician whose sculptural, painterly works explore dependency and dissonance. His pieces, inspired by natural systems like roots, veins, and rivers, transcend human perspectives, offering contemplative reflections on nature’s hidden depths.
James Tailor
James Tailor’s artistic practice revolves around the versatility and potential of assemblage, freeing him from the constraints of a specific medium or style. Working primarily with found objects, often in their final stages of life, he cautiously recontextualizes their narratives.
Jana Zornik
Jana is a fashion artefact designer specialising in the creation of distinctive objects related to the body. Her repertoire spans fashion adornments and abstract accessories to perfume bottles and jewellery.
Jane Preston
Jane Preston is a British ceramic artist creating sculptures inspired by nature’s shapes, balance, and metaphors. Her work explores communication through form, responding to the pleasure and pain of lived experience.
Jan Urant
Jan Urant is a painter whose layered works explore personal stories, memories, and figurative characters. Through dry pigments, washes and scraping, he creates dreamlike images that blur the line between reality and imagination.
Jet McQuiston
Jet McQuiston is a self-taught artist using jewellery to eternalise important worlds such as fragile ecosystems, love stories, and historical narratives. Jet sees jewels as the perfect setting to store data, a tiny precious vessel that - if made carefully - can endure and communicate for thousands of years.
Jennifer Jones
Jennifer’s multi-disciplinary practice explores the manipulation of memory. The narrative behind family photos is rewritten as photographic image becomes textile and reality is abstracted into the imaginary.
Jia Xi Li
Jiaxi Li is a textile artist who focuses on innovative knit practice with a multicultural background. She has built a multi-disciplinary and interactive art practice in material exploration, art digitalisation, artisanry and cross-subject collaboration. As a textile artist, she values the emotion, history and humanity in each creation.
Jimmy Junichi Sugiura
A versatile craftsman, designer and artist, Jimmy collects antique footwear and melds design with sculptural art in his creations.
Jin Han Lee
Jin is an oil painter who captures metaphors she discovers while eating, reading, listening or dancing. Through her art, she aims to construct an inclusive language that transcends cultural boundaries, enabling communication and understanding among diverse audiences.
Jingyi Li
Jingyi Li is a artist whose work interlaces feminist narratives, material culture, and soft forms. Lacemaking is central to her practice, transforming traditional forms into sculptural and domestic objects to examine female desire, submission, and BDSM dynamics.
Jo Grogan
Grogan’s practice explores nostalgia, social class, taste, and humour through sculptural modelling and hand wood carving. Using techniques like water gliding and verre églomisé, she blends inherited craft with instinctive composition to question how we interpret and celebrate our collective past.
Jo Miller
Jo creates thoughtfully experimental hats that blend traditional techniques with a playful disregard for materials, resulting in imaginative re-inventions of familiar headwear.
John Alexander Skelton
John has a sustainable design ethos, using recycled fabrics often found in markets, such as antique bed sheets and old grain sacks. He customises these materials through hand-dyeing, over-washing, painting and patching to create garments inspired by his research into traditional craft, heritage and politics.
John Hui
John Hui is a painter who creates a cultural commentary around how we consume objects and content. Collage-like, and taking inspiration from pop and everyday culture, John’s work looks at how what we currently consume is a constant rehashing of the past.
John Spyrou
John Spyrou is a portrait and fashion photographer who employs personal alchemical techniques and alternative printing methods. His work captures subjects in introspective, voyeuristic moments, balancing technical precision with the tension between calmness and intensity.
Jonah Pontzer
Jonah is an oil painter who explores the interplay between the physicality of paint and the pervasive presence of pornography in mainstream culture. Through his art, he dives into the dialogues arising from this juxtaposition, examining the cultural implications and influences of pornography.
Joshua Beaty
Joshua is a multi-disciplinary artist and designer who uses craft to create installations that investigate seduction and repulsion; pleasure and pain; life and death.
Joy Bonfield Colombara
Joy BC is a goldsmith and sculptress whose practice both honors and deconstructs classical representations of femininity, mythology, and beauty. Her work is rich in narrative, blending wearable art with miniature sculpture to explore themes of deconstruction and reconstruction.
Judas Companion
Judas Companion aims to unite art and fashion through grotesque masks made from soft yarn and oversized garments made of recycled leather, which she then photographs on herself.
Julia Curtin
Julia’s practice incorporates photography and sculpture with a concern for mobilising the photograph as an object or material.
Karimah Hassan
Karimah has an expressive, bold aesthetic and is heralded for ‘taking stories of community gatekeepers full circle, from the canvas to the streets’. She creates live paintings at performance events across London and New York to highlight the importance of communities in the city.
Kasia Wozniak
Kasia is an experimental photographer who examines the alchemy of photography, particularly focusing on the wet plate collodion process. With a primary focus on fashion and portraiture, Kasia explores themes related to the intricate dynamics of belonging, the passage of time, nostalgia, and the significance of artefacts.
Katy Mason
A multi-disciplinary artist and designer covering jewellery, sculpture and fashion, Katy’s practice is linked to the value of found materials through their life and history and the appropriation of materials conventionally deemed as waste.
Kay Doble
Kay Doble is a visual artist who combines traditional taxidermy techniques with a unique sculptural approach, highlighting the beauty of natural materials through meticulous craftsmanship that inspires curiosity and shifts perspectives.
Kirico Ueda
A multi-disciplinary artist, Kirico is known for her approach of deconstructing and reassembling motifs and narratives sourced from folktales, myths, and theatres. Her artistic practice traverses multiple mediums, including photography, puppetry, sculpture and printmaking.
Kate Goodrich
Kate Goodrich is a multi-disciplinary artist who grows the materials for her practice; she creates art about nature with nature. In an effort to preserve flora with traditional methods, she constructs her works with distorted sheet-glass, collage and camera-less photography.
Koby Martin
Koby’s work is an introspective exploration of his life and looks to the inclusive human experience of dealing with emotions, memories, thoughts and feelings. His paintings capture the duality of courage and sadness through emotive figures, subjects and abstract forms.
Kristina Walsh
Kristina’s work is characterised by sensual forms and an otherworldly aesthetic and underpinned with research into psychology and social theories. Her narrative-based and critically researched approach engineers new experiences that call for emotional introspection and physical exploration.
Kuniko Maeda
Kuniko works with paper, leather and textiles to create sculptural artworks and installations. Incorporating traditional Japanese techniques and digital technology, she explores the possibility of the materials themselves and their unique properties, embracing natural formed abstraction.
Laila Tara H
Laila deconstructs the aesthetic framework of the Persian miniature tradition, hybridising it with that of its European counterparts to form her own language and paying particular attention to the examples where these traditions met and mixed.
Leo Carlton
Leo Carlton combines VR sculpts, 3D scanning and printing with a test-lab of biomaterials. Using 3D scans of a head, face or body lends to a bespoke process where using technology and natural plant-based materials produce a wearable and ecologically friendly outcome.
Leyman Lahcine
A narrative and figurative painter, Leyman combines playful visual vocabulary with bright colours and cartoon-like style. His works are filled with religious and mythology references to convey ideas around the emotional weights we carry.
Louis Alderson-Bythell
Known as LAB, Louis Alderson-Bythell is an artist who explores the intricate connections between human and non-human ecologies, genetics, biological technology and deep time environmental observation. His work touches on bio-politics and the dynamic balance between stability and plasticity in ecological systems.
Louis Petit
Louis Petit is an artist working in painting, drawing, writing, and etching, whose work is shaped by his experiences with severe epilepsy and the hallucinatory effects of misprescribed medication in adolescence.
Lucy Ellerton
Lucy Ellerton reframes mass-produced objects as thoughtfully produced items. Through the medium of sculpture and printmaking, her work asks how we assign meaning to the ordinary and critiques the throw-away nature of contemporary culture.
Lucy Jagger
Lucy Jagger’s practice engages with commentary of the present-day socio-cultural landscape. Her paintings continue the tradition of narrative painting while addressing contemporary issues and concerns.
Lulu Wang
Lulu is a Chinese multi-disciplinary artist whose practice combines craft, new technologies, performance, installation and illustration. Her work translates the body’s dynamics and perceptions into visual creations.
Mairi Millar
Malgorzata is a visual artist practising across installation, performance and public art, whose work focuses on the political and psychological aspects of fashion. Balancing on the edge of the ‘uncanny’ and the absurd, she unpicks the connection between art and social issues.
Malgorzata Lisiecka
A multi-disciplinary artist and designer covering jewellery, sculpture and fashion, Katy’s practice is linked to the value of found materials through their life and history and the appropriation of materials conventionally deemed as waste.
Mandy Niewöhner
Mandy is a performance and video artist who boldly challenges the confines of gender perception through their alter-ego, Gerrit. With a focus on pushing boundaries, their works seek to expand our understanding of gender and its fluidity.
Marta Klara
Marta Klara is an artist, a filmmaker and a funeral director. She works in a multidisciplinary capacity and explores how art and technology enable us to go beyond physical spaces, embracing the experience of merging physical objects with digital realms.
Martina Kocianova
Martina is a jewellery artist creating fantastical and playful pieces inspired by the world of magic and mushrooms. Childhood memories of foraging in her hometown in Slovakia are reinterpreted into vibrant and conceptual jewellery pieces.
Martina Spetlova
Designer Martina Spetlova’s highly identifiable hand-woven leathers in unexpected juxtapositions have become a trademark of her brand and are applied on jackets, accessories, and larger-scale interior designs.
Matija Čop
Matija’s practice challenges conventional notions of sculpture and materiality. His practice sits at the intersection of science and art, exploring the transformative potential of translation.
Matilde Mozzanega
Matilde is fascinated by the power of jewellery as a healing and wellness source. A modern twist on the ancient tradition of jewellery as talisman, her pieces encourage openness and conversation around mental health, depression and anxiety.
Matthew Needham
A multi-award-winning designer and artist, Matthew is renowned for his responsible approach to upcycling and his significant contributions towards sustainability in the British fashion industry.
Megan Brown
Megan is an artist, jeweller and silversmith who creates innovative designs using traditional jewellery and silversmithing techniques. Inspired by her own family history of jewellery making, she has taken her heritage and translated it into her preferred medium of precious metals, with which she has set up her own business, Megan Brown Jewellery.
Michaela Stark
Michaela Stark is an artist, costume designer and couturier. Her main practice creates custom-made lingerie pieces that are designed to sculpt the body and enhance the society-perceived ‘imperfections’, offering a new and more forgiving perspective on the female form.
Michaela Yearwood-Dan
Michaela Yearwood-Dan works predominantly in vibrant paint and collage to depict observations of society and self, exploring themes of class, culture/race, gender, nature and love.
Michelle Marshall
Michelle is a photographer whose works span from artistic portraiture to commercial fashion editorials. She explores conversations surrounding identity and stereotypes, and how these might inform our perception of ourselves.
Mimi Hope
Mimi hand-makes lenticulars that explore notions of transcendence and freedom. The works are simultaneously static and in flux, activated only by the viewer’s movement around them.
Mircea Teleagă
Mircea Teleagă is best known for his human-less scopes painted in oil and acrylic on canvas. Balancing between landscapes and urban environments, the artist approaches the application of paint as if a shapeshifter; from virtuously to vigorously, opaque to transparent, lucid to destructive.
Miya Kumo
Yuki Vonk is the self-taught jeweller behind the brand Miya Kumo. Referencing images, myths and experiences that captivated her at a young age, her work captures the whimsy of common folklore together with darker and more complex symbols.
Nicole Zisman
A visual artist and fashion designer, Nicole explores the role of our physical and online identities with mixed media approaches ranging from UV sublimation, lenticular hand-pleating, embroidery and VR techniques.
Natalia Triantafylli
Natalia Triantafylli explores the material world through the lens of ornamentation and revivalism. Her practice involves the manipulation of ceramics and 3D printing. With this process, she shapes forms from clay and then digitises through photogrammetry.
Noah Berrie
Noah is a composer, performer and sound artist whose work explores the perceptual and spatial subtleties of sound. His practice spans sound installations, improvisation and score-based composition.
Oliver McConnie
Oliver McConnie creates intense, satirical prints that blend the grotesque, historical symbolism, and modern social mores to critique contemporary politics. His work channels humour, prophecy, and beauty through the dark lens of printmaking.
Olubiyi Thomas
Olubiyi Thomas is an independent fashion label that investigates archaic textiles, multicultural identity, and historical reinterpretation through an artisanal, avant-garde lens.
Paloma Tendero
Paloma is a visual artist exploring the physical and psychological relationships that arise from complications in inherited DNA, through self-portrait photographs with knitted or hand-crafted sculptures.
Paolo Carzana
Working with plant based, recycled, organic and repurposed materials, natural dyes and handmade construction, Carzana’s garments explore the tensions between strength and fragility.
PARISER
Camille Liu is a French-Chinese womenswear designer, founder of the brand PARISER. She is deeply inspired by jewellery design, incorporating materials such as chains, stones, rhinestones, pearls into her knitwear.
Peter Griffiths
Peter initially pursued menswear design studies and later transitioned to become a full-time technician.
Petite Doll (aka Giulia Grillo)
Giulia Grillo is a surrealist artist whose practice transforms the familiar into the extraordinary. Blending beauty with the macabre, she has harnessed the power of self-portraiture to create outlandish visions and with her mastery of design and detail she invites the viewer into her unorthodox worlds.
Philip Pope
Philip Pope is a jeweller specialising in enamelling, drawn to the unique qualities of fired glass as a medium for reflecting the forms and colours of the natural world. His practice is informed by the stillness and wild beauty of the English countryside.
Phoebe Corker Marin
Phoebe Corker-Marin is a sculptor interested in internal narratives and the stories we tell ourselves. For Phoebe, these experiences are physical, grounded in the body, which shapes how we perceive, remember, and respond to the world.
Polly Jane Wilson
Polly Jane Wilson is a cross-disciplinary visual artist. Her works are often realised as ephemeral installations that combine unstable materials, painting techniques, sculptural forms and disorientating plays of light and shadow.
Puck Verkade
Puck is a Dutch-born artist who challenges social complexities of gender, race, and inequality through powerful installations blending video, sculpture and architectural intervention.
Rachel Fleminger Hudson
Rachel works at the intersection of photography, film, costume and set design. She builds highly curated worlds that occupy the space between fashion image and fine art.
Renata Brenha
Renata Brenha is a womenswear designer who pushes sustainable methods and craftsmanship to develop a label that faces the collective challenges of our times. Her signature pieces are recognised by her expert smocking, pleating and repurposing of dead-stock sportswear.
Renee Zhan
A Chinese-American director/animator, Renee delves into themes of the body, nature, and sexuality, fearlessly exploring the beauty, ugliness and sensuality of all that is vibrant and tactile.
Rizza Zahid
Rizza Zahid is a self-taught British-Pakistani artist whose ink and charcoal drawings blend surrealism and narrative, exploring human relationships through detailed, psychologically charged imagery influenced by her South Asian heritage, working-class British life, and punk culture.
Robert Cooper
Robert is a multi-disciplinary artist whose drawings and paintings sit between expressionism and abstract expressionism. He relies on intuitive colour choice and graphic mark making to capture the appearance of a subject as a visualisation process.
Robert George Sanders
Robert is a designer and performance artist with a focus on portraiture-illustration and repurposing the unwanted through storytelling
ROBERTS | WOOD
A womenswear designer who originally studied medicine, ROBERTS | WOOD now makes collections that focus on material innovation and ways of constructing garments without stitching.
Rosie Gibbens
Rosie works primarily in performance, video and sculpture. She uses absurdity in an attempt to unravel learnt behaviours, particularly from her intertwined identities as a woman and consumer. vvavv
Ruby Mellish
Ruby is an experimental jewellery artist who uses a wide range of materials and techniques to achieve unique outcomes. Her practice is primarily influenced by the body and carries surreal themes through the application of computer-aided design and handcrafting.
Saelia Aparicio Torinos
Saelia works in sculpture, animation, large-scale hand drawings and glass blowing to create installations that are personal alien landscapes, touching on inequality, sustainability and the inherent humour that underpins our fundamental human existence.
Salvatore Pione
Salvatore is a multi-disciplinary artist creating works that engage with themes of grotesque theatricality, camp and remembrance. Working with traditional mediums such as wood and steel in contemporary and innovative ways, Salvatore aims to challenge the masculinity embedded in Italian Catholic culture.
Sam Rock
Sam’s photography is characterised by a unique colour palette, romanticism and nostalgia, which he uses to construct a fantastical social commentary.
Semin Hong
Semin is a mixed-media installation artist. Her work starts from the belief that every space anyone has ever lived in, whether it is called home, shelter or without a name, is inscribed with memory and always left with indecipherable traces and marks.
Serena Gili
Serena’s design work is creative and precise, with great attention to delicate details, combined with a strong interest towards innovative and unconventional materials.
Shaina Craft
Shaina is an oil painter grounded in the historical precedent of the Italian Baroque yet adapted to express a contemporary alternative to the abasement of the female nude. Her practice is informed by an obsession with flesh and bodies, a critical perspective on the viewer/subject relationship, and an exploration of the grotesque.
Shannon Swinburn
Shannon Swinburn’s arresting textiles explore the connections between gender, craft and modernday computing. She employs speculation, counterfactual histories and material storytelling to bring these narratives to the forefront. Her use of weaving, metal work and physical computing combine to create an innovative craft process.
Shannon Bono
Shannon Bono’s work embodies an Afrofemcentrist consciousness, sharing muted narratives and projecting black women’s lived experiences. She is invested in producing layered, figurative, compositions embedded with symbols and scientific metaphors that centralise black womanhood as a source of knowledge and understanding.
Shan Hua
Shan Hua is a digital artist whose work explores pop culture and social change through fairytalelike, non-linear narratives. Blending video, sound and text, she reflects on identity and cultural transformation.
Shinta Nakajima
Shinta is an acclaimed silversmith who produces ornaments and vessels inspired by plants, seeds and fruits using hammering and chasing techniques.
Shirin Fathi
An artist and curator, Shirin’s practice focuses on cultural changes in relation to gender identity, and includes roleplay with the use of cosmetics, masks and prosthetics. Fathi uses her own body as a subject to stage ambiguous and often marginalised identities.
Shinsuke Nakano
Shinsuke Nakano’s designs are influenced by his studies of art history, art theory and traditional Japanese arts and crafts. His work explores how clothes are perceived by the blind, setting up textile workshops for those with sight loss, and learning techniques to create texture by sculpting materials.
Shola Branson
Shola creates future artefacts that combine the bold minimalism of the contemporary with rich textures and silhouettes from antiquity. Each piece is meticulously handcrafted using only the finest materials.
Sian Fan
Sian explores the threshold between the virtual and the physical, through digital performance, sculpture, video and installation.
Sinéad O Dwyer
Sinéad O’Dwyer is a London-based womenswear brand, founded in 2021, defined by a blend of soft sensuality and striking toughness. Its emotionally driven, personal narratives are deepened through projects that highlight the brand’s close relationships with its community and models.
Sophie Lloyd
As a sculptor, Sophie is interested in the things we consume and how they consume us. Her works are made of sugar, a material which reflects the additive, sickly and enjoyable qualities of entertainment and media.
Siphiwe Nokukhanya Mnguni
Siphiwe Nokukhanya Mnguni is a British–Zimbabwean artist and curator whose work in painting, collage, and ceramics explores identity, womanhood, and community, celebrating marginalized figures through abstract figuration with joy and play.
Sophie Mei Birkin
Sophie Mei Birkin is an artist exploring material transformation, using salt, industrial waste, and residues to create works that provoke psychophysical responses and unsettle human perception.
Standing Ground
Standing Ground was established by Michael Stewart Dunne. Michael designs modern eveningwear, custom garments and body ornaments, informed by the specificity of the body, where draping, sculpting and craft techniques respond to the individual form.
Stefan Cooke
Stefan Cooke is a menswear design brand that subverts textile techniques and skill with silhouette and design to underpin its signature style.
Stephen Akpo
Stephen employs drawing and painting to explore the profound journey of self-healing. Rooted in experiences of grief and loss, his art reflects a dualistic blend of melancholic introspection and unwavering optimism. Through abstracted internal conversations conveyed in paint, he shares life learnings and challenges, offering an emotive connection to others.
Stephen Doherty
Stephen is an artist who works in inks, drawing and print to create images that reflect on his environments, the people around him, their relationships and shared experience, as well as nature, community and ritual.
Taiba Akhuetie
Taiba Akhuetie is a multidisciplinary artist who uses hair as both material and metaphor, creating sculptural works that explore identity, memory, and belonging while highlighting hair’s emotional and historical significance.
Taryn O’Reilly
Taryn is a sculptor and an academic. Her work predominantly explores concepts of queerness, sexuality and femininity while embracing dark humour, the macabre and camp culture.
Tenant of Culture
Thomas is interested in how natural surfaces can be activated when different narratives are introduced, and uses readily available materials to create situations in which the work is completed when viewed by the public.
Tom Hallimond
Tom Hallimond is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores care, resilience, and lived experience, reflecting on human adaptation and the isolation of the 2020 COVID-19 shutdown.
Tom Hemingway
Tom Hemingway is a figurative artist who reworks traditional drawing techniques, using bold graphite and charcoal contrasts to examine the human form. Influenced by classical and modern figurative art, he creates detailed, uncanny figures that explore identity, emotion, and personal experience.
Torishéju Dumi
TORISHÉJU, founded by Torishéju Dumi, is a womenswear and menswear label exploring form, fabric, and surreal proportions, drawing on her Nigerian-Brazilian, Catholic heritage and NorthWest London upbringing.
Thomas Garnon
Thomas is interested in how natural surfaces can be activated when different narratives are introduced, and uses readily available materials to create situations in which the work is completed when viewed by the public.
Urte Janus
Urte primarily creates sculptural installations exploring the deep time and interconnected nature of living and non-living matter. Her sculptures are characterised by the use of raw elements, such as gelatine, charcoal, ash, limestone, and salvaged metals, as well as acid, salts and other destructive substances.
Victoria Ruiz
Victoria Ruiz is a Venezuelan multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans photography, sculptural garments, and performance. Her work explores identity, cultural resistance, Afro-diasporic spirituality, and the relationship between spirituality and nature.
WED
WED is a bridal and eveningwear brand that draws inspiration from the spirit of early couture to challenge the notion that a bridal gown is a one-day occasion piece.
Whiskey Chow
Whiskey Chow is a performance artist, activist and Chinese drag king. Whiskey’s art practice engages with broadly defined political issues, covering a range of related topics from female and queer masculinity, and problematising the nation-state across geographic boundaries, to stereotypical projections of Chinese/Asian identity.
Yijia Wu
Yijia Wu is a multidisciplinary artist exploring home, migration, and everyday life. Through performance, sculpture, and installation using mundane materials, she reinterprets their cultural significance, creating narratives that are simultaneously absurd, familiar, nostalgic, and present.
Yoav Hadari
Yoav Hadari is an Israeli-born designer working under the label HADARI, focusing on handmade, couture-inspired non-binary tailoring made from recycled and donated materials, catering to the woman’s shape.
Zoya Smirnova
Zoya Smirnova is a London-based ceramic sculptor working with stoneware and porcelain. Her practice explores vulnerability, repair, and transformation through abstracted human forms that sit between body and psyche.
Zongbo Jiang
Zongbo is a visual artist with a background in graphic and digital fashion design. His work centres around creating digital characters, which often take strange and comedic forms.
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Alice Burnhope
Alice is a versatile textile designer who creates interactive and sensory wellbeing artwork. She skilfully repurposes fabrics to address material waste and its impact on the natural environment.
Andrea Dritschel
Andrea is a jeweller who expertly crafts pieces that seamlessly adapt to the wearer. Utilising cuttingedge thermochromic materials and novel biological polymers, her creations undergo captivating transformations in response to changes in temperature and surrounding environment.
Andrew Davis
Andrew is a menswear designer reimagining commonly found materials and unlocks their transformative potential within clothing, fascinated with the shift of connotations that occurs when materials seamlessly integrate into garments.
Anna Howard
Anna’s work blends personal stories with culture, using presentation to explore changing aesthetics and the meaning found in surface appearances.
Anna Choutova
Anna Choutova is a visual artist and curator who examines idealised Western culture through a contemporary Pop Art lens, exploring themes of food, consumerism and addiction in post-Soviet Eastern Europe.
Antonia Caicedo Holguín
Antonia’s work explores human experience through life, memory, and imagination. Influenced by Latin American culture, she captures fleeting moments of intimacy, solitude and personal identity.
Bowen Zhang
Bowen draws on his family’s fishing and labour background, islander and Chinese diaspora identity, and travels to explore fishing industry, labour, gender, class and tourism issues.
Benedikte Klüver
Benedikte primarily paints, driven by an instinctive exploration of color. Her brushstrokes flow and enliven compositions, creating surprising harmonies and a vivid, dynamic expression.
Ben Raz
Ben’s painting and image making embraces a range of processes, thematically touching on sexuality, intimacy, apathy and the elusive ‘uncanny’.
Blythe Cheung
Engaging across a spectrum of disciplines, Blythe’s work draws attention to the unnoticed organic populations that support us. Her practice aims to platform these threatened and fragile ecosystems.
Carson Lovett
Carson blends the strange and fruity in fashion, mixing tradition with rebellion. Using classic techniques alongside synthetic colours and retro silhouettes, they create bold, polarising garments.
Cathy Meyong
Cathy is a womenswear designer exploring race relations in the West and championing empowerment for marginalised women from diverse backgrounds.
Cecily Cracroft-Eley
Cecily is a knitwear designer whose graduate collection was made with women in Kampala, whom she taught sewing and embroidery to support employment.
Christina Cushing
Christina is an artist working with CGI animation and eye tracking, exploring technology’s link to consciousness and challenging modern ways of seeing.
Ciara Courtney
Ciara is a fashion designer and writer whose main research focus is crafting with rural communities to preserve heritage.
Chaney Diao
Chaney works across various mediums to explore desire, labor, and identity, using fashion as a starting point to examine agency, overload and cultural performance.
Chloe Beddow
Chloe’s paintings explore the politics and poetics of space, focusing on accessibility, freedom and restriction, and who is made invisible within designed environments.
Claudia Bampoh
Claudia is a product designer who curates collections blending quotes, found images, events, films, and personal experiences into designs that challenge norms.
Claudia Ramirez Julio
Claudia Ramírez Julio creates powerful works exploring identity, memory and culture, blending Indigenous heritage with contemporary media to reclaim hidden stories.
Davide Carrano
Davide Carrano was chosen for the scholarship by Katy England. Davide explains that he “learns by observing” and that his first steps for research is to read anthropological books and essays, which help him to “understand the everyday”.
Elena-Andreea Teleagã
Elena-Andreea Teleagā is a lens-based media artist whose practice is rooted in photography. Using found material or own imagery, her work creates spaces for reflection, introspection and selfanalysis.
Ellie Wang
Ellie is a multimedia artist whose practice is characterised by a dynamic and surreal grasp on the fixed realities of everyday life.
Emil Leon Dernbac
Emil’s work explores interactions between humans and machines, investigating the extent of the impact of Artificial Intelligence on our daily lives.
Ernie Wang
Ernie is Taiwanese sculptor and creator who explores themes of sexuality and gender, intertwining elements of reality and fantasy in his practice.
Ed Lawrenson
Ed is an artist whose work can manifest through narrative film, intervention, sculpture or printed matter, as long as its core values are to raise important questions through an entertaining lens.
Erik Litzen
Swedish-born Erik Litzen is a fashion designer who is captivated by the influence of identity and gender in clothing and its potential to either foster or hinder social progress.
Eleanor Turnbull
Eleanor is a sculptor creating installations that merge landscapes and bodies through mould-making, video, spoken word and ritual, to explore emotions and society.
Fiorella Angelini
Fiorella uses analogue photography, video, and installations to explore perception and socio-political effects of colonialism on South American landscapes.
Flora Bradwell
Flora works across painting, sculpture, performance, video and installation. A compulsion towards the carnivalesque, a vibrant, trashy aesthetic and the desire to playfully rub the fantastical against the everyday drives her work.
Francesca Kappo
Francesca dives into themes of symmetry through her practice, including print, knit and embroidery. Her work revolves around narratives that explore the contrasting characteristics of two sisters.
Frederika Dalwood
Frederika’s work uses humour and satire, reflecting internet culture. Through video and digital media, she creates overstimulating, surreal syntheses that evoke an absurd, irrational realm.
Gregory Ojakpe
Gregory Ojakpe is a Nigerian-born British knitwear designer. His creative vision has three main elements at its core: artisanry, fantasy/surrealism and identity.
Georgia Lucas-Going
Georgia is a video and performance artist who crafts vibrant and lively works that draw inspiration from her friends, family, and her hometown of Luton, while exploring matters of social class and culture.
Gal Leshem
Gal Leshem is an artist and facilitator. Her work is developed through a site-specific and re- searchbased approach, often engaging with heritage sites, objects and plants embedded in myth, memory and folklore.
Grace Mattingly
Grace’s paintings are luminously bright and playful. Each mark is unrehearsed and dynamic, softly yet decisively applied in oil and watercolour mediums to slick surfaces on canvas, panel and paper. The works reflect on themes of gender and sexuality, play and improvisation, fantasy and the unconscious.
Hayden Albrow
Hayden explores the conscious and unconscious mind, focusing on how we interpret and share memories and dreams, and the challenge of expressing their fleeting nature.
Hannah Regal
Hannah is an artist and accomplished writer, known for her poignant poetry collections, chapbooks and novels that delve into the themes of misuse and its consequences.
Hannah Dixey
Hannah’s creations are rooted in personal memories, family influences, individual experiences and the spontaneous objects and images she encounters in her daily life.
Hendrickje Schimmel
Schimmel’s work focuses on the institutional archive and surrounding themes such as preservation, decay and cultural hierarchy. She transforms objects by viewing them as scientific or archival, and seeing how people respond to this change, often using square and rectangular shapes to represent the classic form of display.
Inga Praskeviciute
Inga’s garments embrace poetic and philosophical elements, often inspired by individual experiences and beliefs. Her creative process encompasses the development of unique textiles, intricate draping techniques, and other innovative approaches.
Iris Su
Iris Su’s practice explores the material and metaphorical dimensions of waste in search of alternative values within human systems. Su works across drawing, photography, moving image, sound, and installation.
Isabelle Pennington-Edmead
Isabelle’s designs have strong connotations coming from her fine art and textile design background. Her work is deeply influenced by the past, weaving together elements of personal recollections and sentimental experiences.
Isobel Dickens
Isobel Dickens is a womenswear designer exploring fragmented memory and the spectral presence of buildings, statues and objects. Inspired by Thanet’s changing landscape, Isobel uses found objects and unusual materials to create bold, exaggerated silhouettes.
Ivan Delogu
Ivan’s work blends his Sardinian heritage with sustainability, using upcycled materials to craft bold silhouettes that reflect diverse female experiences.
Izzy McKinlay
Izzy McKinlay is a designer whose creative practice is a blend of the practical and the surreal. Using her childhood upbringing in Australia, she creates dynamic and introspective clothing pieces that work with and for the body.
Jameela Gordon-King
Movement is at the forefront of Jameela’s practice - in the movement of line, the movement of her body as she works, and the movement of the bodies she depicts. Her current work is centred around large drawings made with charcoal, a material that holds traces of bodily action, and of past lines.
James Crewe
James is a fashion designer who embarks on a mission to explore a fresh and unconventional perspective on modern masculinity. Through his work, he seeks to challenge societal norms and redefine the expectations placed upon men in today’s world.
Jamie Hamill
Jamie’s practice spans various mediums, focusing on the intersection of image and song. He explores socio-political issues, weaving in humor, millennial culture, masculinity, folk dissent and doubt throughout his work.
Jocelyn McGregor
Jocelyn is an artist who creates captivating sculptural works that blend human body parts with synthetic materials, resulting in pieces that induce a sense of vitality and intrigue.
Joe Fearon
Inspired by growing up in a rural village near the city, Joe’s work reclaims British folklore through a queer lens. Their designs blend humor and celebrate imperfection, intentionally skewing and warping heritage themes.
Josephine Rock
Josephine’s interdisciplinary practice encompasses sculpture, film, performance, text and photography. Her working methodology is research-led, like that of an investigative journalist.
Joshua Beaty
Joshua is a multi-disciplinary artist and designer who uses craft to create installations that investigate seduction and repulsion; pleasure and pain; life and death.
Juliet Dodson
Joshua is a multi-disciplinary artist and designer who uses craft to create installations that investigate seduction and repulsion; pleasure and pain; life and death.
Karina Bondareva
Karina embodies rebellious luxurywear, combining rare and unique textiles with experimental, sculptural forms. Each item feels like a novelty piece of art, yet remains comfortably wearable.
Kitty McMurray
Kitty explores urban spaces and their relationships, focusing on the ‘betrayal of space’. Her process starts with screen-printing and extends through site engagement and dialogue.
Korallia Stergides
Korallia merges autobiography and ecology to craft new myths, exploring reality and fiction. Her work highlights care politics and nonhuman agencies in a connected world.
Lewis Payne
Lewis’s designs reflect his Glasgow roots, where fitting in is survival. His work blends with the city’s architecture, capturing the grit and fast pace of urban life.
Liam Johnson
Liam is a fashion designer who creates collections that redefine conventional fashion, highlighting remodelled silhouettes, vibrant colours, unexpected textures and exaggerated forms.
Liliana McCue
Liliana is a fashion designer exploring the human embrace and restricted intimacy. Her work, rooted in sustainability and craft, features entwined forms and the powerful symbolism of a hug.
Linus Stueben
Linus Stueben is a fashion designer whose work personifies garments, using humour and meticulous detail to create emotional connections between each piece and the person who wears it.
Louis Scantlebury
Louis is an artist who crafts comic and satirical films mainly through hand puppets and stop-motion animations
Louise Oates
Louise’s photographic and sculptural works incorporate ecological and chemical interactions. Her work explores materiality, environmental ethics and human perception.v
Maissane Zinai
Maissane’s work stems from a deep need to tell stories and build shelters for those seeking more than the everyday; weaving new folklores across fashion, medicine, spirituality and bioscience.
Mae Morris
Mae’s work is driven by her love of flea markets and car boot sales, where she finds most of her fabrics and materials. She studies her collected objects and clothing, aiming to capture and preserve the craftsmanship and charm of past eras.
Matilda Mayhew
Matilda’s work explores disability, queerness and English folk. As an autistic and queer designer, she uses clothing to express and navigate her identity and lived experience.
Max Adderley
Max Adderley is a designer whose work is guided by nostalgia and reflections on past experiences. Through sampling and observation, he connects everyday textures to his creative process with care and sensitivity.
Maya Silverberg
Maya harnesses her background as a traditionally-trained trompe l’œil painter to create self-reflexive works that exist between image and object, integrating craft and trade techniques and articulating a relationship between fine and decorative art.
Mircea Teleagă
Mircea Teleagă is best known for his human-less scopes painted in oil and acrylic on canvas. Balancing between landscapes and urban environments, the artist approaches the application of paint as if a shapeshifter; from virtuously to vigorously, opaque to transparent, lucid to destructive.
Molly Goddard
Molly Goddard is celebrated for her signature tulle and hand-smocked taffeta dresses. Since launching her label in 2014, she has earned acclaim at London Fashion Week, gained global retail presence, and received multiple awards recognising her impact in fashion.
Natasha Burton
Natasha Burton is a sculptor inspired by African mythology. For her Slade MFA show, she created an installation and film highlighting Congo’s history and the lasting impacts of slavery, imperialism, colonialism and neo-colonialism.
Natalya Falconer
Natalya Falconer explores her southern Italian roots through sculpture, installation and text. Her work reflects the ‘material fallout’ from research and the region’s geophysical, political and economic struggles.
Neil Zhao
Neil uses fashion as an anthropological lens, shaped by growing up in Australia, China and Norway. He reinterprets familiar cultural elements, placing them in fresh, unexpected contexts.
Polly Jane Wilson
Polly Jane Wilson is a cross-disciplinary artist known for ephemeral installations that blend unstable materials, painting, sculpture, and disorienting effects of light and shadow.
Paula Mihovilović
Paula’s fashion design and illustration are driven by instinctive passion, drawing inspiration from historical tales, superstitions, Slavic myths and vintage Croatian films, which shape her creative work.
Rosie Kennedy
Rosie uses sculpture, installation, and video to explore the clumsy and obscure. She examines how we strive to improve ourselves and our environment while dealing with objects and methods beyond our skills.
Ruby Wroe
Ruby Wroe is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work spans speech, video, performance and installation. Influenced by Ana Mendieta and bell hooks among others, her practice focuses on process, identity and social themes.
Rebecca McBallantine
Rebecca is a textile artist with a particular interest in surface; she is drawn to rust, moss, lichen, stone and wood, incorporating them in drawing, prints and sculptures.
Rosa-Johan Uddoh
Rosa is a multi-disciplinary artist working across ceramics, performance, video and performance, fanfiction and sound, exploring places, themes and celebrities in British popular culture, decolonisation and their consequences on self-esteem.
Sam Crabbe
Sam is a womenswear designer whose collections are based on his experience of being sectioned under the Mental Health Act, using his themes and design process as a chance to heal.
Samuel Barry
Samuel is an artist who works with materials such as bitumen, concrete and grease to ask fundamental questions around traditional ways of art making.
Sarah McCormack
Sarah is an esteemed designer who is curious about the morbid fate of the Anthropocene, consequently wishing to question what we see as beautiful or grotesque.
Serena Gili
Serena’s design work is creative and precise, with great attention to delicate details, combined with a strong interest towards innovative and unconventional materials.
Shaw Chin Hao-Chen
Shaw Chin is a designer focused on Asian masculinity and identity. His work serves as a personal healing tool and aims to support others on their own journeys of self-healing.
Shin Aduwa
Shin is a menswear designer who makes personal work that has its roots firmly within their family dynamic, taking inspiration from the person who remains their main driving force – their mother.
Shinsuke Nakano
Shinsuke Nakano’s designs are influenced by his studies of art history, art theory and traditional Japanese arts and crafts. His work explores how clothes are perceived by the blind, setting up textile workshops for those with sight loss, and learning techniques to create texture by sculpting materials.
Shona Waldron
Shona explores the entanglement of nature and technology to evoke wonder and infinite possibility. She often investigates mutable, metamorphic states to illustrate the transition towards an uncertain future.
Sonny Peters
Sonny Peters works with knit and textiles, using biomaterials such as bones, blood, and hair. His macabre fascination with the body and spirituality shapes a personal process where he fully immerses himself, ‘method-acting’ his ideas.
Sophie Mei Birkin
Material exploration drives Sophie Mei’s work, focusing on how materials interact to create psychophysical responses. She investigates matter’s transformation through processes such as growing salt crystals and working with amorphous, decomposing substances.
Stephanie Corby
Material exploration drives Sophie Mei’s work, focusing on how materials interact to create psychophysical responses. She investigates matter’s transformation through processes such as growing salt crystals and working with amorphous, decomposing substances.
Steven Chevallier
Steven is a designer exploring the emotional complexities of human relationships. He pushes traditional knitwear boundaries by incorporating unconventional materials such as latex and plastic into his work.
Solveig Settemsdal
Solveig works across sculpture, drawing, painting, video, sound and photography. She explores how objects and ideas change over time and examines our complex, often unclear relationship with the environment.
Teodora Nitsolova
Teodora is a visual artist whose mystical ecosystems are built site-responsively through assemblages of unstretched canvas, mural-making, wooden panels, textile sculptures, and hand-forged metal constructions or talismans.
Timisola Shasanya
Timisola’s designs have allowed her to express herself by speaking on critical race issues, and the dynamisms of being an African migrant, exploring her culture and sharing a homogenous Black experience.
Torishéju Dumi
TORISHÉJU, founded by Torishéju Dumi, is a womenswear and menswear label exploring form, fabric, and surreal proportions, drawing on her Nigerian-Brazilian, Catholic heritage and NorthWest London upbringing.
Tom Hallimond
Tom Hallimond creates soft sculptures exploring care, control and survival, rooted in his experience as a community carer during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Varvara Uhlik
Varvara Uhlik explores post-Soviet identity, memory and loss through photography, video and digital archives rooted in her Ukrainian heritage.
Ya Luo
Ya Luo’s practice encompasses drawing, painting and sculpture. She explores the possibilities of drawing, how drawings inhabit space as 3-D propositions, and considers the role of pictorial space in relation to real space.
Yodea Williams Braham
Yodea is a fashion designer inspired by their Jamaican heritage and London upbringing, using personal and cultural experiences to create work that connects identity with artistic expression.
Yuuki Horiuchi
Yuuki is a visual artist exploring time, existence, and contradiction using 16mm film, ceramics, painting, drawing and installation.
Yuli Serfaty
Yuli is a multi-media artist exploring links between power systems and nature. Their research-driven work includes sculpture, film, writing, new media and immersive sound installations.
