Born in Sri Lanka into an artistic family, Kos Cos began drawing and painting at an early age. In the golden age of hand-drawn signage, his playground was his father’s agency workshop, where Cos studied and practised brush skills after school. In 1999, Cos moved to Hong Kong to work in the advertising and film industry.
Cam Linh Huynh is a French self-taught analogue photographer, who brings her lomo cameras everywhere. From the countries that she explores to Paris and its surroundings. Huynh likes to share her travel experiences through dreamy photographs: single shot or multi-exposure. No photoshop – just a blend of instinct and love. Huynh focuses on feminism as well as intersectionality issues. With her specific technique, she aims to shed another light on subjects and enhance the voices of minorities.
Thelma Pott was born in 1984. She lives and works in Porto and London. After finishing her studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, she took her MA in Curatorial Studies at the Royal Academy of Arts of the University of Coimbra in Portugal. In 2013 she won the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Project Grant.
Cameroonian born, London based Violeta Sofia, is a visual artist and photographer, best known for her celebrity/fashion photography and political paintings. After moving to London from Spain, she decided to study Media at Thames Valley University and photography at East London University, before becoming a freelance photographer. Her work brings together aspects of Pop art with a combination of poignant messages and imagery.
Gordon Ellis-Brown’s practice oscillates between social and environmental concerns ranging from ancient history to pop-culture, sustainability to space science; interests he credits to growing up in a seaside hotel in the 1970s, as well as childhood memories of American Westerns, the Apollo space missions and the unworldliness of television tropes broadcasting alien visitations.
