Born and raised in London, Gary Miller was taught at a young age to repurpose and reuse materials to give them a second life. As a child, Miller’s grandmother, who was a seamstress in a couturier, taught Gary about fabrics, pattern cutting, hand sewing, and embroidery techniques, which he practised endlessly wanting to learn her craft.
Sally de Courcy was born in Canterbury, Kent. She obtained a first-class honours degree in fine art at the University of Creative Arts, Farnham. During which time she developed an interest in repetition using the casting process to make large-scale sculptures and installations.
Ace Alamillo is a visual artist from the Philippines. He obtained his degree in Studio Arts from Asia Pacific College School of Multimedia Arts. His range of work includes paintings, collages, assemblages, and found objects which often drew on abstraction using lines and schematics and their association to his everyday life.
Born in a small town Nils Gabrielsson begun to study philosophy from an early age thanks to his parents, who both studied philosophy at the university. I then travelled around Europe and I’m now settled in Italy where I work as a researcher at the university.
Michaela McManus is a visual artist based in Dornoch Street Studios, Glasgow. Her practice explores both personal memory and wider themes concerning the artifice and fragmentation of our post-modern, post-net era. Rooted in the relationship between the inaccessible and the non-existent, she uses the imagined landscape to represent the psychological space where memories are retraced.
