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.
Fred Fabre began his varied and colourful career as a drawer and animator before turning to video journalism, working in many of the world’s conflicts. He moved to London in 1997 and has worked on various projects as a BAFTA-winning director of photography before moving on to painting full time after doing an MA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art in 2007. Recently Fabre won the Refresh Art Award (Prize of Our Times 2019).
Olabamiji Yemi Tubi, commonly known as O Yemi Tubi and also known in the art world as MOYAT was born in 1955 in the city of Ibadan, Nigeria, West Africa. His BFA Degree was obtained from Valdosta State College, Valdosta Georgia USA where he majored in Graphic Design. He was awarded an Art Scholarship and a plaque (Excellence in Fine Art) 1984 by South Georgia, Douglas Georgia, USA.
Tara Leaver is a British artist whose abstract landscape paintings evoke the sensory experiences of immersing in the natural landscape of her home on the coast of Cornwall. She is happiest near – or preferably in – the sea, where she swims as often as she can. Leaver immerses herself in the multi-sensory experience of it, taking photos underwater, looking and feeling into the abundance of life above and below the waves. Back in the studio, Leaver weaves together elements from the photos, memories, and gathered seaweed, to distil those experiences into paintings.
Through painting, Heidi Best explores physical and psychic emotions stemming from personal experience, female identity, sexuality and the presence of the body. The dynamics between Best and a physical projection through gestural painting are reviled through the growing connection between her and the environment which the work develops.
