Joey Li and Thuta Khin are the founders of Leiho. Leiho means 'How are you' in Cantonese and sometimes that's all we need to tell someone to show that we care! With a combined background in marketing, film, media and charitable work, Joey and Thuta have been working on their social enterprise together since 2019…
Read MoreSandra Adu is the founder of Black Girls in Design. Black Girls In Design is committed to catering to the needs of women of colour from design backgrounds such as Graphic, UI, and UX design…
Read MoreLeah Gordon is a photographer, artist, curator, writer and filmmaker. Gordon was born in Ellesmere Port, equidistant between Liverpool, a city built upon the slave trade, and Manchester, built upon the industrial revolution, themes that are recurrent in her work…
Read MoreNdubuisi Kejeh is the founders of Mustard - an Africa-focused venture agency - in 2013, which is on a mission to build better products, better brands and better perceptions for Africa, with founders and investors who believe…
Read MoreOlivia Huntingford is a London-based artist who set up London Makers Market at the beginning of 2020. She loves to travel, see friends, cook, host, go charity shopping, be active, and above all else, support creatives…
Read MoreJen is an entrepreneur and the founder of Black Culture Market. She is passionate about brands, products and mushroom recipes. She is an avid traveller and loves exploring different cultures...
Read MoreQuintana Hoyne is a Siberian-Chinese fashion model, actress, and author, based in Paris. She was named one of the rising stars to watch in the industry in 2022-2023…
Read MoreDaisy and Liv are founders of Salad Days Market (formerly known as A South London Makers Market). Salad Days Market is a curated makers market that pops up in different venues around South London, created with one aim: to help more people than ever shop small…
Read MoreBettina Korek serves as the CEO of Serpentine. She has a track record of successfully expanding programmes, as demonstrated by her tenure as Executive Director of Frieze Los Angeles and her wide expertise in public art presentations and writing…
Read MoreGhizlan El Glaoui is a Moroccan-born artist based in London. Known for her richly hued, expressive painted portraits, her use of light and texture bridges the ancient and modern, the classical and the contemporary…
Read MorePelumi Odubanjo and Katy Barron are the curators of Photo50 2023 at the London Art Fair. The theme this year is Beautiful Experiments which will bring together the work of a group of multigenerational women photographers whose practice engages with their diasporic heritage…
Read MoreWe have a conversation with Robert Straw about the charity he founded in March 2022, Action Against Food Poverty (AAFP). The premise of AAFP is to offer food and supplies to the homeless, but also single parents, students and people struggling with mental health issues…
Read MoreSam Winston is an artist based in East London. His practice is concerned with language and the many ways we encounter it. He employs a variety of different approaches including drawing, books, participatory projects and poetry. He was initially known for typography and artist’s books…
Read MoreDrawing inspiration from notions of transformation, mortality, and femininity, Haley Josephs paints solitary figures in fantastical yet foreboding environments that transcend time and space. Her enigmatic paintings are colourful and whimsical yet also present a dark twist. An underlying sense of power and balance pervades her works…
Read MoreMaryam Eisler is an Iranian-born, London-based photographer and author. Eisler's photographic work is centred around the Sublime Feminine, and she has had exhibitions with Tristan Hoare and Linley (London) as well as Harper's (East Hampton). Additionally, she has shown at Richard Taittinger Gallery (New York), Photo London, Eye of the Collector (London), Dallas Art Fair, Unseen Amsterdam, Space Gallery St Barth, Bermondsey Project Space (London), and Art Marbella...
Read MoreEugene Palmer (born 1955, Kingston, Jamaica) is a figurative painter whose work explores the British black diaspora based on his own experience of leaving Jamaica for the UK at the age of nine to settle in Birmingham. Drawing on the experience of being immersed in British culture while remaining symbolically outside of it…
Read MoreArji Manuelpillai is a poet, performer and creative facilitator based in London. For over 15 years, Manuelpillai has worked with community arts projects nationally and internationally. Recently, he was the Jerwood/Arvon Mentee mentored by Hannah Lowe. Manuelpillai is a member of Malika's Poetry Kitchen and London Stanza. Manuelpillai’s debut pamphlet, Mutton Rolls, was published with Out-Spoken Press…
Read MoreGurnaik Johal is a writer and editor from West London. We Move, his first book, is published by Serpent’s Tail and includes ‘Arrival’, the winner of the 2022 Galley Beggar Press Short Story Award and ‘The Piano’, which was shortlisted for the 2018 Guardian 4th Estate Story Prize…
Read MoreSheena Patel is a writer and assistant director for film and TV who was born and raised in north-west London. She is part of the 4 BROWN GIRLS WHO WRITE collective, has been published in 4 BROWN GIRLS WHO WRITE (Rough Trade Books) and a poetry collection of the same name (FEM Press). In 2022 she was chosen as one of The Observer's top 10 best debut novelists. I’m a Fan is her first book…
Read MoreJames Cahill has worked in both the art world and academia for the last ten years, combining writing and research with a role at a leading contemporary art gallery. He is currently a Fellow in classics at King’s College London. His writing has been published in the TLS, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the London Review of Books and The Burlington Magazine, among other publications…
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