Artists

Into the Wild Artists 2021/2022

Picture: Inspired by North African oral storytelling traditions, I tell the story of 3 species which have become extinct as a result of colonialism, capitalism and consumption in North Africa, fictionalizing and narrating the spirits of these lost species. The piece is read in English, with subtitles in Darija (North African dialect).

Leila Gamaz is an artist and writer who creates opportunities for healing losses experienced by the diaspora through stories, interviews, archival research and self-exploration. This encompasses memories of and held by landscapes, species, and bodies. They build on these collective stories of the past to help us dream and imagine alternative futures. Leila is a director and member of A.MAL Collective, a curatorial platform of diasporic artists that explore ecology, migration, and post-coloniality through speculative art and research projects.

Picture: a collage of two photographs, one of the inside of a green plastic playhouse and a blurred selfie of the artist

Harriette Meynell is a London-based multi disciplinary
artist using predominantly sound, installation, drawing and photography. My work often focuses on facades, thresholds and
barriers - both real and metaphorical, private and public. I am
interested in the changes of behaviour our environment
produces, our agency to act freely regarding roles and expectations of places and spaces, and the subsequent confines
within which people operate. I have done way too much navel-gazing recently though and want to
re-ignite my socially engaged, and often politically motivated practice and research.

Angel Dust is a video artist, mover and occasional writer. "Last night I went to this weird place, it was wealthy and leafy with an imposing heavy white building. Police was inside deciding who to allow out of the building. Batman was there and he kicked some ass, I was outside speaking to journalists about escaping the dictatorship. Then I got inspired and started going around in a circle tapping people's heads. That was the beginning of my career and my motto "one pop music video at the time I shall change the world!"

Florence Low is a visual artist and graphic designer. They explore themes of queer time and space, inherited landscapes and sites of memory, and Armenian-ness through photography, installation, embroidery and quilting, coding, and publications.

Morisha Moodley is a London-based moving image artist and filmmaker. Morisha's moving image practice finds its starting point in the tension between the documentary format and its contamination by the subjective. Their work traverses ideas of race, queerness, disability and spirituality. They continue a socially-engaged art practice as part of Otherly, a curatorial collective.

Kneed is a collective practice between |shwari Bhalerao and Leonie Rousham. Their work is concerned with building systems of care, access and resistance where external pressures are causing these to be exhausted or lacking. In a time when the government is treating the elderly, sick, disabled, and working class people as disposable, it is more important than ever to collaborate, listen, learn and remember, from conversation and friendship. Their films, texts, sounds, prints, performances and events centre collectivising experiences, memories and stories around labour, time and care are mobilised as tools to resist systems of oppression, exhaustion and isolation.

Beatrice Tailby Hardstaff "I want to be a printing press. I’ll talk in books and A4 pages, in black and white and colour. I’ll have many voices and share all the knowledge and stories and information I can. I’ll be for learning and for fun."

Layan Harman's work is strongly informed by place. He is currently based in South Devon, where he amis responding to the human impact on agricultural landscapes, the struggles of land privatisation, and the Dartmoor prehistoric landscape. Layan aims to create work that emerges from an interconnected network of body, place, and situated history; he therefore often make use of gathered materials and traditional craft skills, regarding making as a mutually transformative relationship between body and environment, culturally upheld through time. He hopes that this holistic approach can help cultivate communal, mutually beneficial relationships to land.

Ben Hartley is an artist living and working in Bristol. Ben's practice harnesses a perpetual state of eco-anxiety to develop sustainable, circular and non-extractive methods of artmaking, and reestablishing art's tenuous link to nature. Ben's practice questions the place of art in an ecologically unstable future. Mostly working in sculpture and installation, Ben's assemblages are constructed from ecologically indigestible waste materials foraged from explorations of urban environments. Presenting themselves as anthropological interventions from a not-so-distant
apocalyptic future, they exist as a kind of non-literary, material speculative fiction.

Anika Deb is a British Bengali artist and cultural worker
working across art forms. She works with diy approaches to
craft and making, often collaborating to create sculptures,
installations and performances. She is interested in creating
spaces for gathering, exploring how culture and art can
be represented and made accessible to different communities.

Into the Wild Alumni

Into the Wild Artists 2021/2022 ​

Into the Wild Alumni

Into the Wild Artists 2021/2022