Nefer Tipi is an artist based in Hackney Wick. Her work serves as a visual language rich in symbology that explores life's paths, the journey of self-discovery, the fleeting nature of existence, and the emptiness of superfluous material pursuits. With a deep interest in art history, she frequently draws from the past to find innovative ways of expression.
Lucy Merriman is an emerging contemporary artist based in East London.
The driving force behind Lucy’s work is a profound response to the surrounding landscape through emotive colour and expressive brushstrokes, using printmaking processes and painting as the basis for her work. Lucy’s mixed media approach is developed through painted sketches, monoprints and photography. Using a blend of analogue & digital processes she plays with form and composition. The spontaneity of printmaking creates unexpected imperfections and texture. Layers of acrylic paint are energetically applied to canvases, hand screen-printed images merge with sweeping gestural marks in vibrant hues.
Lucy graduated from Nottingham Trent University with a BA in Textile Design, establishing her first print design studio in Shoreditch 1992. In 2020, Lucy shifted focus from design to artistic practice.
Recently Lucy has exhibited at The Other Art Fair London, Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair and The Affordable Art Fair at Battersea and Hampstead. She is a member of ArtCan and a keyholder at East London Printmakers. Lucy’s work is held in private collections around the world.
Assia Bennani is a Moroccan contemporary painter and designer based in London.
Her semi-figurative paintings, out of time and space are a celebration of diversity. She sees her art journey as a fruitful world where cultures, traditions and innovations happily find each other.
In a world that tends to be more and more polarised, she likes to create visual bridges between different realities, cultures and time frames. Assia grew up in Casablanca and spent the last 20 years between Paris, Hong Kong and London where she lives today.
Each of those places has left a mark on her identity; through painting, she explores how these different influences can gracefully blend together, just like they gently flow within herself.
She uses acrylic primarily paint but enjoys other mediums like ink, gouache or oil paint. Her paintings are an invitation to slow down and in her more recent series “Reclaim Dreaming”, she invites us to question the place left to dreams and imagination in our modern lives.
Sara Hoque is a local mixed-media artist currently living on a narrow boat in East London.
Sara Hoque's work explores the majesty of the natural world and the uncertainty of its future. By using acrylic paint and collaged images she creates visually appealing compositions with loose, abstract narratives.
By using acrylic paint and collaged images, Sara’s work explores the sublime wonder we experience in nature. Through her practice she aims to untangle the complexity that can only be described as ‘awe’, an emotion which can be both pleasurable or imbued with mystery and uncertainty. Driven by her curiosity around the natural world, her purpose is to capture the spirit of nature through her ephemeral landscapes.
