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Jaipur-based photographer Amit Sihag comes from an agricultural background in the state of Punjab in North India. He grew up documenting life in villages, around cattle, fields, farmers and all else that comprises rural life.  Trained as an engineer he later followed his dream by studying photography at the Sir J.J School of Applied Art in Mumbai. Seeing life through the viewfinder of his camera became and continues to be his meditation. His native Punjab deeply informs his heart, eyes and work, which spans fashion, lifestyle, luxury, travel and social documentary.

Sihag’s work has appeared in Vogue Italia, Conde Nast Traveller, Apparel, L’Officiel, Carpet XL, AD, Cover, Object, Outlook, JetWings, Better Homes, iDecorama, Get Inspired, JPG, Vogue UK, TimesOf India, The Hindu, IndiaToday, Elle Decor and more. He has worked extensively with Indian and International brands. Social documentary is core to his practice, people both abstract and documentary are his passion.  His work captures the art and creativity that so warms his soul, as well as the acceptance of co-existence and diversity that make  India so magical and captivating. 

ing the Saatchi Collection, London; Arts Council England, London; Victoria and Albert Museum; London; British Museum, London and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Richard Woods lives and works in London.

Azraa Motala is a visual artist from Preston, currently based between the North West and the Midlands. Her practice and research explores the lived experiences of British South Asian women, including notions of identity, belonging, culture and heritage within the context of the contemporary Western space. Negotiating the position of insider and outsider in and amongst the familiar and foreign. Through large scale oil paintings, photography, poetry, video and site specific interventions she explores the polarity of the East and West, history, politics, empire and orientalist depictions of women in art. 

David Blackmore is a European Artist with two sides to his practice. One is studio based, working with sculpture and print. The other consists of transgressive actions performed for the image and relational exchanges. Hinged on the boundary areas between order and dissent he takes material from the familiar and disregarded aspects of civic life to explore a frustration with the way our lives are dictated to by systems of order. 

David has exhibited widely and completed a Masters in Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art (London, Uk). David’s studio is located at Chisenhale Studios Bow and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of the Arts. 

Chihiro Fiona McBennett (b. 2001) is an Irish-Japanese visual artist based in London. Her work explores the complex relationship between identity and social standards through self-portraiture. In her projects, she often delves into topics such as nostalgia and cultural dysphoria as a way to connect with her own identity.  

Wainaina is a Kenyan visual artist based in Berlin, Germany. His work is deeply rooted in his personal experiences of finding a sense of belonging and identity within a predominantly white, western society, having grown up in Kenya. Through a carefully calculated use of abstraction, materiality, and experimentation, Wainaina’s art invites viewers to engage in new and unpredictable cycles of thought and association. 

Larry Achiampong’s projects employ film, still imagery, aural and visual archives, live performance, objects and sound to explore ideas surrounding class, gender, cross-cultural and digital identity. 

With works that examine his communal and personal heritage – in particular, the intersection between popular culture and the residues of colonisation, Achiampong crate-digs the vaults of history. These investigations examine constructions of ‘the self’ through the activity of splicing the audible and visual materials of personal and interpersonal archives, offering multiple perspectives that reveal the deeply entrenched inequalities in contemporary society. 

Achiampong (b. 1984, UK, British Ghanaian) is a BAFTA longlisted (2023) and Jarman Award nominated (2021) artist, filmmaker and musician. He completed a BA in Mixed Media Fine Art at University of Westminster in 2005 and an MA in Sculpture at The Slade School of Fine Art in 2008. In 2020 Achiampong was awarded the Stanley Picker fellowship and in 2019 received the Paul Hamlyn Artist award in recognition for his practice. He lives and works in London and Essex, and was a tutor on the Photography MA programme at Royal College of Art between 2016 – 2021. Achiampong served on the Board of Trustees at Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts, 2017-2022) facilitating art policies in the UK and internationally and also holds a place on the board of trustees for Elephant Trust. He is represented by Copperfield, London and his films are distributed by LUX, London. Achiampong also holds a Black Belt (1st Dan) in Goju Ryu Karate Do and is a student of Kaizen Ryu Seiwakai East London.