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(b. 1988, London, UK) is a British photographer, filmmaker and spoken word poet previously based in New York and now back home in London.

Her work focuses on underrepresented stories in the media. Wileman is Head of This Is Endometriosis, a global movement working towards validation, representation and education of endometriosis. She is the Creator and Director of the short film This Is Endometriosis. Created alongside Matt Houghton and Produced by Harriette Wright, the film premiered at Hot Docs Film Festival (2022) and has screened at cinemas including Bertha DocHouse at Curzon and 11 Everyman Cinemas across the UK.

Her photography has been exhibited in institutions including Saatchi Gallery, The National Portrait Gallery, Royal Photographic Society and Annenberg Space for Photography and published in titles including, Forbes, The Washington Post, FT Weekend Magazine, The Independent, British Journal of Photography, Creative Review, CNN Arabic, Today Show (US), Der Spiegel, Le Figaro, Vanity Fair, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Elle, i-D, Dazed & Confused.

Joanna Hogg (b. 1960, UK) is a British film director and screenwriter. She made her feature film debut in 2007 with Unrelated followed by Archipelago (2010), Exhibition (2013), The Souvenir (2019), and The Souvenir Part II (2021). Two of her films topped the Sight & Sound annual poll for best film in their respective years, receiving nominations at the British Independent Film Awards, the Independent Spirit Awards and the Berlinale. Her latest film The Eternal Daughter premiered at the 2022 Venice Film Festival. She is currently working on her next feature film set in Los Angeles.

Nick Turvey (b. 1960, UK) is a sculptor, filmmaker and designer, who studied Architecture at Bristol and the AA, and Glass at the Royal College of Art. He received a two-year bursary from the Royal Society of Sculptors, an Arts Council International Fellowship for a residency at Khoj, Delhi and the Brian Mercer Stone Carving residency in Pietrasanta. Moving image work has included music videos, short drama and documentaries, with work shown at international festivals, London cinemas, the Barbican Centre, Beumanns Museum, Rotterdam, broadcast by NHK and the BBC, and distributed by Factory Records. His sculptural work has been exhibited at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Beukenhof-Phoenix Gallery, Belgium, Mascall’s Gallery, Brighton, Gibberd Gallery, Harlow, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, The Print Room, London, and Eleven Spitalfields, London, among others. His work is in the permanent collections of Pinsent Masons and the Harlow Art Trust.

(b. Maidstone, UK) is a UK-based, multi-media fine artist who makes participatory events, objects, performance, drawings, and zines. Concerns in her work include claiming public space, collective joy, ageing, mental health, queer family, feminism, and gender. In 2021, she published her first book, Resistance Sustenance Protection, funded by Arts Council England and Metal.

In 2023, a tiled panel was acquired for V&A permanent collection, and her sketchbooks of drawings made over the first year of C-19 are now part of the Wellcome Collection. Recent work has shown at Whitechapel Gallery, Parlour Gallery Deptford, Queer Britain, Arnolfini Bristol, De La Warr Pavilion, and New Hall Art Collection. In 2023, she was in residence at The Feminist Library, leading to an exhibition of research and work in progress. Recent publications include Crafted With Pride, edited by Daniel Fountain (Intellect, 2023), Menopause A Comics Treatment (Penn State University Press, 2020), In Other Words (Metal/LADA, 2020), and The Art Of Feminism (Tate, 2019).

(b. 1991, Barry, Wales) is a Cardiff-based artist, who recently graduated from The University of South Wales with a BA in photography. Raven has spent the two years since leaving university, where she came out as trans, as a practicing artist and professional photographer, working closely with and supporting the LGBT+ community.

Raven continually strides to try to discover hidden truths, through the alternative worlds exposed by alternative photographic practice. By exploring the relationship that photography has with truth, Raven hopes to create art that is a force for powerful change in the world – highlighting and accentuating the beauty that others might not be able to see, while revealing the darkness that those in power wish to hide.

(b. 1991, Toronto, CA) brings fantasy to life through storytelling in moving image, performance, writing, and print. Drawing on experiences of existing between binary categories, their work realises alternate worlds to describe lived experiences of desire, identification and consciousness.

They were the recipient of the 24th Baloise Art Prize at Art Basel 2023 for their film series Portraits (2023). Their film, A Dream of Wholeness in Parts (2021) was nominated for the 2022 Turner Prize and included in the touring exhibition the British Art Show 9, as well as being screened at the British Film Institute’s 65th London Film Festival. Upcoming solo exhibitions include MUDAM,

Luxembourg (2024), and Accelerator, Stockholm (2024). Recent solo exhibitions include Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York (2024), Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley (2023), Soft Opening, London (2023), Dreaming the End at Fondazione Memmo, Rome (2023), A Dream of Wholeness in Parts at Soft Opening, London (2022), It’s Always You at Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong (2021), She’s Hopeful (2018) at Soft Opening, London (2020), Narrative Reflections on Looking at Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (2020), and Indifferent Idols at Taipei Contemporary Art Centre, Taipei (2018).