Ubada Muti (b. 1993) is a multicultural, multidisciplinary artist; currently living in Istanbul. His artistic practice is characterised by its elusive nature, constantly evolving and defying categorization. His work often involves collaboration with others, including friends, colleagues, former classmates, and children, resulting in layered and multifaceted pieces. The main themes explored in his art include the concepts of conversation, learning, questioning, and the accumulation of shared experiences.

“Ubada is an exceptional mind and approached the residency with a creative and intellectual rigour that challenged us all - from re-writing out T&C's to inviting dozens of fellow artists to collaborate and working side by side with my young daughter (an abiding friendship to this day) Ubada breaks the mould and whilst makes 'beautiful work' he is a living embodiment of life as a constant expression - all experience and time equivocate to his output and it is ephemeral, lyrical, physical, poetic and sometimes downright frustrating…”

@ubadamuti 

Shinuk Suh (b. 1988, Seoul, South Korea) is a London-based contemporary artist working primarily in sculpture and kinetic installation. He studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins and later completed an MFA in Sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art. His artistic practice explores how identity, the human body, and personal experience are shaped by social systems such as family, religion, education, and state structures. Drawing from his own upbringing in South Korea, Suh reflects on the tension between imposed ideals of the “perfect” individual and his own sense of self, often incorporating elements of memory, trauma, and dream imagery. 

“Shinuk Suh is a sculptor of incredible skill and intelligence with a monastic commitment to work and production. Shinuk explores the plight of the working man - Manufactured was an epic installation that took over the entire main gallery and conjured the dehumanisation of factory work through a series of full size 'factory' kinetic works that had cartoon humour and tragic pathos of the exploitative nature of work.”

@shinuksuh 

https://www.shinuksuh.com/

Jia Xi Li (b. 1997) is a Chinese-Canadian artist based in London, working across sculpture, wall pieces, and installation, with a focus on experimental knitted textile forms. She studied at Parsons School of Design in New York and later completed an MA at the Royal College of Art. Her practice centres on memory, emotion, and the idea of “home,” particularly from the perspective of a contemporary, mobile life. Using fibre materials, she creates sculptural works that solidify knitted forms into fragile yet structured objects, each piece acting as an archive of personal and sensory memory. 

“She is an incredible textile sculptor that invented a way of weaving material that she then utilises to shape her works that are comical and lyrically echo the history of art as well as the commercial objects.” 

@jiajiajiaxi_li

https://jiajiajiaxi.com/

Tinaye Makuyana (b. 2000, Harare, Zimbabwe) is a UK-based artist specialising in paper sculpture. She began developing her practice while studying Fine Art at Loughborough University, where she created her signature folded paper works. Her work explores the relationship between light, colour, and geometry through carefully constructed paper forms. Using scored and folded cotton fibre paper, she creates sculptural surfaces that interact with light to produce shifting shadows, reflections, and optical illusions.

“The ethereal works of Tinaye are puzzling as one is not sure if they are illuminated – her practice is maturely resolved and her minimal, exacting explorations are poetic. It was wonderful to see her scale up successfully and to have a work bought into a museum collection from her final exhibition with us.”

@tinayemakuyana.studio

https://www.makuyanastudio.com/