These are the brilliant artists behind the interactive commissioned works.
Grover is a 34-year-old trans man of Ojibwe and Odawa descent, currently living on land formally belonging to the Miami people (southern Indiana). He believes strongly in indigenous self-determination and decolonizing our lives
Learn more and connect with Grover Jeide
Scotty Brave is a visual artist working mainly in the medium of spray paint. His paintings are large, Scott is known for creating live pieces of street art as a performance. His work is mostly public art, street art or some say graffiti art. To gain his degree, he wrote a dissertation centred around the subject of visual languages, Graffiti, and youth subcultures.
Scotty understands the issues that surround ‘public art’ very well. After completing an Artist in Residence course Scott began trading as “Brave Arts’ providing professional street art services & pioneering spray-can art projects in education. Brave Arts has been involved in many large-scale murals, and run hundreds of workshops with Schools with Youth Groups, Prisons and all kinds of different art initiatives.
Learn more and connect with Scott Irving and Brave Arts
Carol has been involved within art for most of her life, being influenced by her uncle, artist John O’Connor. Starting her career at the Atomics Weapons Research Centre on Foulness Island,she learned technical drawing at college whilst working. She even had to sign the Official Secrets Act, as she was creating drawings for the Home Office!
She then drew transmission towers at Blaw-Knox, before moving on to drawing lighthouses at Trinity House and finally charting the River Thames at The Port of London. She has also recently painted some porcelain plates for a billionaire yacht owner based in Cannes. Carol owned a haberdashery for some time whilst creating and selling watercolours and pottery, which she continues to produce to this day.
Learn more and connect with Carol Polatch
Madelaine Hanman Murphy is a socially engaged artist. She currently works within a range of strands, engaging with objects and installations in a socially- engaged practice. She has a penchant for birdboxes, shrines, vanitas and memoria. The material and metaphoric qualities of objects either existing, or of her own making, aim to convey humorous perspectives on futility and frustration. She's interested in the relationship between word and image, the context of the object, and the digital and social remnants of the lifespan of some very short-lived works.
Madelaine and her husband Alistair work on private, school and larger scale public art commissions with an emphasis on socially engagement. Madelaine is a potter by trade, a teacher by profession and an artist by inclination, and also runs her business in the luxury gift and greeting industry.
Learn more and connect with Madelaine Hanman Murphy