Artists

Syd Moore

As well as writing novels for Faber&Faber and regularly appearing on The Culture Show, Michael Smith is a film-maker who's made films for the Barbican's 2012 Olympics programme, among others.

Cliff Hammett

Cliff is an artist, educator and technologist who creates interdisciplinary projects.

Justin Hopper

Niall Finneran is an archaeologist at the University of Winchester where he specialises in historical and maritime archaeology in the UK and the Caribbean.

Robert Macfarlane

Robert Macfarlane is the author of bestselling and prize-winning books about nature, people and place.

Akeim Toussaint Buck

Akeim Toussaint Buck is an interdisciplinary performer and creative, born in Jamaica and raised in England.

Heidi Wigmore

Heidi Wigmore is a Southend-based visual artist. She utilises drawing for its immediacy, its concentrated reality and for its transformative possibilities.

Bryony Gillard is an artist, curator and educator whos work attempts to create a space for genealogies of intersectional feminist practice that are elusive, messy and entangled in contemporary concerns.

Chris Watson

Chris Watson is a sound recordist and composer with a passionate interest in the sounds of the natural world.

Ackroyd & Harvey

Ackroyd & Harvey's multi-disciplinary work intersects art, activism, architecture, biology, ecology and history, and references memory and time, nature and culture.

Tom King

When not walking, reading or writing, writer, Tom King tends to his hilltop garden, overlooking the Thames Estuary

Billy Childish

Billy Childish is an extraordinary and prolific artist. His paintings, woodcuts, poetry, writing and music share a common acerbic honesty that, rather than being nombrilistic, is deeply compelling…

The Hoy Shanty Crew

Back in 2013 several members of The Hoy at Anchor Folk Club got together and started singing folk-based chorus songs, particularly shanties and became The Hoy Shanty Crew.

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