Artists

Lucia Dove

Lucia is a writer from Southend-on-Sea, living in the Netherlands. She is interested in ideas of heritage, memory, place and home.

Angus Carlyle

Angus Carlyle's work shifts between the written word and recorded sound, often involves collaboration with other artists and takes as its theme the representation of the built and unbuilt environment and how we live there.

Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Chloe Dewe Mathews is an award-winning photographic artist, who has been making work along the river Thames for the past five years.

Jas Dhillon

Jas Dhillon is a multimedia practitioner inspired by the people, script, language, symbolic objects...

Leo Boix

Leo Boix is a bilingual Latinx poet born in Argentina who lives and works in the UK.

Alison Cooke

Alison Cooke is a ceramic artist. She works site responsively with clay dug from interventions such as mining, scientific research or construction.

Horatio Clare

Revealing the unseen history of Essex and the south-east. Explore, Examine, Enlighten.

James Piers Taylor

James Piers Taylor is a bioregional activist based on the Dengie peninsula of Essex.  

Sadie Hennessy

Sadie Hennessy is a multi-disciplinary artist creating immersive environments and events.

Sasha Dugdale

Sasha Dugdale has published five collections of poems with Carcanet, most recently Deformations in 2020.

Lee Rourke

Lee Rourke is the author of the short-story collection Everyday, the novel The Canal (winner of the Guardian’s Not The Booker Prize 2010) and the poetry collection Varroa Destructor.

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