Heiðbjört Bára Borgarsdóttir (Heibi) is a feminist, figurative and surrealism artist from Iceland, based in London, United Kingdom.  Her story driven work is about relationships, love, gender, sexuality, sexual expressions, and traumas. It reflects on her own personal narrative and most importantly a queer cis woman's perspective on how it is to be a woman, and connects to the female Gaze of self-reflection of being one’s self.  

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She is currently battling with social media due to their guidelines on nudity.  With threats of suspensions and removal of posts, she is pushing forwards on a new series: a compilation series of previously disallowed work set in a normal space.  

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Instagram: @heibii

I have been a creative person my whole life, as a punk musician, an electronic composer, a trapeze artist and aerial director, a pyrotechnician and a lighting, sound and audio visual designer for theatre.  My work took me all over Europe and on occasion across the world.  But all of this creative energy took place within the live setting, work that demanded audiences and large gatherings.  I only started drawing and painting a few years ago, but struggled to find the time to really develop my craft alongside my touring activities.  But when Covid 19, ripped my former life away from me overnight, I turned to the visual arts to feed my need for creativity, and also as a way to keep connected and find my voice amidst the uncertainty.  Spain’s harsh lockdown became my art school and began making work every day and experimenting with different materials and techniques.  An explosion of output that helped me to make sense of a rapidly changing world.  I feel like I am at the very beginning of what will be a very exciting journey, a creative navigation of uncharted waters which I am delighted to be able to share with you on this platform.

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Instagram: @al.orange

Hari is about to begin a PhD at Cardiff University studying how to utilise the horror genre to represent mental health issues in plays and films. She was born, bred and works in Caerphilly, South Wales. She runs monthly horrorthons on her Instagram, and grows pumpkins with her four cats.

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Instagram: @hariraelyn

H L Truslove is a writer who lives in Southampton. They've graduated twice from the University of Winchester, receiving both their BA and MA in English and Writing. Keep an eye out for their book, Alba, an open world adventure novel made with Inside the Box games!

My practice revolves around mark-making through the dichotomy of unique and mass production. I explore this by blurring the line between the two by using mixed media and digital printing. The particularity of each new iteration attempts to renew the delicate union between repetition and uniqueness. My practice could be visualised as a production line where at each stage of process the work is disturbed by randomised painterly moments. I explore this hinterland through strident artificial colours, gestural expressions of the unconscious mind through movement, colour and digital printing. I view my work much like parents do their children, each work is birthed and told it is unique, the antithesis to a Sol LeWitt artwork. We know our children are one of billions that have come before but convince ourselves that this one is special.

My upbringing in a rural farming setting in Scotland, highlights the striking difference of that from living in London. The two settings remind me of how insignificant yet unique one can be. I am also interested in exploring fluctuating conditions of ownership in the production and siting of my works, in both private and public settings.  I view my work as intrinsically political and social, the visual relationship of the ‘individual’ versus the ‘collective’ is integral to our self-questioning both in life and online.

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Instagram: @jonah_fried_

Coming Soon.

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Gavin Herbertson studied English Literature at Jesus College, Oxford, before moving to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, for his Master’s. Since 2019, he has been studying for a PhD at St Catherine’s College, Oxford, looking at the early Caribbean poetry of Derek Walcott. His poetry has previously appeared in Notes magazine, while his first edited publication, Dorothy and William Wordsworth: A Miscellany, was released in 2017, by Galileo Publishing.

Julia van Hulst is ia photographer and digital designer, from art to tech and tech to art. These images and are from her personal collection. Her friends are the ones that are most in front of her camera (Minolta 35mm film). Once a picture is developed she draws on them. She likes the combination of the analogue photography and the digital edits.

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Instagram: @juliavanhulst

My name is Harry, I'm 19 and a photography student from Bristol in the UK. This photo series is made up of images that are 35mms that represent the cautious freedom I felt being able to come back to uni after being away for so long. My home-town is very conservative and I don't feel happy there - after lockdown when I moved back up to Bristol, the freedom I felt was amazing, but very intense and added a lot onto my anxiety. I wanted to capture this feeling with a model standing in for me in a field in Bristol - using slower shutter speeds, as well as hunched over movements to show this sudden new world I was allowed to come back to, but felt anxious in. 

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Instagram: @vi_olo