Leyton High Road Open Studios 

Duncan is an artist that makes video, print and installation using found materials. His practice is fed by an obsessive gathering of online content into a vast digital archive, which he recombines into still and moving image collages. Born out of remix, DIY and British folk art approaches, his digital works aim to provoke the same disorientating, intense experience the web creates in us every day. He makes work instinctively, in the gap between the unconscious and conscious, between the algorithm and my flawed human brain. He says he’s a hoarder, selector and combiner using the internet as his palette and imagination.

Isobel Atacus works across sculpture, installation and writing. Her practice is highly physical, crossing between a very abstract grappling with matter and a more poetic and playful engagement with language, yet always drawing on place as a source of meaning. Through an interest in the materiality of landscape, Atacus questions our interactions with the natural world; in particular, to explore the various streams of information available to us, and how they might be mediated, interrupted or re- directed in some way. Through this she produces talismanic like objects that look towards new future possibilities.

u003cdiv class=u0022ewa-rteLineu0022u003eEllen Sampson is an artist and material culture researcher whose work draws upon phenomenology and psychoanalytic theory to explore the relationships between bodies, and garments, both in museums and archives, and in everyday life. Her work uses film, photography, and writing to explore agency of objects, our entanglements with them and the power of bodily trace. Ellen is a Research Fellow at Northumbria School of Design. She was previously Curatorial Fellow at Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Professorial Fellow at UCA. Her book Worn: Footwear Attachment and the Affects of Wear was published by Bloomsbury in 2020.u003c/divu003e

u003cdiv class=u0022ewa-rteLineu0022u003eFlora Bradwell’s generously grotesque practice encompasses painting, sculpture, performance and installation. Flora completed her MFA in Painting at The Slade School of Fine Art in 2021, receiving the Felix Slade Award, The Jeanne Szego Prize and Sarabande Emerging Artist Bursary while there. In 2023 Flora received the Gilbert Bayes Award and a-n Artist Bursary. Flora’s work has recently been exhibited at The Royal Society of Sculptors, Matt’s Gallery, Saatchi Gallery, Wakefield Art House, Liminal Gallery and Future DMND in LA. Selected residencies include Vincent VanGogh Huis, Zundert Elephant Lab, London, Cyprus College of Art, Paphos, and SIM, Reykjavik.u003c/divu003e

Elicia is a visual artist from East London who specialises in mixed media, oil paint, Indian ink, and charcoal. She creates original and commissioned artwork that can be either representational or abstract, focusing on capturing beauty, honouring icons, and highlighting the underrepresented in elite industries. Her inspiration in style comes from Pop Artist Roy Lichtenstein and portraiture artist Jonathan Yeo. Elicia’s practise has included commissioned art for private and public sectors, BAFTA events and film. Elicia has managed art projects for clients such as the London City Hall and Arts agency Disrupts Space.