RETHINK: Artist Educators’ Retreat 2026

Dianne Minnicucci is a London-based visual artist exploring the boundaries of documentary storytelling. Rooted autobiographically, her work presents familial moments loaded with intimacy. Minnicucci studied Fine Art Film and Video at Central St. Martins. She is currently Head of Photography at Thomas Tallis School in south east London.

Yuliya V Krylova is a London-based multidisciplinary artist and art educator originally from Kazakhstan. Her practice spans visual art, eco-fashion/costume and Butoh-informed creative research, with an interest in reflection, presence, and wellbeing. She works with communities, art educators and artists in collective explorations shaped by spontaneity and Butoh-informed sensibilities.

Jessica De Silva Oleiro is Swiss-Portuguese artist based in London. She teaches animation clubs for children in Years 3 to 6 at primary schools and runs creative workshops for different venues in London. Jess works as an independent artist and continues to develop her own practice alongside teaching. She enjoys sharing creativity and aims to make her workshops fun, welcoming, and accessible.

Kashish Saini is an artist with an interdisciplinary practice based in London – rooted in India. Through painting, text, and installation, she navigates the cloudy intersection of migration, grief, otherness, and generational womanhood. Drawing from a rich familial archive of photographs, her mother’s letters, and lost wedding videos her work examines fragmented memory, inheritance and displacement.

Ayesha Sureya is an interdisciplinary artist and facilitator born and raised in London. Drawing on their background as a jeweller, their practice and research with plant, mineral and body life function as a methodology for exploring devotional craft practices and unsettling empirical readings of history. Their work takes shape at the intersections of metal, textiles, technology, sound, moving image and text. 

As a facilitator, Ayesha shares their creative practice with elders, young people and children, inviting collaboration, play and expressive exchange through making workshops, panel discussions and informal conversations. 

They have produced, curated and participated in residencies, workshops and talks at Blackhorse Road Maker in Residence (UK), Arebyte × Goldsmiths University Artist in Residence (UK), Morley College Metal Scholarship (UK), Al.ter Artist in Residence (IN), Crafts Council (UK), Goldsmiths Centre (UK), and the University of Gothenburg (SE).

Sara Eng-Carlyle is an artist and educator whose practice encompasses painting, design and image-making through graphics, photography, and video. Her work frequently involves reworking and recycling existing work into new forms, reflecting a strong interest in people, processes, and the intersections between art and design disciplines. Shaped by the students, communities, and educational contexts she works within, her practice is responsive and adaptable. This ethos extends into her teaching, where she focuses on developing art and design curricula that connect creative practice to the creative industries, grounded in student-centred and socially engaged approaches to learning.

Siobhan Tate has been teaching art in London secondary schools since 2003 and currently teaches part-time at Westminster City School.

Last year’s Bow Arts Shaftesbury Avenue residency was her first experience of having a studio. She has since set up new studios in a meanwhile space with three other artists she met during that residency.

Siobhan enjoys working with large lumps of unfired clay and exploring the relationship between gestural mark making and structure. She is currently participating in the Turps/MASS Sculpture Programme.

Sean Orr studied art history at university in Newcastle in the 1990s, so he’s always had that interest and knowledge. When Sean returned to art school later in life, in the middle of a teaching career, he had aspirations to become a painter. Sean never imagined that collage would become his primary medium, but the moment he discovered what scissors and a scalpel could do with literally any image, he was hooked. Later on Sean discovered that he could do everything and more with digital collage – this suited working from home, with a lack of space.

The Artist Teacher residency last Year with Bow Arts reignited Sean’s love of painting, giving him the space and time to experiment and use oils, which he couldn’t really do at home. Sean’s recently secured a permanent studio with Bow Arts near his home in Leyton and is looking forward to developing his practice using paint, mixed media and digital resources.