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Human Nature - Featured Artists

Anna Skladmann
Anna Skladmann (b. 1986, Germany) combines photography and scanning techniques to reflect on aspects of humanity’s connection to nature and notions of expanded consciousness to shift one’s perception of it. Having received her MA from the Royal College of Art and her BA from Parsons School of Design, her work has since been nominated for the Prix Pictet and Paul Huf Award, and has also won the Arles Photo Folio Prize. Skladmann published her first monograph in 2011 and her photographic projects have been shown in exhibitions and festivals, including the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, New Covent Garden Flower Market in London, Fotofest in Houston and Museum fuer Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg. Recent exhibitions include PINK (Parlour, London, 2023), Paradise Is Not Just A Place (Roman Road , London, 2021); and The Man With The Midas Touch - A Botanical Index Of Narcissus (The Garden Museum, London, 2019).

Aurora Destro
Aurora Destro is a registered Architect and Visual Artist based in Venice. Her artistic research investigates the ephemeral aspect of space and its intrinsic connection to time and landscape. Since 2016, she has worked on site-specific installations for the public realm and cultural institutions in Europe and the UK.

Rituals and the human body are explored, creating big-scale installations and micro landscapes: Astral Architectures relating natural cycles to celestial geometry, Phenological Art Pieces observing the changes of the landscape through time, and Microlandscapes exploring biophilia through organic elements and body parts. The artworks use different mediums, such as natural light, organic elements, geometrical alignments, light projections on architecture, and print on textiles.

Since 2020, she has been part of Maetherea, a London-based agency that investigates performative processes in the landscape through architectural art pieces.

She has collaborated with public cultural institutions, such as Pirelli Hangar Bicocca and Triennale Design Museum of Milan, leading and participating in talks, performances, exhibitions and curatorial projects.

Crispian Blaize
Crispian Blaize is an East London-born photographer. Blaize’s practice is based on playful exploration of the world through his camera. His work focuses on capturing his natural surroundings centring around street photography, and portraits of people he encounters.  Blaize’s photography covers themes of sport, fashion, and artistic portraiture. His work takes him from Notting Hill Carnival to premieres, and he has covered Arunaz Atelier at Paris Fashion Week, African Fashion Week, Hackney Carnival, Arsenal TV and featured in Camden News Journal.

Diana Olifirova 
Diana Olifirova is an artist who is driven by curiosity and daily explorations. They inspire visual responses that invite the audience to connect and explore that often forgotten feeling of wonder and self-reflection. For Diana, life itself is an art form: being involved in a variety of experiences, people, circles, cultures is critical for her work and existence.

Having moved from Ukraine to London in 2012 to work in film, she endeavours to spend time in various communities and residencies around the world, such as Feytopia in France, The Garden in Portugal, Sister's Hope Home in Denmark, to seek connections that often manifest into something bigger; collaborations, artworks or a simple understanding of life, its finite nature and nurture.

Diana has exhibited with Drifter Gallery, and been nominated for Aesthetica Art Prize in 2023 and 2024 for her film and photography work.

https://didi.film

Jacob Kamara
Multidisciplinary artist Jacob Kamara practices both Photography and Sculpture and considers his work a conversation with the subject or material. He comments, 'It’s a dual performance in which I learn as much about the final form or picture as I do about myself.'

Jacob’s photographs mostly depict masculine figures captured in moments of vulnerability, often employing unconventional perspectives to invite viewers into these intimate narratives. His subjects, whether human or botanical, exude a profound sense of connection and introspection. Often, his portraits will be taken from behind the sitter, or so close that all you see is skin.

In sculpture, Jacob's forms are built from raw, unrefined stonewares or porcelain, often scarred or inlaid with other materials. Part of his practice involves spending as much time manipulating the materials by adding chemicals or metal shavings, as he does building the forms.

@thegreatindoorsmagazine

Jamal Finni
Jamal is a London based 3D Motion Designer, who specialises in utilising computer generated imagery to construct abstract realities both moving and still. Jamal has worked with global brands to create content for a variety of purposes from album covers for Warp Records’ Plaid to the BFI’s visual identity for their 2022 Film Festival.

www.jamalfinni.co.uk
www.instagram.com/jam.finni

Karolina Slup
Karolina Slup is a creative producer and maker working at the intersection of art and design. She has worked on international exhibitions (e.g., a retrospective of kinetic sculptures by Theo Jansen), artist publications, and charitable and commercial interdisciplinary art projects.

Karolina’s artistic practice centres on an ancient Japanese marbling technique (Suminagashi), experimental bookbinding, and publications on ecology and sustainability. Currently, she is developing a series of meditative craft workshops and has secured funding from the Four Nations International Fund for an innovative collaborative project on the Isle of Mull, blending ancient craft with new technologies.

Driven by a passion for analogue photography for over 15 years, Karolina captures inspiring otherworldly natural encounters that inform her marbling pattern creations. One of her photography projects, which she has been devoted to since 2019, revolves around the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, the oldest forest on Earth, and its role in dendrochronology and climate research.

www.buoyantpress.com
@marble_balloon
@buoyantpress

Karoline Healy (H₂ERǴ)
Karoline is a London based jewellery designer and materials researcher. Working through her brand H₂ERǴ; a research-based jewellery studio which investigates the potential and beauty of regenerative & ecological futures. Through both crafting jewellery and research projects H₂ERǴ explores a new precious material culture which draws from biotechnology, history, craft and science.

The designs are inspired by a fascination with biotech and what it means for our lives in the future. Her ongoing investigation, Future Metals, explores the use of plant-based bio-technologies to ‘mine’ precious metals from waste and polluted soils, collaborating with biologists and nature. The jewellery collections draw inspiration from a wide range of sources; natural growth formations to surrealism to ancient alchemy.

Alongside this, Karoline works as a materials researcher for the design industry consulting on the use of innovative materials and sustainable processes for global consumer brands.

www.h2erg.co.uk
www.karolinehealy.co.uk
@h2erg_jewellery

Katie Bret-Day
Katie Bret-Day is a London-based artist using the viscous materiality of photography to explore the contingent and discursive nature of being. With interests in the posthuman and connected ecology, her research explores the amalgamation of digital and physical bodies using alternative methods of image capture, interventions and printing.

She graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2020 with distinction and also holds a First Class degree from the London College of Communication (UAL). In 2018 she was selected as one of five rising talents by the Guardian. Her work has been included in the Tate-commissioned Photography Ideas Book (2019), and acquired by the British Library. She has been nominated for both the ReGeneration³ project and the Foam Paul Huf Award, receiving Creative Review's Zeitgeist Award in 2018. 

Bret-Day has produced work in collaboration with the Sickle Cell Society and the London Alternative Photography Collective, which is representative of her evolving discourse that positions itself between arts and sciences, inquiring as to how photography as an expanded practice can present studies, findings, philosophy and research in abstract and alternative forms. She currently lectures at University Centre Farnborough, and exhibited a solo show at the Experimental Photography Festival in Barcelona in 2023.

Paola Chapdelaine
Paola Chapdelaine is a French photojournalist and documentary photographer based in New York City and a member of Women Photograph. With a degree in Political Science and Urban Development, she began her career in the public and development sector before transitioning to photojournalism in 2020. She relocated to Montreal in 2021, covering news for AFP and various media outlets, and graduated in May from the Documentary Practice & Visual Journalism program at the International Center of Photography, where she received the Director's Fellowship. There, she developed her project "Silent Radar" which explores the liminal space between physical and virtual reality, collaborating with users of the VRChat platform. Recently, she has worked with The New York Times, the Washington Post, and The New Republic. Paola recently founded a mentorship program for women photographers, Stories Not Singles.

https://www.paolachapdelaine.com

Violeta Sofia 
Violeta Sofia is a photographer and artist whose work reflects her multicultural upbringing and diverse influences. Raised in Cameroon and Spain, she explores themes of identity, diversity, and human connection through her captivating visual storytelling. Sofia's portfolio showcases her commitment to celebrating underrepresented voices and challenging societal norms. Her artistry has earned her recognition as an award-winning photographer, and her collaborations with institutions like the National Portrait Gallery highlight her impact in the art world. With a keen eye for detail and a passion for storytelling, Sofia invites viewers to engage with thought-provoking narratives, sparking conversations and fostering greater understanding. Through her lens, she continues to make a profound impact, offering fresh perspectives and insights into the complexities of the human experience.

William Joshua Templeton
William (b.1985) is a London based photographer and visual artist whose work investigates connection, the environment and our place within it. His documentary style is considered soft, often sombre. Think muted blacks and rich colours, images reduced to their raw fundamentals, with a focus on the positive elements. His personal work almost exclusively concerns the environment, seeking to use visual arts as a force for good:

"My mission is to dissolve the negative human impact on the environment, by sharing positive stories that help us realise we’re all part of this beautiful ecosystem and not apart from it.”

His business pledges 1% for the planet, supports the Rivers Trust and the IRC.

www.williamjoshuatempleton.co.uk
@williamtempleton

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