Recrafting Creativity

Yasuna Iman is a multidisciplinary artist developing a visual abstract language using clay, plants, and minerals sourced in the natural world as well as other raw, handmade, or scavenged materials. Shifting from airy, atmospheric surfaces to earthy, textured paintings and wall sculptures, her work reflects on the notions of impermanence and fragility tying us to the more-than-human world. Born and raised in Paris, France, Yasuna currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Hannah Fletcher works with cameraless photographic processes, founder of The Sustainable Darkroom, Co-director of London Alternative Photography Collective and a facilitator of sustainability within the arts. Hannah Fletcher works with & researches the many intricate relationships between photographic & not-so photographic materials. Intertwining organic matter such as soils, algae, mushrooms & roots into photographic mediums & surfaces. Working in an investigative, ritualistic & environmentally conscious manner, she combines scientific techniques with photographic processes.

Alice’s process-led practice is based on personal engagement with landscape and has sustainability at its heart. Her background in physical geography and nature conservation underpins her artistic practice. Alice works with natural fibres and gathered materials, employing natural dyes, stitch, weave and soft basketry techniques. These elements come together in different combinations to create grouped surfaces and structures. She exhibits, lectures and teaches workshops nationally and internationally.

Lynda Laird is a photographic artist based in St Leonards on Sea. Her research-based practice merges archive, photography, video and sound. Employing techniques, methods and materials that are sympathetic and relevant to the subject. She focuses on long-term bodies of work: primarily looking at landscape and the traces of memory in these spaces. She is interested in exploring ways of showing what is invisible to the naked eye, often employing camera less techniques and working with the materiality of specific landscapes in an attempt to bring an element or trace of its history in to the work.

Marta's work is rooted in themes from nature. It provides a filter through which to see the world by finding the immense within the minuscule, that which connects microcosm and macrocosm, and the invisible paths that lead between earth and sky. Marta works predominantly with naturally occurring pigments & inks she makes herself using various organic materials, creating a unique and ever-shifting palette that reflects the inherent characteristics of the natural world itself, and which recount the human experience of light, time, color and spirit .

Pamela EA (born in Mexico) is a multimedia storyteller focused on Climate Justice and Gender Equality. Based in Mexico and New York and studied photojournalism (MA) at London College of Communication and Product Design (BFA) at Parsons School of Design.

She is:
Co-Founder of Latinas for Climate
Co-Founder of Climate Words
Founder of Be Someone

Melanie King is a working class artist and curator, originally from Manchester, UK. Melanie is now based in Kent, UK. She is co-Director of super/collider, Lumen Studios and founder of the London Alternative Photography Collective. Interested in the relationship between the environment, photography and materiality. Melanie intends to highlight the intimate connection between celestial objects (sun, moon, stars), photographic material and the natural world. Melanie is currently researching a number of sustainable photographic processes, to minimise the environmental impact of her artistic practice.

Fatmata Binta is an international renowned chef and ambassador for Fulani cuisine and ancient grains, honored as the Rising Star Winner at the 2021 Best Chef Awards and winning the Basque Culinary world prize 2022 for her work with supporting women in rural communities, She combines her Nomadic Fulani roots, classical training, love for rural life and nature in all of her creations. Her dishes and nomadic dinners are authentic and sustainable focused. By creating a traditional setting and discussing fulani culture and serving ancient grains like fonio and indigenous spices. Binta triggers all of the senses and invites you to explore them with her through the palettes of Fulani women .

Charlotte Smithson is an artist, whose work blends design, craft and botany.

A close affiliation with nature is at the heart of Charlotte’s practice. She explores her ideas through immersive installation, stitch, drawing, photography and plant studies. She is especially interested by the vital role of nature connection in an individual's commitment to protect the environment.

She encourages moments of nature connection, through interacting with her work. Her sensory installations activate the viewer to tune into the delicate, exquisite details found in nature that we so often overlook.

Sasha Duerr is an artist, designer and educator who works with plant-based color and natural palettes. Sasha centers her practice and research on the collaborative color potential of weeds, food and floral waste, and local and seasonal ingredients. Sasha lectures, consults and widely designs curriculum and courses in the intersection of natural color, slow food, slow fashion and social practice. In 2007, Sasha founded Permacouture Institute to encourage the exploration of regenerative design practices for fashion and textiles.

Rosanna has worked in the realm of print for over 10 years.Rosanna has also long been interested in sustainability, food sovereignty and growing food. Many of her prints explore themes of agriculture, horticulture and the natural world. She believes in the use of print as a medium of communication and the exploration of ideas and is always seeking to inspire with her work. Rosanna also teaches printmaking and drawing at various art schools including the Bristol Drawing school at the Royal West of England academy and the Spike Print studio.

Elin is a freelance illustrator from Wales who’s now based in Cornwall, with a BA Hons Degree in Illustration from Falmouth University. Her work is inspired by the natural world, folklore and folk traditions, particularly those Welsh and Cornish. A passion for storytelling and the celebration and protection of our natural world has been a constant drive within her work. Through the power of imagination and imagery, she aims to deepen our connection to the natural environment, reflecting stories of the landscape, in a world that is often focused on the modern and material.