Artist Type: Turf Team

Diana Phiri-Witty

Turf trustee Diana is a project manager for the NHS who has a background in architecture and urban design. She is a Croydon resident and has lived in the area for over 10 years. She previously worked at Croydon Council as a planner and regeneration manager. Diana is also an illustrator and surface pattern designer […]

Yolanda Shields

Yolanda’s aka Milktooth’s artistic practice is autobiographical and inspired by their experiences of Complex-PSTD. Using watercolour, collage and soft sculptures, they explore a self fractured through trauma, and the possibilities of reconstituting an identity by embracing fragmentation. They are currently involved in making a body of work titled Altars to my Alters.

Kelly Thomas

Tianna Haffenden

Mira Hirtz

Multi-Media Artist, Movement Practitioner, Curator, Art Mediator & ✨ Turf’s Access Lead ✨   Basing her work on performative tools and somatic techniques, Mira Hirtz explores multi-sensory experiences and and articulations of our being-in-the-world. Looking at the intersections of art, health, ecology and science, her practice embraces the messiness of navigating life and dives into […]

Caleb Pinnell

Daisy Young

Materials and process sit at the core of my creative practice. Using clay, fabric, weave and stitch in combination I create large abstract unfired sculptures. I focus heavily on material processes and often use the language of craft within a fine art context. The vast landscapes within Devon and Cornwall greatly inform the aesthetic language […]

Uma

B Atherton

Hi, I’m B, one of Turf’s Codirectors. I grew up in and live in Croydon. I’m one of Turf’s co-founding team assembled by Alice Cretney in 2013. I’ve done a bit of everything at Turf! I started out responsible for Turf’s marketing, including creating a lot of Turf’s visual identity & printed (except for our […]

Joseph Brown

Joseph Brown is Turf’s Marketing Assistant, and a long-term Turf volunteer. With a practice concerned with the inhabitants and habitats of the natural world, Joseph is a Croydon School of Art and UAL graduate.   instagram.com/jobrown_art   A print by Joseph, Mandible Gathering, is for sale here in the Turf shop in a limited edition […]