Artist Type: Turf Team

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

Natalie Mitchell

Natalie Mitchell is an artist, curator and facilitator based in South London with a wealth of experience in workshop facilitation, development of spaces for creative engagement and a passion for widening access to the arts, working with organisations keen to focus on participatory practice across London and South East England.

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 Caruana-Klasson

‘Over 140 ways that Uma is too self-aware for her own good’ is beginning to form as a lifelong project, using therapeutic and documentary-ish photography to communicate the extremes of my day-to-day experience. Discussing my autism, cultural identity, family, trauma, and all other aspects of my life. Using the camera like a diary, reacting, and […]

B Atherton

I grew up & live in Croydon and was one of Turf’s cofounding team assembled by Alice Cretney in 2013. Initially I led on marketing at Turf, moving into overseeing Turf’s overall development strategy and then CoDirectorship in 2021. Over Turf’s history I’ve done a bit of everything; I created a lot of Turf’s design […]

Alice Cretney

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Skye Baker

Hi I’m Skye!  I’m an illustrator and workshop facilitator. My freelance practice mainly consists of editorial illustrations, comics, album covers and murals! I’m inspired by people, play, psychology, social justice and observational storytelling.  I enjoy making abstract metaphors with a combination of handrawn/digital methods (and the occasional pun). My clients so far have included Network Rail, […]

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 […]

Rosie Crane Eckmire

Rosie Crane Eckmire is a Croydon-born curator and artist-ish. she is interested in the therapeutic properties of creativity and enabling art to be accessible for all. in addition to her self-initiated projects, she has curated exhibitions and events at Turf Projects, serf, and the ICA. rosie facilitates Art Press at Turf Projects, a youth group […]