Holly Benians
Holly is an illustrator working in primarily felt and wool, currently studying a masters degree in Kingston. Their work aims to create a softer, sillier world in which we can celebrate joy uninhibited.
The tactile nature of the work invites viewers to experience it through touch and be comforted by the soft materials. Imagining everyday life through the lens of strange creatures, the works take you back to a nostalgic place of naivety in which you are free to embrace the things you enjoyed as a child as you tackle the newly found challenges of adulthood.
Ada Bond
Ada Bond is a London-based artist and 2025 graduate of the Slade School of Fine Art. Her work is rooted in an accumulation of images, memories and observations, with animals and the human body recurring throughout. She is interested in the ways we project ourselves onto animals and objects, and how cuteness can act as a Trojan horse, drawing together attraction and discomfort. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including presentations at Richard Heller Gallery in Los Angeles, ART021 in Shanghai, Basel Social Club and Soho Revue in London.
Kara Chin
Kara Chin (b. 1994, Singapore) is an artist working across ceramics, animation, sculpture, and installation. Her work explores technological, ecological, and emotional systems, where they break down and collapse into each other. Chaotic layers of fragmented references mirror the frantic, non-linear ways we consume information today. Drawing on speculative fiction, internet detritus, cinema tropes, and domestic media, everyday objects and mundane encounters are transformed into artefacts, quasi-religious ceremonies, or theatrical hybrid creatures.
Chin holds a BA in Fine Art from The Slade School of Fine Art (2018). Her work is held in the Arts Council Collection and the Government Art Collection, UK. She was featured in Bloomberg New Contemporaries (2018) and has received the Woon Foundation Painting and Sculpture Prize (2018), the Duveen Travel Scholarship (2018), the Alfred W Rich Prize (2017), and the Max Werner Drawing Prize (2015).
She has exhibited at galleries and museums including Goldsmiths CCA (London), The Liverpool Biennial 2025 (Liverpool), the 8th Triennial of Art and Ecology (Maribor, Slovenia), BALTIC39 (Newcastle), and South London Gallery (London).
NPD Fraser
Neil Derek Paul Fraser (NPD Fraser) was born in Ealing, London in 1955. His work could be characterised as being from the Box Art movement; weaving together humour, visual puns and hidden depths. Neil exhibited widely in the 80’s and 90’s including at the Mayor gallery in Cork Street, the Ice House and in Paris with the exhibition “Sudden Landscapes”.
As a student he lived in Deptford, later moving to Greenwich. After his studio was compulsory purchased, he moved to South Norwood into an old dairy on Portland Road. The space retained the original shop window where Neil shared changing displays of work that offered unexpected encounters & delighted neighbours.
Little of his art remains from the first decade of the 21st century. 2010- 2019, was a more productive period; both artworks shared in Canny Valley are from 2013. Neil finished his last artwork in December 2023, and passed away after a serious illness in May 2024. The works are shared in collaboration with Neil’s brother, Keith Fraser.
Ana Kazaroff
Ana Kazaroff (b. Buenos Aires, Argentina) lives and works in London. Informed by the processes of hybridisation and the mistranslations that happen when elements from one culture travel and adapt to a new one, her practice merges sculpture, painting, and craft-based processes to explore questions of authenticity and mistranslations. She makes installations where she uses paintings and sculptures made of wood, polystyrene and plaster painted to look like different surfaces, drawing connections between everyday materials, such as processed meats and stone.
Kazaroff is a Turf studio holder and graduate of the MA Fine Art programme at City & Guilds of London Art School, where she specialised in faux marble painting techniques. Her work has been exhibited in Eastside Projects, Division of Labour, Kupfer, Galería Grasa (Buenos Aires) and Neoramart (Paris), and was reviewed by The White Pube and featured in Vogue Mexico. She has been awarded a Develop Your Creative Practice grant by Arts Council England.
She is currently undertaking a PhD at the Slade School of Fine Art, supported by the London Arts and Humanities Research Partnership (LAHP). Her research project explores how the endangered heritage craft of faux finishes can be adapted to disrupt the colonial norms embedded within this tradition by connecting them to viveza criolla, a Latin American concept translated as ‘creole cunning’: the art of roguish deception.
Kenji Lim
Kenji Lim is a British Singaporean artist based in London and Essex. He works through sculpture, video, digital collage, installation, and painting, to produce objects, animations, and images that operate both individually, and collectively as installation and assembly. Lim’s work reflects and refracts the experience of landscape and the natural world through the prisms of culture, myth, philosophy, and the metaphysical; returning the gaze of Western cultural norms through the eyes of other-than-human actors. Part ecological, part Fraggle Rock, he navigates alternative modes of seeing and understanding the world and its inhabitants.
Lim studied Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London (MA – 2017-2019); and the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University (BFA – 1999-2002). Recent solo exhibitions include Wide Eyed Half Light at Galerie Reinthaler, Vienna; and Spend Time Not Thinking About Tomorrow at IMT, London. Recent Group exhibitions include Common Ground at Mandy Zhang Art, London; Fall Apart/Come Together at Amici Studio, Hastings; Cheapside at Hypha Studios, 1 Poultry, London; Something Quickening at Panrucker Gallery, London; The Wicker Arms at Staffordshire Street, London; Into The Woods at Art Exchange, Colchester; and Perishing Thirst at Quench Gallery, Margate.
He was selected for the Exeter Contemporary Open 2025 at Phoenix Gallery, Exeter where he won the audience choice award. His work has been presented at ARTSG, Singapore by Mandy Zhang Art, and Enter Art Fair, Copenhagen, by Galerie Rienthaler.
Eun-Ha Paek
Eun-Ha Paek is a ceramicist and educator based in Brooklyn, NY.
Andy Pomarico
Andy Pomarico (b.2002, New York State, U.S) is an American born, Essex-based visual artist who is 6.5 beer bottles tall. Andy’s transdisciplinary practice explores the humour that arises from discomfort; how a lack of understanding towards the awkward, the obscure, and the unknown, can create uncomfortable silences often reconciled with laughter.
He aims to visually manufacture these undesirable silences. He wants to give understanding, sympathy and space to what is deemed as undesirable, exploring how categories such as what’s good, what’s bad, what’s understood, and what’s outsider, create parallel contrasts. What makes these contrasts so evident is the silence in between, the experience of the silence, traveling between the grotesque and the divine, the ugly and the beautiful, the playful and the serious, the sexual and the innocent. He aims to make these parallels clash head on so the work is hypocritical of its own themes and is constantly contradicting itself with playful disobedience.
Easy-read artist bios
Holly Benians
Pronouns: They/Them
Based in: East London
Medium: Illustration, Felting, Tufting
Themes include: Nostalgia, Tactility, Strange creatures
Ada Bond
Pronouns: She/Her
Based in: London
Medium: Oil painting
Themes include: Exploration of discomfort, Cuteness, Relationships between animals and the human body
Kenji Lim
Pronouns: He/Him
Based in: London and Essex
Medium: Sculpture, Multi-media, Painting
Themes include: Culture, Philosophy, Myth, Alternative views of the natural world
NDP Frazer
Pronouns: He/Him
Based in: London
Medium: Found objects, Box art, Multi-media
Themes include: Humour, Visual puns, Hidden depths
Eun-Ha Paek
Pronouns: She\Her
Based in: Brooklyn, New York
Medium: Ceramics
Themes include: Humour, Identity, Mixed emotions
Andy Pomarico
Pronouns: He/They
Based in: Essex
Medium: Oil painting, Sculpture, Found objects and clothing
Themes include: The messy and misunderstood, Humour, Play, Empathy
Kara Chin
Pronouns: She/Her
Based in: UK
Medium: Sculpture, Ceramics, Animation
Themes include: Social system commentary, Layered meanings, Chaos
Ana Kazaroff
Pronouns: She/Her
Based in: London
Medium: Sculpture, Painting, Crafting
Themes include: Mistranslations, Culture, Authenticity
