Common Ground

Asha Fontenelle is a Croydon born artist who uses painting, drawing and printmaking as a means of self-determination, exploration and healing.

Flora Hunt works across sculpture, writing and sound to try to access weirdness and create collective, alternate realities. Flora’s work is informed by ideas around gender fluidity, public ownership of space, and the entanglement of magic and science. Recent obsessions include glow-in-the-dark slugs, rhinestones, traffic islands, apocalypse scenarios, and trespassing.

Milktooth imagines colourful dreamy portals of the mind depicted primarily in watercolours, acrylics and colour pencils. Their work is an exploration of childhood experiences in the Caribbean and Britain. Themes of cultural versus individual identity, belonging and freedom are at the heart of the work. Jhinuk Sarkar is an illustrator/educator living in Croydon. Her illustrations aim to make ideas accessible. Celebrating worlds that clash cultures in exciting ways, diversity and representation are key to her work in digital and analogue platforms. She uses ink, text, collage to promote these ideas surrounding inclusivity. Katherine Smith looks at how to connect to her own body, using materials as an interface for connection. She looks at co-creating sensory space with other bodies that prioritises non-verbal language: interconnection through sound, movement, materials. Amy J Wilson works across mediums to engage with our shifting relationship to materiality, representation, reproduction and the boundaries between domestic and public space. Amy recently won the OMNI Artist Award and is currently artist in residence at Cambridge School of Art.