Elli Lestas (Cyprus)

Elli Lestas (Cyprus)

Elli Lestas was born in London, raised in Bromley, studied textiles at Camberwell College of Art and MA Fine art at Goldsmiths. Now based in Cyprus, she became involved in horticulture specializing in seed germination. After a long break returned to her art in 2012...
Lori Diggle (Devon)

Lori Diggle (Devon)

Lori has sent us an audio walk: The Deer, the Duck & the Raven. Usually her walks are intended to be walks, happening in the places for which the sound walks are made. That’s not possible at the moment, so she offers this in the spirit of imagination. Put...
John Fox & Sue Gill (Cumbria)

John Fox & Sue Gill (Cumbria)

John Fox and partner Sue Gill are legendary community theatre pioneers formerly of Welfare State International. Now they together run Dead Good Guides, an artist-led company seeking a role for art that weaves it more fully into the fabric of our lives. John told us:...
Evgenia Emets (Portugal / UK)

Evgenia Emets (Portugal / UK)

Evgenia Emets is a poet and artist, she has lived and worked in Russia, UK and Portugal, her art informed by the language, culture, social and ecological landscape of these places. She graduated from Central Saint Martin’s College of Art in 2008. Her works are in...
Marlene Creates (Newfoundland)

Marlene Creates (Newfoundland)

Marlene lives in rural Newfoundland, Canada and will introduce her work during First Friday.  The image below: clouds over the boreal forest where I live. One way to open your eyes to unnoticed beauty is to ask yourself, ‘What if I had never seen this before?...