Giselle Benavides (Selu Gotier) Benavides work questions issues of autobiography, beauty, the objectification of the female body, mental and physical endurance, body image, sexuality and identity. Coming from a background of physical theatre and about to complete a BA in Fine Arts in Central St. Martins College she moves between photography, painting and video work. For her live performances she has adopted the name of Selu Gotier. Her mother's alter ego.
David Berridge is a writer living in Whitechapel, making texts for performances, galleries, print and online publications. Recent projects include THE WRITER WHO WANTED TO MAKE USEFUL OBJECTS NO LONGER LIVES HERE, a performance lecture (with Hyun Jin Cho) for the Plan 9 gallery in Bristol, KAFFA THINKING STATIONS (Testing Grounds at Permanent Gallery, Brighton) and text works online in Refutationand soanyway. The Shadow of a Train - a score for an exhibition - will be realised at the TotalKunst Gallery in Edinburgh in 2010.
Rebecca Birch presents a new film and conversation work, The Notebook Storms, a short film screened to an audience of one. Rebecca Birch is based in London and has recently shown work at Hotel MariaKapel (HMK) Hoorn, The Courtauld, London and Leicester City Art Gallery OFFSITE.
Throughout autumn 2009 Rebecca Birch will present The Notebook Screenings; a table-top projection of recent video work, with drinks and conversation, shown by appointment at a café or bar of your choosing. To make arrange a notebook screening write torebecca@rebeccabirch.net
Born in 1979, Portalegre, Portugal. Lives and works in Lisbon.
Leila Bryan Her ideas are a response to the current cultural climate and the situation our species finds itself in at present. Themes inherent in her work revolve around an interest in evolution, archaeology, environmentalism, and shamanism
She likes to use ordinary materials like rubbish and stationary and elevate them to a higher status. She tends to resist over technical processes and prefer to make do with what is lying around, relying on her ingenuity to transform it. She works intuitively with objects and ideas, and often feels an uncanny sense of tapping the collective unconscious. She is learning more and more to just let art manifest.
Carronicus Carronicus is a spoken word performer who creates elaborate costumes and sculptures. At the end of each performance an examination ls given to the audience, an audience living in a society obsessed with testing. Whoever gives the correct answer wins a ‘Carronicus special sculpture’. Carronicus studied on the undergraduate degree at Goldsmiths' college before completing a masters at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has taught art in secondary schools for the past 10 years and also runs the N16 Arts Network.
Jack Catling The work of Jack Catling drifts between performance and installation. It exists in alleyways, galleries, public toilets, and tiny rooms. It dreams of being more than it is, but it will always be crouching behind the vicar with silent tears and obscene mutterings.
Brian Dawn Chalkley Host (ess) with the most (ess) He started to work with his alta ego Dawn in 1996 not as an art work but more as a state of desire. Dawn eventually became a part of his art practice with the first appearance being in a group show with Hilary Lloyd and Jemima Stehli at City Racing in 1997. Since then Dawn has continued to feature as part of his art practice. Dawn see's her comparing at the Red Velvet Curtain club as an essential part of her art practice. She would like to thank the Red Curtain club for making this possible.
Lorraine Clarke
My work, influenced and informed by nature, anatomy and the human condition, takes multiple forms from large installations to small and finely crafted collections, incorporating found and made objects and infused with research.
Through my creative process, transforming materials - often regarded as detritus - into objects of contemplation, new and strange yet somehow familiar, demonstrating the power of objects to embody the investment of abstract powers, I challenge the viewer to reflect upon what it is we consider human, what organic, what manufactured, what magical.
Gethan Dick Gethan Dick is an education artist. The following questions are important to her practice: If you are an education artist then where is the actual artwork located? Is it possible to help somebody have a good idea? How do you build a world within a world? What's the best way to make somebody think about the way they think? Will you play along? More information can be found at www.gethan.org
Ralph Dunn The recent work of Ralph Dunn explores gay sexuality and identity within a sub-cultural context, using sculpture, photography, performance and sound and engages with ideas about ‘queer space’, narcissism, mirroring, power, pleasure and pathological desire. The work deals with memory and is informed by personal history and experiences of mental illness. It questions ideas about the surface of the real and the imaginary, the boundaries between reality and unreality, the conscious and unconscious mind.
“Unreality no longer resides in the dream or fantasy, or in the beyond, but in the real’s hallucinatory resemblance to itself”. Jean Baudrillard
Giselle Benavides 
Leila Bryan
Carronicus
Jack Catling
Ralph Dunn