Tom Estes Tom Estes’ work has been descried by The Folie a Trois as “darkly disturbing & hauntingly beautiful”. While Estes sets out to put the resolution of his practice into inventions and fabrications, he playfully and irreverently tweaks the politics of display. His practice is a reflection of a ‘terrible lie’ told in his youth. This lie, and all its effects have remained unknown, but Estes’ remorse has painted them in the cruelest possible colors. This tale is the product, no doubt, of a false shame and presents a life-time of self inflicted memory and undying remorse. However, this ‘terrible crime’ represents the state of mind of a child living with a moment of irresponsible folly.
Michele Fletcher Canadian born artist Michelle Fletcher produces work that is paradoxically seductive and sinister yet ultimately beautiful, where imagary is built with jewel like layers, detailed surface pattern and brilliance of colour. She presents a balancing act between divergent ideologies and her own pursuit of personal utopia. Michelle graduated from Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2006 with a Masters in Fine Art. Previously she completed a BA (Honours) in Fine Art and Critical Theory at Goldsmiths.
Camila Flori With a visual arts and performance background, Camila explores boundaries and cross-overs in both the content and form of her practice. Working primarily as an actress for the past couple of years, she’s now integrating the multi-layered elements of her endeavors, playing with the ambiguous space between tangible binaries: writer/ performer, performer/character, factual and imagined realities, secrecy/exposure, past/ present, inside/outside, artist/ spectator... From the visceral feminine core of her work sprout bridges and fragments that re-join and entwine. Now performing her own writing, she is experimenting with alternative ways of visually and physically sharing this, tickling the RVC Cult with her passion for costume and play. From screen to stage, street to gallery, credits include work with the BBC, Channel Four, The Barbican, Soho Theatre, Royal Opera House, Teatro Municipal Rio de Janeiro and most recently the Whitechapel Gallery chez the velvety clan.
Ruby Glaskin & Alice Gale-Feeny
Practitioners of Fine Art and Performance Glaskin and Gale-Feeny see the importance and relevance of performance within the realms of contemporary fine art as a means to experiential and engaging work. Their practice encompasses an act of story-telling; reflecting a sense of spontaneity and intimacy between the artist and the viewer. London based, Glaskin works within performance, recently returning from working with The Living Theatre, New York. Nottingham based, Gale-Feeny currently works with multimedia installation and is a member of performance and live art group, Medium Rare.
Ruth Harrison Harrison is a time-traveling artist whose current practice is concerned with history, sexuality and gender. She lives mainly in 21st Century London, where she studied at Central Saint Martins. In the Victorian era, she is a lady flower painter with a secret life, and her floral pieces for lust and luxuria were brought from the 19th Century via the noughties. Eroticism simmers under the surface of repression, and what appear to be pretty botanical illustrations reveal themselves, on closer inspection, as something much more sensual, maybe even obscene.
Mark C. Hewitt Mark C. Hewitt is a writer, performer and director working predominantly within the fields of live literature, experimental theatre and interdisciplinary collaborations. Current work as a performer includes 'Life Studies' - (word-sketches of the human figure) and 'scrublands' - a collaborative cross artform piece for voice, projected images and music for string sextet. He is founder and artistic director of two arts organisations: Blank Productions and Lewes Live Lit.
Holly & Jenny Two women. One bloody good idea. Embracing all that is embarrassing and revealing the indispositions only shared between two friends, who quite literally believe they can take on the world with, what can only be described as peculiar dance moves. Daily frustrations are described, sung and laughed at. With homemade philosophies such as, ‘Don’t leave your dog in doors for to long, it will shit’ the work swings from the most common of territories into the absurd.
Eight years after meeting at Central Saint Martins and based on the friendship they have had since, Hunt and Darton have been collaborating for two years, approaching performance from a Fine Art background. They have created several performances together including ‘Love is Like the Airport/The Airport is Like Love’ and ‘Desperately Seeking Anything’ and are now starting to build up a kind of jukebox methodology, picking and choosing elements of the ideas explored in their practice and piecing them together in a range of combinations. This approach means the performance is rarely the same keeping the work fresh and exciting.
They have performed at various Live Art festivals and events such as Arnolfini’s ‘I’m Still Your Worst Nightmare’, Colchester Arts Centre Live Art Platform and Tasty Festival. Holly performed at Edinburgh Fringe, as Ben & Holly and more recently has creatively produced a three day Live Art Festival in Hertford. She has also been awarded Escalator Artist for the forthcoming year. Jenny recently participated in Rules & Regs at Colchester Arts Centre and has previously performed at, PLAY Interdisciplinary Art Festival, OMSK, Expo, Sensitive Skin, Tate Modern and 291 Gallery.
Katy Howkins work investigates the gaps that occur between language and silence.Through exploring the spaces that exist amongst our spoken words my practice attempts to articulate unheard voices and alternative means of communication.I use the body as a tool through which to deliver messages.
Combining elements of language, voice and sound I create works that incorporate performance, film, sculpture and drawing.
Tom Estes
Michele Fletcher 
Holly & Jenny