Featured artists
Josh O’Connor (he/him)
https://joshoconnorvisuals.myportfolio.com
Josh O’Connor (@josh.co_visuals) is a Bristol based filmmaker/artist, mainly working in mixed media film. His practice involves combining digital and analog mediums to create abstract visuals in the form of experimental film and documentary, often creating conversations around underrepresented.
Nina Hamley (she/her)
With interests lying heavily in folkloric traditions and interpersonal connection, Nina Hamley (@niinahamley) has dabbled in various disciplines, but finds herself consistently drawn to storytelling. With a background in more performance-based methods of expression, she likes to think of pieces and projects as scripts, sets, props, or costumes.
Cecile Fountain-Jardim (she/her)
Cecile Fountain-Jardim (@konocostudio) is an American animator and illustrator based between London and New York. With a practice centered around storytelling through image, she works predominantly in digital drawing and frame-by-frame animation, a blend of both traditional and stop-motion. Her work is often heartfelt, aesthetically playful, and inspired by the concept of ‘wabi-sabi’, or a focus on imperfection. It is through this focus on the imperfect and playful that she explores the tension between the lighthearted and the serious, often pairing colorful, tactile visuals with the deeply emotional stories she tells. Through her films, she investigates themes such as nostalgia, memory, and archive to create and share human-centered narratives which reflect the commonalities in our respective experiences in light and accessible ways.
Chloe Eathorne (she/her)
https://thewildflowerhour.wixsite.com/portfolio
Chloe Eathorne (@thewildflowerhour) is a poet & visual artist passionate about nature and heritage. She produces The Wildflower Hour for community radio. Her creative practice explores the intersections of ecology, memory, and identity through spoken word, field recordings and visual storytelling.
Naomi Chillingworth (she/her)
Starting out as a scientist and illustrator from Sheffield, Naomi Chillingworth’s (@Naomi.ch.art) work reflects on how humans interact with the environment. Her aim is to spark conversations, creativity and increase the accessibility of science through art. The two disciplines are not so far apart, with science’s requiring creative solutions and art being built on practice and pattern.
Imaani Iram Zafar (she/her)
https://imaanizafar.wixsite.com/site
Imaani Iram Zafar (@
iiz.collection) is an art and digital design student at the University of the Arts London. Her practice is centred around textiles and the ways fabric can hold memories, stories, and emotions. She loves working with natural materials — using processes like natural dyeing, crochet, knitting, and embroidery to create pieces that feel handmade and personal. A lot of her inspiration comes from nature and culture, and she enjoys exploring how the two connect through colour, texture, and technique. Her work often reflects on identity and belonging, using textiles as a way to express care, growth, and connection.
Poppy sharpe (they/them)
https://subconscioussquid.artstation.com
Poppy Sharpe (@subconscioussquid) is a mixed media artist and 2D animator. They create to express themselves and connect with others through storytelling. They love to experiment with different media and ways of working. They are more and more drawn to traditional media and rough, expressive imperfections.
Teddy Baron (he/him)
Teddy (@teddybaronmakes) is a multidisciplinary artist exploring evocative spaces and strange magic. He works with installation and scenic design, creating entrancing worlds for performance, exploration and film. He can be found around a dying campfire, entranced by the embers.
Ellie Moulang Lewis (she/her)
Ellie Moulang Lewis (@elliemoulang) is a cellist and folk singer, weaving her ingrained connection to the natural world into her delicate songwriting. Layering rich cello melodies with the earthy tones of her voice Ellie takes inspiration from English folk traditions. Performing with her Leeds-based folk duo Elm (@elmmusic.folk), together with Emily Keeble they share thought-provoking stories and sounds to bring community to a fragmented society.
India Martin (she/they)
India (@indiahollym) is a multidisciplinary creative from the East Midlands working in live performance and design. She is a clown, facilitator, and puppeteer interested in rekindling nature connection through play and public art. She is a company member of THE HERDS and a Junior Associate of the National Youth Theatre.
Róisín Clothier (she/her)
https://www.roisinclothier.com
Róisín Clothier (@art-of-roisin) is an Irish illustrator and animator currently based in Bristol. She is experience working with animation studios across the UK and Ireland on a range of animated content – from feature films to TV shows and short films. In recent years she has shifted her creative practice to focus more on the environment, nature and climate crisis, using her art background to contribute towards making scientific information more accessible and engaging.
Will de ritter (he/him)
Will De Ritter (@will_degenerate) is a London-based filmmaker. He works with celluloid film and photochemicals to produce films which tread a fine line between experimental and genre movies. He is interested in working with obsolete photographic technology to produce effects which are digitally unachievable, and developing sustainable solutions to photographic practices.
Taylor Bi (she/her)
Taylor (@taybi.journals) is an artist based in Bristol and currently works in wildlife filmmaking. She doodles in her free time and loves learning about nature. Through blending her interest and knowledge of filmmaking and drawing, Taylor hopes to use animation as a tool for conservation, to bring stories about our living world to light.
Isobel Chedgey (she/they)
Isobel (@isobelchedgey) is an artist living and working in Bristol. They have always had an affinity for colour, pattern and design and are also greatly concerned with social / environmental justice. Increasingly she is looking for ways to combine these two strands of interest within their practice. To utilise colourful, appealing imagery, as well as a sense of play and imagination, to communicate effectively about issues that matter to her.
Francesca Willow (she/her)
Francesca Willow (@ethicalunicorn) is a Cornwall-based writer, artist, and climate justice activist. She campaigns against the fossil fuel industry’s involvement in arts and culture with groups such as Badvertising, Clean Creatives and BP or not BP?, alongside running her climate justice platform, Ethical Unicorn, for over 30,000 followers, and working in the creative industry. Her creative practice is interested in ecology, place-making, and forms of connection between living beings, and in 2025 she was selected as a CAMP emerging rural artist for Devon and Cornwall.
Noah Jacob (she/her)
Noah Jacob (@nohcean) is an interdisciplinary poet, performer and critic based in London of mixed Arab heritage. Her writing often explores the boundaries between human and unhuman, interrogating the poetry within biology, automaton, and nature.
Kate Partington (she/her)
Kate Partington (@katepartingtonart) is a British visual artist and designer whose work bridges collage, film, and graphic design. Blending physical and digital processes, she explores themes of vulnerability, memory, and connection through layered compositions that centre on the human form. Her practice begins with hand-cut paper and analogue materials, evolving into digital media to deepen texture and meaning.
Annie Randall (they/her) & Dan Gifford (they/him)
With thanks to Denis Remenant and Owen Shiers.
Dan Gifford is a video artist and audio-visual specialist, with particular focus on environmental and social justice causes. Annie Randall is a multi-disciplinary artist and activist, who enjoys looking at things through a nature-focused lense.
Sophia Marinkov Jones (she/her)
Artists and puppeteers: Sophia Marinkov Jones, Jane Worroll, Evie Newton, Clara Gooding, Cecilia Derrick, Sarah MacLaren, Peter Houghton, Anne Bird, Kevin, Gideon Simeloff. Children: Myah Pryce, Arlo Simeloff, Kiara, Tallulah, Theia, Naomi, Rosa, Audrey
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Sophia (@so_ma_jones) is an artist and illustrator based in London. She takes inspiration from local ecology and experiences with the land, building narratives for storytelling. Her works aim to celebrate nature, imagining its recovery here in the UK, whilst shedding light on the climate and ecological emergency. She often works with children and schools, using art as a tool to communicate and explore these issues in the hope of empowering future generations to love and protect all facets of nature. These artworks are often collaborative in nature.
For this performance, Home Again, Sophia brought together the voices, sounds and imagery of a group of artists, including children.
