Artists

Library of Lost Sounds

A collaboration between artists, researchers and scientists collecting sounds that were never recorded.

Selena Chandler

An Essex born artist whose practice is strongly grounded in place, drawing on social histories, the labour of domestic and traditional crafts and the valuing of local knowledges.

Alison Ballard

Alison Ballard examines our relationships to objects, places, and one-another, through a range of mediums including film, installation, audio, and performance.TRAILER

Alasdair Roberts

Alasdair Roberts is a stalwart supporter of the Leigh Folk Festival over many years. He’s worked with Drag City Records (Joanna Newsom, Bonnie Prince Billy) since 1997 releasing several albums.

Jean Blaise

The instigator of Light Nights internationally, Jean Blaise is known in France as the Godfather of public art.

Creek Crawling Collective (CCC)

The Creek Crawling Collective (CCC) is an outdoor learning collective inviting people to explore and share knowledge about the Thames Estuary's intertidal zone

Ruth Barnes

Ruth Barnes is a music expert and broadcaster, founder of The Other Woman – the music network dedicated to emerging and independent female artists.See her at Sound of the Thames Delta: Disruptive…

Pete Paphides

Since 1992, Pete Paphides has written extensively about music a variety of publications including The Times, The Guardian, The Observer, Mojo, Q and Melody Maker.

Thamesmead Texas

Thamesmead Texas is a nomadic artist led project space, based in Thamesmead founded by artists & filmmakers Vanessa Scully & Liam Scully.

Damilola Odusote

Visual artist and muralist working in drawing, painting, sculpture, spray-painting and mixed-media.

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