Bog Heartsease is a fine artist, printmaker and curator from London. His work explores his experiences with disability and queerness, while playing with high contrast imagery and designs. Bog blends traditional mediums with community as a mode of creation. He organised and curated the 2026 exhibition “From Our Ribs” focusing on the creative process of up and coming Sunderland based artists, and has graduated from Sunderland University with a first class honours BA in Fine Art.

Daniel Carey is a painter-printmaker based in Middlesbrough. He develops work by responding to the atmospheric and spatial qualities of his everyday environments, encounters with second-hand imagery, and material practices of the past; all of which weave into his art. Built spaces like rooms, corridors, and courtyards recur in his work, as do natural spaces such as woodlands, fields and bodies of water; he is interested in how they can be transposed into pictorial imagery. Daniel takes these ideas into the practices of etching and egg tempera painting; drawn to the luminosity and slowness of both, he aims to encourage slow viewing and inspire contemplation through the work. He recently graduated from Teesside University with a degree in Fine Art and has exhibited in group shows at Assembly House Leeds, Redcar Contemporary and The Long Gallery in Tilford

Eva Grinvalde is an artist from Latvia who is now based in Teesside. Her work is focused on exploring and showing her own migrant experience through painting and photography. The common theme that runs throughout her paintings are shadows and reflections, often of trees, gates, flags and fences. She uses these shadows as a reflective device for the concept she is working on at that moment. 

Eva has received a degree in Fine Art concluded with a week long degree show exhibition and is moving on to do her MA in Art, Culture and Curation.

Kerry Ann Chappell is a contemporary abstract artist based in the North East of England. Her work explores memory, emotion, and cycles of return through layered surfaces, colour, and recurring circular forms. Using texture, gesture, and physical mark-making, she creates paintings that hold traces of process and the body, offering open spaces for viewers to connect with their own experiences. Kerry approaches abstraction through an autoethnographic lens, drawing on lived experience to shape her visual language. Circular motifs appear throughout her work, referencing rupture, repair, and renewal. She recently graduated with a First Class BA (Hons) in Fine Art from the University of Sunderland and her work has been exhibited in the Sunderland Creatives Gallery at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art.

Matthew Roche is an artist based in Newcastle whose practice spans conceptual sculpture and process-based image making. Driven by what he notices and finds in life. Emphasising mystery, interpretation and the imagination needed to expand on art as a subjective subject, transcending the idea of object, aiming to push art theory to its absolute limits and breaking the rules of what art is.

Matthews drawings are process pieces, made with oil pastels and small downward strokes, using painting techniques. Working mainly on fabric canvas and bookbinding muslin. He references his own photographs, images from magazines, photographers, and film stills, choosing images that are personal or that have interesting backgrounds and subject matter with pleasing pallets, compositions and details. Matthew has worked in collaboration with students from Leeds City College with artist Beth Shaperro in 2021-2022 at The Tetley. He also Graduated at Northumbria University in 2026.

Zilan Kuzu is a Newcastle based painter and a recent Fine Art graduate of Northumbria University. Her work explores diasporic identity, migration and belonging, shaped by her lived experience. Drawing on cultural motifs such as patterns from Anatolian rugs and other symbolic forms, her paintings reflect on ideas of home and protection. She works across several paintings at once, allowing each work to develop in relation to the others. Alongside her painting practice, Zilan has contributed to community-focused projects, including Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art's We All Came Here From Somewhere exhibition

Chloe Stevenson (KingCharlie) is a multidisciplinary artist who graduated from Teesside University in 2026 and works within the Teesside region. Her work subverts our idea of value. By taking small, commonly discarded items from low-income areas and transforming them into human sized sculptures, or by painting intricate urban landscapes directly onto them, she imposes a value and gives these invisible objects a sense of power and influence. Mixing lived experience with nostalgia and satire, Chloe’s work demands attention and sparks conversation.

Her work has been shown in C.H.A.V (2026), a solo show at The Zoo Middlesbrough CIC- an organisation where she is also the Co-Directors and Founder. She has also featured in a range of group shows, the most notable include MIMA’s ‘Art + Social’ (2025), HolyArt Galleries ‘Future Stars’ (2025) and Glasgow Gallery of Photography’s ‘Diptych/ Triptych’ (2026). She has also been a recipient of the Marston Scholarship from 2023-2026.

Jones is a sculpture and installation artist based in Newcastle. Their practice is informed by the aesthetics of museums and preserved sites of historical political significance. They are interested in the way objects in these spaces, such as flags, operate as functional components as well as symbols of authority. In their work Jones fabricates, distorts and manipulates these objects. They explore how these environments allow for a more immediate encounter, where meaning is constructed through proximity, atmosphere and experience. Choosing to make no distinct historical reference, Jones is instead curious in how the viewer moves through the space and what information they discern from it.

Kathryn Lunt is a multimedia artist based in Newcastle. She has a special interest in soft sculpture, installation and world building. Her work is humorous, absurd and creates a playful subversion of the ordinary. Pulling from narratives in her own life, she creates fantastical sculptures and installations that encompass the viewer, bringing them into the world of her imagination. A mixed media approach allows her to express multiple narratives and bring together ideas into one work. Textiles play a significant role in bridging the gap between artwork and viewer in Kathryn’s work. Their mundane familiarity and softness give an approachable, tactile quality that often invites interaction into more bizarre elements of her work. Setting up the textiles forum during her degree in Fine Art from Newcastle University, she has taught sessions and cultivated an interest for textile arts and materiality in the department. 

Leoni Andrews Dingwall (LAD), an abstract representational artist based in Newcastle upon Tyne, draws inspiration from her own experiences of socioeconomic struggle, addiction, childhood trauma and growing up in a single-parent household. She dissects these memories and distorts them on her canvas, mirroring how she witnesses and experiences them years later. Through dimension, detail and occasionally typography, she translates this amalgamation of revealing truths for her audience to interpret. Leoni aims to create work that serves as a catalyst for those with similar backgrounds to know they are seen, understood and most importantly, no longer alone in their past. She’s also passionate about using contemporary art to champion social justice and community work, a topic that was a key focus of her recently completed Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts.