Tim Ryan’s sculptures, taken from a larger project titled ‘The Thrill of Zilch’ which focuses on fictitious creatures that inhabit the edgelands and neglected areas of our towns and cities. Throughout the project, Zilch lore is presented through artefacts pertaining to the act of hunting for Zilch and the culture that surrounds it, in this case, two of Zilch hunter Dudley Plunkett‘s taxidermy attempts.
Tim currently has a studio space in St Anne’s House in our Studio 1. Tim was part of Curio, an exhibition in an old vitrine based in the reception of St Anne’s House.
Across painting and installation, Karolina tries to articulate poetic, inter-subjective dialogues. She creates diagrams of fragmented thoughts and emotions that operate fluidly between the future and the past, which she wants to bring to the now.
Karolina is interested in confronting her personal space with cultural constructs, deriving inspirations from myriad sources: psychoanalysis, linguistics, pop culture and the art history – recently particularly fascinated by the horror genre, art deco and socialist ornaments as well as renaissance frescoes.
Elise Wootten is a Bristol-based Photographic Artist.
She graduated from the Arts University Bournemouth in 2019 having studied BA (Hons) Photography. She has exhibited her work in various galleries across the U.K, most notably Seventeen gallery and the Old Truman Brewery in London and as part of a number of fringe festivals such as Deptford X and Bournemouth Emerging Arts Fringe
Ellen is a Bristol based artist with a background in site-specific and interactive performance art. Her work always aims to bring the audience in and give them the opportunity to become part of the piece, often through workshops or interactive installations.
Ellen explores the mundane and everyday vs the fantastical and the extraordinary. Their previous work has used collaboration with community groups to express shared concerns and desires in playful and joyful ways and she enjoys thinking about how using play can dismantle established hierarchies. Previous projects have questioned collective relationships to living in a city, thinking about the past, present and future or where we live and its impact on our lives and wellbeing.
Ellen’s current work inquires in to the nature of capitalism and mass production in homogenising the minutia of our lives. Focusing in on the historical mythology of plants and exploring native British/European flora and the dilution of their meaning over time.
Emma Gregory is an artist, now living in Bristol, although formerly of London, Leeds and Liverpool.
Emma is currently exploring the complex and conflicting feelings we experience in relation to mothers and motherhood. She switches from one medium to another to suit the content: drawing, writing, painting, stitching, carpentry. There is inevitably a lot of play involved, often in collaboration with other artists.
Emma has worked for the National Theatre, The Hayward, Whitechapel, The Bluecoat – among others. Here in Bristol, she runs a course for artists called Press Play and a drawing-based research group, also working as a freelance educator.
Jessica Akerman makes objects and images that bring together social narratives, pattern and colour. She explores histories, systems and structures and how these are communicated. Themes include: the staging of power dynamics in national identity, women’s working lives and military engineering.
Working in sculpture, installation and object-making, her approach to materials is that of the amateur craft enthusiast, making salt dough fingers, weaving paper, pinning leather, colouring in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.
Co- is a collaborative creative development project that aims to provide time and space to both curators and artists within the early stages of their practice. The project brings together a group of creatives to share ideas, skills and knowledge.
The space invites artists and curators to co-exist, co-produce and create a micro community where conversation, sharing and mentoring could lead to the production of new work. Currently: Kirsty Claxton, Harriet Crisp, Simone Hesselberg & Frances Willoughby.
A socially engaged artist living and working between Bristol and Wales.
Her work is underpinned by a rigorous drawing and making practice. She builds structures inside and outside the institution, playfully disrupting environments that invite other people into action and enable us to experience the world differently.
Currently working from St Anne’s House as part of the Co- collective.
Day School offers artists a shared studio space alongside monthly education days with guest artists, support and advice for work and careers, and other professional development opportunities, community projects and social occasions.
Invited guest artists are drawn from ebc’s diverse network, and reflect the many different artistic practices represented in the UK. Day School is an inclusive and welcoming environment, and the artists we work with are selected with these values in mind.
Jo’s interest lies in deep ecology, human interaction and social sculpture especially around the themes of natural life/death cycles, grief, personal and societal transition. Often working in outdoor woodland or empty urban spaces, she is not so interested in creating finished art pieces as much as creating a temporary ‘vessel’ within which a process of mutual enquiry and interaction takes place. She often fuses the use of projected image with hands-on preparation of indigenous, organic materials to encourage participants on a physical journey around a space – a deeply engaging experience responding to the specific environment and moment in time.
Her approach lends itself to working in community projects, organisations, schools and with small groups of individuals who are seeking creative processes for navigating transitions. She responds to the need to communicate collectively, bringing diverse voices together to effect change in themselves and in their communities. Her practice is informed by 16 years experience of working in adult drug and alcohol services and youth services.
Matthew Lintott is an artist specialising in woodblock printmaking, often printing by hand without the use of a printing press. His practice is focused on evaluating our present dis-connect to our natural environment by exploring personal and collective memory. To embrace the value of looking back as much as forward in the context of our ever growing reliance on modern technology. To perhaps re-discover what we may have forgotten.
Richie is a cameraman and drone pilot for Film and TV. He currently co-runs UK’s top drone collective agency Fifth Eye Crew, where they train up and support a growing number of pilots around the UK.
Facilitating new and established creative drone photographers with equipment, (plus the boring stuff), like Public Liability Insurance, and CAA licensing, flying permissions etc, so they can get in the air faster. By pooling resources and being community focused, we’ve grown a solid organisation for people to fly safely all across the world.
Richie moved into St Anne’s House in Spring 2022 and enjoys having an office space that’s so much more than a desk and WiFi. He hopes to get involved in the community here through getting stuck in the garden areas around the building and taking part in the creative events.
If you want to have a chat about anything video related, please get in touch with Richie!
Jessica is a fiction and non fiction writer. Her first novel Saltwater was published in 2019, and her second novel, Milk Teeth will be published later this year 2022. Jessica also co-runs literary magazine The Grapevine and co-presents literary podcast Tender Buttons.
Sarah is a director at 00, who has expertise in both architectural design and research, specialising in workspace, community and co-design projects.
Passionate about the creation and retention of affordable and creative workspace, creating resilience to our High Streets and engaging the community in meaningful ways to effect change in their lives and area.
The mission of the Bio-Leadership project is to change the story of leadership by working with nature.
They are a movement of people and organisations, changing human systems to be more resilient, regenerative and designed to protect and regenerate our planet.
Extend Mode is a gameplay-focused developer, making fun games for the whole family, for all platforms. They are currently working on a sequel to their last game, Eight Dragons.
Spare Dog Records is a Bristol based fairtrade record label which releases and promotes music from Malawi, a small country in Central Southern Africa. We work with our sister project out in Malawi, Moto Wambili Studios, to record a range of original contemporary music from talented artists, in a place where professional recording studios are scarce.
Studio Mothership is a graphic design practice based in Bristol (UK) founded by Lucy Sloss and Ken Borg. They design graphic identities, books, websites, posters & printed matter, way-finding systems, environmental and exhibition graphics. They do this for cultural institutions, charities, private and commercial clients.
Since their inception in 2007, Black Acre’s mission has been one of discovery. They have endeavoured to dig out the treasure buried in pirate radio playlists, forever hunting that golden, ‘Untitled’ by ‘Unknown’, streaming unheard in the deluge.
Curation is their calling card. Black Acre naturally expanded into the music solutions company it is today. With offices in Bristol & London, they now cover artist management, publishing, music supervision with a record label at the centre.
Mushrooms take something at the end of it’s life and transform it back into something useful.
“I visited St Annes House a month ago and was immediately drawn in by the feeling of community there. I am now transforming a decommissioned toilet block into a mushroom farm and will be growing a range of gourmet and medicinal mushrooms”
