Abbas Zahedi (b. 1984, London, UK) is an artist working at the intersections of sonic and sculptural forms, exploring systems of care, thresholds of experience, and the social architectures of our time. His practice has been described as a form of dissociative realism — moving between intimacy and estrangement, and attuned to forms of meaning that sit beyond the purely material.

A former medic with training in psychiatry, Zahedi holds an MA in Contemporary Photography and Philosophy from Central Saint Martins. Recent awards include the Stanley Picker Fellowship (2024), Artangel: Making Time (2023), Frieze Artist Award (2022), Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award (2021), and the Khadijah Saye Memorial Scholarship (2017). He is Associate Lecturer at the Royal College of Art, London, and has taught widely in the UK and internationally.

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Ain Bailey is a composer, artist and DJ. She facilitates workshops exploring identity, memory and sound.  Past exhibitions include The Range at Eastside Projects, Birmingham; RE:Respite at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, a solo show at Cubitt Gallery, London: And We’ll Always Be A Disco In The Glow Of Love (2019). In 2020, Bailey and Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski created a composition and print titled Remember To Exhale for Studio Voltaire, London. Bailey was commissioned by Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, to create the exhibition Version and composed Atlantic Railton for the Listening To The City programme for the 2021 Serpentine Pavilion. Other recent commissions are the moving image/sound work Untitled: (Our Wedding) for the Black Melancholia exhibition at CCS Bard, New York, USA; Trioesque for Bruckenmusik 27 in Cologne, Germany and the installation Four (2024) for FACT Liverpool's Resolution research project. She was the 2022–2023 Cavendish Arts Science Fellow at Girton College, University of Cambridge. Newer works for 2026 are The Jamaica Project at Camden Arts Centre and Maybe It’s Because I’m A Londoner for Art On The Underground at Waterloo Station.

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Tom Harris uses improvisational electronic and ambient music to explore and expand the boundaries of identity. Through rhythm, harmony, frequency, and vibration, he crafts immersive sensory experiences, tenderly inviting listeners back into their primary instrument: the body. In his work, sound becomes a container, an illuminator, a regulator, and a revealer of possibilities.

Tom’s embrace of fusion extends into interdisciplinary practice, feeling most at home between boundaries. His collaborative sound installation Earth Bound, with architecture studio FTGU and musician Juliana Day, transforms reclaimed steel plates and springs into resonant instruments, channeling sound through material to bridge the ethereal and the physical. The work has been shown in contemporary art galleries, festivals, and public spaces.

Releasing work under the identity In Sonic Service, Tom presents deep electronic improvisations through live streams. His recent project, Music Is Medicine, invites audiences to explore how music can act as a container for processing and understanding emotional experience.

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Royal Trinity Hospice is the local hospice for South West and Central London, providing free specialist palliative and end-of-life care for people living in Wandsworth and parts of Lambeth, Merton, Westminster, Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington & Chelsea and Richmond. Royal Trinity Hospice supports patients from the moment of their diagnosis until the end of their lives, and afterwards, it supports those close to them for as long as they are needed.

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Imperial Health Charity helps hospitals do more through grants, arts, volunteering and fundraising. Working in partnership with the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Imperial Health Charity funds major redevelopments, research and medical equipment at five London hospitals – Charing Cross, Hammersmith, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea, St Mary’s and the Western Eye – as well as helping patients and their families at times of extreme financial difficulty. Supporting the arts in healthcare, Imperial Health Charity manages an Arts Council-accredited hospital art collection and runs an arts engagement programme for patients and NHS staff. Imperial Health Charity also manages volunteering across all five hospitals, adding value to the work of staff and helping to improve the hospital experience for patients.

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This event will take place outside in the garden, weather permitting. The event will offer seating options at ground level, including blankets and chairs.

Please note that this event will be audio-recorded and included in the project’s online archive. 

Royal Trinity Hospice’s spaces are wheelchair accessible. Disabled toilets are located around the building. Further information on access at Royal Trinity Hospice can be found here.

Image courtesy of Abbas Zahedi