Whiskey Chow is a London-based artist, activist and Chinese drag king. Chow’s practice engages with political issues and related topics: from queer(ing) masculinity, problematising the nation-state across geographic boundaries, interrogating stereotypical projections of Chinese/Asian identity, to enabling empowerment by queer-reading ancient Chinese myth.

In 2020, Chow launched, curated and performed in Queering Now 酷兒鬧; a curatorial programme amplifying and championing queer Chinese/Asian diaspora voices in the West. The artitst has also performed and showcased works across the UK and internationally including Yorkshire Sculpture Park, V&A, Tate Modern, Tate Britain and National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul).

Holly Graham is a London-based artist whose work looks at ways in which memory and narrative shape collective histories. Bound up in this lies an interest in recording-mechanisms, documents, evidence, and processes of editing; concerns rooted around a commitment to responsible story-telling and amplifying quiet histories. The work she makes is often specific to particular sites and localised contexts.

Holly is an Associate Lecturer on the Print MA programme at the RCA, providing academic and pastoral support through one-to-one tutorials, group tutorials, and crits. She is also Co-founder of Cypher BILLBOARD, which commissions site-specific billboard artworks and off-site projects, and was Co-director at Croydon-based art space Turf Projects between 2021 and 2022.

Hsi-Nong Huang (b.1996) lives and works in London, UK. Huang completed a BA (Hons) in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts and an MA in Sculpture from Royal College of Art. Huang’s practice explores the dialogue between sculpture, performance, sound and drawing with a focus on historic minimalist interventions and installations. In her sculptures she creates a meeting point between materials that can hold hidden personal histories, preserves memories, and forms a liminal space that allows her past once more to find its way into our present or her future. Huang has exhibited internationally with recent exhibitions including Anonymous Drawings 2024, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin; Ships Passing, New Art Projects, London (2024); RA Summer Exhibition 2023, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2023) and Reflections: Part 3: Sculpture by Women Artists, WORKPLACE, London (2022). Huang has her first residency in Vermont Studio Center, Vermont (2024). She also has undertaking a year as an Artist Woodwork Fellow at City & Guilds of London Art School, London (2022-23) and she is the recipient of Samuel Ross Black British & POC Artist Grants, 2021.

Maz Murray (b. Basildon 1995) is an artist working across film, writing, collage and installation. Murray uses satire, surrealism, melodrama, and humour to talk about queer and trans identity, class, and the complexities of public life. They collage and subvert pop cultural tropes such as music video, TV documentary, talk show, social media content and cinema, using DIY techniques. They’re interested in the creation of artificial landscapes - from New Towns and shopping centres to queer spaces and imagined utopias - and the struggles that shape them.

They have shown work at Turner Contemporary, Outfest, London Short Film Festival, Institute of Contemporary Arts and South London Gallery, among others. They recently made a short film with BFI Network. Their first institutional solo show was with with Focal Point Gallery, 2024. In 2023 the artist was selected as an awardee of the second edition of the LOEWE FOUNDATION / Studio Voltaire Award.

Emily Pope is an artist living and working in London. She works in film, sound, printmaking and writing. She is interested in series making, and has been making The Sitcom Show, a failed sitcom recording life under austerity measures in the UK, since 2016. Her research explores a history of experimental broadcast media with a focus on humour and satire, queer intersectional feminism, political rhetoric + class politics and she is excited by challenging dominant power structures.

Recent solo and group presentations include: Ginny on Frederick, Sundy London, Wysing Arts Centre, The Box Museum; Plymouth, V.O Curations, Tate Britain, Peak Gallery; London, Paradise Works; Manchester, The White Pube Residency, The Royal Standard; Liverpool, Serf; Leeds, Hester Gallery; NYC, VI VII; Oslo, HA HA Gallery; Southampton, Auto Italia; London and Turf Projects; London. Her writing has been published by Lesley Magazine, Curating the Contemporary, Laugh Magazine, Low Theory, The Freud Museum, Bookworks, Arcadia Missa, Montez Press and Autoitalia. In 2023 Pope was selected as an awardee of the second edition of the LOEWE FOUNDATION / Studio Voltaire Award.

Prajakta Potnis (b. 1980, Thane, India) lives and works in Mumbai. Exhibitions include the 15th Sharjah Biennale (2023), Rencontres d'Arles (2022), Taipei Fine Art Museum (2021), The 11th Gwangju Biennale (2016), Queens Museum (2015), Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2014), Kadist Art Foundation (2012), and Herning Museum of Contemporary Art (2010).

Solo projects include a body without organs, Project 88 (2020), when the wind blows, Project 88, Mumbai (2016); Kitchen Debate, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2014); Time Lapse, The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai (2012); Local Time, Experimenter, Kolkata (2012); Porous walls, The Guild art gallery, Mumbai (2008); Membranes and Margins, Gallery EM, Seoul (2008); Walls in between, The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai (2006). She is represented by Project 88 Mumbai. Potnis is the international awardee of the second edition of the LOEWE FOUNDATION / Studio Voltaire Award.

Nicolás Said (b. 1995 Buenos Aires, Argentina) currently lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina.He first studied Psychology at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and later Fine Arts at the National University of Arts (UNA). He has studied with local professors and artists such as Tomás Espina, Luis Terán and Florencia Rodríguez Giles.

Group exhibitions include Contrarreloj, Intemperie Gallery, Buenos Aires, 2022; Le Sud dans le Sud, Domaine Fondungues-Pradugues, St. Tropez, 2022; II National Biennal of Drawing, Frankin Rawson Museum, San Juan, Argentina, 2021; Llaverguoqui, Constitución Gallery, Buenos Aires, 2021; Southern Winds I & II, Kromya Art Gallery, Lugano & London, 2021; Tegumento, Fundación El Mirador, Buenos Aires, 2021; Pacífica Mordida, PM Gallery, Buenos Aires, 2020; and Peluscencias, Munar, Buenos Aires, 2020.

Nick Smith (b. 1982, Liverpool) is an artist who explores the theme of class within the context of the built environment through video collages and photographic installations. His archive of photographs, videos, and research materials, compiled from his work as both an artist and property inspector, serves as his primary source material. Smith aims to create images that evoke a sense of connection between the past and present, focusing on moments of arrival and departure in public space, regional identity, memory, and recent history.

Smith has had solo exhibitions at OUTPUT Gallery, Liverpool; The Birley, Preston; OUTPOST Gallery, Norwich; Concord Space, L.A; and Photofusion, London. His work has been included in group shows and screenings at Two Queens, Leicester; TACO!, Thamesmead; Bloomberg New Contemporaries: Cornerhouse, Manchester and Rochelle School, London; Karst, Plymouth; Folkestone Triennial and Auto Italia, London. He holds a Master of Arts Degree in Photography from the Royal College of Art, and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins. In 2023 Nick was selected as an awardee of the second edition of the LOEWE FOUNDATION / Studio Voltaire Award.

Photography by Sarah Rainer