I like to think of myself as a creative usually with a leaning towards history or with a political twist and sometimes just plain silly! I used to be an actress and artist simultaneously over past decades; Mainly theatre and murals. Then I swapped to writing short stories, a Novella, Poetry and creating large canvases before becoming a ‘Senior Fragrance Sommelier’ for Penhaligon’s British Heritage Perfume House. 

 

website: www.yumzart.com

Instagram:  yumzart32b 

Jacob is a Black British Caribbean writer, and has been writing poems since he was 12. His work deals with the vast-smallness of the human experience, and is influenced by a love of languages, his studies in psychotherapy, and the childhood dream of becoming an astronaut.

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Instagram: hispoetryofficial

This piece is part of an ongoing embroidery project which I have been using as I reflect on some moments in my life which were shaped by patterns of intense, and at times destructive, relationships. Embroidery is a very slow and and repetitive process which I find quite meditative, and I have begun to use it to reflect on certain ideas or memories I sometimes have going on in my head or I pull from my diary. In practicing embroidery we (or at least I) often make mistakes, and have to pull at threads and try and fix them. The back of my embroidery always looks haphazard and for a moment I start to like what’s on the back more than what’s on the front.

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I taught myself out of how-to books written for children when I was 9 or 10. Every time I come back to it my hands remember what to because they’ve done it over and over again. Doing this I get to spend a lot of time with one thoughts while doing something with my hands, so I am somewhere in that space between thinking and doing and neither becomes to stressful or intense for me. I poke and pull until the thought is spelled out on the fabric, and in all that time I’ve held a thought hands until it doesn’t really mean anything anymore. 

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Embroidery and all needlework is a traditionally feminine domain which may have been seen in the home, but not intended for public space. There are of course many women who have since taken sewing and textiles into fine art like Tracey Emin and Tschabalala Self for example, and I am also inspired by Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger’s use of text.

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Sam Edwards is a writer, director and producer.  She has her own production company Ragged Crow, and recently won at LISFF with horror short ’Sorrow'.  She wrote & produced the indie feature ’Stealing Elvis', and has written ’Sodium’ a volume of poetry, and ’Narcosis’ a novel about scuba diving and gunrunning.  She is currently a student on the MFA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck where she is working on a novel about a woman with PTSD who lives in a haunted house.

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Instagram: iamsamedwards

Devin Lane writes from Denver. He has been featured in Adirondack Review, Little Something’s  Press, Storgy Magazine, and is currently developing a graphic series with Golden Liberty Comics.  

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The piece “a glass of wine” 2021, marker and ink on paper (4 x 11 inches), touches upon the balance between intimacy and toxicity within karmic cycle relationships. The entities are comprised of continuous lines which interlock and crossover each other. The vibrancies in the piece indicate the synapse of nerves as the energies are transferred. Karmic relationships are intense and all consuming. The expressions of the individuals hint at the draining nature of these cycles yet proceed with the question “a glass of wine?”. 

Instagram: Justinastas.design 

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Patrick Christie’s writing has appeared in Storgy Magazine, The Nonconformist, Streetlight Magazine and the Mechanics' Institute Review. He is currently studying for a Creative Writing MFA at Birkbeck, University of London.

Twitter: pdchristie

Simon Tyrrell is a writer and artist whose work celebrates the language, signs and symbols that help us make sense of our relationships with each other and the time and space we share. He’s a founder of The Museum of Futures in South West London and has participated in exhibitions and performances at the Poetry Society Café, Rich Mix, Westminster Reference Library and The Museum of Futures. His work has featured in Seethingography (Sampson Low), the Temporary Spaces anthology (Pamenar), ‘Islet Zone’ (Poem Atlas), ‘Home’ (Mellom Press) ‘The Origin’ Thames Boat Project (Stanley Picker Fellowship) and online journal Versopolis. 

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www.tyrrellknot.com 

Instagram: tyrrellknot
Twitter: @AssociateTyz

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I am a Swiss, multi-disciplined artist currently living and working in London, England. Recently, my work has explored the re-imagining and re-creating of repetitive patterns found in digital glitches, through analogue processes including text printing manipulation, collage and painting. 

Taking inspiration from the brief "Circles and Cycles, this triptych, entitled "DOODLES," continues to explore this re-creation of patterns with the inclusion of my text manipulations. The wave patterning occurring in the foreground of each painting is made by stretching,  warping the phrases 'no-concerns for me,' 'i want to grown up,' and 'am i doing this right?,' respectively. I wanted to explore my illustrative cycle with each piece representing a certain stage of my life and the patterns I had used during those times. Alongside these patterns, the colours used help to identify which part of my life it is portraying, the vibrant colours for youth, pastels for teenage years and muted pastels for the adult years. 

The triptych was made using acrylic paint on canvas. Each painting is 59.4 x 84.1 x 5.0 cm 

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