Alex Carr is an international, scientific, experimental artist working on a wide range of interdisciplinary projects in partnership with Oxford University and Durham University. The work make responds to natural processes and phenomena, such as magnetism, light, ice structures and dark matter. Carr’s practice involves collaboration with experts and world-leading researchers including engineers, biologists, geologists, cosmologists and theoretical physicists.

Leah Capaldi was born in Chertsey (1985) she currently lives and works in London. Capaldi works with mediums like video, scent, sculpture, installation and performance. Her work explores the relationship between object or subject, inviting the audience to question themselves in the position of surveillance and spectator. Also investigates how the view can reassess their self-awareness and behaviour.

Gordon Matta-Clark (USA, 1943- 1978) was a trained architect and conceptual artist who pioneered a radical approach to art making that directly engaged the urban environment and the communities within it. Jessaymn Fiore is a New York based curator and writer. She is the co-director of the estate of Gordon Matta-Clark and continues a collaboration with MAW in revealing some of the extraordinary breadth of Gordon Matta Clark’s art practice.

Darren Cullen is a satirical artist, illustrator and writer, born in Leeds to Irish immigrant parents and currently based in London. Studying at Leeds College of Art where he learned the language and techniques of the medium but became steadily horrified at the ethical implications involved.

Charlotte Dawson is a Sheffield based artist working across object based practice, installation and moving image. Her practice is influenced by materials and objects found in public, shared spaces alongside objects that reference collective experiences.

Jimmie Durham is an artist whose work is a causticaly sharp yet playful critique of both Western colonial rationality and what can only be described as the tendency to universal stupidity. Durham’s practice incorporated a range of media and processes including sculptural assemblage, painting, drawing, collage, printmaking, photography, video, performance and poetry.

Pippa Eason (b.1993), is a contemporary artist, based in Manchester. Eason’s work makes observations of popular culture and internet culture through the medium of sculpture. Her practice embraces a hand-crafted output, hinting at her early abstracted memories of domestic objects or toys.

Lucy Gregory (b. London, 1994) graduated from The Ruskin School of Art, 2016 and The Royal College of Art, Sculpture, 2018. She creates large-scale ‘kinetic collages’ that rely on audience participation to activate surreal mechanisms. Her sculptural environments play with a collision between bodies and machines to create the feeling you are walking into an animation, referencing the body and its flexible instability flattened on screen, and the often violent slapstick humour of cartoons.

Clifford Hindmarsh was born in South Bank, Cleveland UK (b. 1951) he now lives in Eston, Cleveland.Hindmarsh works with oil and acrylic. Hindmarsh's exhibitions include James Finegans Hall, Eston (1984), Redcar & Cleveland Civic & Learning Centre, Eston (2005), Eston Arts Centre (2022).

Vladan Joler is an academic, researcher and artist. His work investigates counter-cartography, journalism, writing, data visualisation, critical design and many other disciplines.

Fiona Larkin is an Irish artist living and working in Newcastle. She works mainly in photography and moving image which stems from a practice of performance to camera work. She is concerned with ideas of perspective shift, of long looking and the possibility for alongsideness as a productive and creative structure. She recently completed a PhD at Northumbria University and is currently teaching first year Fine Art students at Northumbria.

Jeremy Lee is a Principal Lecturer in Media Arts at Sheffield Hallam University. His current work in 3D animation is informed by a strong background and previous practice in painting. His interest lies in the interpretation of space through digital media and specifically 3D processes to create the illusion of reality using scanning technologies such as Lidar and Photogrammetry.

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1987, artist Rachel Maclean has spent the last decade showcasing her ground-breaking work in galleries, museums, film festivals and on television. Working across a variety of media, including video, digital print and VR, she makes complex and layered works that reference politics, fairy tales, celebrity culture and more.

Nora O’ Murchú is a curator & researcher, whose research examines the intersections between the fields of art, design, software studies, and politics. Her multidisciplinary practice embraces narratives, and fictions and results in objects, exhibitions, and interventions.

Tom Schofield is an artist, designer and researcher with research interests in emerging and open source technology, participation and cultural data in public space. His practice is engaged with contemporary issues in post-digital culture including network politics, network temporality and critical infrastructure.

The Post Apocalypse School established in 2021 sets to teach people important skills which will help audiences live in a more self-sufficient and sustainable way – and skills which may save your life after the apocalypse.

A/B Smith (UK) is a music producer, hacker, coder, educator, data scientist, VJ, DJ and immersive experience artist operating in a space that weaves spatial sound, technology, politics and electronic club culture, into art. Born in Leigh-on-sea (b.1979), after studying in Bradford University, and completing an MA at Brighton University he now has settled by the coast in Brighton and Hove.

Sid and Jim (b. Kent and Suffolk, UK) are a London based collaboration making artworks that materialise in many different forms. They have previously produced films, sculptures, paintings, and curated exhibitions which call attention to otherwise overlooked elements of our daily lives.

Suzanne Treister is a British contemporary artist (b.1958) who is based in London. Treister makes work about emerging technologies, developing fictional worlds and international collaborative organisations through the mediums of watercolour, drawing, media, photography and the internet.

John Waid is a maker, inventor, photographer, collector, talker and a nuisance.

Waid was a lecturer at NCAD Dublin for 30 years, in Core Studies, where he taught all disciplines. Waid initiated, created the structure, and wrote most of the creative tasks for NCAD’s folio entry submission brief that ran for 9 years and achieved an international award for educational innovation

Eimear Walshe is an artist, writer, and educator from Longford, Ireland, who uses academic study in Queer Theory and Feminist Epistemology in the production of sculpture, publishing, performances, and lectures.

Peter Fischli (b. 1952) and David Weiss (b.1946 – d. 2012) were a Swiss artist duo that collaborated beginning in 1979. Fischli and Weiss had their first solo exhibition at the Galerie Balkon in Geneva (1981). Since then have had their work shown at numerous art exhibitions.

Bobby Benjamin is an artist based in Teesside. Working primarily in found materials, he makes paintings and sculptures exploring themes of class, masculine identity, and place. His use of found objects acts as a creative restraint within which he addresses the voyeuristic relationship between the arts as an industry, and the working/underclass. He challenges cultural hegemony and hierarchical perceptions of culture while embracing the history of found objects and the materiality of paint.

The Bank Job is a mischievous feature documentary led by artist/filmmaker team Dan Edelstyn and Hilary Powell, instigates and follows a community coming together to make their own currency, opening a bank in order to examine how money and debt is created in our economy and to ask important questions about how the system of money creation might be altered in their favour.

Charlotte Dawson is a Sheffield based artist working across object based practice, installation and moving image. She graduated from Norwich University in 2018. The same year she was artist in residence at Airspace Gallery.

Simon Starling (b. 1967 in Surrey) who now lives in Copenhagen. He began his education in art and photography at Trent Polytechnic (1990), Starling was the first artist to receive the Blinky Palemo grant (1999), Starling won the Turner Prize (2005).

Henna Asikainen born in Joensuu, FInland, uses a variety of mediums and methods to explore our relationship with the environment. Asikainen has exhibited ‘Omens’ at BALTIC39 (2020). ‘Delicate Shuttle’ was a large-scale installation at the Newcastle Central Library as part of the Great Exhibition of the North (2018).

Carolyn Thompson (b. 1976 in Darlington), Thompson is a visual artist who currently lives in York. Carolyn has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally in over 60 exhibitions at institutions including Center for Book Arts, New York, MGLC International Centre for Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, and MAK Vienna. Her work can be found in several public collections.

Stephen Irving has been a full time artist since 2011, exhibiting work in galleries and pop-up shows across the North East. Irving graduated from Teesside University with an MA (First) in Fine Art (2016). Irving was signed to Global Fine Art (2017) based out of Miami, Florida as ZeroGradient, the name Irving uses for his sound and street art.

Mark Duffy is an Irish artist based in Newcastle Upon Tyne. Duffy formerly worked as photographer for the Houses of Parliament (2015-2019) during which his photojournalism characterised many memorable front pages.

Yusuf Ghani is a design practitioner and researcher. Ghani develops modes of making that seek to decentralise modernist conceptualisations of time and technology and grow diverse forms of sociotechnical imaginaries.

Thomas Keenan (b. 1991) lives and works in Newcastle upon Tyne and has exhibited work at a lot of different galleries and events around the UK. Keenan’s work is a reaction to figural representations of mass sexuality, particularly with cis straight male-identity.

Toby P. Lloyd is an artist and researcher. Lloyd has had exhibitions at; Newcastle University (2022), Tate Exchange (2020), CGP Gallery, London (2018), The Newbridge Project, Gateshead (2018), Gallery II, The University of Bradford (2018).

Painting as a Pastime brings together paintings by George W. Bush, writing by Winston Churchill, painting performance by Boris Johnson, and the reworking of Adolf Shicklegruber’s oeuvre by Jake and Dinos Chapman.

From her studio in Cullercoats, on the North East Coast, Payne, creates sculptural, site-specific installation pieces and performative work. She is thematically concerned with female narratives, with a focus on unrecorded histories within the lives of working women.

Sue Loughlin, based at The NewBridge Project, Gateshead, Loughlin’s practice is rooted in installation, sculpture and painting, and encompasses social engagement, collaboration, and arts production.

DYAD is a Teesside based artist working with text, installation and mixed media. Their work is grounded in a social consciousness that puts the act of questioning the power structures we inhabit to the forefront of our minds.