Our artists

Michaela Lesayova is a cross-disciplinary artist, creative and a specialist Coach who will be joining us as part of the Climate Change Residency.

Andrea Thoma is an artist and researcher concerned with place and nomadic dwelling in the context of contemporary art.

Tucked away on the third floor of Barkston House sits Drew Caines, a Leeds based ceramicist who uses folklore, ethnography and modern art to inspire his collection of beautifully crafted sculptural pieces.

Rhianna is a playwright, facilitator, and producer from London.

Tessa Houghton is a British contemporary landscape painter whose work is infused with nature, exploring contrasting themes of fragility and strength, transience and endurance, death and renewal.

Jake Krushell is an artist inspired by our everyday environment and the contrast between natural and industrial materials. He often uses sculpture to purvey the impact that humans have on the landscape. 

Sarah Francis is a queer, neurodivergent artist working predominantly with sculpture and photography. She uses exhibition space, photographic lens and viewer interaction as key elements that define and frame the sculpture’s physical form while acknowledging its off-stage possibilities and capacity to morph within view.

Soorin Shin is a visual artist working in 3D printed sculpture, digital and installation art.Her work concerns nature's depiction in historical and cultural artefacts, especially those related to women, naturally leading her interest into ecofeminism.

Season Butler is a writer, artist, dramaturg and lecturer in Performance Studies and Creative Writing.

Based in London Nicolas Henninger creates design solutions with strong narratives that invite the public to relate and engage with his creations.

Flea is an interdisciplinary art collective whose work focuses on technology, the abstraction of human interactions, the physicality of print media and archival practice. Flea is made up of artists Livvy Mitchell and İzel Duğen, 2021 Illustration graduates from Leeds Arts University. 

Tanith Mab is a prophetic, religious transhuman, non ironic, ironic post optimist, romantic realist creative from Manchester.