Our artists
Explore the artists who have created work as part of the East Street Arts community:
Found Fiction is a global collective of writers, readers and artists. They deliver writing workshops, creative installations and street literature projects which aim to inspire people in everyday spaces through the written word.
Award-winning artist Jade Montserrat creates work from her black diasporic perspective, living in the north of England.
Edwin Li is a visual and performance artist based in Newcastle. He often starts with very ordinary materials, going on to create moving image, installations or performances that leave the audience stunned, chuckling or both!
The Penthouse, established in Manchester in 2012, is an artist-led, queer contemporary art organisation who’s curatorial and research projects are focused on queer art, dyke tactics, radical practices, gender queer identity and raw art- exploring power at the margins.
Described as ‘post-Picasso’, the pink-loving Precious Art Collective are a Leeds-based collective that advocate ‘community and freedom from elitism in art’.
Lorna Johnson is a visual artist working predominantly with sculpture, collage and photography.
Selina Thompson is a Birmingham-based, interdisciplinary performance artist creating passionate, political work.