Mandu Ekpenyong is a Senior Lecturer in the MPH Global Health Programme at Manchester Metropolitan University. Mandu received a BSc in Medical Physiology from the University of Port Harcourt and an MPH in Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health from the University of Ibadan, all in Nigeria. Mandu received her Doctoral Degree in Public Health and Epidemiology, with specialisation in Maternal and Child Health, from the University of Wolverhampton.
Read MoreAnthi Kosma is an architect researching drawing as performative action and emotional writing. She obtained her PhD from the School of Architecture of Madrid in 2014 with Distinction (Sobresaliente Cum Laude). Since 2019, she has been teaching at the Department of Architecture at the University of Thessaly, Greece.
Read MoreDedicated choreographer who can work with dancers and actors off all ages and experience level proficiency at organizing live performance helping to integrate costume into performance and developing routines, specialized in large theatre productions.
Read MoreNeo Sinoxolo Musangi is a queer feminist living in Olkejuado, Kenya. They work in art and academia; is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Art, Design and Social Research (CAD+SR); is a founding member of the Black Planetary Futures Collective, and teaches Gender and Sexuality Studies at St. Lawrence and American University.
Read MoreBeth Krensky is Area Head and Professor of Art Teaching at the University of Utah. She is an artist working in the border zone between social issues and the sacred who creates objects and performative gestures as a contemplative act.
Read MoreSyowia Kyambi
MFA Programme Leader
Syowia Kyambi is a mixed media artist, who enjoys performing characters within her performance installations to tell stories, an alternative layered narrative about history in an attempt to disrupt mono-cultural violence. The connection between the psyche, history and the entanglement that exists within non-stagnant identities is ever present in her creative process. Her practice probes issues of race, perception, hierarchical systems, gender studies and body memory. Based in Nairobi and of Kenyan and German origin, Syowia Kyambi has received commissions by the Kenya Institute of Administration, the National Museum of Kenya and the Art 4 Action Foundation in Kenya.
Read MoreShelley Etkin is a transdisciplinary artist, educator, and gardener based in Berlin, Germany with roots in the US/Turtle Island and Israel/Palestine. She works at the intersections of art and ecology, engaging with relations between bodies and lands through place-based knowledges. Her work integrates practices from dance/somatics, herbal medicines, pedagogy, and intersectional queer feminist community organising. Shelley’s bodywork and earth-care practices are dedicated to expanding perception, communication, and connectivity particularly with the plant world. ‘Landing‘ as a process and movement forms the grounds for her methodology.
Read MoreDr. Jade de Montserrat was the recipient of the Stuart Hall Foundation Scholarship supporting her PhD (via MPhil) at IBAR, UCLan, and the development of her work from her Black diasporic perspective in the North of England. de Montserrat works through performance, drawing, painting, film, installation, sculpture, print and text.
Read MoreAlex Grünenfelder is a Canadian and Swiss artist and designer studying the sensory and relational nature of landscapes. His projects employ performance, printed matter, informal pedagogy, and expanded sensory modalities of tasting.
Read MorePeter Erik Lopez is a painter and former graduate of Transart Institute. He is a portrait artist whose portrait work led him further into an interest in personal narratives. This initiated an exploration of personal history by questioning the veracity of the family-album-as-archive and he produced work wherein he painted reconstituted images from his family albums, using symbols and disrupting the images in ways the trauma and inherited trauma eluded from the archive.
Read MoreLuca Forcucci is an artist, composer, and scholar exploring the relationships between the sonic, consciousness, perception, experience, memory, and the body. His research and artworks are regularly presented worldwide and have won numerous national and international awards in well regarded contexts.
Read MoreSimon Faithfull is a contemporary artist whose work has been exhibited extensively around the world. His practice has been described as an attempt to understand and explore the planet as a sculptural object – to test its limits and report back from its extremities. Within his work Faithfull often builds teams of scientists, technicians and transmission experts to help him bring back a personal vision from the ends of the world.
Read MoreJon Field was born in Manchester, England in 1963, and was educated at Lancaster University, receiving his doctorate in 1998. After twenty years working in the United States, he now lives in Ipswich, England. Working across a range of media, he maintains an international exhibition portfolio.
Read MoreRobyn Ferrell is honorary professor of cultural studies at Sydney University, a visiting fellow at the Australian National University and member of the Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide.
Read MoreLinda Franke was born in Dresden, Germany, and is based in Los Angeles. Her work engages with the constants of human life by staging situations in which our daily routines are being transformed into absurd Tableaux Vivants.
Read MoreLucy Finchett-Maddock is an artist and academic at Sussex Law School, writing, researching and teaching in the fields of critical legal theory and speculative philosophy. She is one of the founders of the Art/Law Network and writes broadly on the themes of resistance, aesthetics, property, artificial divisions of art and law, and entropy.
Read MoreBorinquen Gallo is an artist and educator born in Rome, Italy who lives and works in NYC. She holds a B.F.A., from Cooper Union; an M.F.A. in Painting, from Hunter College, and is a Ed.D. candidate, at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Art and Design Education at Pratt Institute and Instructor at the National Academy Museum and School where she was also appointed as Studio Practice Program Head, 2015-2016.
Read MoreAllison Geremia is a current professor of Art History at the University of Massachusetts and also a practicing jeweler. She received her Ph.D. at the University of Plymouth through Transart Institute. Her dissertation examined contemporary jewelry of the United States and its sociological implications. She received her Masters at Parsons in the History of Decorative Arts and Design at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.
Read MoreProfessor Anna Gibbs teaches in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University. A member of the Writing and Society Research Centre and the Digital Humanities Research Group, she writes across the fields of textual, media and cultural studies focussing on feminism, fictocriticism and affect theory.
Read MoreLaura González is an artist, writer, yoga teacher and an Athenaeum Research Fellow at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She is also faculty at Transart Institute. When she is not following Freud, Lacan and Marx’s footsteps with her camera, she teaches art and psychoanalysis at various institutions in Europe and the US. She creates intimate durational performances for galleries and festivals, including Unfix, Buzzcut, Glasgow Open House and Market Gallery, and, in 2019, her work was shortlisted for the Adrian Howells Award for Intimate Performance.
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