Nahla Tabbaa is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores tensions between the urban and the organic, the beautiful and the grotesque. She is drawn to materials that have the agency to self organize, adventuring into immateriality, magic and alchemy. Her methods are intentionally slow-paced, meditative and labour-intensive and permeate strands of her everyday life to heal and harmonise her otherwise fast-paced life. As an act of resistance, she leans into alternative constructs of time and ancient practices as a way to summon magic in the mundane everyday. She sees our present state as a catastrophic dystopian world that can no longer be dismantled with human hands, but rather, she is seeking wisdom in the more-than-human world. Through working with invasive and indigenous plants, plant medicine, hiking, animal care and reading into regional mythology and folklore, her work moves towards a place where she can propose a new system of radical care and the sacred.

Tabbaa grew up among and has worked on many gardens throughout her life and career. She sees these gardens as teachers- where their micro-seasons, produce, more-than-humanness, nurture and scarcity have truly shaped how she views the world and how she wants to contribute to it.

Her mediums are sculpture, drawing, alchemy, research and the culinary arts.

She earned her BFA in Sculpture (Central Saint Martin’s College, 2009) and Curatorial Practice (Bath School of Art and Design, 2012), she completed a culinary and farming diploma at the Ballymaloe Cookery School in Cork, Ireland (2023). She is an alumna of Salama Bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship (2021), Campus Art Dubai (2020) and completed artist residencies with Land Art Collective (2025), The Mothership (2025), Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation (2025), MMAG (2024) and Alserkal Art Foundation (2023). Her multidisciplinary works and publications have been presented at Wadi Finan Art Gallery (2025) Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation (2025), MMAG (2024), Doha Design Biennial (2024), Colomboscope (2024), Alserkal Arts Foundation (2023), 421 (2022), Art Dubai (2021) and the Jameel Arts Centre (2022). She has founded and curated social pedagogical projects including Orraisse (2024-present), Rewilding The Kitchen (2021- present), The Alchemy of Dyeing (2020-2023) and Daftar Asfar (2017-2022).

In the culinary world she has led performance dinners, research and explorations at 421, Al Serkal Avenue, Salon Art Dubai, Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation, Colomboscope, Indus Conclave, Livinc, Mujeb Farms, Myocum and Amman Design Week, and has curated Sufra with Frying Pan Adventures and Rewilding the Kitchen with Al Serkal Online. She has published recipes which have featured in Khunfus, EastEast Magazine, The Confused Arab, Deep Fried and Attempting Abla Nazira.

Nahla is currently based between Amman and Dubai.

https://nahlatabbaa.com

Elizabeth Gleave is a creative strategist, educator and founder ~ creator, co-founder and director of Land Art Agency & Collective. Working across the globe at the intersection of ecology, storytelling and cultural communications to build projects that connect people, place and collective futures. As a marketing and communications educator and a visiting lecturer across UK institutions including Central Saint Martins, Falmouth and Slade School of Fine Art, she brings both creative vision and practical leadership to fruition - translating ideas into structured programmes, collaborations and delivery. Her producing, project management and digital strategy work has supported artists and organisations internationally, with experience spanning D&AD, Reuters, The Times, Photo London, Tate, and White Cube.

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King Lexie is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher/educator whose work delves into the embodied politics of voice, listening, and emergence. Rooted in somatic practices, critical theory, and self-inquiry, her practice weaves together explorations of intimacy, power, and the poetics of the body.

Emerging from an experimental and contemplative performance background, alongside eight years as a professional mentor and coach, King's practice engages with themes of connection, paradox, and liberation. Spanning performances, writings, immersive installations, experience design, and participatory frameworks such as one-to-one and intimate performance, her recent projects explore the relational dynamics of sound through interrogating feedback and structured improvisation—proposing sonic, somatic dialogues as transformative sites of embodied inquiry.

Victoria Gray [1982] is an artist and practice-led researcher, and has presented work nationally and internationally throughout the UK, Europe, USA and Canada. With an initial conservatoire training in dance and somatic practice (1998 - 2004), her primary medium and material is the body. Her work includes actions, interventions, time-based sculpture and video, being presented in museums, galleries and festivals in performance art, fine art and choreographic contexts.

Her current artistic research is orientated within the field of autistic perception and sensory differences, drawing on lived experience, creative practice and philosophy. In particular, she is currently immersed in understanding sensory trauma and CPTSD within the autistic community and autistic sensory life-writing.

As well as fielding this enquiry through her artistic practice, she is a qualified neurodiversity specialist and consultant, working in the Education and Health and Social Care Sectors. In the wider community, as part of York Mental Health Partnership, she is founder of the Neurodivergence and Mental Health Working Group, an advocacy group focussed on improving access to and quality of services for autistic adults.

https://www.victoriagray.co.uk

Roberta Trentin is a multidisciplinary eco-artist who works in collaboration with the materials and the unknown outcomes. Her work explores overlooked stories of fungi, microorganisms, and plants in the more-than-human world. A background in science and a love of the earth result in an interweaving of macro/micro observations and deeply personal stories in her work. Roberta splits her time between the forests of the Hudson Valley and Brooklyn where she lives with her two sons.

Julie Chen is an interdisciplinary artist and designer whose art examines the remnants of beings and place. She has an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford, a BFA in Multimedia and Performing Arts from the Studio for Interrelated Media at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and certification in End-of-Life care (death doula). Alongside being an artist, Julie is also a designer and educator in art, architecture, and design.

https://artistjuliechen.myportfolio.com

King Lexie is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher/educator whose work delves into the embodied politics of voice, listening, and emergence. Rooted in somatic practices, critical theory, and self-inquiry, her practice weaves together explorations of intimacy, power, and the poetics of the body.

Emerging from an experimental and contemplative performance background, alongside eight years as a professional mentor and coach, King's practice engages with themes of connection, paradox, and liberation. Spanning performances, writings, immersive installations, experience design, and participatory frameworks such as one-to-one and intimate performance, her recent projects explore the relational dynamics of sound through interrogating feedback and structured improvisation—proposing sonic, somatic dialogues as transformative sites of embodied inquiry.

Would you experience this work for yourself? Try a 2min interactive version at www.analoganarchy.com/birds.

Victoria Gray [1982] is an artist and practice-led researcher, and has presented work nationally and internationally throughout the UK, Europe, USA and Canada. With an initial conservatoire training in dance and somatic practice (1998 - 2004), her primary medium and material is the body. Her work includes actions, interventions, time-based sculpture and video, being presented in museums, galleries and festivals in performance art, fine art and choreographic contexts.

Her current artistic research is orientated within the field of autistic perception and sensory differences, drawing on lived experience, creative practice and philosophy. In particular, she is currently immersed in understanding sensory trauma and CPTSD within the autistic community and autistic sensory life-writing.

As well as fielding this enquiry through her artistic practice, she is a qualified neurodiversity specialist and consultant, working in the Education and Health and Social Care Sectors. In the wider community, as part of York Mental Health Partnership, she is founder of the Neurodivergence and Mental Health Working Group, an advocacy group focussed on improving access to and quality of services for autistic adults.

https://www.victoriagray.co.uk

Roberta Trentin is a multidisciplinary eco-artist who works in collaboration with the materials and the unknown outcomes. Her work explores overlooked stories of fungi, microorganisms, and plants in the more-than-human world. A background in science and a love of the earth result in an interweaving of macro/micro observations and deeply personal stories in her work. Roberta splits her time between the forests of the Hudson Valley and Brooklyn where she lives with her two sons.

https://www.robertatrentin.com

Julie Chen is an interdisciplinary artist and designer whose art examines the remnants of beings and place. She has an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford, a BFA in Multimedia and Performing Arts from the Studio for Interrelated Media at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and certification in End-of-Life care (death doula). Alongside being an artist, Julie is also a designer and educator in art, architecture, and design.

https://artistjuliechen.myportfolio.com