Confirmed Artists

Maria Ahmed investigates historic and contemporary languages of the image through collage and appropriation, with a practice encompassing photography, books and moving image. Her most recent artist’s film, Epistemologies, was screened by Turku Video Arts festival in Finland in March 2025. Maria’s self-published artist’s books have been shortlisted for international book awards, including Images Vevey, Belfast Photofestival, Skinnerboox/ Fotografia Europea and Fiebre. Maria’s interactive moving image work The Smooth Space is the Habitat of the Nomad was commissioned by Format photography festival in 2022, as part of Kipya Ki (What’s New?).


Evangelia Danadaki is an artist and researcher working with video, performance and film. Her work is situated at the intersection of visual art, feminist philosophy and psychoanalysis, conceptualising imaging as a practice of plurality and affection. Currently, she is a PhD candidate at the University of Leeds, in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies as a recipient of the Amanda Burton Scholarship, and an Associate Editor at Parallax. Recent work has been presented at the Association for Art History (University of York, 2025), the American Comparative Literature Association and the Samuel Beckett Society Conference (University of Edinburgh, 2025 and California State University, 2024).


Sarah Deane is a visual artist exploring how personal and cultural histories are remembered, forgotten, and reimagined—particularly through the lives of women. Through photography, collage, and archival materials, she layers, fragments, and reconstructs images to revisit personal and cultural histories, with a focus on memory, place, and transformation. She was recently awarded a bursary from Galway Arts Centre and Galway Culture Company, as well as funding from Galway County Council, to experiment with AI in her visual arts practice. Her work All that is solid… received Honourable Mentions in the AI categories of the Tokyo International Foto Awards and the B&W International Photography Awards.


David Koh is a Singaporean-American artist exploring the intersection of technology, humanity and cultural identity through hybrid digital-physical works, interactive media installations and web-based art. He earned his MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins in 2023. David has exhibited internationally, including in Germany, Italy, USA, France and Mexico. He co-curated De-Oriented, featuring emerging Southeast Asian artists (London, 2022) and was an artist in residence at Objectifs photography centre (Singapore, 2022). His work was recently profiled in Art & Market magazine.


Sarah-Jane Field works with text and image. Recent work includes generated images in Prompt Magazine (2025),a meditation titled Prompt-Engineer for Lexiconia, a research project creatively exploring terms used to describe generative AI processes (2024), and Beyond Romanticism: Relationship Advice for the Now for Source (2023). In 2022, her project why is there an astronaut in a field of flowers/ was exhibited and awarded by Format Photography for Future Focus, Quad Gallery, Derby. Sarah-Jane is looking forward to joining The School of Materialist Research for their 2025 Summer School.