STORY TRAIL ARTIST ANNOUNCEMENT
The Regent’s Park Estate Story Trail is an exciting new resident-led art trail celebrating the past, present and future of Regent’s Park Estate. Through a series of unique artworks, the Story Trail will take the community on a journey through the estate celebrating the people, places and many stories of the Regent’s Park Estate community.
Following an open call for Artists in December 2023 we are delighted to introduce the artists who have been selected to create public art commissions for the Story Trail.
Alisa Ruzavina is a community & ecology-tending interdisciplinary artist and facilitator working across installation, textiles, ritual, and participatory art. Her curiosity lies in creating conversations and collective experiences in the public realm that playfully explore alternative forms of knowledge, opening possibilities for sustainable place-based ways of relating, making and being that bring urban audiences closer in communion with the land, the civic commons, and the surrounding them intercultural and interspecies communities.
Brendan Barry is a photographer, educator and camera builder whose creative photographic practice combines elements of construction, education, performance and participation. Fascinated by the mechanics of vision and the processes of analogue photography, his work is concerned with the transformation of different objects and environments into spaces capable of viewing and making a photographic image.
Clayground Collective – Duncan Hooson & Claire West work with clay and devise clay-based activities with strong visual impact, an element of performance and collective making, contributing to shared cultural memory. They believe that everyone, whatever their age or background, will gain something positive from an experience of clay, through getting their hands dirty, by making, playing and exploring the material’s creative potential.
Dustin Ericksen's art explores the boundaries of perception and how we think about our surroundings. Using sculpture, performances, and images, he captures these deep philosophical ideas. While he used to live on Regent’s Park Estate, he now works from a studio there. His art has been shown globally and is held in both public and private collections.
Haque Tan – Ling Tan & Usman Haque create unforgettable architecture, systems and experiences that get people working together, co-creating diverse shared futures. Our work transcends conventional boundaries, blending physical and digital, human and non-human, natural and artificial. With diverse backgrounds spanning multiple heritages and languages, we bring a unique approach to the design process, embracing the concept of the 'other': other ideas, other people, other genders, other cultures, other beings, other species.
Jack Wates is a London-based artist. His practice is formed around the production of spatial ‘moments’ with projects taking form across a variety of disciplines from public realm art projects and multi-sensory installations to ‘performative’ sculpture and the production of images.
Karimah Hassan a London-based multidisciplinary artist rooted in diverse heritage from Wales, Yemen, and Bangladesh, intertwining spirituality and consciousness in her work, bridging spoken word with painting. As an artist in residence at Sarabande Foundation, her project 'Strangers Yearbook' achieved global recognition, resulting in a published book and a permanent exhibition in Kings Cross, London. Passionate about guiding young creators, she curates "The Gremlins" newsletter and is working on her second book and first spoken word visual album.
Shiraaz Ali is a visual artist and architectural designer focusing on making more joyful communities with safer streets. I am inspired by Mother Nature and aim to bring plants and wildlife into my designs to create a positive impact on our health and well-being. My work process is rooted in a simple admiration for nature; from the cells that form our physical bodies to the sacred geometry guiding our solar system and universe. The intention through all my mediums of work is to capture fleeting, intangible and metaphysical moments and suspend them in time.
Ocean Chillingworth makes performance work, installations and text. Their work is playful, low-key and interventionist and elevates the everyday, while remaining accessible. The things they make frequently play with language, duration, mischief and confusion.
Rafal Zajko is a Polish artist working and in living in London. His work deals with issues around industrialisation and technological progress, often exploring their environmental impact. His sculptural practice incorporates diverse materials and processes including ceramics, kinetics, prosthetics, and performance as a means to examine folklore, science fiction and queer technoscience.
YARA + DAVINA are a British social practice duo, who make ambitious, playful, interactive public artworks that respond to site, context and audience. Unfailingly inventive, their participatory artworks are rooted within the everyday, using formats from popular culture; such as mini golf to jokes, to explore issues that touch on the human condition.
SRPE is a Community Champions Regent’s Park project, produced by ODAC in partnership with Camden Council Parks and Open Spaces, Fitzrovia Youth in Action and University of the Arts Central Saint Martins through T-Factor. The project is funded by HS2 via Camden Council and EU Horizon 2020 Research & Innovation Programme.
