Ashleigh Kane

Ashleigh Kane is a freelance writer, curator, and consultant in London. She is the Arts & Photography Editor-at-Large at Dazed (previously the Arts & Culture editor, 2014-2020). Ashleigh has also written for AnOther, Elephant, EPOCH, Plaster, British Journal of Photography, and more. She curates and hosts Art After Hours, a monthly ‘after hours’ gallery tour and recently worked with Forma as an Associate Curator on Artists’ Film International 2024. She has also been researching how artists channel rage through their work (as well as how art can incite rage); this will manifest in a project titled All The Rage.

Josefin Arnell

b. 1984, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Lives and works in Amsterdam. 2016 PhD, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam.

“Josefin Arnell views her multidisciplinary practice as a form of protest. Primarily working with film, she also includes performance, installation, poetry, and drawing to explore themes of desire, perfectionism, and control, often using regular people—rather than actors—to convey these ideas. Recurring figures like the teenage girl, the horse, and the mother serve as allegories for human struggles and environmental crises. By blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, she creates narratives that place characters in the impossible demands of contemporary life, prompting us to reflect on our own place within societal and power structures.”

Artwork Image: Dinner, 2024. Photography. 59 x 44 in.

Tild Greene

b. 1994, Hastings, UK. Lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2017 BA (Hons), Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London.

“Tild Greene explores the material traces of lived experience by working with found objects such as bottle holders, doormats, head guards, baby baths, and green tea to examine ideas of resistance, purpose, and utility. Resulting in ‘anthropomorphic’ works, in this sense, each ‘found object’ represents the qualities—strength, purpose, and usefulness—found in both the human body and in the tools we use. Greene not only re-purposes but pushes these objects beyond their usual functions to disrupt ideas of our collective drive for constant improvement, but also raises questions about social value.”

Artwork Image: Chariot, 2024. Bottle holder, bike rack, archery bow, baby bath, part of a toy archery bow, a broken shell charm. 24 1/2 x 45 1/3 x 10 in.

a.r. Havel

b. 1991, San Antonio, TX. Lives and works in New Orleans.

“a.r. havel’s multidisciplinary practice bridges photography, theatre, and performance art, building custom sets and collaborative portraits that honour queer and radical communities. Drawing on a background in set design and live performance, Havel transforms studio spaces into theatrical altars adorned with decor and elements co-created with collaborators. His medium-format photographs often expose the borders of the set, embracing transparency in the production process and the collaborative narrative behind each image. Inspired by queer resilience and infused with humour, reverence, and a DIY ethos, his process-driven work evokes dignity and play within these shared utopian visions.”

Artwork Image: True Colors, 2021. Digital scan of medium format negative.