Amy's practice utilises the craft of signwriting to illuminate archival material. Her upbringing travelling steam fairgrounds informs her commercial work in the heritage industry and underpins her doctoral study. She teaches illustration across BA and MA and is passionate in embedding critical thinking into practice and how illustration functions as illumination.

Amrita is a landscape architect who pursued her Bachelors in Architecture from Mumbai University and Masters in Landscape Design from CEPT University, Ahmedabad. Presently she is a DAAD Doctoral Research Scholar at the Institute of Landscape Architecture, RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Amrita's research interests lie in understanding post-industrial landscapes.

Armand’s research interests include developing inspiring visitor experiences in museums and other interpretive settings by enabling compelling encounters with heritage objects and assembling fascinating stories. His work explores object vibrancy and focusses on creating opportunities for innovative, accessible, and inclusive sensational encounters with the potential to generate alternative ways of knowing and new understandings.
His research and curatorial work draw on an interdisciplinary range of knowledge and theoretical frameworks, and experience of professional practice across GLAM.

Aron is an artist and PhD candidate. His practice questions what constitutes the ‘photographic’ within emerging digital ecologies, specifically; how do technologies that enable three-dimensional imaging, the socially-networked image, and computational photography affect the processing, practicing, and archiving of individual, social and cultural memory.

Gabrielle is an illustration educator and a PhD candidate. She is a senior lecturer in the BA Illustration Course at Arts University Bournemouth, specialising in animation and narrative images. Her practice is versatile and playfully explores authorship across media. It is informed by a diverse and international professional experience as an illustrator and animation filmmaker.

Emma-Kate (b. 1986) is an architect, composer, musician and researcher at UCL. Her work explores creative reciprocities between sonic and spatial disciplines through the composition and performance of site-specific and spatialised projects. In addition to composing on the London Symphony Orchestra’s Panufnik scheme (2022), her work has been performed internationally at acoustically distinctive sites such as the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, London’s Southbank Centre the Barbican Centre and Brighton Festival.

Having driven the development of information modelling, rendering and visual presentation across both design and communication courses, for the past eight years in BA (Hons) Interior Architecture and Design, Jamie have specialised in the blending of traditional visual communication with new technologies such as VR and AR. Jamie believes that technology should be a creative thinking tool that enriches the communication of visual narratives.

Dr Lisa Sheppy is an artist and researcher who completed her doctorate at the Centre for Fine Print Research, University of the West of England (UWE) Bristol in 2023 with an investigation titled, ‘An industrial craft reinstated: a printmaker’s perspective on tissue transferware’. Her research interests include ceramics and printmaking, with themes of obsolete craft and renewal and the absence and presence in museum archives.

Malika Umarova lives and works in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. She has a background in medicine and pursued postgraduate studies in pediatrics. As an artist, Malika specializes in graphics, painting, and animation and has worked in Art Group 705 since 2014 as part of artistic collective. She has participated in projects such as the children’s art project at Bilimkana school (2020-2021) and in the curatorial group of Bishkek April Fool Contest since 2017.

Marjolijn Boterenbrood is an Amsterdam-based artist whose cross-disciplinary research practice involves investigating spaces and places. In her work she reveals the hidden aspects intrinsic to a certain space, often inviting practitioners from other areas to collaborate and create a shared vision of a geographic location.

Matt is an associate Lecturer at Arts University Bournemouth, University of the Arts London, University of Westminster. Matt’s practice engages with processes for constructing, framing and manipulating visual messages and explores themes of presence/ absence and sense/ nonsense. He is interested in the language of illustration within an expanded field and his research interests include drawing as process and the rhetoric of framing.

Mili's research lies at the intersection of traditional textile crafts, smart textiles and technology - finding new and nuanced expressions with textiles and the possibilities that emerge at the gap between crafts and gadgets. She also hosts the No Ordinary Cloth podcast where she demystifies and democratises emerging technologies for textile/fashion innovation.

Munara Abdukakharova is an emerging artist with an architectural background. “The art I make is mostly narrative, based on my everyday life, and depicts broader social issues in Kyrgyzstan.” Munara's works address contemporary Kyrgyz self-identity and the connection to the nomadic heritage. In addition to figurative art, Munara also works with more abstract techniques in textile art. She frequently uses the main fabric of nomadic culture – felt.

Paul's practice covers a broad range of digital media processes; he specialises in 3D image and animation making, and he has a keen interest in exploring new technologies relating to interactivity and digital / human interfaces. Paul has produced animations and VR / AR outcomes that explore the relationship between traditional media storytelling and virtual worlds.

Rachel Bacon is a visual artist and drawing tutor in the Fine Arts department of the KABK. She has been Visiting artist – professional practice at the Master Artistic Research programme and participant in the KABK Research Group of 2018. Her work has been included in exhibitions nationally and internationally such as the Jerwood Drawing Prize in London (2016), MALLONY Arts festival in Lithuania (2016) and Amsterdam Drawing Fair (2015).

Willem's research is characterised by a cross-disciplinary interest in architecture, art and design. Combining academic and artistic approaches, Willem’s work explores means and forms of visualisation that are distinctly spatial but also ‘atypical’ in, for example, presenting wallpaper as a form of intellectual pursuit. Refusing to be categorised as either art, craft or architecture, Willem’s work draws on a wide range of references to interrogate the conceptual premises and philosophical foundations upon which the creative disciplines are formed and framed. In so doing, the work seeks to celebrate the visual, pictorial, and decorative as modes of thought often still considered inferior to the verbal and the written, even in the context of arts education.

Xavi's research explores practical workflows for the generation of high-quality 3D replicas of cultural heritage objects and its applications to scientific documentation of artworks, online engagement and tactile reproductions. Through collaborative applied research, he is also developing affordable custom scanning systems to record surface texture and colour information to produce high-resolution digital assets.

Zulya Esentaeva is a Bishkek-based artist currently studying contemporary visual and non-visual narratives of human mobility in Central Asia, with a focus on decolonial lens distinguishing between endemic and imposed perspectives.