Acid Baby's work is loud, raw and unapologetic - a riot of colour, movement and feeling. Her pieces blend abstract shapes and punchy hues, digging into the chaos of mental and physical illness: the highs, the lows and all the noise in-between. Part dreamscape, part meltdown, part celebration, her world is surreal, trippy and unfiltered.

This is art that doesn't look away from pain, but it doesn't wallow in it either. It dances with it, laughs at it, screams through it. Art that hurts and heals, shaped through the lens of lived experience and fuelled by the beauty found in disorder.

Although Acid Baby loves a good canvas, her work is not restricted by it. AB's creations can be found on walls, clothing, bodies, recycled materials - anything she can get her hands on.

Jodie Underwood (b. 2003) completed their BA in Fine Art: Painting at the University of Brighton in 2024 and has since exhibited in numerous group shows across the UK. Including the 'Dream this Silly' exhibition at Queer Circle, 'Spilt Milk' at VF Dalston, and most recently, a small group show at Brighton Dome in collaboration with Brighton Festival and Create Music.

Their work explores the intersection of eroticism, gender, girlhood, and queerness through oil painting and focuses on the body, often using their own body, or fellow trans and queer models, for reference imagery. Their pieces highlight profound, intimate moments in a humorous light and often push the limits on what is 'taboo', with pornographic elements and detailed imagery of the nude body being recurring subjects in their paintings.

Ellie McNair’s artwork embraces a diverse range of media and striking colour palettes, exploring subjects deeply intertwined with personal experiences and perception of the world. Her practice encompasses various themes, including the psychedelic, nature, spirituality, gender, and sociology, additionally delving into “taboo” subjects such as mental health, addiction, and rape. Her artwork acts as a continuous exploration of life’s multifaceted narratives.

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As a multimedia artist, McNair works across a wide range of mediums, including fine liner pens, acrylic, watercolour, printmaking, sculpture, collage, photography, performance art, found objects, Photoshop, video art, and textiles. Her practice is rooted in a holistic, tactile, and inclusive approach that seeks to create meaningful connections between artwork, audience, narrative, and artist.

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Central to her work is a belief in the transformative and healing potential of creativity. Drawing from personal experiences of mental health and trauma, her practice is deeply autobiographical, using art as a tool for self-discovery, understanding, and healing. Through her work, she aims to evoke emotional responses, spark conversations, and contribute to individual and societal development.

Pete leng is a Brighton based tattoo artist specialising in illustrative blackwork tattoos. Over the 2 years, Pete has started a collection of handmade and hand decorated concrete items, including plant pots, trays and keepsake boxes. Each one is decorated in a bold, illustrative style and finished in a way that makes them great decorative but also practical pieces.

Ludvig is an artist and music maker from London, now living in Hove. He started painting walls in the mid-1990s and has not looked back.

Style and technique are important to Ludvig and set him apart from other writers. He chooses not to use products made specifically for graffiti, preferring instead to use everyday products; household emulsion is preferred to spray paint. This gives his work a specific look and style, one that is not fixed in fussy details and ‘clean’ technical pieces, but pushes a more immediate, raw and expressive approach to mark making. This ‘dirty’ style allows incidental elements to exist in pieces with no corrections, making the first line drawn, the right line. Works on smaller scale canvas and paper, although varied, embody the same energy and a strong handmade, DIY ethic.

Inspirations behind Ludvig’s work come from many areas of life, including early to mid-1970s graffiti, large roller-painted protest messages from the 1980s, metal bands and visual language, techno, politics, music, films, literature, rave culture, news events and the ever-crazier world. These filter into Ludvig’s art and appear from time to time clearly or more prominently.

Richy is a Brighton-based artist whose work emerges from a vibrant tapestry of fae-inspired creatives and curious individuals.

Deeply embedded in this enchanting community, Richy conjures a unique visual language—his dynamic linework and esoteric vision weaving a gentle strangeness into the fabric of our shared reality. Drawing from otherworldly ideals, his art invites viewers to step beyond the veil, encouraging them to reshape perception and author their own inner mythologies. Richy is not an artist to overlook; his evolving practice is a portal to the uncanny, the tender, and the transformational.

Rich is a contemporary artist from the south east of England. He’s largely inspired by the bold lines, vivid colours, and perceived simplicity of cartoons and animation.

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Are his works an exploration of the beautifully chaotic experience of life, death, love, and nature, viewed with curiosity and childlike wonder? Or are they just random nonsense from his head? Nobody can really be sure.

Kate O'Keeffe, born and raised in Portugal, now lives and works in Brighton, UK. She earned her BFA from the University of the Algarve in Faro. As an artist, O'Keeffe delves into themes of the cosmos, nature, organic forms, trees, roots, and untouched landscapes - places free from human intervention. Her work navigates a dynamic spectrum of scales, from the intimate familiarity of roots to the vast, ungraspable dimensions of the cosmos. This exploration bridges the tangible and the transcendent, inviting viewers to reflect on their place within these realms.

O'Keeffe translates these concepts into a diverse range of mediums, including painting, sculpture, installation, video, and urban art, creating pieces that resonate with both earthly and otherworldly perspectives.

Asia Nowicki is a South East London born, Brighton based mixed media artist whose practice is rooted in neurodiverse ways of perceiving and processing the world.

Exploring gender psychology, fragmented embodiment and obscured femininity, her work combines traditional sculptural processes with DIY and industrial materials to create visceral forms that oscillate between attraction and unease. Humour, tactility and wordplay operate throughout the work as strategies for navigating contradiction, ambiguity and lived experience.

A graduate of Camberwell College of Arts and Sir John Cass, Asia has exhibited across the UK and internationally, including in Paris, Zagreb and New York. She is co-founder of Brighton Women Artists (BWA) and a recipient of an ACE DYCP award. She is currently undertaking an ACE NLPG Research and Development project exploring experimental hybrid structures combining ceramics and latex rubber.

Iceydel is a contemporary artist and designer creating bold, illustrative work that blends striking colours & lines with natural forms.

Drawing inspiration from contrasts; soft and sharp, growth and decay. Their work often combines flowing botanical elements with structured compositions.

Joe Blackwell (b. 1996) is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work serves as a mechanism for navigating ADHD and processing personal trauma. His practice took root in 2020 during the height of the pandemic, while he was recovering from lung cancer. Confined to his mum’s house and needing support, Joe began creating with whatever was within reach: stickers, markers, and collages cut from old skate magazines.

His style is a direct reflection of the street art and skate communities he grew up in, trading traditional gallery polish for a DIY, high-energy aesthetic. Joe uses repetitive sticker motifs to build "larger wholes," a process that mirrors the internal noise and hyper-focus of the ADHD brain. What started as a tool for survival during recovery has evolved into a vibrant exploration of how we piece ourselves back together after a crisis.

Salomi Abdou is a Cypriot–Lebanese multidisciplinary artist and designer based in Brighton. Her practice moves between graphic design, illustration, painting, and printmaking, blending digital and traditional processes. She rejects the idea that artists need to have a defined niche to gain authority, seeing the pressure to work within fixed styles and mediums as another restriction shaped by late capitalism and the opposite of what art should be.

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Alongside her independent practice, she works on community and clientbased projects, which keep her work grounded in real contexts and real people. Whether it’s a poster for a free Palestine, a lino print of a meme, or paintings of flowers, her work sits in a kind of curated chaos: instinctive and intentionally unresolved.

Charlie Esposito is a Brighton-based mixed media artist working between painting, textiles and sculpture. Much of Charlie's practice is driven by material, surface and media, and the physical act of making.

Her canvas sculpture works are visceral and instinctive: cut, sewn, burnt, torn, and rebuilt, with paint and unconventional materials poured, layered, and embedded. Surfaces resist, rupture, and react, transforming the canvas into an object where gesture, texture, and physical presence carry meaning.

In contrast, her Being Human collection is more deliberate and metaphorical, exploring emotional states and shared experience through symbolism, composition, and visual storytelling. While more representational in structure, these works retain her sensitivity to material, layered surfaces, and the traces of process. Across both bodies of work, making and undoing sit side by side, and abstraction and representation act as parallel languages for exploring what it feels like to be human.

Sugar spike Grils is a Brighton-based sculptor and 2025 CSM graduate, she produces surreal, figure-based sculptures that investigate femininity, sexuality, power, and how the female body is perceived. Working with materials like acrylic, epoxy, resin, and found objects, she creates highly stylised humanoid forms with exaggerated, doll-like features and smooth, synthetic finishes.

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Her process begins with simple armatures made from wire and foil, gradually built up in layered materials to shape hybrid bodies that sometimes take on animal-like qualities. The resulting figures feel both familiar and strange. Through distortion, bold proportions, and glossy artificial surfaces, her work is made to both attract and unsettle, blurring the line between character and caricature while using colour and texture to intensify their impact.

Leigh creates bold, playful characters that give form to the emotions and personality traits we rarely see but all experience. By visualising these invisible parts of ourselves, he creates opportunities for connection, conversation and understanding.

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Inspired by the pop and toy culture of his youth and rooted in street style, his work sparks nostalgia while feeling fresh, contemporary and original.

Blending graffiti influences with digital techniques, Leigh combines clean vector lines, block colour, broad strokes, dots and highlights with the raw unpredictability of spray paint. The result is bold, distinctive work that is unmistakably his own.

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Drips, bleeds and overspray are not mistakes. They are part of the process. His work is not about polish or perfection. It is about embracing flaws, celebrating authenticity and finding beauty in what makes us human.

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Whether exploring anxiety, fear, confidence or self-sabotage, Leigh transforms complex inner experiences into playful characters that make difficult subjects more approachable and easier to talk about.

Sam Luff is a contemporary English artist whose work emerges from an intuitive, self-taught approach that combines technical and emotional depth. His surreal, narrative-driven compositions, expressive or exaggerated figures, and bold, vibrant colours create worlds that feel deeply symbolic and evoke a sense of storytelling that draws viewers in. Luff works primarily in acrylic, for the immediacy this medium offers in capturing the moment.

Increasingly, he paints on salvaged materials, quietly criticising disposable culture while creating beauty from what was once discarded.

Luff’s artistic practice has evolved outside formal training over the last twenty years. Originally trained in screen printing, his experience in the creative industry gave him a lasting appreciation for colours and visual production. His earliest paintings were steeped in traditional ideals and reveal a meticulous approach. Careful brushwork in oil and controlled blocks of colour constructed imagery and narratives set within convincingly realistic worlds.

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Reflecting on the turning point in his practice, Luff recalls, "It was a voice that told me to let go”. From that point onward, his work moved away from rigid formalism towards a more intuitive expression of both inner and outer worlds. He abandoned preparatory sketching and began using acrylic, searching for a process that felt more immediate.

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Constantly seeking change, Luff deliberately avoids remaining in a state of creative comfort, believing that artistic growth ceases when stability sets in. Recent works have explored the addition of collage and screen printing.

Completed Studios is an East Sussex based art and illustration practice creating colourful, layered work inspired by social observation, nature and the realities of everyday life. Combining print, painting and mixed media, the work explores what sits beneath the surface, from mental health and identity to the stories people carry with them.

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Alongside her studio practice, Claire runs creative workshops, develops commissioned artwork and illustration projects and creates participatory work that invites people to add, alter and challenge what is already there. Through colour, texture and layered processes, what begins as a personal exploration often becomes a shared conversation.

Laviana Faith creates fantasy multimedia portraits and films for people obsessed with storytelling. Dedicated to showing how make-believe can be a tool for processing our real life experiences.

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Through her character illustrations, painting and videography; Faith focuses on the portrayal of women in fiction as well as the imagination's relationship with our wellbeing. From ink, acrylic, and watercolor to the photos and films, her portfolio features rose-tinted imagery and a distinct hyper-feminine aesthetic. This exists in contrast with her darker folkloric inspiration. In all, her work is an amalgamation of the daily and mystical made for audiences to reflect on their own processes.

Just_Pictures is a spray paint and street artist from Sussex, working across a diverse range of media, including acrylics, spray paint, salvaged materials, and canvas. Their work blends graffiti influences with mixed-media techniques, creating distinctive pieces that explore colour, and letter form.

Carla E. Reyes is a Brighton-based mixed-media artist, originally from New York City. Her work emerges from deep sensory engagement with aspects of everyday life—urban spaces, moments in nature, and the domestic realm—and an interest in how lived experience becomes embedded in surface, texture, and form. She builds semi-abstract works through layered, hands-on processes that respond to form and surface, treating painting as a tactile, embodied practice.

The work draws from experience, observation, and personal reflection, moving between the domestic, social, and natural. She creates across painting, collage, and sculpture, using a wide range of materials and processes to explore how meaning is carried through surface, accumulation, and transformation over time.

A mixed media artist based in Eastbourne, Maddie aka Slimpystudio makes work centered around the mind, feminine rage and spirituality. Having graduated from Kingston University in 2023 with a degree in Illustration Animation, Maddie now works as an artist, exhibiting her work across Sussex. Outside of her studio practice, Maddie also works as a workshop facilitator and graphic recorder.

Wheely Good is the artist name Kim uses to create her colourful, optimistic work within her own Wheely Good world. She chooses to express her struggles with autism and mental health through her “jumper man” characters, which typically represent herself or real people and interactions she has experienced.

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Her work reflects a hopeful outlook even in her darkest moments, choosing to let the good in, even when she is unable to feel it in her current state. Remaining soft and seeing the world for the good that exists is her way of resisting a world that hasn’t always been kind or built for her to thrive in.

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The use of natural forms is a recurring element in her work, often used to depict her emotions. For example, thistles and nettles with their sharp edges and spikes represent the struggles and harsh feelings she experiences, while still acknowledging the beauty within them as part of life and nature.

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Living in Hull, Kim enjoys exploring and finding fun and adventure in everyday life through her creative perspective. Skateboarding, and the community that comes with it, have a strong influence on her work and often feature in her drawings, alongside her friends and the elements that can make life feel lighter while navigating the challenges of reality.

Scarlet Ostick - 'Cronegarden' is a self- taught inter-disciplinary artist. Largely focusing on oil painting/mischtechnik and the creation and running of 'A Book of Shadows' puppetry troupe for the past 16 years. But also collage, illustration, glass, mosaic, printmaking, writing and performance and recently branching into more 3d work.

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She is also very involved in various amazing community gardens and considers her work there to be 'land art' beautifying and adding design elements to the spaces. A big part of this over the last year has been settling up and co- running 'Mosaic Club' - informal collaborative mosaic sessions with mosaic artist Karen Francesca.

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Identifying as witch / occultist /animist the two strands of art interweave and inspire and inform one another. Much of her work is in itself spellcraft and spirit work - using materia magica , herbal and other natural materials and often created as paean to various entities and allies. She loves Toads!

ShallowLagoon is a sticker slinging street artist, pasteup gluer and poster maker with a high energy eclectic whirlwind style of calorie dense visual mush specially formulated for viewers eyeballs. Crafting vivid drum and bass posters for favourites in the scene, sculpting bizarre spray painted art toys and blasting decayed spaces with technicolour creations, ShallowLagoon aims to shatter mediums and conjure works like no other.

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Looking to the future, ShallowLagoon wishes for a world where the slop has run dry, artists are valued again and every ai data centre has been burnt to the ground never to return again.

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Rae Watt is a Surrey and Sussex based artist currently studying Fine Art at University For the Creative Arts, Farnham. They specialise in creating contemporary multimedia works, working in the fields of textiles, clay, oil, and digital realms that often challenge economical and societal crisis, as well as building on their own worlds of fantasy and mythology, science fiction and surrealist narratives.

Sadnut is a Brighton-based street artist whose work is rooted in playfulness, spontaneity, and a love of painting large-scale walls with spray paint. Their practice embraces humour and doesn't take itself too seriously, celebrating the idea that art should be enjoyable to create as well as to experience.

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Alongside murals, Sadnut creates original works on canvas and upcycled pieces of wood, transforming reclaimed materials into vibrant compositions. A recurring feature of the work is a series of camouflage-inspired patterns, affectionately titled "Cumoflauge," reflecting the artist's irreverent style and playful approach to making art.

Sinna One is a Brighton based artist and muralist. His work focuses on exploring spray paint as primary medium. This manifests itself in the form of art works depicting animals, robots, portraits, dragons, favourite cartoon characters and is influenced heavily by music, comics, sci –fi and graffiti culture.

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He takes his name from a rebellion of a religious upbringing and inevitably breaks one of the ten commandments by creating graven idols on paper, found objects, canvas and walls that he invites others to worship Thus making any other God jealous ( he/she is a jealous God!).

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He is also a proud, amorous, lazy, angry, jealous and greedy (or is that needy?) artist, thus encapsulating all of the seven deadly sins, simultaneously.

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This said, sometimes, he’s not too bad.

In the past 20 years his work has been seen on walls, in galleries, at festivals and in books.

Magdalena Dloniak is a sculptor whose practice centres on the human form and the sensorial, emotional landscapes it carries. Beginning with live models, her process gradually turns inward, transforming observation into an exploration of the body as a site of metaphor and meaning. Dloniak describes her work as a conversation with herself—a semi‑trance state in which each piece emerges instinctively, shaped by intuition and shifting inner states.

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Working in clay and plaster keeps her grounded; their fragility invites deeper inquiry into vulnerability and the delicate tensions that define human experience. Dloniak expands her practice through drawing and video, using these mediums to explore themes of human nature, relationships, memory, and the passage of time. Through this multidisciplinary approach, she aims to create work that resonates on a visceral level, forging a direct emotional connection from one human being to another.