Silence is rarely empty. It gathers in the spaces between words, settles into rooms where something remains unspoken, lingers in the body after an experience that cannot be named, and lives within histories deliberately forgotten. Silence can be chosen, protective, intimate. But it can also be imposed—by fear, censorship, violence, exclusion, shame, power, or the quiet mechanisms of social expectation. Art has always occupied a complicated relationship with silence. It can sp

Xinyu Huang is a Chinese artist based in Scotland and a practice-based PhD researcher at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee. Working primarily with analogue photography, her photography-based practice extends across moving image, installation, and material experimentation. She received her Master's degree from the Glasgow School of Art, where she further developed an interdisciplinary approach to photographic practice. Her work has been exhibi

Vincent Serbin has explored the nature of surrealistic and abstract imagery through photography and painting for over four decades. During the past 20 years, his practice has focused primarily on abstract painting. His work has been widely exhibited and has recently been featured in Abstractics: Journal of Nonrepresentational and Abstract Art, Layers (Noire Journal), Emerging Artists 2026 at Dodomu Gallery, the Abstract National Exhibition at Mark Arts Center, and the Cimarro

Veronika Wendebourg was born on September 18, 1992, in Munich. Studying art education at Ludwig Maximilian University; expected to graduate in 2026 Lives and works in Munich, Germany The inspiration for this painting came from an article I read. It was about the grief of mothers—both Israeli mothers and Palestinian mothers living in Gaza—who have to send their children off to war and often lose them. Added to this were the photos we saw and continue to see of children who hav

Susann Carmen Jagodzińska is a Polish photographer, filmmaker, and writer. Through a metaphysical contemplation on existence, she explores the invisible layers of consciousness and how they influence the nature of reality. Memory is experienced as fluid and multidimensional. Her work invites the viewer to enter a space of introspection, creating space for their own intuition and internal rhythm to complete the work. The dialog. Witnessing the body, the mind, and the heart. The

Sudipta Modi’s extensive practice includes performance, installation, photography, painting, drawing and sculpture that constantly challenging the boundaries between art, science, philosophy and social practice. Sudipta is known for her vivid use of colours in her on-going self-portraits that have interrogated themes around multitudes of female representation and ambiguous identity in the art and visual media history entangled with social issues, ecological concerns resulted

Sanaz Haeri is an Iranian artist born in Tehran whose practice is deeply rooted in social and civic concerns, with a particular focus on women's experiences and rights. She was an artist-in-residence in Albacete, Spain, in 2010 and has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Iran and internationally, including at the Iranian Artists Forum in Tehran and the Vela Zanetti Foundation in León, Spain. In 2024, she was shortlisted as a finalist for both the Sovereign

Nazanin Ghahramani is an Iranian visual artist based in the UK, working at the intersection of art and sociology. Her practice explores questions of identity, self-formation, and the structures of domestic life and space. She is particularly interested in the everyday acts and routines that shape identity, investigating how it is continuously negotiated within both the home and the public sphere. With a background in both art and architecture, Ghahramani holds an MFA in Paint

Natalia Babych is a ceramic artist working with porcelain. Originally from Ukraine, she relocated to Edinburgh in 2022, making functional and artistic pieces inspired by nature and the delicacy of the material. Since January 2025 she has been based at Leith Makers studios, hosting porcelain masterclasses for Ukrainian and local communities. An alumna of Abandoned Artists and member of Visual Arts Scotland, her recent exhibitions include LAND, Waiting to Exhale, Pass the Remot

Monica Ragno is an Italian architect and artist practicing professionally in Genoa. Parallelly, their research focuses on what discarded materials can still offer, attentively listening to the material elements. Whether dealing with forgotten fragments, industrial waste, or construction components, the artist redeems these forms to explore their latent potential. Their work distances itself from the superficial condemnation of waste, recognizing within common elements a possi

Michel van Collenburg is a visual artist, photographer and composer living and working in Nijmegen and Berlin. Their practice spans physical and digital collage, photography and experimental ambient music (under the artist name ‘nobuka’), unified by a consistent method: building new wholes out of fragments. Their work has been seen and heard in Nijmegen, Amsterdam, Berlin, Vienna and Seoul. Michel identifies as gender non-conforming and appreciates the use of they/them pronou

Marina Bat-El Levitan is an Israeli painter based near Jerusalem. She studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, and later at the Jerusalem Studio School under Israel Hershberg. Her work has been exhibited in Israel, the United Kingdom, and the United States, including exhibitions at Mall Galleries and the Hampstead Art Society in London, Figure Ground Gallery in Seattle, and Art Space in Tel Aviv. In 2025, she presented the solo exhibition Illusions of Cope

Born in 1987 in the Czech Republic, Kristýna Erbenová graduated from the Institute of Creative Photography at the Silesian University in Opava. Working exclusively at night under moonlight, she creates her evocative artistic projects using medium format and 35mm photographic film. She currently lives and works in Australia. Erbenová has held numerous solo and group exhibitions across Europe and Australia. Her work has been featured in major European photographic festivals and

Juhi Aggarwal is a consultant-turned-ar􀀁st based in Delhi, India. Her conceptual practice weaves human experience into layered visual narratives. Driven by self-discovery, societal reflection, and lived experiences, her body of work explores the complexities of emotion, identity, and human connection,􀀂Often reflecting on social conditioning, cultural expectations, and the invisible structures that shape individual lives.

John Panayiotou is a conceptual photographic artist whose experimental practice inhabits the psychological and ideological conditions that shape human identity. His images give form to what is felt but often unseen, through abstraction, figural dissolution, the destabilisation of symbolic structures, and motifs that echo throughout the work. His practice moves between the internal and the external. The body under strain. The architecture of silence. The drift of dissociation.

Imara is a Swiss multidisciplinary artist working across photography, stained glass, publishing, and radio. Her practice is rooted in lived experience and explores what remains invisible, unspoken, or exclud-ed from dominant narratives. Through self-portraiture, documentary methods, craft, and collaborative projects, she investigates labor, intimacy, memory, and the transmission of knowledge within marginalized communities. Her work seeks not to speak on behalf of others,

Chong is an interdisciplinary climate artist whose practice centres on ecological awareness, community engagement, and the light-based art. Fourth-generation Chinese Canadian and honours graduate of Emily Carr, Garrett works with lens-based imagery, participatory processes, and projection to invite public dialogue about climate change and our relationship with local ecosystems. Grounded in environmental stewardship and reciprocity with nature, his work highlights the interdep

Coleen Duff is a socially engaged interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores the intersections of social justice, ecology, collective memory and participation. Working across installation, performance, photography, film and collaborative practice, she develops research-led projects that create living public archives – collaborative artworks that preserve overlooked voices, lived experience and shared knowledge through participation, dialogue and public engagement. Her w