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EXPERIMENTAL SPACE COLLECTIVE
MEET THE ARTISTS
AYA HASTWELL
Kazakhstan and the United Kingdom
Aya Hastwell divides her time between the UK and Kazakhstan. Her nomadic lifestyle leads to a rethinking of family ties, what constitutes home, and how to get used to being mobile as an artist.
Aya studied at City Lit and the Art Academy in London. She works in various materials and genres.
CEYDA OSKAY
Turkiye
Ceyda (pronounced Jayda) Oskay is an artist mostly working with textiles, sound, and land installations in a collaborative way. Geographies and experiences interest her and she often works intuitively.
EAN KONOPNICKI
United States of America
Ean Nicole Konopnicki Salminen "Ean" is based in Boston, Massachusetts USA. Her work involves unearthing the hidden self, exploring intersectionality, and questioning preconceptions of disability within limited social constructs. These preconceptions include: Deficit Lens, Superhuman Myth, Burden and Erasure. It is through visibility of these issues that she hopes to communicate with the observer.
Other motifs in her work include connections to the natural world and the use of unconventional methods and tools. She has recently become very interested in the use of earth pigment paint and other natural materials for creating her work.
JUDY NAKAZATO
United Kingdom
Judy Nakazato’s work is deeply influenced by time spent in Japan with her bicultural family. The study of the traditional arts of calligraphy, and ikebana and more recently wood block printing and ink painting bring a zen aesthetic to her practice. She enjoys the discipline of these traditions in parallel with what they can bring to a more experimental way of working. She has a degree in fine art from Cambridge School of Art. Her practice focuses on works with thread, paper and fabric, making subtle interventions in site-specific installations.
LINKA NOWELL
South Africa and the United Kingdom
Linka Nowell is an artist, jeweller, material researcher and educator who uses her interdisciplinary practice to evoke discussion and mindful reflection on both societal constructs and idiosyncrasies and environmental concerns. Her responses take form as objects, drawings, film and text, while her process-led, philosophically driven methodology questions and challenges state change and the juxtaposition between strength and fragility. Themes of migration and displacement are observed in parallel to notions of spatial structure, passage of time, language, ecology and perceived value.
She holds a BA in Cultural Studies & Media Communication, an MA in Art & Material Histories and an MA in Jewellery & Metal from the Royal College of Art.
PRAGYA BHARGAVA
India
Pragya Bhargava is an interdisciplinary researcher, artist and art educator. She works at the intersection of art and science to investigate the patterns and principles that form our understanding of the universe. She works primarily with methods of drawing, painting, photography, social practice and collaboration.
Pragya holds an MRes Fine Art and Humanities from the Royal College of Art, London, BSc Physics from IGNOU, India and BFA from Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore.
SALLY STENTON
United Kingdom
Sally Stenton creates work that connects with the senses, bringing the body into conversation with the earth. Non human collaborators become co-authors of the work as human edges are dissolved. Disparate places and processes are overlaid and digital media jostle with tactile materials with the work taking a variety of forms including writing, walking, collage, site-specific installation, and participatory performance.
SANDY LAYTON
United Kingdom
Before becoming an artist, I pursued a career as a psychotherapist working with children and adults, which gave me a wealth of experience in human relationships. This prompted me to want to explore my own life experiences, and I pursued further studies, doing an MA in fine art at Kingston before undertaking an MA at the Royal College of Art 2018-2020. My RCA dissertation, ‘Working Through’, explored the effects of trauma in the work of several photographers and was awarded a distinction.
SARAH PRAILL
United Kingdom
Sarah studied design and illustration at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. Her preoccupation with the surface of things and drawing led her to join Slaughterhaus print studio in Stockwell after finishing her Masters in Fine Art at UAL. She drew for many years in the British Museum and loves the Assyrian friezes and off white surfaces. She is exploring ways of embedding ‘presence’ within a surface through drawing, painting and small sculptural objects. It is an archaeology of feeling and locating. She is a member of Hyphae drawing collective. Her career with Thames and Hudson as a book designer informs her thinking. She has three daughters and lives in South London.
SVETLANA ATLAVINA
Bulgaria and the United Kingdom
Svetlana Atlavina is a multimedia artist. She holds a Master's Degree in Printmaking, awarded a Highly Commented Prize for her project ‘Lines of Reproduction’. Svetlana received recognition from Arts Council England for developing online educational resources for Mental Health Hospitals. She is a lecturer for the BA in Fine Art. The new research Clay and Augmented Reality funded by ACE DYCP, was published on MDPI platform in 2026.