DIY Studios
Photographical series regarding the battle that London creatives face while rent prices continue to soar. These social aspects have created a rise in DIY studios: from warehouses to bedroom floors.
Daisy Tortuga is a ceramist, rug maker, singer and cat owner based in her flat in Hackney Wick. Her artistic creations as well as inspirations scatter her walls, and mantlepieces.
Daisy is an artist from Essex, most of her inspiration spanning from her family ties from small town Essex to the East End. Scraps of newspaper clippings, Boxing magazines , family photos scatter her small DIY studio space in the attic space in her flat in Forest hill.
Mitchell Bradshaw is a graphic designer who works primarily in his bedroom from his family home in South East London. His work focuses on inspirations from New York 90’s posters, rave culture and graffiti culture.
Maggot Death is a graphic designer from London starting out in his bedroom has now moved to a studio in SE London. He specialises in politically relevant screen prints.
Cato
Cato is an artist based in Peckham whose work fusions acrylics, collage and airbrush. His paintings exude a cinematic effect primarily working in sepia tones.
Alma Berrow is a ceramicist who merges the mundane and the surreal in her playful pieces. Her warehouse studio based in West London is home to her kiln, paints and iconic works.
Forrest Flowers
Multi-practice craftsman Noel built from scratch this shed at the back of their garden. Working as a jewellery maker, tattoo artist and msuician, the shed is filled with trinkets and oddities from bones to taxidermy creating a satanist haven.
Haseeb Iqbal
Writer, poet, radio host
SUMGII
Sumgii is a producer and mastering engineer, mixer and musical genius renowned for his alliance with Blah records and Swamp 81.
Seth Randall-Godard
Seth is a printmaker, and folk enthusiast who invited me to their studio in Brixton and ran me through their artistic process. From drawing to woodcutting to print.
Ministry of Masks
Collector and mask maker Tom creates detailed silicon masks in his hidden shed in Brockley. Working in his shed of curiosities tucked away in Brockley, filled with his masks blended into an assortment of collected antiques, trinkets and puppets.
Chewbeats is an Italian beat maker, record collector and guitarist based in Peckham.
Colette
Collette practices embroidery tucked away in her boat sailing through London. Inspired by folklore her work merges into her setting. A unique living experience which intertwines with her art with shades of green, blue, images of stalks and flowers.
Poppy Frean
Poppy is a Seamstress and tufter whose inspirations come from her home city of SE London. Her studio in SET Lewisham is a community that provides artists with affordable studio spaces across London.
Svetik i Vintx
Svetik i Vintx creates sustainable jewellery using any from old bike chains, disused old charms in her South London squat. In an old Asian community centre, she uses her desk to create her work which she names ‘trash’ion’.
Panix
Panix is a South-East London producer who merged his two talents as carpenter and producer to create a sound studio within a studio.
