Cohort Six
Andreas Arany-Toth
Andreas is a multidisciplinary designer working with large-scale digital illustrations, 3D design and sculptures with the aim of transforming spaces. His work often focuses on different emotional states, mental health, and the pressures society puts on people, minorities and the planet.
In his artworks, he draws attention to the sensitivities and taboos of everyday life, such as isolation, anxiety, depression, alienation. These subjects became part of his artistic practice quite naturally, due to suffering a burnout in 2012, when working a high-powered job in the financial industry. Consequently, he began to practise and teach meditation and energy healing.
Creating multi-sensory experiences is a key pillar of Andreas’ practice: he collects and recycles materials found in our surroundings and turns them into mixed-media artworks. He digitises and manipulates the final outcome with the view to create abstract patterns, which are then printed onto fabrics, interiors, and accessories.
Follow Andreas on Instagram@atmo_london
Cai Afon Bellis
Cai Arfon Bellis is an artist born and raised in Lewisham. Graduating from the Slade in 2019, he then studied at the Royal Drawing School's Drawing Year 2022 where he was selected as one of the New Contemporaries 2023. His work has been displayed in institutions such as the Barbican Art Gallery and Christie's London and is held in several public and private collections including the Government art collection and the Royal Collection.
His practice delves into dance music subcultures and the vital role of London’s community spaces in shaping them. Rooted in his upbringing in South London's grime and jungle scenes, his work starts as on-site observational drawings, capturing the dynamic relationship between MC, DJ, and crowd. His gestural work is made through dance and captures the beautiful moment that occurs when a dancing crowd slips into unison, where the outside world disappears and the singular melts into the whole.
Felcie Brown
Felcie is an artist based in the South East of England, working as a blackboard and window artist creating hand-painted signage and artwork for local businesses. Alongside her creative practice, Felcie works as an ESL teacher. Her work is influenced and inspired by the people that she connects with and their ideas. Through the London School of Muralism, Felcie aims to develop her technical skills and move towards a full-time career as a mural artist creating collaborative work and facilitating community-focused workshops.
Lorenza Cirigliano
Lore is a multidisciplinary artist born in Italy and based in London, working within a cross‑cultural framework that bridges historical reference and contemporary practice. Their work uses visual language to examine presence, emotion, and the relationship between artist and environment. Lore works across acrylic, oil, pastel, linocut, jelly print, and spray paint, selecting materials according to conceptual and spatial demands rather than medium‑specific constraints.
Since 2021, spray paint has become a significant part of their practice, encouraging a direct and responsive engagement with surface and scale. Their work is characterised by strong formal decisions, symbolic elements, and references to historical narratives adapted to present‑day contexts. Through this approach, Lore aims to produce work that is accessible, visually immediate, and emotionally grounded, creating meaningful engagement with diverse audiences.
Eli Delbaere
Eli Delbaere is a visual artist, arts educator and anarchist. Drawn to creating immersive environments via large-scale painting, his developing mural practice is known for its blend of figuration and abstraction, carving a niche for fact and fantasy to collide. Eli’s idiosyncratic visual language fuses his transsexuality with dense symbolism from his Celtic heritage, combining ancient art-making rituals with pioneering politics. Primarily self-taught, Eli seeks to create socially-engaged art which, like a form of contemporary folklore, is immersed in living culture - in sharp contrast to the separatist, purist concept of ‘fine art’ which exists as a commodity in cordoned-off elitist spaces. Embodying his beliefs that art should radically reclaim and transform space, forge intersectional social bonds, and give a voice to ‘othered’ subcultures, his imperfect work is found in non-institutional, non-hierarchical spaces such as squats, raves, streets, zines, bedrooms and DIY venues. With years of experience working with children in arts education, Eli's facilitation style emphasises intuitive play, inclusion and imagination.
Find his work at www.instagram.com/anomeli__ / or contact him via email at elidelbaereart@gmail.com.
Aisling Gallagher
Aisling Gallagher is a disabled Irish artist who makes work that disrupts what is considered normal, assumed and appropriate. Their practice is about turning barriers into opportunities, allies into accomplices; figuring out how to do the best they can, and trying to do better. Their work is scrappy and DIY in every sense: the finished work, and journey to get there. They work on crip time, embracing the journey it takes for a creative seed to develop and grow to full bloom; working with their wonky body and brain as creative partners, not forces to push through at any cost.
Originally from Belfast, they have lived in Deptford for over a decade. Their work has been exhibited locally at hARTSlane, Apparatus Gallery, Deptford Lounge Library, and local commissions include HOME IS WHERE THE (HE)ART IS (Lewisham Homes Community Development Fund, 2023-24); Tyre Pressure Laboratory, Liberty Festival 2022 (Spare Tyre); Resident Artist (Theatre Centre); Safe&Sound (with Good Behaviour, Sydenham Arts).
Follow Aisling on instagram @twoshadesofhope
Pauline Joseph
Pauline has been drawing since the age of six and has developed as a self-taught artist through ongoing experimentation and practice. Her work has evolved through exploring a range of artistic approaches, leading to exhibitions in London and commissioned portrait work. Portraiture remains central to her practice, focusing on presence, identity, and emotional depth.
Alongside this, she works with egg tempera and iconography, engaging with traditional techniques and symbolism to create work that is deliberate, layered, and reflective. These methods inform her interest in stillness, observation, and the spiritual or contemplative aspects of image-making.
She is now moving toward large-scale works that engage directly with community, collaboration, and public spaces, aiming to reflect collective stories, cultural memory, and lived experience, while helping others find their voice through art, and meaningful creative participation together
Tayiba Khan
Tayiba Khan is a self-taught emerging artist from St Albans who uses painting as a quiet language for what cannot always be spoken. Her practice explores emotion, movement, and perception, inviting viewers into moments of reflection shaped through colour, texture, and gesture. She is drawn to the way art can hold multiple meanings, allowing each viewer to find their own story within the work.
Muralism appeals to Tayiba for its scale and openness—its ability to exist within shared spaces and become part of everyday life. With a growing interest in film set design and immersive environments, she is motivated by the transformative potential of public art and the sense of connection it can foster. Through the London School of Muralism, she seeks to deepen her technical skills, build confidence, and continue developing a practice rooted in collaboration, curiosity, and thoughtful visual storytelling.
Chantelle Lake
Chantelle is a mother of one with a background in Art and Design (National Diploma) and a BA(Hons) in Fine Art Photography. Volunteering on community mural projects in Edmonton and in Lewisham sparked her passion for muralism and its ability to bring people together and transform shared spaces.
She has facilitated art sessions for family and friends in her local community, providing art materials and encouraging shared creativity that builds confidence and connection. Creativity has been central to her own mental health, helping her navigate challenging periods while inspiring her first paid mural commission, with further projects in development, and the ongoing development of her handmade crafts business. She also finds joy in creating mandalas, using their meditative qualities to support reflection and wellbeing.
Community and collaboration are at the heart of her practice, and she is passionate about using art to foster connection and wellbeing.
Sharon Leigh
Lottie McAlinden
Lottie has educational training in textile and surface pattern design, but after graduating from her bedroom floor when covid struck, she turned to painting. Since then, Lottie has explored taking her work to larger scales, lending her hand on a range of community murals, as well as developing her own artistic style through large scale canvas paintings. Lottie loves the use of bold colours, patterns and abstract shapes in her work, but has noted the exciting challenge of pushing herself outside of her artistic comfort zone when starting the course. Lottie was involved with running a community arts festival in Manchester, where her desire to work within community groups was born. She recently moved to London, and with a love for connecting with people, sharing stories, experiences and collaborative creation, Lottie is excited to be joining the cohort this year. She believes this is the perfect opportunity for her to merge her passions for creativity, with her curiosity for community.
Teni Omole
Johana Plazas
Johana Plazas, known as Jho, is a visual artist and muralist from Cali, Colombia, whose work gives a voice and presence to wildlife, particularly endangered species through public art. Her practice combines creativity with community engagement, working on projects such as tactical urbanism initiatives in collaboration with local communities, volunteers, residents, and organisations.
Her artwork has been showcased internationally, in countries including Denmark, Mexico, Portugal, Colombia, and the United Kingdom. Notably, her undergraduate thesis painting project at the Universidad del Valle, Colombia, The Poetics of the Gaseous: An Approach to the Deaf Linguistic Sign, was exhibited at the United Nations in New York, highlighting her ability to blend artistic expression with cultural and social impact.
Jho is currently the cultural convenor at Viva Slough, part of a research project supported by Arts Council England that promotes self-led creative groups and creative activity across Slough town.
Follow Johana on instagram @jho_artwork
Ella Rielly
Ella Rielly is an illustration graduate from Falmouth university who’s since been working in hospitality, while on the side attending printing workshops and offering voluntary visual aid for a homeless charity APAP. Her work ties mostly with the concept of ‘whimsy’ which has been an anchor in the intimidating professional art world that she feels she’s a way to go in finding what she wants to do. She enjoys the natural world around her as well as the everyday that she likes to see in a different lense such as a dapper gentleman fox or a cup of tea as a witches brew. Its themes of fantasy, escapism and humour that she wants to bring to the table with muralism in the hopes that she makes a passerby smile or laugh.
