Group Four
Amy Bairstow
Amy is a Bradford born, London based artist working mainly in painting and drawing. With a background in screen-printed textiles at Chelsea Collage of Art, she infuses her work with a play of pattern, colour and texture.
Amy thrives on collaboration, working with diverse individuals, communities and projects.
Her natural progression into public and community art involves painting murals, leading workshops and creating installations across the UK. Recent collaborations include Selfridges, The Herd Theatre and Brainchild Festival.
Art education is central to Amy’s work as she delivers various workshops for schools and localities. Her diverse and community focused approach is her driving inspiration. Amy is dedicated to creating art that is full of joy, colour and that connects people together.
You can follow Amy on Instagram.
Hells Gibson
Hells enjoys painting letters on pink surfaces. Her work is characterized by a positive, fun, and social approach. Collaborating with local communities, Hells creates public artworks that aim to catch people’s eye and bring a bit of light into their day.
You can follow Hells on Instagram.
Eileen Wu
Eileen is a playful and inquisitive artist, who is educationally engaged with the community around her.
She is primarily concerned with the search for authenticity in herself and others. She strives to encourage self-expression and affirmation for therapeutic and educational purposes. She is interested in engaging in dialogue with the several conscious and subconscious versions of the self.
Eileen is academically educated in criminal law, psychology and fine art (University of the Arts London). She draws from her knowledge of psychological concepts to enrichen her approach, and enjoys reflecting critically through a scientific lens.
Eileen has worked alongside children in schools, workshops, exhibitions, and through the art club she runs in a primary school. She is passionate about accompanying children in their journey, in particular those with special needs.
Eileen’s personal practice is multidimensional; her methods of exploration include illustration, sculpture, video, as well as musical and audio formats.
You can follow Eileen on Instagram.
Natasha Morland
Natasha sees the LSoM as a bridge between her current work and fine art training, completing her degree at City and Guilds of London Art School in 2007. She is excited to join an artist network again whilst learning new skills, having worked in design since graduation and now transitioning back to what she feels passionate about, art and helping others.
Natasha has seen first-hand the vital role art plays in helping people back onto their feet whilst volunteering as an art teacher at a homeless charity in Clapton and organizing an art show and auction to raise funds for the mental health charity, MIND.
She is inspired by the potential murals have to create collective joy and contemplation to both the participants and public.
Her multi-cultural family and upbringing abroad alongside her background as a landscape and abstract painter will hopefully add value to the diversity of the group.
www.natashamorland.com www.morlanddesign.co.uk
Kat Pegler
Kat is a multidisciplinary artist, musician and researcher. She runs Kerbside, which explores the intersection between art, sustainability and public space and is part of the creative collective Pure Imagination. Her work explores more-than-human perspectives, play, and creating meaningful engagement with the climate crisis. She has created a number of immersive experiences that bring the public closer to heritage, history and the environment. With a fascination in pushing the boundaries of imagination, Kat loves to collaborate with scientists, philosophers and other minds across sectors, to develop work that is informed, innovative and immersive.
You can follow Kat on Instagram.
Harky Kalsi
Harkiran Kalsi is an energetic and exciting freelance artist who uses her art to bring positive vibes and uplift people. Her work is an exciting blend of graphic design, murals, illustration, and freehand typography. Harkiran began her career in her hometown of Leamington Spa working for Coventry City Council and Warwickshire College but soon after landed a job in London working for BBC Children in Need which led her to work with some amazing organisations such as Comic Relief, Footlocker x NBA, New Balance, #Merky Books, Channel 4, EA Sports and more.
She uses her platform to shine a light where it matters. She was mentioned by Creative Boom as the ’25 most exciting graphic designers and illustrators’ to follow during International Women’s Day. Her passion for running led her to become The Stolen Starts Ambassador for New Balance from 2021-2022.
Jess Evans
Jess Evans is an artist from Barnet, North London, who graduated with a Fine Art degree from Central Saint Martins in 2019. Since graduating, she has worked as an artist, curator, art consultant and workshop facilitator.
Her diverse portfolio features drawing, painting, digital illustration, mosaic and installation art. Her playful, illustrative and expressive style is characterised by vibrant colours and personal symbolism. Finding inspiration in nature, dreams, wild swimming, life drawing and tarot cards, she creates abstract pieces, portraits, and artworks that address social, environmental and health issues. Facing health challenges of her own, Jess uses art as a means to connect to others with shared experiences.
She is grateful and excited for an opportunity to enhance her artistic skills, scale up her work, collaborate with other artists, and contribute to public spaces with The London School of Muralism. Her aspiration is to become a therapeutic arts community worker and travel the world with her art.
You can follow Jess on Instagram.
www.jess-evans.co.uk
Megan Louisa Young
Meg came to London in 2013 to pursue an education in Physics at KCL, and has been a resident of Lewisham for the last 8 years.
She’s always had passion for the arts and has been creating since a young age. She’s self taught and has been working as a freelance artist since 2018, creating commissioned works of portraits, landscapes and still life pieces in oil, watercolour, pencil and ink.
She’s due to join the 2024 cohort of the LSoM students, and is incredibly excited about creating art on a larger scale and working as part of a community of artists who are creating art for the public.
You can follow Meg on instagram and view a selection of her portfolio for more information on her artistic journey.
Alisa Ruzavina
Alisa Ruzavina is a community & ecology-tending interdisciplinary artist, designer and facilitator. Her curiosity lies in creating conversations and collective experiences in the public realm that playfully explore alternative forms of knowledge, opening possibilities for sustainable place-based ways of relating, making and being that bring us closer in communion with the Earth and one another.
Alisa’s socially-engaged practice spans across textiles, public art, installation, sculpture, costume, ritual, ceremony, celebratory and immersive experiences, feasts, workshops, community and participatory art, nature-based and creative education. Rooted in her experience as a solo migrant to the UK, Alisa’s practice is focused on intercultural and interspecies exchanges that nurture a sense of belonging and support the articulation of a communal identity, with special attention given to how these get shaped up through relationality with the civic commons, the urban landscape, its culture, and its more-than-human residents.
You can follow Alisa on Instagram.
Sarah Harrison
Sarah is a freelance illustrator from Bedford. She works with Bookmark Reading Charity on their children’s magazine The Story Corner. She has painted public art sculptures for creative producer Wild in Art (supporting Keech Hospice Care in Luton), and murals for children’s charity Creating Memories.
Sarah first discovered her intrigue for art in public spaces during time as an Erasmus student, and more recently, whilst participating in Swindon Paint Fest. She is interested in bright colours, textures, nature and working collaboratively. Sarah believes art should be accessible to all. She wants to work as a mural artist to bring a smile to people in the streets, and to make the world a little more colourful.
You can follow Sarah on Instagram.
Eileen Murekian
Eileen is a multi disciplinary artist with an interest in painting, film, photography, writing and graffiti. Her inspiration behind her art has always been to tell some sort of story, whether it be to llustrate some sort of truth, or to highlight alternate and positive potential outcomes. She has used art to deal with the feelings of isolation that come from the reality of coming from a people that have endured many generations of injustice and poor representation to this day. She would like to make art that offers images of transnational and intersectional solidarity to different kinds of people facing similar feelings of isolation in their communities due to similar issues of poor representation in media.
Amelia Hart
Wherever Amelia finds herself, you'll be sure to discover a selection of drawing materials in her bag. Be it sharpies, oil pastels, or a couple of paints, she's ready to go for when something catches her eye. Amelia has a love of nature and all things bright, bold, and colorful, finding inspiration in the patterns of the world around her. A graduate of Contemporary Art at Bath Spa University, she enjoys experimenting with different mediums and has always loved the freedom of working BIG.
Over the past few years, Amelia has had the pleasure of painting a few murals and really enjoys the collaborative aspect that this challenge comes with. She's really looking forward to learning more about engaging different groups in her creative process, learning more techniques such as scaling up, and making creative connections with others during the course.