Group Three
Amaechi E Anolue
Amaechi Anolue is a cartoon style illustrator specializing in children's books and caricatures. He loves drawing, especially people and has recently started painting again.
He has some recent experience painting murals with our graduates in Pymmes Park, Edmonton and loves the way it affects not just the surrounding but also how in its own unique way brings people together and gets people talking.
He is keen to learn the different techniques and methods of painting murals, how he can incorporate his style of illustration and work as a part of a team.
You can check out some of his work on instagram @anolue_art
Corrina Johnson-Lawik
Corrina is a self taught Visual Artist from London with a background working with vulnerable people. She has a passion for art and a passion for people and has been searching for a way to bring these two worlds together. She also wanted to find a community of artists and like minded people as well as training. She was lacking in these areas because she hadn’t studied art academically and didn’t have the network…. That’s when she found the London School Of Muralism!
Corrina has now joined this amazing course to become a Muralist and intends to make art that heals. By that she means art that empowers, inspires, invokes a sense of well-being and progression.
Doing this in deprived areas with a participatory process makes this even more meaningful and impactful because the art now reaches out and touches the people that need it the most. Being someone who grew up in an inner city council estate, this type of work means a lot to her.
She is really impressed with the skill, passion and purpose found here at LSOM and would like to take some of that and create amazing works of art with and for the people.
Fabienne Crocket
Fabienne has always enjoyed art as a hobby and likes experimenting with painting, photography, collage and cartoons. The training from the school of muralism will support her to learn new skills and take her art to a more collaborative and public stage.
With a background in education, community arts and the charity sector, Fabienne likes working with people, exploring ideas and fixing problems. At the moment she works on an anti-poverty project involving participatory research with children and young people.
An unapologetic lover of London, Fabienne has lived in the capital all her life. She is fond of long city rambles and finding art in unexpected places.
Flo Yuting-Zhu
Flo is a curious cross-disciplinary performance maker, always seeking hidden layers of the everyday world. She uses various physical and digital formats to create site-specific experiences, including street performance, projection mapping, and sound-walks. She believes public art has the capacity to reinvent the mundane and mobilise humanly emotional connections, which eventually leads her to the course.
Born and raised in Shanghai, Flo moved to New Cross for study a year ago. She felt its warm welcome through the vibrant murals in the southeast London landscape and therefore is excited to be a part of the creative effort. She is graduating from her Computational Arts MFA at Goldsmiths in 2022.
Heera Gul
Heera is an Undergraduate student studying Fine Art and Art History at Goldsmiths, University of London, graduating in 2023. Her current practice explores the dualities at play in her mixed British and Pakistani heritage as well as the colonial histories enmeshed in current systems of knowledge and social relations. Heera has a multidisciplinary approach to this practice, combining theory, practice and an interest in the institution of the archive.
She believes in championing the democratisation of art and transgressing institutional modes of artistic production by building community networks of care and skill-sharing. She is involved in community projects and volunteering around Lewisham with an emphasis on DIY culture, repair and sustainable creative production.
Heera is interested in developing collaborative practices through the LSoM and integrating community organising and activism into image-making. She plans to build this into her work as a creative practitioner once she has graduated.
Iva Decheva
Born in Bulgaria and now a British national, Iva is a very accomplished creative. She graduated from the National Arts Academy of Sofia in 2008 and 2010 respectively, with two MA's and a BA in the Arts and moved to the UK soon after in 2012, where she continues her creative work in the community she now lives.
As community based Artist, her present projects can be found throughout London, adorning many windows and interiors in the form of murals and paintings.
Textile printing and sculptures made from paper and machine/hand embroidery are just small part of her work, having always been interested in creating objects from alternative recycled materials and unusual textures.
Iva has been involved in many exhibitions, events, festivals, and international projects.
The Deptford anchor represents Iva, in a community she is proud to call home.
Jenny Cox
Jenny works as an illustrator and, informed by her background in early years education, also works as an arts facilitator in community and museum spaces.
A recent participatory commission with Luton council ignited her interest in muralism and a desire to expand her experience of particpatory arts.
Jenny previously worked as an educational product desinger, and has recently been exploring public and interactive art as an area to combine her areas of experience and passion for creatively engaging children. Jenny is excited to see how expanding her knoweldege and experience of muralism will allow her to further explore possibilities within public art.
She's particularly keen to expand her range of work with young people, and is drawn to projects with community and sustainability at their core.
Lucia Segura
Lucia Segura is a visual artist based in South East London, originally from Barcelona (Spain) where she got her degree in Fine Arts in 2014.
She enjoys creating atmospheric images full of bright colours, usually mixing realism with surreal and abstract elements, which remind of the inner world. Her work is influenced by her interest in psychology, and it allows her to represent her own feelings and emotions, so she can make people feel seen and inspired. Art helps her think about who she is and how she feels, and she hopes it also helps people to connect with their emotional side and make their sense of self-worth thrive.
You can follow Lucia on Instagram.
Meghan O’Malley
Meghan is a visual artist and arts manager, living in Brixton. Her painting practice explores storytelling through creating rhymical, fluid and surreal work inspired by her background in physical movement. Her current work as an arts manager within a homeless charity has catalysed her passion to create art that reaches and works with people from varying realms of life, in order to provide opportunities for creative expression and give people the tools to empower themselves.
Boudicca Collins
Boudicca is a fine artist and scenic painter from South London. She studied at The Slade for a BA in painting and then went on to become a scenic painter for The Royal Opera House as well as working for film, television and events.
She would like to fuse the techniques she has learnt for working on large scale set pieces with her own designs and create new artwork for the community.
Her love of the natural world is a strong inspiration in her work along with a fascination with pattern and the relationship between the macro and microcosm.
Vibrant colours and the influence of tropicalia play a key role in her paintings and reflect her Anglo Indian heritage.
Growing up in London she has experienced the uplifting effects of murals and street art and understands the positive impact that art can have within communities and the city.