We can proudly say we have worked with some world-class artists, covering a wide spectrum of art forms, spanning from contemporary music, visual arts and writing, and we have facilitated collaborations between these genres. We believe in developing artists' careers through innovative solutions and hard work.
Lucid Creates
Lucid Creates is the creative partnership of Chris Carr & Helen Swan, who have created award-winning structures, spaces and immersive temporary realities that result in powerful individual and communal experiences. They create works that draw attention to pressing social and environmental issues in order to encourage and enable community, sustainability and inclusivity.
Luke Jerram
Luke Jerram’s multidisciplinary practice involves the creation of sculptures, installations and live arts projects. Living in the UK but working internationally since 1997, Jerram has created a number of extraordinary art projects which have excited and inspired people around the globe. He is known worldwide for his large scale public artworks.
Fidget Feet
Fidget Feet are an aerial circus performance company from Ireland. Since 1998, Fidget Feet have created, established and nurtured the aerial dance sector in Ireland and created international connections and collaborations. Their performances and opportunities have taken place throughout the country to make the art form accessible to all. They have achieved this through hard work, successful partnerships with venues, educational institutes, festivals and funding bodies.
John Grant
John William Grant is an American/Icelandic singer, songwriter, and musician. He came to prominence as the co-founder, lead vocalist, pianist, and primary songwriter for the alternative rock band the Czars. After releasing six studio albums from 1994 to 2006, the band split up and Grant took a break from music before starting a solo career in 2010.
It had already been an extraordinary enough journey for John Grant, from the point where he thought he’d never make music again or escape a life of substance abuse to winning awards and accolades and collaborating with Sinead O’Connor, Rumer and Hercules & Love Affair. But then in the spring of 2014 came the nomination in the Best International Male Solo Artist category at the BRITS alongside Eminem, Justin Timberlake, Bruno Mars and Drake.
LUXE
LUXE are Mandy Blinco and Mark Hill - makers of landscape theatre and illuminated spectacle. Their practice combines two lifetimes of experience with creating work for the streets and for landscape. Mark’s journey through fine art and touring theatre, performance percussion, public and processional sculpture. Mandy’s through processional performance, theatre and textiles and her wanderlust seeking inspiration amongst the foothills of the Himalayas and the deserts of Rajasthan.
Illuminos
lluminos are brothers Matt and Rob Vale, who for over 10 years have been creating visually inventive, memorable projection artworks and experiences. Their works range from very large scale illumination to small scale imagery, but always working to create something unique and specific to location and viewer. Formed around a principal of People, Site, Animation, and often combining elements of installation, dance, theatre, pyrotechnics and music, each project they approach develops from an exploration of the emotions of an environment.
Jen Lewin
Jen Lewin is an internationally renowned light and interactive sculptor whose studio is located in Boulder, Colorado. Lewin has honed her highly technical medium to fabricate large-scale interactive sculptures that combine light, sound and motion to encourage community interaction. From responsive sound and light forms that incorporate dance, to woven fibre video curtains that reflect movement, to giant robotic moths that flutter in response to human touch, Lewin’s use of technology as a medium challenges popular conceptions of new media works and their limitations.
Heinrich & Palmer
Anna Heinrich and Leon Palmer have worked together as an artist partnership since the early 1990s creating multi-media installations and interventions in response to a wide range of sites. They are fascinated by the blurring of boundaries between real and virtual space, light, material and architecture. They use projection, light, illusion, interactivity and immersive installations to explore the processes behind the world of appearances and facades, to reveal hidden narratives or create ambiguous meaning.
Yan Tan Tethera
Yan Tan Tethera is storyteller Oliver Bishop. He believes in using this power to strengthen both children's and adult's understanding of their heritage, their environment, and their own capacity for imagination and creativity. This is achieved through the three core Yan Tan Tethera services - storymaking and sharing workshops, storytelling performances, and environmental interpretation.
Kathy Hinde
Kathy Hinde’s artwork and music grows from a partnership between nature and technology expressed through audio visual installations and performances that combine sound, sculpture, image and light. She performs with adapted and self-made instruments has created works that combine kinetic sculpture and musical automata in addition to a number of online soundmaps. She often uses open scores, graphic scores and chance procedures to create a framework from which the artwork can emerge.
Jerry Fish
Jerry Fish is one of Ireland’s most enigmatic and entertaining performers. An indie legend and ringmaster of exceptional renown, Jerry Fish has evolved into a showman extraordinaire, capturing the hearts and minds of audiences all over with his now legendary live shows, a unique live theatrical experience that dissolves all boundaries between performer and audience. For those who don’t know the back story; Jerry Fish blasted onto the Music Scene in the 1990’s touring the globe as front-man of alternative rock outfit An Emotional Fish, the band who gave us the indie rock anthem “Celebrate”. These days the name Jerry Fish is synonymous with Festivals, Carnival Sideshow, Circus and Theatre.
Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir
Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir is one of Iceland’s leading figures within the contemporary music scene. She has been the artistic director of Nordic Affect since its inception in 2005. Believing that the exciting things happen ‘in the connection’ Halla Steinunn’s work with the contemporary classical ensemble has been a tour de force when it comes to collaborative relationships with composers, visual artists, and producers.
Kormac
Kormac started out as out as a hip-hop scratch DJ and MPC beat-maker. He has matured into an artist who brings a totally unique approach to his art, twisting samples and meticulous recordings of acoustic instruments into something entirely unique. His latest project, Equivalent Exchange, saw him write a full suite of material for an orchestra and a host of collaborators including Loah, Eimear Noone, Jack O’ Rourke and Stephen James Smith while working with acclaimed artist, Maser, on artwork and show visuals.
He has just written stirring, uneasy soundtracks for two multi-episodic TV series, Professionals and Red Election, airing worldwide including Disney Plus and primetime in the U.S. He has put the final touches to his next album. Kormac is currently scoring a feature film due for release during Spring 2023 and a new 6-part TV drama series for BBC Studios.
Afshan D’Souza Lodhi
Afshan D’souza-Lodhi is a writer and performer based in Manchester. She is the Editor-in-Chief of The Common Sense Network and is keen to develop other younger and emerging artists. Afshan also sits on the boards of Manchester Literature Festival and Brighter Sound.
Adelle Stripe
Adelle Stripe has published three collections of poetry and her writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Times, The Stool Pigeon and Morning Star. In 2012 Dark Corners of the Land was named Poetry Book of the Year at the 3:AM Awards and was also a Scotsman Book of the Year. She teaches Creative Writing at MMU’s Manchester Writing School and was included in the Read Women 2014 list.
Ragga Gísla
Ragga’s interest in music started at early age when she took up piano lessons. At the age of 17, she started learning to become a music teacher at the music school of Iceland. She was the founder of the first Icelandic girl rock band, "Grýlurnar", and, when they ended, she joined Iceland's most popular band at that time, "Stuðmenn", in 1984.
Ragga Gísla (Ragnhildur Gísladóttir) completed an MA degree in composition from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in the spring of 2013. RG has been an active musician for a number of years. She has also composed music for films, theater and dance. Ragga has participated in Dark Music Days, Nordic Music Days, Reykjavik Art Festival and Reykjavik Dance Festival.
Plaid
The innovative duo Ed Handley and Andy Turner have been expanding the realm of electronic music as Plaid since they diverged from trio The Black Dog in the early 90s. Plaid sit right at the very heart of global electronica. In fact there's a very real sense in which Ed Handley and Andy Turner are the perfect encapsulation of what the electronic music of their generation was all about. As Plaid and as two-thirds of The Black Dog, they were central to the “Artificial Intelligence” movement of the early-mid 1990s: alongside their WARP stablemates Autechre, The Aphex Twin, B12 and allies like Richie Hawtin, Speedy J, Kenny Larkin, they brought new rhythmic variation, emotive melody and sensual textures to electronic music, creating a warm and welcoming counterpart to the white heat of the rave explosion.
Hannah Peel
Mercury Prize, Emmy-nominated, RTS and Music Producers Guild winning composer, with a flow of solo albums and collaborative releases, Hannah joins the dots between science, nature and the creative arts, through her explorative approach to electronic, classical and traditional music. From her own solo albums to composing soundtracks like Game of Thrones: The last Watch, or to orchestrating and conducting for artists like Paul Weller, her work is ambitious, forward-looking, always adapting and re-inventing new genres and hybrid musical forms. Hannah is a regular weekly broadcaster for BBC Radio 3’s Night Tracks.
Tonik Ensemble
Anton Águstsson is a Reykjavik-based composer, designer, and author exploring the synaesthetic intersection of sight and sound. Anton performs and produces his music under the name Tonik Ensemble and vocal collaborators on his 2015 debut album 'Snapshots' included Icelanders, Hörður Már Bjarnason, who has been part of the Tonik live set since 2012, Jóhann Kristinsson and Icelandic icon Ragnhildur Gísladóttir. His music explores the vast expanse of the electronic spectrum with the soundscape becoming a mix of electronics and the more organic live instruments. As a composer, Águstsson discovered early that color has a strong influence on the end result. The gap between sound and sight fades away when songwriting resembles more the process of painting on canvas.
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Sean Clarke
Sean Clarke is a pioneering Digital Artist and Curator based in Manchester. Founder of The Test Card project, which showcases live events exploring the way accessible technology has opened up new mediums of artistic expression, merging art, technology, science, and performance. Test Card is Manchester’s leading audiovisual meet-up. Running for over three years, the project as produced over 47 events. These range from curating the Future Sessions (Future Everything) launch party at the Whitworth, to running local events Monthly.