artist 01 Jan 2024
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Eelyn Lee

artist and filmmaker

Eelyn Lee is a Hong Kong/English artist and filmmaker who has exhibited across the UK including Barbican, Tate Modern, Whitechapel Gallery and National Portrait Gallery. Her films have been selected for international film festivals, including the award-winning, Life and Deaf which screened at the ‘Berlinale’ in 2014. 

Eelyn’s art practice combines collective research, devised performance and filmmaking to create frameworks for collaboration. She is currently working on Performing Identities - an iterative project that seeks to discover new performance aesthetics for East and Southeast Asian [ESEA] diasporic identities, through the creation of contemporary mythical characters and their cosmologies.

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Asma Kabadeh

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Asma Kabadeh is a creative producer and programmer with an extensive background in collaborative arts initiatives. Working across arts, community development and research her work is primarily centred on facilitating diverse creative voices in multimedia forms with a strong focus on uncovering untold stories. Asma has produced 10 short films with local filmmakers, screened by Sheffield DocFest Exchange, and Migration Matters festival.

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Najma Heybe

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Najma Heybe is a creative artist from Sheffield. Her passion for writing and poetry is driven by a deep desire to express herself and connect with others through her writing.

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Kedisha Coakley

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Kedisha Coakley is a London-born, Sheffield-based artist. Her practice spans sculpture, photography, and printmaking, predominantly casting in bronze, through which she interrogates Black histories and experiences. Investigating the overlooked, she remixes aesthetics, techniques, and cultural refences throughout her work. Process, hybridity, and materiality are important strands of her practice. Coakley’s work begins as a personal investigation of self, childhood memories and ritualistic practices in the lives of Black communities, and what they signify universally in the world. Making visible suppressed or express meaning by looking hard at what exists in the world of cultural objects, exploring the unconscious of culture, maintaining the integrity of their origins.

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