VISUAL ARTIST

Tilda Williams-Kelly (she/her, b.1999) is a Scottish painter and visual artist based in Stirling whose work centres the study of figure, light, colour and environment within a context of oil and mixed-media painting. While utilising traditional oil techniques, Tilda blends life drawing and outdoor sketching with mark making, abstraction and imagination. 

Working with acrylic, spray paint, and charcoal, she creates vibrant works responding to observation and intimacy. Tilda is interested in alchemaic phenomena within the act of painting that devotes to manipulating properties to create works that both allude to and transcend nature. 

Tilda’s practice also involves writing, her undergraduate dissertation titled Sister Painter, Misogynoir, Intersectionality and Black British Women’s Painting 2022, a Boom Graduate Publication is available in most online book stores. Tilda received the Graham Laing Award for Excellence in Painting and Sculpture in 2022, and is part of the Hospitalfield Graduate Residency Programme 2023 - 24.

Follow Tilda's work on her Instagram and website.

DJ & PRODUCER

"ELANDA" is a journey for a deeper connection to her heritage and to forge healing and connectivity for all through the power of sound.

ELANDA is a DJ & producer from Zimbabwe now residing in Birmingham after making herself heard in the music scene across Scotland with her percussive and intoxicatingly hypotonic melodic style. She has had some of her productions and mixes featured on BBC Radio One. She holds a bi-monthly residency at La Cheetah Club, Glasgow for "STFU!" where she invites you to ground yourself on the dance floor by embodying your personal expression through the exploration of bass music.

In February 2024 she released her debut track "Glasgow Stint" under Glasgow's Redstone Press Label for the "Feeling Everything, At Once" in Support of Scottish Action for Mental Health (SAMH). She also released "Bunda Bop" ft Mod-R through Livery Street Social Club which has been played on BBC Radio One several times.

ELANDA has played at various clubs and festivals across Scotland and England, and has been support for some heavy hitters such has Dj Lag, KILIMANJARO, Eliza Rose, DJ SWISHA, Interplanetary Criminal, Om Unit and plenty more.

Follow Zvikomborero's work via Instagram and Soundcloud.

ARTIST

Frankie Mulholland (she/they) is an artist working with the mediums of movement, visual art and sound. Through these mediums, her work interrogates identity, time, intimacy and dance as a form of healing. She believes in the importance of connection and the shared experience of dance and music we have in club spaces. Clubs as a potential space of sanctuary and protection for queer communities and how movement and sound can be used as a transformative tool and one for healing.

She has been involved in events in Glasgows club scene since 2015 & were one of the Co-op board members of the queer workers space Bonjour Glasgow, a member of House Ball Scotland, recipient of the 2021 #LoveDanceScotland.

VISUAL ARTIST

Kialy Tihngang (she/her) works in video, sculpture, textiles, animation and photomontage, typically involving elaborate sets, costumes, graphics, props, and collaborations with performers and musicians. As a British-born Cameroonian, her research-based practice focuses on colonial European misrepresentation, extraction, and demonisation of West African cultural practices, but also on her own misremembering, misreading, and romanticisation of said practices, primarily by designing artefacts from reimagined histories and speculated futures. Through combining the dark humour of Nollywood with the aesthetics of retrofuturism and the visual language of Western mass media, Kialy explores Blackness, queerness, Britishness, and the crushing structural oppressions surrounding these identities.

SINGER

Gaïa (she/they) is a jazz and rnb singer based here in Glasgow. Their practice revolves around several collaborative projects within to the Neo-jazz scene in Glasgow raging from rnb projects to spiritual jazz projects as well. She has really evolved over the last year working amongst different scenes being able to work collaboratively with different musicians, poets etc.

ARTIST

Tatenda (she/they) is an artist of the palate. With a background in cheese and wine, she focuses on sustainable ancestral methods of food production and the process that transform flavours within and between food. She uses storytelling approach as an accessible way to share knowledge whilst using our senses to reconnect to our bodies.

VISUAL ARTIST

Najma Hussein Abukar (she/her) is a Somali born, Glasgow-based photographer documenting cultural and immigrant experiences. Passionate about curating, archiving, and re (focusing) narratives of those underrepresented and marginalised. Her artistic practice is concerned with issues of identity, (self) representation and the notion of home and belonging within the Scottish landscape.

MOVEMENT ARTIST

Originally from Tanzania, East Africa, based in Glasgow, Salma (she/her) has taught and performed with multi-generational communities in Scotland. She perused a career as an Air Traffic Control Assistant, prior to volunteering in South America as a Human Rights Ambassador. She teaches Aerobics with Soul ® The African Dance Workout, and continues studying British Sign Language. Facing barriers has empowered me as a Dance Artist; being vulnerable, honest, and unafraid. She embraces opportunities to work with the community as an invaluable understanding and continuous evaluation, finding both nourishment and challenges along the way. She is passionate about sharing time with people, whilst learning and being inspired.

DJ AND MUSIC PRODUCER

Plantainchipps (she/her) is all about upbeat and fast-paced sounds, music that uplifts and excites. She keeps it energetic, multidimensional, and firmly rooted on the dancefloor with selections including Afrobeats, R'n'B, house and dancehall. Plantainchipps has played a variety of gigs around Glasgow including The Berkley Suite, The Art School and Stereo, and supported artists such as Peach, Shygirl, Bonaventure, Lorraine James and Jamz Supernova. She has self-released track ‘Snap’, which was added to the Huntley + Palmer’s ‘ClydeBuilt 5.0 Compilation.’ Under her own name, Nwanneka has released some bass-laden and dreamy pop cuts, including hypnotising single 'Soil' produced by Mark Hoise.

CREATIVE ENTREPRENEUR

p a t s y (she/her) is a creative entrepreneur, based in Glasgow. A multifaceted individual who found BAMILEK; an independent concept store whose mission is to connect the African Diaspora. She spends a lot of her time capturing life moments through photos, videos + audio, comprising them using mixed media on her youtube channel + film/photography business; Captured By A Friend. Amongst all that, she also is a hair stylist providing protective hair care services through Hair By A Friend. As a creative p a t s y works with variety of mediums such as dance, graphics, abstract art and those previously mentioned. She is an emerging artist hoping to pioneer change within the creative industry in Scotland.