Image Credit: Josie Dale-Jones photographed by Flavia Fraser-Cannon. Josie Dale-Jones grew up around theatre-makers, absorbing early on something surprisingly powerful: the knowledge that making theatre could actually be a job. She founded ThisEgg while still young, and some 15 years…
Image Credit: Linnea Berthelsen photographed by David Reiss. Linnea Berthelsen took the scenic route into acting. Growing up in Denmark, she started gymnastics at three, travelled solo through China, Australia and the US at 18, and eventually wandered into an…
Image Credit: Photograph of Daisy Fancourt outside the Royal Albert Hall. Professor Daisy Fancourt began her creative life inside music. Growing up torn between the arts and science, she once imagined becoming a professional musician before a university placement with…
Image Credit: Biz Lyon in rehearsal for Midnight in Nashville. Biz Lyon knows a thing or two about detours. Originally from Kentucky, she trained in New York before a creative life that has taken her back and forth between Tennessee,…
Image Credit: Photo of Karen Ashton, co-founder of the Art Car Boot Fair. Karen Ashton has been flying by the seat of her pants for some time. An RAF kid who spent part of her childhood in Cyprus, she remembers…
Image Credit: Photo of Simon Casson, 2026. Full disclosure: I’ve known Simon since the late ’90s. So when I say I effing love what he does, you should know I’m hardly a disinterested observer. It’s hard to deny, he’s a…
Image credit: Normies Study Group, presenting OBJECTIFICATION. The intensive workshop takes place 10:00-16:30, Thursday 10 September, followed by the live body installation 21:15-22:45, Friday 11 September at UNCENSORED Festival. With Matilde Flor Usinger, Ruben R and workshop participants. For Lidia…
Image Credit: Photo of Jon Link, photographed by Ellen Kydd for Modern Toss. Jon Link has spent his career finding value in the stuff polite culture tends to overlook. Starting out in graphic design, record sleeves and magazines, he eventually…
Image Credit: Bea Taylor Searle, co-founder of Peckham Digital. Photographed by Mati Granica. Bea Taylor Searle didn’t set out to build one of London’s most exciting creative technology communities. Her journey began with a curiosity about art, before discovering the…
Image Credit: ‘Dreaming with Flamingos’ by Yinka Ilori. Google Arts & Culture. Part of Creative Intelligence, 11-13 September at the Southbank Centre. southbankcentre.co.uk Keri Elmsly and Jazia Hammoudi are cultural instigators in the best sense: curators and strategists drawn to…