Frank Abruzzese

Originally from Philadelphia, is a father, a photographer and avid cook. He obtained his Bachelors Degree in Moving Image Arts from the College of Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2000, and Master of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2004. His work has been featured in Domus magazine, was part of the 2012 Istanbul Design Biennial and resides in the permanent collection of the Office of Public Works. He received the Emerging Photographer of the Year award from San Francisco Magazine, and as a photographer exhibits internationally in galleries and universities.

His Italian heritage and love of home cooked food have developed into a passion for cooking, and his meals are as much a part of the experience at Cow House as are the art-making and beautiful landscape. Frank is the photography instructor at Cow House. He loves teaching and has a keen interest in a multidisciplinary, ideas-based approach to working with students.

Alma Haser

Alma Haser is known for her complex and meticulously constructed portraiture, which are influenced by her creativity and her background in fine art.

Expanding the dimensions of traditional portrait photography, Alma takes her photographs further by using inventive paper-folding techniques, collage and mixed media to create layers of intrigue around her subjects; manipulating her portraits into futuristic paper sculptures and blurring the distinctions between two-dimensional and three-dimensional imagery.

Alma has won many awards for her work, including Magenta Foundation's Bright Spark Award in 2013 for her Cosmic Surgery series (also the basis of a successful self-published book project). Her piece The Ventriloquist was shortlisted for the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery in 2012.

LIZ WEST

A British artist known for her wide-ranging works, from the intimate to the monumental. Using a variety of materials and exploring the use of light, she blurs the boundaries between sculpture, architecture, design and painting to create works that are both playful and immersive.

West has been commissioned worldwide by institutions and organisations including Natural History Museum, London Design Festival, Paris Fashion Week, Milan Design Week, National Trust, National Science and Media Museum, Dubai Design Week, Natural England, Salford University, Fortnum & Mason and Bristol Biennial. West’s work has been included in exhibitions at St Albans Museum + Gallery, Chester Cathedral, Compton Verney, Musée Nissim de Camondo in Paris, Kraftwerk Berlin, Tripostal Lille and Bangalore International Centre.

Mark Devereux

Mark Devereux holds over 15-years experience working within the art sector, specialising in artist professional development, curation, production and project management. After practicing as an artist for a short period following his graduation from BA Photography and MA Fine Art at Staffordshire University, he found his passion and skills to be within facilitation and support for artists. In 2006, Devereux founded and directed Blank Media Collective and later BLANKSPACE Gallery in Manchester, swiftly establishing a reputation for unearthing exciting emerging talent. Following six successful years, Devereux stepped down to establish Mark Devereux Projects in 2013. He has since developed his work nurturing early-career talent working with hundreds of artists; curating exhibitions, producing participatory events, facilitating professional development programmes and forging partnerships with organisations across the UK including: Heart of Glass, Manchester Art Gallery, The NewBridge Project, Standpoint Gallery and Vane.

Lauren McLaughlin

Lauren (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, activist and the founding director of Spilt Milk Gallery CIC. Lauren’s work encompasses a range of materials and processes ranging from collage, neon, and sculpture to socially engaged and curatorial projects. Her work is concept driven, led by ideas and experiences rather than mediums and materials. Throughout her practice, Lauren seeks to amplify the invisible, overlooked and undervalued experiences of mothering, care work and economic inequality. Often highlighting subjects which are still considered taboo such as childbirth, abortion and poverty, her most recent work centres on the experiences of single mothers and austerity politics.

Lauren graduated with BA (Hons) Fine Art from Central Saint Martin’s London (2012), and MA Applied Arts and Social Practice, Queen Margaret University Edinburgh (2021). Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout the UK and Europe, and is included in permanent public collections (The Birth Rites Collection, Schwitters Army Collage Collection). Her work has been featured in several publications over the past few years including Milked Mag, Maternal Art Magazine, Cults of Life Zine and Wordpower: Language as Medium. Lauren’s work ‘A Conflict of Interests’ was the recipient of the 2018 Birth Rites Collection Award and her ongoing practice-research project; ‘Making Something From Nothing’, was shortlisted for the John Byrne Award in August 2021.

dyana gravina

Dyana Gravina is an art producer, curator, activist, an artist and a birth doula. Dyana is a listener as much as an instigator. Dyana thinks collectively and brings people together. Dyana's has made of her beliefs an international movement for social change and womxn’s rights advocacy. Dyana is the founder and creative director of Procreate Project, a visionary and pioneering arts organisation supporting contemporary artists who are (m)others for the last eight years.

Procreate Project is a socio-cultural movement and non-for profit arts institution. It was born out of the personal inspiration of Dyana's pregnancy and the shocking reality of lack of support and representation that force womxn outside of the creative industries.

Rezia Wahid

Rezia Wahid will share ‘dancing in the womb’ a series of poetic woven expressions inspired by my pregnancies and motherhood. Wahid designed a warp when pregnant with her first child but it didn’t make it on the loom as other projects, teaching, workshops and commissions took priority. Lockdown/March 2020 gave her the opportunity, thanks to her children and a humble AN bursary to revisit it. She is now compiling a book for it which will be published in July 2022 and be exhibited as a solo show at Whitechurch Silk Mill, Hampshire July-Sept 2022

Work exhibited: Lauren McLaughlin

Work Exhibited: Sally Butcher

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