Johanna Bolton is a Swedish artist living in London, where she finished a BA in Fine Arts at Chelsea College 2014. After graduating, she worked for two years as a tutor at the Royal College of Art, and is currently an active member of alternative university group AltMFA. She has participated in a number of residencies, art festivals and group shows, e.g. at Royal College of Art, Royal Academy Burlington Art Festival, Bath Fringe Arts Festival, Shonibare Guest Projects and the Nunnery Gallery, London. Her work is held by private collectors and in the UAL collection. She previously studied biochemistry, and holds a PhD from the Pharmacology Department in Cambridge.

 

Johanna’s practice is concerned with performative research and finding strategies to observe and record the invisible in the everyday – whether this is caused by routine or a problem of conceptualisation.

 

Maria Lusitano is a Portuguese visual artist who lives in London since 2011. She holds a postgraduate diploma in Fine Art from Malmö Art Academy, in Sweden and a Arts based Ph.D taken at the University of Westminster, London, in 2015. Previously she studied Medicine (1998). In her current projects Maria Lusitano is interested in experimenting with models of narrative and symbolical language to explore dreams and consciousness. Her projects address her inner and outer life experiences, which she contextualises historically and intertwines with the biographies/experiences of others, such as historical characters. She works with video, video-installation, drawing, collage and artist publications. 

 

She has exhibited in international events such as 29th Biennial of Sao Paulo, (2010), Manifesta 5 (2004) and in venues such as 100 Years Gallery, London (2016), MAAT, Lisbon (2016), Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (2013), Moderna Museet in Stockholm (2011), Lunds Konst Hall (2011), Joshibi university, Tokyo (2010), Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Ireland (2013). Her  work is present in art collections such as Victoria and Albert Museum, MoMA and Georges Pompidou Artist’s book Collections, EDP Foundation, National Museum of Contemporary Art (Portugal), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.