Syllabus: Meet the new Partners podcast 

Tune in to hear the new Syllabus partners PS2, TACO! (guest partner 2024-25) and New Art Exchange talk about their organisations and what they are most looking forward to on the Syllabus programme.  

Read the podcast transcript here.

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Syllabus is a collaboratively produced alternative learning programme in its seventh year that will support ten artists across ten months. The programme offers time to come together with artists from across the UK to discuss ideas, work, life and approaches to practice.  

Artist bios

Omid Asadi (he/him), a multidisciplinary artist hailing from Iran, explores the intricacies of human existence through the lens of contrast. His work delves into themes of immigration, identity, environment, and memory, reflecting a deep inquiry into the human condition. 

@omidasadiart

Maggie (they/them) is an artist working across sculpture, costume, text, and performance. They worked as co-facilitator at The Field, a communal practicing/living project in rural Derbyshire.

@watergender

Katrina Cobain (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Glasgow, working in performance, sculpture, writing and film. Her work explores the behaviour, personas and coping mechanisms invented under our late capitalist landscape, and the cognitive dissonance and absurdity they often produce. She uses writing as a tool in correspondence with object making, to push narratives forward in her practice.

@katrinakobain 

michael. (he/him) is an artist and community worker based in London.

Sophie Gresswell (she/her) is an artist exploring interconnected ‘living’ heritage. Her work often stems from her own experiences of mixed heritage and facilitates space to sit with complex history and unknown heritage in order to find a deeper sense of connection. It invites us to transcend our individual lifespan and amplify the way our human stories intersect through generations, cultures and history to bring us to the current moment in time, and inform the very people we are today.

@sgresswellart

Moira (she/her) is a multimedia artist, using film and sound, performance, printmaking, and installations. Her practice looks at b/Black diasporas, particularly women, and their connection to memory, myth, and land.

@moirasalt

Sahjan Kooner (they/them) is an amalgamation of inherited worlds and speculative futures, they work in a freelance capacity to support their practice and owe a great deal to their family, they are a student of the dream state. Using video and installation, they create expansive worlds that explore the traces of love, hope and imagination that make our lives possible, along with examining a debris of questions around the technological, social and racialised structures that augment life.

Yoojin Lee (she/her) works across and in-between performance, installation, text, sound and video to embody ways of becoming and knowing. Her work engages with seemingly quiet, less noticed but persistent forms of resistance and relating that unfold through multiple temporalities, such as sleep, sloth and slowness. She sleeps in London.

@nijooyl

Natasha (she/her) explores ideas and motifs that relate to invisible labour, care and neurodiversity, through playful use of doubling, repetition and considered use of close-at-hand materials. Simultaneously highlighting universal experiences based on our perception of space, passage of time, processes of making, and how we might gather, hold and return to our thoughts. Recent exhibitions include Eye Witness, Exeter Phoenix Gallery, 2024 and U & I, Eastside Projects Members Show, Birmingham, 2023.

@natashamacvoy

Alexis Parinas (he/they) is an artist and arts facilitator working across moving image, painting, ecoprinting, and installation. Through explorations of intangible cultural heritage, they seek to archive, imagine, discover, nurture, and pass down complex and expansive worlds through their practice. They also facilitate creative workshops for schools, universities, youth groups, and arts organisations, with a focus on nurturing the imagination and curiosity of young people through the arts.

@miraxmei