Richard Bell lives and works in Brisbane. He is a descendent of the Kamilaroi, Kooma, Jiman and Goreng Goreng peoples. He was an activist and community worker for the New South Wales Aboriginal Legal Service in the 1980s before becoming a full-time artist and co-founding the Aboriginal art collectives Campfire Group in 1990 and proppaNow in 2004. He works across painting, installation, performance, and video. Bell is one of Australia’s most significance artists and his work explores the complex artistic and political problems of Western, colonial and Indigenous art production. He grew out of a generation of Aboriginal activists and has remained committed to the politics of Aboriginal emancipation and self-determination.
Natalie Bell has been a member of the SE1 community for over 20 years. Recently the Boiler House at Tate Modern was renamed after Natalie Bell for the invaluable and positive contributions she has made to the lives of local people. From 2003 to 2014 Natalie was the director of SE1 United, a youth forum set up by local young people where she learnt about community organising and youth leadership. In 2002, Natalie became a trustee for Coin Street Community Builders and Coin Street Centre Trust. Currently she serves as the Head of Youth and Community Programmes at Coin Street.
Blak Outside is a collective founded by Carole Wright. It stages growing, cooking, walks and events exploring connections to and experiences of being outdoors. They work with those who are under-represented in communities to develop tools to decolonise knowledge, ancestry, plant history, nature and the built environment, and to celebrate being safely and proudly outside.
Blkmoodyboi (they/them) is a Non-binary Trans Afro-Indigenous Latinx self-taught illustrator. They centre Black and Brown trans people in their art. Blk Moody Boi asks “what does it mean to be safe outside?” by sharing messages of solidarity. They also reflect on the experience of communities that must consider how they move in a space.
Amir Eden serves as the Executive Chair of Living Bankside (formerly known as Bankside Residents’ Forum) and is responsible for leading the organisation in achieving its objectives, enabling residents to play a crucial role in the regeneration of the Bankside area. He has lived in Bankside all his life and is committed to encouraging active citizenship and promoting sustainable community development.
Richard Galpin is an artist and community organiser living and working in South London. With a background in fine art and community food growing, he seeks to grow community power through building new democratic structures for collective decision making, and supporting a just transition to a sustainable future. He is currently Director of Partnerships at Pembroke House, working on building collaborations to tackle inequalities and create systemic change at a neighbourhood scale.
Adelina Godinho is currently studying French and Spanish at Kings College London University. She was born in Portugal and moved to London at the age of four. She would like to use her voice as a young person living in Southwark to better understand the lives of those around her and ensure that their voices are heard. She is an aspiring Broadcast Journalist and is fascinated in learning about different cultures, languages and traditions from around the world in order to communicate with everyone.
Pembroke House is a centre for social action and residential community embedded in the neighbourhood of Walworth. It aims to build and strengthen social connections through mutual support and care across a range of programmes including the Pembroke Academy of Music, Inclusive Dance, Walworth Living Room (Cafe, Community Fridge), We Walworth, and the Walworth Neighbourhood Food Model.
Sharmada Nagarajan is an architect and urbanist specializing in strategic planning and sustainable territorial development focusing on governance innovation and participatory action research. She is currently managing the development and implementation of the Walworth Neighbourhood Food Model, a long-term vision and roadmap for the neighbourhood’s food system.
Iain Tuckett led the Coin Street campaign which ended when Coin Street Community Builders bought the 13-acre derelict site from the Greater London Council in 1984. Iain is chief executive of Coin Street Community Builders and has overseen all developments to date including completion of the South Bank riverside walkway and Bernie Spain Gardens; creation of Gabriel’s Wharf; refurbishment of Oxo Tower Wharf for mixed uses; and construction of the Coin Street neighbourhood centre, the ‘Green Room’ restaurant, and housing developments for Mulberry, Palm, Redwood and Iroko Housing Co-operatives. Iain was appointed an honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architecture in 1999 and an honorary fellow of London South Bank University in 2003
