Abbas Zahedi (b. 1984, London, UK) is an artist with a background in medicine from University College London and an MA in Contemporary Photography and Philosophy from Central Saint Martins. His practice engages with systems of care, thresholds of experience, and the creation of communal spaces for dialogue. Zahedi’s work often weaves together personal narratives and broader collective concerns, using sound and materiality as conduits for reflection and connection. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Stanley Picker Fellowship (2024); Artangel: Making Time (2023); Frieze Artist Award (2022); Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award (2021); Serpentine Galleries’ Support Structures for Support Structures (2021); Artangel: Thinking Time (2020); Jerwood Arts Bursary (2019); Aziz Foundation Scholarship (2018); and the Khadijah Saye Memorial Scholarship (2017). Zahedi is an Associate Lecturer at the Royal College of Art, London, and has taught at universities across the UK and internationally.
Dennis Dizon (Philippines/Spain) is a research-based artist and writer. Through intertextual, transmedia and discursive practices, they interrogate intersections of technology and ecology, applying queer relationalities and de-colonial practices through poetics and affective attachments. Dennis is currently participating in Delfina Foundation’s science_technology_society programme (London, 2025) where they aim to expand their research on ecological affect and networked media, inhabiting the emotional geographies of death, dying, loss and grief. Dennis has contributed to Flora Fantastic: From Orchidelirium to Eco-Critical Contemporary Art (Routledge, 2024), a model, a map, a fiction at transmediale (Berlin, 2023), CARPARK (Berlin, 2023), Immerse! at Tallinna Kunstihoone (Tallinn, 2023), and Weather Engines at Onassis Stegi (Athens, 2022) along with an artist’s intervention in Neural (Issue 71: Strange Weathers, Winter 2022), among others. They received a Master of Research degree in Advanced Practices (Goldsmiths, University of London) and are currently a doctoral student in Existential Psychotherapy (NSPC, Middlesex University).
Sally Davies (UK) trained as a psychiatrist and psychotherapist and worked for 20 years in the NHS, leaving in 2017 to pursue her interest in clowning and poetry. Sally is interested in the therapeutic potential of play and created Queer Family Cabaret, a workshop for families to play together using costume and clown. She has also curated workshops exploring surrealism and clown as a means to connect more deeply with nature. Sally currently uses clown and tarot to create connection and community, devising tarot decks which use the historical characters and psycho-geography of London to celebrate diverse groups. These decks, written as poems, become psycho-magic art-brut objects, created in community, as well as immersive embodied tarot performances (devised with the ecological clown collective Divine Ridiculous). Sally’s most recent deck, The London Clown Tarot was made for The London Clown Festival and used a cast of 22 contemporary London Clowns. She is currently working on her fifth deck within this series for and is returning to train as a psychotherapist using Breathwork.
