Above&Below is a London-based artist duo founded by media artists Daria Jelonek and Perry-James Sugden in November 2017, after graduating from the Royal College of Art. Their collaborative practice focuses on interactive and speculative projects, based on hands-on research at the intersection of art, technology and our environment. The collective's practice is known to push the boundaries of how emerging technologies are used by the industry; not only using interactive technologies for creative uses, but also to research and reveal their potential for new interactions between human, machine and society.

Based in Nottingham, Katharina Fitz mainly works in the field of sculpture and installation, often in reference to industrial processes and architecture.

The physical engagement of the body is notably present in her practice, where traces and props of making draw the viewer into an exploration of the work. She questions the hierarchy and value of objects in a mass-produced, slick, and highly globalised world, embracing imperfection, provisionality and human touch. Fitz pushes the act of manual labour into the exhibition space to bring the energy and intimacy of making into contact with the audience. Her work explores the vision and understanding of our environment, offering a new reading of how it could be animated, changed, or extended into something else.

Her photographic work looks at issues surrounding the changes, phenomena, and structures that we find within the city and how they affect our coexistence within urban space.

Sophie Huckfield (she/they) is an artist. Her practice draws on contemporary research and histories related to technology, labour, craft, social-class and industrialisation. She incorporates layering and cutting as a conceptual tool to reframe these complex socio-political histories, to develop multidisciplinary works which reimagine and reconfigure ‘production’ contexts and challenge the dominant narratives employed to frame specific stories, histories and experiences. Her practice aims to re-purpose the tools and technologies of production, both materially and culturally, to make space for redefining how we produce values, relations and traditions which are in turn embedded into the objects and stories we make.

Will Hurt is best known for his brightly coloured, playful, digital interactives which cater to people of all ages and abilities and respond to the geometry of the physical sites they are installed in, abstracting and re-presenting local architecture and landscape. These site-specific interactives bring people together, forging connections and affording them a moment to play, leaving them with lasting memories of novel playful experiences and a new appreciation of their locality. Recent work focuses on contemporary modes of drawing, writing software in which complex geometric worlds can be drawn, animated and explored. Will’s work has been exhibited around the world due to its stand-out aesthetic, technical resilience and engaging immediacy.

Multidisciplinary designer and studio. Creator of branding, motion graphics, print and events.

Ryan Heath is a visual artist based in Nottingham, making work across painting, sculpture, and multimedia installation. His work focuses on themes encompassing semiotics, geography, and speculative futures. He has exhibited in the UK and internationally, receiving commissions and awards from established organizations including BACKLIT Gallery, UK New Artists, and the University of Nottingham.

A strong advocate for socially-engaged art, Ryan often works with young people as a workshop facilitator. Clients include Nottingham Refugee Forum, Pending Collective, Harris Museum, and Tate Exchange. Ryan has given guest lectures and panel discussions at leading universities and institutions such as Nottingham Trent University and The British Library.

He is also a BACKLIT studio artist and former member of Chaos Magic.

Candice Jacobs is an artist whose work focuses on identity and the collective experience between work and leisure; and how repetition can be a means of power, pleasure, control and escape. Drawing on aesthetics from mass media and consumerism, her output spans moving image, sculpture, product, graphic and spatial design.

Rachel Parry is an award-winning, internationally renowned interdisciplinary artist, specialising in Performance and Live Art practices, based in Nottingham.

Rachel created performance platform Little Wolf Parade (2012 – present) and ran artist-led project space and gallery Guerilla Art Lab (2013 - 2017) in Nottingham: out of which they formed the GAL Collective (2014 – present).

Rachel's artwork is subversive, often visceral and feminist, queer and political. It takes over space, often unapologetically thrusting audiences into new areas of experiencing the ideas. Compelled and driven by exploring identity out of her malfunctioning body, mind and layered identity. Making art (that includes but) is beyond aesthetics and the ritual, as it is concerned with the psychology and sociology surrounding the horrors of the failing body, how we process trauma and the lived body experience.

Rachel studied and graduated from Northumbria University (2005) Newcastle upon Tyne, with a BA (hons) in Fine Art. Rachel did their teacher training (2006) at Nottingham Trent University and later gained an MA in Performance Practices from DE Montfort University, Leicester (2015).

Instagram: @rachelparryartist | @littlewolfparade_art | @guerillartlab

Gabriela Rogula is a multidisciplinary artist particularly interested in moving images and sound. The common theme in her work is movement, decategorization and transition.

Her work is often influenced by biology, quantum physics, and socio-economic issues. She experiments with different mediums often combining solid materials with video projection and sound. She would like to engage the viewer as much as she can and stimulate their senses.

Céline Siani Djiakoua is a French multidisciplinary visual artist based in Nottingham. In 2015 her work was selected for the regional Nottingham Castle Open, winning two prizes. Her core practice consists of delicate and elegant autobiographical line drawings which are both analytical and emotional, mainly representing a female figure. She presents her work in multidisciplinary and site-specific installations, using moving images, sound, words, projections and, more recently, virtual reality. With a background in psychology (MA) and dance, her creative and research process involves diary practice, body work, meditation and dream analysis. She is fascinated by the transcendent notions of macrocosm and microcosm and sees parallels between large-scale human conflicts and personal inner conflicts.

In 2020, she was awarded Arts Council England funding for her project, 'The Untouched Collection', a residency at Bromley House Library, Nottingham, where she researched a 19th century collection of travelling books to collect illustrations of African nature. Using personal and mythological narratives, she explored issues of de/colonisation. Working in collaboration with Near Now and Loughborough University workshops (AA2A scheme), she has created new interactive work, mixing printmaking, drawing, text, augmented reality and animation.

Joe Strickland is a theatre maker and mixed reality storyteller who examines interactivity, presence and liveness across various different live and digital media. They are a PhD student studying Future Experience Technologies, supported by the University of Nottingham, the Horizon CDT, and the BBC. They are an artist in development with the Nottingham Playhouse.

Joe is the artistic director of Strickland Productions, producing theatre across the country. They are also co-artistic director of Chronic Insanity, a theatre production company that is aiming to put on 12 shows in 12 months in Nottingham and the surrounding area in 2019/20.

Kerryn Wise is a movement-based artist, researcher and performer based in the East Midlands, making work across dance, physical theatre, contemporary performance and digital technologies. Her performance practice explores the relationship between the live and digital body through choreography and the visual layering of images. She is interested in interrogating the audience/spectator relationship and how virtual environments can affect audience perception.

Kerryn is currently exploring the potentials of using 360-degree video within live, immersive performance practices, and has recently begun a PhD furthering this research funded by Midlands3Cities/AHRC. Kerryn is a QuestLab Digital Dance Artist at Studio Wayne McGregor for 2018/19.

Chris A. Wright is an interdisciplinary and experimental artist, aiming to present sets of proposals that provoke and interrupt.

Concerned with borders and transitional spaces encompassing mental and physical boundaries using a wide range of media but often using sound and/or light as a way of transcending the border. She is particularly interested in the parts of sound and light that are silence and darkness. She has recorded in an anechoic chamber to try and record silence, sailed paper boats down the Mekong River at the border between Thailand and Laos, blown across a bottle top down a fjord in Norway, hummed in a crypt in Sardinia and imitated early morning birds and monkeys in India with a soprano recorder.

Hope is Marketing Co-ordinator for Broadway's Arts and Tech projects since 2023.

Previously Hope completed her Bachelors in Film Studies and Screenwriting at Sheffield Hallam University and was Project Manager for The Ticket Bank and Film Programmer for Showroom Cinema.

Lee is our Creative Producer. He joined Broadway in 2015 as Studio Producer, supporting the Arts Council England and Innovate UK sponsored Near Now Studio. Since 2016, he has led Broadway's Near Now programme as Creative Producer, managing the delivery of our Arts Council England-funded activity—as a National Portfolio Organisation—and initiatives to support the growing arts/tech community in Nottingham.

Lee has 16 years experience of producing projects, events and experiences that explore arts, design, technology and play.