Olivia Douglass is a British-Nigerian writer and poet. They are the winner of The Guardian and 4th Estate 4thWrite Prize 2022 with their short story Ink. They are the author of two poetry pamphlets, Slow Tongue (2018), and another forthcoming with Bad Betty Press in June 2024. Olivia was shortlisted for the Rebecca Swift Foundation Women Poets’ Prize 2020. A Barbican Young Poets alumni, their writing has appeared in publications including Guardian, Montez Press, National Poetry Library, Bath Magg, and Nothing Personal. Olivia has exhibited work internationally at galleries and institutions including Galleria Duarte Sequeira (Portugal), Passa Porta Festival (Brussels), NoguerasBlanchard Gallery (Madrid) and Kunsthall Stavanger (Norway). In 2022, they were the curator of Strange Echoes at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, a six-day interdisciplinary convening celebrating M. NourbeSe Philip and showcasing Black-British experimental poetry. Olivia recently completed an MSt in Creative Writing from the University of Oxford, and is developing new work.
FAUZIA is a multidisciplinary artist working across contemporary electronic music through live, recorded music and audio-visual installations. Her work focuses on challenging the division of genres through an extensive range of musical expressions, as a composer, DJ, producer, and vocalist. As a DJ on NTS Radio, her show was inspired by fast-paced music on both sides of the Atlantic. Six years later, the show guides listeners through the multiplicity of her influences, ranging from frenetic club productions to classical compositions, hosting guests including Mica Levi, Kode9, Space Afrika and more. Through the pandemic, FAUZIA self-released a series of projects – fragments 2020, are you hoping for a miracle? 2020 and flashes in time 2021 – reviewed by Resident Advisor, Crack Magazine, Pitchfork, The Wire and others. Her discography extends to production work for other artists, including Kelela, Duval Timothy and Tirzah. She is signed to Mexican Summer and is working on a debut album, with upcoming shows and residencies in London, Paris and New York.
Remi Graves is a London-based poet and drummer. A former Barbican Young Poet, their work has been featured on BBC Radio 4, at St Paul's Cathedral and in various anthologies. Past commissions include 'draft and sew' for the National Poetry Library and ‘On Breathing’ for Barbican. Their sound poem 'coal' was commissioned by Rosa Kwir Gallery (Malta) in October 2022 for Tender & Masculine, a group show. They have led courses at The Poetry School and facilitate in schools and community spaces around London. Remi's debut pamphlet with your chest was published in 2022 by fourteen poems. As a drummer Remi has toured the UK, US and Europe playing for various artists and performed improvisational sets at Somerset House, Southbank Centre’s Africa Utopia and more.
Otamere Guobadia is a multidisciplinary writer, poet, and columnist whose work focuses on desire, art, adornment, queerness, and agency, within culture high, low, and popular. His work has appeared in British Vogue, i-D, Dazed, GQ, The Guardian, Vogue Italia, Wonderland, The BBC, The Independent, and AnOther Magazine, among other publications. His first book, Unutterable Visions, Perishable Breath, was released on January 4, 2024.
Munesu Mukombe is a London-based multidisciplinary artist who works within writing, performance, and moving image. She writes autobiographical pieces that act as a framework to create intimate and vulnerable spaces for herself and the audience: contextualising abstract feelings around grief, racial oppression, interpersonal relationships, and self-actualisation. She is deeply inspired by the subversion of musical theatre, pop culture, and music but wanting to push this format further by reimagining the aesthetics of performances that incorporate RnB vocal arrangements, commercial choreography and experimental electronic music. Munesu completed a BA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths University. Her work has been shown at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, The David Roberts Art Foundation, The Young Vic, and Somerset House.
