Contributing Artists
Akeim Toussaint Buck, Dancer
Akeim is an interdisciplinary performer and creative born in Jamaica and raised in England. Since graduating from the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in 2014, with a first-class honours Bachelor degree in Performing Arts, Akeim has been involved in multiple cross artform projects with a wide range of artists and communities from around the world. The aesthetic of his work combines skills such as: dance, film, poetry, beat-box, singing and acting, fused to create performances that tell stories capable of bridging the intersections of a variety of audiences. Akeim's work has been supported by Yorkshire Dance, Leeds Playhouse, Leeds Inspired, IRIE! Dance Theatre, Spin Arts, Serendipity, NSCD, Sadlers Wells and Arts Council England. His choreographic work includes: Snakebox's PLAY, solo work 'Windows Of Displacement,’ duet 'Sib Y Osis' and 'Beatmotion.' Akeim's film work includes: 'Galvanise' and 'Windows.'
Martin Jordan, Visual Artist
Commercial botanical and zoological work includes numerous book jackets for major publishing houses, posters for Friends of the Earth, Body Shop and others, internationally successful ‘Lifeline’ T-shirts and four lavishly coloured books on Amazonian nature that won awards in the UK and USA’
Principal patrons included the late Edward Goldsmith founder of the Ecologist magazine, and the late John Aspinall, casino owner and breeder of endangered wild animals who commissioned a wildlife mural room at his club in Mayfair, London and two further wildlife mural rooms at his Port Lympne mansion on the Kent coast.
Five successful one-man exhibitions in Central London and exhibited art works at numerous London galleries including the Natural History Museum.
Renata Kudlacek, Visual Artist
Renata is a mixed media artist, specializing in fine art photography, drawing and print media. Her work has been exhibited widely across Europe whilst actively working for various art and education initiatives including project management and curation. She currently works as a Tutor for Fine Art and Art History and co directs BBA Gallery in Berlin.
Renata critically uses re-enactment, the aftermath of historic scenes in order to look back and make the construction of (art) history, memory and storytelling visible. Much of her recent work relates to the centuries old discussion, which raises the question of life and its origin- the challenge between old standards and the new science that requires constant revision. Aesthetic experience is closely related to ethnical experience. The use of symbolic motives of flowers, butterflies, snakes etc. within traditional interpretation and mythologies is integral to her work. Renata holds an MA from the Royal College of Art London and lives and works in Berlin Germany.