OUR HIVE
35mm photography by Lily Ashrowan
Lily Ashrowan
Lily Ashrowan is an artist based between the rural Scottish Borders and London and these disparate geographies inform her work. She works across moving image, photography, writing and performance to produce work which explores themes of memory and embodiment: thinking of movement as a syntax, and language as a medium that can be treated choreographically. She is also a Co-Director and Co-Founder of Mezzanine artist studios and project space
Joshua Clague
Working primarily with installation and performance, Clague opens up lived experiences and edits them down to their most essential elements to create points of resonance that have an affective capacity. Utilising emulation and homage, his practice often riffs on pop cultural icons and divas that have informed his sense of self. Ultimately crystallising themes of love, memory, family, fandom and form.
Bethany Husband
Husband retells personal and mythic histories through drawing and text, considering how these methods of recollection disperse and re-situate meaning.
Crimson DM Lily
Caught between the hectic knots of Capitalism’s omnipresence intercepting and disrupting our being, Crimson DM Lily seeks to untangle the messy macro entity by obsessing over the micro. Adopting this attitude into her skillset - the warp - she works across textiles, garment construction, film, digital collage, drawing and writing. At the same time, she interweaves threads from her research - the weft - including: familial mythmaking, geographical belonging, dialectical tensions, selfhoods, landscapes of love, patriotism and handling fabric as an organism. This sometimes leads her to collaborate with musicians (Adwaith + Thigh High), sometimes with colour, sometimes just her thoughts. Wherever she wanders, Crimson DM Lily ensures she is firmly rooted in amongst the fibres of her fascination.
ANdy Rhys Williams
Andy Rhys Williams works with mosaic and glass to produce pseudo-achaeological sculptures that question how gestures of extraction, preservation, distortion and demolition express our perceptions of value.
HAMISH HALLEY
Halley work primarily with textiles, video, and printmaking and often with foraged materials such as raw wool, or plant matter for dyeing. He investigates material processes and personal narratives, raising questions about custodianship, heritage and interspecies relatins.