Haseebah Ali is an artist and arts educator based in Birmingham. Her work centres around cultural themes and occasionally political circumstances. Her artistic aim is to create work that not only educates her but the audience to which it is viewed.

Having having obtained a BA in illustration in 2018, Haseebah has embarked on many opportunities, including having her work on billboards, exhibiting at Saatchi Gallery with WaterAid, as well as being a guest judge for BBYA in 2022.

Ali’s work is centred around storytelling and conveying that through a visual language. As a printmaker working mainly with relief print and intaglio, Ali enjoys working with communities to exchange knowledge and uplift voices. 

Tat Vision is a Brummie papier-mâché pop artist, performer and workshop facilitator who graduated from Birmingham City University with a BA in Fine Art in 2012. His practice is rooted in a childhood fascination with just you know –creating. Inspired by the belief that art can be created anywhere, from anything, by anyone, like cardboard and/or old socks. That early influence continues to inform his material choices and accessible approach. Working primarily in papier-mâché, cardboard and reclaimed second-hand materials or you know, bits of tat from the charity shop.

Tat Vision reimagines figures from popular culture, distorting the familiar into exaggerated, imperfect, and often grotesque and daft looking forms. His sculptures embrace parody, awkwardness and ugliness as tools to question nostalgia, celebrity and mass consumption. By deliberately adopting a playful, childlike aesthetic, he disrupts polished pop imagery and shakes out the fragility beneath the surface, similar to how an orangutan would shake a tree to get some fruit. Alongside his studio practice, he hosts and performs live shows and delivers participatory workshops across schools, community settings and cultural events. Through both making and performance, he champions creativity without hierarchy encouraging audiences to experiment, improvise and create boldly with the materials around them.

Established in 2014, 21 Pirates is a pop culture art exhibition that features artwork from video games, comic books, and movies. They work with talented artists across the UK and internationally to deliver outstanding, innovative artwork to audiences of all ages.
 

Nilupa Yasmin is an award-winning artist and educator with a primarily lens-based practice. She explores the principles of art and craft and the expanded materiality within photography.

Yasmin is interested in the notion of culture, self-identity, and anthropology. Whilst investigating ideals and traditions that are close to home, she repeatedly draws upon her own identity through gender, religion and her British Bangladeshi culture and heritage. An element of her practice focuses on socially engaged photography; she works collaboratively with various communities to produce and curate works of Art.

A selection of her work is included in many permanent and private collections, including the Government Art Collection, The New Art Gallery Walsall and Birmingham Museums Collection. Most recently exhibiting internationally, at The Las Photo Festival in California, the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad and the Pingyao Photo Festival, China. She is a Lecturer in Photography at Coventry University and recently completed her MA in Photography Arts at the University of Westminster.

Nilupa is a studio holder at Grand Union, Birmingham. 

Tina Francis is a Birmingham‑based tapestry, needlepoint, and textile artist whose practice centres on stitch as a tool for connection, care, and storytelling. Working primarily with wool and canvas, her work explores themes of time, labour, belonging, and creative health, often drawing attention to the value of traditionally overlooked “home crafts” as powerful contemporary art forms.

Alongside her studio practice, Tina works extensively with communities and groups of all ages, creating large‑scale collaborative tapestry projects and leading participatory workshops. Her work frequently brings people together through shared making, using stitch as a gentle framework for conversation, reflection, and connection. She also runs Tina Francis Tapestry, producing stitch kits and patterns designed to encourage accessible creativity and mindful making.