biography

Zach Welch

Zach Welch, born September 14th 1993 at Dallas Texas, was a former football player until 2 injuries in a year convinced him that football was not for him. Wishing to fill his free time and knowing he enjoyed art throughout school, he took up ap drawing and ap 2d design. This sparked a passion in him and he began drawing everyday, taking inspiration from artist Minjae Lee's style and methods. Sticking to the advice "any mark you make can be turned into something", Zach continued creating pieces and his style began evolving and changing to specialise in sharpie and inks, using them to portray his second favourite pass time - subculture music. He is now the co-owner of Forest Inks that designs and sells t-shirts, and also works for bands designing CD covers.

Allison Cortson

Allison Cortson, born 1978 Santa Monica, California, lives and works in Los Angeles as a fine artist. Growing up she had a distinct interest in physics, particularly the science of matter and elementary particles - it was this interest that began her fascination in dust paintings. During a class about how matter is mostly empty space, Allison watched dust particles float around the room and came up with the idea of using dust as a material to depict solid space as something light and ephemeral. When she later learnt that dust is up to 70% dead skin she was amazed that someone living could generate cells that create this substance everywhere and decided to depict this in her work.

Carne Griffiths

Originally from Liverpool, Griffiths graduated from the Kent Institute of Art and Design in Maidstone in 1995. After completing a one-year KIAD fellowship and moving to London he served an apprenticeship at the longest-established gold wire embroidery firm in the world where after 12 years he became the creative director. His designs were used for the uniforms in the films Valkyrie, The Last King of Scotland, and in particular his ‘Red Death Coat’ was used in The Phantom of the Opera. Carne’s elaborate floral designs for Asprey were included in their first ever catwalk collection and his work was featured on the embroidered cover of the 80th Royal Variety Performance programme in 2008.
Since establishing his own studio in 2010, has began working in his current style to portray everyday situations and exploring human, geometric and floral forms in both a realisitic and abstract way.

Lee Jeffries