Rhea Dillon is an artist, writer and poet based in London. Examining and abstracting her intrigue of the ‘rules of representation’ as a device to undermine contemporary Western culture, Dillon questions what constitutes the ontology of race and power, versus the ontic.
The artist’s first institutional solo exhibition, ‘An Alterable Terrain’, opened at Tate Britain, Art Now in 2023. Accompanying this major exhibition, a new book showcases her poetically insightful work. Edited by Dillon, ‘An Alterable Terrain’ features her poethic writing, alongside newly commissioned texts, posthumously published poems from the poetry archives in Jamaica and installation views of the exhibition alongside individual works. The artist presented ‘Catgut – The Opera’ as part of Park Nights 2021 at the Serpentine Pavilion, a publication of the same title was released in 2023 by Worms Publishing and launched at the ICA London.
Recent exhibitions include ‘The Black Fold’ at Kunstverein Kevin Space, Vienna (2023); ‘We looked for eyes creased with concern, but saw only veils’ at Sweetwater, Berlin (2023); ‘The Sombre Majesty (or, on being the pronounced dead)’ at Soft Opening, London (2022); ‘Real Corporeal’ at Gladstone Gallery, New York (2022); ‘Love’ at Bold Tendencies, London (2022) and an online screening at The Kitchen, New York (2022). Dillon was in residence at Triangle - Astérides, Marseille in 2022 and V.O. Curations, London, culminating in a solo exhibition, ‘Nonbody Nonthing No Thing’ and poetry chapbook ‘Donald Dahmer’ (both 2021).
Oisín Roberts is a writer and artist from Derry, Ireland and living in London. He has been published by Montez Press and Prototype (forthcoming) and has read all over, incl. the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, AMP Gallery, San Mei Gallery, The Ivy House, Biblioteka library and on the air with Montez Press and No Bounds. He set up and runs Think Big, Read Community Library. The Library is a library and events programme that brings members and local people into meaningful social contact in the context of learning, thinking and sharing stories together.
Abiba Coulibalyis a geographer and film curator with a particular interest in the unrealised militant potential of cinema, the intersection of ethics and aesthetics, and the visual narratives of Black, Muslim, and Francophone communities. Their projects Brixton Community Cinema and Atlas Cinema are experiments in what democratising access to cinema - as both space and medium - could look like.
Pear Nuallak was dug out from the side of a Croydon hill in the late 20th century. They are an artist and writer currently based in all the bogs of London. Their first book, ‘Pearls from their Mouth’, was published in 2022 with Hajar Press.
Hastiis a poet, writer, and editor at Montez Press. A member of the inaugural Southbank New Poets Collective and the Ledbury Poetry Critics, they are the recipient of the 2023 White Review Poet's Prize and the 2022 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize for Poetry. They have co-written short sci-fi film DIGGING, produced by Film4. Hasti also hosts open mic and poetry night Fresh Lip, and its sister show for Montez Press Radio, Fresh Air.