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Wearing Art: Sound of Ikebana
Balloon Man
Walkies
Thames Matter
Video
Single-channel video 3 min 24 sec
Hydro formed mild steel, aluminium, motors 270 × 175 × 60 cm
Ceramic Pot 1: 20 × 28 cm Pot 2: 19 × 32 cm Pot 3: 22 × 29 cm
2025
2025
2025
2025
naokotosa Naoko Tosa
ned_prizeman Ned Prizeman
neve.beill.ceramics Neve Beill
the_creatoratheart Natasha Abrahams
Naoko Tosa is a pioneering Japanese media artist whose practice bridges cultural heritage and advanced technology. Working with high-speed imaging, sound and digital media, Tosa creates poetic works that explore impermanence, memory and the unseen forces of nature. Drawing inspiration from traditional Japanese aesthetics such as ‘ikebana’ and calligraphy, she reinterprets cultural memory through contemporary forms. Sound of Ikebana is a series of video works created by using a high-speed camera to capture liquid shaped by sound vibrations into ikebana-like forms. Filmed at 2,000 frames per second, the works reveal fleeting organic patterns where physics and sensitivity meet, leaving a vivid impression of colour and movement. Through different liquids, Naoko Tosa evokes a wide range of tones—from Buddhist prayerful hues and the subtle shades of wabi-sabi to the playful palette of contemporary Cool Japan.
Ned Prizeman is a London-based artist whose practice explores the tension between social performance and instinct. Working across kinetic sculpture, airbrush drawing and performance, Prizeman repurposes found materials and mechanical objects to test their limits and create playful yet ambiguous scenarios. Drawing on direct engagement with materials and the subconscious, Prizeman’s work reflects the pull between respectability, desire and untamed imagination. Walkies examines the tension between animal instinct and social restraint, where civility collides with impulse. Using animatronics with linkages and hydroforming, in which steel is inflated with water into bulging, pillow-like forms, the work embodies both containment and vitality. Developed during a residency, it animates sculptural bodies as otherworldly creatures, alive with human dilemmas.
Neve Beill is a London- and Isle of Wight–based ceramic artist whose practice is shaped by an early fascination with the island’s clay. Working with foraged materials, Beill creates site-specific pieces that embody the textures and tones of place. Through a tactile, exploratory process, Beill reclaims overlooked or discarded matter, transforming it into ceramics that reflect the deep connection between material, landscape and memory. Thames Matter was shaped by instinct, personal discovery and curiosity about material and place. Developed through walking, observing and collecting along the River Thames, the work uses found clay, bones, glass and dentures from the foreshore. The bubbling, melting surface of the fired clay captures the river’s unpredictable nature, reflecting Beill’s intuitive process of trial, error and emotional connection to place.
Natasha Abrahams is a self-taught artist who has specialised in realistic portraiture for over a decade. With a background in Modern Languages, Abrahams intertwines art, language and culture to broaden perspectives on human interaction. Drawing on a finely tuned perception shaped by autism, she uses painting and drawing to explore themes of climate, identity and equality. Balloon Man is an immersive short poetry film that fuses photography and videography. The poem, inspired by the life and work of revolutionary Beat poet Ruth Weiss, is narrated through experimental AI technology, forming an abstract inner monologue that accompanies the director’s walk. The film experiments with new visual methods to explore themes of wisdom and unity within contemporary human conditions, including politics, social justice, gender rights and the environment.
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