Commissioned Artists for ARISE
Overarching artist: Kerrie O’Leary
Kerrie O’Leary is an Irish computational artist working between Dublin and London. Her practice translates environmental data into moving sculpture, sound and drawing, using code, sensors and mechanical systems to make natural processes tangible. Her work focuses on coastal environments, exploring how tides, rhythms of nature and community knowledge can be brought together through collaborative, site-responsive projects. She has exhibited internationally, including at Somerset House and the V&A, and has worked with organisations such as the Irish Arts Council and S+T+ARTS.
Heacham artist: Jane Scobie
Jane Scobie’s contemporary practice explores environmental politics and site. Her sculptural work is shown in public spaces and activated through engagement, triggering curiosity, interest and interaction. Jane completed MA Fine Art and Science at Central Saint Martins in 2024. Recent shows include Sounding The Wash sculpture trail, Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust (2025), MetaNature BOTH London (2024), Ground Beneath our Feet, Groundwork (2023), Edgelands, Wild Ken Hill (2022). Jane is a 2026 Proposition Studio resident artist and in 2025 was awarded the Compass Residency. Her collaborative practice re-imagines how we can relate to nonhuman entities.
Bawdsey artist: Cliff Hammett
Cliff Hammett is an artist, educator and technologist who creates interdisciplinary projects threading together digital technology, ecology and community activism. His projects investigate how data-driven infrastructures are used to shape ecosystems, economies, bodies and spaces. Each work is researched through engagements with different communities, from sex work activists to bat ecologists. What results are sometimes humorous, sometimes unsettling art walks, community installations, participatory events, performances, and interactive digital systems. Each create opportunities for different people to respond to the political, ecological and spatial effects of digital technologies and bureaucracies.
St Osyth artist: Mattie O’Callaghan
Mattie is an ecological designer, writer, facilitator and gardener exploring how we can live better together on this fragile planet. Working with the land and communities, they are exploring how collaborative design, making and growing can encourage us to live more intimately with the more-than-human world.
Their most recent project, Seeding Queer Futures, emerged out of a residency at Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage, centres collaborative queer methods to transform our cities into wild and beautiful spaces for all. They have collaborated with BBC Arts, Haringey Council, The Garden Museum, Chelsea Physic Garden, University of Cambridge and The National Trust.
(pronouns for reference are they/them)
Instagram: @mattie.ocallaghan Website: https://www.mattieocallaghan.com/
Eastchurch artist: David Blandy
David Blandy (b. 1976) is an artist based in Brighton whose work explores global structures of control and networks of resistance across ecology, history, science and cultures of play. Working across video, games, sound and ephemera, he deconstructs cultural forms and reassembles them to reveal hidden narratives and alternative ways of understanding the world. Blandy has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, with solo exhibitions at Towner Gallery, Eastbourne; John Hansard Gallery, Southampton; Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany and Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea. His work has also been shown at Tate Modern, London; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland and MoMA PS1, New York, USA.
www.davidblandy.co.uk / Represented by Seventeen Gallery, London
Heacham & Eastchurch creative documentation: Charlotte Ginsborg
Charlotte Ginsborg is a London based independent filmmaker whose films interweave documentary, narrative and performance to explore people’s complex relationship to their social environments. Her work has been screened at the Venice Biennale, the Serpentine Gallery, the Pompidou Centre, and the Walker Arts Centre, USA. Her film, Over The Bones, was in competition in the Tiger Shorts at Rotterdam Film Festival, and her latest film, Songs For The River, was nominated for Best First Feature Film at Sheffield Doc/Fest. Her films have been commissioned by Channel 4, the UNHRC, Arts Council England, Poetry in the City and Cement fields.
Bawdsey creative documentation: Mark Požlep
Mark Požlep is a Slovenian artist working across visual and performative art, spatial installation, and video. His practice is rooted in extended journeys that function as both method and medium, unfolding through real environments and politicized contexts. Through action-research and embodied encounters, he explores social interaction, movement, and structures of power. Požlep often engages audiences as participants, creating situations where performance emerges through lived experience and collective presence. His projects translate these journeys into narrative forms such as film, installation, and artist books. His work has been presented in Slovenia and internationally.
St Osyth documentation: Helen Burt
Helen Burt is a filmmaker and photographer based in Colchester, Essex. Her short film Trigger Fish screened at ShAFF, Sunderland Shorts and the London Mountain Film Festival, while Utopia won Best Short at the Whistler Film Festival. She is also the founder of Tide to Table, a project exploring the UK’s coastal communities and their relationship with the sea. Helen brings a patient, observational eye to her work and a genuine commitment to letting people and place speak for themselves.