Stories in Shape & Sound

The UKRI funded EDIFY research consortium (www.EDIFYresearch.co.uk) is working towards shaping a fresh approach to eating disorder research and practice, bridging the worlds of arts, humanities and sciences. As part of this, we have hosted four artists-in-residence, who have developed work across different media – sound, illustration, textile, digital media, sculpture – delving deeply into the personal stories, research findings and ideas being generated by the programme.

As the programme draws to its end, we are delighted to welcome the artists-in-residence for an evening in conversation with Professor Sally Marlow. Join us to hear them discussing their work and its relationship to eating disorders experience and research. Learn more about their creative processes and reflections on collaborating with academic teams.

There will also be the opportunity to mingle informally with the artists and members of the EDIFY consortium over wine and nibbles after the event.

Meet our artists-in-residence:

Sian Fan is an interdisciplinary artist who explores embodiment, identity, and the human experience in the digital age. Her work combines movement, the body, and technology, drawing on her background in contemporary and aerial dance. Through choreography and digital media, she suspends, augments, and interrupts the body, creating a meshing of the physical and the virtual. Her pieces take form as sculpture, costume, performance, animation, installation, and new media.
Website: https://www.sianfan.com/

Ivana Picek, also known as Pi Lubanjice, is an electro-fairy artist whose bewitching and genre-defying music is a concoction of electro-alien-fairy-cyber-hyper-pop. After two acclaimed folk albums, Picek transformed herself into an occult analog-electronic fairy, pushing the boundaries of music since her 2011 debut. She is a multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter who collaborates with various artists from her native Croatia and beyond, captivating a devoted following with her mystical, avant-garde sound.
Website: https://www.youtube.com/@IvanaPicek

Zofia Chamienia is an illustrator who specialises in bold, playful designs, full of incidental shapes, wobbly lines, and self-made textures. Her work is created by mixing drawing, printmaking, and digital techniques, and she draws inspiration from ordinary, day-to-day happenings. Her illustrations always aim to feature a diverse range of people, places, communities, and cultures, celebrating the different characters and personalities she meets.
Website: https://zofia-chamienia.com/work

Maeve Magnolia Gillespie is a textile artist and designer whose work explores the changing value of materials through processes of craft. She documents fragility, recovery, regeneration, and decay, and is interested in the human connection between objects and the fluctuating value system we attach to different materials.
Website: MAEVE MAGNOLIA GILLESPIE

Chair:

Prof Sally Marlow, Professor of Practice in Public Understanding of Mental Health Research, King’s College London
Sally is a researcher and broadcaster, who works together with cultural partners, community groups and service users to create events and activities to support research around mental health. Sally will lead an evening discussion with the EDIFY artists-in-residence about their experience of working with the team and producing creative outputs based on the EDIFY programme.