ARTIST COMMUNITY

J. Peacock is a Blackpool born artist, raised on Northern Soul and nurtured in the Manchester music scene. His productions have spanned multiple sub genres of dance music. More recently he has turned his focus closer to home, inspired by uplifting house music produced by friends like Laurence Guy and Harry Wolfman, driven by samples from his dad’s record collection.

*Lauren Cave is a dance artist and choreographer with a passion for movement and collaboration across art forms. With over 15 years of experience in Contemporary, Commercial Freestyle, Hip Hop and other techniques, she creates work that spans live and screen-based performance. Drawing on improvisation and interdisciplinary practice, Lauren’s work combines dance, theatre, and visual storytelling. She is interested in exploring connection, emotion, and environment, developing performances that are expressive and engaging.

In collaboration with her dance collective: Samara Toussaint, Lauren Chilton, Bethany Tolhurst-McWattGreen, and Ella Blake, Lauren will present a refined extract from her latest choreographic work, Against the Hour, featuring original composition by Alex McDermott.*

Soal, a surreal expressionist painter and musician currently based in London, reveals the subconscious state of mind, unifying imagination with reality in her paintings. Her work is a form of meditation, thus her compositions become a form of delving deeper into spiritual awareness, creating dreamlike depictions and stories that explore the essence of another realm. Thus, she allows the audiences mind to wander, creating a harmonised duality between mind and matter, whilst remaining present.