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Reya is a visual artist and illustrator based in London.

Her practice explores the intersections of South-Asian aesthetics and her Bengali cultural heritage, using storytelling as a means to navigate identity, memory, and belonging. Drawing from South-Asian visual traditions, Reya engages with colour, patterns, printmaking, and symbolic forms, reimagining these elements through a conscious stylisation and an evolving methodology. In doing so, she attempts to uncover global cultural linkages, positioning her work within a broader conversation about heritage, transformation, and the contemporary nature of cultural identity.

Over the past five years, she has worked with several publishers, creative agencies, and cultural institutions and has been featured in international exhibitions.

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Arinjoy Sen (b.1996) is an architect and artist based in London. Sen’s works have been exhibited internationally at the African Futures Institute, Accra (2023), Pinakothek der Moderne Museum, Munich (2023), Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London (2020–2021), and nationally with Terrain.art, New Delhi (2021). He is currently working towards his exhibit at the Biennale Architettura 2023, for La Biennale di Venezia. He has won many accolades including the RIBAJ Eye Line Prize for Drawing (2020)and the Sir Andrew Taylor Prize (2021) at university and has been nominated for several others such as the RIBA Silver Medal Nomination (2021),and AJ Student Prize Nomination (2021). Sen’s writings have appeared in The Architect’s Journal, The Architectural Review, The Funambulist, Designs on History and RIBA Journal among several others.

Sen's concerns in his artistic practice ranges from the politics and aesthetics of architecture to the instrumentalization of spatial agents in socio-cultural and political phenomena. His work and interests have an acute focus on contested landscapes, citizenship, migration, narrative and spatial justice. Drawing plays a crucial role in Sen’s work, where it becomes an incubator for the exploration of narrative and space. Sen brings a contemporary take on narrative painting, specifically evoking traditional forms such as Mughal miniatures, Kalighat paintings and pattachitra. He revisits the idea of the ritual through and beyond its association with religion. The multiple layers in Sen’s work create a simultaneous presence of perspectival depth and surface flatness facilitated by the modalities of design software. Sen uses the digital medium combined with traditional craft practices like kantha embroidery and carpet weaving to speak of intertextuality where the past, present and future are interlaced in a singular, yet hybrid visual plane.

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Ayan (he/him) is a trans artist, designer and activist who divides his time between Goa and Munich. His work explores identity and personal narratives by using a visual remnant or evidence of the contexts he works with. He is especially drawn towards patterns which to them communicates complex truths about the past, present and future.

He has worked with organisations like UNESCO, UNGEI, Gates Philanthropic Partners, AWID, Asia Pacific Transgender Network, Point of View and others. He illustrated Skin Stories, an online zine about sexuality and disability, for almost four years and his work has been published in a book by the same name. Apart from this he has also illustrated 31 Adventures in Science: Women Scientists in India by Penguin India.

He is the Founder, Director of Queer Art and Action.

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Upamanyu Bhattacharyya is an animation director based in Kolkata. He co-directed the award-winning animated short film ‘Wade' and is currently working as writer-director on his first animated feature, ‘Heirloom'.

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