Sadia Sadia is a director, editor, producer and installation artist. She is also an award-winning record producer and songwriter. Sadia began her career by becoming one of the first women in the world to be signed to a major label as a record producer. She currently works with moving images as an editor and director, as well as creating experimental short films, installation works, and soundfields. She has an M.Sc. in Political Science and Economics (Gender, Culture and Society) from Birkbeck College at the University of London as well as a further M.A. in Design Studies from Central St. Martins. Sadia has campaigned for peace and against racism in both print and broadcast media.

Born in Waterford, Ireland 1974 and currently lives in Dublin. Colin Crotty studied an MA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art London and BA Fine Art at Crawford College of Art & Design Cork, Ireland. Also teaches Fine Art at Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork.

Born in 1986 in Bogotá, Colombia. Lives and works in Bogotá. He is graduated of Art in 2009 from National University of Colombia with an Emphasis on Pictorial Image. 

 lives and works in Australia. Darren Munce’s enigmatic abstract paintings employ gestural mark making as a medium for exchange. Munce takes a heuristic approach to each work, solving problems through experimentation and evaluation, as aggregations of marks stimulate each investigation to present a combination of physical action and aesthetic result.

Esteban Ocampo was born in 1987 in Manizales, Colombia. It was there where he finished his highscool studies and at age 18 began his art studies in The Javeriana University of Bogotá. He finished  College studies on October 2012. Now he is finishing his master degree at New York Academy of Arts. 

Born and based in Los Angeles, U.S.A. Piper Mavis studied MFA Fine Art Media at The Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, U.K and BA History/Film at Bennington College, Vermont, U.S.A.

 Matthew Comeau is an American artist, born in 1990, originally from South Windsor, Connecticut.  He first started making art at a very young age, copying and manipulating images and characters from comic books. For his Undergraduate degree, he studied for four years at the University of Connecticut.  There he was able to work within an Individualized major, creating his own curriculum around drawing, printmaking and painting. Currently he is entering his second year at the New York Academy of Art, working towards an MFA in Drawing.

"I was born in Contagem, a small city in Minas Gerais, Brazil. My family work as missionaries in the region. Due to my lack of resources to finance my studies, I began working as a Tattoo Artist 14 years ago, a professional carrier that allowed me to pursue and support my carrier as a  Fine Artist. I moved to Sao Paulo to study Art in 2004, and in 2009 moved to the USA. For the past four years I have been dedicating my life to the study of painting techniques in a figurative and representational form sense. Primarily I started my studies at the Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art, California, where I was awarded a scholarship for the Undergraduate program.   My intentions was to explore many of the traditional and modern methods, which helped me gain skills and confidence to enter to a masters program.  My goal is to develop technical skills as painter while simultaneously developing the conceptual basis for my work. Although working in a representational vain, I hope to engage in contemporary dialog, in a manner that is relevant in this Post-Modern epoch of Art History. The opportunity of being in the Leipzig residency will be a time to evaluate the journey of my first academic year of the Masters Program at NYAA (New York Academy of Art), work on new pieces based on the concept I intent to explore. At the same time enjoying and experiencing a cultural atmosphere that the city and the occasion have to offer."

lives and works in Brisbane, Australia. Dunlop about his work: "I paint with a genuine awareness that the medium has a magnificent (and at times clichéd) history. My paintings work with and respect this tradition. But they also subvert it. Works such as The Industrialist combine the archetypes of the still life, the portrait and the landscape. They are the result of a melding of traditional western genres into single works. I see the narrative in this painting as playful and suggestive of folly. In essence all of my works are an attempt to reinforce the notion that painting is still a possibility in the 21sy century."

born in  Sydney, Australia, she lives and works in Sydney and Berlin. She studied at National Art School, Sydney. Frankie Morgan digs into the familiar and mundane in order to question our ideas of beauty. Morgan charts the urban forces of change; earthmovers, public works, garbage bins and the people who live and work in the city. She is inspired by cities as sites of human innovation but also as the source of invisible forces exerted upon humans in daily urban life. Morgan's recurring motif of the earthmover excavates both the urban world and the canvas as an artist’s work site. A site in which to dig deep into the experience of existence.

Born in 1972 and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Astrid Dick currently works and lives in Paris.  Her trajectory as an artist is off-the-beaten track.  At age 18, excited by mathematics and social frictions, begins her studies in economics in Buenos Aires, while continuing to draw in her free time.  In 2002, is awarded a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).  Having led a double-life between art and economic research for many years, at age 36 abandons her post as university professor to devote herself entirely to art.   She has studied drawing and sculpture under Russian artist Samuel Kudish in New York and in St. Petersburg at the Repin Academy of Art.  Her work has been shown in the US and France.   

lives and works in Moscow, Russia. He studied at Institute of Contemporary Art Moscow (2009) and graduated from Moscow State Academic Art Institute (1999).