REACT Artists

ISLA CAMPBELL - Textiles

Isla has pursued several different mediums as a means of artistic expression, including music, photography, painting, sculpting, and textiles. Currently focusing on the latter, Isla is active in dressmaking, millinery, costumery and surface textiles, and has recently completed a Fine Art degree at the University of East London. Attracted to the multi-disciplinary, collaborative nature of REACT, Isla hopes to work with similar projects in the future.

MIHO TAJIMA - Sculpture

Originally from Tokyo, Japan, Miho explores sculptural practice relating to materiality, spatial awareness, rhythm, and movement, as well as presence, sensorium, emotion and “live-ness”. Miho finds inspiration in a variety of guises including Deptford Creek, boat-fixing, Japanese archery, primary elements, Albert Einstein, natural force, sound and wavelengths. Her mediums often include wood, metal, water, plastic, fabric, sound, lighting and video projection. Miho has recently completed a BA in Art Practice at Goldsmiths College.

For further information please visit: www.mihotajima.com


MORWENNA JAMES - Poetry

Morwenna has recently completed an English Literature degree at Goldsmiths College and hopes to begin contributing to London's vibrant poetry scene, as well as preserving poetry's status as a central art form. She has worked as a freelance journalist for her local newspaper, as well as for DIVA magazine, following an extended internship. Named one of The Foyle Young Poets of the Year in 2006, she has had her work published in DIVA and the Goldsmiths magazine. Her influences include John Berryman and Edwin Morgan.



JASON BROOKS - Film

Jason Brooks is a freelance cameraman, editor and director based in South London. He is currently working on his first feature length documentary film – an observational portrait of a unique village in the Maramures region of Romania. Contributing to REACT offered a welcome aid in the ongoing process of reviewing rushes, editing scenes and thus writing the eventual impressionistic narrative of this documentary. Jason hopes to continue to use film to both engage and communicate the beautiful, complex and deadly equation we all know as this world.

For further information please visit: www.opticalism.com

BEN LANGHAM – Audio-Visual Production

Ben made his name in the Reading music scene in 2001, when he formed the Beat Feast Collective. Inspired by scratch DJs such as the X-Ecutioners and influenced by electronic dance music, Ben has developed his own style of eclectic DJ sets using turntables to switch between genres and adapt to any crowd. He has performed at club nights and festivals across the UK, Europe and Australia, as well as promoting over 150 events, providing a platform for new talent to perform to an open-minded audience.

Since 2005, Ben has composed his own music using a combination of synthesised sounds, real instruments, samples and field recordings. This has resulted in releases on Benbecula Records (collaborating with electronica artist, Plum) and Bass Gun Records.

Working for London Underground has allowed Ben to further extend his musical adventures to the most obscure hidden tunnels, disused stations and forgotten passageways in London, and has led to ‘Tunnelsounds’, a concept that has caught the attention of BBC Breakfast and CBS News.

Ben's plans for 2010 include collaborations with artists from a variety of backgrounds, audio-visual performances and more underground experiments.

For further information please visit: www.tunnelsounds.com


ALEXANDRA BAYBUTT - Performer

Alexandra is a multi-facetted performer and practitioner, working on interdisciplinary projects since 2004. She is currently studying Laban Movement Analysis, feeding her passion and curiosity of human movement and interaction. Questions of who performance can be for, where and how it can happen are constant considerations in her work and what attracted her to REACT. In the future, she hopes to continue to forge creative partnerships with individuals and groups working in many disciplines.

For further information, please visit: www.alexandrabaybutt.co.uk

ELLEN STEINMULLER - Dance

Ellen is a professionally trained dancer and qualified Dance Movement Psychotherapist. As a performer she has worked with various choreographers, collaborated with several interdisciplinary collectives and developed her own solo work. Ellen is particularly interested in work that explores movement as embodiment and communication of inner meaning. She enjoys using spontaneous and authentic physical expression as a basis for developing movement material. The responsive and interactive nature of REACT complements this interest and was the main reason for becoming involved with the project.

HELEN BOWER – Violin and REACT organiser

London-based violinist Helen Bower is a versatile musician who has performed with orchestras, quartets, electronic, rock and pop bands, as well as with actors, dancers, visual artists and filmmakers.

Helen especially enjoys working within inter-disciplinary collaborations and won the Vivian Prindl Outreach Prize at Trinity College of Music for music/movement collaboration In The Loop, which was also made into a film documentary of the same name.

Helen strongly believes that the arts can promote social change and community cohesion and hoped to run a new project, which would serve her local community, as well as bring together talented artists from many different artistic disciplines. Thus, REACT was born.

MORGANIC - Live Mural Art

Morganic is artist. Was born. Does drawings and colour paintings. Also black and white. Also breathes, walks and talks- sometimes all simultaneously. Art is like a play. A kind of discovery. These are 150 werdz about the interaction of the question and the need to write something about oneself and the art. Havent met Charles Saatchi yet and dont have any particular desire to do so. Love making murals and stencil street art... there is a half complete sketch of a website for those with a taste for 'less is more' here: www.morganico.com

Last winter made a full size Totem Pole from a Dead Tree in Knolly's Road Garden centre (SW16 2JJ). It snowed A LOT and was A BIT COLD. But its still there now. Maybee have a look if you are buying shrub at the same time decorating your lovely garden.

For further information, please visit: www.morganico.com