Some artists draw or paint beauty. Some confront brutality in reality. Athenkosi Kwinana does both, often at the same time.
Born in the Eastern Cape and now based in Johannesburg, Athenkosi’s work emerges from a deeply personal yet politically charged terrain — the daily experience of living with Albinism in South Africa.
Lauren Bickerdike’s work doesn’t shout. It reverberates.
Based in Limerick, Ireland, Lauren is a multimedia artist working across photography, sound, and installation. Her work explores how environments — social, political, ecological — leave echoes in the human body.
“I’m interested in the residue. What remains. The sounds that linger after a place has been left.”
She does not chase spectacle. She listens to what’s been left unsaid.
“Sometimes the most radical thing we can do is pause. Pay attention. Let the body speak first.”
During the Safe Spaces residency, Alicia’s presence has been quiet but unmistakable — a kind of gravitational field.
