Artists have now been selected for the 2026 residency programme.

The programme will run from 18 April to 26 October 2026, and culminates in a final exhibition opening on 16 Oct, and running from 17 to 25 Oct 2026.

Exhibition Catalogues from previous residencies can be viewed here: 2024 and 2025

2026 Artists in Residence: Angel Cleo, Kaler Wong, Nathanael Myers, Ranulph Steiger, Sara Sigurdardottir and Susie Calvert

Part-time artists also participating in the teaching programme are: Lindsay Pickett, Alexandra Gace andYula Kim

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The available studios are in the upper room of St Barnabas Church, Dalston. The residency is a practice-based programme in dialogue between Christian theology and contemporary art practice. Artists will develop a new body of work for exhibition in October 2025. The programme includes a weekly schedule of seminars, workshops and crits from visiting tutors. Artists are expected to use the studios for a minimum of three to four days per week, and to commit to the residency programme which will take place most Mondays, from 10am - 3.30pm, and occasional Friday afternoons.

The residency is looking to create a space where questions of faith and belief can be explored alongside artistic practice yet there is no expectation for artists to be making work specifically related to ideas of faith. The core programme of the residency will take place most Mondays during the residency, beginning with morning reflection and a communal lunch provided for the artists. Community and hospitality are at the core of the residency and this Monday programme is when we come together as a group.This programme is in partnership with St Barnabas Church Dalston and has been made possible by their incredible generosity. The programme is run by Sarah White and Alastair Gordon.

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‍Angel Cleo

Angel Cleo Musoke is a multidisciplinary artist working across costume, props, sculpture, and film. A graduate of the London College of Fashion, her work explores memory, faith, and emotional resilience. She recently exhibited at Tate Britain as part of Late at Tate Britain: Lee Miller. Her work moves across costume, props, sculpture, and film to explore memory, faith, and emotional resilience. She creates narrative pieces that reflect on how experiences shape identity and belief. Through material, form, and storytelling, she investigate the ways personal and collective memories are carried, transformed, and expressed.

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Kaler Q Huang

Kaler Q Huang (b. 1999, Birmingham) is a London-based British-Chinese artist. His silk paintings explore forgotten histories, from the lives of migrant labourers to rites of
passage, incorporating biblical and literary references. He holds a BA in History from Durham University and an MA in History of Art from The Courtauld. Beginning with archival research, he explores overlooked histories to trace the values of our culture. Bodies of work have explored the perception of Chinese art and labour, the Chinese Labour Corps during WWI, and modern masculinity. He paints on silk, drawn both to its ethereal quality and its layered history in global trade.

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Nathanel Myers

Nathanel Myers is an Art Director, Bio-integrated Designer, Scenographer, Interdisciplinary Artist, Poet, and Performer from the Sonoran Desert. He holds an M.Arch from the University College of London, Bartlett School of Architecture, in Bio-Integrated Design, professional dance training with Artifact Dance Company, alongside a BFA in Studio Art: Two-Dimensional Studies from the University of Arizona.

In fidelity of interdisciplinarity, his art traverses the intersections of architecture, biodesign, writing, and performance. Creativity becomes pilgrimage of the liminal space where these disciplines meet, in a multivalent dialogue among the arts, sciences, and the seemingly ordained. Through immersive storytelling, cultural subversion, and situating Nature as a collaborator, his work deconstructs faith, political propaganda, climate change, and queer culture.

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Sara Sigurdardottir

Sara Sigurdardottir was born in Reykjavik, Iceland. She currently lives and works in London. She has an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art (2019). Previous exhibitions include: Navel of The World, solo show at IPA Gallery, Iceland (2025), 6:9 Billboard Commission at Kingsgate Project Space, London (2022), Secondhand daylight at Thameside Gallery Space, London (2022), Journeyman, solo show at XXijrahii, London (2021).

Sigurðardóttir’s work plays with image association and the emotional resonance of colour and form, the layering of imagery in her work suggests a journey through different levels of consciousness, lines of thought and emotional states. The elemental and the mystical are interwoven: the cold blues of ocean and sky meet the fiery reds of lava and blood, evoking inner and outer landscapes, spiritual thresholds and physical realities.

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Susie Calvert

Susie Calvert is an artist based in South London, originally from Belfast. She studied Illustration at Camberwell College of Arts and went on to complete an intensive drawing term at the Royal Drawing School in 2022. Teaching Art in local schools and galleries she draws her inspiration from exhibitions and museums nationwide. Susie’s practice explores the quiet poetics of space and pattern in everyday life. Drawing on observation and memory, she plays with the balance between the calm and the contested. Guided by intuition she weaves together her experiences of prayer, contemplation and a sensitivity to the shared human experience.

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Part-Time Artists

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Alexandra Gace

Through painting and material exploration, Alexandra Gace works across canvas, wood panels, and at times fabrics, using considered choice of colour to create reflective works informed by personal experience and biblical narratives. Influenced by Arte Povera’s methodology, she employs humble materials to consider fragility, presence, and quiet dignity within modest forms. She is an Albanian-Greek artist based in Liverpool, UK. Working primarily through painting, her practice explores themes of transformation, vulnerability, and the unseen, in relation to the Christian faith. She has graduated with a BA in Fine Art at Liverpool Hope University.

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Lindsay Pickett

Working from multiple sources of inspiration, Pickett finds that depicting hybrid animals work as a metaphor for his sense of not belonging and his feelings of being ‘other’. His latest works include dark dramatic misshapen animal forms that Pickett calls ‘creatures of consequence’ are also representations of his mental health state. Pickett has battled with depression dealing with loss throughout his life and this ‘loss’ is also the loss of humanity in the monsters that he has depicted in his work.

Born in London in 1974, Pickett lives and works in the leafy suburbs of South West London. He also works from home. Creating amazing works from his subconscious mind for the past 20-30 years Pickett has built up an enormous body of work in that time. In 2021 he graduated from City and Guilds of London Art School with an MA in Fine Art specialising in painting and in 1999 graduated from the University of East London with a BA in Fine Art. Pickett is also the founder for Dreamscapes, which is a Surrealist group of emerging artists that started in 2024. This group which he initiated, marked the 100th anniversary of surrealism.

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Yula Kim

Yula Kim's paintings emerge from a search for certainty - one shaped by movement, meory, and a sdesire to exist beyond imposed definitions. Having lived acoss Asia, Polynesia, Africa and Europe within a religously conservative framework, her work reflects an ongoing negotiation between external expectations and an inner sense of self. Kim is a London-based painter whose practice explores the relationship between the self, nature, and contemporary modes of living. She holds an MA in Contemporary Art Practice from the Royal College of Art and an MA in Museums and Galleries in Education from University College of London.

Her work has been presented at theAuckland Artweek (2021), the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea's Civic Gallery as part of the Platinum Jubiilee Collection (2022), Tate Modern (2023), BNK Bank Gallery (2023), Haesung Art Bay (2024), the Science Museum's Communicating Time and Culture Project (2024), Kingston Museum ((2024-5), the London Design Festival (2025) and Bath Arts Fringe (2025). In 2023, one of her paintings was selected to commemorate the coronation of King Charles III and was exhibited at Windsor Castle during the Coronation Concert.

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Footage and Images from the 2025 Residency Programme:

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