→ Emulsional Support Club
Workshop

Keen screenprinters amid the Acrylicize Team, better known as the Emulsional Support Club, lead this session on our dedicated screenprint table.

→ Charlie Boyden
Make Play

British artist and designer who explores light, objects, and furniture. His work aims to interrogate the function of everyday things and respond through a thoughtful and reimagined landscape. Frequently working with 'waste,' he persuades the materials to dictate form and hopes to educate on the importance of creating beauty from the discarded.


→ Wilfrid Wood
Sculpting JOY

Wilfrid Wood is a London-based sculptor, model maker and illustrator. He trained in graphics at Central St Martins before landing a job building latex heads for satirical TV programme, Spitting Image. From there he embarked on his artistic career, and his charismatic and quirky sculptures have since been exhibited all over the world. Wilfrid has created likenesses of a variety of people from Wayne Rooney to Paul McCartney.


→ James Burke
Artist Talk

Acrylicize founder James Burke talks on the power of art and creativity to bring people closer together towards a world of more beauty and meaning. 


→ Verity Babbs
Host

Verity Babbs is an art historian, presenter, and comedian. She has written for the Guardian, Artnet News, and the RA, and has worked on filmed projects for Tate, London Art Fair, and the National Film & Television School. She is the founder and host of Art Laughs art-themed comedy nights which have brought stand-up and improv events to the National Gallery, Royal Museums Greenwich, and Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair. She was named one of HistoryExtra’s ‘30 Under 30’ in 2024 and her ‘1 Sentence Answer’ videos have been shared by BBC Upload and BBC 2. She has appeared on BBC News and on BBC Radio 4’s “The Naked Week”.


→ Holly Hendry
Artist Talk

Holly Hendry is an artist working with sculpture. Her work looks at the back of things; open cracks where you see the gooey insides. The works deal with internal and external in terms of the body, display and production – architectural rear spaces and hidden bodily activities or situations that are brought into view through specific objects, textures or forms. Through scale and material manipulation, she addresses concerns of permeability, morbidity through a visual language that often speaks of comic insignificance.


→ Helmut Smits
Artist Talk

Helmut Smits is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Straightforward, critical and witty, Smits is a ceaseless producer of ideas that comment on society and situations in a frank and often humorous way.


→ Harriet Richardson
Performance

Harriet Richardson is a London-based performance artist exploring intimacy, power, and protest through digital and physical works. Blending humour and activism, her deeply personal, sometimes participatory practice interrogates class systems, online censorship, relationships, and conflict with unflinching honesty.


→ Brian d’Souza
Plants Can Dance

Brian d’Souza is an award-winning DJ, music producer and live performer that is ‘taking World Music into the future’ (The Guardian) and who DJs under the alias Auntie Flo (an homage to his late Goan Auntie Florie). Over a career spanning ten years, he’s played everywhere from Panorama Bar to Glastonbury, making his name as one of the most adventurous DJs around: performing in Cuba, Latin America, Asia, Africa and even the Arctic Circle.

→ Working Class Creatives Database
Workshop

Working Class Creatives Database (WCCD) is an arts organisation confronting class-based issues within creative industries. We facilitate a space that puts working-class creatives at the forefront: a space for conversation, connections, and sharing of opportunities, skills, and knowledge.


→ Stack
Fireside Chat

Stack searches out the best independent magazines and delivers them direct to your door. Join founder Steven Watson in conversation with GRASS Magazine. As well as full access to the back catalogue of Stack releases at the pop up library.


→ TummyAche
Life Drawing

In a society where mental health stigma remains one of the leading causes for people not seeking help, Tummy Ache is utilising the intersection between art and fashion to make mental health conversations less daunting, and emotional language more accessible. Statistics reveal that nine out of ten individuals grappling with mental health challenges in the UK still face stigma and discrimination. Tummy Ache’s mission to dismantle shame and silence resonates now more than ever, focused on creating an emotionally transparent community.


→ SPF50
Workshop

Jeanne Harignordoquy is a creative director and artist based in London. She’s behind SPF50, a project that explores wind, play, and design through the making of handmade kites. Raised in Marseille, Jeanne grew up under the influence of the Mistral, a powerful regional wind that shaped her early interest in invisible forces and their impact on the world around us. This fascination, combined with her background in design and interest in nature, play, and technology, led her to develop a practice that moves between sculpture and function. To her, kites are hybrid objects: part toy, part sculpture, part messenger. They are joyful, slender structures built to withstand one of nature’s strongest forces.


→ Type&Faces
Workshop

Type & Faces are a monthly design event celebrating all things type, design, and everything in between. They host their monthly events at The Art House, all inspired by the innovative work of creative speakers. Whether you’re a student or a well-seasoned expert, their events are for everyone!


→ Worms
Performance

Worms is a pioneering, female-led print publishing platform dedicated to amplifying the voices of writers marginalised within the literary world. With a deep commitment to underground and independent publishing, we provide a vital space for bold, experimental, and boundary-pushing creative expression. Rooted in a mission to challenge the exclusivity of traditional publishing, Wormsactively seeks to elevate writers whose work exists at the intersections of multiple identities and lived experiences. This includes those shaped by class, race, cultural background, disability, and gender. By fostering a vibrant and inclusive literary community—both in London and beyond—we not only provide a platform for underrepresented voices but also work to redefine the literary landscape itself, ensuring it reflects the richness and complexity of the world we live in.


→ Montanera
Performance

María Mónica Gutiérrez, known as Montañera (Mountainess), has established herself as one of the most intense and unique voices hailing from Colombia. Her latest solo album A Flor De Piel was released in November of 2023 via the Austin, Tx-based label, Western Vinyl, with the support from Help Musicians Foundation. It has received glowing reviews from Pitchfork, The Guardian, Electronic Sound Magazine, Iggy Pop (BBC Radio), David Byrne, amongst many others.


→ Salome Wu
Performance

Salomé Wu is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice involves oil painting, works on paper, installations, performance and music. Her work examines otherworldliness through dreamy scenes which most often depict biomorphic figures suspended in a state of contemplation. Salomé will be joined by her live band for a one-off performance at JOY.