Alinah Azadeh is an artist, writer and performer who has been creating installations, live and digital work for and with museums, galleries and across diverse communities for over twenty years, including the National Portrait Gallery, Westminster Hall, South Bank Centre and Freud Museum as well as internationally. Many of these were designed and prepped in her studio at Pop-up and sometimes in collaboration with other members.

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She was recently writer-in-residence for the South Downs National Park Authority, focused on Seven Sisters Country Park/ the Sussex Heritage Coast through a wider project, We See You Now, also supported by Arts Council England. We See You Now/ We Hear You Now project as writer in residence at Seven Sisters with SDNPA 2020-23. 

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www.alinahazadeh.com 

Thomas Daniell is a sustainable design activist, social ecologist, entrepreneur, botanical brewer and compost creator! He has started two growing social enterprises on the Phoenix Industrial estate, and this has been made possible by the opportunity that a space at Pop Up provides. 

One of the start ups, Old Tree Brewery got shortlisted for the Radio 4 British Food Awards and got 2nd prize for Best Drinks Maker 2023.

He is also a teacher in soil biology for regenerative agriculture.

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www.oldtreebrewery.co.uk

We perform in schools, theatres and public spaces, specialising in themes of biodiversity and environmental awareness, making highly acclaimed shows for organisations as diverse as The Natural History Museum, Kew Gardens, Sussex Wildlife Trust, Mid-Sussex Council and the Railway Land Trust.

Popup Studios gives us a genuinely affordable space to make and rehearse work, create video content and store our sets and equipment. 

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Www.WishWorks.co.uk.

     Facebook- @wishworkspuppets

      Insta- @wishworkspuppets

Daisy is a fully qualified Aromatherapist and Life Coach. Her aromatherapy business DaisyMay Sprays has its HQ at Pop Up Studios, where she handcrafts and alchemically blends each spray in her studio. DaisyMay Sprays are high quality Aromatherapy Sprays to use in your space, aura or room to enhance & effect your mood. 

Her work as a Life Coach spans personal & project coaching, working 1-1 in person/ via zoom/ phone alongside coaching walks out in the wilds around Lewes. She also runs workshops and group courses locally and nationally, to support clients to take ownership of their life, create real positive change and fulfill their potential. She focuses on work/ life balance and also with heart-centred Solopreneurs to work more effectively & authentically in the world.

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www.daisymaysprays.com

www.daisybrucecoaching.com

I am an artist-weaver, creating wall-based and 3-dimensional artwork. I show my work internationally and teach weaving classes for adults and in community settings. Pop Up studios provides me with an affordable space to work, in peaceful surroundings, with a community of supportive and diverse practitioners from whom I learn and grow.

I run creative workshops with WellBeing Tree in Lewes and other community beneficial groups, such as Hearts and Flowers in Stanmer Park, Victoria Arts Pavillion in Uckfield. My Instagram is @jackietapestry

Describe What do you do in your space? 

Weaving - creation of woven artworks, drawing, observing the world outside, storage of my equipment and planning of my workshops.

Do you have a website? 

www.jackietapestry.com

Instagram @jackietapestry

Alexander Aisher is a conservation anthropologist, ecological designer and award-winning lecturer, based at the Centre for World Environmental History at the University of Sussex. Based on long-term fieldwork in the Eastern Himalayas and South India, I have published articles on wildlife conservation, indigenous environmental knowledge, hunting and wildlife trafficking, climate change, storytelling and adaptation in leading academic journals.

The friendly, supportive and nourishing atmosphere at Popup has enabled me to develop a sustainable writing practice, exchange ideas, and complete my forthcoming book, Fragments of the First Sun: Indigenous Foundations of Conservation in India’s Northeast Frontier, which will be published next year.

He is a co-director of Standpoint Earth, an indigenous conservation organisation.

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www.standpoint

Lex Titterington is a Movement Artist and Permaculture designer currently supported by the Arts Council UK on a project called ‘From Trauma to Treasure’, which is a creative look at the intersections of Human Dissociation & Ecological Dissociation and the importance of Bio / Cultural & Gender Diversity creating a touring show & workshops. 

Lex is one of the original Co-Founders of Pop Up Studios and also of The Yoga Therapy Centre, Great Ormond Street hospital, London. Lex performed in the opening of the Paralympic Games and has worked extensively with local and global community’s.

“Pop up allows me to do my work — at present I am a Permaculture teacher for Brighton Permaculture Trust, Head Gardener on 2 large permaculture projects, Permaculture Designer.

I am an artist supported by the Arts Council UK. At present I am creating a You Tube programme about Biodiversity and Belonging. 

I work with many communities in hospitals, schools, care homes. I work with diverse groups of people."

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www.lexingtonlove.com

Keith is a dedicated workshop facilitator for over 20 years, fosters participation, inclusion, and creativity in communities. He co-founded Moving Sounds CIC, a non-profit for community arts, and is a co-director of Standpoint Earth, an indigenous conservation organization. His workshops explore environmental awareness, health, and well-being. With a global reach spanning Europe, the UK, and Asia, Keith’s workshops bring together all ages, abilities and backgrounds from dozens of nationalities. He plays several musical instruments.

What do you do in your space?

Recording music for TV and film, store instruments for community workshops  working with Dementia in care homes and community music projects with schools and. Community groups. Funding application meetings and planning from National Lottery and a wide variety of charities and funding bodies to fund our work in communities nationwide.

What does Pop Up Studios mean to you?

 It means I am part of a community can co-create beneficial projects like clothes swaps, compost projects, wildlife garden, bat boxes, family green space, eco education for youth, music projects for dementia, art for people with disabilities, innovating business models, community film shows, tree planting, fruit growing, community pizza oven, eco-charcoal making, support for migrants, support and employment for the deaf community, live music concerts, artisan markets, healing therapies and counselling and a warm place to be.

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www.movingsounds.org

 I am an artist and Reflexologist working at Pop up studios.  I create art, draw, get inspiration and paint in my space. 

I'm applying for Arts Council funding to make political art to help protect British wildlife at the moment.

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What does Pop Up Studios mean to you? 

A sense of community and home, love, cats, river, garden. special. authentic community

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Instagram - @sarahellingtonart

www,innerstillnessreflexology.co.uk

Cara has been featured in many films, TV programmes, commercials and music videos. She appeared on BBC Breakfast as 'Cara Sparkles' for making dance videos everyday of the 2020 Lockdown to raise people's spirits and was broadcast to over 6 million people. (See link below)

https://fb.watch/kHxusRNCl3/

Cara's Artworks have been shown in festivals and exhibitions both nationally and internationally including the Centre Pompidou, Paris, Glastonbury Festival, Nottingham Now Festival, Brighton Fringe Festival and Mindvalley's A-Fest in Portugal. Pop Up studios 

What does Pop Up Studios mean to you?

"I love having a peaceful place to come and work. I love having a community that is very accepting. I love the way that we are reaching out to lots of local groups who are able to use the space for their projects. It also enables many others to have an affordable."

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caramathia.co.uk

I develop my concept art in digital for film work. I also am a film maker so I do some editing in the space. In my space I also develop my concept art on a computer. I also create props and model using the workbench outside, in wood and metal or dusty materials. 

I use my studio space to prepare art pieces for festivals as I also create visionary art pieces and run workshops.  I have been blessed to be part of this wonderful cooperative Pop-Up Studios for 12 years now. In the beginning I rented the clinic space where I would facilitate women's empowerment circles to offer a space to create connection and trust within our community.

I am also the Coordinator for Pop-Up Studios and this works well for me as I am able to do it in my own hours which allows me to support my children through the natural way of learning through home education. We often use the garden and Pop-Up Studios and we hope to build on this in the future.

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I am an artist working primarily as a painter, but printing, poetry and puppet making have also been a part of my practice. Pop Up gives me an affordable meditative space in which to paint and think, to be among people similarly embarked on a creative endeavour. I work at Brighton Museum, putting together exhibitions and working with the public but Pop Up is a place I go to unstick from the glue of habit. It gives me an arena to make visible what the everyday has made invisible.

What does Pop Up Studios give to you?

Pop up gives me an affordable space embedded in a community of likeminded people engaged in an explorative creativity that feeds into work, life and extends my relationships with the world community. My space at Pop Up is a valuable resource to me. At times a place of quiet contemplation and at others a beachhead and rallying point for forays into the world. 

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Instagram: @ned_lom

I create prints, and 3D constructions from folding those prints. In my space I draw, plan, print, fold, frame and think. 

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​@gracedunford on Instagram

Previously I worked at studios in London and later at the Phoenix gallery, studios, and arts centre in Brighton. I happened to stumble on Pop Up quite by chance about seven years ago and have really valued the space and ambience so close next to the river Ouse ever since. I had exhibited in all Phoenix gallery exhibitions and later the affiliate members shows, the Dupont arts club at the Friends house in Brighton and Dupont at Hove and continuing at several central Brighton venues. Without the facilities of Pop Up the aforementioned in the last seven years would not have been possible, it is such an amazing and wholly unique place to be and create.

I am primarily an artist in mixed media, lino/wood cut printing , stained glass and oils. Secondarily a published poet in 2 books , a CD and yearly X 10 single inclusions in the former United Press calendar diary 2005—2017. Previously these were exhibited at 2 churches in Lewes I had worked with painted glass and leaded glass in the last few years and undertaken stained glass repairs and stained glass installations currently in a Brighton Church. Apart from the maintenance of the said glass works, I then initially worked with oil pastels and am know wholly involved in oil painting.

I was head hunted via the Pop Up Studios website by a south Californian art and design company who have used my past print designs for clothing: ie, dresses, t-shirts and pillow and duvet covers.

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What has Pop Up Studios given you?

Pop Up has given me the creative space to work in these last years in wholly as I experience as "a pre-corporate" , ramshackle series of old buildings next to the mysterious and magical river Ouse where overall the vibes are excellent and creative ventures abound". Pop Up has the whole atmosphere of bohemian like creativity in the pre-transformation time before it is either demolished or modernised but hopefully the Pop Up entity will survive and continue albeit in a different location.

I also provide coaching and support to a craft group for elderly, physically disabled and persons with learning difficulties.