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Celine Dessberg is a musician with mixed Mongolian and French Heritage. She writes songs that touch the soul with her mongolian harp, piano or guitar. Her lyrics in French and English create an intimate and comforting art form. The young multi-instrumentalist has been programmed in numerous French and Mongolian venues and festivals, this year she performed several times in London at Reference Poin...

Kristi Salerno is an artist who stepped into somatic counseling "by accident." An actor, singer & dancer since age 8, she moved from Columbus, Ohio to LA in 2002. There, she began performing in independent films, tv and theater, while starting to 'gig' her original music on some of LA's most famous independent stages, as well as the renowned 12th & Porter in Nashville...

Carrie is an Art Historian, Curator & TV Presenter. She’s had many years in the art industry between New York and London. What can’t she do? We feel Carrie still has so much up her sleeve yet. Will there be writing? Find out on this not to be missed episode. Follow Carrie on Instagram @carriescottcurates & her website: Carrie-Scott.com

Kasimiira Kontio is a PR and Comms director running Kontio Comms launched in 2024 after four years at the helm of Atelier Public Relations and with 10 years of experience working across music, culture, arts, publishing, events and creative technology. Kasimiira is a multidisciplinary cultural publicist and strategist having previously worked across high profile clients internationally including Sl...

Milly Aburrow (b.2001, Chichester, UK) is a 2023 graduate of Bath Spa University, completing a BA in Fine Art (Hons). Through a playful colour palette and a comical stylisation, her work characterises the parameters of commercialisation, consumerist society, and particularly our contemporary food culture that defines a part of everyone's life. Depicted through mixed media sculpture (materials...

Born in Mesa, Arizona, Indigenous to and raised on the island of Guam, Isis Indriya dedicates her life in service to prayer, education, and community activism. She is an educator and founder of The Academy of Oracle Arts and Imaginal Community where she teaches many classes alongside other luminaries.  She offers classes in Ritual, The Art of Offering, Divination, Egyptian Cosmology, and Hermetici...

M3CCA is a versatile vocalist and performer who kick-started her music career at the age of four. She's graced international platforms like The Royal Albert Hall and The Orpheum Theatre. Her achievements include featuring on American Idol and performing as a Pussycat Doll under Robin Antin in Las Vegas. Her music reflects her personal journey and her love for storytelling. She's toured wit...

Noel Elie, a dynamic force in entertainment and spiritual wellness, effortlessly balances her roles as an acclaimed actress, visionary producer, and empowering CEO of Noel Elie Productions. Her journey began with performances that left audiences spellbound, earning accolades for her raw authenticity. Beyond the glitz, she fearlessly explores spirituality as a revered teacher & speaker guiding...

HK Zamani was born in 1958 in Tehran-Iran studied Studio Arts and Design at California State University, Dominguez Hills and El Camino Community College. He received his Master’s of Fine Art in Painting from Claremont Graduate University. Selected regional exhibitions include Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Lancaster Museum of Art and History, A+DMuseum, PRJCTLA, LA Louver, Municipal Gallery at...

Yuma Radné (b. 2001, Ulaan Ude, Mongolia) is a painter based in London. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, having previously been enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Shtiglitz Academy in St. Petersburg. Radné has presented solo exhibitions at galleries and institutions including: the National Museum of Art of the Republic Buryatia (2018), Bloom Galerie, Saint-Tropez...

Brynley is a photographer based in London. His increasing rise to notoriety is due to him capturing the lives of young emerging artists in their studios throughout the United Kingdom. This is our second episode with Brynley. Tune in and enjoy. Check out Brynley’s work @brynley.odu.davies on Instagram and preorder his book at TrollyBooks.com

Berto is an artist from Los Angeles, California, based in Germany and is represented by Carrie- Scott ( season 2 ). This is Berto’s second episode with HYPE A. You may wish to tune in to our previous conversation (2023). This live session was made by possible thanks to Ghost Gallery, Los Angeles. Berto makes collages and uses words and imagery that juxtapose against each other, opposite an urban a...

Box frame Pva glue watered down diy We are delighted to present to you HEARTH- live sessions. HEARTH is a new endeavour for HYPE A. Mobina Nouri is a cross-disciplinary artist whose practice reflects her personal history as a female immigrant who left Iran to live in the UK and later in the US. Working across a variety of media, the artist mines her country’s tradition of storytelling, often turni...

Tm Gratkowski received a BS and a BFA from UW. After attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Hochschule fur Angewandte Kunst in Vienna Austria, Tm moved to Los Angeles CA and received an MA from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI_Arc). Although Tm’s education and early works are rooted in painting, drawing, his professional practice as an artist is based on...

We are delighted to present to you HEARTH- live sessions. HEARTH is a new endeavour for HYPE A. Angie Arsenault is an artist and researcher whose practice harnesses acts of deep noticing and a sensual engagement with the natural world. From the deindustrializing island of Unama'ki (Cape Breton), Angie’s work engages with concepts of value, ruination, memory, botanical life, detritus, survival and...

Callum Eaton is an artist from Bath based in London, England. (BA, Goldsmiths, 2019) He has exhibited at Carl Kostyál gallery, has worked under the steady mentorship wing of Oli Epp (PLOP Residency). His studio is based with Cell Studios, London and is currently on an art residency in Berlin during this recording. "Street-side telephone boxes made all but obsolete by mobile phones and now regularl...

Alex Coma (b. Granby, QC, 1991) is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and seeker. Following the traces of humanistic and symbolistic artists such as Joseph Beuys and Carl Jung, his work is a testimony of his inner life and Findings. He draws from the symbolic history of an elite and secretive class, borrowing on cryptograms, esoteric concepts and rituals found in the written legacy of ancient...

Karla Diaz is a multidisciplinary artist, educator who engages in painting, social practice, and performance. Using narrative to question identity and explore memory. Her socially engaged practice generates exciting collaborations and provokes important dialogue among diverse communities. In her painting introspection, splashes of color became figures and objects that transformed into scenes of do...

Joe Rudko is a Seattle-based artist who works primarily with photographs. He combines found snapshots and anonymous images to create new forms that encourage viewers to reconsider their relationship with everyday images. His work has been exhibited in Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, New York, Denver, Houston, Memphis, and Mexico City, and featured in publications such as Artforum, Art in America,...

Eric Carlos Bertrand (b. 1969) is a Mexican-Canadian painter, writer, translator, gallerist and curator. As an artist, he has presented solo exhibitions in Mexico, Canada, Spain and Finland. He has received numerous production and travel grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des Arts et des lettres du Quebec, and was awarded a scholarship from the Mexican Ministry of Foreign...

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Leighanne Murray is a PR & Partnerships Director, Art Historian and co founder of Atelier Public Relations Atelier Public Relations is an international PR and communications agency based in London and Barcelona. Founded in 2021 by Kasimiira Kontio and Leighanne Murray, Atelier sits at the crossroads of visual arts, culture, events, music and creative technologies. Atelier is the amalgamation of Ka...

Xin and JJ, are a London-based artist-designer-engineer duo working in between the physical and digital worlds, with special sensitivities to space, atmosphere, and interaction. They create novel media, tools, and systems that deepen the ways people interact and connect with the world and each other. They are recent MA/MSc Global Innovation Design graduates of the Royal College of Art and Imperial...

Cristina Savage (Connecticut, USA, 1979) is a multidisciplinary artist who grew up in Hong Kong in a family of Colombian and American origin. In 2002 she graduated from Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs in New York and has lived in southern Spain since 2003. Following an artist residency in Utne, Norway, Savage has carried out artistic projects and performances at the Centre Pompidou, MNCARS, ARC...

Gina May Walter is a director, singer and performance artist equally at home on and off stage. Whether in classical operatic roles such as Frau Fluth in Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor (Nicolai) or Elektra in Idomeneo (Mozart), in more classical contemporary works such as the solo soprano in Micha Tangain's In Absentia (premiered at the Tischlerei of the Deutsche Oper Berlin), or in the wholly con...