2024

Abbas Zahedi

Abbas Zahedi

Stanley Picker Fellow 2024

Inspired by Sarat Maharaj’s seminal essay “Xeno-Epistemics”, which introduces the idea of art knowledge as “inventing other ways of thinking-knowing” and “ways of knowing otherness”, Zahedi’s fellowship project embarks on an exploration of how art can reimagine its own boundaries. This initiative moves beyond conventional definitions of ‘Art’ and ‘Research’, seeking instead to expand the Abbas Zahedi

Sophie Huckfield

Sophie Huckfield

Stanley Picker Fellow 2024

Sophie Huckfield’s fellowship will explore the legacy and potential future applications of Nobel Prize nominated Lucas Plan (1976), which aimed to repurpose engineers’ and workers’ technical skills for “socially useful production” but was never realised. In order to explore the legacy, methodologies and future applications of the Lucas Plan, the fellowship will work towards the Sophie Huckfield