We’ve spent the last month narrowing down eight hundred entrants to our eight chosen artists for the Dazed Club x Mason & Fifth residency! The standard of work was so high that it took seemingly half of the Dazed team to comb through the many people who applied, and we’re really thankful to everyone who did.
Opening today, 16th June, Mason & Fifth Westbourne Park will see the launch of a new cultural hub, home to over 300 flexible accommodation studios, a canal-side restaurant, 10th floor panoramic bar guest lounge, listening lounge, gallery space, recording studio, wellness suite, creative workshop spaces, and more. We’ve offered the below eight artists a two-month long residency, starting June 16th, with a closing show at the newly opening exhibition space, and work showcased across Dazed’s channels.
Read more about Tonique, Deniz, Yasmina, Daniel, Susan, Maximiliano, Yahvi and Meenakashi below!
Being born to Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Italian parents while growing up in London has meant constantly moving between overlapping traditions, histories, and beliefs. My work is a space where I embody that complexity; drawing from Black cultural expressions across the diaspora, including traditions of self-decoration, style, and ritual, alongside religious/mythological conventions.
Through painting, I aim to construct immersive worlds that rethink perspectives on beauty, heritage, and the sacred. I’m interested in how meaning is shaped across time, and how personal and collective histories can be reworked into something both intimate and expansive.
I’m an Emerging Artist and full time Photographer. I received my BA in Visual Media Arts, with a minor in Photography, from Emerson College. While there, I experimented heavily in the darkroom, exploring alternative techniques for scanning, printing, and manipulating images.
The result is a body of work that invites viewers to linger a little longer and move through different aspects of each piece. Like a snake, my work moves through visual and emotional landscapes that are both variable and static.
I am a French-Turkish artist born in Marseille in 1997. I graduated from ENSAPC, and for several years I’ve been developing a pictorial practice somewhere between bas-relief and fresco using construction materials. I started from a process and research, now how I can make it a ritual. I draw inspiration from the Mediterranean landscape that has accompanied me since my childhood. Creating imposing paintings with an enigmatic presence, they invite viewers into a contemplative experience. This practice helps me reflect and imagine installations composed of them, to make convivial spaces where everyone feels welcome.
I’m a painter based in London, originally from Jamaica. My work explores the changing nature of materials over time, blending influences from my daily life in London with memories and experiences rooted in Jamaica.
I often work in series, painting from my own photography. As a film enthusiast, I love incorporating cinematic elements into my work, playing with different compositions and camera angles.
I’m an interdisciplinary artist from México. My practice explores the intersections of historical impositions, clothing and its social meaning, queer identity, and semiotic-material dialogues. In my work, I draw on my experience in textile and garment-making processes to shape a chimeric imaginary that questions dominant notions of landscape and corporeality, while challenging the symbiotic relationship between human and non-human practices. I graduated from fashion design at Polimoda, and I currently work and live in Guadalajara, Mexico.
I am a painter, proudly from the North West of England. My practice revisits the tension and irony of my girlhood and my lapsed Catholic education. I employ a palette of marshmallowy-pinks and custard-yellows to sweeten and seduce the viewer into my sardonic, sexually transgressive perspective. Images recur: bare brazen chests, strained gazes, and faithful turning faithless. My figures are archetypes, characters of a collective culture: the knight, the sailor, the schoolgirl. All are played off against each other like dolls I’ve pushed together, left to fend for themselves armed only with humour in the absurdity of their settings.
I am a visual artist from Brampton, Ontario and I recently moved to London last August. I create representational figurative oil paintings on metal that explore the intersections between Queerness and intimacy, familial struggles within the immigrant diaspora, navigating feelings of grief and yearning, as well as the liminal spaces that exist within various modes of transportation. My inspiration draws from my personal experience being a second generation immigrant and Punjabi-Canadian lesbian. Through the use of current documentation as well as archival family material, I depict painted narratives that explore the particularities of intergenerational experiences.
I’m Yahvi, a London-based textile artist and educator. My practice, Peel Studio, is born from my love for both culinary arts and textiles, and is rooted in traditional zero-waste living. I work with kitchen waste such as banana peels, onion skins, and eggshells—sourced from local cafes—and transform them into handwoven textiles. I’m passionate about reconnecting with nature through slow, intentional making, and much of my work is driven by sustainability, storytelling, and community. I studied at the Royal College of Art and NIFT Delhi, and I’m currently part of the Green Grads 2024 cohort.
