Zine Club Forever!

Morrigan is a multi-disciplinary artist who explores themes of disability and queerness in their work. Their practice focuses on the importance of community, collaboration and education for queer and disabled individuals. Morrigan is the owner of Andromeda Zines, a UK-based zine distro, that aims to elevate the work of other minority creatives.

Ioana is an artist-educator and facilitator based in East London. She runs community workshops under the artistic identity of Artizine. Her socially-engaged practice explores the use of zine-making as a vehicle for encouraging individuals to share their stories, develop imaginative skills and practice wellbeing in a social setting. Ioana’s practice centres the intuitive quality of play and participation to amplify community spaces where individuals receive support to expand on their lived experience and document it through a creative, radical outlet.

Rose Sergent is a freelance Producer and Visual Artist based in Manchester. Her work focuses on challenging traditional ways of making art and promoting more accessible models. In 2017, Rose founded DIY project 'Drawn Poorly' which explores experiences of illness, disability and neurodivergence through zines. Since then over 200 creatives from all over the world have taken part in the project. She has previously worked with a range of creative organisations and is a trustee for Glasgow Zine Library.

Zoë Thompson is a zine-maker and facilitator based in London. She is the founder of sweet-thang zine, a community and indie press publishing work by Black creatives worldwide. Zoë has worked with a range of publishers, arts organisations and charities such as the Southbank Centre, Black Girl Festival, National Gallery, Touretteshero and King’s College University. Zoë's work centres on art and wellbeing, manifesto building and collective making. 

Lucy is a UK-based artist, educator and SEN specialist. Their interdisciplinary practice merges art and science, drawing on research in climate science, neuroscience and models of illness. Working across printmaking, drawing, bookbinding, writing and installation, Lucy explores the tension between scientific objectivity and the deeply personal nature of lived experience.

Zara Carpenter is a visual artist based in Rochester, UK. Their creative practice encompasses a diverse range of mediums including analogue photography, painting, poetry and printmaking. Zara's work lays bare intimate moments of their life to explore universal human experiences such as the complexities of pain, grief, trauma and the intrinsic vulnerability of living in a body which is sick. Exhibiting internationally, Zara's work is held in private and public collections including The Wellcome Collection. As part of their artistic practice, Zara also delivers artist talks and facilitates workshops for mental health and wellbeing, raising awareness of invisible illness. 

Maryam is a library, information and archive services apprentice at Wellcome Collection. They adore all things creative, particularly poetry and media that blur the lines between literature and art.