Tania Kovats
Kovats is a UK born artist whose work negotiates how we connect to the natural world through sculpture, drawing and writing. Recently this has focused on the element of water as a connective element in the landscape. Kovats' work explores the psychological, subjective and poetic, as well as activating water to provide a route to explore critical environmental and socio-political questions. Kovats is Professor of Drawing and Making at DJCAD, University of Dundee.
AJ McConville
AJ works for London's main rivers trust, Thames21, as Thames Programme Manager. His work has included creating a citizen science network to examine the scale of plastic pollution in the Thames estuary, work which uncovered wet wipe islands forming in west London. His work is increasingly focused on understanding riverside communities' existing relationship with the river and supporting them to have a greater say in how their stretch of river is managed and protected.
Patricia Bidi
Patricia Bidi is a Peruvian artist who specialises in printmaking. Drawing on her heritage, childhood memories and her experience of life in London, her work is rooted in ancient Andean belief systems and community, celebrating life through playful and poetic imagination. Patricia has exhibited in London, New York, Paris, Vienna and Stockholm.
Joshua Frost
Josh is a community archaeologist specialising in foreshore archaeology. He has worked for the Thames Discovery Programme since 2016, helping to run projects for schools and young people and the TDP's team of volunteers. He is fascinated by the relationship between the archaeology of the river and the wider history of London as a city.
Victoria Noakes
Victoria Noakes is a spatial practitioner whose passion for the Thames spans across their interdisciplinary practice as an architect and artist. Victoria enjoys facilitating artistic activities that later feed into solving deeper social and environmental issues embedded within the architecture and policies of our cities.
Jay and Joe
Jay and Joe are seasoned Mudlarks who are on the administrative team of fast-growing Facebook group, The River Thames Mudlarking Finds.
