The Anniversary

Sergio Picarra, professionally known as Sixiazi, is an Angolan-born artist who moved from South Africa to London at 17. Carrying the perspective of an immigrant shaped by discipline, sacrifice, and resilience, his work explores migration, shared struggle, and the quiet rituals that connect people across cultures. Faces are intentionally absent — not as an aesthetic choice, but as an invitation for viewers to see themselves within the work. At its core is a simple principle: turn pain into champagne.

Teddy Opong is an interdisciplinary creative out of Surrey working across art, fashion, and videography. Through his brand Abve All Else he crafts eye-catching statement pieces that stand true to the term Wearable Art. Teddy aims to highlight the beauty in individuality — no two pieces are the same, a reflection of us as people.

Funmi Lijadu is a writer and artist energised by boundless experimentation across images and sound. With a surrealist sensibility and a contemplative approach, she is deeply invested in humanity, the histories that led to our present, and imagining better futures. She has run collage and zine workshops at Tate Modern and the Barbican Centre, and was a member at artist co-operative Cubitt Artists Studios in Islington from 2023–2025.

Iona Gordon is a multidisciplinary artist born in Accra and raised in London, working across painting, poetry and photography. Drawing on her Scottish and Ghanaian heritage, her practice explores themes of identity, community and belonging — using vivid colour palettes and sheer, layered materials to navigate the delicate balance between stillness and the chaotic motion of growing up in London.

Alessia Badia is an emerging artist born in Miami whose practice is driven by experimentation and intuition. Growing up watching her father perform surgery, she developed an early fascination with the human body — not only as a physical structure, but as a vessel for lived experience and the subconscious. Working primarily in oil paint, she moves fluidly between photography, drawing and painting, treating each medium as part of an interconnected process.

Born and raised in Austria, Venera Elshani — professionally known as Venus — creates work shaped by the tension between personal freedom, identity and the social expectations placed onto women within Albanian culture. Her practice reflects on the emotional experience of existing between individuality and tradition. Rooted in the belief that freedom begins with inner liberation, for Venus art becomes both resistance and release — a space where the soul can exist without permission.

Vienna-based DJ and visual artist. Simon-Andrés Littasy Benitez works at the intersection of abstraction and energy, producing large-scale canvases that explore states of transformation, dissolution and movement. REVERIE depicts the last dance of a shapeless entity — suspended between implosion and explosion, a visual bridge between reality and dream.

Nigerian artist, poet, photographer and creative director based in southeast London. "I don't create art for the masses. The masses are the art." G3negraphy condemns his audience to take a phenomenological approach to his work — nullifying objectivity and hierarchy, validating the position of the spectator and empowering them to create meaning authoritatively.