Chantal Powell is a British artist whose practice is deeply informed by Jungian psychology, alchemical symbolism, and her personal exploration of the unconscious. With a PhD in psychology, she follows a Jungian art-based research approach, using artistic process to engage with archetypal material and the psyche.
Her current work examines the archetypal motif of dismemberment as a transformative process in myth, alchemy, and psychology. Drawing on figures like Osiris and the cosmic man, Powell explores the fragmentation of the self as a necessary phase for rebirth, where dissolution becomes creation. Through a feminist lens, she engages with the embodied and vegetal aspects of alchemy, rejecting mind-body dualisms and promoting a regenerative model rooted in nature and transformation. Powell works across various mediums, including ceramics, glass, textiles, and painting, to express archetypal imagery. Her recent research into 15th- and 16th-century alchemical manuscripts informs her practice and blends with her exploration of mythology and personal inner work.
She has exhibited at galleries and institutions across the UK and internationally, including The Lightbox Museum, Woking; La Boulangerie, Paris; and Guildhall Art Gallery, London. Powell is the founder of Hogchester Arts residency program, host of The Red Bookclub, and a faculty lecturer at JungAcademy. Chantal also offers talks on archetypal symbolism and psychological alchemy and has co-curated exhibitions focusing on archetypal symbolic art.
Duru Bebekoğlu (b. Istanbul, Turkey) is a London-based artist and storyteller. She graduated from Central Saint Martins with a degree in Fine Art (4D pathway) in 2024, after beginning her studies in Film Production at Concordia University, Montreal, in 2020 before relocating to London in 2021. Her approach to narrative art earned her a shortlist nomination for both the Barry Martin Prize in Innovation and longlisted for the Mead Fellowship.
Known by the alias HOGİNSAN, inspired by the spirit of her great-grandmother Suzan; Bebekoğlu crafts works deeply rooted in storytelling. She embraces the role of a modern-day bard, weaving narratives that provoke reactions, foster connection, and explore themes of belonging and identity. Central to her practice is the taste of home, with Turkish cuisine serving as a recurring motif in her explorations of cultural memory and shared experience.
Recurring symbols such as Şahmeran, the mythical half-woman, half-snake figure, onions, fish, and pomegranates populate Bebekoğlu's art. These objects, steeped in cultural and personal significance, act as anchors for her exploration of belonging and identity. For her, they are more than symbols; they are guests at her metaphorical dinner table, returning repeatedly to inspire reflection and creation. Through her multidisciplinary practice, Bebekoğlu continues to use storytelling to bridge cultural divides, emphasizing the universal connections that can be formed through shared experiences, taste, and memory. Duru is currently a part of the 8 Vine Yard residency in Borough with Dil Collective which she is a founding member of. As two young artists from Turkey, they explore the tongue as a metaphor for fluidity, culture, and memory—examining how language shapes thought, bridges and divides, and speaks to home, identity, and belonging through spoken, unspoken, and visual forms.