Meet the team

 

SARAH CROSSFIELD

A visual artist working mainly in printmaking, painting, and photography. Sarah is based in Brockley and joined the team in 2019. Graduated from the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University. In her practice Sarah is drawn to exploring the ephemeral nature of the world we inhabit. Her observations capture moments in time, using both representational and more reductive/abstract approaches. Shifting forms, light, texture, and colour are reflected in her pieces alongside themes of transition, regeneration, and disintegration.

ANDREW SLEIGHTHOLME

Andrew is a Brockley-based photographer and musician. He grew up in the North-East of England on the border of County Durham and North Yorkshire, and was drawn from an early age towards the dark and powerful landscapes of the Pennines and the North Sea coast, experiences which have informed his creative practice and love of wild places and the metaphors distilled within them. Andrew went on to read music at Oxford University, and has exhibited photographic work in solo shows in both London and Whitstable.

 

SOPHIE TEASDALE

Spending time shooting and processing photographic film at school in the darkroom, Sophie found her love for analogue photography. Graduating from UWE in Bristol, Sophie then went onto working in the photographic & film industry working on shoots for Bloomberg magazine, The Guardian Weekend, House and Garden, the Financial Times & Lloyds bank, before moving onto becoming a gallery manager, at Thackeray Gallery, one of the longest standing commercial galleries in the UK. To this day she champions artists.

 
 

KAORI HOMMA

Kaori Homma is originally from Japan, gained a BA in Fine Art from the Tokyo University of Art and Design and a MA in Fine Art Sculpture from Chelsea School of Art. Based in London exhibiting internationally. Homma’s works are in both public and private collections, and awarded by international awarding bodies, including Parker Harris Award, Aqua Zero Award, International Drawing Award, British Women Artists Award. Homma is one of the co-founders of Art Action UK, a platform for artists' creative and critical responses to global crisis. Homma is also a board member of Morphe Arts, and steering committee of art for all, Brockley Open Studios. Homma also teaches at CSM and Camberwell at University of Arts London 

 

CGC

Brockley Open Studios is a not for profit community arts group founded over 30 years ago. You can read about our story on the home page. We formally approved our organisation as an unincorporated association in March 2022. This was to improve transparency, clarify roles in the committee and ensure we are following up to date best practice and guidelines. Our constitution can be downloaded here.

Our aims are to:

  • Bring together the local community through providing free access to local arts through open studios and other community events 

  • Enable local artists, in all disciplines/media to exhibit and sell their work outside a formal gallery or funding network through open studio events, workshops and fairs within Brockley

  • Provide artists with opportunities to network professionally, share information about and opportunities with other local initiatives 

  • Promote local artists’ work through our website, social media and other communication methods

  • Ensure our events are inclusive, open to everyone and encourage all discipline/mediums beyond the traditional to celebrate the diversity of talents, traditions and culture in Brockley

  • Use all the funds raised to reinvest in these aims

Committee members:

Chair - Sarah Crossfield

Treasurer - Andrew Sleightholme

Secretary - Sophie Teasdale

Officer - Kaori Homma

Officer - Katherine Fieldgate

AGM

Our next AGM will be held in January 2027. Please check the website in due course for details of the date and time.