Aaron Li-Hill is a Canadian visual artist currently based in London, whose practice spans painting, mural-making, installation, and sculpture. With a background rooted in graffiti and street culture, and formal training in Fine Art, his work weaves between studio and public space, operating at scales ranging from intimate works on panel to monumental murals embedded in the urban landscape. Drawing from his mixed Chinese-Canadian heritage, he blends disparate methodologies including classical figurative painting, graphic design, stencil work, action painting, and found-object assemblage, deliberately disrupting distinctions between high and low visual languages.
Li-Hill holds a BFA from OCAD University and has exhibited internationally, with works shown in institutions including the National Gallery of Victoria, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Urban Nation Museum Berlin, and the CCCC Museum in Valencia.
Benjamin Lee (congee sounds) is a show producer and congee chef based in East London. He is also a community organiser focusing on bringing ESEA diasporic music and food to other communities in UK and Europe.
Bik Yu Lian (he/they) is the event and volunteer coordinator, as well as income inclusion officer for the project Together We Rise at ESEACC. Born to parents from Canton, China, in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa (Auckland, NZ), the land of the long white cloud, he moved to the UK in September 2023 to pursue his studies in Philosophy of Science.
Prior to moving to London, he had begun working with the Asian community in Aotearoa: producing radio shows on Chinese-language pop music, engaging in the queer and nightlife scene in Tāmaki. Thinking about how to boost the representation of Asian cultures in spaces where we’re still fighting for it. He continues to do that work here in London, at ESEACC.
Chengwei Xia is an artist from Sichuan, China, currently based in London. Her practice moves across drawing, writing, and making, approaching art as a slow, relational process of co-presence, care, and cultivation.
Jenny Lau (Celestial Peach) is a community organiser, ESEACC luncheon club chef and author of An A-Z of Chinese Food (Recipes Not Included). She is the founder of Celestial Peach, a multidisciplinary platform established in 2018 to tell and connect stories of the Chinese diaspora through food, writing and community-led work.
Jessica Mok is a ceramic artist and designer from Hong Kong, now based in the UK. Her creative journey has delved deeply into the material possibilities within ceramics. Heavily influenced by the experience of transitioning from one city to another, she metaphorically links this idea to the transformation of the material itself. Reflecting the journey of Hong Kong immigrants adapting to life in the UK.
Jessica’s practice is process-led and research-based, with a strong emphasis on learning through making. Her work considers the material’s characteristics in relation to the design. She continues to explore themes of belonging, inclusive society, and the relationships between landscape, people, and materiality.
Lan Hongchun 蓝鸿春 was born in Shantou, Guangdong Province. He graduated from South China Normal University, majoring in Chinese Language and Literature. He is a Chinese film director, screenwriter and editing supervisor. In 2018, his self-written and self-directed warm comedy film Proud Of Me was released, which won the Best Narrative Feature Award at the Shenzhen Youth Image Festival. In 2022, the family romance film Back To Love was released. It won the 12th Guangdong Provincial Spiritual Civilisation Five-One Project Award.
In 2026, his drama film Dear You, with him as director, screenwriter and editing supervisor, was released. The film achieved an impressive 9.3 rating from 890,000 users on Douban, and its box office gross exceeded 1.9 billion RMB.
Luka Yuanyuan Yang (b. 1989, Beijing) is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Beijing and London, working across documentary film, video art, photography and performance. Through weaving documentary and archival materials, she explores themes of identity, migration, and memory, challenging conventional historical narratives and amplifying overlooked voices. Yang is a recipient of the BAZAAR Art Awards – Cross-Cultural Creator of the Year (2024) and the BVLGARI Avrora Award (2023). Her works are in the collections of Power Station of Art, Kadist Art Foundation, and FENIX Museum of Migration.
Mai Anh Le is a British Vietnamese artist who uses the playful and meditative qualities of clay and craft as a vehicle to explore ideas of community, connection and ancestral knowledge in the diaspora.
Milo Li-Ren Mckeand is a potter and craftsperson who has spent the last 10 years making design led ceramic homewares and looking to use the long standing positioning of craft entwined with the domestic, as language in opposition to ever growing cruelty to our flattening digital lives.
Noel Zhang (ESEA Film Night) is a founder of ESEA Film Night: a volunteer-led community cinema founded in 2020 partnered with ESEACC. Since its inception, it has worked to provide accessible film programming spotlighting ESEA cinema, collaborating with other organisations, curators and upcoming directors from across ESEA countries and the diaspora.
Phương Anh works part-time as a Publishing Executive at Tilted Axis Press and as an Income Inclusion Officer at ESEA Community Centre. Their translations and writings have been featured on Asympote, Words Without Borders, Modern Poetry in Translation and in Here Was Once The Sea: An Anthology of Southeast Asian Eco-Writing, among others. Phương Anh is part of the An Việt Archives’ Steering Panel Committee.
Ray Yeung is a Columbia University MFA graduate. He has written and directed four features and eight short films. Ray’s third feature Suk Suk (Twilight’s Kiss) World Premiered at the Busan International Film Festival 2019 and had its European Premiere in Panorama at the Berlin International Film Festival 2020. The film subsequently screened in over 50 film festivals worldwide.
SPILLLL is an ESEA queer women creative collective that explores how to bring a salad of non-western heritage, queerness, food politics, and marginalised communal narratives to the table. They publish zines and hold gatherings around these themes in London, Bangkok, and Seoul.
Sue Man is a London-based multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Sweden with Chinese heritage. Working with clay, found materials and installation, her sculptural practice explores womanhood, ageing and transformation. Through tactile forms, she reflects on beauty, imperfection and the changing female body, inviting conversations about visibility, acceptance and the value of lived experience.
Swann Dubus (FR) & Trần Phương Thảo (VN) co-directed With or Without Me (2011). It was featured at Torino International Film Festival, and also won Grand Prize at the 2011 International DMZ Doc Fest in South Korea. They are husband-and-wife, and are based in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Tajiyah Sulwana Tajuddin is a Southeast Asian voice educator, performer, and published poet. Her interdisciplinary practice explores memory, migration, identity, and belonging through voice, poetry, traditional cultural practices, and participatory performance. She creates community-centred workshops that honour cultural heritage while inviting contemporary conversations around home, care, and collective storytelling.
Trà My Hickin works at the intersection of arts and community wellbeing through publishing, editorial, and archiving. Using storytelling to advance social justice, she focuses on Vietnamese and ESEA migrant communities.
She is editor of Translator magazine and co-directs the An Việt Archives.
Yanwu is a cultural brand rooted in a single tea mountain and six generations of Chaozhou life. Through tea, gathering, design, and storytelling, we explore the landscapes, memories, and ways of living that continue to shape our mountain.
Yarli Allison today is a fortune teller. 神婆今日在
Come have a palm reading.
Yoni Angelo Carnice (he/him) is an interdisciplinary practitioner working across landscape architecture, gardening, education, and art. His practice foregrounds the garden as both a physical and metaphorical site through which to explore the entanglements of culture, ecology, and place. As a designer, he creates gardens that are attuned to local ecologies and the people who tend them, fostering an evolving relationship between gardener and garden. His education practice centres on building embodied relationships with the planted world through food growing, habitat restoration, and other experimental forms of engagement.
Alongside this, his artistic practice works through collage, writing, research, archival methods, and zine-making to make legible the work of often overlooked gardeners and their gardens.