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DLWP X FLATLAND Studio Development Programme 2025/26

A collage of five people, each with a colourful background. From left to right: a black-and-white scene with an artist-like figure; a person with glasses leaning on their hand; a person in a blazer with dramatic lighting; a smiling person against a brick wall; and a person with a red scarf in a neutral room. Each section is vibrantly outlined, lending a creative and diverse atmosphere.

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We are delighted to introduce the artists selected for the 2025/26 DLWP x Flatland Studio Development Programme. This year-long programme offers artists based within East Sussex an opportunity to focus on developing and sustaining their practice in readiness for progressing their career within the supportive network of Bexhill’s Beeching Road Studios. We are delighted that this programme moves forward into its third iteration which celebrates our shared ethos as two organisations focussed on emerging artists’ development in the region.

The artists are:

Agata Bogacka
Ell
Natalie Janula
Olivia Du Vergier
Oscar Yasamee

This opportunity would not be possible without the significant support towards artists from Rother District Council.

Artist Biographies:

Agata Bogacka’s practice holds ‘clay work’ at the centre. Clay supports their drawing, painting and writing, pulling it all together “like an invisible web”. Agata is invested in creating work that transforms interactions, reflects and is reflected between the objects or the others entering the space within the field of the work.

Ell creates art in a desperately futile attempt to understand life. Working across textiles, sculpture, language, movement and memory, they pull on the threads that weave through personal experience and shared narrative. Their practice attempts to explore the in between of life, all of the things that we do not, and cannot know in a tangible way, allowing the embodiment of the materials express things that feel indescribable and incommunicable. Ell hasn’t studied art, and actually, never intended to be an artist, but after a lifetime of feeling unable to express all it was they wanted to say, discovering working in a physical form offered them a lifeline. They live and work in Hastings, East Sussex.

Natalia Janula is a Polish-born artist based in St Leonards. Her practice spans sculpture, moving image, photography, installation and performance. She is interested in urban and natural environments and the slippage between the two. Her recent project focused on speculative narratives, the embodiment of a constructed hybrid protagonist, humanoid forms, mythological symbolism, hydrofeminism and rituals related to the body and sci-fi imagery. Natalia’s current project, Creatures of habit, aims to explore the potential and the paradox of a hyper-capitalist, globally connected reality. Bodies, nature, spirituality, gender, technology and labour are employed in an industry where even invisible and abstract forces, such as love, can materialise into a definitive economy of objects, units and value. To date, she has exhibited in the UK and internationally, including solo exhibitions at New Art Projects & Union gallery (both London) & Apiece (Vilnius); group shows incl. the Horse Hospital, Krupa Gallery, Xxjira Hii, Filet space, Gossamer Fog, The Residence gallery, Collective Ending, Iklectic, Subsidiary Projects (all London, UK); Final Hot Desert (Utah, US), TBA Academy (Venice, IT), Embassy (Edinburgh, UK), the Factory Project (Liverpool, UK) & Conditions (Croydon,UK)  amongst others.

Olivia du Vergier (b. 1995) is an artist-filmmaker based in Hastings, UK. Her practice explores the interrelation of language, memory, and movement. Through moving image, du Vergier’s works examine how meaning is constructed, lost, and misinterpreted as we navigate the spaces between what we intend to convey when we communicate and what is actually received. du Vergier is a 2021 graduate of the MA Artists’ Film & Moving Image at Goldsmiths. Recent group exhibitions/screenings include Ladders and Snakes, bureau 200, Montreal (2025), Sì Cinema 5, Cafe des Images, Caen (2024), Visual Arts Scotland Centenary Show, Edinburgh (2024), Objects of Care, Backhaus Projects, Berlin (2023), Micro Acts 16, Corners, London (2023), 5 films by 5 filmmaker-artists, online for Cryptofiction (2021), Here for now, online for VODmilk (2021).

Oscar Yasamee produces Paintings and Print. His work reflects in abstract terms what may come to define features of a panopticon through painting, object-hood and image. He graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2022. Based in Hastings recent exhibitions include In gratitude for all the times we start over 2023 Flatlands Project space, MA Painting Degree Show 2022 Royal College of Art.

This opportunity has been presented in collaboration with Flatland Studios and Beeching Road Studios.

Posted by Daisy Jerome on Thursday 8 May 2025