Stuck, Moving a group exhibition presents recent work by current students on the Artists Film and Moving Image Masters at Goldsmiths, University of London, and is organised by the Programme Director Gail Pickering. Featuring:

Samuel Balcombe

Samuel Balcombe is an interdisciplinary artist working across film, painting, drawing and photography. His practice explores moments of rupture that stem from mishaps within different forms of language. Taking the dual nature of spoken and unspoken communication as a starting point, he examines how non-linguistic auditory cues, such as tempo and volume, alongside physical cues including gaze and gesture, generate tension-filled spaces within and beyond dialogue. Drawing on literary and visual narrative framing, Balcombe studies relationships between individuals and their environments, seeking to identify the mismatches and dissonances that arise in attempts to articulate the ineffable.

NELLY DANSEN

Nelke Mast, alias NELLY DANSEN, is a self-proclaimed Media Infiltrating Bimbo™, born somewhere in a Frisian Forest and raised in a House of Punks. Her practice explores erotic capital, self-conceptualisation and the deconstruction of contemporary identity. Through the embodiment of NELLY DANSEN, she explores the boundaries between reality and fiction to captivate and critique the zeitgeist, using her alter ego as the primary tool for queer-feminist expression. Her practice is reactive by nature, intertextual and infused with critical humour. The work thrives on real-world collisions, moments where performance and reality collapse into one another, allowing it to remain alive, open and responsive.

Aisosa Edokpayi

Aisosa Edokpayi is a Nigerian American artist filmmaker. Inspired by his relationship to being born in Benin City, described as a city left deep in the shadows, and coming of age in New York City, positioned in the limelight of modern-day civilisation, his work explores and interrogates different ways of existing across these contrasting worlds. Edokpayi traces the line that connects or disconnects these worlds. As a result, themes of memory, migration, postcolonialism and the uncanny are often conjured within his works.

Milo Hume

Milo Hume is a video artist and director from Brooklyn, New York. His work explores how intimacy interacts with heteronormative and patriarchal structures that shape the performance of masculinity, particularly in relationships with other men. This inquiry unfolds across stylised documentary recreations, experimental music video and scripted narrative forms. Music often functions as a device to situate subjects within a “limit experience”, described as a temporary moment of physical presentness in which pressures of performance may be stripped away.

Jay Johnson

Jay Johnson is a multidisciplinary artist from the Northwest of England, currently based in London. Working across sculpture, photography and time-based media, they navigate abstraction and the subjectivity of lived experience. Rooted in personal experiences of disconnection and an evolving interest in immaterialism and solipsism, his work treads the boundaries between perception and truth, questioning the validity of reality.

Finnur Kaldi

campfire roaring til the edge of dawn, it was two days now in the hot heated the molten rock crashed all around me. Christ is a very popular word now and the ego has run amuck, that’s what the dancers meant downstairs, they were so drunk I had to cover my face just to keep the spit from reaching my eyes, but they scurried along after a while, into the night, at the corner of my eye I thought you stood there, seeing ghosts, flash light

Charlie Parkinson Sheen

Charlie Parkinson Sheen is an artist filmmaker whose sound-driven practice focuses on the natural environment. His work explores the unsparing beauty and violence of landscape, alongside a desire to capture moments of stasis while acknowledging processes of erosion amid accelerating climate breakdown. Engaging shifting personal and collective mythologies, he investigates how bodies and histories relate to the land. Moving between fiction and non-fiction, Parkinson Sheen destabilises distinctions between reality and fantasy in pursuit of a deeper subjective truth.

Julia Rose

Julia Rose is an Irish artist working with moving image. Drawing on personal experience, her work focuses on trauma and its impact on identity. She is interested in how trauma shapes subjectivity and seeks to foster empathy and shared vulnerability between artwork and audience. Rose considers her practice to be in a constant state of flux, evolving through interaction with viewers and the site in which the work is situated.

Sthiti

Sthiti is an Indian Irish artist filmmaker whose work is informed by personal experiences of family, love and girlhood. She explores intimacy within relationships and reflect on growing up as a South Asian woman in Western landscapes. Through experimental documentary and narrative forms, Sthiti considers questions of visibility, acceptance and belonging. Her practice engages both lived experience and imaginative possibility, with an interest in extending into the realms of the fantastical and magical realism.

Henan Xu

Henan Xu is an artist working primarily with film and moving image. Her practice focuses on the relationship between humans and their surroundings, including objects, environments and the broader world they inhabit. Xu approaches this relationship as unstable and ambiguous, shaped by constant change in both the world and the self. Through sustained questioning and careful measurement, she continually adjusts how she connects with the world.

Kaige Zheng

Kaige Zheng works with film and participatory art. Her practice often resists fixed definitions of art-making, emerging from actions that are later placed before an audience. By situating gestures within everyday life, Zheng seeks to offer small and genuine moments of joy. Through participatory approaches, she explores how art can enter ordinary experience and create subtle forms of connection.

Supported by Goldsmiths, University of London.