4th–7th September 2025
Our Keynote Speakers
Shaq Koyok, ‘Awas Mawas: A Puppetry for Indigenous Empowerment’
Shaq Koyok is an award-winning Indigenous artist and activist from Malaysia. His art emphasizes the inequalities that exist between modern consumer-based lifestyles and traditional sustainable ways of life. His works is refection of the people and the rainforest in which he grew up and captures a contemporary view of the struggle faced by Malaysia’s indigenous people. He has exhibited all over the world including la Biennale di Italia, Venice in 2022, and as an Artivist-in-residence with Artivist Network for COP28, Dubai, 2023.
Tim Knowles, ‘Paper Landscape’
Tim will talk about a number of his projects that utilise paper and cardboard in the context of his wider practice, his use of paper as material; the folding and manipulation of paper to create structures that act as landscapes and his current experiments with tracing paper.