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Harry Garner

(He/Him)

Harry was born in rural Leicestershire into a multi-generational farming family. He left the family farm and studied Fine Art at Liverpool Hope University. Harry’s work has been exhibited across the UK, with organisations like the RBSA and ROI, but he continues to live and work in Liverpool.

Harry creates paintings that allude to narrative, and tell stories through implication. He is fascinated by the idea that painting can provide information, but not answers.

Using figurative painting allows him to stage vignettes, often derived from a historical context, that balance between the ambiguous and the specific. His subject matter defies straightforward interpretation, and often shifts between portrait and still life genres. This provokes the viewer to become more than a passive consumer, instead taking an active role, as they add their own narrative to each scene

Kiya Major

(She/They)

Kiya is a rug maker, illustrator, animator, and event promoter. Their practice is playful and bold, exploring humour, failure, the grotesque through textiles, drawing, and moving images. Alongside their studio practice they run workshops and collaborate with arts organisations across the North West, sharing skills with young people and local communities.

Recently, they have been creating large-scale rugs that expand on their drawings. Their perspective as a queer, working-class artist brings a contemporary and irreverent energy to traditional textile practices, using bold colour and figurative references. They have founded events including Iconoclast Festival Todmorden and their work has been exhibited at Textile Junction, Supernormal Festival, Crag 2 Artist Collective and various galleries nationally. They have recently collaborated with performance artists at The Unity Theatre to create animations for live shows.

Stephanie Trujillo

(She/Her)

Stephanie Trujillo is a multi-media artist who explores the duality of her Peruvian-German heritage through painting, collage, and photography – and more recently through textile, craft, and land art performances. These mediums allow her to connect to her Andean roots and explore indigenous values of community, nature, and spirituality. Stephanie studied art history and museum studies prior to pursuing a social work career. After becoming estranged from her family, art supports her mental health and allows her to examine themes of identity, belonging, grief and healing.

Stephanie has exhibited with a number of local galleries and poetry groups in Liverpool since 2023, including The Royal Standard, Noire Gayze, Project Lovebomb, the Bridewell Gallery, the Elevator Gallery, and the Open Eye Gallery. Stephanie was selected as a commissioned artist for the Independents Biennial 2025.

No Funny Business

(She/Her & She/Her)

No Funny Business is a new theatre and comedy collective by Rachel Barry and Cordelia Stevenson. Blending clowning, drag and character comedy, they create live performance built around a playful relationship with the audience, and with a subversive sense of humour. Their practice is raucous, ridiculous, provocative and political, responding to the world in its current state and sharply observing the characters within it.

As individuals they have over a decade of experience making theatre for fringe festivals worldwide, including Brighton, Edinburgh, Adelaide and Melbourne. With shared backgrounds in clowning, Rachel and Cordelia are excited to work together to develop this new collaboration.

Rachel Barry is a clown, theatre maker and drag king. Who creates playful, subversive work driven by audience interaction. She thrives on connecting with different audiences, from packed theatres to children’s hospitals. Rachel is one third of Barry, Brian and Bean, a drag-king clown trio with a decade of international performances and recent performances with Unity Theatre and Adelaide Fringe. 

Cordelia Stevenson is a theatre-maker, facilitator, clown & character actor. She is co-founder of devising theatre company, Silent Faces, makers of physical, political, foolish theatre. Their recent work, Godot is a Woman toured nationally, described as “cheeky and geeky” by The Guardian & “skilled, fast-paced and very funny” by Threeweeks.