Introducing our fourth round of successful Cultural Micro-commissions, supporting Wandsworth based creatives, during the London Borough of Culture year, to create new artworks with grants of up to £1000 each.
Artist and writer Sarah-Jane Fields will deliver short series of participatory workshops and a public sharing event inviting local residents to explore living in the age of automation through play, dialogue, and creative experimentation. Find out more about her project here: thedoughnutwhole.com/sarah-jane-field
Sam Haynes will develop designs for a sculpture project, working alongside Magma Sculpture, influenced by the structure of some of the geometric found objects that used within her photographic practice.
Wandsworth poet Sheema Huq hopes to attempt a Guinness World Record for the highest number of poetry recitals in one day, to a live a audience in Wandsworth.
O1M Productionz plans to run a week-long writing camp where creativity, collaboration, and opportunity meet — a platform designed to empower emerging artists, songwriters, and producers to grow both musically and professionally.
Sam Haynes
Sam Haynes is a mid career artist based in Wandsworth, working with sculpture, installation and photography. With an Art in Architecture MA from the University of East London and an interdisciplinary arts background, her geometric, abstract work, using found objects and materials, expresses a dynamic physicality through a finely balanced aesthetic. Led by an intuitive process, her practice focuses upon human connection, working across media to give form to an emotional core.
Sam has exhibited internationally, with her first solo show at the Bloom Gallery, Battersea in 2023. She was longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize in the photography category in 2025, a prize that champions international contemporary artists working today.
Sam has worked in arts facilitation for many years which continues to influence her artistic practice, engaging local, often marginalised communities, working in partnership with charities and public art commissioners. She has been supporting artists in her role as an artist facilitator and project manager at the Wandsworth mental health arts charity, Sound Minds, since 2017.
Sheema Huq
Sheema Huq resides in Wandsworth and was born in London where she has lived for most of her life. She has a Bangladeshi heritage and holds a BA (Hons) degree in Women’s Studies from the University of Roehampton. Her self-published anthology of poems, Stubborn as a Turmeric Stain was published in 2024.
After a long career in the charity and corporate retail sector, she went on to have a rich and varied career in the social care sector. By 2013 she became a carer for her mother, who passed away peacefully in January 2025.
Since 2008 she has written poems and lyrics about the inescapable pressures and unwitting gains of somebody who is South Asian that lives somewhere in the maze of South London. Over the years she has collaborated with musicians and artists and continues to write.
Sarah-Jane Field
Sarah-Jane Field is a UK-based artist and writer whose practice explores contemporary art, technology, and creative research.
Writing includes contributions to Lexiconia (2024), a research initiative examining evolving language around generative AI; Source Magazine (online) – ‘Beyond Romanticism: Relationship Advice for the Now’ (2023), which invites readers to reconsider their relationships with technology; and ‘Aftertaste’ (2024), a blog contribution around accusations of kitsch in AI images for [cloud] collective.
Her project ‘why is there an astronaut in a field of flowers/’ (2022) was recognised with an award from Format Photography and exhibited at Quad Gallery, Derby. In 2025, she co-produced a pavilion for The Wrong Biennale and attended the 2025 School of Materialist Research summer school.
She holds an MA with distinction from Central Saint Martins and a First Class BA in Photography from the Open College of the Arts.
Image: BHAM💥– ‘The Black Hole Aesthetic Machine’
BHAM💥 was made for The Doughnut(W)Hole Pavilion as part of the Wrong Biennale 7th Edition, which runs from 1st November 2025 to the 31st of March 2026.
