a creative studio by Polina Chizhova & James Stephen Wright
based in Edinburgh and Newcastle upon Tyne since 2020
Our work focuses on communities, places and the environment.
Upcoming projects:
Trapdoor to a Fantastical County Durham (in Durham and online)
28th March - 18th April 2026
View our previous projects: Blobtopia Brainrotting Wasteland, Decoding AI, The Magicians Organise Themselves (The NewBridge Project), We Pretended It Wasn't Green (Life Centre), ˈbər-b(ə-)liŋ (Middlesborough Art Week), Planet Cramond and Universal Matter (Inspace).
Our upcoming project Charm Quark publishes books on alternative urban futures.
Strange Quark represents Videocity UK, which is part of the international Videocity network. Videocity curates socially engaged video art in unusual locations and daily life. View our Videocity UK projects on the SODA LED Façade Screen (Manchester), at the Tyneside Cinema (Newcastle), in the Holden Gallery (Manchester), at the historic Grainger Market (Newcastle) and at NewBridge Books (Newcastle).
Strange Quark also offers commercial B2B design for the arts, design, tech and sustainability sectors. Get in touch to view our commercial portfolio