an art and tech 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 with an emphasis on co-creation and collaboration.
Current projects:
We Make Fawdon
Sea-Folk, Seaham
Space Banners, Culture House
View our previous projects:
More than Human: Ouseburn Multispecies Futures (Wild Roots Community Garden) & The Rings of the North (This is the North Convention), Day in the Life at Luton Made Vauxhall (Stockwood Discovery Centre), The Sea Project (Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens), The Landfill Reenactment Society (Kirkcaldy Galleries), Trapdoor to a Fantastical County Durham (Courtyard Gallery in Durham and online), Blobtopia Brainrotting Wasteland, Decoding AI, Between the Winds, Amongst the Roots, 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 Edinburgh).
All our previous projects
Strange Quark also offers commercial B2B design for the arts, design, tech and sustainability sectors. Get in touch to view our commercial portfolio