33,000 Everyday Artists at King’s
Faculty: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
Department: Health and Social Care Research
I am a self-taught artist based in North London. Inspiration for my artwork comes from both my native home in New Zealand and from UK landscapes, using a range of non-traditional and traditional mediums. Landscape scenes with strong personal influences form the majority of the current work series. I recently exhibited ‘Tea at Bunnage’ in Gallery II at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2015 and in Kenwood House on Hampstead Heath. My other passion is in the field of historical epidemiology, in particular, the study of the ‘Spanish Influenza’ of 1918.
Faculty: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
Department: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
Baseline pensive, I’m awful at art and have no musical bones in my body but I enjoy doing calligraphy. I have a penchant for ideas, futurism and fixing problems left of field is what I’m good at.
Faculty: Culture at King's
I own many journals with themes such as ‘a line a day’ and ‘the imaginary world of…’ and use these prompts as inspiration to form concepts relating to my life and my imagination. I love the lyric from the Pippi Longstocking ‘freedom calls and Pippi runs, the girl who never heard she couldn’t do something.’ I find it comes to mind when I realise I am acting according to barriers or fears which don’t need to exist. I share what I do and what I discover doing it.
Faculty: Culture at King's
Department: Culture and Engagement
I am a scholar of medieval and early modern Spanish culture (with dabbling of Italian and English) by training, so I have a passion for anything historical, which tends to be book and art-based, and languages. I used to sketch (badly) on a regular basis – a habit that I am trying to revive…
 by training, so I have a passion for anything historical, which tends to be book and art-based, and languages. I used to sketch (badly) on a regular basis – a habit that I am trying to revive…)
Faculty: Faculty of Natural and Mathematical Sciences
I’m a first year physics and philosophy student. I really wnhoy photography, writing poetry and drawing. I also bake a lot
Faculty: Dental Institute
Department: Craniofacial Development & Stem Cell Biology
I have painted on and off since doing art at school. I struggle to find time to do it and generally end up painting my children and animals. At work I think its great to combine art with science, there is so much in the natural world that is amazing and beautiful.
Faculty: Dental Institute
Department: Students
Dental student
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Student Services and/or Students and Education
Photographed is me juggling a thousand plastic bottles; one of many creative strings to my bow.
I have an absence of musical strings to my bow, which I am trying to rectify by learning the piano and learning to dance swing. Progress is…slow.
I also have appalling drawing skills. My pen control is dire, but I have no immediate plans to recity this. I’m envious of people who are talented calligraphers for this reason, but also because I’m fascinated by fonts. I favor Georgia for personal correspondence because it makes me look fancy.
My creative strings are largely of the writing sort. I write film/theatre reviews for a tacky magazine and am trying to get myself into gear to finish a screenplay. I’m also starting a nerdy literary blog on 1st April inspired by The Canterbury Tales.
Faculty: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
As an experienced performing artist specialising in the Dhol drum, I have been increasingly drawn to creating novel initiatives at King’s since my time as a fresher.
While drumming I do sometimes feel a sense of utopia on stage, particularly when performing as part of diverse collaborative to international audiences or at Summer festivals.
Indeed, the infectious enthusiasm that can be transmitted through the universal language of music can sometimes be rather unstoppable.
raj @explosiveents
Faculty: Dental Institute
Department: Students
I have too much passion for too many things. Painting, dancing, maths, music, writing, climbing, swimming. In all of them I lose myself in the small things, from the encompassing serenity of blue water, to the meticulous pressure of a brush, to the applause after a (flawed) concerto. My passions sometimes tire me, sometimes frustrate me, but I don’t ever want to stop being passionate.
 concerto. My passions sometimes tire me, sometimes frustrate […])
Faculty: Dental Institute
Department: Craniofacial Development & Stem Cell Biology
Chinese girl came to London half because of the series Sherlock ??
Faculty: Dental Institute
I love music.
You could probably sum up my personality in those three words. I love listening to it, playing it, dancing to it, drawing to it, and just getting lost in the melody. Music makes me think of freedom, which makes me think of art, which makes me think of freedom… and the cycle continues.
Faculty: Dental Institute
Department: Other
I love stories. In particular I love comics (writing and drawing). Getting a tale across in just a few frames is what gets me going. Making the viewer draw their own conclusions about where a character has been and where there are about to go next. Most of my art is a joke, something that jars against expectation. I’m still feeling my way and don’t know if I have a particular style. As long as holds your eye and occasional provokes a smile then I’m happy
. Getting a tale across in just a few frames is what gets me going. Making the viewer draw their own conclusions about where a character has been and where there are about to go next. Most of my art is a joke, something that […])
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Student Services and/or Students and Education
Outside of work, my life is Pilates and portraiture. The portraiture took a bit of a back seat last year so quite happy with this as a result of 15 minutes at the NPG last wrrk with Sir John Betjeman.
Faculty: Dental Institute
Department: Mucosal & Salivary Biology
When I’m not focussing all of my attention on my thesis, I am up in the air. Wrapped in the comfort of silks or draped carefully around a ring of steel, I am an aerialist. Who wouldn’t want to run away and join the circus after all the stresses of a PhD student?! I joined Sky Dance Studios in 2014 and have never looked back. Challenging my body weekly to pull myself into various positions, learning new drops and working on perfecting my routines for public performances brings me a release and a rush I’d never have thought possible. “Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward. For there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” – Leonardo da Vinci
Faculty: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
I love spending time in my art studio, my solace. I’m either, drawing, printing, staring blankly at the walls or gossiping away with other studio friends. Bike rides along the river break up the long days of endless thinking.
http://www.littlemissmangle.com/
Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Department: CMCI
“A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question which has been asked, and asks a new question.” Robert Engman
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Student Services and/or Students and Education
Playing and watching football, reading a good book, movies, going to gigs, cycling (to work and for fun), running, playing badminton, a round of golf, swimming, trying new things, travelling the world, spending time with my family and my wife, eating good or healthy food, eating bad/unhealthy food, craft beer/real ale, spending money, exploring London.
, running, playing badminton, a round of golf, swimming, trying new things, travelling the world, spending time with my family and my wife, eating good or healthy food, eating bad/unhealthy food, craft beer/real ale, spending money, exploring London.)
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Other
– MOOCs
-languages
Faculty: Dental Institute
Department: Other
At the age of 7 my uncle bought me a polaroid camera for my birthday – it was a grey plastic contraption with the look of a 3D stereo-viewer, the common or garden chrome be-lensed device it was not. However my young love of instant photographs was tempered by the price of polaroid film; even back in the 1980s before film found itself teetering drunkenly on the wrong side of the technology cliff, even then, film was expensive and this was especially the case for a kid with meager pockeymonies.
A quarter of a century later, as the digital revolution continued to gather pace i found myself hankering for older media. I wanted a camera that didn’t try to prejudge my actions, that didn’t promise me an infinite number of attempts to get the shot i wanted, that allowed me to frame the image through the lens rather than via a screen, and that used a medium that wasn’t always so damn predictable. The technical proficiency of digital photography bored me and having learnt how to develop colour film at home, I decided to start shooting strange rolls of expired film using a variety of vintage cameras.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Other
I was only a very small boy when I first saw snow, but I was almost 25 years old when I really discover snow……and that was beginning of my greastest life passion…..skiing.
Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
I was born in Bogota, Colombia (South America), where I fell in love with performance arts since I can remember. I hold a BA in Drama from the University of Exeter and am studying an MA in Arts and Cultural Management at KCL. I love food, which should explain why I’m permanently on a diet (or rather pretending to be), and travelling (and eating all sorts of exotic food). Though I’m a consecrated big-city-girl, I don’t believe in the rushed lifestyle of big cities; I rather take random pauses to contemplate my surroundings.
I live for my parents, who have opened my eyes to the world through their love and dedication. Whatever the situation, I like to see the best in people and believe in the potential of humanity to do well.
, where I fell in love with performance arts since I can remember. I hold a BA in Drama from the University of Exeter and am studying an MA in Arts and Cultural Management at KCL. I love food, which should explain why I’m permanently on a diet […])
Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Department: Other
I’m Drew, an American abroad for the semester. Art has always been an incredibly large part of my life, from music and photography to sketching and writing. I try and devote time to those hobbies every day, because strengthening your creativity works a lot like strengthening any other muscle. Exercise is important!
Faculty: Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
Department: Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Science
I am a freelance artist and arts practitioner, working as a tutor on various community arts projects. I am currently working on the ‘Stretch Digital’ project – a three year, Big Lottery funded programme delivering digital storytelling workshops in prisons across the UK. The project enables offenders to make a short film telling a story about their life, providing a voice to a seldom heard group in our society. I am very passionate about socially engaged art projects that empower people to improve their lives.
Faculty: Faculty of Natural and Mathematical Sciences
Department: Physics
I was in a few bands that didn’t get far beyond the drummer’s garage. Then for a few years in my late teens and early twenties I worked at my local music venue. I produced all of its posters and publicity material and was also the in-house sound engineer. That was until some bright spark burnt the place down.
I still do some freelance book illustration for an e-book publisher.
Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Department: CMCI
Tala [ tah-luh]: Small palm tree.
My story is being moulded through the everyday life for it to cast into a mould to be told.
i – Think.Aspire.Learn.Apply
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Student Services and/or Students and Education
I love to doodle (if you’ve ever sat next to me in a meeting, you’ll know!) – it helps me concentrate & focus my mind. I love to do creative things at home like crocheting & knitting and I can’t resist buying wool when I see it, which has led to a rather large collection! I’m happiest spending time with family, snuggled up on the sofa with a crafty project and a dog nearby.
 – it helps me concentrate & focus my mind. I love to do creative things at home like crocheting & knitting and I can’t resist buying wool when I see it, which has led to a rather large collection! […])
Faculty: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
Department: Asthma, Allergy and Lung Biology
I love science, art and handmade things.
I am currently writing a book (my PhD thesis), but I also enjoy reading and making books!
Bookbinding was something I couldn’t imagine I would be doing… but there you are.
Nothing more irresistible than respiratory medicine and physiotherapy books with floral book covers!
, but I also enjoy reading and making books! Bookbinding was something I couldn’t imagine I would be doing… but there you are. Nothing more irresistible than respiratory medicine and physiotherapy books with floral book covers!)
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Other
What makes an artist? What makes a person decide that they are artist? What are all the psycho-sociolgical, biological, environmental “markers” that have to be present in one’s development for an artist to emerge? I often wonder about this as one grows from childhood to adulthood. What makes a child drawn to the arts, whether it be music, drawing, painting or drama. Why do some let go of that fascination, dispensing creativity and spontaneity for practicality, as they grow older…whilst others cling to it – the need to play with ideas and create become an integral part of their core. After a journey of pursuing practicality, respectability and stability, I have decided that it is time to return to that person who felt most complete, centred and focussed whilst painting and drawing. I have returned to my first 3 pots of finger paints, ready to explore all the possibilities with red, yellow and blue.
Faculty: Professional Services
I love contemporary art, particularly installations. I am interested in public art and art in context. Living is London is amazing for art lovers – I try and visit a show once a week. I also love to look at buildings (old and new) sketch and design.
 sketch and design.)
Faculty: Dickson Poon School of Law
Small creative acts are important to me. Experimenting with the quality of a line, testing a new pen, writing a sentence that resonates, setting some pieces of paper together in an impromptu collage – these little things can be very energising.
Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Department: CMCI
Having a strong passion in creative and arts education of children;
Currently on diet: documenting what I have eaten every day
iphone photographer
Faculty: Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
Department: Neuroimaging
I am Jay. I like to do cooking and share the happiness with others.
PS: I am from Macau. Macau rocks.
Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
I love reading, music (especially Bach), walking, baking, and drinking tea and eating cake with friends. I like London for the most part, but I really miss the sea – I grew up by the coast and love the sense of space and solace that you can find there.
, walking, baking, and drinking tea and eating cake with friends. I like London for the most part, but I really miss the sea – I grew up by the coast and love the sense of space and solace that you can find there.)
Faculty: Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery
Department: Child and Adolescent Nursing
I like doing nerdy stuff, watching nerdy stuff with awesome nerdy people, eating food especially chocolate and cake, tumblr, salsa dancing and sleep/ lazy mornings, and of course child nursing
Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Department: CMCI
I love every beautiful thing and every beautiful soul in the world.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Student Services and/or Students and Education
‘I can tell you are an islander.’
I am from South Uist, where the sea is all land, and the land is all lochs. Land islands and islands of water inland.
Recently though, I have been part of the mainland, my island self a quirk in the ocean of Londoners. This artist’s residency in Camberwell has induced in me a need to make islands to cope with the traffic lights, joined-up-shop horizons, and saltless air.
An archipelago has formed.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Student Services and/or Students and Education
I love writing of any kind. I mostly do book reviews and a couple of editorials nowadays, and I want to get back into creative writing, so I’m seeking out anything that will give me a deadline I have to stick to…
Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Department: Music
Having graduated cum laude at the age of 18, Raffaello studied in Paris with Aldo Ciccolini
and Marie-Françoise Bucquet, then in Barcelona with Alicia de Larrocha where he
completed his Master of Spanish Music from the Academia Marshall and finally in London
with Tatiana Sarkissova ,acquiring a Master of Arts from the Royal Academy of Music. He
also studied for 4 years at the International Piano Academy- Lake Como, directed by Martha
Argerich.He also worked intensively with Galina Eugaizarova, in Madrid. During this time, he
performed in several masterclasses: at the Mozarteum in Salzburg for Andrzej Jasinky, at the
Foundation Yamaha in Paris for Elisso Virsaladze and at the Schelswig- Holstein Musik
Festival in Lübeck, for Bruno Leonardo Gelber.
Supported by the Fondazione CIMA in Tuscany, he won the First Prize at the Moncalieri
(1992)) and Mondovì (1994) International Competitions. He has broad international
performance experience in Italy, France, Spain, Germany, England, USA, Mexico and
Argentina and he has also collaborated for many years with the I Solisti Aquilani Quintet.
He graduated in Philosophy with top marks at the Università Statale of Milan, where his
thesis on Nietzsche’s thought was supervised by Professor Carlo Sini; he then studied with
Jacques Derrida at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Scienes Sociales in Paris. He is now
working on a PhD on Alfred Cortot and the importance of his pianism in the European
culture of the first half of the 20th Century at the King’s College in London, the city where he
now lives.
http://www.raffaellomoretti.com
Faculty: Dental Institute
Paper is my medium of choice just because most of my day-to-day work is done digitally. Trying to practise calligraphy and I also enjoy origami and card-making.
Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Department: Digital Humanities
I’m a nomad. I write. A lot. What I write depends on location and circumstance. I like to build machines that can, themselves, create something new. I like to photograph things outside the visible spectrum, in order to peek into the hidden worlds around us.
Also, there is always space for one more pastiche of John Dryden in anybody’s notebook. Good use should be made of this space.
Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Department: CMCI
I enjoy wandering in the city: art venues are always nearby, making visits between or after classes the most pleasant.
I try to compare London with my home city when I’m homesick. The two places differ so much in appearance but are similar in being traditional and creative, modern and yet Nature loving. What’s more, my hometown was once the workplace of the greatest playwright/ writer who lived in the same era and was regarded as equally influential as Shakespeare. This year his 400th anniversary is celebrated too. Now I’m further convinced that London is the best place for me.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Other
What do I love to do? I love to travel – I lived in Australia for 2 years, France as a student and went to India over Christmas which was an absolutely incredible country! I’ve already planned my trips for this year as well. I’m not very talented at art but love my Indian mandala colouring book and the Great Interior Design Challenge has inspired me to customise some furniture. Next on the list is learning how to knit and resuming French lessons at the Modern Language Centre. I find yoga really helps to calm my mind, but also love to challenge myself having signed up for a 10k run.
Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Department: CMCI
Getting lost but still knowing what the direction is what I always strive for. I love reading autobiographies of women who I looked up to when I have doubts about myself or when i have no idea of what to wear. Visiting Daunts is an ideal way for me to spend my time after school. I love to go out karaoke with friends over fried chickens and beer. Currently, I am collaborating with my best friend with his blog, managing his projects and exploring editorial ideas. My family is everything to me and I always count spending time with them is such a blessing since we are all so busy, living in different continents around the world.
After King’s , I hope to go to Paris to be fluent in my French as well as explore the beauty that the city of love has to offer.
Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Department: CMCI
Arts, travel, cats, music and cups of tea.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: External Relations
I find life most exciting when I’m learning something new and keeping my brain active…which is probably why I naturally gravitated towards working in a university, as I am in good company here! I have many loves, including languages (mostly Spanish), travelling (mostly in Europe and South America), art (mostly drawing, photography and culture-vulturing), music (mostly piano and singing…hooray for @staffchoir), occasional exercise (mostly cycling, zumba and running) and reading (mostly novels…that’s what long tube journeys are all about!).
, travelling (mostly in Europe and South America), art (mostly drawing, photography and culture-vulturing), music […])
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: External Relations
I love music, art, nature and laughter. I split my time between London and the the only city that has a national park within its boundaries, Sheffield. So I get the best of both worlds. I adore my two dogs, big, red, giddy Irish setters and look forward to the weekends when I can take them on big walks in the countryside in the north of England.
Faculty: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
Department: Transplantation Immunology & Mucosal Biology
Knowledge is Life
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Health & Safety
My passions are iaido and jodo, which take up most of my time outside of work! These are traditional Japanese martial arts using the sword (iaido, pictured) or a stick (jodo). I run a small dojo in South London and I compete at international level, winning 3rd dan bronze in last year’s European Iaido Championships in Berlin. I study Shinkage Ryu iaido (a koryu or classical style dating from the 1500s) and my dojo, Kashiwa, is the only Shinkage Ryu iaido dojo in the UK. I travel to Europe regularly to study with my senior teacher (Matsuoka Sensei) when he comes over from Japan. (Photo Credit – Chris Weber)
 or a stick (jodo). I run a small dojo in South London and I compete at international level, winning 3rd dan bronze in last year’s European Iaido Championships […])
Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Doing a masters in Arts and Cultural Management at Kings. Studied music and philosophy for my BA. I have been playing piano since a very young age. I love singing, dancing and art … and good food!
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: IT
The 18th century–history, art, culture, museums, collecting, house-museums, the start of feminism, enlightenment, Georgians. This was my Master’s degree at King’s and it opened up so many possibilities of what I wanted to do with my life. I love photography–or at least posting interesting pictures on Instagram–reading and getting back into my drawing hobby slowly but surely! Mum’s an actress, Dad’s a pilot and as a result I’ve always been surrounded by the arts and travel.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Other
Knitting, baking, cat, bike, food, sleep. Repeat.
Faculty: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
Department: School of Medical Education
I am a keen photographer and love to film absolutely anything! Currently venturing into the world of documentary filmmaking and have just started my first project on robotic surgery.
Faculty: Dental Institute
Department: Dental Institute
Paul, GSOH, NS, lives in Sussex, enjoys history, reading, writing – WLTM new words and rhymes and rhythms
Faculty: Culture at King's
Department: Cultural Institute
Happiest out and about around the estuaries, creeks and backwaters of Essex with my sketchbook, camera and notebook – sometimes on foot, sometime on bike, sometimes in kayak. Also love exploring with a proper fold-out map of London, linking stories, memories, images and historical research in my walking diary. At home, happiest working on my novel in my study, or at my dining room table, hands covered in paint, radio 4, cup of tea. Particularly love my dual-life as rural shed-dweller/London culture vulture.
Faculty: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
Department: Bioscience Education
I am a science geek through and through – just about every aspect involving the functioning of the human body fascinates me.
As a clean living and self-improvement enthusiast, I spend a lot of time reading up on and implementing lifestyle-altering strategies.
I am a passionate feline supremacist; therefore I am often to be found spending time at one of the two cat cafes in London or fostering cats in need of a home.
I happen to be a lover of books and horror films; currently I am reading Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.
Being particularly susceptible to the dopamine rush one gets when out and about in nature and in spaces of greenery – I take every opportunity I possibly can to escape the city and explore.
Faculty: Dental Institute
Department: Craniofacial Development & Stem Cell Biology
Our sentience is oft neglected in favour of our capacity for reason; indeed, in science particularly, logical thought and deductive reasoning are lauded. This is but one tenet of our extraordinary abilities as humans; blessed as we are with a brain whose structure still eludes understanding. Science has but one flaw: it is shackled by paradigms and natural laws.
Fulfilment of our true potential must involve creative expression, however meagre or inconsequential one might think it.
I write things, words, lyrics and let the people I’ve met and places I’ve been inspire me. I owe a lifetime of gratitude to JRR Tolkien and Bob Dylan.
Faculty: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
Department: Neuroscience Education
I love doing things that show me how different our minds can be, how our environment affects us but also how there is something that seems very unique in the way that each of us sees the world. Basically, I find fascinating how each of us has a unique personal world inside of our heads. That’s probably why I study Neuroscience but also why I love traveling to different places, and so that’s how I ended up moving to London from Venezuela.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Student Services and/or Students and Education
Francophone – Japanophile. Love learning and taking pictures in my spare time. Also a mini-gatekeeper at King’s 🙂
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Student Services and/or Students and Education
Appropriately enough, I love learning. I enrol on MOOCs and dabble around in them but don’t complete them. However: I am currently determined to finish a Harvard MOOC on computer programming that I recently joined out of interest in how to code. I recently started learning to knit. When I lived in Ireland I started to learn Irish. What I really should do is learn one thing very well rather than dip in and out of lots of different things. Or should I? Dipping in and out is fun. My creative outlet is writing when I have time, which isn’t often as I try to spend as much spare time as possible doing fun things with my family (like talk to them about the latest thing I’m learning).
Faculty: Culture at King's
Department: Other
Last week someone described me as a quirky girl after a short conversation, and yes, I agree. I like taking photos, funny photos, and could stops a few times on my way to someplace. I also collect stickers, masks and things related to flamingo.
Faculty: Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
Department: Neuroimaging
I have always been fond of writing as a form of creative expression and communication. In science, it allows me to explain concepts and ideas in familiar language to wide audiences. This year, for example, I have contributed a feature article based on my personal exposure to Alzheimer’s Disease to The Looking Glass, a science publication founded at the IoPPN.
I am also keenly interested in new technologies such as virtual reality, 3D printing, and brain-computer interfaces. I hope to bring these two passions together in my new website brain.ink, which is currently in development.
Faculty: Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery
Department: Adult Nursing
I like the the Tate Modern is between the Guy’s and Waterloo campus. It’s a 20 minutes walk, with an hour between lessons. Well planned!
Art forms i knowingly indulge in: cooking, dance, sculpture, poetry, photography, colouring.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Research Management & Innovation
Having grown up on a farm in the Fens, I’m a country boy at heart. One of my favourite pass-times is to go for long walks around the Essex countryside, which is much more picturesque than most people think! I’m also a big cricket fan, and play the game during the summer (not very seriously!) with the Thomas Guy club. On a more artistic note, I sing tenor with the DBSingers, who are a choir originally formed by employees of Deutsche Bank (where my wife works). We usually do two or three concerts a year, on a fairly classical theme.
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Department: CMCI
Welcome to the Human Creation Development Program.
I am a sculptor interested in post-humanity and how our bodies and minds have changed throughout our history towards this dystopian self sufficient bodies. Those bodies without organs are inspired from yoga postures, dance and also traditional antic sculptures that are seeking to achieve perfection and sufficiency. From the golden ratio to today’s size zero, I am trying through my practice to criticize an over aesthetized society through a tortured body where beauty and abject meets.
The humanizers : Clay and wax, variable sizes, 2015
Here is an interview from my degree show for further information about my practice : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EBRAsPSp1w
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Research Management & Innovation
Currently trying to up cycle an unhappy looking chair. I also love travelling; I took a 4 month sabbatical to travel around the world. This year I’m hoping to explore more of the UK.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Principal's Team
What do I love? I love punk rock. I love loud guitars, crashing drums and thumping bass. I love inexpertly thrashing at my own guitar. I love adding to my CD and vinyl collection and playing it good and loud. What else? I love cooking. I love taking raw ingredients and making them into something delicious, greater than the sum of their individual parts. I love rugby, sadly now watching more than playing. And I love travel, in particular to France, where I lived for two (mostly) happy years as a student and as a graduate.
Faculty: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
Department: Medical Education
Born and bred Northumbrian with passions for travel, furniture up-cycling and sci-fi. When I’m not at work I’m probably planning a new DIY project, watching a movie or rambling in the Surrey countryside. I’m most happy when I’m visiting somewhere new and experiencing different cultures, particularly if that’s through their fantastic food and drink.
Faculty: Dental Institute
Department: Students
A Singaporean doodler who loves running, berets Swing and anything retro.
I love discovering places, try out new food, meeting new people and go to events i have never been before to experience. Anywhere I go, I bring along my red sketch book and ink pens as I,ll never know what I might come across during my little discovery walks. Sometimes I have friends who join me in my little adventures around London. These are small yet significant memories I treasure, and I sketch what I loved most about that day, that restaurant, that food, that scene. Its incredible how much you recall- the ambience, the energy and the emotions when you flip back to those sketch.
Faculty: Dental Institute
Department: Students
I need an excuse to create!
Faculty: Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
Department: Psychosis Studies
I like art and I like science, and I love the combination of both. I’m interested in neuroscience and genetics in relation to psychosis, and I think that the results of experiments and publications can be represented creatively as well as scientifically.
I was originally going to study illustration and graphic design before I ended up doing biological psychiatry (still not sure how that happened), but here I am.
Faculty: Dental Institute
Department: Students
Currently a dental student and I also love to draw!
Faculty: Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
When I was in school, I loved English and Drama. But I also loved Physics and Chemistry. For a long time I couldn’t decide which area to pursue, which ‘me’ was the dominant one – the hopeful actor or aspiring physicist. Back then, every choice (though overwhelming) seemed clear-cut and simple; everything was black and white. But as I got older, the colours began to run, and I realised that my options didn’t stop at the edge of each discipline. Following two Arts degrees I find myself in a scientific institution, still trying to bridge the two worlds through writing, musical composition, theatre, film making, and now, with the help of the 31-day challenge.
 seemed clear-cut and simple; everything was black and […])
Faculty: Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
Department: Other
We have various interests from playing music, literature , photography and drawing, yoga, running, walking the dog.
We haven’t worked together for long so we don’t know too much about each other yet and we’re going to know more by the end of this project!
Faculty: Dental Institute
Department: Students
Impulsive artist/poet/ whatever takes my fancy, starting a new project every few days.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Student Services and/or Students and Education
I spend my “free time” studying gender and sexuality, specifically focussing on the History of Sexuality (yup, that’s an actual discipline). My dissertation is focussing on how early 20th centuryy women writers used previously male-dominated education and discourses to frame and legitimise their sexual identity. I love the opportunity I have to draw interdisciplinary links and tease out new ways of looking at history, writing, and the relationship between knowledge and our ‘space to imagine’.
. My dissertation is focussing on how early 20th centuryy women writers used previously male-dominated education and discourses to frame and legitimise their sexual identity. I love the opportunity I have to draw interdisciplinary links […])
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Student Services and/or Students and Education
I’m passionate about health and fitness and helping other to lead a healthier lifestyle.
I enjoy cooking and fervently believe in the power of food to heal. I’m a pescatarian and I also don’t use dairy products. However, I find these restrictions liberating as I need to be more creative when it comes to cooking.
I love observing nature and it’s fascinating to see the variety of wildlife in my “neighbourhood” even though I live in London. And I love collecting seashells and pine cones.
Faculty: Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
Department: Health Service and Population Research
I’ll do my best to summarize!
I’m five foot four, I have brown eyes.
I write and draw in my spare time,
I’m also not averse to rhyme.
I lived in Rome but now I’m back,
And on a rather different track.
I love my dog, I hate TV,
So there you go – a glimpse of me.
This challenge seems like a great way,
To get creative every day!
Faculty: Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
Department: Biostatistics
Hello,
I guess my story is that I like my days being full of maths and arts. People might think maths and arts do not go together but nothing could be less true. Solving a mathematical problem feels like art. Gazing at a work of art feels like looking at a solution. Isn’t it? I think this is because maths and arts are about finding the truth in things. When I was young thinking whether I should study maths or art a friend of mine said to me you can always experience art in everyday life. That was a good point and this is what I am trying to do ever since. Most of all I like painting, especially other peoples’ paintings 😉
Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Department: English Language and Literature
I am a writer, with an incurable passion for reading. I read everything from fiction, travel writing, psychogeography, to poetry and art books, and it is not just the reading, but also the owning of the books, that obsesses me. I read in delicious snatches on public transport and with one eye open in bed as I fall asleep. When I write it is mostly short fiction, although I also write the occasional review for an online journal here and there, and of course, I can often be found writing my PhD thesis. I am also the Chief-Editor for a literary journal for Arts & Humanities researchers in London, The Still Point Journal, where we encourage students to explore their research in more creative ways, sometimes in collaboration with an artist or illustrator.
I love coffee, travel, art, books, rocks, and anything even vaguely related to the Spanish language. In a previous life I worked with art galleries, rare book dealers, frozen food companies, and even a circus.
Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Department: English Language and Literature
If I could spend every night in the theatre, I would – especially the NT or the BAC. Then I’d spend every day exploring London’s back streets and hidden place, trying to capture them on an old, beaten up, plastic camera. I’m loving being back in London after a couple of years away, and it’s reignited my love for this city, despite her many foibles.
Faculty: Dental Institute
Department: Students
draw. paint . sew . all things crafty. photography . film . animation . piano. beauty in nature . morning runs . tennis . new experiences
Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Department: Classics
I love being outdoors, in the middle of nowhere. My favourite places are those where you can stand on top of a mountain but see the sea.
Faculty: Faculty of Natural and Mathematical Sciences
Department: Mathematics
I’m really into healthy baking, would love to learn a language and travel to that country and sunflowers are my favourite
Faculty: Dental Institute
Department: Craniofacial Development & Stem Cell Biology
I love furniture makeovers. This is a creative process that I really enjoy involving painting or redecorating furniture in all sorts of way. Everything (and everyone!) has a potential! What’s more exciting of bringing that potential to life?
 has a potential! What’s more exciting of bringing that potential to life?)
Faculty: Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
Department: Education and Professional Studies
I’m Luke and I like to sign up initiatives like 33,000 Artists and pretend that I am serious and cultured enough to do this kind of thing. I love language and everything it does.
Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Department: CMCI
Getting inspired by music and draw until dawn
Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Department: English Language and Literature
Poetry has always been my passion. It never fails to amaze me how much it has brought me to new adventures within the page and out of my comfort zone. In the margins I draw, make unfinished to-do lists, and have some newfound kitchenventures.
Faculty: Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
Department: Basic and Clinical Neuroscience
I think many of the qualities/definitions of a scientist are absolutely shared by an artist…which is which? curious, attentive to detail, reproducible?, need to think out of the box… both need creativity. Not sure if artists like statistics though : ) I see art in science, and science in the arts. I like photography and painting and I think art is a fantastic platform to help science reach the general public.
 I see art in science, and science in the arts. I like photography and […])
Faculty: Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
Department: Neuroimaging
I am a (sadly lapsed) aspiring novelist seeking inspiration to get the book I’ve been working on for over 5 years finished. I’ve written four drafts and am frustrated to have lost motivation over the last couple of years – I’m hoping the 31 day challenge will free up my creativity and stop me saying ‘should, should, should’. I’m also interested in expressive writing and run a voluntary course on the use of writing to aid wellbeing for SLaM Recovery College.
My other secret passion is social science research into embodiment. I did an MRes in the area over 10 years ago and would love to take my study further. I did an Associate PG Cert in narrative research last year to dip my toe back into the educational waters, and focused on narrative and embodiment for my assignment. It was pretty hard to study again, but I loved the challenge of engaging with complex theory and thinking critically about it. I’m now working out how to take this further without the structure of a course (and of course accommodating the novel and the day job!)
 aspiring novelist seeking inspiration to get the book I’ve been working on for over 5 years finished. I’ve written four drafts and am frustrated to have lost motivation over the last couple of years – I’m hoping the 31 day challenge will free up my creativity and stop me saying […])
Faculty: Culture at King's
I love being with my five year old niece where I get to be a mermaid, a unicorn or sometimes a space vet. We also like running around, chasing and dancing with our shadows. When I’m not under the sea, in the mystical grotto within the magical forest, or up in space, I enjoy going to the cinema and theatre and supporting Spurs. But best of all, I like being a unicorn.
Faculty: Dental Institute
Department: Craniofacial Development & Stem Cell Biology
Science and Art have a common origin, which is the essence of the consciousness. Every state of mind expresses itself as a poem, a song, a dish or a picture of an immunofluorescence.
I enjoy in the laboratory trying to understand the molecular mechanisims driving developmental proccesses, and in the kitchen, my personal Lab. I don´t play any instrument at all, but Music is always present. Reading about philosophy or science-fiction or even writing occupy my time as well.
Faculty: Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery
Department: Postgraduate Research
I moved to London in September to start at King’s. Running, cycling and yoga are some of my favourite activities. I have a small obsession with tea and cake and am keen to extend my baking repertoire to which my friends and family approve. In January, I went to a life drawing class (to draw not model!) in keeping with the popular New Year’s resolution to try new things! I have an almost blank sketch book in need of some attention… and if I am signing up to this, I probably should invest in some new pencils!
Faculty: Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
Department: Education and Professional Studies
I’m unhealthily obsessed with talking. No seriously. I actually have a student radio show where I literally just talk for an hour a week. You’ve said 100-ish words, you’ll begin to regret that in a minute when you see that I may have quite considerably gone over that. Apologies for that. I am super keen on British politics as well, there’s just so many interesting things happening each day. I like to think I’m fairly creative – love writing, making videos and would love to do more painting, pottery, that sort of thing. The best feeling is when you get your creative juices flowing and start on an endless journey of imagination. The possibilities are limitless (procrastination permitting!) I hope to become more creative as a result of this. I should probably stop talking now. Oh and I Study English Language and Linguistics, you probably don’t care but I had to mention it.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Student Services and/or Students and Education
I’m a huge foodie and my two favourite things are either eating out and letting somebody else do the work, or rustling up some weird and wonderful creations in my own kitchen. Despite a ridiculous collection of cookbooks and kitchen gadgets I always seem to be able to convince myself I need another! I love barbecuing and have been found out in the garden cooking in the rain in Janaury, it’s always barbecue season. I also like eating in other countries too! My better half introduced me to all that South Africa has to offer, the beautiful weather, spectacular scenery and amazing animals and so I’ve become a bit of a regular visitor. Conveniently they rather like a barbecue (or braai) too so that all works out rather nicely.
Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Department: CMCI
I am an aspiring adventurer, writer and filmmaker obsessed with all things cycling and travel. I am happiest when doing something creative; sketching, writing, playing music or making short films. My number one goal is to avoid the ‘normal’ 9 to 5 office job lifestyle and enjoy an active lifestyle.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Fundraising and Supporter Development
I love getting lost in worlds – the world of nature, the world of books and the world of music are hard for me to give a hierarchy to as a I love them all differently. Music is my most active hobby and I am assistant conductor of a community choir and member of a chamber choir in my spare time. I’m also an ailing pianist. I have a strong belief in the power of music to unite and heal. Perhaps where these three worlds collide for me is through the ability to continually re-imagine and rediscover them; there are always new meanings to find, depending on where you are standing at the time…
Faculty: Dental Institute
Department: Craniofacial Development & Stem Cell Biology
All I what to do is be outside! Especially in snowy mountains with endless skiing. When that’s not possible (about 8 months of the year), I also teach yoga & meditation, run around the canals, occasionally travel to the tropics to scuba-dive, doodle on anything, attempt to cook and walk everywhere.
, I also teach yoga & meditation, run around the canals, occasionally travel to the tropics to scuba-dive, doodle on anything, attempt to cook and walk everywhere.)
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Research Management & Innovation
I love a good list, pie chart or infographic. Preferably about transport or maps.
Faculty: Dental Institute
Department: Craniofacial Development & Stem Cell Biology
When not in the kitchen, or wielding a bass guitar, I also try and do some science involving evolution and development.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Student Services and/or Students and Education
I’m Tom, and I’m almost certain that I like David Bowie more than you. Top three albums – Low, Station to Station and Ziggy Stardust. (I’m basically Rob from High Fidelity.)
When I’m not desperately trying to make myself look more interesting on online profiles by inventing hobbies, I enjoy travelling to watch a lower league football team disappoint me in various towns and cities across the country, live music, and cinema.
 When I’m not desperately trying to make myself look more interesting on online profiles by inventing hobbies, I enjoy travelling to watch a lower […])
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Faculty of Arts & Humantities
Armed with a Canon T70 and a notebook brimming with thoughts phrases & ideas.
Faculty: Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
I’m passionate about campaigning for mental health to be truly regarded as equally important as physical health, especially in the perinatal period.
Being a good campaigner requires creativity and inspiration, and it’s necessary to nurture those qualities by being creative in lots of different ways so I write and paint (not much lately) as well as soaking up as much great art, theatre and cinema as I can, which is thankfully not that difficult in our marvellous capital city!
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Faculty: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
Department: Medical Education
Professionally, I like to use technology to tell stories and communicate – and when I’m not doing that, I sew quilts. And by sew I mean, cursing my sewing machine because no matter how hard I try and how cautious I am, I am always having to unpick seams.
Faculty: Faculty of Natural and Mathematical Sciences
Department: Informatics
technology is amazing and I want to be the part of that culture. I learn about software and I learn about management but I also learn about feminism and art a lot. I like pretty things.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Fundraising and Supporter Development
I can usually be found with my nose in a book in a nice coffee shop; surrounded by mess in the kitchen baking something delicious; or in a muddy field in the pouring rain with a lacrosse stick in my hand!
Faculty: Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
Department: Education and Professional Studies
On my days off you will usually find me in a gallery, at a talk/screening/event or at Goldsmiths – where I am also currently studying for a part time MA in Contemporary Art Theory. My areas of interest are film/moving image, site specific practice, and I’m currently researching art and transcultural memory. My background is Fine Art – I have previously made and exhibited artworks and been involved in organising many exhibitions. I enjoy exploring the city by foot and like to find ‘art’ in everyday life
Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Department: CMCI
A passionate entrepreneur and explorer from Shanghai, China!
Faculty: Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
Department: Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
My interest is foreign language education, art and culture.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Student Services and/or Students and Education
I love Christmas and penguins and elephants! I volunteer at a youth club because I really just want to be 10 years old again 🙂 I love (vegan) baking and I love eating cakes even more…
 baking and I love eating cakes even more…)
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Student Services and/or Students and Education
Half-savage and hardy and free
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Student Services and/or Students and Education
We’re a motley crew of writers, artists, poets, dancers, dreamers, pseuds, lovers, mothers, drinkers, thinkers, fools and friends.
With a heritage that spans the globe and a working practice that encompasses every site, we relish all and any challenge – the more creative the better!
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Other
Having at various times had thoughts which in hindsight appear to have been wrong, and having also observed both dreadful and wonderfully kind acts inspired by irrational experiences in the mind, I am trying to write a novel with religion as one of its themes. I occasionally draw and use water colours, but get frustrated because I’m so slow and am not very good. A long time ago I did amateur dramatics and really enjoyed it.
I rather agree with Noel Coward, that work can be ‘more fun than fun’. It’s worth remembering to make it that way.
Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
I am a wanderer. I wander through days and nights, through million thoughts and feelings, through moments, brief encounters and weird situations. I believe there is no right place to be except where we are at the moment.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Student Services and/or Students and Education
food – cooking and especially eating, exploring new places, walking, sports (watching more than participating!)
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Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Estates & Facilities
Originally from Suffolk, I consider myself to be a country girl – very happy to be pottering around the countryside with a dog and preferably on a horse.
I love exploring new places and things, whether that’s countries, cities, restaurants or activities.
I would consider myself fairly creative, although the effort is much greater than the actual skill I possess. Buying bits and pieces to make my Christmas cards and decorations brings me a lot of joy and I have great fun trying to create things with my sewing machine.
When i’m not cutting, gluing or wondering around forests, I love a good cocktail and can whip up an amazing Espresso Martini!
Faculty: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
Department: School of Bioscience Education
I am a lover of stories. When I was young I would devour books, anything with the printed word. My favourite genres were (and are) fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction and classics. Now I am interested in stories that are told visually: film, sculpture, paintings, textile arts, dance, digital and so on. The majority of my free time is spent enjoying theatre, dance, galleries, media and the thousand other pursuits that London has to offer.
 fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction and classics. Now I am interested in stories that are told visually: film, sculpture, paintings, textile arts, dance, digital and so on. The majority of […])
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Fundraising and Supporter Development
Art is life and life is art
Faculty: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
Department: Pharmacy and Forensic Science
I’m a passionate knitter, sewer, painter, writer, cook….creator! I am always making things, whether on my long daily commute, watching the TV, or in any spare moment I can take. It’s how I relax from the pressures of work.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Other
Beset by a terrible lack of fidelity, I am a member/friend/associate/patron of lots of cultural organisations across this great city. I love to write, cook, read, speak, browse and sluice. Particular moments of joy: introducing a renowned bar to a new cocktail, having new friends collide for the first time and hear of their subsequent adventures in my absence, armagnac on the rooftop at home in Clerkenwell or in Gracia, learning and persuading through good-natured argument.
Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Department: CMCI
CMCI Student @ King’s
Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Department: CMCI
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Department: Digital Humanities
This weekend we played Settlers of Catan on Sunday, I watched the rugby on Saturday and did DIY round the house as well: kind of sums up home time with the kids – I enjoy games and playing. I love to read; with my favorite reading around science fiction of the hard science or space opera variety. I find myself at King’s through happenstance and hard work but found a home and an intellectual family here that I appreciate more than I can write down. I think I am creative, feel I can see patterns in everything around me and I like to make connections but I am not technically proficient in any art or craft.
Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Department: English Language and Literature
I’m passionate about connecting with new people and having random new experiences. I love the theatre and seeing musicals..moving to London was a good move then! Have been singing most of my life and keen to find a new choir. However I’m most happy when I’ve sat down in a quirky new cafe I’ve discovered, with a good cup of cho and reading.
Faculty: Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
Department: Psychological Medicine
I love traveling, singing karaoke, and meeting new people. My room also has space for more bottles of perfume and pairs of high heels. I love stories, stories about the people, about the past and about different cultures. I guess I am the happiest when I am out with my friends for an afternoon of karaoke singing.
Faculty: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
Department: Medical Education
I love the world around me- a bit obsessed with natures elements- so sunrises and sunsets- the sea- bluebell woods for examples. I swim for relaxation and sea swimming on New Years day is a personal tradition. I listen to an eclectic selection of music- Jazz, Classical, 70’s pop, Brass Bands- much influenced by my almost adults children’s developing musical careers. Reading: try to work my way through some Booker nominees each year- but most recent completed read is “in the Heart of the Sea” by Nathaniel Philbrick. Theatre: not often enough. Guilty pleasure? Disney films….and Musicals.
Faculty: Professional Services
I am a terrible but keen white water kayaker who loves to paddle but spends most of the time upside down. I also love skiing, snow, mountains, rivers, sea, sand, travelling, tea, playing acoustic guitar, long walks, painting & reading.
My life revolves around food. I spend a lot of time eating peanut butter, macaronic cheese, crepes, cinnamon buns, Nutella, brie and halloumi. I love to bake but I love cake batter even more… one of my life’s biggest dilemmas.
I also have a passion for long naps and baby elephants.
People who give up their seat on the tube and my 3-legged Westie (Ollie) make me happy.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Student Services and/or Students and Education
A lifelong movie buff, my obsession (let’s not pretend it’s only an interest) in films is more specifically focused around Italian and British genre cinema of the 1950s, 60s and 70s. I am one of the co-editors of a website dedicated to European westerns and used to keep a regular blog of Spaghetti Western film reviews until life and lethargy caused a prolonged hiatus which is still in full swing.
Apart from cinema I am also a bit of a music nut and play bass in a rock band which I took up late but which has proved to be a source of great pleasure. We gig irregularly but enthusiastically and had a high point of supporting The Lambrettas. Quite a buzz for a bunch of old farts like us.
I’m looking forward to this arty challenge as a bit of stimulus in this direction can’t be a bad thing.
 in films is more specifically focused around Italian and British genre cinema of the 1950s, 60s and 70s. I am one of the co-editors of a website dedicated to European westerns and used to keep a regular blog of Spaghetti Western film […])
Faculty: Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
Department: Psychological Medicine
When I was at school, I used to play more instruments than you could name! When I went to university, all that dropped off for various reasons – although I always kept an electric keyboard. Now my parents are selling my childhood home, I had to take my old instruments. I took out my flute and started to play. We were both a little rusty. But within a month, we were both sparkling! I’ve refound my joy in tooting soaring descents in both classical and popular music. I’d encourage anyone else to dig out their childhood instrument, and see just how quickly their fingers remember the notes…
Faculty: Professional Services
In the photo I have just finished hitch hiking from Sheffield to Vilnius in Lithuania as part of a charity hitch hike with my university. I love the freedom of hitching a lift and the interesting people you meet! I also learn Chinese in my spare time because I think it is fascinating and one day I would love to be able to speak it well.
Faculty: Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
Department: Geography
I believe life is all about the experience. Leaving the confines of home and getting stuck in. I might not always be successful in living up to this but through cycling, photography and adventure I certainly try. In the spirit of Christopher McCandless – “happiness is only real when shared” – anyone who wants to join me on my quests for adventure is welcome!
I have a photography blog on Tumblr where I document my urbex. Sadly work often gets in the way of regular blog posts but I’m looking forward to flooding it during the 31 day challenge. Check it out at: http://aristophotos.tumblr.com
Faculty: Culture at King's
Department: Cultural Institute
Always looking for new fascinating ideas, across all disciplines, and lucky enough to have a collection of projects in many art forms on the go.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Fundraising and Supporter Development
The Gurus are…
BetC: A Sardinian avoiding the sun by living in London. Cooks a mean lentil dhal.
PeteC: Originally from the West Country. Proud owner of a Klein Bottle.
SheitC: London born and bred. Once went to Bethnal Green and thought she was in Scotland. Hoarder of containers.
KatC: Would visit her home in Hungary more often if she could navigate National Rail. Dabbles in jewelry making.
Faculty: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
I love dancing and craft activities, particularly crochet and I am getting increasingly interested in mindful crafting and implications for wellbeing. I have helped my colleague Ruth Sugden to establish a craft and chat group for staff on Wednesday lunchtimes at the Guy’s campus (new members welcome!)
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Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Student Services and/or Students and Education
Whenever I have free time, I go to dance classes, catch a show at the theatres and play tennis. (Or I stay in and Netflix.)
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Faculty: Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
Department: Biostatistics
Walking on the Wild Side. I have a passion for wild animals and working towards their conservation. I have been fortunate to work with Lions, Hyenas, Giraffes and Elephants in South Africa and a whole host of unique and amazing selections of Rare Species of animals in the UK, such as Pumas, Snow Leopards, Bintarongs, Fossas, Wild Dogs, Otters , Loris etc. . Now being back in London I am content to having my pseudo wild animals at home (my two cats) and horse riding on the weekends. I love being in Nature and try to pop out to the beautiful countryside around the UK to soak in as much as I can and I am always on the look out for the beauty of Nature escaping out in London too. I love to travel most of which is determined by animal work, exploring somewhere new or adventuring.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Fundraising and Supporter Development
I love baking and trying new recipes, and I’ll rarely ever turn down a piece of cake. A great weekend is spent covered in flour and melted chocolate and trying to convince myself it was supposed to taste like that. I also love reading, travelling, going to the theatre (nothing beats a good musical) and going on lovely walks around London when the weather lets me!
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Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Human Resources
My passions include reading, dancing and music. Currently, I am learning German – my partner is from Germany and I aiming to have a conversation with his mum, in German, next time we visit.
I love being in Richmond Park, either running or walking. The best time is first thing in the morning, when it is just getting light, and it is just me, the deer and the birds!
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Estates & Facilities
A keen walker, photographer, forager and jogger, the only thing that makes me nearly as happy as being outdoors is being in the kitchen cooking and baking! On rainy days I also like a bit of crafting, including making fascinators (the feathery wedding head wear variety) and painting. Another great love is travel, and I try to I jet off to as many new countries as my bank account/ annual leave will allow me. Finally, I am a huge animal lover, and am counting down the days until bird watching becomes an acceptable hobby for my age….
 and painting. Another great love is travel, and I […])
Faculty: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
Department: Genetics and Molecular Medicine
I qualified as a chef, silver service waitress and wine sommelier, many years ago now.
I enjoy planning my garden, photography, hiking, RHS, National Trust, cooking (obviously), travelling (abroad, not the train and tube!), jewellery making and mosaic’s. Enjoy films and relaxing also.
Have created a lovely mosaic garden piece as shown.
, travelling (abroad, not the train and tube!), jewellery making and mosaic’s. Enjoy films and relaxing also. Have created a lovely mosaic garden piece as shown.)
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Fundraising and Supporter Development
Everyday is definitely the word for my artistic skills…
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Fundraising and Supporter Development
Living in London I’m still amazed at the stark difference between the real passion and zest for food, and the way in which people chow down a sandwich from Pret or Cafe Nero at lightning speed pace. I realized as a young man that I had a great interest in cooking and baking, no doubt thanks to Nigella Lawson…
I find cooking for a group is a fantastic social tool; it allows us to discover new tastes from different cultures and discover more about ourselves, what we individually find sweet, bitter, sour and so on.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Fundraising and Supporter Development
Law graduate, loves cooking and is known to draw and paint the occasional picture.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Fundraising and Supporter Development
I am a third culture kid. I am really good at calculating time differences and have a love-hate relationship with the question “Where are you from?”. I can best express myself and who I am through photography. I really do believe in the phrase “a picture is worth a thousand words”. As a photographer, I want to make sure that people and especially women can convey who they are through a single photo – their life experiences, their hardships and their joys.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Fundraising and Supporter Development
My name is Lily, i grew up in the midlands and then studied Sociology at the University of Essex graduating in 2012.
My real passions are travelling and food! I love to cook and enjoy throwing ingredients together and seeing what happens. You can always count on me if you want a lunch trip out the office or to try a new restaurant. I especially love to try food from all over the world and particularly enjoy the foody element to travelling. I love to travel the world a weekend, a week or 10 months at a time and as soon as i am back home i’m planning the next adventure.
I love animals, photos, art, theater, music and reading and i am very excited to see what exciting challenges will be heading my way in this 31 day challenge!
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Estates & Facilities
King’s has always helped me to nurture my interests and passions. My undergraduate degree in Geography certainly nurtured my interest in travel and exploration, and later the MA course in Cultural & Creative Industries that I took further fostered my desire to not just learn about Culture (in all of its forms) but to be creative myself. Now, a few years down the line as a staff member I think that the 33,000 Every day Artists project is a great way to the wealth of creativity at the university.
I have always been at my happiest when I’m exploring and discovering something new…anything from a new and interesting market, gallery or hidden park in London to when I’m travelling much further afield in a tropical location! One of my biggest passions in life is scuba diving, which has taken me far and wide and through doing this I’ve had some truly amazing encounters and experiences! I have also managed to combine this with my love for photography and delved into the work of ‘under-water photography’. As my skills have developed I’ve been able to not just simply record what I’ve seen, but to get more creative with the pictures that I ‘make’!
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Department: CMCI
I’ve always loved stories. Reading others’ writing, and writing myself. I’m a story junkie – I love being engaged in stories; as the teller or as a participant in someone else’s tale. One of my earliest memories is of my father making up stories – about astronauts, train drivers, adventurers – where I was central to the narrative. He appeared to be making things up on the spot and I was at the very centre of the story. I was only 4 or 5 but amazed then and amazed still when I think about that early experience. I’ve been hooked since then; on the power of narrative to shape and make sense of our lives. My passion now is for creating stories – in my work and in my spare time. I use stories to better communicate ideas in work. And I’m working on a novel.
I’m also the Co-Director of 64 Million Artists.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Fundraising and Supporter Development
I love spending time with my family, I love spending time with friends, I love having time to myself and I love working
So – I’m most happy when I’m spending time doing all of these things…
Easy to articulate but not easy to do, and getting the balance of these four things right is the thing that I find hardest…
Not rocket science, and I won’t be the first person to say it, but true
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Student Services and/or Students and Education
I’m Lizzie. I trained in Musical Theatre and am still pursuing/powerlessly waiting for the ridiculous career choice that is acting.
Started as a temp here at King’s and was only supposed to be here for two weeks; I’m still here two years later (mainly because I love everyone I work with and feel pretty lucky, but shhhhhhh, don’t tell them that).
I’m generally very passionate about creative things. It kinda comes with the territory that I love theatre, film, great TV, singing (in the shower, karaoke, wherever really), but I also adore fashion, markets, trashy TV, good grub, sweet milky coffee, seeing the world, living in London and my home county of Yorkshire.
I really want to learn a new language but have been neglecting my Duolingo. I’d also love to write – actually, for a while I’ve been collating material for what I think might be a very funny sitcom centered around a Careers Service… 😉
Currently VERY excited that evenings are getting lighter.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: IT
I love juggling and the juggling community. 20+ years in to this hobby and I’m still immersed in the wonderfulness of it all. It’s introduced me to the most amazing man ever, given me friends who can catch and deal with all sorts of rubbish, taken me all over the world to various flavours of festivals, given me the opportunity to work with some amazing artists both on and off stage and has taught me a range of skills which go way beyond just keeping objects in the air.
There’s a whole heap of other stuff I do too…
Faculty: Culture at King's
Department: Cultural Institute
I grew up with a father who worked for Walt Disney, and I’ve always associated the act of leaving the house every day with a quest to make some sort of magic. That’s never really changed for me, and although my own creative fulfilment- whether making music in bluegrass singalongs or running the Cultural Challenge at King’s – might not have hit the levels of The Lion King, they’re, in every way, acts that bring me the most joy in my life.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Fundraising and Supporter Development
I am from Queensland, Australia, and I moved to the UK in 2012 to explore Europe to expand my horizons and meet people from different cultures and backgrounds.
Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Department: CMCI
I am a classically trained pianist who has also studied photography and philosophy. I am a PhD candidate at King’s and ‘creativity’, both as an idea and embodied (lived) experience, occupies a significant space in my everyday thinking and ‘doing’! I love to dance, draw and play music with my son, spend time with my family and connecting spontaneously with other people – ideally with strangers (!) I also LOVE the moments when I discover something new or connect with new or unusual ways of seeing and experiencing the world. I am passionate about everything that awakes my curiosity and about every moment in which I manage to stop and realise the amazing energy of ‘simply’ being (aware).
 experience, occupies a significant space in my everyday thinking and ‘doing’! I love to dance, draw and play music with my son, spend time with my […])
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Research Management & Innovation
A culturally diverse, dynamic group of young professionals who sometimes advertise vacancies in the team as “A fabulous opportunity to join XXX”….hence TEAM FABULOUS!
We have a wide range of creative skills from cooking (the majority), painting for kid’s homework with glitter (the minority!), travelling and dancing.
We offer a bit of celebrity flavour, having participated in the TV show “Going for Gold” on Channel 5 and dancing for the opening ceremony of the London Olympics in 2012.
We speak different European languages and are very good at having a bath in peace at home or swimming in the sea (only if the water reaches at least 18-19 degrees though!).
Taking this opportunity to do some free team-building at King’s, we can’t wait to have fun!
, painting for kid’s homework with glitter (the minority!), travelling and dancing. We offer a bit of celebrity flavour, having […])
Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Department: CMCI
I first started dancing when I was four years old – my mom says I learned every move to Esmeralda’s dance in Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame, so she figured it was time to take me to a ballet class. Little did she know it would turn in to my lifetime passion and creative outlet. When I’m not dancing, you can find me studying Arts & Cultural Management at King’s College, plotting and saving for my next big travel adventure, or searching for the best pizza in London.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Student Services and/or Students and Education
I like to dabble in art and writing.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Research Management & Innovation
While perhaps not the most obvious of creative pursuits, one activity that I have spent a lot of time on recently, and will do so again (probably more than once) before the year is out, is throwing parties.
It combines many of the things I most enjoy in one event (or should that be interdisciplinary collaborative creative endeavour?): spending time with old friends + making new ones, food, wine, music and, most importantly, dancing.
Party-planning is also challenge to the anxious part of my character. There’s always a nervous moment on the night when you think ‘Oh god, no one will turn up!’ But then the doorbell starts ringing and people start to arrive, you’ve prepared as well as you can, it’s time to relax and let the night runs its course.
 before the year is out, is throwing parties. It combines many of the things I most enjoy in one event (or should that be interdisciplinary […])
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Research Management & Innovation
Some of my earliest memories are of practising scales at the piano. As an adult singing has taken over but I still play the piano and even, now and then, the french horn.
I always have a piece of music to learn and a pile of books to read…
Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Department: History
Wandering and Wondering.
I am guardian to an increasingly clingy and decrepit cat called Edith Sitwell, who is very resistant to the idea of my doing anything that prevents her from embedding herself in my armpit. It is therefore either a happy coincidence or sinister consequence that it’s not unheard of for several hours of perfectly serviceable time to be lost to internal meanderings or given over to overly-lengthy written pontifications (a friend once emailed ‘how are you?’ and received 5000 words back. Ask questions with extreme caution.).
When the cat lets me out/I stage a cunning escape I might be found traversing a cemetery, park, unknown city, or country wilderness (usually armed with my trusty Nikon), or reluctantly circling Ladywell Fields in the dark when no-one can see me running – I have been told – ‘like an ostrich’.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Other
More than 5000m up, ‘creativity’ was the very last thing I was concerned with when this photo was taken. Unwashed, exhausted, and underweight, my willpower could only extend as far as forcing myself to continue to walk – at such high altitude, where the air is thin, even speaking became something of a luxury.
With hindsight, however, I realised that the months I spent travelling were absolutely creative: the sheer scope and variety of the countries we visited opened up endless possibilities and challenges to overcome. As someone who can often feel uncreative in the strictest sense of the word, my memories of travelling have therefore become a touchstone to remind myself of my determination and potential, and a prompt to push my boundaries when I can.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Estates & Facilities
I love dabbling in all things creative. Be it quilling a birthday card, enjoying a pottery class, learning to sew last year and to crochet this, singing in my lunch break (Happy member of the Staff Choir), baking a cake, writing a story or a poem…. Even just mucking about with those colouring in books for “grown ups” – I’m master of none of these activities but it doesn’t stop me enjoying them. I think creative activity feeds the soul. I find art by other people inspiring too! My favourites would be an annual culture “fix” by attending the Ed Fringe each year (5 shows a day minimum!) and the Green Note in Camden for music. I’m very excited about the 33,000 Everyday Artists at King’s project! It sounds like a wonderful focus on the Creative Process and the value of just “being” creative.
, baking a cake, writing a story or a poem…. Even just mucking about with those colouring in books […])
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: IT
l love technology and SCI-fi/fantasy. Despite working in IT I love to program in my leisure time just for the challenge. I love the feeling of writing code but write only to explore an aspect of a language or programing concept. My house suffers from this too as automations ensure the kettle is turned on as my wife returns from a late shift. When I see new technology my mind is drawn to the how it works and how I can improve it. I don’t have time or money to do either but I invent and throw out “told you sos” when those innovations arrive to buy. l picked my image deliberately surrounded by ancient marvels and still drawn to the technology. . . getting more like my Vulcan hero every day.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Other
I love my cats. I also like going to the theatre and galleries on the weekends. I enjoy being outdoors, in the garden or on a long walk.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Research Management & Innovation
I am at heart a gamer. My big love are Japanese Role Playing Games ( JRPG’s). For those who think gaming is a waste of time, try getting immersed in a 60 hour story where you control the choices of the main character. This exploration of characters and new worlds also explains my love of fantasy and sci-fi novels. I also really enjoy playing Board games in my spare time. A couple of years a go I discovered there was a lot more out there than Monopoly and Cluedo. Some are quick to learn and you can play with anyone and some take an hour to set up the board and require a whole day of your time!
On the flipside of the traditional geeky activities, I also enjoy walking and being out in nature. I guess exploring worlds in general, be they real or fictional is what fascinates me.
. For those who think gaming is a waste of time, try getting immersed in a 60 hour story where you control the choices of the main character. This exploration of characters and new worlds also explains my love of […])
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Fundraising and Supporter Development
I am Maria and I am from Caracas, Venezuela.
I love to alternate my time between the simplicity of laying on a couch and reading a good book (and eating a cookie of course!) and jumping into the exhilarating (and scary) feeling of a new challenge or adventure. I am fascinated by the idea the every individual makes an impact in their surroundings and this impact ultimately makes up the world we live in.
I love books, and I am currently enthralled by the No.1 Ladies Detective book series by Alexander McCall Smith and cannot put them down!
You can usually find me in my local food market getting our vegetables for the week, or doing scavenger hunts around London!
 and jumping into the exhilarating (and scary) feeling of a new challenge or adventure. I am fascinated by the idea the […])
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Estates & Facilities
My name is Andrew Gonzalez. I enjoy travelling, experiencing new cultures, countries and meeting people. My passion is Art, painting and photography. I enjoy painting and I am passionate about colours, imagination and emotional expression. From the moment I put brush to canvas I get lost in a whirlwind of joy and energy, blocking out any negative thoughts. Creativity has no boundaries, it’s timeless and can be viewed in so many different ways. I have completed many images over the years, all have their own meanings, energies and stories.
Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Department: Other
I’ve always been fascinated by History, and have always had quite a hard-nosed view of the past. I see it as a grubby, ambiguous and confusing thing, not a neat big picture. I think that has coloured the way I see the world: I’m quite comfortable with the fact that nothing is ever really black and white, and there are always different ways of telling the same story. You just have to get your hands dirty and join in with the storytelling as best you can, rather than get upset by the fact that no-one tells it quite the same.
Faculty: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
Department: Cancer Studies
Whenever the all too busy days’ schedule allows some slow time I like nothing better than to be immersed in poetry. Poetry takes you not just to new places, but to the minds and hearts in those places and times – “For nimble thought can jump both sea and land/As soon as think the place where he would be” as Shakespeare puts it. Through the Poetry Society I’ve joined both the Southwark and Barnes Stanzas, groups of local poets who get together to learn from each other and stage readings where possible. One of our projects is to build an ‘Impossible House’ out of our own poems for a rehearsed reading at a tiny theatre at the back of the Calder Bookshop near Waterloo.
Faculty: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
Department: Pharmacy and Forensic Science
I have been a photographer and a photographer’s agent, a film production manager, a director of a music studio complex, and a developer of mental health post grad programmes. Photography is my passion and after completing my degree as a mature student I came to my current role in Forensic Science and DNA analysis at King’s. I am interested in helping families undertaking DNA analysis, and generally in immigration casework and the migrant experience. I also support students on our Forensic Science programmes. I am part of a large, extended family and on a personal level I have been seeking to promote and support Mental Health issues in teenagers. Outside of work I love to spend time with my family, cook, read as part of my book club and go to the theatre – and take photographs.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Estates & Facilities
Music has been my main passion for many years. Have been playing Bass and signing for many years, although arthritis has saved many ears. Also love other cultures and travelling and have managed to see a fair chunk of the world, with more still to go. Other than that I love good design, tech, spending time with my kids and literature.
Faculty: Professional Services
Music is a huge passion of mine; going to festivals and dancing like there’s no tomorrow. I love to travel and meet new and interesting people along the way. I am currently learning Spanish because I would love to spend some time out in South America in the next year.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Student Services and/or Students and Education
Hi I’m Katie. Born in London, bred in the Lake District and now navigating my mid-20s in London.
I like to immerse myself in travel, live music/theatre and my own thoughts. I love an endorphin release whether through laughing, running or singing. I enjoy working towards a goal and like to always have some kind of project on the go to achieve, no matter how big or small.
I am using the 33,000 Everyday Artists initiative as motivation to kick start re-involvement in a number of different projects that I’ve let dwindle over the last couple of months: training for the Great North Run, learning to play the guitar; volunteering; improving my Italian; joining an Am-dram group or a choir.
I am at my happiest with music, food, family and friends on warm, light summer evenings.
Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Department: History
I like walking in the hills and in cities, aimlessly as well as with purpose; I believe, as others have said, that walking is the last radical act. I have the socially progressive enthusiasms of the typical academic, and perhaps because of this am subject to probably unnecessary feelings of guilt because of my enthusiasm for solitaire war games (current obsession: Field Commander Napoleon). I do a lot of cooking and drinking of beer. I despise mobile phones, and have never owned one.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Estates & Facilities
When I’m not working at King’s, I’m studying at King’s. I’m currently in the middle of an MA in Contemporary Literature so my lunch hours are normally spent reading.
Besides studying and reading I also write creatively. I’m in the process of writing a children’s book about the friendship between a little girl and a wolf.
I’m a child of the nineties so I love indie music and I haven’t missed a Glastonbury festival for years.
When I’m not being lazy I practice Ashtange Yoga.
In my spare time I love going to my local cinema – Rio Cinema in Dalston and travelling. At least once a year I take an extended solo trip to a remote part of the world for some solitude. Most recently I’ve been to Yorkshire, Cambodia, Sardinia, Auzance and the Sierra Nevada.
Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Department: English Language and Literature
I am a writer, huge theatre fan, early modern nerd and accidentally started creating digital pieces around all of the above. Most of this occurs in a permanent state of cheerfulness and impending catastrophe that always turns out right though a mixture of luck, terrible music taste and chocolate cake.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Research Management & Innovation
my drawing, singing and guitar-playing skills are average but I don’t let that stop me having a go!
A native of Somerset, I moved to London two years ago and haven’t looked back.
Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Department: Modern Languages Centre
I am happiest when I am travelling. I have a whole list of countries that I cannot wait to visit and after my most recent trips to South Africa and Iceland, Mongolia is top of the list! I love going on adventures with my family and friends and enjoy learning new things in pretty much every aspect of life. This is where working in the MLC comes in handy. I can learn new languages and meet lots of students, staff and external guests on a daily basis. Oh, and I usually have one or more books in my bag. Anything nervy, nerdy or Gothic will do.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Student Services and/or Students and Education
Standing on the tips of my toes for as long as I can. Wobbling. Coming down rather ungracefully.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Other
Some activities change my perception of what it’s like being me – through baking and cooking I feel mastery of my kitchen-bound world, while a walk on the (ideally Cornish) coast brings perspective of the smallness of my actions in the face of nature. I’m a dormant bell ringer, latent evening class learner, and very guilty of not taking enough advantage of living in London. Bring on the Creative Challenges of March!
 coast brings perspective of the smallness of my actions in the face of nature. I’m a dormant bell ringer, latent evening class learner, and very […])
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Research Management & Innovation
I am a ceramicist and about to complete a Foundation Diploma in Art and Design which I’ve been doing part time over the last 2 years. Wonderfully I am actually selling pieces. I am currently working on my second Open House exhibition in the Brighton Festival which is going very well. I have worked at King’s for around 16 years (around and about having 3 children) and my ‘career’ has been a creative one, though not within any creative discipline. I think quite laterally and in a controlled yet scattergun manner, which works to good effect with the juicier and difficult problems a university might thrown out. I don’t see any conflict with being a creative and working in a professional role, it adds to it, adds depth and an important escape route to happiness.
Faculty: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
Department: Cancer Studies
Being outside, visiting new countries and places, trying new things. Makes attempts at triathlon, skiing, climbing. Loves to swim in the sea, rivers, lakes, docks etc but not until April when it starts getting a bit warmer! Enjoys comedy and the theatre (except musicals!) and live music.
 and live music.)
Faculty: Dental Institute
Department: Craniofacial Development & Stem Cell Biology
I like visual arts in general, however I am especially passionate about portrait photography. I have been shooting in my spare time for the past 6 years. I also very much enjoy the process of retouching/post-production.
Faculty: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
I am a freelance photographer apart from my PhD study. Before London, I was in a wildlife documentary-making project based in western China. After moving into London, I started to explore every bit of photography, including film, fashion, wedding, portrait and more. Apart from practicing, I attend as many photography exhibitions as possible. I really look forward to collaborating with artists at King’s to conduct more experiments that has more noise.
Website: hanbinphotography.com.
Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
I love things that transform, to travel and to learn. I sing, play the violin, like to stay healthy and where I can, do things for others less fortunate than me. I also promote and sell fairly traded shea butter cosmetics from a project I worked on in Ghana for two years. I helped to develop the social purpose business, worked directly with rural, poor, illiterate women’s groups to help them set up community savings schemes and take more control over their money. I learnt so much about the women’s lives, gained patience, became a better listener and am now a devotee to ‘TAMA’ shea butter products!
Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Department: Other
Ever since getting a gold star for a fascinating story about giraffes in Year 2 of primary school, I’ve always wanted to be a published author. I have lots of other weird and wonderful creative hobbies like making renaissance dresses, crocheting tiny Lovecraftian creatures, singing and coding short IF games; but writing is my passion. Although I love all of my other creative outputs, there’s nothing else quite like creating new worlds and the stories of the people (or giraffes!) that live in them.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Principal's Team
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Department: Other
I attempt to bring creativity to several aspects of my life and am fortunate to have it a part of my job. I appreciate beauty and take photos of beautiful things. I look at the clouds and feel energised when surrounded by nature. I am currently discovering and exploring the joy of movement in my body.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Student Services and/or Students and Education
You see me; I try to be a nice person.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Student Services and/or Students and Education
I was the despair of my music teachers but I like to make a noise now
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Student Services and/or Students and Education
A book is a b u i l d i n g block…
Faculty: Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery
Department: Adult Nursing
I love running medium to long distances and doing Bikram Yoga – although not both at the same time. I also love theatre, films especially classic French cinema and anything that involves my sister, Josephine, and my two lovely nieces, Scarlet and Georgia Rose.
Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Department: Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
I return almost every other weekend to where my parents first set up home in England in the 1960s, to support the team whose ground is a skip and a jump from my first primary school and a few paces more from the flat we rented above a kind and welcoming Anglo-Italian family who accepted couples with babies. Since the time I first had a TV in my bedroom and watched BBC2, even on school days, until the national anthem brought the day’s programming to a close, I have sought every opportunity to lose myself in cinema. I have crossed the Channel a thousand times and for much of the year my dinner table chatters with the sound of French and Italian. I am deeply connected to the land of my mother, in the south of Spain, although I have visited it only a handful of times. And I work on Spanish poetry and have a keen interest in self-conscious production.
Faculty: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
Department: Cancer Studies
Hello. I like to fancy myself an artist as well as a scientist. I have utilised many outlets in order to express myself including singing/songwriting, acting, dancing, choreographing, writing, etc. Almost all of my passions involve music and performance. If I could live my whole life to music, I would. Sometimes listening to music will inspire me to write a song. Other times, it will make me start moving and the next thing I know I have choreographed a full piece. In terms of practice, I have mostly kept up with my dancing/aerial arts. I couldn’t imagine my life without my art and plan to incorporate it by any means necessary into my present and future.
Faculty: Dickson Poon School of Law
Department: Other
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Creativity, analysis and performance are my life’s passions. I live to create music. I work in a myriad of different creative fields, be it music, dramatics, comedy or art/design.
First and foremost my greatest passion and magnum opus is my band and music vision Beautality; a musical tour de force of emotional intensity, transcending feeling and metaphysical being. It pleases me to say that I happen to be joined by other members of Kings on this particular musical journey.
https://nordavindrecords.bandcamp.com/album/einfallen-a-tale-ov-torment-triumph
https://www.youtube.com/user/BeautalityOfficial
This is just one of my creative ventures. After all it’s only 100 words, ish.
Faculty: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
Department: Cancer Studies
I am a prostate cancer research nurse for KCL. I love my job and feel very fortunate that I have a good work-life balance, where I get to enjoy life, no matter what role I’m in.
My passion in life is to laugh everyday, as there is always, ALWAY’S something to be thankful for and life to be appreciated.
I have no one particular art interest, I like to try everything…I hate to feel I have missed out.
I’m ready for the 31 day challenge and to read about everyone else’s interests.
Faculty: Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery
Department: Postgraduate Research
When I’m gardening or working on my allotment I like the mix of hard labour, fresh air, aesthetic creativity and a dash (not too much) of nurturing. I appreciate the liminal space that my allotment represents – mine but not mine; almost rural but with a view of cityscape; solitude in community; inclusive (behind its gate!) I LOVE London, which is where I was born and where I’ll die. What an exciting mish-mash of people, buildings, history, creative spirit – high and low culture in all its many forms.
 of nurturing. I appreciate the liminal space that my allotment represents – mine but not mine; almost rural but with a view of cityscape; solitude in community; inclusive (behind its […])
Faculty: Culture at King's
Department: Culture and Engagement
I was enthralled by the magic of theatre from a young age, which led me to study drama at university then train at a drama school. Outside of my time at King’s I produce my own creative work and ardently develop my writing, performing and puppet-making skills. My non-theatrical interests include sewing, and I am an avid reader, currently rediscovering gems from the classical canon. I am at my most content when gleefully engaged in an imaginative or creative activity.
Faculty: Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
Hello! Amongst many other passions, I have two main ones: circus arts – specifically aerial rope – and drawing – mainly people.
Faculty: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
Department: Women's Health
Knit what you love!
Faculty: Culture at King's
Department: Cultural Institute
I love Japan, and all things Japanese. I lived there in my 20s, studied Japanese art on my return to London, and have travelled all over the country writing for the Rough Guide to Japan ever since. I got into all sorts of things while I was living there (tea ceremony, flower arranging, calligraphy…) and always dreamed of having a tea house of my own one day. And now, thanks to a fortuitous meeting with a multi-talented picture framer-cum-master craftsman, I do! A tea pavilion at any rate. It currently has a bamboo roof (walls, sliding doors and tatami mat floor to follow one day), and looks onto a secret Japanese garden that pre-dates our arrival, and which I’ve been nurturing ever since. A little bit of Japanese Zen calm in north-west London. What more could I ask for…?!
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Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Student Services and/or Students and Education
Bimble.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Student Services and/or Students and Education
Graduated King’s and then couldn’t bare leaving. Started working here instead.
I enjoy arranging and performing acoustic covers of ‘popular music’, as well as graphic design generally being a creative little chap. One of my bazillion life goals is to drive a car in every country. So far I have 4, so I’m nearly there, right?
Come and find me in the Careers Office, it’s the most hip place at Strand. That’s a lie.
(The photo isn’t me getting married, I was doing a reading at my sister’s wedding in December)
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Procurement Strategy & Services
I like sailing, skiing and football. As a born and bread Londoner from Islington those first two are very unlikely. The football is my earliest passion, born on the doorstep of Highbury Stadium meant I have followed the Arsenal through the good times and the bad times and still attend matches today – it’s a 20 minute walk to the Emirates from where I now live. Sailing and skiing came much later but I find both all-encompassing. Whether up the mountains or on the water you can switch off the world and be as one with nature. Both offer exhilaration and fresh air and healthy exercise.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Procurement Strategy & Services
I have two main passions outside work; golf and creative writing. The first I bring into the workplace by being the current Captain of the King’s College London Golf Society – ask me if you are interested. The second I keep very private, despite publishing very successfully on-line over a number of years. My privacy is protected by always publishing under a pseudonym. When I feel that I have learned all I need to learn about creative writing, I will write and publish under my real name, but that won’t be for a while yet. I hope to participate in the 31 day challenge.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Other
I’m a musician and a dancer. I sing with Vivamus Choir, which is based just across the road from King’s in St Clement Dane’s, and I dance and teach salsa at festivals around the world (most recently Tunis, Timisoara, Warsaw, Vienna, Ljubljana and Capetown). In my PhD I explored the tension I feel every time I step on the dancefloor, because I love how liberating, affirmative and transformative it feels when I’m dancing, but I’m also very aware of how salsa invokes all sorts of stereotypes about gender roles and relations. I try to address this tension in my teaching, by focusing on creativity, musicality and connection (ie. the opposite of the stylised choreography that you see on Strictly!)
. In my PhD I explored the tension I feel every time […])
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Student Services and/or Students and Education
I painted and drew obsessively as a child. It became my ‘thing’. After school I went to art college and after two years I became so demotivated I have put pen to paper only very occasionally since. That said, here is a book I illustrated recently: http://www.speechmark.net/shop/cant-talk-want-talk
I am currently trying to write a genre novel, though more to see if I can than with the earnest expectation of being published. I’m making it up as I go along and it makes precious little sense at the moment.
I also write songs (https://soundcloud.com/hypnotist). Conventional stuff without much merit. I enjoy it though.
I go through phases.
I love playing chess too, though I am just a committed beginner with a penchant for the King’s Gambit.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Other
My name is Jane Picciano and the day I started working at King’s was the day I realized that it was possible to work with amazing colleagues and for an institution you can be proud of. I moved from Vancouver in 2006 and it took me by surprise how much I love London. There are nights when I am on the bus home from going out and exploring this amazing city and I can’t believe I live here. I get as excited as a kid in a candy store! It welcomes you with open arms and holds you in for a hug. Couldn’t imagine living anywhere else.
Faculty: Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
Department: Other
Doing my best to be an adequate husband, and father to the two whirlwinds of chaos that are my two sons, Max & George. Slightly obsessed runner, slowing with age – the days of 3hr 4min marathons fast diminishing. Love reading, films, comedy/satire, curries, real ale and culinary experimentation. And sometime Faculty Business Manager…
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Estates & Facilities
I began my adult life as an actress in New York City. While I have veered off that path over the years I still consider myself a creative and get involved with theatrical productions as much as possible outside of my 9-5. I aspire to run my own business making jewelry and accessories and to perhaps find my way back to the theatre on a more full time basis.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Student Services and/or Students and Education
A few years ago my new years resolution was to “do more things that scared me “, so I now find myself balancing a rock climbing hobby and a serious fear of heights. I went to dance lessons, and meet-ups; and spoke in public. My favourite was a beginners art course, having not really thought of myself as arty despite doodling on everything. the picture attached was a sculpture I created an I reminds me every day what happens when I keep going, rather than give in at the point where it isn’t perfect!
My Resolution this year is to “change my perspective”: climb that bit higher; read more books; meet a wider range of people; challenge my assumptions; and travel more. So basically an excuse to do lots of things I love!
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Estates & Facilities
Hi I am Kirsten and work in the Kings Venues team. I moved to London in October and have found myself submerged into a new realm of opportunity. I love traveling and plan to take full advantage of the accessible locations whilst living here. I have a passion for Pilates and the wellbeing side of physical activity. I try to inject a positive and enthusiastic attitude into everything I do and hope that energy rubs off onto the people within my life.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Fundraising and Supporter Development
Hello there. I’m Andrew and I’m a word collector. Since I was young, I have always had an archivist’s impulse–gathering seemingly disparate things and bringing them together into a mutable pattern of meaning has always been part of my nature. These days, most of my collecting takes place in the realm of language; I like to surround myself with words–some familiar, many foreign. Books, terms, articles, snippets from this or that newspiece, a new place-name or geo-word…these are all fertile fodder for my ever-growing curiosity about the world and the ways we name it.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Culture & Engagement
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Faculty: Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery
Department: Student Services and/or Students and Education
I enjoy cooking (making gnocchi is a current favourite but v messy), writing (I studied music journalism), exploring my local area (finding interesting front doors is a favourite geek hobby), and reading in my armchair with some tea.
, writing (I studied music journalism), exploring my local area (finding interesting front doors is a favourite geek hobby), and reading in my armchair with some tea.)
Faculty: Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
Department: Education and Professional Studies
I have been a youth worker all my adult life. I love working with young people in groups and communities, starting from where they are at, and working co-operatively with others to challenge inequality and domination. The policy and organisational barriers to grassroots youth work inspired me to go to university as a mature student, and then to do my PhD. Now as a postdoc I am enjoying combining teaching and research. I volunteer as a youth worker in a fantastic workers’ co-op in Hackney. I enjoy cycling to work, walking in the countryside and city, and spending time on my allotment.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Other
“At bottom, mountains, like all wildernesses, challenge our complacent conviction – so easy to lapse into – that the world has been made for humans by humans…..Mountains correct this amnesia.”
― Robert Macfarlane, Mountains of the Mind: Adventures in Reaching the Summit
From about the age of seven when I first read and then continually reread stories of climbing the high peaks of the Himalaya, I’ve loved being in the mountains. Sometimes I think of nothing else.
Faculty: Dental Institute
Department: Students
Create, destroy, repeat.
Faculty: Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
Department: War Studies
I don’t have a passion outside family and work and there is never enough time for those! But I’m interested and excited to see if this challenge can ignite some creative passion in me. I love language, and writing, so doing more of that, and different, would be a good start.
Faculty: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
Department: Pharmacy and Forensic Science
I always have a passion in art – music, drawing, writing, crafting. The thing is I don’t have a talent for it, hence almost everyday I try to do something about it – learn guitar, try out knitting, do a drawing challenge, write some narratives. Most of the time I would stop halfway, but even having a short amount of time doing something involving these would make me more than satisfied, it feels like a shot of nicotine for a craving smoker.
Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Department: Other
Fantastical Adventurer. March Hare.
Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Department: Other
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Department: Other
Once upon a time at primary school I was put forward for a special art class at the big school. On the first afternoon, the teacher told me it had been a clerical error and that someone else should be there instead of me. But that she was not going to correct the error. I felt bad for the whole six weeks. Tome to have another go…
Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Department: History
I love being outdoors, walking, singing, knitting and reading good books aloud.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Students
Hi I’m Kim, an advocate of embracing all that makes us different and allowing hidden quirky sides to shine. I moved to the UK four years ago from South Africa and whilst I love the UK (rain excepted), I will always be a true Saffa at heart. I love drawing, painting, baking, walks in the park, splashing in the pool, upcycling old furniture and the type of laughing that makes your cheeks ache. I’m also a serious softie for animals and as such I dote upon my two pet goldfish (Pickles and Barnaby) to elephantine proportions which is source of great amusement for my family.
Although I can be a bit shy, I have a rather cheeky/silly side that reigns supreme with those I’m closest to. One of my greatest joys is helping others or bringing them happiness in some form. I’m a great believer of learning from mistakes and one of the things I’m really passionate about is learning to understand some of the ways we think and how to get the best from ourselves. I’m curious about people, we really are endlessly fascinating.
My most important possession are my friends and family. Life is an adventure and those you love are your greatest companions.
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Faculty: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
Department: Cardiovascular
I am passionate about knitting and do something knitting-related every day, be it actual knitting, thinking about it, shopping for it, designing for it or searching for knitting-related objects. I am also creative in many other ways – I also enjoy embroidery, tapestry, patchwork, dressmaking, drawing, photography, painting and writing. These are my hobbies and are purely things I enjoy doing. If I worked in the creative industry, with deadlines and briefs to meet, I think the enjoyment would be lessened. I do look forward to the time when I will be able to devote all my time to my creative pursuits – work seems to just get in the way, but it is a necessary evil!
Faculty: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
Department: Asthma, Allergy and Lung Biology
I am passionate about cycling and have been a competitive cyclist for over 35 years. It was my interest in cycling that led me into a career in human physiology research and helps drive my desire to understand how the human body functions.
Faculty: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
Department: Centre of Human & Aerospace Physiological Sciences
I am a PhD student researching within the field of countermeasures for human spaceflight. I thrive from being different, and finding out information that doesn’t currently exist. If I can be part of a team of people that one day get humans to Mars safely because of something that I contributed to (even if its 0.001%), I would feel like I have led an accomplished life. I am also extremely passionate about inspiring other females to pursue a career in the STEM subjects, as pre-existing stereotypes that these areas are “for men only” need to be broken down. Women are just as equipped as men to do whatever they can do; this photograph makes me know that.
Faculty: Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery
Department: Postgraduate Research
Hailing from across the pond, Jennifer is in London in pursuit of a degree, and more importantly, an adventure! She is passionate about social justice, nursing, social media, and resilience.
Faculty: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
Department: Genetics and Molecular Medicine
I’m an avid crafter and love to design and create something from scratch – whether it’s growing something beautiful for my garden borders, photographing my gorgeous dogs or creating a unique piece of jewellery – I’m happiest when I have my “creative” hat on.
Faculty: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
Department: Health and Social Care Research
I am a keen photographer and try to combine this with my love for travel. I am always drawn back to South East Asia and the Pacific, the culture is fascinating and the photo opportunities are endless! Closer to home, Cornwall (for the landscapes and sea scenes) and London provide my photography inspiration.
I have been a finalist in a number of national/ international photography competitions (including the Sony World Photography Awards and Wanderlust Travel Photo of the Year) and I am also a Getty Images Artist.
Feel free to check out my work: http://www.stephenwalford.co.uk
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Faculty: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
Department: Genetics and Molecular Medicine
I enjoy creating mosaic’s. This is very relaxing and allows me to be creative whilst having some lovely decorative pieces to display. My other passion is photography and travelling which allows me to take many photos.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Student Services and/or Students and Education
Photographer. Artist. Interested in humans.
Faculty: Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery
Department: Mental Health Nursing
Have always enjoyed putting my thoughts on the paper , materializing them, adding some color in. Having great interest into medicine and human minds got me off the track , otherwise I would go to art school. Nevertheless I still try to find time and wish to draw like I did before. It’s all about finding harmony between not those different world and within myself
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: IT
I love theatre and combining the technical with the creative to do so, but I also love taking photos, walking in the countryside, reading, genealogical research, watching old films at the cinema, and rugby. I have spent some time volunteering at sports events in the last few years including the Olympics, the Commonwealth Games and the Rugby World Cup, and I regularly volunteer at Saracens on match days, all of which have exposed me to a fantastic range of interesting people & experiences.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Human Resources
I love exploring nature, be it kayaking along the Cornish coast or hiking further afield. Sometimes I draw what I find. Mostly I soak it up and revisit in my mind while stuck on a delayed South Eastern train…
Faculty: Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
Department: Health Service and Population Research
Fabric, sewing, knitting and making are all passions of mine. I have a little sewing corner in my house that is my little haven of creativity! I love nothing more than sitting with my gorgeous cats, around me, radio on whilst I create a new piece. I am particularly inspired by Frida Kahlo and street art, its fun to use fabric as a different medium. It’s far too much of a distraction from PhD studies and work but makes me smile.
Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Writing is what makes me tick. I love the world, the environment; kicking back under the shade of a big willow tree or sitting on a bench at Southbank, immersing myself in the buzz. These are the places I usually go to write. I love poetry and music (I have quite an eclectic, pic-n-mix-style taste!) and watching films too. Massive Lord of the Rings fan. Tolkien is one of my biggest inspirations; my parents being first.
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Faculty: Professional Services
Department: IT
I love to write, read, drink ale, and spend my time in the Hampshire countryside. Commuting to London for work still feels weird. In the words of A. A. Milne, they don’t let you do nothing anymore. Unbelievably excited for the birth of my son in March, and ever thankful for my amazing wife.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Student Services and/or Students and Education
I’m passionate about cooking. I have so many recipe books but I also like to experiment and just see what happens. I think I’m happiest when I’m with family and friends sharing good food.
I like discovering new places and travelling. I particularly enjoy being in places that feel remote and where you can really switch off. I spent a year travelling around the world alone and that is when I met my husband who is from Brazil. I love Brazilian culture and the people – it is a beautiful and vibrant nation. Our son is 18 months, and we are trying to bring him up to be bilingual and to make sure he feels connected to his Brazilian heritage.
Faculty: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
Department: Pharmaceutical Science
A person is more than qualifications and skills. They are about values, attitudes and aspirations. I really love the fact when others see in me this personality dimension, including when I take selfies at (very important) meetings. Outside work, I like to watch movies and documentaries and dream of all these things I cannot do on a daily basis, such as being a make-up artist! Being a Pisces, helps a lot with that element of imagination I guess! When I’m happy (or not) I like to walk at Southbank by the river or visit a gallery- puts things in perspective:)
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Faculty: Culture at King's
My life has always been entwined with arts and culture and I find it difficult to separate my personal creativity from my work, which I love. My job is to find creative solutions, and to deliver cultural projects (mostly theatre and exhibitions) which encapsulate other people’s artistry and passion.
I am an avid theatre-goer, I love books, I use sign language (which is very expressive) and am naturally inquisitive.
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities
I actually started my career as a classical composer, experimental theatre director, and filmmaker. My first degree was in fact in music composition, and I still write music today. During the mid-1990s, I went to USC for film and television production, and my thesis film, The Well, was premiered in New York and was shown at the Saõ Paulo International Film Festival, the Japan Society, and the George Eastman House. After that, I worked in the film industry as a sound editor and editor for six years before I did my PhD in film studies.
Faculty: Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
Department: Education and Professional Studies
Jill of All Trades
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Other
I am passionate about people fulfilling their potential. I love nothing better than seeing people be honest about who they are, discovering their dreams, being fearless in pursing their passions and interests. This is what drives me. Whether I’m designing a training course for early career researchers or running a community event near where I live, this is what fires my enthusiasm and makes me smile. That doesn’t mean it’s always easy. Being pelted by footballs kicked by 10-18 year old boys isn’t always pain-free! But I know that consistently spending time with them feeds their self worth and puts me in the privileged place of being listened to when relationships fall apart.
Faculty: Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery
Department: Adult Nursing
I have never thought of myself as being a creative person and never explored that side of myself, but now I feel I want to in order to improve my nursing practice.
Faculty: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
Department: Other
Driven to paint, sculpt, write and compose by moments of everyday urban social culture. Influences include Hepworth, Freud, Reich and all things mid-century modern. Trying to find ways to invite the observer/listener to feel included in the exclusive.
Faculty: Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
Department: Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Science
I work in diffusion imaging, and so am lucky enough to get to examine beautiful images of the brain all day. I like playing around with them too – running them through Google’s Deep Dream convolutional neural network to create these amazing trippy pictures. There’s a fox in my inferior parietal lobule!
Faculty: Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
Department: MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology
Techno. Neuroscience. Misuse of scientific needs for artistic ends.
Faculty: Professional Services
Department: Other
Deep down I am a performer. In every way, each day, I perform. My heart lies in performance, and what performance can do to the world. Drama is my passion, and it is what really makes me tick. But not just drama that you go to see at the theatre. What I love is more than that. Drama is a learning tool, and creative process to engage ourselves and those around us in something new. My passion is to use drama to learn, in a kinaesthetic, thought provoking way. Drama is enlightening and engaging, it is how I learn and what I love.
Faculty: Culture at King's
Department: Culture and Engagement
I’m currently balancing my aspiration to improve my ability to throw pots and draw, with spending more time with my 4 year old son, and be part of the team working on the growing cultural programme at King’s. All enjoyable activities and all things that I want as part of my life.
Faculty: Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery
I love a good lazy bike meander across London. On a Sunday. Old London is best. I don’t know much about bikes, but I once bought a catalogue bike, put it all together and went riding off into the sunset…until my front light fell off and the brakes failed. I sent it back and now keep to store bought. Sometimes I make my own pasta. But I don’t think I’m very good at it. I love food though so it doesn’t matter much.
Faculty: Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery
Department: Mental Health Nursing
I enjoy swimming in the open sea. I dislike running, but love finishing a race. I find peace in gardening even though nature is so busy. I am happiest when I’m with my close friends and family.
A great quote: “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” Bueller, F. (1986)
Faculty: Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
Department: Neuroimaging
Hi, I’m Lourdes Anton Gnanamanoharan. Try spelling that out without looking! I love photography and travelling when I’m not too broke.
Fun fact: I am AMAZING at doing accents, by which I mean I’m AMAZINGLY bad!
Faculty: Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
Department: Neuroimaging
Hi, my name is Sheut-Ling but just call me Ling because it’s easier. I’m currently studying neuroimaging which means I get to look at pretty pictures of brains! Besides admiring our brain anatomy, in my spare time I like making to-do lists and not completing them. Oh and I also enjoy drawing.
Faculty: Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
Department: Neuroimaging
I majored in arts and english before turning to science as profession but I never stopped loving the beauty of language and arts.
Faculty: Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
Department: Neuroimaging
Mature, part time student, passionate about science and art combined. Inspired by the natural world, machinery and the human experience.
Faculty: Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
I’m told to write a hundred words about myself and, although I love writing, I’m finding it difficult. Why? Perhaps because when I write about myself, it’s usually in personal statements for science jobs or PhD vacancies. In these, you cannot well start a sentence with ‘I love poetry’. So yes, I’m not used to writing about my passions.
And it’s even harder as I’m not supposed to start with my job title! I shall start with it nevertheless. After all, it is an integral part of who I am and one of my biggest passions.
I am studying MSc in Neuroscience. I’m also a biochemist, BSc. Both of these have allowed me, and are allowing me still, to gain knowledge on Alzheimer’s disease. Really, I love studying. I have an incredibly curious mind. And why Alzheimer’s disease? I don’t know for sure. What I do know, is that the causes and progression of the disease are wonderfully complex and challenging to understand. And guess what – I want in. I want to understand. It is exciting to look for answers, especially if the answers could possibly slow down the progression or cure the disease.
A great part about being… well, human I suppose, is that none of us is just one thing. I am not just a scientist. I am also a sports woman – I run, cycle and box. Sports make me feel free and happy.
But, there are times when I feel depressed, sad or when I’m simply lost in thought. And that’s when I turn to poetry. Because, for me, it isn’t easy to talk about my emotions. And I don’t like the sound of my own voice. However, I like the shape of my words on paper. These are the reasons why I write. And to make it even better, I have a typewriter. Trust me, sometimes, there is nothing better than listening to the keys whispering your stories while you’re drinking a freshly brewed coffee.
They said to write a hundred-ish words about myself. I have. Plus 200 extra. I’m sorry if I wrote way too much, but, I fancy myself a writer and… well, I like to write!
Faculty: Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
Department: Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
I am a musician I can sing and play the bassoon, piano and drums. I am the president of an orchestra. I also really love to doodle and regularly post on Instagram.
Faculty: Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
Department: Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre (MRC)
A Jack (Jane?) of all trades.
Helen Spiers is an artist and scientist based across Hampshire, London and Exeter.
After graduating from Oxford University with a degree in Biochemistry, she worked as a Medical Writer before completing a PhD at King’s College London. Currently, she works with the Complex Disease Epigenetics Group where she researches molecular mechanisms of human brain development.
Working broadly across different styles and a range of media, her diverse work often draws inspiration from her experiences as a scientific researcher. Since starting to exhibit in 2010, her work has been shown in galleries, museums, magazines, research facilities and international scientific journals.
Check out my website (www.helenspiers.com) for more info!
 of all trades. Helen Spiers is an artist and scientist based across Hampshire, London and Exeter. After graduating from Oxford University with a degree in Biochemistry, she worked as a Medical Writer before completing a PhD at King’s College London. Currently, she works with the Complex Disease Epigenetics Group where she researches […])
Faculty: Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
Department: Psychosis Studies
Ever since I was in school, I’ve dabbled with drawing, but since I wasn’t very good I tried writing stories and poems. More recently I’ve been putting my creative skills into cooking and baking. I’ve also found a love for colouring books now, they really help me let off steam after work and unleash my creativity.
I’ve been very lucky so far in terms of the experiences I’ve had, and the places I’ve even able to visit. Because of this, I’ve started scrapbooking. That way I will be able to look back on my experiences in the future, in one organised place.
Faculty: Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
Department: Psychosis Studies
I started painting when a primary school student, learning miniature painting technique from my father. When I grew up I started painting surreal paintings using oil paints or airbrush. I also use painting apps (ie Procreate) to do digital art. I also do photography, including underwater.
 to do digital art. I also do photography, including underwater.)
Faculty: Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
Department: Psychological Medicine
I fell in love with lighthouses when I was cycling through Berlin, narrowly avoiding tram line death traps. Their red and white stripes inspired me to create a collection of lighthouse ball dresses with six variations of bodice 🙂 My friend Alison designed a glowing fascinator, complete with sailor knotted blue cord to keep all ships clear from the rocks as I swirled around the dance floor. We did a photo shoot on a humid summer’s afternoon on the bank of the Hudson River with bemused cyclists whizzing past! Looking forward to find more humour and style in this wonderful project! Thank you, ANNA
Faculty: Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
Department: Psychological Medicine
Owner of 2 beautiful dalmatians, I love the outdoors and all things doggie-related and also have a passion for sewing. I started last year with a sewing machine I got as a present for my birthday. I love to whip up outfits from vintage patterns and enjoy sourcing material from the internet and shops in Brixton and the Goldhawk Road. I have a penchant for novelty fabrics and, when not dog walking or reading, can be found bulk buying dodgy 70s patterns from eBay. Cat-print flares, anyone?
