Wajid Yaseen – Director
Wajid Yaseen is a Manchester-born, London-based artist whose work draws on an inter-disciplinary approach to develop sound-based works encompassing installations, live performances, acousmatic music, graphic scores, and sound sculptures. Wajid holds an MA in Arts and Design with a focus on Sonic Arts, and his work has been exhibited and performed at the ICA Gallery, Arnolfini, Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Whitechapel Gallery, Laban, and the Freud Museum.
caitlin evans – company producer
Caitlin Evans is a freelance theatre-maker and producer from Newcastle, based in London. She joined Modus Arts in November 2023 as Company Producer. She also works for Dante or Die Theatre Company as Assistant Producer and is founder of ShyBairn Theatre, creating live performance for social change. She graduated from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 2019, launching ShyBairn after receiving Central’s Start Up and Enterprise Award. She produces theatre and arts projects across the UK, and is particularly interested in performance as climate activism.
james ibrahim-haddrell – finance director
James is a director, producer and arts consultant. He is artistic director of Greenwich Theatre, chair of the trustees of Filament Theatre and a columnist for the South London Press. Recent directing credits include Bad Nights & Odd Days starring Paul McGann, and the online premiere of The Secret Love Life Of Ophelia featuring Helen Mirren. Producing credits include the national tour of Skin In The Game (Best Performance, Birmingham Fest) and family dramas The Story Of The Yara and The Snow Child that he also wrote and directed for Maritime Radio.
oliver carRuthers – executive director
Oliver Carruthers is an artistic director and cultural leader with over 25 years’ experience in venues, festivals and cultural organisations, most recently as Director/CEO of the Gulbenkian Arts Centre in Canterbury and as Artistic Director for London’s Rich Mix. Throughout his work, Oliver has championed diversity and inclusion, built a reputation for programming across disciplines, and strived to bring communities, artists, funders and audiences together. Now an independent consultant, Oliver works with organisations to help them think about the way they work, to articulate dreams, make plans, raise funds and nurture connections.
hubbiah rafaqat – comms officer
Hubbiah Rafaqat is an Erasmus Mundus Scholar and independent researcher, and oversees the Digital Communications for multiple Modus Arts projects. Holding an International MA in Children’s Literature, Media, and Culture, her professional experience spans narrative design, video game testing, instructional design, and digital media. She is particularly enthusiastic about immersive media technologies & skateboarding.
rOB parton – fundraiser
Rob is an experienced fundraiser, creative producer, and electronic musician. He has worked in organisations covering the arts, heritage, Disabled community, social welfare, and human rights. Passionate about supporting diversity in the arts Rob has led and supported numerous high-profile arts projects previously with the Barbican, Shape Arts, Young Urban Arts Foundation, Small Green Shoots, and Drake Music among others. He is also currently undertaking a Masters in Music and Sound Design at the University of Greenwich, exploring spatial sound and electroacoustic music.
ADvisory board
MIKE BROOKS, FRANCESCA GIRELLI, JOSH MCNORTON, JULIANA PEPPL
associated artists
frazer merrick – online practitioner
Frazer is a sound artist who uses field recording, circuit bending and instrument building to create carnivalesque sonic experiences. Frazer’s work is curious, interactive and collaborative. He’s played a gig underwater, made a banana piano and is currently building the Photon Smasher, a microphone for listening to light.
Ria wilson – workshop practitioner
Collaborative, adaptable and motivated workshop facilitator. Her practice is rooted in sonic arts, community arts and education where she has gained experience through workshop facilitation, community event production and volunteering with vulnerable adults and LGBTQ youth groups.
ALICE KEMP
aLICE kEMP (b.1972, UK) explores an idiosyncratic praxis involving experimental music, audio composition, public/private performance, installation, drawing, writing, lo-fi video, and object making. Her work is informed by subtle states of trance, dream, and disturbance. She has presented live art internationally, and released audio/musical works through independent labels such as Fragment Factory (DE), Harbinger Sound (UK), Erratum (FR), Tochnit Aleph (DK), the Helen Scarsdale Agency (USA), Dead Mind records (NL), and Coherent States (GR). Kemp is a Schimpfluch affiliate and a human ex-voto, living and working in Devon, England. Website
ROB Mullender-ROSS
Dr. Rob Mullender-Ross teaches sound, construction for film & television, and critical/contextual studies on the Live Events and Television, Sound Arts and Design BAs at London College of Communication. He received his PhD from CRiSAP, which looked at how light could be used to synthesise sound. Rob produces sculpture, sound, 2D, performance and moving image works when he can. Most recently he has performed Minor Conspiracy for adapted reed organ and eight breathing participants, Happy Ending – a site specific intervention for improvising musicians and massage parlour, and Ex Voto – a piece for 6 metres of nickel-chromium wire and mains electricity, in response to the Brunel Tunnel Shaft in Rotherhithe, London. He has exhibited and presented research internationally and in the UK, and was a Leverhulme Artist in residency at the Brunel Museum in London.