2024 – 2025: Young Artist Programme

Young Artist Programme, Queer Harmonies Zine (detail), August 2024.

Over 2024 – 2025, Auto Italia worked in collaboration with young people aged 14-25 from the London Boroughs of Tower Hamlets and Newham. The Young Artist Programme created a vital platform for participants to critically explore and articulate their identities through digital media, while investigating how emerging digital practices can intersect with and expand upon traditional artistic forms.

Led by artists Maria Than, Mia Maxwell, and Kumbirai Makumbe, the programme foregrounded the role of artist-facilitators in co-creating inclusive and critically engaged spaces for learning and artistic production. Each brought a distinct practice and methodology to the programme, offering participants valuable insights into new media and expanded digital art practices.

Through digital art workshops and mentoring opportunities, participants were encouraged to interrogate personal and collective narratives, producing works that challenge conventional notions of belonging and identity.

Discover more about our 2024–2025 projects here.