H-O Residency

Hands-on Residency is an intensive two-month online initiative dedicated to supporting emerging talents by fostering creative development and professional growth. Open to artists from different backgrounds, the residency invites participants to immerse themselves in artistic research while remaining rooted in the familiarity of their own spaces.

The programme is designed to offer valuable and flexible resources to support the artists-in-residence during their creative journey. Participants will engage in collaborative sessions, including group critique meetings, panel discussions with art experts, and the curatorial development of the final exhibition. In parallel, each resident can benefit from individual support, such as one-on-one mentorship sessions with members of our team and communication material refinement in collaboration with the Hands-on team.

The residency culminates in a final group exhibition at the physical extension of Hands-on in Milan, offering participants the opportunity to showcase their work and position themselves within the global art ecosystem.

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Our Team

  • Freya Bramble- Carter

    Freya Bramble-Carter is a London based ceramics artist, especially known for creating contemporary vase designs, often strongly inspired of by a balancing flow of femininity and masculinity, and sees the power of nature and the universe we live in. Freya combines her lifestyle, of imagining and working with clay, her life experiences and personal philosophies. She tries to live in the most authentic way true for her, to learn about life and expands this into her clay. 

  • Eman Ali

    Eman Ali is an Omani-Bahraini visual artist. Her multidisciplinary practice spans AI, photography, text, sculpture, sound, and installations, exploring the complex interplay between gender, religion, and socio-political ideologies in the Khaleeji culture. By using her practice as a means of social critique, observation, and investigation of the layered histories of the Arabian Peninsula and East Africa, Ali ‘s work invites us to consider the untold stories of our society and reflect on the systems that shape our experiences.

  • Maria Positano

    Maria Positano (b.1995) is a visual artist living between Italy and London. Her works have been featured in art institutions internationally. She has completed her education in London, where she graduated from City and Guilds of London Art School in 2018 and the Royal College of Art in 2023. In 2024, she was awarded the Gilbert Bayes Award from The Royal Society of Sculptors in London, furthermore, in 2023 the artist won the AiR Award at South Thames Colleges Group, London, UK. 

  • Celine Seror

    Céline Seror is an independent consultant and curator who co-founded the art agency Artness in 2013, promoting a transcultural vision of contemporary art. She has launched projects like IAM – Intense Art Magazine, dedicated to African women artists, co-created The Art Momentum platform, and since 2021 co-curates the travelling exhibition Memoria: accounts of another History, showcased across multiple international venues.

  • Janet Rady

    Based between London and the UAE, Janet Rady is a Gallery Director and Curator specializing in Contemporary Middle Eastern Art, with over 35 years of international art market experience. She founded Janet Rady Fine Art in 2007, working with emerging and established African, Arab, and Iranian artists, curates auctions at Olympia Auctions, and has curated the Kyrgyz Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022.