April 2026
Unquiet Press’ second issue features writing, interviews and art from Anushka Shah, Joe Fearon, Joni Brown, Lizzie Bickerstaff and Naiya Ellis-Woodward.
About:
Naiya Ellis Woodward
Naiya (she/her, UK) treats living materials as active co-agents in her installations, foregrounding walking and ancestral knowledge systems as a mode of research. She is a multidisciplinary artist studying at The Ruskin School of Art, her practice spanning across installation, textiles, moving image, and writing. Naiya’s approach to making has been shaped by growing up on British canals, establishing a sensitivity to fluctuating watery systems as a contested and unstable cultural surface. Her work engages with counter-mapping to interrogate how embodied practices of care (weaving, sensing, and listening) structure relationships between human and more-than-human worlds. She cultivates speculative environments and collective experiences as ways of thinking through ecological entanglements and our alienation from nature.
Performance still from ‘Tilleadh Don Ghleann’ (Return to the Glen), 2025
Hessian, satin, river silt, soil, spirulina, iron oxide, peat, silk thread, heather, horseshoe, salmon nursery stones.
Lizzie Bickerstaff
‘I am UK-based folklorist, researcher, writer, and storyteller, I specialise in the occult and vernacular folklore of the long nineteenth century, with particular expertise in fairies. I focus largely on the gendered dynamics of folklore as a form of lived craft, exploring how women historically used inherited tales, traditions and belief systems as practical tools of protection and pedagogy.’
You can read more of Lizzie’s work on her Substack:
https://lizziebickerstaff.substack.com
Joe Fearon
I’m a recent Fashion Print graduate, having just finished my BA at Central Saint Martins last year. My graduate collection, Nowt So Queer as Folk, explored queer youth identity and coming of age in a rural landscape, entranced by imagined folklore and queer ritual. I’m originally from Liverpool, but I spent my teenage years in a village outside the city, and the contrast between rural life and queer self-discovery became a central theme in the work. The collection grew from research into British folklore, pagan customs, and the aesthetics of folk horror cinema. I became interested in the ceremonial imagery of folk traditions and the parallels I found with Queer ritual and Sexuality.
Anushka Shah
Anushka Shah is a London-based creative writer with a focus on sustainable fashion and contemporary culture. She is the writer behind Pantoscope (www.pantoscope.co.uk), an exploratory project delving into what it is like to be another person through interviews, prose, poetry, book reviews, and articles. Anushka is winner of 26’s Emerging Writer 2024 and won Poet Laureate at her college at Oxford University.
Joni Brown
Joni Brown moves through wildness as a practice of repetition and renewal. As paths and circles connect and collide, each thread amasses a kaleidoscopic map, embroidering a guide of its travels and passings as the needle drags and ebbs through the wake. Joni is a freelance writer, and the co-founder of Unquiet Press- a publication platforming intersectional folklore through contemporary art and writing.
Joni Brown, Square One.
Embroidered thread on Calico, 200mmx365mm, 2026.Get Yours Here:
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