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Sunderland
Albert Bluett B-C is an artist creating paintings, drawings, murals and prints that explore truth, justice, war and the contemporary landscape, informed by his experiences and cultural surroundings as a native of the North East based in Sunderland.
Newcastle
A local graffiti artist creating work across the North East.
Newcastle
A touring performer and composer who also mentors developing musicians through practical, real-world experience.
Newcastle
An illustrator and mural artist working across traditional and digital media, paint and aerosol.
Newcastle
All Things Bloom Art creates North East art prints, exploring iconic regional places to craft prints that evoke stories and memories. Located in Newcastle. Instagram @allthingsbloom_art; portfolio at allthingsbloomart.etsy.com.
Hexham
A writer, professional storyteller and artist whose background in herbal medicine informs intergenerational work about plants and place.
Wallsend
Amanda Jo is a multidisciplinary artist and paramedical tattoo artist specialising in realistic areola tattooing for people following cancer and other surgeries; she co‑founded the North East Nipple Project and Bloom, a hyperrealistic prosthetic areola, and as a neurodivergent creator becomes absorbed in the process.
Newcastle
A jeweller making one-of-a-kind pieces from recycled silver using traditional silversmithing methods.
Newcastle, Gateshead
Ambar Dhesi is a North East-based singer, songwriter and director of Community Interest Company Ambar Dhesi Events, blending R&B, soul, reggae and D&B while providing a safe platform for artists; recent release GEMINI SZN, debut album due November 2026.
County Durham, Bishop Auckland
A multimedia illustrator specialising in editorial and conceptual work inspired by film, television, music and pop culture.
Newcastle/North Shields
A floral designer at Harbour House in North Shields, creating modern arrangements for weddings, brand activations, supper clubs and photoshoots.
Newcastle
A photographer specialising in live events, including gigs and drag, alongside studio and location portraiture.
South Shields
Head coach at Demi God Fitness, a North East gym specialising in athletic performance.
Gateshead / Newcastle upon Tyne
A visual creative and educator working principally with screen print and solar plate printmaking.
Gateshead
Musician Annie Enclave from Gateshead writes and designs shows inspired by adventure, nostalgia, nature and fantasy; she is currently composing an album and developing her live performance.
Sunderland
Auburn Langley is director of Sunderland Lit & Phil CIC, hosting monthly conversations with topical panels and discussion groups that highlight local creatives and experts, and leading calligraphy and zine-making workshops exploring women's, queer, anti-colonial, working-class Northern history.
Newcastle
A Scottish Indian visual artist based in Newcastle, working across painting, murals, gilding, bookbinding, modelling and arts education.
Newcastle/Gateshead
Bobby Page is a Gateshead-based street artist specialising in surface patterns and murals across the North East.
Newcastle
An independent maker creating clothing with original lino-printed designs.
North Shields
A jewellery maker celebrating nature and the past through dried botanicals, ethically sourced insects and naturally scavenged bones.
Northumberland
An artist based in Northumberland.
Blyth
Helen Richardson creates Canny Cool Prints of familiar places using lino and traditional carving and printing methods.
Durham
A freelance interior designer supporting fellow designers, architects and fitters with their projects.
Sunderland
A Sunderland photographer capturing pets, families, couples and live performances, with a growing focus on brand and business work.
Newcastle
Chris Crampton is a Newcastle-based photographer specialising in urban architecture and night photography, with an interest in concert/gig work for local bands and frequent travel photography. Instagram: @gammaray404.iso
Darlington
Chrissy is a petite model.
Durham
Aniseed crafts strategic, thoughtful brand and graphic design, from brand strategy and identity to everyday design, partnering with engineers, healthcare experts and academics to make complex information simple, human and accessible, based in Durham.
Gateshead
TwentyMinusTwo is the creative identity of Dale Binney, a multimedia artist based in North East England.
Northumberland
A creative with a barbering background whose work brings more male models into focus.
Durham
A full-time artist who left a corporate career to build an independent creative practice.
Newcastle
Pretty Urban turns close-cropped photographs of graffiti and abandoned spaces into textured abstract studies of the city.
Durham and Northumberland
A mixed-media textile artist.
Tynemouth
An artist painting delicate birds and mice onto carefully sourced antique and vintage paper, giving time-worn pieces a new life.
Sunderland
Eleanor Osada is a multidisciplinary graphic designer, photographer and photo editor specialising in bold, music-focused visuals, from merch and tour posters to social assets, packaging and live-gig photography; work featured by Warner Music, Ticketmaster, NME and The Times.
Newcastle
Photographer and graphic designer based in Newcastle who favours live music photography and expresses creativity through graphic design. Instagram @elij.photo; portfolio elijphotog.my.canva.site/elijah-moore
Gateshead
A content writer and strategist from Gateshead.
Peterlee
A photographer and visual storyteller based in Peterlee.
Newcastle
Ellie Gair is director of Studio Mint, an architecture practice in Newcastle and the North East working on house extensions and community buildings, focusing on collaborative design, thoughtful retrofit and the use of natural materials.
Newcastle
Rindill Makes creates handmade stainless steel jewellery inspired by history, nature, fantasy and folklore and runs beginner-friendly chainmail workshops helping people across the north east discover new creative skills.
Newcastle
Elliott McCann trades as Red Rockette, creating original lino prints and illustrations that spotlight queer culture and northern life, drawing on vintage Americana, traditional pin-up art and mid-century style.
Newcastle Upon Tyne
A freelance illustrator who returned to Newcastle after studying illustration in Kent.
Sunderland
An aerial performer and teacher working from AAA Sports in Sunderland since 2009.
North Shields
An independent business based in North Shields.
Newcastle/Sunderland/Durham
A photographer working across Newcastle, Sunderland and Durham.
Gateshead
A lesbian fantasy artist developing two queer fantasy novels, Fire Angels and Rosa the Earth Elemental.
Horden, County Durham
An illustration graduate developing an independent art business alongside postgraduate study.
Whitley Bay
A sustainable gift-wrapping studio running public workshops, brand projects and creative team-building sessions using unexpected reclaimed materials.
Chopwell, Gatesheah
An independent maker designing and selling original knitwear.
Corbridge, Northumberland
Vintage at the Tower offers carefully curated authentic vintage jewellery, handbags and accessories online and at a bricks-and-mortar boutique, including one of the UK's largest collections of pre-loved Butler & Wilson jewellery.
Northumberland
Artist based in Northumberland.
Newton Aycliffe
A vegan forager creating respectful decorative work from responsibly gathered animal bones and skulls.
Durham
Graeme Smith runs SPELK., an interiors studio in Durham specialising in kitchens and furniture, and organises Mixer, a network for interior designers and suppliers; he is the North East Regional Ambassador for the British Institute of Interior Design.
Gateshead
An LGBTQ+ photographer and the creator of Anti Headshots.
Sunderland
A freelance graphic and brand designer based in the North East.
Sunderland
An illustrator and surface-pattern designer available for licensing and commissioned work.
Whitley Bay
Heywood produces video podcasts in Whitley Bay, offering an inviting studio for up to four people with professional-grade lights, cameras and mics. Podcasts are fully edited and social shorts can be produced.
Newcastle
A collage artist developing an original card project inspired by Pokémon and years of personal practice.
North Shields
Tattoo artist Izzy Curran works out of Skin n Ink tattoo studio in North Shields and has been tattooing since 2012, covering all styles and specialising in American traditional and blackwork.
Newcastle
Trigo Studio is a full-stack creative agency based in Newcastle upon Tyne, specialising in branding, websites, content and digital design.
Newcastle
A freelance 3D artist and animator, and one half of CGI Central NCL.
Newcastle
A North East photo and video creative available for projects further afield.
Newcastle
A Gateshead-born musician with a strong connection to the region and its creative community.
Gateshead, Newcastle
Freelance graphic designer based in Gateshead, Newcastle, specialising in editorial campaigns and print for film, TV and theatre, focusing on film posters and production identity, with credits including The Jamie Lloyd Company, MUBI, Live Aid Musical, Oh Mary! and HALSEY.
Newcastle
A painter and maker whose practice moves across several creative forms.
Gateshead
A gardening creator sharing honest lessons, practical tips and inspiration for north-facing gardens in the North East.
Jarrow
Produces bold, spicy beef jerky with an irreverent, darkly funny twist, blending unforgettable branding and addictive taste; based in Jarrow and reachable on Instagram @jerk_it_together.
Newcastle upon Tyne
The curator of a bricks-and-mortar shop filled with work from local artists, makers and independent sellers.
Newcastle
Crisp Sandwich Studio is Jessie Gaffney’s Newcastle photography and stop-motion studio, working with local businesses and musicians.
County Durham
A calligrapher who hand-engraves lasting personal details onto meaningful objects.
South Tyneside
Working mainly with hand-built clay, Jo explores forms that sit somewhere between plants, sea life and imagined organisms.
Barnard Castle County Durha
A journalist, reviewer and storyteller based in Barnard Castle, County Durham.
Whitley Bay
Designs handmade jewellery inspired by coastal textures and celebrating life's imperfections; Joanne Hunt, Whitley Bay.
Newcastle
A former maker who now runs events that champion independent creatives and give first-time stallholders a place to start.
Chester le street
Marketer and photographer running Shutter and Strategy in Chester le Street, multi-award-winning with over seven years' agency and in-house experience; photography is available on the current website and Instagram @jbeardmorephoto_.
Newcastle
A rapper making albums in niche genres and pushing at their boundaries.
Whitley Bay
Joe Shimwell is an indie board game designer in Whitley Bay, focusing on print-and-play titles and developing the Word Dungeon series.
Newcastle upon Tyne
A freelance creative consultant helping North East creatives, brands and businesses make waves, get their work seen and create a stronger impact.
North Shields
An artist creating wall art and smaller pieces from clay, handmade paper and broken pottery.
South Shields
A videographer working across esports, business projects and weddings.
Newcastle
An artist creating original paintings, art prints and homeware.
Northumberland
Julie makes small-batch hand-poured candles and wax melts inspired by people, places, memories and little moments in Northumberland.
Gateshead
A creator exploring fetish and alternative lifestyles as an open and valid form of creative practice.
Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne
A Byker-based visual artist specialising in charcoal landscapes, wildlife and gothic illustration.
Newcastle
A Geordie painter creating work that shifts between surreal, creepy, cute and sinister.
Newcastle
A printmaker creating limited-edition linocuts inspired by the landscapes and nature of the North East.
Northumberland
Aesthetics practitioner and skin specialist Katie Adams offers high-quality, affordable aesthetic and skin treatments, based in Northumberland, helping clients feel confident while enhancing natural beauty. Instagram: Katies_aesthetics2024
Whitley Bay
Artist exploring abstract painting, sculpture and printing, Katie Brydon creates multi‑medium works, custom murals, cushions, wallpaper and an exclusive tote-bag collection and is owner and CEO of Katie’s Craft House studio in Whitley Bay.
Stockton on Tees
A North East print designer building every design from original hand-painted illustrations.
North Tyneside
A self-taught Whitley Bay artist creating landscapes and seascapes shaped by a love of the outdoors.
Ouseburn,Newcastle
A glass painter making work full of colour, character and life.
Durham
SPELK. is an interiors studio specialising in kitchens and furniture and organises Mixer, a network for interior designers and suppliers.
Teesside
An artist based in Teesside.
North Shields
Many Moons from North Shields makes colourful, dopamine homeware and custom 3D surface design from Jesmonite, prioritising upcycling and sustainability. Available for collaborations and commissions on furniture, splashbacks and wall panels; sold at JustCanny and Flea Circus.
Newcastle
Freelance photographer, videographer and drone operator Krzysztof Furgala, based in Newcastle upon Tyne, creates clean, professional visual content for businesses, public-sector teams, events and musicians, providing stills, motion and licensed aerials in one reliable package.
Sunderland
Larissa Padgett is a Sunderland-based contemporary artist who creates mixed-media portraits exploring identity, healing, feminine power and the journey back to oneself; her Unlearning Silence: The Courage to Be series examines moving from people-pleasing and self-silencing to authenticity and self-worth.
South Shields
A tattoo artist and the founder of Dead Happy Tattoo, an independent studio with creativity beyond the chair.
Gateshead
A designer and illustrator drawn to brutalist buildings, North East places and especially where the two meet.
Gateshead
An artist based in Gateshead.
Newcastle/Tynemouth
Laura Moore is a Newcastle-based illustrator and visual artist who works primarily by hand in watercolour and gouache and is also comfortable working digitally; available for commercial illustration, hand-painted murals, book illustration, merchandise design and licensing.
Newcastle Upon Tyne
LLIVELY Music is an independent music PR, promotion and artist-advice company built around honesty, openness and affordability.
Newcastle
An oil painter documenting Newcastle’s alternative scene through figurative work.
Gateshead
A queer, non-binary transfeminine artist, model and photographer focused on alternative subculture and fashion.
Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
A film and television production graduate specialising in screenwriting.
Whitley Bay
An oil painter working from life, with experience across gallery exhibitions and projects for North East festivals and organisations.
Durham
A creative director with two decades of experience building brands, campaigns and identities across combat sports, football and performance-led organisations.
Hartlepool
A painter exploring her experience as a queer woman and creating work intended to help others feel seen.
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Illustrator based in Newcastle Upon Tyne specialising in nostalgic early-2000s Myspace-style digital work, using textures, saturated colour and Clip Studio Paint brush packs for editorial and photo-illustration projects.
Newcastle, Sunderland, Durham, Northumberland
Costume, prop and set designer, maker and supervisor based in Newcastle upon Tyne, specialising in construction, woodworking and scenic painting, with 18 years' experience and a practice centred on sustainable upcycling and community workshops.
Newcastle
Luke Westgate's Guybrows is a private men's grooming and skin studio in Newcastle city centre, offering expert brow grooming and advanced skin treatments in a relaxed, discreet setting with tailored, natural-looking results.
Gateshead
An alternative model and actress drawn to unconventional aesthetics, expressive characters and creative collaboration.
Hartlepool
A recording and mixing engineer working with bands across genres, experience levels and budgets.
Newcastle
A classical oil painter using the visual language of historic painting to explore queer identity and alternative communities.
Newcastle
The artistic director, dancer and choreographer behind Northern Dance.
North Tyneside
Runs pop-up creative workshops in North Tyneside and Northumberland, offering creative journaling, art, crafts, creative writing and book clubs, founder of Creative Space North East and Instagram @creativespacenortheast.
Choppington Northumberland
Leggy Bird Creative makes neuroaffirming art, including long-legged bird sculptures formed from brightly coloured rolled paper.
Sunderland
A contemporary artist using expanded painting to explore the move from childhood into adulthood and the search for play.
Sunderland
Artist in Sunderland creating alternative paintings and mixed-media work, prioritising sustainability by repurposing thrifted materials; currently developing Scenic Roots Studio, a retail and studio space for alternative artists to sell and socialise.
Gateshead/North Shields
An independent screen printer producing organic and retail garments for bands, tattoo artists, creators and pubs.
Newcastle
Mike is a multidisciplinary interior product designer based in Newcastle, best known as that lamp man. With a background in fabrication, consultancy and Scandinavian design, he has specialised in this niche for four years and sells at Tynemouth Market and online.
County Durham
Milly B Designs creates one-of-a-kind personalised keepsake embroidery hoops and felt gifts, custom-made for occasions and themes in County Durham.
Newcastle
A creative based in Newcastle.
Durham/Sunderland/Newcastle
An artist working across Durham, Sunderland and Newcastle.
Chester-le-Street
A creative portrait photographer using smoke, projection, lasers, UV light, fire and underwater techniques.
h
A content and social media studio helping local businesses turn everyday work into clear, human content that builds trust and enquiries.
Gateshead
An artist creating detailed pet portraits in pastel.
North Shields
Nicola Jane Hall is a full‑time maker of beautiful items and artist, joyful in sewing, painting, performing and clowning, a compulsive creator and storyteller who avidly collects buttons, fabric and lace.
Newcastle
A wedding photographer capturing celebrations filled with fun, warmth and affection.
Middlesbrough
A multidisciplinary maker creating theatrical masks and props, jewellery, wire-wrapped crystals, papier-mâché and clay pieces.
Newcastle
Northern Display Painters Guild organises a North East community for miniature and figure painters to develop display-painting skills, offering regular meetups, challenges, demonstrations and constructive feedback to help painters of all levels experiment and improve.
Newcastle
An artist building tiny scenes inside spray cans and other unexpected objects.
Durham
Nice Face Apparel is a charity-driven, tattoo-inspired clothing brand that donates 20% of all revenue to the ifucareshare foundation and a local mental health charity.
Newcastle/Northumberland
Costumier and creative specialising in drag, theatre and dance, Phillip Brown is based in Newcastle/Northumberland and explores queerness, tragedy and reimagined historical characters through draping, embellishment and experimentation while collaborating with north east talent.
Durham
A rock musician creating locally rooted work, including the album River Knows and a song inspired by the Lambton Worm.
Durham
Rach is a life coach, ADHD specialist and practising witch who combines polyvagal nervous system science, astrology and tarot to support neurodivergent clients via Rach Does Magic, based in the North East.
Newcastle
Artist based in Newcastle.
Newcastle
Photographer and cinematographer Ralph Deloso is based in Newcastle and puts a cinematic lens on everyday stories.
Newcastle & Northumberland
An organiser running creative markets across Newcastle and Northumberland to give local makers, artists and independent businesses a platform.
Newcastle upon Tyne
An independent brand based in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Newcastle upon Tyne
RFH is the creative behind C.A.T.S., a completed limited-run project comprising 233 pieces.
Newcastle upon Tyne
An animator creating motion graphics for businesses and visual-art installations.
Newcastle
Independent, appointment-only nail studio in Heaton, Newcastle offering sensory-friendly, neuroinclusive and LGBTQIA+-inclusive low-stimulation appointments and catering to neurodivergent or hyper-mobile clients. Run by Rickiah Quinn, Glitching Beauty specialises in natural nails, gel and hand-painted art.
Newcastle
A painter capturing the urban life and pop culture around him.
Sunderland
Artist based in Sunderland.
Leeds
A Leeds-based brand and graphic designer creating bold, thoughtful identities grounded in the people behind them.
Wallsend
Samantha Jane Robinson runs the North East’s only gender-affirming aesthetics clinic for trans women, operating a private, appointments-only studio in Wallsend and serving as a protest and voice for trans women, Instagram @TRANSformbysjr
North East
Billy No Mates is an informal coworking collective bringing freelancers and remote workers together.
Durham
Durham-based designer and community builder Sarah Carlton operates as Design by Kinship.
Sunderland
An abstract artist whose practice draws on a former fashion-design career, years spent living in Cyprus and a life shaped by travel and change.
Durham
Artist based in Durham.
Newcastle
Musician scapey creates genre‑bending music spanning EDM, emo, trap, hyperpop and occasional metal, based in Newcastle; active on Instagram as @ratcityworld and with music on Spotify.
Perth
Scott Laird is an artist in Perth creating bespoke power-carved artwork and modified axes; Instagram: Axe & Grain Bespoke Works.
Newcastle
A senior designer specialising in brand and packaging work for craft beer and fast-moving consumer goods.
Newcastle
Seher Sadiq is a mixed-media illustrator and designer based in Newcastle, creating silly character stickers and a range of North East postcards.
Gateshead
Sip happens is a Gateshead podcast in which two friends review local and not‑so‑local beers and snacks, occasionally trying gadgets and challenges and encouraging listeners to keep their expectations low.
gateshead/newcastle
Sophie Stewart is a 22-year-old artist based in Newcastle and Gateshead creating pop-culture-inspired prints and collages influenced by films, music and artists such as Andy Warhol, René Feracci and the Guerrilla Girls, using screen and gelli printing, collaging and Poscas.
South Shields
Alternative model and commercial extra in South Shields specialising in creating characters for unique, spooky shoots, Instagram i_am_sophiejane.
Sunderland
A Sunderland company working across dance theatre and digital innovation.
Newcastle
A photographer and visual artist whose long-running anonymous community project brings film photography and visual art together.
Newcastle, Gateshead
An artist bringing Thai and Scottish influences together within her creative practice.
Wallsend
Artist creating work from post-apocalyptic sculptures warning of the advancement of technology to silly doodles; creating serves as therapy. Based in Wallsend. Instagram: Stephen.Fowler.Art
Sunderland
Portrait, pageant and boudoir photographer Steve Hodgson is based in Sunderland; portfolio at htpps://wearsidephotography.co.uk and Instagram @wearsidephotography.
Gateshead
Artist and teacher working in the North East.
Newcastle upon Tyne
Music and fashion photographer based in Newcastle upon Tyne, working with local musicians on press shots and providing event photography.
Newcastle/gateshead
A small music promoter keeping gigs affordable while connecting local bands with artists from around the country.
Gateshead
A former teacher and Geordie Italian designer creating bright, bold and colourful work alongside family caring roles.
Sunderland
A community-interest coffee shop with a dedicated workshop space for local artists and creatives to use.
Hexham, Northumberland
A freelance writer and author exploring environmental issues, respect for nature, individuality and the strength of community.
B.Box Studios, Shieldfield, Newcastle, upon Tyne.
A local artist inspired by the North East and Northumberland coastlines.
Sunderland / South Shields
A glass artist and MA student based at the National Glass Centre.
Newcastle and Hull
Photographer based in Newcastle and Hull, Sway photographs real people, often non-models and survivors, and coaches them through shoots that reclaim identity and convey social messages such as responses to war and LGBTQIA rights while supplying marketable assets for brands and public figures.
Central Newcastle
Gym in Central Newcastle offering small-group training membership and pay-as-you-go fitness and yoga sessions, describing itself as the gayest gym in Newcastle.
Newcastle
Thorn Faustus is a fire and burlesque performer, promoter, producer and teacher.
Lincolnshire
A professional pixel artist designing a video game shaped by horror, 1980s and 1990s culture and nostalgia.
Newcastle
Founded by PR professional, writer and former digital news editor Jane Imrie, Tyger Comms works with brave, honest and meaningful ideas.
Newcastle
Makes creative videos while studying film production; Tyla‑Faye Jackson is based in Newcastle and shares work on Instagram at tyla_films.
North Shields
A ceramicist making one-off, hand-built pieces in a variety of clays.
Durham
Designs unisex stainless steel chainmail jewellery, proudly disabled‑owned and multi‑award winning, based in Durham; uses ethically sourced crystals and recycled ceramics from local charity shops, collaborates with small businesses and runs local workshops.
