Who we are.

Amanda Camenisch, Artist and co-director of Antropia

Amanda is a London-based artist whose practice focuses on art in the public sphere and its social and political impact, alongside sacred arts and ritual as pathways for healing and transformation. Working with underrepresented communities through long-term, socially engaged processes, her projects culminate in immersive installations, sculptures, films, sound works, and performances that foster exchange and connection between individuals and their environments.

She holds an MA in Art and Cultural Anthropology from SOAS University, has completed various certificates in energy healing practices, and brings over ten years of experience in participatory art. Her current research projects include The Anti-Monument and Devotional Songs as a Way of Governance and Healing. Her methodology combines research-driven inquiry with trauma-informed practices to create collaborative conditions that centre participant experiences, care, and empowerment.

She has delivered participatory projects including Singing Blankets (ACE-funded, with Therese Westin, Hackney Migrant Centre, Jesuit Refugee Services, and Communitas Greece), LYRA (ACE), and a Brent Biennial commission (with Therese Westin), while exhibiting and performing with Metroland Cultures, delivering workshops and lectures at the Museum of the Home, University of Chicago, Central Saint Martins, and Universität der Künste Berlin, and partnering with House of Annetta, SPACE, Archive of Belonging, and Camden Council. Amanda and Therese received the Community Engagement Creative Grant Award in 2021 and 2023.

Lizzy Drury,  Artist and co-director of Antropia

Lizzy is an artist, curator based in London. She holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art and BA in Drawing and Applied Arts from the University of the West of England.

Working at the intersection of art, storytelling, ecology and collaboration, she creates drawings, films and participatory arts projects. In 2018, she established Hot Desque with Neena Percy, a research-led artistic and curatorial platform focussing on site-specific, mise-en-scène exhibitions, films and workshops. They have been the recipient of Arts Council England grants since 2018, including the Developing Your Creative Practice grant in 2024.

Her projects seek to explore spirituality, theatre, deeptime and more-than-human perspectives. She has exhibited work across the UK and India, including at the Corinium Museum, CCA Glasgow, Newbridge Project, the India Art Fair and Akara Art. From 2017-2022 she was represented by Akara Art gallery in Mumbai.

Lizzy has lectured on BA and MA courses at institutions including Royal College of Art, Newcastle University and the University of Northumbria.

From 2022 - 2025, she managed the public programme of visual arts at the Swiss Church in London.

Neena Percy, Artist and co-director of Antropia

Neena is an artist and curator based in London. She holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, under the Basil Alkassi Scholarship, and a BA in Fine Art from Slade School of Art, supported by the Painters Stainers Company Scholarship. 

Neena is one half of Hot Desque, an artist-curatorial collaboration between artists Lizzy Drury and Neena Percy. Hot Desque’s work spans site-specific installations, drawing, film, writing, publications and workshops. Their research-led practice plays with the tropes of staging and lighting to create a theatrical mise-en-scène through collaborations with other artists. Through worldbuilding, they seek to enchant materials and art-making processes to explore fictioning, theatricality, deeptime and more-than-human perspectives. 

As a curatorial platform creating immersive, site-specific exhibitions while addressing ecological themes, Hot Desque has worked in venues across the UK, from white cube galleries to a live theatre, including CCA Glasgow, The Corinium Museum, and Theatre Royal Newcastle. They have collaborated with over 150 artists and creatives, from emerging to established artists, including: Emma Talbot, Andy Holden, Nikhil Chopra, Emma Cousin, Johann Arens, Suzanne Treister, Rafal Zajko. They have also designed and delivered creative workshops for young people and children across the UK, partnering with charities, community gardens and schools.

Alongside this, Neena was Events & Exhibitions Manager at San Mei Gallery, in Brixton, South London. Selected through an open call process, she worked towards 17 exhibitions and 50+ public and private events, supporting emerging artists to deliver their most ambitious projects to date.