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a creative studio by Polina Chizhova & James Stephen Wright

based in Edinburgh and Newcastle upon Tyne since 2020
Strange Quark Creative is an artist-led creative studio. We specialise in creative approaches to emergent technologies and create artworks, environmental experiences, performative workshops and educational projects.

Our work focuses on communities, places and the environment.

View our previous projects: Blobtopia Brainrotting Wasteland, Decoding AI, The Magicians Organise Themselves (The NewBridge Project), We Pretended It Wasn't Green (Life Centre), ˈbər-b(ə-)liŋ (Middlesborough Art Week), Planet Cramond and Universal Matter (Inspace). 

Our upcoming project Charm Quark publishes books on alternative urban futures. 

Strange Quark also represents Videocity UK part of the Videocity network. Videocity curates socially engaged video art in unusual locations and daily life. View our Videocity UK projects on the SODA LED Façade Screen, in the Tyneside Cinema, at the historic Grainger Market and at NewBridge Books.

Strange Quark also offers commercial B2B design for the arts, design, tech and sustainability sectors. Get in touch to recieve our commercial portfolio.