Team

Agnes Meier

Agnes Meier works in systems of meaning. This is reflected conceptually and materially, as she imagines allegories and seeks materials that feel reflective of our internal worlds and narratives of ‘self’-making. She sees her individual works as constituent parts of a greater whole; poetry is sculpture is drawing is sound is movement is gesture.

She is particularly interested in psychology and therapeutic systems and sees her artistic practice as method for reflection and curiosity. This extends across her practice as an arts facilitator for both children and adults, particularly focused in working with queer, neurodivergent, and differently abled humans. 

Annalaura Alifuoco

Annalaura Alifuoco (they/them) is a performance-maker and scholar-artist based in Toxteth, Liverpool. Their work happens at the wet, sticky edges of things – queer ecology, more-than-human performance and the politics of bodies that refuse to hold a fixed shape. They are a member of the practice-research project “Flow.Walk.Drag.” and teach at Liverpool Hope University, where they are mostly trying to convince students that the human is not the centre of the story.

They are drawn to organisms that get on with it quietly: the unglamorous, the overlooked, the ones doing enormous work with no applause and no nervous system (lucky!). For THIRST they went blonde – reaching in every direction at once, hyperfocused, entirely absorbed and willing to do almost anything for oats.

Previously: the Endosymbiotic Love Calendar 2021. Still asking the same question, slightly stickier.

Ava Rose

Wirral born and bread, Ava is a part time model for the last 7 years, which has grown into dancing and burlesque over the last 2 years. She enjoys being creative and having opportunities to express herself .

Chloe Myndiuk

I’m a queer, scouse multi-disciplinary creative that works directly with communities that I’m a part of and support. My work focuses on storytelling and connecting with people through film, hosting, making jewellery and life drawing events.

Currently, I’m working with First Take, a queer film production company, to make a community film that tells a coming of age story.

Claire Beerjeraz

Claire Beerjeraz is a Director, Writer, Facilitator, and Creative Therapist. Disabled, Global Majority, and very Dykey, they tell stories rooted in lived experience, blending creativity with activism for healing, positive action, and authentic representation. Claire is passionate about reducing barriers to the arts and amplifying underrepresented voices. They recently won an off-westend award (OFFIE, 2026) for Best Staging. They’ve directed film and theatre for the past four years, collaborating with organisations like 20 Stories High, Unity Theatre, and Liverpool Everyman Theatre. Recent credits include: Rooted (Writer & Co-Director, Unity Theatre/The Dukes Lancaster, 2025), Transpose (Barbican Centre, 2025), Love & Information (Assistant Director, Storyhouse, Garret Theatre, 2025).

DROSS

Dross is a multidisciplinary artist, producer and drag performer working in the Liverpool City Region. Their practice explores transformation, memory and the unstable edges of identity. Performing in drag for almost a decade, Dross combines lip-sync, storytelling and striking visual language to create work that shifts between glamour and the monstrous, often drawing on archival voices and queer cultural memory. They approach drag as a kind of living archive: a space for shapeshifting, radical empathy and imagining other ways of being.

George Race

I work as a GP across Liverpool – Jack of all trades Master of none. Lover of science and art.
Novice clown and joyful dancer.

Izzie Major 

Lola

Lola is a Liverpool-based doctor, researcher and infectious diseases enthusiast. She enjoys community-based advocacy work, exploring new ways to be creative, and talking about infections to anyone who will listen.

Lee Rafuse Haines

Lee studies the wee insect beasties that spread disease, but her curiosity doesn’t stop at the lab bench. A vector biologist with a PhD in Tropical Medicine (Liverpool) and two decades chasing mosquitoes and flies across Canada, the UK, Kenya, Uganda, and Saudi Arabia, Lee has spent her career translating insect biology into tools that protect people and animals, including reimagining existing drugs as weapons against the world’s deadliest bloodsuckers.

But Lee believes some stories need more than scientific data to be heard. A self-professed tick hater fascinated by the tick-borne meat allergy reshaping how we think about food, she’s equally captivated by insects as muses. She’s now co-creating Symphonic Wings: A Story of Peril and Promise with conductor Cynthia Katsarelis, a symphonic exploration of insect extinction’s global stakes, premiering spring 2027 with the South Bend Symphony Orchestra. Science and art, she insists, need each other to move people.

Liverpool Roller Birds

Liverpool Roller Birds are a local, gender-inclusive grassroots sports team founded in 2009 and offer people of all shapes, sizes, and experience levels the chance to get involved in roller derby. Their mission is to compete at the highest level, both locally and internationally, while increasing visibility and access to the sport in their community and beyond. They are committed to supporting their skaters, officials, and volunteers in reaching their full potential. Equality, diversity, and inclusion are at the heart of everything they do.

Seven members of their league took part in THIRST, with all the passion and creativity they bring to the sport – always keen for a dress up and bit of nerdy fun! Big thanks to Amy Walsh, Bwalya M-K, Caitlin Chalk, Hannah Duckworth, I’ah Donovan-Banfield, Jax Shipman-Miller and Kenny Dickman plus special guests Lola & Tamar Atkinson.

Lydia Pearl

I have been practicing the art of Burlesque for short of three years, travelling the UK performing Neo-Burlesque. Also an owner & producer or Liverpools, De Pearl Cabaret starting in 2026. I design all my own costumes and make a-lot of them myself. I am trained in MT & dance from the age of 2 and work professionally in various fields of dance & music. Not to forget a proud dog mum.

Natalie Beveridge

Natalie Beveridge is an L8-based NHS doctor, scientist and nutritionist. She enjoys working within her local community exploring science communication, biodiversity, climate issues and food justice.

nexus.techne

I am a multidisciplinary visual and performance artist working across murals, textiles, stilts, movement, and live expression. My practice explores the relationship between the body, colour, space, and sound, creating immersive experiences that connect visual art with physical performance. I am interested in transforming environments through large-scale imagery, sculptural fabrics, and dynamic movement, often bringing a sense of play, imagination, and presence to public and creative spaces. Through collaboration and experimentation, I develop work that encourages audiences to engage with art in unexpected ways, creating memorable experiences that blur the boundaries between visual art, performance, and environment.

Nyx Fe’ral

I’m a local Liverpool based drag king who enjoys living a silly little life, being a creative and inspiring people to break societal norms.

Simon D. A. Clark

As a child, my parents had to contend with my determination to look at—and often fall into—puddles, rockpools, and rivers. That current has shaped my life: I have a PhD in fluid dynamics and spend my time learning about, drawing, and painting water (when I’m not painting miniatures). And yes, I play a 100% Water-type team in Pokémon.

I communicate science to non-experts through public engagement, science-art collaborations, and evidence-based policy. I have worked with local communities, museums, international research networks, Superbloom Music Festival, the EU Commission, and EU Parliament.

I deliver workshops on science communication, career development, science for policy, and LGBTQ+ and neurodiverse inclusion.

I tell stories about our relationship with water, from bogs to oceans, as well as disasters and climate change. I am also a co-founder and former executive of Liverpool Tritons, an LGBT+ sports charity.

Tom Moulsdale

I have been working as an ecologist for ten years all over the country, but I am now focussing on creating a place-based ecological/art practice along my home tide-lines of Wirral, using storytelling, words and images to foster ecological empowerment in my community

Yasmine Kumordzi

Yasmine has a MRes in Biomedical Science from Lancaster University and a PhD in Biochemistry from Durham University. She spent her master’s and PhD working on the parasite Leishmania. This introduced her other Neglected Tropical Diseases and to microorganisms with intricate life cycles (Yasmine has always found the CDC life cycle overviews very interesting!). The complexities the parasites undergo for survival: changing their morphologies, their environments and requirements.