Rachel Massey is a Black Country based mixed media artist and illustrator. Her art practice primarily explores ideas of industrialisation, deterioration and research into the theories of the sublime.

Emily Benton is a creative designer based in the Black Country. She combines her illustrative skills and love for local accents to create bold, playful and fun hand lettered designs.

Dudley’s most notable painter Percy Shakespeare was born in 1906 in the slums of the Kates Hill area of Dudley, the fourth of eight children.