Shrinking Space was founded in 2014, and is a confluence of our interest in art and science as creative practitioners and curators.

Andy Franzkowiak

Andy is a creative producer who specialises in science/art projects and site-specific works.

His work includes the critically acclaimed Enlightenment Café, and a series of multidisciplinary art and science collaborations, notable productions include; Deadinburgh, Edinburgh and New Atlantis, London. Andy was part of creative team for Utopia 2016, curating Paths to Utopia, a 3-month exhibition and events programme at Somerset House involving 500 participants across a range of art forms and academia. He also curated and produced Blood: Life Uncut for Science Gallery London and produced the Arts in Society programme with Somerset House Studios.

Andy has recently developed art/science projects with institutions, including: Lewisham London Borough of Culture 2022, European Space Agency, University of Edinburgh, UCL, KCL, Manchester Metropolitan University and University of Warwick. He has previously worked with: Punchdrunk, The Old Vic Tunnels, Southbank Centre, BBC.

Andy is currently Programme (Exhibitions & Collections) at Orleans House Gallery in Richmond, London.

Mary Jane Edwards

Mary Jane is an Arts Director, and independent programmer and cultural organiser, with a background in social and visual arts.

Her work and creative practice focuses on supporting artists to interrogate our social, environmental and political landscape, and often explores alternative structures for sustaining and connecting culture, civic engagement and knowledge exchange. She is currently researching the relationship between art and ecological sciences, and the potential for interdisciplinary practices to enable hyper-local environmental change, whilst encouraging a global culture of sustainability in relation to climate emergency issues.

In addition to the arts, Mary Jane has worked in social policy, with a particular focus on youth employment in the creative industries and social finance for common good.  She is an Honorary Fellow and Advisory Board Member of the University of Liverpool Science and Literature Hub.

Previous roles include: Executive Director Cement Fields, Head of Programme FACT; Senior Producer Metal Liverpool, The Creative Society, The Old Vic Tunnels.

Regular collaborators

Judit Agui

Writer, editor & producer.

Nestor Pestana

Educator, art director and digital designer.