Stomper is curatorial project exploring the collaborative possibilities for art, music and moving image. With a history of carrying out events both nationally and internationally, it was originally launched in New York and has since expanded to the London art community. Stomper probes the convergence of art music and moving image by morphing between exhibition format, DJ, live performance and screenings. Using this intersection as a platform for creativity Stomper provides a forum for artists, musicians and film makers to come together and showcase their works.


Paula Naughton
STOMPER founder, Artist/Curator
Paula Naughton is a visual artist and curator. She specialises in photography, video and installation. Her work is based around a preoccupation with time and the memory of habitation.

Currently based in London, she has practiced, exhibited and curated internationally. As a cofounder of Stomper with Greg Poole in New York, she has been instrumental in shaping the visual side of the collaboration and expanding the event to the London art community.


Greg Poole
STOMPER founder, Filmmaker/Writer/Producer/DJ
Wearing a number of hats, Greg has a keen interest in sharing music with others through his DJing, freelance writing and filmmaking. In New York, he’s organized many events showcasing new DJs and artists, bringing together different genres and audiences - from producing NYC's most successful weekly UK garage DJ party, to creating live eclectic underground music showcases. Always one to champion UK music, in 2005 he co-created a US hip hop-meets-UK grime showcase, Pirate Sessions Live, in New York for BBC 1xtra. Relocated to London in 2006, Greg is currently finishing a documentary on London's grime music scene. As a television producer, he's worked for MTV, MTV Base and VH1. He's a veteran club DJ of twenty years and has held residencies in New York, Dublin and London.


Sarah Leslie
Associate STOMPER curator & Artist
Originally from Melbourne, Australia Sarah is a photomedia artist concentrating in alternate and antique process, ‘plastic’ photography, and image re-appropriation. Currently her practice is informed by reconstructed historical environments; drawing on the disjuncture between their function as a tourist trap and museum, and ‘dead’ uninhabbited space.

With several years commercial photographic experience – enhanced by working for the top photographic lab in Australia – she also specialises in shooting live and music performance. Most recently Sarah shot Mercury prize winner Speech Dabelle performing at Trouble Tune at the Southbank Centre. Sarah also has a background in Art History and critical theory, with interests concerning aesthetic theory in relation to the role and function of ugliness in art, and representations of the Renaissance body.