Hannah Smith

Degree Show 2024 Hannah Smith BA Art and Design My practice investigates flowers in an archival context – collected, sampled, and photographed over a period of time. This series acts as a reflection of the relationship between time and place, and colour and texture, all within natural environments. This essentially uses flowers as a means …

Ocean Chan

Degree Show 2024 Ocean Chan BA Art and Design My studio practice focuses on creating interactive immersive installations that foster active audience engagement, bringing me significant satisfaction. “Mindscapes” is an interactive installation embodying my creative mind, filled with diverse ideas, memories, and emotions. Its unconventional design symbolizes my blue-sky thinking. Participants engage in activities like …

Ella McBride

Degree Show 2024 Ella McBride BA Art and Design My practice reimagines natural growth, exploring alternative patterns for nature’s resurgence. Originally, it began as a study of form, aiming to create sculptures that felt ‘alive’ and dynamic. Over time, the focus shifted to envisioning the regrowth of trees that have been damaged or destroyed. By …

Grace Teale

Degree Show 2024 Grace Teale BA Art and Design This past year, my practice has focused on creating hyper-realistic botanical studies with which I can design wallpaper and other patterns, using watercolour and coloured pencils to enhance visual textures and depth. ‘Pattern’ refers to the repetition of something to form a sequence. Patterns and sequences …

Grace Tregenza

Degree Show 2024 Grace Tregenza BA Art and Design As an artist fascinated by nature’s intricate details, my practice aims to reveal its hidden beauty. I am particularly drawn to textiles, using fabrics to explore the tactile qualities of natural forms. ‘In Bloom’ aims to capture the delicate and ephemeral qualities of nature through abstraction. …

Mariya Darr

Degree Show 2024 Mariya Darr BA Art and Design “Sensory design supports everyone’s opportunity to receive information, explore the world, and experience joy, wonder, and social connections, regardless of our sensory abilities”.(Lupton and Lipps, 2018) Working as a 1:1 teaching assistant for children with various special education needs and disabilities (SEND) I have an increased …

Matilda Upson

Degree Show 2024 Matilda Upson BA Art and Design This project delves into the physical and symbolic constraints imposed on the female body by societal beauty standards. It combines photography and painting to explore how contemporary fashion trends perpetuate the historical fascination with corsetry, shaping the female body into an hourglass figure often at the …