Degree Show 2026 Mycah Walker BA Art and Design Exploring consumerism, control and appearance through a fictional beauty supplement pop-up shop inspired by contemporary wellness and self-optimisation trends through consumption. Combining graphic design, animation and video editing to create exaggerated yet believable advertising visuals that question trust, persuasion and the influence of branding. handshakeConnect with …
Category Archives: BA Art and Design
Laura Gooch
Degree Show 2026 Laura Gooch BA Art and Design I’m Laura, a designer and printmaker exploring fungal biomaterial within the home. MycoLiving is a co-designed, mycelium-led project that visually represents and reflects the process of working with living materials. Through handcrafted vessels, MycoLiving transitions from fungi to fibres to objects, revealing how mycelium’s collaborative and …
Zainab Hussain
Degree Show 2026 Zainab Hussain BA Art and Design I create abstract visual forms rooted in Islamic calligraphy, exploring faith, memory, and diasporic identity. As a young Muslim artist, my work reimagines inherited traditions through contemporary expression, transforming displacement and belonging into a renewed visual language that honours where I come from and who I’m …
Georgia Lord-Brown
Degree Show 2026 Georgia Lord-Brown BA Art and Design My work explores jazz as a visual experience through digitally painted film stills. By reworking scenes from jazz centred films, I investigated how colour, atmosphere and movement can communicated the emotional qualities of jazz without sound, changing cinematic moments into still visual experiences. handshakeConnect with Developed …
Lilia Adderley
Degree Show 2026 Lilia Adderley BA Art and Design This project explores how perception of place is shaped through emotional association and lived experience. Reflecting on my three years in Leeds, the work investigates the fragmented quality of recollection through a layered spatial composition, reconstructing an image of the city through memory. In a broader …
Martha Binks Iturriagagoitia
Degree Show 2026 Martha Binks Iturriagagoitia BA Art and Design I am Martha, an art and design student exploring material honesty through construction, deconstruction and process-led practices. Working primarily with cement, I allow materials to behave naturally, cracking, decaying and transforming over time, creating fragments that reflect urban environments, architectural change, and the fragile, evolving …
Hannah Green
Degree Show 2026 Hannah Green BA Art and Design This project explores the overlooked intelligence, power, and quiet wonder of the natural world, and the complicated ways humans try to situate themselves within it. Across cultures and history, people have turned to religion, science, and every space in between to make sense of their place …
Elizabeth Boardman
Degree Show 2026 Elizabeth Boardman BA Art and Design My practice sits between art and design, exploring sustainable and reclaimed materials, cultural heritage and viewer interactivity. This year my work has focused on reed, investigating what one natural material can become when approached with sustained attention. handshakeConnect with Reedbed is a large-scale lighting installation made …
Harriette Spriggs
Degree Show 2025 Harriette Spriggs BA Art and Design This project ‘Second Wave: Denim Rewoven’ explores sustainability, identity, heritage and the concept of post-production, redesigning the quintessentially British Trench coat by upcycling denim jeans. Memory and history are intertwined in our clothing, like a woven fabric (denim). My design utilises Japanese textile techniques and the …
Ffion Knight
Degree Show 2025 Ffion Knight BA Art and Design This project dives into the alternative culture of todays youth, exploring music, fashion and lifestyle through an illustrative design style expressed in the form of an art zine brand. The installation features the zine, accompanied by posters, stickers and T-shirts showcasing a range of pieces capturing …