Degree Show 2025 Eliza Bell-Ogilby BA Art and Design ‘Human Parasite’ is a metafictional project using a fabricated dystopian novel as inspiration for a sensory, figurative sculpture featuring parasitic barnacle motifs alongside a contextualising illustration. The sculpture and illustration allude to the narrative and social commentary intended by the fictitious book, requesting inquisition and discussion …
Category Archives: BA Art and Design
Yimei Du
Degree Show 2025 Yimei Du BA Art and Design This work is about the artist’s creative space, showing the explosion and reconnection of ideas in the space. handshakeConnect with This shows what the work looked like in the dormitory, the original place where it was created. This image captures the shape of the device at …
Jude McCann
Degree Show 2025 Jude McCann BA Art and Design I am a visual artist investigating how minimalist aesthetics can be used to deconstruct narrative in set design and performance. My work combines miniature models, fashion styling, and projected visuals to explore psychological space and the tension between baroque storytelling and reductive visual language. My project …
Charlotte Coop
Degree Show 2025 Charlotte Coop BA Art and Design Revolving around the popularity of personalisation within the consumer market, this project aims to balance the logistical restraints of product design and the calls for hyper-personalisation. As a result, this work is catered to university students – striving to alleviate homesickness with childhood teddy-bears, translated into …
Emily Taylor-West
Degree Show 2025 Emily Taylor-West BA Art and Design Inspired by the surface structure of lily pads, this speculative design serves as a floating bio-filter to reduce harmful algae blooms in wetland lakes and ponds. LiLi performs circular design by 3D printing with a bioplastic comprised of extracted algae to highlight its potential as an …
Qing Zhuang
Degree Show 2025 Qing Zhuang BA Art and Design I am a textile-based artist exploring emotional memory and human–animal bonds. My work transforms personal experiences into tactile forms through fabric, embroidery, and soft sculpture. By inviting touch and participation, I aim to create intimate, reflective spaces where viewers connect with shared feelings of love, loss, …
Emily Shepherd
Degree Show 2025 Emily Shepherd BA Art and Design “Sustenance” explores self-sustainability: mentally, physically, and emotionally, within an unsustainable world. Set against the backdrop of overconsumption, late-stage capitalism, and ecological crisis, the work reflects on the struggle to find balance and happiness amid anxiety, overwhelm, and mental health challenges in a system not built for …
India Jamison
Degree Show 2025 India Jamison BA Art and Design This practice centre’s itself around the process of recycling natural material to extract colour, organic forms and patterns. By developing and using only natural dyes for both the fabric and thread, the work observes the ways that natural matter can be repurposed and reintroduced in new …
Jie Wang
Degree Show 2025 Jie Wang BA Art and Design Jie Wang is a Leeds-based artist whose practice explores themes of diaspora, memory, architecture and belonging. Rooted in her personal experience, her work reflects on the emotional landscape of displacement and the remnants of home. Working with a variety of materials, often textile, woodwork and paper, …
Samuel Tharby
Degree Show 2025 Samuel Tharby BA Art and Design My art and design project transformed a bedroom into a football-themed space, exploring nostalgia through collectibles. I created custom bedding, stickers, and posters, incorporating retro team logos and iconic imagery. The design evokes personal and cultural memories, blending childhood passion with creative expression in a uniquely …