Year: 2018
Sammi Pearce

Sammi Pearce

I believe that the objects we own should, and can, provide us with more than their function and pure visual pleasure. Through ownership and use, objects should provide a level of emotional fulfilment and enrichment of daily life. This notion is something often...

SALLY DALEY

SALLY DALEY

Embracing my newly-found joy in fusing glass into beautiful and useful items, and exploring the aesthetic of representing everyday objects in alternative media, I wanted to find an outlet for it which would pander to another love in my life, food, and more...

Amy Perry

Amy Perry

I believe there is more to this life than meets the limited perception of our senses. I believe our understanding of the world via our material bodies poses as a barrier to the spiritual realm we inhabit on a daily basis. There is such an air of mystery around what...

Jamie Scallan

Jamie Scallan

I am a fabric artist who creates collections of home accessories using wool and resin inspired by the colour and pattern of organic life. It’s my aim to display a body of work that captures organic life deteriorating through the use of tactile materials. I believe...

Tomasz Lipinski

Tomasz Lipinski

I had always been fascinated by natural/random fluid patterns, and marbling allowed me to experiment and make my own patterns, as well as allowing me to develop my knowledge of colour. With this technique I am able to apply colourful almost psychedelic patterns onto...

Georgie Ferrar

Georgie Ferrar

I believe that it is important for designers to have a strong knowledge of their materials and processes for successful design. I design with the intent of broadening my skill and knowledge through intricately challenging pieces that embody a traditional eastern...

Annette Lindenberg

Annette Lindenberg

I believe that we can investigate culture, the environment, our impact on it and our own subconscious through design and making. It therefore follows that the objects we create not only embody our ideals and tastes, but provide insight into what we desire and why....

Eleri Normington

Eleri Normington

Many people think of plastic as utilitarian, used to package food, and other products then thrown away. How could it be used for art? It has been my goal to explore the applications of different types of plastics in an artistic context, particularly in lighting....

Clio Anastasiou

Clio Anastasiou

What drives my work is the celebration of nature, working with wood in innovative ways enables me to preserve that nature in time, compelling the viewer to question the very materiality of nature itself. I strive to promote a different way of seeing a material that...

Eve Diveney-Clegg

Eve Diveney-Clegg

Art is a tool through which we, as human beings, can engage better with our sensorial capacity, thus bringing us not only closer to ourselves, but also to the world we inhabit. Developing a better ear for the chattering dialogues which exist beyond the human...

Hannah Way

Hannah Way

My ethos centres around humour, play and satire, with the aim of capturing the spontaneity and sincerity of humanity and society. I believe that ceramic artefacts can represent the often unnoticed social and cultural expression of the everyday. I also believe that...

Sarah Jarvis

Sarah Jarvis

My ceramic vessels are active objects in the sense that a range of them were designed to rock and move in response to their environment. Interaction through movement changes the traditional dynamics of an active man and passive women, as only the female forms are free...

Jack Rhys Powell

Jack Rhys Powell

I’m a Welsh artist who joined the Maker team last year after changing direction from textiles, as I always wondered, how do things work and how are they are made. Working primarily in glass I have developed skills in glass moulding, using this process to create pieces...

Hannah Lewis

Hannah Lewis

Using materials for a purpose they weren’t intended for is an element of design I find fascinating, this involves taking a material and seeing how far I can push its properties within products. I am also interested in space saving and collapsible objects, as with...

Judith Pritchard

Judith Pritchard

Using various processes from printmaking, slip casting and working in bronze my composition is a visual poem mixing art with story telling. I find allegories in my work everywhere through looking at the world around me, and listening to voices, I connect the past with...

Bert Jones

Bert Jones

I believe that Making is one of societies’ last remaining connections to the more than human world; the wilderness of animals, vegetables and minerals. In Making we learn to go with materials, and in time begin to learn their immanent and gestural languages, affording...

Holly Dawes

Holly Dawes

I strive to make work that speaks of fleeting moments of time, and explores the relationship between human existence and the environment. I make to express the frictions between movement and stillness, and the beauty of the naturally formed, the organic and imperfect....

Zoe Connelly

Zoe Connelly

As a Maker, I combine what I see as old and new craft. The driving principle of my work is the use of traditional materials informed by contemporary processes to enhance our understanding of materiality. I explore materials such as bronze and ceramic to achieve...

Freja Myfanwy George

Freja Myfanwy George

As a maker, it is my belief that objects should invite people to touch them, to play with them, to engage and experiment. I enjoy creating interactive, kinetic pieces of tableware, where form is important for pleasure of touch and to produce enjoyable silhouettes....

Gema Skillicorn

Gema Skillicorn

My work is a combination of hand sculpting and press moulding, as well as contrasting elements of three dimensional form in ceramic and ornamental illustration in liner pens. My installation consists of large birds of prey wall mounted watching a gathering of smaller...

Giulia Patricolo

Giulia Patricolo

My artwork mixes common images found in mass media and popular culture such as celebrities, models and politicians and mixes it with a sense of humour. It is making fun of different aspects of life and placing it in fake frames in order to be placed within context in...

Lily Jennings

Lily Jennings

Last summer I won a bursary from the university to spend some time in the Icelandic landscape to further my practice. The resulting work is a body of paintings exploring abstraction through colour relationships, using colours inspired by the various landscapes I...

Sophie Churcher

Sophie Churcher

The work I create started with using still life photography to re-create my own landscape photography, I did this by reflecting light through different transparent and opaque objects to create my own artificial landscapes, formed by the shapes, colours and textures...

Angela Magee

Angela Magee

I work primarily through the mediums of moving pictures, sound and installation, and combine all three where possible. I’m interested in the stories of people’s lives, and the shifting subjectivity of memory. When I create art it is never to try and reproduce...

Lucy Allen

Lucy Allen

Ideal western modern living habitats are strong, secure and most importantly, sealed off from any intruding outside elements. A home with drafts, dirt or leaking rain water, is a rundown one, to be sold at a low price. Striving far to avoid contact with inconvenient...

Leanne Katchi

Leanne Katchi

Embroidery and stitch have a long-standing presence in feminist history. Sewing has traditionally been classed as ‘women’s work’, and is an example of the laborious and creative work that usually went unnoticed. I take pleasure in stitching narratives to create my...

Aron Samuel-Thomas

Aron Samuel-Thomas

My most recent work focuses on memory and its resonance with childhood mythologies and folklore. I am particularly interested in the utopian, idealistic idea of a Western childhood and especially in my own personal experiences. The colours I have used aim to be...

Bethan Davies

Bethan Davies

Inspired by a trip to India, where the day-to-day manufacture of items by hand is still a commonplace skill, I realised how little we rely on our hands and handed down practical skill in our contemporary culture. We live in a society of convenience and as a result we...

Lauren Marie Sheldrick

Lauren Marie Sheldrick

Sad Drunk Girl is a celebration of the failures of womanhood. By looking at my own excessive consumption and the negative connotations that comes with it, my work strives to comment on the gender stereotypes that comes with being a ‘girl’. “Women who consume...

Amy Powell

Amy Powell

My painting, Still Life, references a collage of manipulated images from a vast number of printed sources to highlight the artificiality in digital media and its relationship to the status created in painting. The compositions in each section are very present, but...

Luke Roberts

Luke Roberts

The human condition is defined as: ‘the characteristics, key events, and situations which compose the essentials of human existence’. Within my practice I aim to explore the human condition through the depiction of both the inner emotional ego and the outer physical...

Rebekah Peace

Rebekah Peace

Knitting is my hobby. It is also a hobby often viewed by the population at large in a kind of negative light due to it’s domestic connotations and the idea that it is merely a futile and thankless pastime for elderly women. I myself have been the butt of many a joke...

Lianne Morgan

Lianne Morgan

The universal source of communication is through frequency, not language. When you remove the language and a learnt pattern of communication you are left with a range of frequencies. Frequencies are constantly being emitted through our brainwaves, our cellular...

Daisy-Kate Lowes

Daisy-Kate Lowes

My artwork is based on the relationship between children and art. I have investigated the benefits of the arts to children’s cognitive development and education throughout my dissertation and artwork. I also researched the benefits of art therapy for children and...

Darcie Jade Hammett

Darcie Jade Hammett

My art work is based around science and space, it explores the developing changes in the universe and is influenced by different theories, facts and ways of thinking. Through my investigation of space I have explored different paths of thought. My main interest is...

Rachel Barton

Rachel Barton

My current work is driven by a desire to understand what ‘home’ is to me. Where is it? What is it? Who is it? An exploration of various places, a physical home, objects that spark memories of home and photographs convey the journey I have undertaken this year....

Alice Henderson

Alice Henderson

My practice aims to investigate myself, both as an individual and an artist. This is done through an in depth, uncensored analysis of my thoughts and perception of the world, through photography, writing and drawing. I intend to psychologically contextualize the work...

Alannah Harton

Alannah Harton

My current work is a continuation from my dissertation, investigating the idea of post anthropomorphism through causality and human agency, enforcing the thought that art exists beyond the human and our anthropomorphic translations of nature. By looking at natural...

Cerys Matthews

Cerys Matthews

My current practice looks at portraiture, exploring what is required, in terms of facial features, for pieces of work to be deemed a portrait. By classing each feature of the face as a single section; such as eyes, nose, mouth and hairline. Drawing each of these...

Bethan Morgan

Bethan Morgan

My body of work is Abstract within photography. My aim is to create photographs that show the abstract method, by creating an elution with digital technology. The reason why I have created a body of work like this is because, I want to show movement within my images...

Sarah Louise Davies

Sarah Louise Davies

My practice is an exploration of the way I visually perceive the coastline. I investigate how I interpret the world, the moments remembered, overlooked and the way I interpret colours and textures. Visual perception is the way in which a person understands the world...

Georgina Louise Beckett

Georgina Louise Beckett

My work has been created using both sourced and self-made videos. Through editing, I have found a love for the look of CRT monitor style videos, combined with bright colours that really draw in the viewer. Video is very stimulating as it allows me to show clips that...

Keira Louise Pain

Keira Louise Pain

As a printmaker my work focuses on the relationship between the botanical world and art. My work focuses on the attention to detail by looking closely at patterns, textures and colour that are found within nature in flowers and plants. My inspiration for my print...

Gwenllian Llwyd

Gwenllian Llwyd

In 1982 my Mum gave birth to a little boy called Owain Rhun Llwyd. At 4 months old, he was diagnosed with serious brain damage. He died just before turning 4 years old. During his short life, women from the local Welsh speaking community in Talgarreg decided to...

Harry waring

Harry waring

by using both installation and abstract performance I intended to look at the relation between the space and the performer, all the while looking at personal and political issues and the historical impact of performance in relation to political ideals. With personal...

Jon Wall

Jon Wall

Provisionality is the emblematic way of how I understand the world, life’s uncertainties and my ever changing surroundings. I use a method of representation and erasure to create a visual tension between abstraction and representation, figure and landscape and depth...

Grace Cupper

Grace Cupper

My current practice explores the need to express emotions and reflect on experience through an artistic practice, utilising language, drawing and painting to push the boundaries of stereotypical self-portraiture. Self-reflection, obsession and insecurity are conveyed...

Francesca Clare Wilcox

Francesca Clare Wilcox

The Sublime is formless; it has no shape and cannot be depicted because it is an emotion. In order to experience the Sublime we must remove all distractions from our surroundings and submerge ourselves into the space in which we can be elevated to this emotion....

Jenny Brookes

Jenny Brookes

Throughout my artistic practice I have used photography to get a greater understanding of peoples insecurities about their bodies. In my photographs I have been focussing on singular body parts that people have told me they are most self conscious of. To get a deeper...

Crisiant Williams

Crisiant Williams

I am endeavouring to explore the space between extremes - the ambiguous middle ground between contrasting elements, but not their extreme versions. I am not interested in a singular, central ideal, instead, I consider a series of sliding scales, somewhere along which...