Meet our Fine Art MA (Online) class of May 2025
08 May 2025
Credit: Kim Moreland
This May's cohort of Fine Art MA (Online) graduates have just completed their Final Major Projects, which we're delighted to share via the Sprig, Spire, Ember showcase. Using a diverse range of mediums, the showcase brings together the work of 15 artists from across the globe.
Meet the artists and their projects
Stacey Allen
'No one is an island' is a multi-layered project grounded in portraiture, materiality, and social exchange. Through a series of interconnected works developed in Bali, Indonesia, it investigates the evolving relationships between subject, artist, object, and cultural space.
Haleema Aziz
"My final major project, 'Vessel', explores themes of nature, memory, and transformation through the use of natural and donated materials, addressing ideas of decay, displacement, and collective history. This project marked a significant shift from my original proposal and challenged my practice through the exploration and risk taking of unfamiliar materials and forms."
Diana Capstick
"Treading the footprints of untold stories… where ghosts roam and ancestral murmurings linger… this project unfolds in the shadow of Framlingham Castle - a place of power and persecution. Its presence becomes more than a backdrop… it provokes."
Eleanor Cunningham
'Regeneration' is a site-responsive installation that emerged from engagement with the landscape surrounding Dunbar and the impact of Storm Arwen on the coastline. Drawing on personal memory and natural processes, the work unfolds across a series of large-scale paintings, textile panels and translucent structures, each layered with hand-drawn marks using ink, paint and natural pigments.
Genevieve Deits
This figurative collage painting series explores motherhood’s mental and physical burdens, capturing both the emotional weight and the unseen cognitive labour. Each piece portrays a mother holding her child while managing household tasks, set against collaged pages from the 1886 book Practical Housekeeping.
Denisa Dragounova
'Less Is More' is a project that critically examines the unsustainable cycle of over-consumption. Through digital collages, drawings and vase painting, the project explores the psychological effects of over-consumption on self-perception and identity formation.
Becca Edwards
‘Beyond the Sheets’ is a public-facing project combining a two-day collaborative workshop and a podcast. Held in a handmade paper mill, the workshop explored creative engagement with rag paper and pulp. The accompanying podcast captures reflections on collaboration, artistic research, material consciousness, craftsmanship and sustainability.
David Elliott
'A Time and Place' was inspired by an archive of family photos dating back to the 1800’s. David made documented visits to the North-eastern coast where his family originated, before returning to the studio to create works reflecting the nuanced, layered experiences, interweaving myth, memory and meaning.
Eibhlín Göppert
"This project explores how participatory art can foster a sense of belonging and shared identity among migrant communities by inviting young Ukrainian refugees to express their concept of home through collective art-making. In collaboration with ARCA: Romanian Forum for Refugees and Migrants, I led a series of creative workshops where participants reflected on personal definitions of ‘home’. "
Amanda Lakin
"The culmination of my Final Major Project is both an exhibition of artwork and a printed book realised in my hometown of Sheffield. The resultant body of work has been derived from auto theoretical, historical and socio-historical research."
Kim Moreland
"My Final Major Project, ‘Suzhou is Burning’, explores the representation and visibility of Suzhou’s drag community, documenting lived experiences in the context of increasing restrictions on LGBTQ+ visibility in China."
Nicky Ruddick
SORE is an arts-based research project exploring women’s experiences of gendered pain and medical gaslighting in the UK. It aims to challenge existing narratives around women’s pain and change the way women are treated when they seek medical help.
Louise Thompson
This project focuses on farming and land use. Farmers face challenges from government, environmental issues and big corporations such as the National Trust limiting the way they work – tensions are placed on livelihoods, and generational knowledge, heritage and legacies are ignored.
Olivia Wilson
This site-specific textile installation took place in the historic Cottesbrooke Church and was open to the public over a weekend. The work invited visitors into a meditative, spiral-shaped structure made up of large-scale eco-textile panels, each hand-dyed using natural pigments derived from UK-native dye plants.
Louise Ann Wright
This research project, conducted at the National Coal Mining Museum for England, was located at Caphouse Colliery on the western edge of the Yorkshire coalfield. It explores the environmental challenges posed by historical mining activities while emphasising sustainable solutions through interdisciplinary collaboration.
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