Meet our MA Fine Art Online class of May 2026
08 May 2026
This May's cohort of MA Fine Art (Online) graduates have just completed their Final Major Projects, which we're delighted to share via the coalescence showcase. Using a diverse range of mediums, the showcase brings together the work of 10 artists who have recently produced ambitious public events and exhibitions across the UK, in The Netherlands and online.
They are collaborative, materially and conceptually experimental, and grounded in specific local contexts whilst alive to global connection.
Meet the artists and their projects
Paul Browne
Paul Browne is a British artist exploring memory, time and domesticity, using ordinary objects, creative writing, autotheory, intervention, film and vernacular photography. The two projects explored for the Final Major Project were Every Door I’ve Lived Behind Closing: The Final Door, and the final 6 months of yearlong undertaking, These Things Have Been Trained to Dry Themselves.
Myra Eskes
Myra Eskes’ work begins with a clear visual in her mind’s eye — an image that arrives fully formed yet remains open to transformation through the process of making. Through sculpture, installation and collage she translates these inner visions into tangible form. Letting Go is an ecologically focused, research-driven art project investigating humanity’s entangled relationship with material culture, emotion and the environment.
A.A. Jones
A.A. Jones is a multi-media artist with a painterly thought process, currently working with installation, film and material processes to explore care, rest and embodied experience. Impression is a garden installation developed through a material-led process of pressing, incorporating film, clay, textiles and participatory elements. Situated in a communal space, it responds to conditions of contemporary life that place pressure on attention and wellbeing.
Bec Judge
Bec Judge works with drawing, photography and film to explore accounts of perception and ideas of traces left in the landscape, considering hauntology, the ways the past haunts the present and how that impact is felt. Shared Ground- Cycles of Passage in Our Rural Landscape was a site responsive project that looked at how the practice of expanded drawing can explore notions of the eerie in the landscape.
Patrick McNicholl
Patrick McNicholl's artistic practice explores the connective tissue between art and grassroots activism, enquiring as to how creativity drives resistance and vice versa, and the different forms in which they emerge from within social or environmental struggles. yield / bloom is a multi-format multimedia installation, comprising installation, paintings and film as part of a work of social practice that interrogates the ongoing ecocide at Lough Neagh.
Oma Okolo
Oma Okolo aims to make their studio a dynamic space in which they are spontaneous and inquisitive about material exploration. With their creative practice being rooted in the exploration of texture, pattern and a diverse range of materials, the interplay between different media transforms their ‘making process’. This allows each project to evolve organically as the materials themselves guide the development and final form of each piece.
Lindsay Servian
Lindsay Servian's practice uses sculpture, assemblage and text, in collaboration with contextually appropriate partners and settings, to open dialogue around questions of public good. Beneath Sweetness investigates how contemporary art can contribute to dialogue on sugar as a pressing socio-economic issue, including obesity as well as oral health, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
John Simnett
John Simnett's work is about what it feels like to be ill, and how people live with that experience day to day. Using their own medical scans as a starting point, they are turned into oil paintings that reflect confusion, discomfort, uncertainty and moments of calm. The paintings are not meant to explain illness, but to show how it can be felt from the inside.
Inga Tillere
Inga Tillere’s practice explores perception, temporality and ways of seeing through experimental, alternative and historical photographic processes, alongside moving image, text and performance. Her work engages with materiality, light and the passage of time as agents of transformation, often challenging conventional notions of representation and reality.
Sarah Watson
Sarah Watson primarily rejects figurative narratives, relying instead on more abstract, phenomenological methods of expressive mark-making through painting and drawing to tell her story. Her practice has expanded to encompass sound, film and sculptural installation to push these narratives further, where the evidential process of making is integral to the dialogue with the audience.
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