MONOCHROMATIC PAINTER

Ryman enjoys the drama of black and white tones. Occasionally work with colour too. Her work fluctuates between large canvases and smaller ink drawings.

Sharing with Gary Winterford

SCULPTOR

Anthropomorphism, fables, colour, re-using, deconstruction, assemblage, wood, recycled furniture, 2D reliefs, sculpture, installation.

BOOKBINDER

Book binding, restoration/conservation, gold-tooling and box-making.

PAINTER

Abstracted landscapes, narrative paintings, collages, portraits. North Essex, Yorkshire and Spain are points of reference.

Painter and Sculptor

2024/25 Graduate Awardee

Demelza Fanshawe is an Essex based process painter and sculptor. Influenced by previous career spanning 22 years in the British military.

PAINTER

Paintings inspired by both nature and mythologies, working in series, each of which are ongoing.

ARTIST + PAINTER

Painter, working in oil & acrylic paint on canvas, board and glass.

Sharing with Bram Winterford

INSTALLATION ARTIST

More often than not, it begins with a found object, like the texture of a thread or the memory of a porcelain figurine.

PAINTER

Black ink, black paint - Marks on Paper

MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTIST + EDUCATOR

Gunnarsdottir is a conceptual artist and ceramicist working within a feminist framework and is focussed on using sustainable resources.

SCULPTOR

Lazell works with mixed media and specialised in working with metal during her degree but is also interested in working with textiles and wood.

ARTIST + MAKER + EDUCATOR

Knowles is a maker and educator and long term tenant at Cuckoo Farm Studios. She combines her making with a career in education and is Dean of Performance Arts, University of the Arts London.

MULTIMEDIA ARTIST

Ceramic and kiln fused glass, sculptural forms, panels and hangings.

SCULPTOR + PHOTOGRAPHER

Carrington is a sculptor and photographer, and an elected Member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors.

SCULPTOR + 2D RELIEFS PAINTER

At present Hennessy’s practice is primarily focused on ceramic figurative sculpture.

CURATOR + CONCEPTUAL ARTIST

Theophilus’s work focuses on specific locations and their histories. She often uses materials collected from sites, with their impermanence an essential part of the work.

ARTIST + INDEPENDENT RESEARCHER

Temple-Cox’s work explores interstices: between science and religion, the normal and the pathological, the familiar and the uncanny.

PAINTER

Fine Artist and Workshop Facilitator with MA from University of Hertfordshire and CertEd from University of Greenwich working in multiple medias.

TEXTILES + MIXED MEDIA

Focusing on working with textiles and stitch as well as digital fabric print exploring the layering of materials to include a three-dimensional element.

MULTIMEDIA ARTISTS

Filmmaking, photography, videography, design.

ARTIST WOODTURNER

Creating unique works from locally sourced Essex & Suffolk wood.

CERAMICIST

Potter working in stoneware and porcelain. Nonfunctional hand-built sculptural pots. Studio in courtyard

ARTIST + DESIGNER + MAKER + EDUCATOR

Having run his own workshop over the last two decades Jones has been very much concerned with the concepts and reality of process, material and skill.

DRAWING + INSTALLATION ARTIST

Drawing and installation work using line to explore space through repetition, excess and duration.

PAINTER

Ruth’s paintings explore abstraction through colour and surface. They are often site specific, emerging from encounters with place and walking. Material and immaterial elements, both conscious and unconscious combine to reveal a sensory experience.

PAINTER

Landscape painter of the internal weather as well as the external. She uses mainly oils and soft pastels.

MULTIMEDIA ARTIST + PUBLIC REALM + EDUCATOR

Sabin’s work is informed by archaeological practices, and she uses a range of media to explore sites of interest, and what might be hidden there.

PAINTER + MULTIMEDIA ARTIST

My work is multi-layered and textured using a variety of media and techniques. It is often a response to the landscape of remembered and familiar places and is between abstract and figurative in style.

SOUND + INSTALLATION ARTIST

Stuart’s practice is rooted in places and communities that exist on the fringes, both geographically and socially, with a particular interest in the sonic landscape, capturing overlooked and overheard noises and using sound as a documentative and creative medium.

ARTIST + CARTOONIST + EDUCATOR

Tom contributes cartoons to Private Eye (under the initials T.E.A), teaches art classes, draws comic books and sometimes makes big artworks.