YORK ST JOHN | ART
2023 Archive
BA Fine Art
Grace Blewitt
Fine Art
Grace Blewitt is a multimedia artist who examines the line separating the beautiful and the unsettling through the lens of animation industry conventions. The artists peculiar creations provide a glimpse into the fiction landscape she is forming with the aim of slowly chipping away at the boarder that separates the real, tangible world with the unconscious world with each artwork she makes.
Mia Davies
Fine Art
Mia Davies is a Fine Art practitioner whose work addresses our relationship to the world that surrounds us. She tends to approach her work from a space of juvenility, using paint and ink to create expressive pieces which encourage the audience to enter the work and find comfort in the familiar.
Immy Farnfield
Fine Art
Immy Farnfield is a painter working primarily with oil on canvas, focusing on the uniqueness and beauty of the female form. Their work allows them to explore the intricacies of the flesh and the curves of the body while creating a dialogue around the perception of women’s bodies in society.
Sam Gargett
Fine Art
Sam Gargett is an installation based artist whose work focusses on exploring ideas of personal memory and the connection that memories have to places. Using photographs of woodlands and candid writings of thoughts, he uses a variety of mediums such as cyanotype and lino prints to realise these themes.
Gabrielle Green
Fine Art
Gabrielle Green is a mixed media artist who creates abstract paintings focused around her iterative process. She immerses herself within the works, using bright colours reflecting the energy and emotion in her pieces. Her work allows viewers to assign their own meaning based on the context in which they view it.
Jodie Hammond
Fine Art
Jodie Hammond is a fine artist who specialises in sculpture and installation, specifically with the theme of gore art and disturbing imagery, recently she has explored this theme with the use of fake skin and liquid latex to achieve realistic skin texture to create disturbing and gory installations/sculptures.
Phoebe Harris Moore
Fine Art
Phoebe Harris Moore is an artist specialising in large scale abstract painting. Through her process led practice, Moore uses creative application techniques to create complexed and busy pieces, bold in both colour and expression. Her works emphasise layering, impulsivity, space and time, including experimental exhibition styles to display work in a fresh, exciting manner.
Lily Horton
Fine Art
Lily Horton is a performance and installation artist whose process-led practice questions the complex layered nature of event theory through exploring the realness of imagined events. Horton writes imagined events directly from the mind into cloaked spaces to transverse the overlap between imagined realities and the communally existing “real” reality.
Kate Jax
Fine Art
Kate Jackson focuses on a multi-discipline practice through the combination of sculpture, drawing and installation. Currently, she is progressing her sculptural investigations through the use of mechanical engineering, creating kinetic pieces that interact with their environment and each other independently. Her pieces surround this collision of sculpture and drawing, generating autonomous drawings and questioning the ideals of what art can be.
Matilda Jackson
Fine Art
Matilda Jackson is a multidisciplinary artist who focuses of exploring a variety of themes such as politics, folklore and the self. Their preferred mediums include painting, lino printing, mark making and installation based art. Colour plays an integral role in their work with them using mainly exclusively warm toned colours.
April Robin
Fine Art
April Robin is a mixed media sculpture artist exploring ideas of play and childlike imagination, though materials such as plasticine, pompoms, glitter and more. They make work to involve the viewer within the work itself, their work is made to be interacted with and touched. They use the way in which they see the world to inspire the work they create.
Hannah Lukins
Fine Art
Hannah Lukins is a Painter and Print artist who predominantly works through conceptual ideas. Here, the concept is captured through the use of monochromatic lino-prints. She explores the theme of the characterisation of the seven deadly sins, as well as, retribution and the romanticisation of dark themes.
Faith Malton
Fine Art
Faith Malton is a painter based in East Yorkshire. She is renowned for her monotone oil painings inspired by film noir and French cinema, exploring the stereotypes, themes and aesthetics they have created. Malton is currently focusing on the representation and psychology of woman in noir films, creating tonal portraits which include the depiction of the fatale gaze of the femme fatale.
Shauna Elizabeth Morland
Fine Art
Shauna Elizabeth Morland is a fine artist that explores subjects and concepts close to her, with a multi/mixed media approach. She mostly uses digital art/collage, installation and sculpture to create discussions she feels is important, such as issues around body image and observations on impact of climate change.
Faith Noblet
Fine Art
Noblet’s analogue exploration interrogates the constitutional ideas of photography and its imitation of truth. Deconstructing and transforming film accelerates the interminable process of ambiguity, presenting the challenge of deciphering its inconspicuousness. A sense of place deteriorates through a distorted lens, fabricating a haze of mundane familiarity and founding the spectre of obscurity.
Molly Owen
Fine Art
Molly Owen is a welsh textile artist who uses the punch-needle rugmaking technique. Their artwork focuses on calm and safety within the senses of touch and sight. Molly takes inspiration from the nature she was surrounded by in Wales, their work emulates imagined landscapes from childhood memory.
Isobel Pitts
Fine Art
Concerned with the bounds of the human senses, Isobel Pitts investigates the properties of physical objects and the human reactions which arise from them. The artist manipulates mundane, every day, household materials in order to cause a confrontation which forces us to face our misunderstanding and ignorance within the world.
Judith Porter
Fine Art
Judith Porter is a Creative Practitioner based in Yorkshire working across a broad spectrum of media. Her practice embraces sculpture, painting, and printing. Porter challenges ideas of scale and form in a multiplicity of guises. Working organically taking inspiration from the natural world particularly Brimham Moor where natural rock formations exist and which hold happy memories for her and her family.
Ally Pulleyn
Fine Art
Ally Pulleyn is a photographer and sculpture utilising emotive narratives. AUTOIMMUNE is a personal vehicle of expression. Nationally recognised as a ‘One to Watch!’ 2022 Yorkshire emerging artist. Internationally, Pulleyn has recently been included in a book listing 101 contemporary artists from across the world making waves in the art world.
Ella Scriven
Fine Art
Ella Scriven is a Yorkshire-based fine artist, working with a multi-disciplinary practice. Her work deals with flesh and the body rooted in a response to the nature of female upbringing. Her practice is process-led, with each work informing the next, becoming a continuous process and development.
Vanshika Sonigra
Fine Art
Vanshika Sonigra is a fine artist studying in York St. John university. Being an international student from Mumbai, India, she has a global outlook towards art. She creates concepts with designs and executes it with the knowledge of Indian artisan work mixed with the western outlook. Her practice is very heavily cultural based and the audience can learn something new about her Indian culture
Bronte Teal
Fine Art
Bronte Teal’s practice underpins her concept about the skin condition Psoriasis through her use of large-scale screen prints onto muslin. She uses a consistent process where she focuses on forming patterns from edited photographs of the physical skin condition. The installations negotiate and transform the spaces where they are situated.
Emma Yeoman
Fine Art
Emma Yeoman is a fine artist using her local North Yorkshire moors and coastline for inspiration. Her sculptures and paintings create a delicate display of flora. These are made from carefully manipulated wire which define the subject’s outer edge and finer wire highlighting key features of the subject.