YORK ST JOHN | ART
2023 Archive
BA Photography
Alex Warner
Photography
Alex Warner is a documentary photographer who explores importance of place and the world around us through walking. The generative act of psychogeography highly influences the photographers practice in his exploration of the landscape. Empirically capturing the everyday object creates a personal connection to the landscape that didn’t occur before.
Amelia Wright
Photography
Amelia Wright Shares her perspective on the modern world through fine art, photography and 3D modelling. Amelia views her practice as one that is multi-disciplinary, not limiting herself to one genre, which allows her to create work that is unique and gives a refreshing perspective on the current state of our planet. Discussing themes of futurism and post modernism, Life is represented to us as what It could be in the future through the human prescence.
Eleanor Chew
Photography
Eleanor Chew is a photographer based in the Ribble Valley who specialises in portraiture and landscapes as farming and life experiences have been two prominent topics within her work. Her work aims to educate and create an impact, due to family history with cancer which features heavily in her recent project work, her work is research led as she prefers to know her subject matter before the work is produced.
Her work is inspired by artists such as Sophie Gerrard, Amy Bateman and Lorna Yabsley as they cover similar topics and ideas in their practices. Her work is a mix of indoor studio work and Outdoor shoots, and she can adapt to both. She has also been a Photographer multiple times for a large organisation ‘Northern Power Women’, having her work published on their social media pages and even being nominated for an award herself.
Eloise McQuire
Photography
Eloise McQuire is a photographer whose practice focuses on people and understanding how our bodies and experiences connect us to the world we live in. Yesterday and Tomorrow draws from her own experiences of growing up as a woman and being supported by the women around her.
Emily Coxon
Photography
Emily Coxon is an artist exploring themes including body confidence, female experience, and LGBTQ+ relationships. She is photographically based, however working on developing a multidisciplinary practice. She intends to continue celebrating the female form, and collaborate with those included in her themes, as with her exhibited project ‘Are We Objects?’.
Hannah Wigglesworth
Photography
Born and raised in the rural countryside, Hannah is a photographer and creator whose passion lies with the great outdoors. With a particular interest in the relationships between people and the Earth, she explores people and place through the employment of self-portraiture work to examine her own relationship with the world while reflecting the quiet nostalgia of nature.
Isabella Graves
Photography
Isabella Graves is a photographer who specializes in experimental, digital, and analogue photography. Mental health is a topic which is ‘close to home’ due to their own diagnosis and through their work hopes to represent the form of health condition in a safe manner by looking at similarities through nature.
Leon Cook
Photography
Leon Cook is a photographer who predominately photographs landscapes. However, his most recent photographs have focused on the concept of people isolated from the world around them. Leon gets inspiration for his practice from his travels around the UK and the World connecting his practice to his own experiences of new places.
Liberty Hughes
Photography
Liberty Hughes is a portrait and documentary photographer from the West Midlands. The photographs take you on a journey and tells you a story through capturing societal matters and personal experiences. Her creations of double exposures will allow you to think beyond the frame, where you can disconnect yourself from reality.
Sami Wade
Photography
Sami Wade is a conceptual photographer who loves to work with different materials and processes that transform the photograph’s meaning overall. Their project façade explores the power of makeup through the usage of materials and lighting techniques that draws focus to the transformation it creates on the models and their faces.
Sara Floris
Photography
Sara Floris is a photographer with a base in fine art that believes art can make the world a better place. Her practice is socially and environmentally concerned. Her latest series, ‘Feel the Planet’, talks about the connection between humans and the environmental crisis through her directorial and conceptual photography.