YORK ST JOHN | ART
2022 Archive
BA Photography
Elishia Abblett
Photography
Elishia Abblett is a photographer based in east Yorkshire. Elishia’s Creative practise is situated in nature photography & documentary photography, highlighting the natural beauty of the world around us. Her images focus on showing people how we need to slow down our lifes and take note of the world around us and its hidden beauty spots that people would usually not take much notice of.
Bethany Brown
Photography
Bethany Brown is a photographer practicing a range of genres but most commonly portrait, landscape and documentary style photography.
For her final project, she decided to focus her camera on where she feels like she personally belongs and reflect what means most to her in her surroundings which she would describe as her home.
Holly Burton
Photography
Holly Burton is a creative portrait and landscape photographer working between an art and commercial practice, inspired by audio, visual media, and literature. Through bookmaking, Holly creates a more accessible and interactive way of experiencing her work. Visibilis explores the boundaries of human perspective through light spectrums beyond the visible.
Lydia Carr
Photography
As a documentary and street photographer, Lydia Carr work explores juxtaposition and comparing and contrasting two subjects such as, concepts, people, or place, to emphasize a relationship of similarities and differences between these subjects that may not have recognised previously.
Ruth Cleverdon
Photography
Ruth Cleverdon is a mixed media, fine art photographer. Their current project, Fabrication depicts the photographer’s experience with Epilepsy as a young child which resulted in extensive memory loss.
Inspirations of Cleverdon’s work include the embroidery technique, Sashiko which focuses on repairing and embellishing broken fabric
Megan Colls
Photography
Megan Colls is a conceptual photographer who produces mainly studio based work. Her work explores themes from her own personal experience such as grief and explores landscapes of places that she feels are important. She produces her work so that her audience can feel represented in ways she could never find growing up.
Emily-Rose Davidson
Photography
Emily-Rose Davidson is a photographer who uses photography to capture the urbanity in different locations. Focusing on the architecture and nature of life. Documenting the areas of tranquillity and loneliness in big cities. Davidson uses photography to help her own well-being and projecting her own emotions through her images.
Ellie Dixon
Photography
Ellie Dixon is a digital artist whose main focus is photography. Their subject of choice is typically bodyscapes. By experimenting with depersonalising the model, Dixon can allow the audience to apply themselves to the work. Through their ‘punky’ monochrome aesthetic, Dixon is able to use contemporary performance art to depict narratives relating to feminist movements, mental health awareness and various other political agendas.
Meg Gadd
Photography
Meg Gadd is a self-portrait photographer based in York. Meg’s current work shows the beauty and quiet she finds when surrounded by nature as well as including her love of vintage-style fashion. and themes of romanticism. The main focus of these works are nature, fairytales, Pre-Raphaelite art and the theme of romanticism.
Kekezza Gibson
Photography
Kekezza Gibson is a photographer who likes to explore more than one subject areas of photography in her projects. In her current photographic project, she is combining portraits with still life to explore the sitter and their attachment to material things that remind them of important milestones of their life. In the past she has also combined her photographic images with videos and noise across different projects.
Caitlin Harvey
Photography
Caitlin Harvey is a North Yorkshire based photographer who loves to document the world around them, photographing a range of their interests. Currently their practise is focused on the exploration of blurring the lines between fiction and reality, enjoying the process of painting with lights to create a life beyond what we see every day.
Brooke Higton-Shirt
Photography
Brooke’s practice starts with photography. Brooke generates ideas through giving herself restrictions, rules, and specific concepts to further her creative process. Female artists are mostly the main source of inspiration for her work as she likes to explore and understand the female viewpoint of the world. She likes to view every piece of work she does as an experiment. She likes to lose control slightly and really explore the creative side to her work.
Katie Lavinia
Photography
Katie Lavinia has an eclectic approach to photography, using the medium to explore what the world offers. Katie’s current practice uses a more performative approach to analyse the female gaze of men. Her processes offer a platform for expression and understanding, something she deems essential for personal and societal growth
Diane Holt
Photography
Diane is an environmental photographer whose current practise uses analogue and experimental processes to explore coastal erosion in Yorkshire.
Utilising the concept that landscapes are documented in their destruction by erosion, Diane has explored photographically documenting the erasure of images through processing techniques as a metaphor for environmental impact.
Alice Kemp
Photography
Alice Kemp is a Photography (BA) graduate exploring several techniques including; portraits, still life, product and event photography on location and within studio environments. Alice grew up in Whitby. She encapsulates the minimalist and naturalised aesthetics of the countryside and seaside aspects of her hometown throughout projects and photographs. Her medium is mainly Canon DSLR, 35mm film and Polaroid.
Aisling Longbottom
Photography
Aisling Longbottom is an experimental photographer who has been exploring the translation of photographic imagery into printmaking for her latest project. Ash’s project focuses on colour, human form, and natural beauty to bring forward themes explored in the feminist novel The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Caitlin Pearson
Photography
Caitlin’s practice has a community-based focus which stems from her interest in becoming a primary school teacher. Her work focuses on giving people a voice and empowering them through photography. She is teaching people a new skill so they can utilise it to tell the world about themselves.
Kelly Pickering
Photography
Kelly Pickering is a photographer based in North-East England. Pickering’s practice is based on identity and its expression, this is explored through cultural and biological colour and how they can be used to express ourselves. She explores the lesbian orientation, and the relationship colour has with the queer community.
Chloe Reeve
Photography
Chloe Reeve is a Photographer based in East Yorkshire. Chloe’s Creative Practice is situated in street & documentary photography, the ability to show her everyday life through her photographs. Her images are focused on her life but in a subtle manner and rarely ever contain images of herself in her series.
Stephenson, Lucy
Photography
Lucy Stephenson is an upcoming photographer who explores a wide scope of photography genre, ranging from Landscapes, to Product, to Portraiture. Her photographical aspirations for the future aim to explore further into the world of content creation and creative marketing, with aspirations to set up her own business in this sector.
Charlie Stubbs
Photography
Charlie Stubbs is an abstract photographer, capturing the hidden details often left ignored and underappreciated. Initially starting with street photography, she shot in various locations around her local area, though as time progressed her project ignited a desire to photograph the areas of her house that she often overlooked, photographing them in a new, more desirable and intriguing light. She often spent a lot of time in one set location, trying to find the hidden gems of details and colours, making us re-evaluate the world around us, bringing excitement to the mundane.
Olivia Walsh
Photography
Olivia Walsh has interest in photography that lies within landscape photography, mainly focusing on cityscapes and natural landscapes. She prefers to work digitally, photographing the contrasting elements of man-made buildings and the natural environment. The inspiration behind Olivia’s work comes from her surroundings as she learns by capturing subjects in the moment and developing new ideas from these photographs.