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Residents and Mentors

Meet the talented artists, designers, performers, and creators who make up the EMERGE community.

EMERGE residents are Bath Spa University graduates. RE-EMERGE offers creative residencies for the wider community. STEP-UP provides subsidised studio space for previous residents. MENTORS are experienced practitioners from the wider creative sectors. ALUMNI are former EMERGE residents who continue to be part of the community. SOMER STORE are selected designers and makers represented by Somer Store in Bath who support them with studio space to grow their business.

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Aidan Snow

Aidan Snow

Graphic Design and Artist

Mary Steadman

Mary Steadman

PerformanceEMERGE

Mary recently completed her practice-led PhD, examining the concepts of the Eerie and Hauntology in performance practice...

Bryony Taylor

Bryony Taylor

Bryony is a Somerset designer‑maker working from CAD to Kiln to create slip‑cast mugs for canal‑boat living. She collabo...

Designer, Maker, Gongoozler

Poppy Matthews

Poppy Matthews

Creative TechnologyEMERGE

Poppy is an interdisciplinary YouTube creator exploring ASMR as a tool for self-care and connection in the digital age. ...

Interdisciplinary YouTube creator

Louise Aubrey

Louise Aubrey

Louise works across a range of materials and processes, drawing on her background in product design to explore the space...

Megan Clarke

Megan Clarke

PerformanceEMERGE

Megan is a writer and director with a focus in turning the spotlight onto modern issues, through honest live theatre, sp...

Scarlett Mosnier

Scarlett Mosnier

Scarlett is currently exploring and re-igniting her studio practice as a fine-art maker - her focus for the past 15 year...

Merlin Goldman

Merlin Goldman

Creative TechnologyEMERGE

Merlin Goldman is a Bristol-based creator-maker working across writing, filmmaking and music. His practice centres on el...

Louise Penrice

Louise Penrice

Louise Penrice is a multi-media artist exploring the language of materials as a way of making sense of things. Through l...

Multi-media Artist

Thomas Baxter

Thomas Baxter

PerformanceEMERGE

Thomas is an Actor/Writer, actively looking for work in the industry. He has also developed his own work, through his co...

Actor and Writer

Callum Hill

Callum Hill

Creative TechnologyEMERGE

Callum is a graphic designer who focuses on typography and editorial design. His work involves designing with reason, in...

Stephen Spicer

Stephen Spicer

Stephen's work is based around machines, mortality and memories. He is fascinated by technology and our relationship to ...

Drawing and Painting

Sally Jones

Sally Jones

Working with light, colour, and energy, Sally explores the sensory and emotional responses of the human body. Her practi...

Lightwork and Film

Roisin Hegarty

Roisin Hegarty

Roisin Hegarty is a multimedia artist exploring the relationship between body, cloth and the world around us. She works ...

Multidisciplinary Artist

Nasim Yazdani

Nasim Yazdani

Nasim Yazdani is a globally inspired painter. Her artworks have been exhibited in France, Italy, Turkey, and the UK. Her...

Katie Pickersgill

Katie Pickersgill

Katie Pickersgill is a recent Fine Art graduate from Bath Spa University. As a Non-binary person, Katie uses their pract...

Paint and Clay-Based Processes

J Alexander

J Alexander

J's practice merges the real and surreal through magical realism and worldbuilding, inspired by biological and botanical...

Sculpture and Painting

Grace Duncan

Grace Duncan

Graces work explores how feelings, experience, self and identity manifest through art practice. Often using the making p...

Flo Breeze

Flo Breeze

Flo is a multidisciplinary creative with a degree in Commercial Music, blending her passion for songwriting and performa...

Multidisciplinary Creative

Ellie Applegate

Ellie Applegate

Creative TechnologyEMERGE

Ellie Applegate is a British photographer based in the south west of England. She embraces the act of play and performan...

David Janes

David Janes

David is an artist with a practise based in anti-carpentry and narratives, the unsatisfactory non-sequitur; the three le...

Anti-carpentry and Narratives

Ceri Shaw

Ceri Shaw

Ceri is a landscape artist specialising in slip cast fine bone china. Central to her practice is an ongoing investigatio...

Landscape Artist

Benedict Robinson

Benedict Robinson

Benedict Robinson is an painter who currently has a placement at Emerge at Bath Spa. He is about to enter his second yea...

Bella Knight

Bella Knight

Multidisciplinary artist Bella Knight explores the importance of presence and how we are interconnected to our environme...

Multidisciplinary Artist

Alice Quarterman

Alice Quarterman

Alice Quarterman is a multimedia artist and support worker, working on personal projects and social engagement. Quarterm...

Alice Edwards

Alice Edwards

Alice Edwards is a current resident at Emerge Bath who specialises in printmaking which explores the natural world....

Alfie Maltby

Alfie Maltby

Driven graphic designer devising logical yet creative solutions to briefs, with an ability to visualise my ideas through...

Alex Shaw

Alex Shaw

Alex is a multimedia artist whose art explores themes of science fiction and escapism. Specialising in ceramics, his mai...

Adam Crawford

Adam Crawford

Creative TechnologyEMERGE

Adam Crawford is a producer, curator, and founder of several brands, specialising in UK sound-system music and creative ...

Ash Manganaro

Ash Manganaro

PerformanceEMERGE

Manganaro writes around themes of identity, bilingual experience, and everyday nuances (continuing to scorn the seagull ...

Writer, performer and zine enthusiast

Summer Lees

Summer is a multimedia artist based in Bath and Cornwall. Her work revolves around the ideas and workings of science, ps...

Sujata Bharti

Sujata Bharti

Sujata Bharti is a fine artist whose practice explores themes of visibility, invisibility, and identity, particularly co...

Sanika Divekar

Sanika Divekar

Sanika Divekar is a contemporary ceramicist based in Bath, UK, whose work delves into the relationship between humanity ...

Handbuilding, throwing, sketching, painting

Claire Gutsell

Claire Gutsell

Claire’s work encourages reflection on the fragile environmental balances we disrupt through our everyday actions. Using...

Ceramacist working with porcelain and unusable materials

Ben Walmsley

Ben Walmsley

Ben Walmsley is a documentary landscape photographer based in the South West of England. He focuses on environments that...

Natalie Bedford

Natalie Bedford

Natalie is a dynamic visual artist who blends diverse media and concepts to push the boundaries of traditional painting....

Life drawing and portraiture

Femke Henzen

Femke Henzen is a multidisciplinary artist and director focused on short films and community-building. Through props and...

Short film director and photographer

Lola Bennett

Lola Bennett

Lola Bennett is a 2023 Bath Spa University graduate with a First Class degree in Creative Arts Practice. She is also the...

Hand building, quilting & needlepoint

Lily Serendipity

Lily Serendipity

Lily Serendipity is a multidisciplinary artist working across the South West of England. From paint and textiles to scul...

Tom Mence

Tom Mence

Tom is a painter and practice-led researcher. He has a PhD from Bath Spa University which explores how a critical (schol...

Painting and Picture Making

Poppy Maby

Poppy Maby

Poppy Maby is an oil painter exploring themes of found objects, time and nature to create playful narratives. Her painti...

Painting, Illustration

Erin Alibocus

Erin Alibocus

Erin Alibocus is a multimedia artist with a Bachelors Degree in Fine Art. Alibocus continues to follow themes of subtle ...

Kristina Isabelle Grace Hughes

Kristina Isabelle Grace Hughes

Kristina Hughes is a South West-based UK 3D mixed-media artist, who studied a BA in Creative Arts Practice at Bath Spa U...

Sculpture-Making, Mould-Making, Slip-Casting,

Ross Corbett

Ross Corbett

PerformanceEMERGE

Ross is a theatre maker based in Bath, and a current resident at EMERGE. He has a focus around comedy and clowning, and ...

Acting, devising, improvisation, comedy

Charlotte Piper

Charlotte Piper

Creative TechnologyEMERGE

Charlotte Piper is a digital artist with a BA Honours in Creative Arts Practice. She navigates the intersection of creat...

Visual Storytelling, Generative Design, Adaptable Thinking

Chloe Savage

Chloe Savage

Chloe Savage is an award-winning professional hand embroiderer trained at the Ecole Lesage in Paris and the Royal School...

Hand Embroidery