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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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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 ...

Alex Charles

Alex Charles

Alexander Charles is a multi-disciplinary artist who specialises in sculpture. Inspired by science fiction and surrealis...

Alfie Nicholls

Alfie Nicholls

Alfie Nicholls is an emerging queer artist exploring queer existence and identity in response to contemporary political ...

Amelia Jack

Amelia Jack

Amelia Jack is an artist whose wide-ranging photography practice encompasses portraiture, installation and concert photo...

Ben Walmsley

Ben Walmsley

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Dean Curtis - Raleigh

Dean Curtis - Raleigh

PerformanceEMERGE

Dean Curtis is a writer and theatre maker who strives to create work with themes of the uncanny and the human condition ...

Dylan Gane

Dylan Gane

PerformanceEMERGE

Dylan Gane is a content creator and aspiring author. Through his work he seeks to explore themes of hope, fear and the a...

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...

Erin Alibocus

Erin Alibocus

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

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

Flo Breeze

Flo Breeze

Flo Breeze is a multidisciplinary artist. She works across realistic portraiture, creating charcoal prints that she sell...

Multidisciplinary Creative

Francesca Burke

Francesca Burke

Francesca Astraea is a novelist, scriptwriter and editorial consultant, telling stories that are whimsical, folkloric an...

Gavin Kaufman

Gavin Kaufman

Creative TechnologyEMERGE

Gavin Kaufman is an independent music artist and visual artist based in Bath. His music spans songwriting, composition a...

Grace Duncan

Grace Duncan

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

Isaac Abideen

Isaac Abideen

PerformanceEMERGE

Isaac Abideen specialises in writing and acting, with experience in performing on stage and as a voice actor. He special...

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

Jack Busby

Jack Busby

Creative TechnologyEMERGE

Jack Busby is a recording and mixing engineer and a producer who works with a wide range of artists and genres. He’s pas...

Jake Cooper

Jake Cooper

Creative TechnologyEMERGE

Jake Cooper is a multimedia artist who creates installation art that uses sound, light and interaction to make immersive...

Jen Hamblin

Jen Hamblin

Jen Hamblin’s work explores memory, storytelling and human connection. Through photography, objects and installations, s...

Joel Morton

Joel Morton

Joel Morton is a Bristol-based furniture and product designer and maker. A coffee-obsessed creative, he's intent on good...

Kate Hollingsworth

Kate Hollingsworth

Kate Hollingsworth is a fiction writer from the American South, interested in genre-bending and experimental prose. She ...

Kate Smith

Kate Smith

Participatory principles underpin Kate Smith’s creative practice. Working across textiles and mixed media, she explores ...

Facilitation, Textile Art, Political and Social Engagement

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

Kristen Lindop

Kristen Lindop’s art practice uses the lenses of neuro-nonconformity, activism and somatic responses to bird life to inv...

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,

Kyle Cave

Kyle Cave

PerformanceEMERGE

Kyle Cave is a screenwriter and filmmaker focused on horror. He is co-founder of Kaveman Films with Lewis Coleman. Inspi...

Lewis Coleman

Lewis Coleman

PerformanceEMERGE

Lewis Coleman is a playwright and screenwriter, former actor, and co-founder of Kaveman Films. He was previously Artisti...

Lillie Ravenel

Lillie Ravenel

Lillie Ravenel is a Bristol-based poet and photographer born in Switzerland. She recently completed an MA in Creative Wr...

Lily Serendipity

Lily Serendipity

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

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

Louise Aubrey

Louise Aubrey

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

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

Mary Steadman

Mary Steadman

PerformanceEMERGE

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

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...

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...

Nadja Cudworth

Nadja Cudworth

Nadja Cudworth is an artist who explores narrative through book design and printmaking. Her work explores the playful st...

Nasim Yazdani

Nasim Yazdani

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

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

Nathan Edwards

Nathan Edwards

Nathan Edwards works as a graphic designer and illustrator, turning his hand to all sorts of challenges and briefs. Whet...

Nicole Hughes

Nicole Hughes

Nic Hughes is a theatrical production designer and illustrator, specialising in exaggerated and colourful historical fan...

Noah Holt

Noah Holt

Creative TechnologyEMERGE

Noah Holt is a composer and musician based in Bath, with a focus on bringing narratives to life by putting emotional and...

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

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

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

Rosie O'Driscoll

Rosie O'Driscoll

Rosie O’Driscoll is a textile designer specialising in print and surface pattern design. Her creative practice explores ...

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

Ru McKay

Ru McKay

Ru McKay is a writer-illustrator with a strong basis in design. She can mostly be found making comics and zines, with a ...

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

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

Sophie Driver

Sophie Driver

Sophie Driver is a printmaker and multidisciplinary artist exploring folklore, nature, history and storytelling. Working...

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

Sujata Bharti

Sujata Bharti

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

Summer Lees

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

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

Tom Mence

Tom Mence

Dr Tom Mence is a painter and practice-led researcher who uses the imagery of the domestic interior as a resource to exp...

Painting and Picture Making

Zack Forrow

Zack Forrow

PerformanceEMERGE

Zack Forrow is a voice actor based in the South West, with a BA (Hons) in Acting from Bath Spa University. He is looking...