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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.

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Ali Bado-McDowall

Ali Bado-McDowall

DesignMENTOR
Ali is a creative coach and mentor, and co-creator of The Positive Planner, a wellbeing journal recently published by Pe...

Creative Entrepreneurship
Matt Emeny

Matt Emeny

PerformanceMENTOR
Matthew Emeny is an award-winning Theatre-Maker, Creative Producer, and Film-Maker. He is the co-founder of The Producti...

Theatre and Live Events
Valentina Dorronsoro

Valentina Dorronsoro

DesignMENTOR
Valentina began her professional career in architecture, a path she pursued until relocating from Venezuela to Argentina...

Jewellery, Pottery
Victoria Bone

Victoria Bone

Fine ArtMENTOR
Victoria Bone is a mixed media artist with live art at the centre of her practice. Her work explores paradoxes of submis...

Art Performance
Oliver Langdon and Caroline Garland

Oliver Langdon and Caroline Garland

PerformanceMENTOR
Olly & Caroline are co-directors & founders of Bath-based, Kilter Theatre. Kilter has been collaborating with local or...

Performance
Wendy Thomas

Wendy Thomas

Fine ArtMENTOR
Wendy is a local artist, creative mentor at Emerge, Bath Spa University, and Adult Learning Officer at Bath College. She...

Artist
Sam Hawkins

Sam Hawkins

PerformanceMENTOR
Sam Hawkins is the founder of The Jesters Comedy Club — Bath’s only full-time comedy venue. A quick-thinking comedian an...

Performance
Jon Raine

Jon Raine

Fine ArtMENTOR
Jon Raine is a conceptual and visual artist, with a background as a creative in advertising and running his own photogra...

Fine Art
Alex Duarte-Davies

Alex Duarte-Davies

PerformanceMENTOR
Alex Duarte-Davies is the Director of the theatre careers and EDI charity Get Into Theatre. Formerly Head of Community a...

Producer, Director, and Practitioner
Charlie Day

Charlie Day

PerformanceMENTOR

Theatre Maker and Actor
John Hector

John Hector

Fine ArtMENTOR
He has many years experience of business development and employer engagement gained through roles at BSU as an Employer ...

Mentor
Kat Wallis-King

Kat Wallis-King

Fine ArtMENTOR
Kat is a multi award-winning landscape and nature artist, working primarily in soft pastel and charcoal with a mixed med...

Landscape and nature artist
Melissa Mahon

Melissa Mahon

Fine ArtMENTOR
Melissa is a Creative Mentor at Emerge. She makes analogue and digital photographs and sculpture, starting with the noti...

Analogue process and digital photography, sculpture
Juliet Duckworth

Juliet Duckworth

Fine ArtMENTOR
Juliet uses organic material to make sculptures and installations inspired by recurring cycles in nature. She captures m...

Fine Art
Sonya Wilkins

Sonya Wilkins

Fine ArtMENTOR
Sonya makes ceramics from her studio in Bleadon Village, Somerset. Since receiving her BA in 1995 and teaching ceramics ...

Ceramic Artist
Angel Greenham

Angel Greenham

Fine ArtMENTOR
Angel received an MA at Bath School of Art and Design in 2017 and is an Associate Lecturer on the Creative Arts Practice...

Fine Art
Edie Evans

Edie Evans

Fine ArtMENTOR
Edie Evans is a South-West-based artist, holding an MFA from BSU (2023) and a BA (Hons) from Central Saint Martins (2018...

Artist
Gemma Dunnell

Gemma Dunnell

Fine ArtMENTOR
Gemma is an award-winning designer, illustrator, and writer interested in nature, history, and folklore. She has worked ...

Illustration, Graphic Design, Writing, and Workshops