Results for: Artist Alumni

Aidan Moesby 

Aidan Moesby’s practice is a socially engaged one, rooted in research and response – in conversation of many kinds. Underpinning his work investigating the dual crises of Climate Change and Mental Health is an exploration into the relationships between the outer ‘physical weather’ we experience, and our ‘internal psycho-emotional weather’.

Jay Price 

[Not a ‘disabled artist’] As a disabled person Price has worked with disability arts organisations & artists with impairments navigating a disabling society. Price makes work about their own lived experience with psychosis, autism, & brain damage caused by the treatments for these conditions: navigating making an alien experience relatable.

Orlanda Broom

Orlanda Broom’s paintings take two distinct forms; her lush, floral landscapes and her fluid abstract works. Connecting these two bodies of work is a strong sense of colour, references to organic forms and the exploration of painting mediums.

Huhtamaki Wab

Huhtamaki Wab works between painting, performance, video, installation and sculpture alongside his role as director of the Genius Treasure Collection. His practice exists in an animistic and nonanthropocentric world.

Tanoa Sasraku

Tanoa Sasraku is a London-based artist who grew up in Plymouth. Her practice shifts between sculpture, drawing and filmmaking, juxtaposing and performing British, Black, Ghanaian and queer cultural histories in her navigation of self.

Simon Ripley

Simon Ripley is an artist, educator and Founding Director of Double Elephant Print Studio. He makes large, colourful, abstract prints influenced by the world around him – not just the physical environment but conversations, music, politics and people. As an educator, he focuses primarily on outreach and community-based work, taking printmaking into schools, healthcare settings and communities with the aim of using art to improve health and wellbeing.

Jacqui Hallum

Jacqui Hallum is an artist based in Totnes. Her paintings draw on imagery ranging from medieval woodcuts and leaded glass windows to tarot cards and Art Nouveau children’s book illustrations.

Samuel Bassett

Samuel Bassett is a painter based in Cornwall. He creates work that is autobiographical, cataloguing the day-to-day of his life with honesty, humour and pathos. Providing an insight into his fast-paced mind, his mixed media works display enormous energy and experiment. His paintings could be described as ‘psychological cubism’, where the inner and the outer selves reveal themselves and coalesce.

Katy Richardson

Katy Richardson is an artist researcher based in South Devon. Her work explores memory, trauma and haunting through the lenses of women’s writing, medical history, and psychotherapeutic approaches. She works across moving image, installation and sound.

Mark Jessett

Mark Jessett is an artist specialising in works on paper. He is co-founder of contemporary art group N-E-W, staging art events and exhibitions in Ashburton, Devon, where he lives.