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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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Anna Ryan

Anna Ryan

PerformanceCOLLECTIVE MEMBER

Anna Ryan is a songwriting and performance coach living in Bath, Somerset. A seasoned vocalist, she’s been writing, re...

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...

Ali Bado-McDowall

Ali Bado-McDowall

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

Creative Entrepreneurship

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Sarah Farrier

DesignRE-EMERGE

Sarah transforms fabric destined for landfill into limited edition fashion collections. Inspired by pattern found in the...

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

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

Jewellery, Pottery

Victoria Bone

Victoria Bone

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...

Wendy Thomas

Wendy Thomas

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

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...

Jon Raine

Jon Raine

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

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

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Bryony Taylor

As a multidisciplinary designer, Bryony focuses on creating products that tell stories. Guided by curiosity, her practic...

Lynnie Donkin

Lynnie Donkin

Fine ArtSTEP-UP

A visual artist and maker, Lynnie creates layered pieces and installations that employ elements of storytelling and poet...

Brian Gibson

Brian Gibson

Fine ArtSTEP-UP

Brian creates large-scale scroll works using old pianola scores as a base, layering images, text and visual fragments to...

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...

John Hector

John Hector

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

Evie Wright

Evie Wright

PerformanceRE-EMERGE

Evie Wright is a poet, writer, performer and filmmaker from Bath. She is a 2025 graduate of the University of Birmingham...

Alex Le May

Alex Le May

Fine ArtSTEP-UP

Alex turned to art from a background in international development. He is using painting and drawing to investigate the t...

Painting and Drawing

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 ...

Jade Fletcher

Jade Fletcher

Fine ArtRE-EMERGE

Jade Fletcher is a ceramic artist whose practice explores presence, embodied experience and the healing journey. Returni...

Bambi Louis

Bambi Louis

DesignRE-EMERGE

Morbid Merriments is a multidisciplinary alchemy of multiple storytelling mediums. A delicate dance with darkness, Bambi...

Puppetry, Poetry, Production

Dannielle Frost

Dannielle Frost

Fine ArtRE-EMERGE

Dannielle Frost is an artist whose nature-inspired practice centres on expressive acrylic painting. Her work explores or...

Phoenix Dewberry

Phoenix Dewberry

PerformanceRE-EMERGE

Phoenix is a body neutral, sex positive photographer who explores representation of the subject’s identity in their work...

Hayden Betts

Hayden Betts

PerformanceRE-EMERGE

Hayden is a theatre maker based in Bath, focusing on writing and performance. Throughout his time at the Emerge residenc...

Harvey Jones

Harvey Jones

DesignRE-EMERGE

Harvey Jones, a Bristol-based graphic designer, is passionate about science, music, and product design. His growing skil...

Anna Udovina

Anna Udovina

Fine ArtRE-EMERGE

Anna Udovina is a Ukrainian yoga teacher and multidisciplinary creative based in Bath. Through movement, art and music, ...

Aileen Lyon

Aileen Lyon

Aileen experiments across a range of materials and processes. She works in sculpture, painting and photography to probe ...

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

Corey Oliver Penfound

Corey Oliver Penfound

Corey Penfound is an artist from Bath who specialises in the intricate realm of prop making and dark fantasy art. With a...

Prop design, concept / fantasy art commissions

Sapphire Henriksen

Sapphire Henriksen

Fine ArtCOLLECTIVE MEMBER

Sapphire Henriksen is a socially-engaged, interdisciplinary artist specialising in ceramics and textiles. She uses kitsc...

Handbuilding and sculptural crochet

Tiger Scott

Tiger Scott

Fine ArtCOLLECTIVE MEMBER

Tiger’s design ethos is all about combining traditional craftsmanship with computer aided manufacture. In a rapidly deve...

Furniture designer

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...

Kat Wallis-King

Kat Wallis-King

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

Robyn Downing

Robyn Downing

RobLikesToDraw is an artist, illustrator and cardboard fanatic based in the South West. He enjoys staying up late making...

Drawing, printmaking, DIY crafts, mural art

Claire Clark

Claire Clark

Fine ArtCOLLECTIVE MEMBER

Claire Clark is a conceptual artist with a feminist focus. She holds a Master’s in Fine Art from Bath Spa University, an...

Conceptual art with a feminist focus

Fysdunctional Theatre Co.

Fysdunctional Theatre Co.

Fine ArtCOLLECTIVE MEMBER

Fysdunctional Theatre Co. is an emerging theatre company formed by Josh Nicoll and Susie Beare. Immersive performance an...

Puppetry, set, lighting, sound and projection

Elizabeth Royle

Elizabeth Royle

Fine ArtCOLLECTIVE MEMBER

Elizabeth Royle is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on ceramics and textiles. She is interested in how the two di...

Multidisciplinary, crochet

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...

Katie Baird

Katie Baird

Fine ArtSTEP-UP

Katie Baird is a mixed media print designer who graduated with a BA (Hons) in Textile Design in 2023. She primarily work...

Drawing, painting, textile design

Deborah Beale

Deborah Beale

PerformanceCOLLECTIVE MEMBER

Debbie is a storyteller who uses a wide variety of methods to engage her audience. A creative producer and theatre maker...

Creative producer, writer, director, puppeteer, poet

Shaunna Monks

PerformanceCOLLECTIVE MEMBER

Shaunna Monks is a comedy writer and performer. Having graduated from her degree in BA (Hons) Comedy at Bath Spa Univers...

Jacquesdesir

Jacquesdesir

Fine ArtCOLLECTIVE MEMBER

Jacquesdesir explores themes of memory, the concept of time, decay, the process of vanishing, and the act of dreaming. T...

Interdisciplinary arts

Amanda Hall

Amanda Hall

Fine ArtCOLLECTIVE MEMBER

Amanda is a conceptual visual artist working with a range of media, including textiles, sculpture, found objects and per...

Textile art, sculpture and social engagement

Melissa Mahon

Melissa Mahon

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

Tim Southall

Tim Southall

Tim Southall is an artist and maker guided by the Quaker principles of Peace, Equality, Truth, Integrity, Simplicity and...

Artist & maker - interventions, engagements & collaborations

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

Maya Arthur

Maya Arthur

Maya Arthur is a freelance illustrator and artist, specialising in character creation, world-building, and storytelling....

Juliet Duckworth

Juliet Duckworth

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

Emily Lewin

Emily Lewin

Fine ArtSTEP-UP

Emily is a maker, material investigator and creative facilitator working with clay and people. Her practice spans materi...

Abigail Tinnion

Abigail Tinnion

Abigail Tinnion is a Visual Artist and Folklorist based in the South West of England. Through her work she aims to recon...

Hoarding, hunting, shapeshifting, summoning

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...

Fiona Haines

Fiona Haines

Fine ArtSTEP-UP

Fiona Haines is a Fine Artist MFA (Distinction) specialising in Sculpture, Collage, Poetry, and Photography. Holding an ...

Ashley Cerrino

Ashley Cerrino

Fine ArtCOLLECTIVE MEMBER

Ashley Cerrino is a courageous individual who explores both the inner and outer dimensions of themselves and their poten...

Photographic artist

Siri Bolin

Siri Bolin

PerformanceCOLLECTIVE MEMBER

Siri Bolin is an actor and theatre maker, originally from Sweden. She graduated from Bath Spa University in 2022 with a ...

Performing, devising, movement, writing, directing, singing

Bryan John Rawlings

Bryan John Rawlings

Fine ArtSTEP-UP

Bryan Rawlings has had a long career in commercial sculpture, during which he has made major public works for prestigiou...

Sculpture and Painting

Sonya Wilkins

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

Angel Greenham

Angel Greenham

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

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,

Edie Evans

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

Rachel Demuth

Rachel Demuth

Fine ArtCOLLECTIVE MEMBER

Rachel Demuth is a ceramic artist with an MA in Fine Art (ceramics) from Bath Spa University 2024. She lives in Bath, En...

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

Gemma Dunnell

Gemma Dunnell

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

Illustration, Graphic Design, Writing, and Workshops

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