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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.

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Aileen Lyon

Aileen Lyon

Fine ArtCOLLECTIVE MEMBER

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

Fine ArtCOLLECTIVE MEMBER

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

Fine ArtCOLLECTIVE MEMBER

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

Fine ArtRE-EMERGE

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

Emily is a Somerset-based ceramic artist, making slow, small batch ceramic objects that invite a sense of ritual and mom...

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

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

Ashley Cerrino

Ashley Cerrino

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

PerformanceEMERGE

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

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

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