Master's Fine Art showcase
Our MFA and MA Fine Art students 2024-25
See a showcase of some of Newcastle University's MFA and MA Fine Art students and recent graduates, and hear what they have to say about their work
You can see more examples of our students' work and more on our Instagram page
Sabah Al-Khair
A preview of my works to be exhibited next week as part of the summer show ‘Counterpart’.
My work also exists as sculptural forms, with steel and paper hand-treated to represent memories, places and objects.
Steel structures define the space, laden with the same salt, paint and rust as the paper works.
Paper is painted, stained, and made within the space, then folded to carry the imprint of the space easily; at a moment’s notice and concealed if needed.
Nancy Daykin
My work is currently engaged with the architectures, apparatus and structures of constructed bodies of water, such as reservoirs and urban water supply, as well as methods of imagining and signifying water and wetness.
I'm interested in boundaries and edges - opening, closing, permeating and mediating; moments where human and non-human, natural and artificial bodies are complicated.
How might we disrupt approaches to boarders and boundaries that privilege distinction?
How does the mediation of water reflect other processes or technologies through which bodies are funnelled, contained and defined?
Mark Duffy
I'm an Irish artist based in the UK. My artwork explores issues of power and national identity.
I use photography and multi-media installation to build recurring motifs that reveal alternative narratives about political phenomena with absurdity and humour.
An important influence in my work is my tenure as official photographer in the Houses of Parliament between 2015-2019, where I created an unprecedented visual record of proceedings in the House of Commons during the peak Brexit debate.
My work is concerned with bringing scrutiny to the elite and often corrupt forces that exploit systems of power and obstruct democracy.
Katie Houser
A collection of photos that include the process of creating my knot sculpture
For this project the architecture around the sculpture was just as important to me as the sculpture itself. I applied for this room because of the many contradictions between the two. Dualities like “good and evil” or “beautiful and ugly” often compete for our attention and that’s exactly what I hope the knot will do for you.
David Loftus
My practice explores memory, nostalgia, and personal history, often focusing on spaces that are no longer physically accessible but remain emotionally significant.
I work primarily with painting, using it as a means to reanimate digital remnants.
Imagery is sourced from early camera phone images, distorted virtual earth captures, and online archives.
Though deeply rooted in personal experience, the paintings invite viewers to engage with their own memories, asking how images from the past survive, shift, or disappear in the present.
Catherine Lingward-Ward
My practice draws from fragments of the mundane - everyday objects and traces of lived experience. My work spans sculpture, installation, performance, and ephemeral gestures that respond to their surroundings.
For the summer exhibition, I presented PART II of my installation I POUR WATER EVERY DAY TILL THE GLASS IS FULL. Originally created and exhibited in Munich in 2022, the piece is now reimagined as a performative installation using collected glassware, toilet paper, and kitchen roll.
The act of making is an open-ended exploration of how I engage with the world through visual language or whatever form it may take.
E.J Neason
In considering how the body is recognised in the post-human world, my work investigates slippages of the body and excavates spaces for human agency in a technological age; reinterpreting, enlightening and rewriting bodily experience against the modern day body politics and its technological environment.