Projects - University of Staffordshire GradEX

Creative Industries

"Tapes" (Video Game Concept)

A horror video game concept created by two passionate University of Staffordshire students.

Rebecca Clavering

"The Fertile Void” - A reimagining of Gestalt’s theory through ceramics.

“The Fertile Void” is a reimagining of Gestalt’s theory through experimental ceramics, pushing both materialism and disrupting traditional process.

Amy Swift

“One Day” multisensory installation by Lily Isobella Lambert

One Day is a multisensory installation that explores the liminality of hope: the suspended moment between making a wish and its potential realisation.

Lily Lambert

2D Animation Showreel

A 2D hand-drawn animation showreel, showcasing my rough animation, cleanup animation, background painting & compositing work!

Gabby Piper

A Knight's Trail

A Knight's Trail is an educational project, where children follow a trail around Warwick Castle to find different historical figures with take-home items to influence play and learning.

Abbie Millward

A Moment for Them, Oil on canvas, Oil on Fabric

A memorial for ancestors and their memories that live on.

Katlyn Hammersley

Ambihjemme - A set of lamps creating ambiance within your home.

Ambihjemme - A set of portable lamps for each family member, that then stack to recharge. The family can then ‘recharge’ together as well.

Hannah Cosnett

Apex

Dark, action, 2D animated short film concept featuring 3 small heroic aliens, each with their own struggles, fighting for the freedom of their species held captive by "The Apex"

Chino Ihesiene

Apocalyptic Albums - A journey through music

A celebration of the collaboration of art and music set in a sci-fi apocalyptic world.

Edward Abbott

Assembly: a gathering of ...

Ange is fascinated by the creative engagement between maker and material - the unspoken dialogue - and how beauty can be discovered within the materiality and imperfection of making”.

Ange Hull

Bejewelled

Bejewelled is a series of large-scale vessels and sculptural objects which explore form, materiality, glaze and process to create ceramic art, which transcends gallery and interior space.

Lucy Lee

Bobble and Blooms

A vibrant, nature‑inspired homeware collection featuring painterly floral patterns, expressive colour, and hand‑painted, screen‑printing techniques.

Annalise Friend

Celebrating Women

This photography project features a series of portraits of women that were created to uplift the women involved

Charlotte Toft

coastal curations Interiors

A coastline inspired collection showcasing a versatile range of designs, from a detailed sea life hero prints to fluid , expressive paper marbling for the home decor.

Megan Throop

Connections - Idioms

Idioms containing the theme of Connections

Leah-Marie Singleton

Consumption! - Abstract short film

My work on a project containing an abstract world where a bagman is chased relentlessly until falling down a hole.

Samuel Wyse

Creative Direction

Mehman by Mehrish is a fusion occasionwear brand developed from the ground up — spanning brand identity, collection design, campaign production and fashion film direction

Mehrish Pahilani

Crossing - Hybrid Animation Short Film

A short film with a story about the interpersonal relations between a party of adventurers and the focal point behind its creation being to learn and evolve.

Omar Whaind

Curtain Call (Exploring the body and death through art)

Through my work, I explore the morbid and unsettling while raising the question as to what it is about horror that makes us so unnerved yet so fascinated.

Isabelle Davis

Figh, a collection honouring the heritage of weaving + CAD-generated design

A collection of pieces linking heritage and the past with contemporary design features.

Genevieve Mann

From Earth to Air

Isabella explores biodiversity through wild clay, local glaze materials, avifauna recordings, and digitally manipulated forms, combining low- and high-tech ceramic processes to create 3D-printed sculptures celebrating wildlife and material origins.

Isabella McGough

From within (the collection)

My work aims to show how bottling up our emotions/feeelings leads to inner turmoil that leads to woresend mental health and makes us afraid to face our feelings within us.

Joseph Rutter

Gilded Wilds of China - hand painted surface pattern collection

Three hand-painted watercolour illustrations inspired by endangered Chinese wildlife and native botanicals, combining intricate detail, gilded finishes and expressive colour for translation into luxury textile and surface pattern design.

Amy Watkin

Glaze Against Form

A ceramic collection exploring glaze as a transformative material through flowing surfaces, repeated forms, and the tension between control and unpredictability.

Eleanor Chapman

HARDCORE WILL NEVER DIE | Short Documentary

Have you ever had to shoot and edit a short film in 3 weeks, while also going to as many raves as possible? Ada Heasman has!

Ada Heasman

Held, Not Spoken: Fragmented Maternal Narratives

Exploring motherhood through embodied photographic and installation practices, this work examines care, emotional labour and the tension between idealised narratives and lived maternal experience.

Stephanie Hayes

Identity in Fashion:shapes of self- Alter Ego

Eploring identity through fashion and alter ego

Chizitelu Grace onubogu

lead post production artist on final year projects.

I am a 2D 3D animation post production artist.

santino profetto

Letter to Marion

A series of paintings, mixed media artworks and an installation exploring themes of memory, absence and inherited identity.

Louise Pover

Multidisciplinary Contemporary Art Project: Residual Futures

An immersive multidisciplinary project exploring rebuilding, memory, transformation, and resilience through ceramic structures, performance, sound, material fragility, and the unstable relationship between rupture, continuity, and future imagination.

Yuliia Holovatiuk-Ungureanu

My Third Year Project : Crystal Clear

Crystal Clear is a 2D/Stopmotion hybrid short film pitch, that follows our main character Minha, growing up through the memories captured inside of her mothers jewellery.

Grace Richardson

Narratives: Through Space and Time

A narrative description through a response to clay capturing moments in time and space.

Jill Bunce

Neons and Neutrals. Studio Cart 01 a functional furniture piece.

Studio Cart 01 is a translation of Briony Eyre's painting practice into a functional furniture piece. It combines layered paper textures with her signature use of neons and neutral colours.

briony eyre

NO FUN-NOT WORTH IT!!

This collection of artwork represents images and documents found within the Epstein Files.

Luke Hanson

One for Sorrow

A digitally printed fabric collection exploring nature intertwined with superstition, mortality, and misfortune; centred around an ogee repeat, complimented by coordinating designs, suitable for sophisticated, opulent, dark romantic interiors.

Morgan Tyrrell

Parkrun, Brand Refresh

Parkrun, Brand Refresh Brief.

Mia Frias

Pinto Chaos

Pinto Chaos is a meaningful phrase. Pinto means having two or more colours, and Chaos means having a messy, faded and havoc

Patrick Ang

Pleasant Irreverence

Alice Watkinson is a ceramic artist and designer whose playful, process-led work explores the unpredictable behaviour of clay to challenge ideas of control, uniformity and authorship.

Alice Watkinson

Possidere 

Fashion styling project inspired by streetwear and medieval fashion telling a story about mental health

RHIANNE HORNE

RE-PLAY

RE-PLAY (Recycled + Play) is a statement seating collection made from recycled plastic waste, such as milk bottles, reminding people to be curious and seek joy in their everyday lives.

Millie Herbert

Reconnecting with nature, an exploration of decorative design

This project is a decorative ceramics exploration, exploring themes of ecology and local biodiversity.

Grace Jones

Sea Of Souls

An image-making editorial shoot portraying four self-created, female-empowered anime characters that viewers can connect with and see themselves reflected in.

Angela Ayesu

short Animation project

Rei thinks love is stupid! but when "Cupid" suddenly falls into her life, she then uses this to her advantage!

Hannah Bennett

Sirens and Sailors

My final project explores traditional pattern design through nautical mythology, reinventing French toile with maritime folklore, fine-line illustrations, and a contemporary palette that creates immersive interior textiles.

Isabelle Barber

Small Things That Stayed

Childhood upscaled.

Catherine Lobley

So What? Canesten Campaign

Breaking taboos by shattering shame. So What? - a Canesten campaign.

Evie Brown

So, Here's Everything

An unfiltered, sprawling collection of emotional and/or ridiculous mixed media artworks. Alternative, strange, messy. Fun?

Charlie Locker

Storyboard Work

Storyboard/Animatic work

Rowan Tate

Summerland Picturebook

Summerland is a picturebook which aims to be a gentle introduction to the concept of death and grief, and to act as a source of comfort on the subject.

Robin Cavender

Surface Pattern Design Collection

Inspired by Mughal architecture and Jaipur interiors, this surface pattern design collection reimagines historic motifs through digitally printed textiles and contemporary craftsmanship for refined interior applications and timeless storytelling.

SANA AFSAR

Test. Record. Exhibit.

An exploration of glaze testing, trialling, and development.

Matt Whiting

The Celebration of The Saints of the UK History versus Today

A project to celebrate the Saints all around the UK connecting us all.

Leia-Rose Jones

The Garden: My Haven

Combining mark-making, photography, and handprint processes. This is a collection of evocative, ethereal, biophilic-inspired art pieces. That could equally be used within fashion and home interior collections.

Lisa Spencer

The light after the storm: installation exploring light as a beacon of hope

My work uses light as a metaphor for hope and resilience, creating quiet spaces for reflection, mindfulness and renewal through gentle paintings and installation.

Rebecca Phillips

Thread & Treasure

Thread & Treasure is a cinematic fashion film exploring memory, motherhood and identity through symbolic styling, movement and personal storytelling inspired by generational connection.

Alka Sara Varghese

Vomitive

Horror themed editorial photoshoot inspired by grief and the silver screen.

lily Bollard

What is now is what remains from then (Photography-Installation)

An installation combining analogue photography, found objects and archival detritus to explore post-industrial memory, systems of orientation and the persistent search for meaning through time, decay and material remnants.

James Blair

What we leave behind

I aim to create artwork that shows humanity’s effect on the natural world and its consequences.

Amie Marson

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