Degree Shows Guide/2021

The 2021 Guide includes a snapshot of this year’s graduating artists, plus Next Steps interviews with Joy Labinjo, Matthew Burrows and Jody Mulvey.

The 2017 Woon Foundation Painting & Sculpture Prize winner on why postgraduate study was always part of the plan.

How did an Instagram hashtag create a mutually supportive art market that puts artists first, whether new graduates or well established?

Jody Mulvey, founder of SAD GRADS 2020, introduces the community-building platform she created in the first lockdown.

The Glasgow School of Art graduates created the DS2020 Simulator when their degree show was cancelled.

Jiggle n Juice is a platform dedicated to engaging in discursive and critical conversation, and showcasing creativity.

Lucy Alves and Natascha NG discuss setting up a new magazine focussed on the art market.

All Mouth is an online gallery founded in March 2020 by final-year art students Jack Chauncy and Georg Wilson.

Heatherley School of Fine Art Figurative Sculpture Diploma graduating artist Kamilia Anna Harchi.

The Diploma in Portraiture student at Heatherley School of Fine Art discusses her work.

The Fine art mixed media graduating artist at University of Westminster discusses her work.

Hamish McClelland discusses works exploring personal experiences, ahead of the University of Westminster degree show.

BA Fine Art Mixed Media, University of Westminster, graduating artist Molly Biggs.

BA (Hons) Fine Art, Middlesex University, graduating student Neda Changizi.

Turps Banana Studio Programme graduate Dannielle Hodson.

Painting and Printmaking graduating artist at Glasgow School of Art, Josie Ko.

The graduating Middlesex University photographer discusses her work.

The graduating Middlesex University photographer discusses her work.

Graduating Goldsmiths’ artist James Southall-Ford discusses his work.

Artist Natalie Godjamanian discusses her work ahead of her MA Fine Art show at Edinburgh College of Art.

Lancaster University graduating artist Aashna Arora.

Gray’s School of Art BA (Hons) Contemporary Art Practice graduating artist Veronica Petukhov speaks to Orla Foster.

BA (Hons) Fine Art, Newcastle University final-year student Emma Wiseman speaks to Rachel Marsh.

University of Bolton BA Fine Art graduating artist Bille Hatton speaks to Jessica Ramm.

University of Hertfordshire BA (Hons) Fine Art graduating artist Jennifer Watts speaks to Isaac Nugent.

City of Glasgow College student Tim Kirman is making art from teabags and memories. Kitty Bew reports.

Jasmine Smail speaks to Trevor H. Smith about her final year at Bath Spa University creating sculpture and film from unreliable childhood memories.

BA Fine Art Hereford College of Arts final-year student Gemma Moore speaks to Valerie Zwart.

Asako Ujita combines a 1960s film of women free-diving with footage of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Laura Davidson speaks to the artist.

Nottingham Trent University BA Fine Art final-year student Tom Cobbett speaks to Jamie Limond.

BA (Hons) Fine Art, Leeds Arts University, graduating artist Annabelle Richmond-Wright speaks to Joanna Byrne.

Central Saint Martins BA Fine Art graduating artist Mia Harwood discusses her work.

Graduating University of Central Lancashire BA (Hons) Fine Art student Georgia Riley discusses her work.

Graduating University of Suffolk BA (Hons) Fine Art student Ella Lockwood discusses her work.

Graduating University of Suffolk BA (Hons) Fine Art student Elgin Thwaites discusses her work Transcend the Cube.

Camberwell College of Arts BA Fine Art: Sculpture graduating artist Ross Pole discusses his series ‘Snacks’.

Central Saint Martins BA Fine Art graduating artist Lily Donaldson discusses her work.

Kerry Collison, graduating Sculpture: Casting, Carving, Construction student at Carmarthen School of Art.

Winchester School of Art graduating artist Anna Marris discusses her work.