“I can promise something for everyone. It’s truly a unique opportunity to celebrate the vibrancy of the UK art scene in 2025.” – Jo McLaughlin, Curator of the Recent Graduates

So – let’s meet the class of 2025…

Krystyna Wroblewska – London Met, BA Photography

Krystyna Wroblewska is a Dorset photographer who creates painterly images using experimental analogue techniques. Inspired by nature, abstract art, and impressionism, she focuses on light, texture, and mood to capture fleeting moments and help viewers see the world differently.

Emma Goring – Royal College of Art, MA Ceramics and Glass

Emma Goring is a glassblower trained in the Maldives who explores glass’s contradictions. While often associated with fragility and breakage, glass also possesses remarkable strength and durability. She uses her medium to communicate natural processes, from microscopic bacteria to coral formations built by generations of polyps.

Alex Morante – Central St Martins, BA Ceramic Design & Diploma in Professional Studies 

Alex Morante is a multidisciplinary artist who creates figurative work for self exploration. Drawing on mythology, folklore, and religious imagery, she crafts personal narratives exploring themes of decay, transformation, and the subconscious.

Amy Bradnock – Manchester School of Art, BA Fine Art  

Amy Bradnock explores clay’s materiality and responsiveness, believing ceramics create unique intimacy through the physical relationship between maker and material. Her work focuses on transformation and the traces left by hands in clay, making art both personal and universally human. She is currently on a British Council residency in Venice!

Marina Stancill – Kingston University, BA Photography

Marina Stancill is known for capturing intimacy in quiet details, creating striking yet welcoming images that connect powerfully with viewers through her focus on transient moments.

Catherine McColgan – Liverpool University, BA Fine Art 

Catherine McColgan blends art and science to explore bioart ethics, examining how humans exist as both individual organisms and complex microbial ecosystems. Her multimedia practice includes drawings, paintings, screenprints, and sculptures using clay, bioplastic, and petri dishes.

Maisie Lopez – London College of Communication, Photojournalism and Documentary Photography

Maisie Lopez is a Bristol and London based documentary photographer who explores personal themes and trauma through raw, introspective imagery. A graduate of LCC’s photojournalism programme, she works primarily with analogue medium format photography, emphasising slow, deliberate storytelling.

Kate Michael – Brighton, BA Illustration

Kate is an emerging artist from Brighton, creating characterful, expressive illustrations, many of which are from photos or in person sessions.

Lotte Johnson – Camberwell College of Arts, BA Fine Art Painting

Lotte Johnson is a Scottish artist based between London and Scotland’s west coast, currently studying BA Fine Art, Painting at UAL. Working across painting, print, and embroidery on mesh, silk, and canvas, she explores themes of memory, liminality, and presence versus absence.

Sean Obrzu – Edinburgh College of Art, BA Painting 

Sean Obrzud explores identity and queerness through abstract colour, form, and line, visualising intimacy, vulnerability, and loss that resist verbal expression. His practice examines relationships and personal history, focusing on healing—bridging disconnection and processing hardship to deepen self-understanding.

Kristina Haritonova – Glasgow School of Art, BA Sculpture and Environmental Art 

A Latvian born, Glasgow based ceramicist expanding her degree show series ‘A Journey to Nowhere’ —ceramic snails exploring migration and home. Her surreal work combines body parts with everyday objects, examining how society shapes identity and the masks people wear. Through “what if?” questions, she invites reflection on universal emotions and our shared humanity.

Aoife Mary Hogan – Glasgow School of Art, BA Painting & Printmaking

Aoife Mary Hogan is a Scottish stained glass artist who studied the craft in Glasgow, following her grandmother’s footsteps. Working across drawing, printmaking, glass, sculpture, and film, her Sea States series uses the ocean as metaphor for grief, loss, love, and human emotion.

Don’t miss the opportunity to view these wonderful artworks at Affordable Art Fair Battersea Autumn 15-19 October, where you can support and invest in today’s rising stars.

A huge thank you to our Lead Partner JM Finn, whose generous support makes the Recent Graduates Exhibition and the JM Finn Graduate Artist Award possible. 

Special thanks also to Aardvark Art Services, who are partially sponsoring the shipping of all graduate artists from Scotland, sending work to and from the fair.