Emerge Shortlist Announced
Emerge 2018 Shortlists
We’re thrilled to celebrate our Emerge shortlists!
Thousands of submissions across 12 categories were whittled down to just over 180. It has been so uplifting to see such incredible talent among the UK’s emerging creative community.
Check out the shortlists below (you’ll need to be logged in view the individual submissions)!
Architecture

Anisha Meggi – Ocean Research Project
Farouk Agoro – Contemplative Pavilion
Khanh Nguyen – Vertical Villages
Laura Anne Keay – The Columbarium of Salford
Lilya McGinley – Bath Workshop Theatre
Maddi Gomez-Iradi – Workshop Theatre
Mark Donnelly – The Charged Void
R Brian Marsh – ‘Decimal House’ Design for Need
Rimsha Rehman – Urban Apparatus
Sandrine Arinmah – The Secret Garden
Styliani Sintou – Leicester’s Pleasure Garden
The Soon – Fusion
Thomas Cox – Battersea Sky Farm
Yang Young – Aquapolis
Yuliya Lapshyna – Medical Centre
Art

Alex J Wood – Bronzes
Bastian Birk Thuesen – 39 Noons
Bing Hitchcock – Dissect the Seeming Opposite
Carl Godfrey – Sign of the Times
Ella Husbands – Embodied Distortion
Emily Moore – In Pursuit of Mountaintops
Henrik Uldalen – Untitled
Ian Kirkpatrick – A Graphic War
Jessica Rimondi – 2017
Kate Dolan – Beyond Fields
Lily Wales – Radioactive Rhonda!
Lizzy Knight – Half Encased Stained Paper Wheel
Maxwell Rushton – Drawn Out
Rich Levine – Elizabeth Knollys
Vincent Brown – Artist’s Parents
Warren King – Our Lady of Akita
Craft

Pinkie Maclure – Radical Stained Glass
Aya Haidar – Soleless Series
Bailey Shooter – Stigma
Becky Mackenzie – Breakfast Set
Connor A. Garton – Cultural Celebration
Yung Cheuk Chung – Keep Contact
Helen Macritchie – Leodhas
Jacob Haggarty – Graduate Show, 2017
Jordan Pickford-Gray – Metallo Collection
Kinsley Byrne – Sonin Vessel
Kuniko Maeda – The Landscape of Paper
Leszek Sikon – Wave Knives
Lisa Lloyd – Untitled
Matt Davis – ‘Wedesus’ Urn
Olivia Walker – Deconstructed Bowl
Creative Writing
Aoife Inman – Route of Flight
Charlotte Williams – 1816
Daniel Page – Smashed
Ellen Dibsdall – The Invite
Emma-Marie Smith – The Window Doll
Freya Hannan Mills – Mushy Peas and…
Holly Buck – Oh Father
Jennifer Venall – The Gilded Youth
Jessica Chan – A Thousand Ticks
Lou Siday – The Sea
Mike Milton – Destination Happiness
Olu Alakija – The Empire Strikes Back
Samantha Neale – Elliott
Simon Marshall – Patience
Victoria Taylor Roberts – New Names All Round
Design

Carl Godfrey – Interactive Mural
Charles Dedman – Turner Carver
Connor Holland – Lilo Bench
Elena Gomez De V. S. – Familia
Heather McManus – Preservation Nation
Irene Banham – ‘All Angles’ Walnut Lamp
Jess Russell – Made in Scotland
Kasey Hou – Repairable Flatpack Toaster
Kathleen Brown – Wontbemist
Katie O’Rourke – Body Positivity Campaign for BFC
Leszek Sikon – Sycomore Knives
Manos Kalamenios – Mallow Series
Rowena Edwards – Rownd
Tor Ewen – Metamorphose
Victoria Spencer-Eves – Turn Tables
Digital Art

Alma the Artist – The Resurrection of Ophelia
Benjamin Heim – 2017XOX2
Clara Aparicio-Yoldi – Iconosfera
Daria Jelonek – Technological Nature
Friendred – Baptism/Digital Trance
Hallidonto – Birth of a Cyborg
Henry Driver – Second Skin
Jake Moore – Dreams in Ultraviolet
Maria Almena – Simulacrum
Michael Denton – Shuffle Chuckle
Rachel Hendry – Flatlands
Rhian Cooke – I just can’t quite touch it
Robbie Thomson – XFRMR
Soa J. Hwang – [Manipulated_Painting]
Tim Murray-Browne – Post-Truth and Beauty
Fashion

Amy Ollett – Untitled
Amy Thomson – Chasin’ Dreams AW18
Anisha Parmar – London Jewellery Collection
Becca Hiscock – Ice to Cloth
Chelsea Franklin – Chelsea
Claire Tagg – Untitled
Elizabeth Armstrong – Opulence – Tudor Fashion
Frankie Dean – Graduate Collection
Harriet Kjellman – AW18 Collection
James Reeves – Graduate Collection
Laura Jeffers – Transformer SS17
Neroli Shevills – Ma Space
Rob Elford – The Prosthesis of Us
Samantha Hince – Graduate Collection
Zara Khan – Outcast in Society
Film

Adina Istrate – Terminally Happy
Akinola Davies – Gidi gidi bu ugwu eze (Unity is strength)
Alex Falconer – Escape
Alfie Barker – I was 3
Ben Price – Untitled
Brettinthecity – The Residue of a Relationship
Carys Watford – Space Girls
Cyrus Trafford – The Voice in the Head
Elizabeth Mizon – Borders
Gulliver Moore – Lucky Chicken
Joanne Brunwin – Lines in the Sand
Kashif Boothe – Black Man Stand
Roxanne Holman – Neon
Ruth Grimberg – Learning to Swim
Will Webb – Dalstonian
Gaming

Adam Comrie – Dream Job
Adil Ahmed – Zombie Teacher
Alyx Jones – The Quiet Things
Beans – Exposure
Ben Byford – Full Colour Tiles
Hung Hoang – Outside
Liam Comerford – Empires of the Undergrowth
Joe Bain – Yucatan
Matthew Isteed – Bullion: The Curse of the Cut-Throat Cattle
Mer Biton – Storyball
Quang Nguyen – MaoMao Castle
Robin Baumgarten – Wobble Garden
Rory Thomson – Flintlock Boom
Stavros Pilatis – Glo
Tom Gilchrist – Galactic Defence Squadron
Music

Breantonia – Organic EP
Kabuntu – Kabuntu
Emaé – Emaé
Lecaudé – Circles
Sans Soucis Experience – Daffodils
Hunger Moon – Oh Friend
Nicola Chang – Lord of the Flies
Badoos – Badoos
Rosie Frater-Taylor – On My Mind
Ryan Burman – Ryan Burman
Shama – Truth BeTold
Nakamarra – Nakamarra
Skatta – It’s Not a Thing 2 Man
Tatyana Phillips – Tatyana EP
Tian – From Guangzhou to Manchester
Tom Harvey – Thomas Harvey
Performance

Alana Jones – Dizzy O’Dare: Rise
Alice Trueman – Three Generations of Women
Carl joseph Aquilizan – Wasting Away
Chloe L./Merel v H. – My name is Sam
Emeli – Arachne a Woven Tale
Emma Clark – Astronaut Battery
Fani Parali – Let Them In
Hazel Lam – To the Lighthouse
Henry Ward – Belly of the Beast
Lanre Malaolu – Figure
Laura Greenway – The Gaze
Peter Babbage – Achilles
Therese Ramstedt – Mission Abort
Tyler Eash – Allusion to a Body…
Victor Esses – Where to Belong
Photography

Cody Choi – The 3rd Day
Emma Levy – National Park
Gianlu Chincoli – The Story of Lines
Heather Agyepong – Too Many Blackamoors, 2015
Izzy Ceto – Short Straw
Jamie Luke – Ultima Thules – Pictures from the…
Kirsty Maclachlan – RNLI Kinghorn
Luke Musharbash – The Brave Charmer
Marta Soul – Ama y bebe
Meg Winstone – The Valley Project
Neeq Serene – My Body, My Canvas
Nicholas Jr White – Black Dots
Nicky Woods – Swaling on the Chagford Commons
Peter Spurgeon – Decoy
Rebecca Dann – I’m Fine
Skokko – La Loutte