Make No Bones – BA Fine Art Degree Show 2025 – University of Leeds
We are 53 final year fine art students graduating from the University of Leeds this summer. This is our degree show.
Over the past year, we have stripped things back and dug deep.
Make No Bones is a refusal to soften or obscure. We want to surface our truths, to show the foundation of who we are as artists. Our exhibition is both an excavation of three to four years of study and our new construction.
Bones are both the basis and remains of who we are – the framework that holds us up and what we leave behind. Like fossils-to-be, our work has been pressed by the weight of expectations, desires and the world at large.
We have worked with and against the systems we are inheriting, the ideas about life and art that have been put to us, and the future we wish to contribute to.
We want to come into view, just for a short time, and leave something behind that is worth remembering.
Our work stands bare, unearthed and unashamed.
We Make No Bones about what we have created.
Artists
Abigail Scholes • Alayna Hilmi-Phillips • Alex Heme • Alice Boot • Alison Wong • Ameya Vishweshwar • Angelika Kaccouris • Anna Morris • Anya Thompson • Beth Rippin • Claudia Leweson-Jones • Ellie Ringshaw • Elsa Greenland • Esme Mclean • Eve O’Connor • Finn O’Rourke • Florence Bigglestone • Fozia Qureshi • Grace Glancy • Hannah Prince • Helena John • Honor Fay Jones • Iona Ogilvy-Stuart • Jake Stokes • Jess Cherrie • Kate Smith • Katy Tomiak • Lara Peverini • Lauren Royall • Lola Pugh-Cordero • Lulu MacLeod • Madeline Saggers • Maria Ellam Saroukhanian • Maya Wyton • Megan Preston-Davies • Millie Speight • Natalia Toffel • Nathaniel Crow Mercer • Olive Burnett • Olivia Turner• Phoebe Fennell • Rosie Baker • Sadie Smith • Sami Shahmeem • Sidonie Anderson • Skye Williams • Skyla Isabella West • Sophie Vida Hugh • Tara Breem • Vince Chin • Xia Hooper-Ainsworth • Yasmeen Soliman • Yi Hua Liu
Find out about each artist taking part and see examples of their practice so far.
When
The exhibition will be open to the public daily from 6 to 15 June 2025, 10am to 6pm.
Private View: Thursday 5 June from 6 to 9pm. If you would like to attend, please RSVP to fincomms@leeds.ac.uk
Where
School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
University Road
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
Find out more
Follow the artists on Instagram @make.no.bones
Press information
Email fincomms@leeds.ac.uk for details.