With the conclusion of our degree show approaching, this week I wanted to share with you some of my favourite pieces and a little bit about some of the wonderful artists who I have been working alongside over the past three years.

Bobby Forsythe is an installation artist, who works with light and shape to create immersive works that are influenced by the ganzfeld effect and phenomenology. Her installation for Nexus combined geometric wooden shapes, resin panes and motion activated lights, culminating in an immersive and interactive experience, where bold shapes and shadows mingled with the silhouettes of the viewers.

Kirsty Handford creates glorious pieces that merge painting and sculpture. Experimenting with materiality and colour, she works by layering paint onto plastic sheets, before removing the backing and resulting in delicate and striking pieces which have their own fluidity and amazing texture! Her degree show works combine fantastically and explore the presentation of the paintings in a number of different ways.

Renée Perreira is a watercolour painter, whose mastery of the medium is used to create delicate yet striking abstract works that reflect the figurative shapes of the female body, hair and limbs. Renée is interesting in how mark making and colour influence her and she also explores ideas of non-form, exploring the relationship between the figurative and the abstract. For Nexus, she presented a collection of watercolour works, where the intricate mark-making reflected veins, flowers and organic structures.

Rosie Elliott is a visual artist interested appropriated photographs and video footage. Her experimentation with techniques such as long exposure, blurring and re-photographing create visually stunning works that play with light, exposure and image manipulation. Using home video archive, her most recent practice has explored notions of memory and repositioning imagery, culminating in an enthralling video installation piece for Nexus, which uses mirrors to manually distort a digitally altered copy of a home video.

Rhiannon Chapman creates paintings and sculptures inspired by her interest with colour, form, words and emotion. Working in vibrant tones, her abstract works take a multitude of forms, playing with the physical deconstruction and reconstruction of her own works, which form new patterns and shapes as her processionals develops. For Nexus, she has created a vivid installation formed of painted canvas, reconstructed through cutting and sewing back together, the work has brilliant materiality and gives a brand new perspective on traditional painting.

All photographs by William Card.