City & Guilds of London Art School

DEGREE SHOW 2026

Student Spotlight: Julie Arantes, Graduate Diploma Arts: Fine Art

“My work draws on domestic scenes, familiar objects, and details that often go unnoticed. Photography is an essential part of my process, serving both as a tool for observation and investigation. I am interested in the journey of an image between photography and painting, and in the ways it transforms when reconstructed through watercolour. Through this process, observation, memory, and imagination begin to coexist. While painting remains at the centre of my practice, I also experiment with other media as a way of expanding these investigations."

Image credit 1: featuring ‘Plane Tree Winter I’ and ‘Plane Tree Winter II’, watercolour on paper, 66 × 50 cm each, 2026
Image credit 2: working on ‘Plane Tree Winter’, process photograph, 2026
Image credit 3: ‘Little Blue Lizard on the Ceiling’, cast glass sculpture, 20 × 5.5 × 2 cm, 2026
Image credit 4: ‘6:42 AM’, watercolour on paper, 35 × 27 cm, 2026
Image credit 5: studio view, 2026

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Degree Show 2026
Saturday 20 June - Friday 26 June

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DEGREE SHOW 2026

Student Spotlight: Kinvara Tims, BA (Hons) Conservation: Books & Paper

“For one of my final year projects I've been working on this 18th century manuscript Qur'an belonging to a private client. The book contains 300 pages of manuscript text, with a richly illuminated frontispiece. The text on each page is surrounded by ruled lines gilded in brass, and over time the copper content in the gilding has corroded, causing fractures in the paper where it is eating through the pages. My conservation treatment involved repairing the damaged pages before removing the non-original binding and rebinding the book in a modified Islamic binding, while keeping the old boards. The missing envelope flap, a typical feature of Islamic bindings, has been replaced, and repairs made to the boards, covering, and pages."

Image credit 1: In the studio removing old adhesive from the book's spine
Image credit 2: Illuminated frontispiece after treatment
Image credit 3: Fore-edge corners before and after rebinding
Image credit 4: Repaired copper corrosion damage

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Degree Show 2026
Saturday 20 June - Friday 26 June

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DEGREE SHOW 2026

India Adams (BA (Hons) Fine Art), will be holding a performance at 3pm on 24 June, within the Degree Show, titled ‘Keeps Fleshless Breath in me'.

This is a collaborative performance with , sounds are composed by and drawing by Barnaby Hopping ()

Degree Show 2026
Saturday 20 June - Friday 26 June

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DEGREE SHOW 2026 OPEN TOMORROW

Student Spotlight: India Adams, BA (Hons) Fine Art

“The appropriation of expression and material comes through a need to follow a feeling, an intuition to physically adapt with the dialogue that is being had with a specific material. All requiring different interactions. Limitations of references have become more prominent as my work has developed with the interest in the capturing of what we remember. The new shapes that these take in our imaginations, running with the freedom of an unknown end point. So my change in environments is the most impacted on me and is my reference. It also sets a perimeter in which some materials can be naturally more inclined to develop than others. This natural process with the ‘choosing’ of materials is something I feel I want to nourish."

Image 1: The collective ‘It's easy to see without looking too far’, 2026
Image 2: 'I am dreaming standing up', 2026, 175 x 110 (x2)
Image 3: 'Look for the rips, they are the exits', 2026, 1155 x 146
Image 4: 'My changing blood that hoards', 2026, 26 x 28.5



Degree Show 2026
Saturday 20 June - Friday 26 June

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DEGREE SHOW 2026

Student Spotlight: Daisy Armstrong, BA (Hons) Fine Art

“Through the transformation of everyday objects using sculpture, painting, and glasswork, I preserve traces of my life, creating works that can exist between preservation and disappearance. In permitting my own vulnerability to be seen through the transformation of these familiar objects, the spaces I create allow reflection and reveal the emotional weight they carry. I currently work with plaster, Modroc, glass, and paint. I embrace materials that in the same way as humans will shift, fracture, and partially fail. These moments in making become integral to my work, creating forms that feel delicate, bodily, and ghost-like whilst exploring vulnerability, care, and the traces we leave behind."

Image credit 1: Studio shot, 2026
Image credit 2-5: 'NARCISSUS', dimensions variable, 2026



Degree Show 2026
Saturday 20 June - Friday 26 June

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DEGREE SHOW 2026

Student Spotlight: Dexter Landesman-Chung, BA (Hons) Fine Art

“My work explores the realms that lie between the uncanny and the unconscious, shaped by a desire to find belonging in a place to which I am connected yet from which I feel alienated. The relationship between paint as a material and its ability to evoke the struggle behind the search for belonging is central to my practice. I explore its malleable qualities, which visually capture what the eye recognises but also rejects."

Image credit 1: Studio shot, 2026
Image credit 2: 'Padfoot, welcome home’ (2025) 152.4 x 101.6 cm, Oil on canvas (Close-up)
Image credit 3: ‘Host’ (2026) 50 x 60 cm, Oil on canvas (Close-up
Image credit 4: 'Traeth Coch’ (2026) 120 x 150 cm, Oil on canvas (Close-up)



Degree Show 2026
Saturday 20 June - Friday 26 June

🔗 See full visiting information and opening hours on our website, link in bio.