Contemporary Craft winner Emma Samuelsson
Emma is a Ceramics BFA graduate from HDK-Valand – Academy of Art and Design and is based in Skövde.
Emma's series From Soil You Came, As Soil You Shall Return engages people through art to raise questions about how we value our nature and highlighting its transience and decay.
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Digital Arts - Joint Winner Emma X Zhang
Emma is a Fine Art MFA graduate from RMIT University and is based in Melbourne.
Emma's project Enter The Underground looks at how natural phenomena can be manipulated through fragmented images; organising and duplicating online archives of microcosms and organisms.
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Digital Arts - Joint Winner Filipp Groubnov
Filipp is a Digital Arts MA graduate from Royal Academy of Art The Hague KABK and is based in Den Haag.
Filipp's work Pochva reconstructs in digital form the artist's memory of his grandparent' Belarusian village; the pochva soil alive with billions of living organisms.
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Fine Art Winner Maris Van Vlack
Maris is a Textiles BFA graduate from Rhode Island School of Design and is based in Boston.
Maris' series Destrucción uses imagery of architectural ruins to create woven tapestries of an imagined surreal landscape, which represents a family story of loss and destruction.
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machine in room (2022-12-01) by Francis SnymanGlobal Design Graduate Show
Installation/Sculpture winner Francis Snyman
Francis is a Fine Art BAFA graduate from Michaelis School of Fine Art and is based in Cape Town.
Francis' installation Ongeluksfontein is inspired by a plague of locusts that devastated her family's farm in South Africa's Karoo region - Ongeluksfontein, the misfortune fountain.
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Jewellery winner Charitini Gkritzali
Charitini is a Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship MAS graduate from ECAL University of Art and Design Lausanne and is based in Athens.
Charitini's Topology of the Body is a series of body jewellery pieces that closely conform to human anatomy in stainless steel or copper wire.
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To Sting Like A Bee - Jesse Clark (2023) by Jesse ClarkGlobal Design Graduate Show
Photography Winner Jesse Clark
Jesse is a Photography and Imaging BFA graduate from Ringling College of Art and Design and based in Sarasota.
Jesse's series To Sting Like A Bee is a photobook and exhibition that explores themes of black beauty, black identity and overcoming social injustices.
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Fine Art/Photo/Craft Public Vote Winner Ayshin Jalil Zadeh
Ayshin is a Jewellery and Objects BA Hons graduate from Birmingham City University and is based in Birmingham.
Ayshin's series Silk Road is crafted from a blend of metal and handwoven silk Persian carpets, contrasting deconstructivist architecture with rich Persian culture.
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Meet all the Global Design Graduate Show 2023 Winners
Emma X Zhang: Sound Composition Dylan Marelic / Filipp Groubnov: Soil Sensor Design Annemerel Mol & David Strik, Wageningen University, Unity Design & Sensor Connection Ilya Doreanu / Emma Samuelsson: Photography David Eng.
