Adaptation and Reinvention

We live in a time of unprecedented change – what does it mean to adapt in 2023? What societal pressures and norms are we forced to adapt to, and what radical potential could autonomous reinvention hold?

Thousand Faces 千面
by Qingqing Zhong
No Llore Por El Petróleo – I Didn’t Cry For The Petrol
by Valeria Guaimare
Two tall organic pillar-like forms connected by a suspended hose, illuminated with dim red light in a studio installation setting.
Nourished, Destroyed.
by Siyuan Chen
Fælles Vand
by Rachel Houston
The Holy Mountain Film Poster
by Maya Randall
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Controlled Chaos
by Lisa-Carlotta Küsters
Sketchbook Pages
by Lisa-Carlotta Küsters
The An Sailean Project – Lime Burning in Scotland
by Paul Huth
A Memory of a Fragile Archive
by Mikhail Nikolaev
A moment of extreme psychic tension; a threshold between death and the birth of a new self. Drawing from the mythic birth of Hades, god of the underworld. The self is not gently transformed, but dragged into becoming through the internal collapse of the old. It captures the final stage of psychic compression, when the old self has nearly died but has not yet released the new form. Visually, the body is curled, veined, and clenched a deathly shell of flesh containing a smoldering coal. The figure doesn’t represent new life in the traditional sense but the emergence of a consciousness forged in the aftermath of trauma, a self that could only exist because the former one didn’t survive. The figure is a tomb and a womb simultaneously. It gives context to the flesh as both container and evidence; the skin of the old self wrapped tightly around the genesis of the next. The myth of Hades doesn’t end in joy or closure; it hovers in the trauma of transition, the brutality of transformation, and the sacred violence of becoming something that has never existed in one’s self before.
Inner, Outer, Center, Self
by Shannen Muhl
Secret Words in Red
by Shannen Muhl
Coltas nan Gàidheal
by Jasmine Mcphee
Stacked chairs beside an empty stage.
Threshold
by Rohan Mahoney
A young man balances between a wall and floor extending a knife toward the ground in an otherwise empty room.
Pieces Like A Lizard
by Rohan Mahoney
An etching on The History of West Prince's Street
West Prince’s Street
by Anna De Souza
Out The Cage
by Anna De Souza
Paper sculpture of a 2D Mary Anning
Squashed and Rolled Out Again
by Anna De Souza
Degree Show
by Anna De Souza
Caerlaverock Castle: Construction Hub (2025)
by Ailsa Carrigan
Original Matters (2024)
by Jonny Keen
Peculiar Company, Oil on Canvas, 100x100cm, Details
by Hope Dunlop-Lynn
You”ll Never be a Zebra, Oil on Canvas, 110x170cm, 2026 Details
by Hope Dunlop-Lynn
Call a Priest, Oil on Canvas, 105x105cm, Details
by Hope Dunlop-Lynn
Turn Dial, Oil on Canvas, 100x100cm, 2026
by Hope Dunlop-Lynn
Turn Dial, Oil on Canvas, 100x100cm, 2026, Details
by Hope Dunlop-Lynn
Poetry 1-6
by Hope Dunlop-Lynn
Anthropomorphic Drawings
by Hope Dunlop-Lynn
Reception
by Amy Al-Khoury
BUZZIN’
by Sunny Yoon
To Sunny Yoon, ComDes ’26 & GSA From Amir Saidani
by Sunny Yoon
For Drawing Out Loud~
by Sunny Yoon
Chapter Three: Inhabit
by Isabella Gibbons
“Howden’s Crossing”
by Isabella Gibbons
One for Sorrow
by Owen Stefani-Bose
Brass & key – A Boutique Hotel & Jazz Bar
by Erin Hill
Capture Us
by Ilyas Watters
The Piano’s Broken Harp
by Coire Simpson
One-Second Escape | 我的身体里有一条河
by Xiaoyi Gong
Ó Na Cruacha
by Hannah Grajciar
Springburn Bird Conservation Centre
by Yurou Liu
WHAT TIME TAKES, TIME SHAPES
by Youyitai Zhang
Methods and Context
by Hanan Hussain
INK-K
by Yuanyue Zhao (Moona)
Taxonomy of Becoming
by Josie Williams
Dissolution
by Josie Williams
Fragile Bodies
by Josie Williams
A Center for the Built Environment
by Maxwell Raymond Berner
Handfast
by Esme Leparoux
Human Chess (2024)
by Jonny Keen
Joint Futures
by Charlie Matheson
Adult Shop Signage
by Natalie Yong
Masquerade I, Oil on Canvas, 250x180cm, 2025/6 Details
by Hope Dunlop-Lynn
The Council of Adaptation, Defence and Loss
by Philippa Cook
Gold Diggers of 1933
by Luyao Wang
Vanishes
by Luyao Wang
Intertidal Negotiation
by Megan Birkby