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Autobiography and the Self

Works that explore their maker’s lives or own stories, memories or experiences. These works will often explore the politics of the self as well as personal and political identity, and methods of making these parts of ourselves visible.

Veils of Trauma (2025)

The Veils of Trauma (2025)

by Ronan Deane Donnachie

Cognitive Dissonance in Black and White

by Margaret Susan Botchway

A mounted impala head displayed on a wallpapered photograph of a taxidermy warehouse

by The Lion Room

Self-portrait, 2026

Two tall organic pillar-like forms connected by a suspended hose, illuminated with dim red light in a studio installation setting.

Nourished, Destroyed.

By the Wind, 2024–ongoing

a bright painting of a set of sharp edged polyhedral dice

Theatre Of The Mind

by Ellice Tytler

160 x 200cm, Oil on Linen, 2025

Let’s Go Away for Awhile

by Keith Malone

Sketchbook Pages

by Lisa-Carlotta Küsters

Between the Sheets Mural

by Allegra Lavinia Fleur

An Exercise in Tethering-to

by Aurora Bucca

Synthesis, 2025.

Synthesis (2024)

by Ronan Deane Donnachie

Bumblebee 2025

The Bumblebee (2025)

by Ronan Deane Donnachie

by Yulia Skulskikh

You Witnessed Me Walking

by Lorna Swinney

Me and ‘Me’

“The Arts are for Everyone”

by Maddison Eliza Hutchison

Laser cut01

About having a home

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

Stacked chairs beside an empty stage.

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

Distemper painting of figure with scissors thrown to the head

by Anna De Souza

by Anna De Souza

Distemper paintings of conjoined twins

Conjoined Twins

by Anna De Souza

Paper sculpture of a 2D Mary Anning

Squashed and Rolled Out Again

by Anna De Souza

Etching of a Bog body

by Anna De Souza

Sleepless Rest, three etchings on dreamscapes

by Anna De Souza

by Anna De Souza

by Anna De Souza

by Anna De Souza

Peculiar Company, Oil on Canvas, 100x100cm 2025

by Hope Dunlop-Lynn

Peculiar Company, Oil on Canvas, 100x100cm, Details

by Hope Dunlop-Lynn

You”ll Never be a Zebra, Oil on Canvas, 110x170cm, 2026

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, 2026

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

Anthropomorphic Drawings

by Hope Dunlop-Lynn

Creative Platform Exhibition 2026

by Avril Richford Riddick

GSA Degree Show 2026

by Avril Richford Riddick

by Arabella Goff

Oil painting of a woman wearing a polka dot dress taking a selfie in a dresser mirror with a bed, air conditioning unit, and Venetian blinds behind her.

November 25, 2023 7:18:24 PM

oil painting in a predominantly orange hue that depicts a woman with tattoos in a body con, digitally printed dress and bright green sandals taking a selfie in an entryway with a tiled floor and two panels of 6 mirror squares facing each other in front of and behind her.

48 Minutes Before Consensual Jouissance

photo of a CMYK screen print photographed on a wooden floor. The image that was screen printed is a selfie taken on a phone. The woman is on a bed, nude but covered up by her hand and angles. Her reflection is in the background.

I love you, I trust you.

To Sunny Yoon, ComDes ’26 & GSA From Amir Saidani

For Drawing Out Loud~

Spilt Milk – the emotional significance of objects.

over the shoulder view of a projection showing a tattoo needle on a white background

by Abi Rosa Ebbatson

Try To See In The Dark

Tâi-uân Gín-á

by Winnie (Wei-Yin) Wang

What is a Taiwanese?

by Winnie (Wei-Yin) Wang

“Howden’s Crossing”

by Isabella Gibbons

‘Dhivehige Anhenun / ދިވެހިގެ އަންހެނުން’, Film

by Malak Naseem

‘Aishath, Aminath, އާމިނަތު, އައިޝަތު’

by Malak Naseem

‘Aishath, Aminath, އާމިނަތު, އައިޝަތު’ – Installation

by Malak Naseem

Thermal Encounter

by Joanne Ning / 林心

Accelerated Heartbeat: Hike to Fagradalsfjall Volcano

by Joanne Ning / 林心

My Heart, My Touch, My Breath (the drawing)

by Joanne Ning / 林心

My Heart, My Touch, My Breath (the video)

by Joanne Ning / 林心

My Heart, My Touch, My Breath (the instrument)

by Joanne Ning / 林心

by Joanne Ning / 林心

persistence | 余響

by Coire Simpson

One-Second Escape ｜我的身体里有一条河

About Having a Home

‘Birdhouse’ Final Collection

by Yuanyue Zhao (Moona)

Degree Show Overview- Note to Self

by Arabella Goff

Blanket Tapestry featuring collagraph illustrations of the chosen objects, in a quilt/granny square style.

Blanket Tapestry

by Rebecca Chaplain

Giggles- a trinket my Gran used to collect.

The Provenance of Grief

by Rebecca Chaplain

The Body After the Screen

by Thea Crawford

Untitled Portraits

Masquerade I, Oil on Canvas, 250x180cm, 2025/6 Details

by Hope Dunlop-Lynn

Am I Just making Wallpaper

by Finn Roberts