MA Fine Art

Richard Kenton Webb is an award-winning artist and educator with over 40 years’ experience teaching in some of the top art schools in the UK, including at The Slade School of Fine Art, London and The Royal Drawing School, London. He has taken part in many residencies overseas like The British School at Rome; Cité International des Arts, Paris; SACI International, Florence; LARQ, Australia; Tao Hua Tan, China; and the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, USA. Richard joined Arts University Plymouth in November 2020 as Subject Leader for our BA (Hons) Painting, Drawing and Printmaking course, and in September 2025 was appointed as a Visiting Professor in Painting. He has a deep connection with the physicality of paint and, as a result, makes his own paints using pigments from the earth. For him, colour is a tangible material – physical paint – that transforms painting into an immersive, sensory experience. Since 1996, his practice and teaching have been an exploration of colour as a language. From 2000 to 2005, he created 22 diptychs representing A Colour Grammar, followed by 22 sculptures titled Colour Forms. From 2007 onwards, he explored Red and Orange; the A Warm / Cold Contrast; then Yellow in Tasmania: followed by A Light / Dark Contrast, a 10-year conversation with Milton’s Paradise Lost, completed in 2021. In 2016, Richard was shortlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize and was awarded the London Sunny Art Prize in 2020. Richard is currently exploring the historic destruction of the visual arts by English iconoclasts. This has resulted in a conversation with Shakespeare and research into the foundation of English creativity, going back to early English poets, mystics, contemplatives and theatre. In 2026, Richard will be spending a month at Whitworth University in Washington State USA as Visiting Professor, showing his work and teaching on the practice of colour. Richard’s work is held in collections in the UK, Europe, China, Mauritius, Japan, Australia, USA and Canada. He is represented by Benjamin Rhodes Arts London where he has had six solo shows since 1987.

William is an artist whose practice explores drawing in an expanded sense through works on paper, print, ceramics and video. William studied a Masters in Drawing at Arts University Plymouth and graduated in 2022 with a Distinction, where his research interests were focused on drawing, performativity and the point where art meets life and what this means for his work. He is one third of art collective Nous Vous and has exhibited in solo and group shows across the UK and internationally. Studio Luz, William’s commercial and commission based studio has produced murals, installations, prints and images for clients including The Barbican, Aesop, The Hepworth Museum, Ace & Tate, Nike and Facebook.

Sarah King is an artist, educator and researcher, and Senior Lecturer and Course Leader for BA (Hons) Fine Art at Arts University Plymouth. Her practice explores relationships between memory, materials and place, with particular attention to care, repair, loss and the more-than-human. Drawing on folklore, ritual and the uncanny, she considers how objects carry traces of lives and landscapes, and how making can become a way of attending to fragile or overlooked things. Sarah works across sculpture, assemblage, textiles, drawing, photography, and performance. Her processes include walking, gathering, observing, wrapping, stitching and arranging. Often working with organic and salvaged materials, she creates objects that suggest relics, domestic forms or speculative tools. These works bring material memory into conversation with imagined possibilities for tending to and mending the impossible. Sustained engagement with place is central to Sarah’s research. Repeated visits to coastal landscapes inform her exploration of memory, folklore, thresholds and more-than-human relationships. Walking, gathering and close observation shape her material processes. Her assemblages consider what materials retain and how they might invite acts of care. Her research project The Lost Object developed through gathering, caring for and transforming materials, exploring their relationship to absence, vulnerability and loss. The project has been shared through exhibitions and performance-lectures, including presentations at Richmond Art Gallery and the Annual Art History Conference at the University of York. She exhibits nationally and internationally and has work held in private collections in the UK and US. Sarah co-convenes Arts University Plymouth’s Memory, Site & Artefact Research Group and is a member of LAND2. She leads the Fine Art degree and teaches across year1 and year3 and contributes to MA teaching, supporting students to develop connections between experimentation, critical enquiry and their individual practices. Her teaching centres on the studio as a place for making, sharing, questioning and learning through dialogue. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and External Examiner for Glasgow School of Art.