Photograph of biomaterials created by Arts University Plymouth MA Student Natalia Lombardi

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Artificialia is a practice-led exploration of mineral collections, reinterpreting historical artefacts through sculpture, print, and objects to examine authenticity, heritage, and contemporary display practices.

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Research Group
Reference
Ashton, B., (2025). Artificialia. [Practice Research]. (2022-2024). Arts University Plymouth. DOI: 10.66992/GvV04u
Publish Date
2024

In 2023, Ocean at The Levinsky Gallery brought together science and creativity through commissioned works exploring Drake’s Island, Eddystone Lighthouse, and Plymouth Sound’s underwater world.

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Reference
Ashton, B., (2023). Ictis. [Artefact]. At Levinsky Gallery. DOI: 10.66992/LdARvX
Publish Date
2023

Group exhibition piece featuring twenty-one cardboard rocks referencing 19th-century Pulhamite. Mailed to MIRROR, Plymouth to form the Wall of Wonder, each bears postal marks, travel traces and firework-scorched remnants from earlier displays.

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Reference
Ashton, B., (2023). Wall of Wonder. [Artefact]. At Mirror Gallery, Arts University Plymouth. DOI: 10.66992/yayZxl
Publish Date
2023

Conference presentation on the Impacts of Book Format on the Creation and Reading of Branching Narratives in Print Comics.

Research Group
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Wright, B., (2025) ‘The impacts of book format on the creation and reading of branching narratives in print comics’, paper presented at Illustration and the Paper Artefact, Falmouth University, Falmouth, Cornwall, UK, 4-7 September 2025. DOI: 10.66992/IvadGw
Publish Date
2025

Colossal, a mobile print studio, operates as evolving artwork and research method, generating knowledge through embodied, participatory practice across contexts, exploring labour, imagery, authorship, and post-digital engagement

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Research Group
Reference
Lewry, S., (2025). Colossal [Research Practice] (2025). Art University Plymouth. DOI: 10.66992/VGqazF
Publish Date
2025

Exploring how the materiality of drawing has the ability to expand our relational understanding of the world around us.

Reference
Fieldsend-Danks, P., (2020). Drawing-In-Situ: Material Encounters with Place. Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice. 5 (1). pp 111 - 117
Publish Date
2020