Chelsea UAL MA Degree Show 2025: Emerging Talent from Art School Graduates
The Chelsea UAL MA Degree Show 2025 is a celebration of fresh artistic voices and bold experimentation. This year's graduating cohort showcases the next wave of creative talent, with works spanning sculpture, installation, digital media and hybrid practices. We've selected four standout artists pushing boundaries in form, material and concept.
Whether you're a curator, gallerist, collector or art lover, these rising stars from Chelsea College of Arts deserve your attention.
Bunga Yuridespita: Fractured Colour and the Architecture of Memory
Bunga Yuridespita’s sculptural work is a kaleidoscope of geometric forms and mirrored surfaces, blending the structural logic of architecture with the emotional charge of abstraction. Her piece on display at Chelsea UAL’s MA Degree Show immediately catches the eye — a standing composition of frames, angles, reflections, and colours that create visual friction and dynamism.
Constructed from multicoloured material and tinted glass, the piece appears almost animate. You move around it, and it shifts — new perspectives emerge, new shadows are cast. Yuridespita’s use of industrial materials echoes modernist design, but with a playful twist that suggests memory, identity, and the layered nature of perception.
Her work invites interpretation. Is it a futuristic totem? A fractured cabinet of curiosities? A postmodern homage to stained glass? Whatever your take, Yuridespita’s architectural fluency and her confident use of colour mark her as a name to watch among this year’s emerging talent.
Amy Kaluzhny: Neon Bodies and Sculptural Play
In a darkened corner of the MA Degree Show space, Amy Kaluzhny’s luminous sculptures glow with uncanny presence. Shaped like human legs mid-fall — often with high heels still attached — her fluorescent figures are witty, strange, and full of narrative potential.
Kaluzhny works in UV-reactive materials, and her colour palette leans toward radiant blues, greens and yellows that seem to hover in the air. Each sculpture is arranged in a way that suggests a paused moment from a surreal fashion photoshoot, or the aftermath of a chaotic scene. Legs in the air, shoes flung — they’re joyful and absurd, but also quietly unsettling.
By isolating and repeating body parts, Kaluzhny explores femininity, performance and the performative body in space. The use of light elevates everything into a charged aesthetic experience.
Hao Zheng’s Vivid Faces and Flowing Forms
Hao Zheng presents striking, colorful paintings. His work uses bright colors and strong, swirling shapes. Faces in his paintings seem to fold into flower-like forms. These images blend human features with natural elements, creating a powerful visual effect. The faces feel almost alive, while also abstract. In the first painting above, vibrant colours explode across the canvas, while faces dissolve into petals and swirling shapes. This makes the work feel both emotional and energetic.
In the second piece, Zheng shifts to softer tones with a beige background. Here, six white masks float across the canvas. They link together in a flower-like organism. The shapes are fluid and elegant, showing a quieter side of his style. This contrast between vivid and subtle helps reveal Zheng’s versatility. His art seems to explore identity and nature with equal care.
Sophie Zhu’s Playful, Abstract Panels
Sophie Zhu offers a different take on contemporary painting. Her work features three long, rectangular panels taped to the wall. The panels lean and drape onto the floor, creating a dynamic installation.
Zhu’s paintings use soft pinks and greens. A purple horse gallops across the middle panel, adding a joyful touch. Though abstract, her work feels bright and uplifting. It invites viewers to enjoy color, movement, and natural themes.
Chelsea UAL Graduate Art: Fresh Voices and Bold Visions
These four artists represent the fresh voices emerging from Chelsea UAL. Their work reflects a blend of bold imagination and skilled technique. The Chelsea UAL MA Degree Show 2025 is full of work worth discovering.
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