Edinburgh College of Art. BA Degree Show 2025

Artist list

Carmen Rachel Alexander, Emilia Santaella Barreto, Isabel Honey Coles, Lewis Gibson, Rosina Payan Pecorelli

We balance traditional craft techniques with innovative approaches and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Our objective is to encourage our students to produce critically informed work that integrates ideas and practice, to contribute to the ever-evolving creative industry both within and beyond our discipline.

Our philosophy encourages a wide range of approaches and techniques, from the traditional gold and silversmithing trade(s), to the contemporary influences of art, craft, design, technology, and science. This skill and knowledge is also applied by students from across ECA who undertake our elective courses.

Our students are curious, resourceful, independent thinkers who are able to skilfully translate ideas into beautiful and thoughtfully designed artefacts, using appropriate and sustainable materials.
These qualities are ever-present within this year’s group of graduating students, whose final collections are the result of their own independent studio research and practice, completed during their final semester of study.


Artists statements 

Isabel Honey Coles
Under the Microscope was inspired by the landscape of moss that grows in the walls and cracks of the urban scenery around Edinburgh. Upon examining species of moss and fungi under a microscope Isabel found beauty in their spherical forms and detailed textures. Her use of the ancient technique granulation is an integral part of her practice, adding a material value and an intimate experience for the wearer as the technique requires a deep understanding of the materials and processes.

Rosina Payan Pecorelli
I am inspired by the lines and forms I see in architecture, aiming to distil what I absorb from my surroundings, a practice of playing with the shapes that come from the places I am inspired by. Drawn to modern and Brutalist architecture that has begun its journey back to nature, the neatness of these structural forms contrasted with their weather-y decay creates exciting surfaces and shapes. I aim to capture this with patina that will change over time with the wearer, each piece gaining a story in itself.

Carmen Rachel Alexander
Friday Street explores the interplay between metalsmithing, analogue photography and storytelling. 
Fascinated by the past lives of objects, this body of work is inspired by weekly trips to Friday Street, a car boot sale in Suffolk, and the objects I’ve collected along the way. By reflecting on the stories and histories that these ‘everyday trinkets’ hold, this collection explores my own connection with them, and the joys of discovering something new in the old. 

Emilia Santaella Barreto
Emilia's collection offers symbolic protective barriers for the body. Each piece serves not only to adorn but also as a narrative object that reflects personal and cultural histories emphasizing the tension between ideas of safety and danger. The pieces are influenced by Emilia's own sense of uncertainty and fear.
Some of the pieces are modelled in response to chainmail, which unlike other types of armour, has a textile quality that moves with the body—like a second skin. Flexible yet strong when crafted in silver.  The protection offered is more symbolic than practical, creating an illusion of safety.

Lewis Gibson
My collection of wall pieces takes inspiration from Scottish Landscape. I want to capture the emotions I feel as an observer being enveloped into the natural scenery and for the viewer to experience the Scottish landscape through my wall pieces.


Names of guiding teachers
Jennifer Gray, Program Director.
Susan Cross, Reader.
Dr. Maria Maclennan, Senior Lecturer.
Heather Woof, Teaching Fellow.
Mirka Janeckova, Teaching Fellow.