MFA 2025 showcase

Clockwise from top left: Elaine Mcginn, Susanne Horsch, Joanne Proctor, Jenny King, and Anya Nicholl

We’re delighted to be showcasing a selection of work by 2025 graduates from the Masters in Fine Art at Belfast School of Art. Fresh from the end-of-year exhibitions, we are bringing these works together in our city centre space to create some additional visibility for the graduates’ incredibly hard work. Congratulations all!

About the artists: 

Anya Nicholl 

My tools for understanding the events that happened in 79 BC are the many personal items left behind by the inhabitants of Pompeii and Herculaneum, and focusing on the excavators/archaeologists who discovered them.

@anya.art0

Jenny King: Snare, acrylic on canvas, 2025

Inspired by surrealism, I use acrylic paints on canvas blending surrealist amalgamations of nature, animals and human features to create ethereal dreamscapes. My paintings encapsulate themes of dreaming, escapism and a longing for the natural world while also highlighting our deviation from it. 

@cherubi_art

Elaine Mcginn 

Drawing from previous studies in art therapy and focusing on the nature of creativity, my work has taken on a contrast of media and material that is reflective of the poignant and precarious questions surrounding family, roles and relationships. My art work often incorporates diverse materials and processes, integrating resonances of both the domestic and the post-industrial environments of our time.

@elainemcginnartist  

Joanne Proctor: detail from Self, 2025

The work encompasses the expanded field of contemporary drawing in its broadest sense, on and beyond the paper support and within a multidisciplinary context with a meticulous approach including sound, poetry, stitching, burning, cutting, sculptural elements, biomatter, etc, with a curiosity of life’s systems, cycles and transitions.

Susanne Horsch: Pretzel, 2025 

Pretzel is a soft sculpture which was a part of Susanne’s most recent installation, made for her MFA graduate show. A key focus of her practice lies in the intricate relationship between mind and body. Her work is informed by feminist, queer, and affect theories, exploring how emotions, thoughts, and lived experiences shape individual and collective identities. Recurring imagery—such as intestinal tubes, tentacle-like forms, and organic bodily shapes— continue to emerge from her emotional documentation and illustration practice. 

@susanne_horsch_art