Introduction to the Arts SU Collaborative Residency 2025-2026

Meet the students participating in the Arts SU’s Collaborative Residency programme!

Connecting Creative Practices

Written by Angie Fung, Student Exhibition Assistant

In October 2025, ten UAL students from across different courses and colleges were selected through an open call to form this year’s Collaborative Residency cohort. The Collaborative Residency is based in the Crits Hub in High Holborn, an alternative space designed to support student’s artistic development beyond the usual course structure by reimagining feedback sharing practices.

Though coming from different creative backgrounds and research focuses, members of the cohort are all interested in collaborating with other students, learning through experimenting and sharing knowledge with an interdisciplinary approach. Let’s get to know them a bit more through their introductions!

Xindi Hu, MA Fine Art: Painting, Camberwell

My practice explores the intersections of deep time, mythology, and feminine visuality through painting, printmaking, drawing, and ceramics. In my paintings, soft brushstrokes and translucent oil layers evoke temporal depth, mirroring erosion, sedimentation, and emotional residue. For this residency, I want to connect with UAL’s cross-disciplinary creative initiatives and explore new forms of collaboration. I believe art flourishes through shared voices. And working with others fosters collective awareness and care within our communities and toward the world we inhabit.

Sam Hwang, MA Music Production, LCC

Hi, my name is Sam (Hsin Hwang), I am a DJ and Music Producer originally from Taiwan. I am active in playing shows across continents and countries as well as working with record labels globally as an independent artist. I specialize in House music, while I produce and compose all types of sounds and music creations for clients ranging from the Taipei City Fire Department, Taishin International Bank, brands that want unique music and sounds catering to their visual products, and some touring DJs. I want to do this Collaborative Residency for this exact reason. While I do have passion and love electronic music and DJing, throughout the experiences in my career, I have found a lot of purpose and growth in connecting with bright minds from any background in producing a product that accelerates and am able to reach a broader mass and different markets. My goal is to help and provide unique and top-notch productions to as many people as possible, and this is a great way to set my foot in the door in order to do so. 

​Philippa Bandurek Bradbury, PhD Graphic Communication Design, CSM

I am an artist and designer exploring communication, accessibility, and lived experience through drawing, print, and research. My practice often begins with reclaimed printed pages and develops through tactile mark-making and layered storytelling. I’m currently preparing for a solo exhibition in Antrim and for a drawing to be shown at Christie’s in London, building on ideas that began during a residency in Guangzhou, where I explored drawing as a shared language. I wanted to take part in the Collaborative Residency to build on these experiences in a more cross-disciplinary space, working alongside others to discover new ways of thinking, making, and connecting.

Tricia Wong, MA Illustration, Camberwell

Hi! I’m Tricia Wong, an MA Illustration student at Camberwell College of Arts. I mostly work digitally, making an illustrated book and have made an illustrated book, but I’m also into motion storytelling, comics, poetry, and clay modelling. I’m really interested in "Community Spaces" and have been exploring them around Peckham and London. With the residency, I want to do more than just observe — I want to help create the space and host events that students can join in, have fun, and feel part of something. My goal is to make a lively, welcoming environment where everyone can connect and enjoy.

Priyal Patel, MSc Computing in the Creative Industries (Modular), CCI

I’m Priyal, a Visual and Industrial designer by profession currently studying Creative Computing to see how code and computation can bring ideas to life in playful and interactive ways. I’m fascinated by how technology can reveal hidden patterns, uncover unexpected beauty and inspire new ways of seeing and making.

I love bringing together what I’ve learned from different disciplines and seeing what emerges when different approaches collide. Being around people with diverse perspectives, working together on the same project, often sparks surprising ideas and new forms of expression and I’m really excited to explore how fashion, performance, or fine art can influence my work, and how computation, in turn, can amplify theirs. Through this residency, I hope to position technology not just as a tool but as a collaborator, helping create experiences that mix human intuition with algorithmic logic.

Yusuke Kuriki, MA Fine Art, CSM

I’m a Japanese–Korean artist from Tokyo, currently developing a practice in sculpture, painting, and multisensory installation. My work explores how materials—elemental matter and everyday objects—carry histories, memories, and hidden hierarchies of visibility and power. I’m inspired by collaboration and the energy that emerges when ideas are shared across disciplines. I joined the Collaborative Residency to learn from others, explore new ways of thinking and making together, and hopefully have some fun along the way!

Ziyan Liu, MA Fine Art, CSM

Ziyan is a concept-driven artist whose practice centers on the exploration of materials and ideas. Her interests range widely across bio-translated information, bodily responses, psychoanalysis, ideological critique, political narratives, and themes of family and contemporary Chinese society. She approaches the relationship between material and concept with an intuitive yet analytical sensitivity.

She is applying to this residency to deepen her critical engagement with social and cultural ideologies through new material practices. The program’s interdisciplinary environment attracts her, as she hopes to collaborate with others, expand her technical understanding of diverse media, and cultivate meaningful conceptual exchange.

Harriet Powell, BA Fine Art, Camberwell (with CCI Diploma year)

My name is Harriet, and I am a London-based multidisciplinary artist. My practice primarily explores material interactions, drawing inspiration from scientific phenomena and mathematical principles, with a current focus on chaos theories. I enjoy pushing materials and techniques into new spaces where they can transform into more sculptural forms. 

I am currently studying for a diploma in creative computing and am exploring ways to incorporate technology into my work, examining how this can alter its trajectory. This interest led me to participate in this collaborative residency. I wanted to see how different perspectives and disciplines can reshape my approach to materials and form, offering new ways of thinking through collective idea sharing.

Hiranya Toor (Rany), BA Graphic & Media Design, LCC

I am Hiranya (He-run-yea), a visual communication designer leaning into experimental and interaction design. I investigate how meaning is not fixed but shaped through engagement. My practice treats design as a form of applied philosophy, drawing from psychology, critical theory, and cultural research to build speculative systems in typography, code, and narrative. This creates work that is an open proposition, a logic for the audience to step into, question, and complete, challenging how we perceive everyday interactions.

I joined this Collaborative Residency to move this inquiry from print and screen into spatial, experiential design. I am specifically motivated to explore how a combined, interdisciplinary practice can forge new pathways for shared story and interaction, and I am here to learn from and build with others.

Ibn Faiz, MA Fashion Film & Digital Production, LCF

Ibn Faiz is a Creative Director from East Atlanta, Georgia. He communicates through photography, film, and clothing design, using cinematic tools to pull emotion from real life. His work explores narrative, symbolism, and visual texture to examine social and political realities, while developing a creative voice rooted in the truth and beauty of his own cultures and those that resonate with him.

The 2025-2026 residency runs from mid-October 2025 to March 2026. With the support of Arts SU's Arts Programmer Aisling Ward, the cohort has been meeting regularly to develop a space of mutual care and support through a series of activities including skills sharing workshops, exhibition visits, peer crit sessions, masterclasses and artist talks by external practitioners. Their experiences will consolidate in an exhibition at Camberwell College of Arts’ project space opening in March 2026. Stay tuned for more details and behind-the-scenes snippets!

Images: Graphic notes from first meeting. The students brainstormed and shared what they would like to get out of the residency, ways they can work together and envisions for the exhibition. 

Article Written by Angie Fung, Student Exhibition Coordinator

Collaborative Residency initiated by Aisling Ward, Arts Programmer

The Collaborative Residency students will exhibiting their projects at Camberwell College of Arts on Thursday 5th March, join us for their Private View by booking a ticket here!