The Artists

To learn more about the individual artists and their #SotonAstroArt please click on their names below:

Helen Cawley

Helen was one of our artist consultants and she produced two sculptures and a waxed print for exhibits in November 2017, 2019 & February 2020.

Alun Kirby

Alun has produced several pieces from cyanotype exposures for the November 2017 exhibit & a sculpture for the November 2019 and February 2020 exhibits.

Joanna Rose Tidey

The Artist Curator of the ‘Hands on Humanities Day’ Exhibits in November 2017 & 2019 & the ‘Photon Shop’ exhibit at Light Up Poole Digital Arts Festival in February 2020. Joanna has also produced two pieces of work with the astronomy plates.

Melanie King

Melanie leads on the Lumens Residency and exhibited in the November 2017 exhibit.

‘Re-presenting Ancient Light’ (2017), Silver Gelatin Photographs, 15cm x 15cm

Jill Mueller

Jill was one of the 20 artists who were part of Lumen Residency where they were and given plates by artist Melanie King. 


We Are All Made of Stars: Matters of Scale (Box Set) (2018), cyanotype, screenprint, photolithography on fabric, using womb lining microslide and sky survey photographic negative, handmade hinged box, ~1m x 1m, J. Mueller.

Belinda Durrant

Belinda was part of the 2020 exhibit at the Light Up Poole Digital Arts Festival.

‘Field of Improbability (2020), 40 cm x 38cm, Astronomical plate, mixed media

Steph Neve

Steph exhibited in our February 2020 exhibit in the Photon Shop.

Paddy Hamilton

Paddy has done several linoprints for the Nov 2019 and Feb 2020 exhibits with additional work at the Dungeness Studios.

Ashley van Dyck

Ash has produced mixed media Alien Landscapes for all five exhibits ( in Nov 2017, Nov 2018, Feb  2019, Nov 2019 and Feb 2020).

Sadie Tierney

Sadie has produced two mixed media pieces for the Nov 2019 and Feb 2020 exhibits.

Vinny Montag & Kimvi

They exhibited two pieces for the February 2020 exhibit.

Lunares (2020), Photograph, Astronomy plate, 40cm x 40cm.

Jose Lopez Marin 

Produced 5 mixed media works for the November 2017 exhibit.

Claire Zakiewicz

Brittany Sutcliffe

Made a ‘fantasy landscape’ video for the November 2017 exhibit.


The Window (2017). Film Still. (n.d) Video.

Caroline Panico

Produced 2 mixed media pieces for the November 2017 and 2018 exhibits.

Imagined Communities 1 & 2 (2017) Mixed Media, approx 170cm x 150cm

Ed Shaw & Alessandra Costantino

Ed and Alessandra exhibited their work at exhibits in 2019 and 2020.

Light Up Your Dreams (2020), Lightbox with plate, approx 45cm x 45cm x 10cm.

Rebecca Job

Produced 6 pieces for our first exhibit at Hands on Humanities Day in 2017.

Title Unknown (2017), 6 pieces printing on plate, 40cm x 40cm.

Ellie Odurny

Ellie produced 3 artworks for the November 2017 exhibit.

Alice and the Stars (2017), 3 pieces acrylic on astronomy plate, 50cm x 50cm.

Fraser Donachie

Benjamin Farnell


Untitled (2017) Mixed media: Astronomy plate and painting, size unknown

Shona Grant


Tunnel Concertina Book (2017) Mixed media: astronomy plates and card, size unknown. 

Zoe Jackson


Title unavailable, (n.d) Digital artwork, size unknown