Wilfred Southall Sustainability Awards
We are delighted to be working in partnership with Bath Spa University to award grants to students who have demonstrated exceptional work in one or more of the following three categories:
- Sustainable Communication
A project or process that re-presents a contemporary issue or re-considers engagement with a contentious issue in a national or international context. - Sustainable Fabrication
A project or process that makes innovative or ingenious use of materials, promoting material circulation/the circular economy, or energy conscious solutions (including online) in design, sculptural, or material intervention. - Sustainable Community Engagement
A project or process that uses diverse or unexpected collaboration to promote social cohesion/inclusion or reconciliation.
Criteria
The Award is open to taught postgraduate students in Bath School of Art, Film and Media and Bath School of Design. There is no application process – current students will be nominated by lecturers from the schools and selected by an external panel. Students selected for the award will deliver a presentation to peers and staff in the year following their MA qualification.
Awards of £1,000 per category will be given in two instalments: £800 will be paid to the student following an award ceremony at the MA Degree show in September and the balance of £200, when the student has made a presentation on the development of their project to the School of Art, Film and Media and Bath School of Design.
Award Winners 2025
The winners of the Wilfred Southall Sustainability Awards for 2025 are Lindsay Woodman, Philip Ringland and Charley Fenton-Moore.
The awards were judged by Steve Dutton (BSU Emeritus Professor of Fine Art), Dr Julian Greaves (BSU Sustainability Manager) and Hannah Whiting (BSU Business Development Manager).
Lindsay Woodman
Sustainable Communication
A project or process that re-presents a contemporary issue or re-considers engagement with a contentious issue in a national or international context.
Philip Ringland
Sustainable Fabrication
A project or process that makes innovative or ingenious use of materials, promoting material circulation/the circular economy, or energy conscious solutions (including online) in design, sculptural, or material intervention.
Charley Fenton-Moore
Sustainable Community Engagement
A project or process that uses diverse or unexpected collaboration to promote social cohesion/inclusion or reconciliation
MA Design and MA Fine Art at Bath Spa University
The MA Design and MA Fine Art programmes at Bath Spa University are dynamic, proactive and responsive. Students are encouraged to look broadly across the fields of Art and Design, whilst delving deeply into their own specialist practices.
Learning in conjunction, students from the two programmes are taught and supported by a wide range of specialist lecturers and by one another. They evolve clear practical, developmental approaches to their medium, with grounded individual research questions and critical rigour. The works they create through this process of thinking through making, are carefully designed to suit their specific professional contexts.
For more information, please visit this dedicated Bath Spa University webpage about the awards.