Fragmented Connections
MA Fine Art Online Graduate Showcase, January 2026
We’re delighted to present the work of nine new graduates in this online showcase, Fragmented Connections. Through the latter months of 2025, these artists produced ambitious public-facing exhibitions and events both online and on the ground across the UK – in Wales, Scotland, London, Yorkshire and Cornwall – and internationally in Germany, Vietnam, the US and Italy. Their projects are the culmination of two years of study across five modules on MA Fine Art Online at Falmouth and, collectively, these bodies of work enliven our course values – they are collaborative, critically and politically engaged, committed to both local relationships and international connection. We celebrate this work here, and look forward to seeing it develop!
Josie Cockram, Course Lead
The work produced by this graduating group has engaged with a variety of themes including memory, loss, gender and social justice and has been presented in spaces from Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam to Texas in the US, from Bologna in Italy to Roscrow in Cornwall. Many of the projects have sought to reveal frictions and resistances across these themes, not necessarily in an overt way, rather through the nuanced translation of gestures, stories, histories, memories, actions, energy, networks, and vibrations into forms and formats that are quietly resonant.
Despite the requirements of the brief for a public facing outcome, there is a kind of closeness and subtlety to this online showcase, exploring the relational links between bodies and other bodies, materials, and the more-than-human world. Many of the projects have explored a togetherness that is intimate and, in some cases, that transcends temporal and geographical boundaries, moving across friendships, familial and personal relationships to connections with historical figures and narratives. Some have explored questions of connectivity in the face of social injustice and racial discrimination, whilst others have extended their networks to non-human life forms, plants and trees.
I find this fascinating within the context of an online programme – that notions of connectedness have emerged at the core of the showcase. I can’t help but think of bell hooks’ writing on love when I reflect on these students’ projects, which explores how compassion and connection come to be in a world community:
To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility. [..] When we are loving we openly and honestly express care, affection, responsibility, respect, commitment, and trust *
It has been my pleasure to lead the Final Major Project module for these students, and along with their FMP supervisors, support them to navigate their public facing outcomes and connections formed with the public, with each other, and with their human and non human collaborators. We are proud to present a quietly compelling body of student work in this showcase.
Kate Fahey, Final Major Project Module Lead
Special thanks to the following for all their work and support:
Academic team: Josie Cockram, Kate Fahey, Mohini Chandra, Jo Griffin, Evan Ifekoya, Srin Surti, Lucy Sames, Mary Anne Francis, Flora Bowden,
Luke Dowd, Charlie Duck, Tom Baugh and Rachelle Knowles
Student Support, Academic Support & Digital Learning: Rachael Burhouse, Rachel Tor, Catherine Worrall and everyone in our Digital Learning team
The organisational partners and creative collaborators who are acknowledged on the artists’ individual project pages and websites
The friends, family and support networks of all graduating artists!
*hooks, bell (1999). All About Love: New Visions. New York: Harper Perennial