About
A NOTE
A degree show occupies a unique space in the minds of our wonderful students. It is a culmination of three years of work and growth, but also an opportunity to reflect on what those three years have meant, the difficulties and triumphs they have experienced translated into the work they have produced and exhibited.
While this need to reflect and process the past is important, it is also a marker of the start of something new, and the start of a journey for them that will help shape what we will become collectively.
The ideas explored and realised across our practice areas grapple with the past, present and future head on – understanding how great work can help us reflect on where we have been, know where we are now and navigate us to a new and hopeful future.
Standing among the work, perhaps you can sense that bright future too?
Damian Owen-Board
Co-head of Media, Communications, and Cultural Studies
WHY ELAPSE?
We chose the title ELAPSE as the theme of the 2026 Degree Show because we wanted to reflect on our journeys as students at Goldsmiths in the context of time and its transience.
ELAPSE resonated with us as students because we are all in spaces where our formal education ends, but where the rest of our lives begin. We embody the time and space between the past and our future selves where one informs and shapes the other.
Our projects capture what captured our interest in our time here, knowing that scenes change like seasons and that trajectories are always upwards depending on where you start from.
As artists and practitioners, we are shaped by our diverse histories and cultures and, since arriving at Goldsmiths, we have worked hard with our classmates to combine those pasts into work that is special, current and forever marked by experience and growth.
This show embodies the hopes and dreams we came here with. Goldsmiths was once our destination, and as time elapsed, it’s now our launchpad.
Degree Show Committee Team