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MullenLowe NOVA Awards 2025: the nominees

Submission by Dieter Vlasich Obermann
Submission by Dieter Vlasich Obermann
Credit: Dieter Vlasich Obermann, 2025
Written by
Tanya Campbell Published date
11 June 2025
A hidden warmth
Credit: Jamie Pazmino, 2025

Congratulations to the 51 nominees

Central Saint Martins has a global reputation for change-making through creative practice. We create and practise ideas, materials, systems and actions for a better future in a more-than-human world.

This show season, our graduating students will exhibit their work across art, design and performance, evidencing our mission to regenerate creativity for real, productive change. From our pool of more than 1,000 students, fifty-one have been nominated as contenders for the MullenLowe NOVA Awards for Fresh Creative Talent.

Their work illustrates the collective coming-of-age of creatives living in the Anthropocene. Through a variety of media, material and methodologies, their work embodies common themes of identity, nature, consumption, tradition, religion, queerness, our connection and interdependence with one another and other life forms, the fragility and conversely, the power of the world we live in, and the transitioning of time.

Congratulations to each of our 51 nominees for #MLGNOVA for creating an outstandingly strong collection for this fifteen edition of the Nova awards.

See the work at the CSM 2025 shows and online via UAL Showcase

Look out for the MullenLowe NOVA nominated projects at the CSM Shows: 2025,19 - 22 June and at CSM Shows: Postgraduate Art, 2-6 July, and online via the UAL Showcase.

The 2025 list of Nominees

Zhongyuan Zhang

BA Fine Art

Franklin Collins

BA Fine Art

Ivet Monova

BA Fine Art

Quinnely Rose

BA Fine Art

Felix Gumbsch

MA Fine Art

Jamie Pazmino

MA Fine Art

Bethany Kohrt

MA Fine Art Digital

Juls Montinola

MA Art and Science

Sigrid Bannenberg

MA Art and Science

Stela Csizmazia

MA Contemporary Photography

Yuming Lu

MA Contemporary Photography

Dieter Vlasich Obermann

BA Fashion

Ayham Masleh

BA Fashion

Orion Hough

BA Fashion Communication

Luisa Cortes Villaveces

BA Fashion Communication

Marcus Kerr

BA Graphic Communication Design

Syed Murshed

BA Graphic Communication Design

Banruo Chen

MA Graphic Communication Design

Wanying Chen

MA Graphic Communication Design

Ida Jorgensen

BA Jewellery Design

Lili Barglowska

BA Jewellery Design

Alex Clark

BA Textile Design

Sunray Star Connor Hopper

BA Textile Design

Mark Hester

MA Regenerative Design

Andrea Gonzalez

MA Biodesign

Rui Cordeiro

MA Biodesign

Peerasin Punxh Hutaphaet

MA Material Futures

Tanay Wadodkar

MA Material Futures

Yeukai Makoni

BA Performance: Design and Practice

Bri Leung

BA Performance: Design and Practice

Louie Thornton

MA Performance: Design and Practice

Xuan Ma

MA Performance: Design and Practice

Rhiana Bonterre

MA Performance: Screen

Marianna Di Majo Norante

MA Performance: Screen

Fatma Almulla

MA Intercultural Practices

Felix Cheng

MA Character Animation

Izzy Milenkovic

MA Character Animation

Hinna Khan

BA Product and Industrial Design

En Chua

BA Product and Industrial Design

Freda Igiogbe

BA Ceramic Design

Hal Strode

BA Ceramic Design

Maria Zepedra Prado

MA Design: Ceramics, Furniture and Jewellery

Sofia Benencio

MA Design: Ceramics, Furniture and Jewellery

Max Park

MA Industrial Design

Akhil Krishnan

MA Industrial Design

Beth Gavine

BA Architecture

Maya Zara

MA Architecture

Grace Limani

MA Architecture

Yijia Li

MA Narrative Environments

Kay Altamira Bustamante Altamirano

MA Narrative Environments

Eden Bhutia

MA Cities

With NOVA, we get the chance to put the spotlight on some of the best upcoming creative talent from across the globe. Within our industry and beyond, the ideas that are born here make a real mark on the world. Elevating Fresh Creative Talent is an amazing mission to be part of. MullenLowe’s long-standing collaboration with Central Saint Martins has been a springboard for some incredible creative journeys. It has been an honour and a privilege for us to continue to play our part in fostering them

— Jose Miguel Sokoloff, President, MullenLowe Global Creative Council
  • Image of a machine and a connecting plug on a desk surrounded by a few chairs
    Credit: Mark Hester, 2025
  • An abstract image with red and brown tones
    Credit: Kay Altamira Bustamante Altamirano, 2025.
  • A painting that's similar to family portrait with three people. Two are identical, and wearing identical gray dresses over red sweaters, though one of them is seated in the middle holding a stuffed toy. The third person is in a suit and wearing a rabbit mask.
    Credit: Ma Xuan, 2025.
  • Three grey/ silver rocks leaning over each other
    Credit: Juls Montinola, 2025
  • A blurry/ foggy image of a hand. Three fingers are visible and the index finger is adorned with a large crystal like ring. The image has moody green and amber tones
    Credit: Andrea Carrera Gonzalez, 2025.
  • image shows shadowy figures, one has horns
    Credit: Rhiana Bonterre
  • Image of the weaving process. A hand guides a thread through a loom. The photograph is annotated with white tribal like drawings
    Credit: Luisa Cortes, 2025
  • An image of three leaves of dried cabbage arranged artistically on a pale blue plate. The plate is on a wooden table.
    Credit:Bethany Kohrt
  • An image of a wine glass on a pile of neatly arranged blocks. Each block is a different shade of berry or red. The blacks are on a wooden table
    Credit: Akhil-Krishnan. 2025

Discover more of the nominated work via the MullenLowe NOVA Awards 2025 Showcase Collection.

  • An image of a horizontal piece of paper, folded like a brochure laying on a white table. There are two other pieces of paper. All the papers are shades of a muddy green and contain text that isn't legible
    Credit: Peerasin Hutaphaet, 2025.
  • An image of a wooden art piece against a concrete wall and floor
    Credit: Maria Zepeda Prado, 2025

The shortlist for the MullenLowe NOVA Awards will be announced later this month, and public voting for the YourNOVA award will also open later in June. The winners will be announced on 11 July. #MLGNOVA

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