THE focus will be on University of Bolton graduate Anna White at an international arts exhibition in Milan next month.

Anna, who graduated from the university with an MA in photography in 2010, has been selected as one of just 15 artists to showcase their work at the Mediterranea 17 Young Artists Biennale in Milan next month.

Anna said: “I am so pleased to be able to show my work in Milan. It’s a great opportunity to meet and be inspired by other artists, as well as progress my own practice. UK Young Artists have been a brilliant support and I cannot wait to meet them again in Italy."

She and 14 other artists were selected to exhibit their work at the exhibition after taking part in the UK Young Artists Leicester Festival 2014.

East Midlands-based arts organisation UK Young Artists showcases the work of those aged between 18-30 whose work spans all disciplines, from visual arts and music to performance and literature.

It holds national festivals every two years in Derby, Nottingham and Leicester, and supports young artists to represent the UK at international festivals.

The final artists were chosen by a panel of UK Young Artists Ambassadors, all award-winning and internationally recognised artists in their own right.

Anna’s work has been exhibited at Tate Britain and has appeared in publications as diverse as The Telegraph and The Big Issue.

At the Mediterranea 17 Young Artists Biennale, she will be showing her photographic series Hoarding, which features items collected by a deceased neighbour — and lifelong hoarder —and explores how a person’s material possessions can provide deeper insights into their life.

Anna was awarded the John Marriott Humphrey Spender scholarship recipient for 2010-11 which is provided by Bolton le Moors Rotary Club.

She spent the year taking pictures of people living, working and socialising in Bolton creating a modern worktown project and reinterpreting the famous photographs of Humphrey Spender and his Mass Observation images.

A collection of those images were exhibiting at Bolton Museum in the Spender Archive.