The Digital Interaction Design Degree Show is an opportunity for the public to see the result of a year’s work by the recent graduates. At the beginning of their 4th year, students are asked to create their own brief and come up with a design solution for it. This results in a wide variety of Read More
After last year’s textile degree show there was a lot to live up to for this year’s crop of graduates, but they’ve more than succeeded. The most interesting aspect about this year is the variety of inspirations at the heart of the final year collections. Ranging from Mother Nature to man-made structures, small towns to Read More
This year’s Time Based Art show boasts artists working in fields ranging from performance to sculpture to documentary, producing works as diverse as hand stitched embroidery to musical guns. Edward Humphrey experiments with broken narratives in his film exploring nature, death and rebirth with the clever juxtaposition of filmed scenes and imagery and a word Read More
This year’s product design exhibition is, as always, eagerly anticipated. Sharing its space with digital interaction design, it is one of the most exciting and engaging exhibitions at the degree show. On entering the exhibition, it is very clear that it is not just the students’ work which has been meticulously put together; the display Read More
Fine art students in this year’s degree show have really set out to impress, with a diverse range of approaches to printmaking teamed with an exciting and innovative approach to exhibiting. Working towards the surreal, Anna Fennell Hughs has created a wonderful selection of multi- media prints that illustrate her own short story. Based on Read More
Following on from a series of successful independently organised shows including Four Days x Four Years, Translations (Generator) and New Realms: Myths and Mysticism (WASPs) this year’s degree show artists have already shown the strength of their work. The real question was: can the Degree Show deliver the same punch? The attraction and uniqueness of Read More
Art, Philosophy and Contemporary Practices is a subject that gives students scope to push the boundaries often inflicted on art in popular perception. Inspiration and a deeper understanding of art are sought through philosophy, and as a result some fascinating abstract concepts are addressed in an impressively varied collection of installations. Each artist has employed Read More
The boundaries of drawing, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture are blurred in this very strong show of Fine Art. Landscape provides one predominant cluster of work. Ellis O’Connor’s powerful mountain-scapes evoke both the sublime and the menacing aspects of the Scottish Highland landscape while both Kate Cunnigham’s ethereal cloud paintings and Jacinda Chan’s constructed lotus Read More
Despite the fact that the five extremely individual films which were exhibited at this year’s Degree Show are the result of collaborative efforts between many of the same artists, they showcase a remarkable variety of artistic vision and style. Working in both 2D and 3D in contributory roles of varying sizes, 2014’s animation graduates were Read More
Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises has an air of bitter-sweet finality about it in more ways than one. Miyazaki is no stranger to the demands of morality and duty; add the film’s content and context to the mix and you can see why this animated film has had such mixed reception. Whilst not lacking any Read More