My work explores an abstracted visual language where creature-like forms dominate the space, while evoking an other worldly presence. Read More
Monthly Archives: May 2018
Graduates 2018: Edward Crump: Architecture RIBA part 2
My final year project concerns the conflict that occurs on the boundary of the digital and physical worlds. Read More
Graduates 2018: Pippa El-Kadhi: Painting
My practice explores the ambiguity of image, human presence and domesticated space. Read More
Graduates 2018: Zoe Kan: Architecture
My work is processed based. This year I was taught to work with my intuition by my tutor (Sam Lynch) and it definitely has been the best advice ever. Read More
Graduates 2018: Hannah Gibbins: Fashion
I have always been interested in this hybrid in menswear between workwear and softened tailoring. Read More
Graduates 2018: Rachel Wells: Textiles
As a knitwear designer, I love experimenting with how you can manipulate the structure of the stitches to create three dimensional forms. Read More
Graduates 2018: Peter Barr: Product Design
I believe products should make life both easier and more enjoyable – thoughtful design work leads to elegant and satisfying solutions. Read More
Fashion students fight plastic pollution
Fashion students at the University of Brighton created an outfit to help world freediving champion Tanya Streeter raise awareness of the plastics crises in the oceans. Read More
Graduates 2018: Jade Delmage: Illustration
I try to be playful with my work, and I always want to learn about new ways of working, recently editing films is something that I have been enjoying and teaching myself along the way. Read More
Graduates 2018: Edward Chason: 3D Design and Craft
I explore the relationship between materiality, creativity and consumerism by attempting to ‘reshape’ the identity and hopefully our relationship with some materials of the very lowest value. Read More
Graduate Profiles: Barnaby Maynard: Architecture
For me Architecture has captured my imagination in the power that it holds over our everyday lives in many different ways. Read More
Graduates 2018: Benjamin Taylor: Product Design
I’m from an engineering background and spent most of my school days studying sciences and material engineering.
Graduates 2018: Java Cooper: Product Design
I’ve always been quite a hands on kind of person and enjoyed helping my dad build things from a young age. (decks/treehouses etc.) Being able to apply this to real problems and help people is a win win for me. Read More
Digital Film Festival in Hastings
The University of Brighton’s Hastings campus is holding its annual Digital Film Festival on 30 May of May from 5pm at the Kino Teatr cinema and music venue in St. Leonards. Read More
3D Design student shows Downing Street how to turn rubbish into useful products
3D Design and Craft BA(Hons) graduate Tom Meades was one of five University of Brighton visited 10 Downing Street to discuss student entrepreneurship. Read More
Graduates 2018: George Mcpherson: Product Design
My product is called “Oritatami”, it is described as a flexible seating solution for modern living. Read More
Fashion at Brighton among the best in the world again
The University of Brighton has again been ranked among the best globally in the world for fashion. Read More
Award-winning professor’s plea to protect the arts
A renowned Brighton illustrator protested against cutbacks in the arts in schools as he collected a top V&A award.
Graduates 2018: Jasmyn Bloch: Digital Music and Sound Arts
“Femporis” is a multimedia installation that explores the concepts of rebirth and new life, taking place in an ultra-female space: a modern womb. Read More
Graduates 2018: Rachel Dowling: Interior Architecture
I’ve always loved storytelling and taking otherwise boring subjects or processes and transforming them into something whimsical and carefully considered. Read More
Graduates 2018: Kristin Mihneva: Interior Architecture
Before I start working on a project, I am looking for a strong conceptual idea of why I am doing a particular work. Read More
Graduates 2018: Huw Roberts: Illustration
Although I have delved into almost every medium, I now see myself predominantly as a model maker.
Graduates 2018: Oleksandra Umanska: Interior Architecture
My work is based on a fictional story which is a monologue of nature that represents itself as our creator and dictates for us new rules to follow. For my first term project, I designed a safe haven in case of the danger that we might put ourselves into such as war. Read More
Graduates 2018: Katie Murphy: Interior Architecture
My programme is inspired from the information and results gathered from my previous project. Within this project, I created a device that experimented with fragments found in Stanmer Park and tested them up against natural conditions, to inform both me and others what materials could be found in our site, and how we could use them in architectural structures.
Graduates 2018: Jeeda Fanous: Interior Architecture
My work captures an ongoing pursuit of creating experientially stimulating environments that challenge and defy both the norms and standards of spatial design. Read More
Graduates 2018: Ash Lim: 3D Design and Craft
As an artist, I am interested in how people engage with the world around them. What do they connect with on an emotional, physical or instinctual level and how can I influence this? Read More
Graduates 2018: Harry Harwood: Architecture
My current project is the conversion and remodelling of three existing rows of 1970’s, prefabricated concrete, residential terrace houses in Thamesmead to incorporate a community-based food hub, that could fit into a larger productive urban landscape. Read More
Graduates 2018: Luke Wilson-Taylor: Interior Architecture
I find the concept of influences really fascinating and chose to write my dissertation about the idea of appropriation.
Graduates 2018: Maya Doyle Leal: Illustration
I like to think that my work is a combination of all the things that make me happy. I try to use bright colours and a mixture of magical and mundane things to compose my own world. Read More
Graduates 2018: Ting-Chiao Joyce Chang: 3D Design and Craft
My project begins with visiting traditional architecture in Taiwan. Read More
Meeting Gilbert and George
University of Brighton MA Fine Art students got to meet Turner Prize-winning partnership Gilbert and George at the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery. Read More
Building a responsible economy
“Buildings should be constructed as ‘material stores’ and designed for re-assembly in the future”, according to leading Brighton architect and senior lecturer Duncan Baker-Brown. Read More
Graduates 2018: Sara Lavelle: Illustration
Drawing upon a strong fascination with human psychology, philosophy and spirituality, my work has a predominant focus on portrait painting and figuration. Read More
Graduates 2018: Till Lightfoot Pendered: 3D Design & Craft
My project this year has culminated in a film featuring the costumes and objects I have made.
Graduates 2018: PJ Davy: Digital Music and Sound Arts
My work articulates questions about the relationships between each other, society, and the technologies that infiltrate our daily lives, often mediating personal relationships and transforming the socio-political dynamics of the world.
Graduates 2018: Katie Fitzgibbon: Graphic Design
My style of work is quite clean. I’m really interested in photography, especially documentary photography. Read More
Graduates 2018: Jeph Vanger Digital Music and Sound Art
DMSA student Jeph Vanger talks about the influences behind his work. Read More
Graduates 2018: Rachel Sankey: Printmaking
Over the last three years I have been specialising in printmaking within a fine art context. I use etching and primarily portraiture to explore notions around the networks and exchanges we have. Read More
Graduates 2018: Jacob Talkowski Sculpture
I use vividness to make architecturally inspired geometric structures using a wide range of materials including light, with an emphasis on classical formal concerns such as scale, weight, and proportion.
Graduates 2018: Josh Cotton 3D Design and Craft
My practice is process driven, often underpinned by a strong narrative, journey or experience. It is also fuelled by my passion for finding, testing and exploring new materials. Read More
Graduates 2018: Wendy Fraser: History of Art and Design
My dissertation focuses on the Moomins – a family of anthropomorphic cartoon creatures which were created by the Finnish artist and writer Tove Jansson in 1945 and became the central characters in a series of children’s books and a daily cartoon for adult readership in London’s Evening News from 1954. Read More
Graduates 2018: Caitlin Bainbridge: Media Studies
My dissertation project explores how a predominately heteronormative society has a significant impact on the way gender and identity is understood, particularly examining the Drag King community. Read More
Graduates 2018: Luke Fuller: 3D Design and Craft
My work is strongly influenced by location as every place I visit has its own history, culture and community. I visit different locations such as Port Talbot gathering research providing me with an invaluable wealth of inspiration to create work reflecting on the notion of place.
Graduates 2018: Lucy Bradley: Sculpture
My practice is dominated by thoughts of the uncanny, the tension between violence and violation and the notion of body surrogates. Read More
Graduates 2018: Dayna Murphy: Illustration
Within my practise I explore bold colours and contrasting textures and how these elements combined convey a mood in an illustration. Read More
Graduates 2018: Esme Hodes: Sculpture
My practice primarily explores how sensory engagement impacts the way we relate to the self, others and our environments. I’m really interested in the intersection between art and daily life, and the possibilities that art provides to explore different ways of relating to the world. I mainly work through wood, sound, video installation and workshop facilitation. Read More
Graduates 2018: Nanette Hewitt: Painting
Heraldic materials are significant to my work; I draw visual imagery from anthropological collections such as the Pitt River Museum in Oxford. Read More