“Brighton’s Fine Art MAhas a very wide brief and it has been gratifying both for myself and other
students to witness the emergence of more nuanced and layered thinking realised in
new techniques and approaches to work.”
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Graduates 2021: Anthony Griffin: Fine Art MA
“I have been aware of this course for a while, visiting the summer show in 2019 convinced me to apply. I wanted to give my work some depth and surround myself with other artists.”
Graduates 2021: Amber Franks: Fine Art MA
“I’ve met a brilliant group of like minded creatives that I know I will be in touch with regularly in the future. Amy Cunningham has been a great support and mentor to me and she really helped me to find my language as an artist.” Read More
Graduates 2021: Alex Lewis-Whitaker: Digital Music and Sound Arts BA
“Many courses in this area seemed more focused on the technical considerations within a recording studio whereas Brighton allowed me to interpret the course how I wanted to and take it in my own direction.”
Graduates 2021: Agnieszka Szymaniak: Printmaking
“Graduating in 2021 was obviously not without its challenges. That said I am incredibly proud of the bodies of work both I and my peers have produced in response to the pandemic. We couldn’t have done it without the brilliant support of our technical and lecturing staff.”
Brighton student design teams bag coveted global awards
Two teams of University of Brighton design students have won awards in a prestigious global competition run by the Royal College of Art.
Graduates 2021: Bob Smith: Digital Music and Sound Arts MA
“Coming from a science and engineering background I wanted a course that would allow me to focus those skills alongside an arts practice, and the new MA at DMSA seemed to fit the bill. The reputation of the lecturers and previous students too was a draw, the quality and breadth of work emerging from DMSA makes it a really exciting place to study.”
Three Brighton Photography students picked from 10,000 shortlist in Wellcome Trust Photography Prize
In fantastic news for our Photography department, current student Kate Rosewell and graduates Dulcie Wagstaff and Richard Boll, have all made the list of 31 finalists in the prestigious award.
Graduates 2021: Connie Howard-McCombe: Textiles Design with Business Studies
“The course equipped me with skills that broadened my understanding of the industry. The Historical and Cultural modules complemented my making as it was a source of inspiration and understanding for me. Additionally, the business modules were very useful, and I gained a lot of information about the possibilities and realities of running my own business.”
Graduates 2021: Beth Swan: Fine Art Painting
“The second I stepped foot into the studios I knew this is where I wanted to be. I fell in love completely with the course, the studios, the general feeling of the University and Brighton too. It ticked every box.”
Graduates 2021: Vanessa Nkumbula: Architecture RIBA Part 2 MArch
“I thoroughly enjoyed my course and the autonomy it came with. I got a sense of owning my work and with that came a new confidence about my work. The virtual studio was challenging but I found that it was far more imaginative and with that came many successes.”
Graduates 2021: Samela Gjozi: Textiles Design with Business Studies
“I chose textiles as there is more variety on what it can be used for – not only fashion. The great thing about Brighton is that you can experiment and explore different textile specialisms, which help you choose what you are most interested in- mine being print design.”
Graduates 2021: Interior Architecture: Matilda Swift-Barnard
“My final project is called ‘Extinction Rebellion HQ & Clandestine Network of Tunnels for Protests’. Sustainability is the key theme. The narrative is told through an unlikely partnership between two characters: Gail Bradbrook, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, a global environmental movement, and Ken Quantick, a Brighton-based bin man.”
Graduates 2021: Imogen Patel: Fine Art Painting
“Working from home during the pandemic was difficult, but I felt inspired by new-found intimacies and sensations of confinement. Tutors and technincians remained committed and dedicated and I was motivated to work diligently by my talented peers. My experience at Brighton wouldn’t have been the same without my incredible coursemates, whose smiling faces I look forward to seeing every day!”
Graduates 2021: Bianca Bott: Textiles Design with Business Studies
“The course has helped me bring my love for fashion and fine art together… The technicians are incredibly knowledgeable and great at problem solving, and the academic staff take a great interest in each students interests within the specialism. Together this has made the learning experience at Brighton one of a kind.”
Graduates 2021: Joel Goldstein: Photography
“On the course there’s an incredible group of tutors, technicians, and support staff… It’s been a fantastic opportunity to develop my practice in an exciting environment surrounded by a talented group of like-minded peers.”
Graduates 2021: Hannah Bryant: Textiles
“The course really opens you up to opportunities and ideas. I came to Brighton thinking I would be a print designer, however the first year rotation allowed me to discover that I was a natural weaver… My advice to any new students would be to experiment with techniques and styles.”
Graduates 2021: Lydia Durnall: Fine Art Painting
“Brighton is such a lively city full of fun, kind, crazy people. The course has the same atmosphere and it’s been a great environment to develop my practice, bouncing ideas off of like-minded creatives and some really inspiring tutors.”
Brighton’s Illustration BA(Hons) in top 5
ApplyToUni has named our long-running Illustration degree as in the top five for the subject – the course was started in 1983 by John Vernon, the UK’s first Professor of Illustration. Read More
Graduates 2021: Harry Harwood: MArch
I feel like Architecture chooses you. It is a long process, high stress, with many hoops to become an architect – 7 years minimum. Read More
Fashion Comms student wins prestigious Graduate Fashion Foundation award
In another great year at Graduate Fashion Week for our Fashion Communication and Business Studies course, Izzy Wells has won the 2021 Fashion Illustration Award. Read More
Graduates 2021: Rosa Isaacs: Interior Architecture
“I have been through the last three years with a group of diverse and talented people who I now call some of my closest friends. The last year has obviously presented some unique challenges, but also an opportunity to extend my work and identify what is actually fulfilling and what is not.”
Graduates 2021: Tamsin Gaul: Illustration
“After attending the open day and seeing previous students’ work, I thought that the course at Brighton would be the best place to create work that was varied, experimental and purposeful.” Read More
International retrospective for Animation lecturer
Kate Jessop is presenting a masterclass, on the international jury and has also curated a programme at the AniFilm Animation Festival in the Czech Republic.
Graduates 2021: Martynas Jankus: Fine Art Painting
“My time in Brighton has been a complete rollercoaster but I would not change a thing! I wanted to come here because my country is extremely homophobic, so I wanted to be in a space completely different from that.”
Journalism MA graduate lands Mail Online job
Millie Payne, who graduates from the University of Brighton’s Journalism MA this year (having also completed a degree in English Language and Media at Brighton), is about to start as a junior showbiz reporter on the popular tabloid.
Graduates 2021: Jemma Gaisford: Interior Architecture
“The narrative of the project was crucial to understanding the spatial needs – what happened, why, and how. To understand this, I created a short three minute animatic-style short film describing the process of applying for the exhibition.”
Graduates 2021: Benjamin Richardson: Fashion Design with Business Studies
“I have a lot of respect for the tutors in the Fashion Department who go to great efforts to push pupils in a supportive way. The University of Brighton encourages everyone to design in their own personal style, which means that collections are varied, and people have more of a personal connection to their work.”
Graduate Fashion Week live: see our graduates’ final collections Monday 14 June, 2pm
Make a date to watch the catwalk show featuring collections by our graduating Fashion with Business Studies BA(Hons) students. Read More
Journalism student publishes book of lockdown columns
In a major achievement during this year like no other, Jenny Bathurst, who is studying Journalism BA(Hons) at the University of Brighton, has published a book called Lockdown Observed: Becoming an Adult Without Leaving the House, a collection of her weekly articles for Sussex Newspapers from April 2020 to April 2021.
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Graduates 2021: Ollie Howell: Architecture
“I chose Architecture for the reason most people do, I liked art and I liked maths and I didn’t want to stop doing either. Brighton’s architecture department is lucky to have some truly wonderful staff, nearly all of whom I have been luckily enough to draw from during my time there.”
Graduate Fashion Week award nominations for Brighton students
Annabelle Sweeney (Fashion Communication with Business Studies) has been nominated for the Terry Mansfield Publication Award and Damian Campbell (Fashion Design) has been shortlisted for The Fashion Illustration Award – good luck to you both!
Graduates 2021: Toby Hinks: Digital Music and Sound Arts
“I am now working on a commission with the Brighton Centre for Creative Arts to create a piece to accompany Nika Neelova’s exhibition SILT in the coming months.”
Graduates 2021: Nina Fisher: Illustration
“Three words to describe the course would be: challenging, experimental, stimulating. Its avant-garde approach questions what illustration is and what it could be. It underlines the importance of experimenting, spontaneity and, playfulness, pushing you to get out of your comfort zone.”
Graduates 2021: Nathan Grace: Fine Art Painting
“Painting connects me to the present and allows me to fully express myself, so a course in it was a no-brainer. I looked around a lot of places, but Brighton Uni had a uniquely homely quality about it. The studios are spacious yet intimate and I remember seeing it for the first time and feeling very comfortable”
Graduates 2021: Lara Fank: Fashion Design with Business Studies
“I chose to study Fashion at University of Brighton because of the course’s smaller size, the placement yeas, Brighton’s reputation as a sustainable and community focussed city and its close proximity to London.” Read More
Graduates 2021: Donald Venables: Fashion Design with Business Studies
“I was the only kid in our rural farming community to have a toy ironing board, which my parents point out regularly was a clear indicator. I chose fashion design because it blends form and function. What drew me to the University of Brighton was seeing the fashion graduates who were creating work that was beautifully made and had a strong identity.”
Graduates 2021: Peter Garfarth: Architecture
“My experience at Brighton has been most importantly, fun. Despite the more recent online learning delivery, the third floor at Mithras House has been a playground of exploration and development for the various projects we undertook.”
Graduates 2021: Jessica Rowley: Architecture
“I have found the course very challenging at times, often testing my skill set and pace of working. However this has been a positive challenge as I have learnt so many new skills and methods of working, be that collaborative, visual or written. My tutors as well as the student support team have been wonderful throughout my studies, enabling me to do the best I can and to push myself creatively.”
Graduates 2021: Joseph Ring: Fine Art Painting
“The university has offered me so much, not only through the tutoring I have received, but also in the opportunities it has exposed me to, alongside meeting other incredible artists I share a course with. Brighton really has shown me what can be done with painting and how open for exploration the practice truly is.”
Graduates 2021: Alex Dotchev: Media, Industry and Innovation
“I would not be in the position I am at the moment, mentally or professionally, if it was not for the efforts and attention I have received throughout my time at the University of Brighton studying the Media, Industry and Innovation course!”
Graduates 2021: Eliza Jubb: Illustration
Graduates 2021: Kasper Wahnstrom: Fashion Design with Business Studies
“What attracted me to the fashion design course at University of Brighton was the fact that it included business studies. The course allowed me to be both creative as well as understand different roles and aspects of the fashion industry.”
Graduates 2021: Ciara Knight: Fashion Design with Business Studies
“Leaving university with experience already on my CV is a relief…the placement taught everyone a lot, from knowing what sector you either want to be in or don’t want to be in to improving your skills in construction, the creative cloud or just general time management and professionalism.“
Graduates 2021: Joe Gilling: Digital Music and Sound Arts
“My time at the University of Brighton has been an eye-opening and artistically inspiring three years. The tutors have pushed my creativity to the edge and given me brilliant guidance throughout the modules. My work has excelled and innovated past anything I could have imagined.”
Graduates 2021: George Coll: Fine Art Painting
“To be surrounded by so many talented artists of all disciplines, inspires me every day. When work can seem difficult, it is wonderful to remind myself how lucky I am to be doing what I love and painting for my degree.”
Graduates 2021: Max Jennings: Fashion Design with Business Studies
“Looking back on my first year I can see such growth in my skills and my ideas, that really demonstrate the care and attention that has been put into my growth. When I first came to Brighton, my sewing skills were rocky, and I am leaving with a graduate collection that I am immensely proud of.”
Graduates 2021: Lucy Limage: Photography
“During my time at Brighton I have found my way as an artist – I plan on continuing to make work in both a professional and commercial capacity; at Brighton I was encouraged to think beyond the course and what opportunities might await me.”
Graduates 2021: Damian Campbell: Fashion Design with Business Studies
“The course has not only offered me the ability to explore my creativity, but also has a focus on technical skill and commercial appeal.”
Graduates 2021: Daryl Haines: 3D Design & Craft
“I was steered towards this course by a tutor on my foundation, I looked at loads of different similar courses but Brighton combined good facilities, fun projects, and a great location.”
Graduates 2021: Georgios Pafitis: Fashion Communication with Business Studies
“During the three years of university life, I have met wonderful and talented people that helped me grow but also to understand my power and what I am capable of as an artist and individual. Brighton has shown a new world to my eyes and opened my horizons.”
Graduates 2021: Shauna Maddison: Fashion Communication with Business Studies
“The course and the opportunities available through the work placement year has enabled me to open doors for my career and understand my own creative practice through practical experience.” Read More
Current Fine Art MA student Valerie Savchits in group show at Delphian Gallery
Valerie is showing in Antisocial Isolation, a group exhibition at Saatchi Gallery, which brings together a collection of some of the most exciting early-career artists working today.
Fine Art MA students’ group show Convergence opens at on-site gallery
Visitors can now come and see work by students in our Dorset Place gallery, just off Edward Street in the centre of Brighton. Read More
Follow Fine Art MA on Instagram
Follow the course for student work, exhibitions and events, and graduate and staff news. Read More
Photography MA graduate is director of Porto Photo Biennial 2021
Virgilio Ferreira who graduated from the University’s of Brighton’s Photography MA in 2012 is director of the Portuguese biennial opening on 14 May – and work by Photography lecturer Xavier Ribas and graduate Lisa Barnard will be on display. Read More
Our students are supported by award-winning technicians
Our art and media students always tell us our technicians are brilliant – and they’ve been rightly recognised in the One Brighton Staff Awards, winning the Team Contribution to Teaching and Learning award. Congratulations!
Artist Will Kendrick joins School of Art as lecturer as part of the Freelands Painting Fellowship scheme
Will, a video installation artist, will be teaching on Brighton’s Fine Art Painting BA(Hons).
Photography BA(Hons) graduates guest speakers at Rural Gaze Symposium
Photographers Emily Graham, Murray Ballard and Matthew Broadhead have all carved out artistic careers in photography since leaving Brighton and are contributing to this event considering how photographers and photography practice develops and responds to the rural. Read More
OT-TV: journalism students’ video news channel
Check out the video news channel contributed to by students on our Journalism and Sports Journalism courses. Read More
Lecturer Philip Connolly releases short film Fruit Fix starring Derry Girls’ Jamie Lee O’Donnell
Philip Connolly who teaches on Brighton’s Film BA(Hons) has released a new short film on YouTube featuring TV and film stars Jamie Lee O’Donnell, Mark Benton and Adnan Mustafa – in the new release we see Hope (O’Donnell) struggling with anxiety ahead of a big moment in her life, using an unusual technique to cope. Read More
Photography graduate Laura Pannack wins in the 2021 Sony World Photography Awards
Laura triumphed in the Portfolio category with images from a variety of personal projects – she said “I believe images need to captivate and evoke emotion, and so, with every frame I shoot, I consider the elements within the frame and outside it.”
Follow Fine Art Painting on Instagram
Our fabulous Fine Art Painting BA(Hons) has a new Instagram feed – follow them for images of student work, studio shots, student takeovers and events and exhibitions news. Read More
Brighton textiles alumna among Designers To Watch in 2021
2017 textiles design graduate Freya Richmond has been selected by the Daily Telegraph’s Stella magazine as one of their ‘Designers To Watch in 2021’. Read More
Museum of Modern Art in NYC shows work by Photography BA(Hons) graduate
Emma Charles, who studied Photography at Brighton, has work featured in Doc Fortnight 21 MoMa’s 20th edition of its annual showcase of innovative nonfiction film which runs from 18 March – 5 April 2021. Read More
International Women’s Day: A Conversation with Angela Saini on 10 March, 12noon
Students and staff are invited to this free event hosted by the Universities of Brighton and Sussex which sees award-winning science journalist and author of ‘Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong’ and ‘Superior: the Return of Race Science’ speaking to our staff and students. Book your place now. Read More
Join Fine Art MA course leader Amy for experimental Sound & Light workshop
Artist Amy Cunningham is running an experimental workshop (Sat 6 March) in collaboration with the De La Warr Pavilion in which she invites participants to listen to and record sounds and images found around the home. Read More
Fine Art MA students launch group show
Ventures into Perception featuring work by students Jo Bell, Amber Franks and Trisha Stone is now live. Read More
Fine Art MA show online now
Visit the exhibition site and see work by eight of our talented postgraduate students, live until 5 March.
Brighton fashion grad Sarah-Louise Koessler chosen to show at London Fashion Week
The Graduate Fashion Foundation is returning to London Fashion Week this February for the fourth season to showcase six emerging designers, among them Fashion Design with Business Studies BA(Hons) graduate Sarah-Louise Koessler. Read More
Fashion student Amy on online learning
Fashion Design with Business Studies BA(Hons) student Amy Bambury on online learning as a fashion student and the strong community of the course. Read More
Music Business and Media BA(Hons) student on settling in at uni and making friends
Charlotte Howard on how to give yourself the best start at university. Read More
Photography grad George Roast invited to show in Barcelona
George Roast has been chosen to take part in the International Festival on Experimental Photography in Barcelona this July. Read More
2019 photography graduate Eva Jonas publishes book
Check out Let’s Sketch the Lay of the Land, which draws together encountered forms, surfaces and assemblages. Congratulations Eva. Read More
Kíra Krász is selected for The Word Within exhibition at Hangar Art Center, Brussels
Check out Photography BA(Hons) graduate Kira’s work – she was also selected for the Offspring Photomeet last year. Read More
Thinking of applying for our Film and Screen Studies degree?
Here, our course team answer key questions about the course such as how you’ll learn, the ways you’ll be assessed and the facilities you’ll use.
In year 9, 10 or 11? Join our free online Printmaking workshops
If you or someone in your family is in year 9, 10 or 11 and interested in maybe taking art at university, why not join our series of online printmaking workshops. The dates are: 13, 20 and 27 February and 6 March 2021. Read More
Follow Design for Digital Media on Instagram
Check out the course Instagram feed. Read More
Follow 3D Design and Craft BA(Hons) and Craft MA on Instagram
Run by our students, technicians and staff, these Instagram accounts show you what it’s like to study our design and craft undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Brighton. Read More
Check out Design for Digital Media students’ final projects
The 2020 graduate show website has work by our brilliant graduates – take a look. Read More
Animation and digital design lecturer nominated for a Motionographer award
Kate Jessop, has been nominated for one of the biggest awards in animation and motion design internationally for her comedy Queerer Than Thou, previously selected for development in the Berlinale Talent Lab.
Follow Graphic Design and Illustration on Instagram
Run by our students, technicians and staff, this Instagram account shows you what it’s like to study visual communication at Brighton. Read More
Brighton architecture student is commended in RIBA 2020 President’s Medals
Jordan Whitewood-Neal who graduated from MArch has been recognised by the Royal Institute of British Architects for his dissertation in the annual awards for the world’s best student architecture projects. Read More
Fine Art BA(Hons) students show work as part of Brighton’s Artist Open House festival
Ainoa Burgos Gonzales, Liberty Cheverall, Bradley Smith and Jack Digby are showing work in the We, You, Me exhibition at Brighton Place, opening in early December and is online now. Read More
Fine art graduate Rachel Atkinson shows work at Phoenix Gallery
Rachel’s work was been selected for the CVAN South East:2020 Platform Graduate exhibition and her work Exit, Stage Left can be seen through the window of Phoenix just by our City campus. Read More
Fine Art MA student Valerie Savcica in Saatchi Gallery’s Antisocial Isolation exhibition
The group show features artworks by some of the most exciting emerging artists of today – the works in the exhibition deliberate on the future and respond to the current Covid-19 pandemic. Read More
Fine Art MA student selected for exhibition
I Never Went to the Folies Berger by Crimson Boner is available to view in The Discerning Eye’s ING Exhibition, artwork for which has been selected by singer Beverley Knight. Read More
Film BA(Hons) showreel
Watch a this short film showcasing some of the recent projects by our talented students. Read More
Film student Alice commended at film festival
Alice Giraudi’s short documentary Il Giardino was nominated in the Best Student Film category in the 2020 Her International Film Festival. Read More
Interested in taking a photography degree?
Photoworks, a leading agency based at the University of Brighton, is running a free online photography workshop exploring the relationship between photography, archaeology and climate change for people aged 13 – 18 on 30 October 2020. Read More
“Ripping up the system won’t build the homes we need”
Read the Town Country Planning Association’s response to the government’s white paper Planning for the Future, outlining their concerns that the proposals will “undermine local democracy, marginalise local councils and fail to achieve the kind of high quality places that the government is committed to delivering.” Read More
What impact will Covid-19 have on planning for housing and neighbourhoods?
Read this piece from The Planner which asks whether a different approach to housing and public realm could provide greater resilience in a health crisis. Read More
Planning the post-Covid world we need
The Royal Town Planning Institute’s new paper Plan The World We Need says that to recover from Covid-19, we need to make plans to accelerate progress to a zero carbon economy, increase resilience to risk, and create fair, healthy and prosperous communities. Read More
Photography graduate chosen for Crane Kalman showcase CREAM 2020
Matt Hughes, who has recently graduated from Brighton’s Photography BA(Hons), has been selected as an exhibiting artist in the show which runs during October.
“There was lots of interaction with the planning sector – I took the placement module, an invaluable experience which led to freelance work”
Sidonie Kenward recently graduated from the Town Planning MSc at Brighton – read about her experience of the degree in this Q&A.
Graphic Design MA course leader launches The Grid virtual installation
Louise Colbourne’s studio-LAB project sees her create accessible ‘maker spaces’ within virtual reality environments – and for this first installation Larry Achiampong and David Blandy showcase selections from their video works A Terrible Fiction and Finding Fanon 2. Read More
Brighton sweeps environmental awards at New Designers
3D Design and Craft BA(Hons) grad Imogen Gray wins Environmental Design prize at New Designers Awards 2020, with Product Design BSc grad Lawrence Parent named as runner-up. Read More
Photography lecturer releases new book Dinosaur Dust
Dinosaur Dust is a collection of photographs by Zoe Childerley exploring encounters between people and nature in the Mojave Desert. Read More
“I went to Paris and took part in the menswear showrooms, conducting appointments with international buyers”
Final-year Fashion Design with Business Studies student Max Jennings on working with our placements team to secure industry experience at Burberry, E.Tautz and Tom Ford.
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Art at Brighton is UK top 20
In the Guardian League Table 2021, released at the weekend, art at University of Brighton is 19th place – check out our courses.