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Category Archives: Graduate Show

Painting Alumni Morag Caister wins Sky Arts Portrait of the Year

Posted on 1 December 2022 by Kate Miller

The win for Morag, who graduated from Fine Art Painting in 2019, means that alumni from the University of Brighton course hold both the current Portrait Artist of the Year and the Landscape Artist of the Year following Elisha Enfield’s win of that title earlier this year. Read More →

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Graduates 2018: Countdown to Graduate Show begins!

Posted on 23 February 2018 by Kate Miller

It’s 100 days until the University of Brighton’s annual Graduate Show where our talented graduating students in the arts, design, architecture and media stage their final-year shows. Read More →

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Artists respond to student request for work

Posted on 8 December 2017 by Kate Miller

University of Brighton students have secured original artwork from International artists and stars for an auction of postcards. Read More →

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Graduates 2017: Alice Winzar

Posted on 25 May 2017 by Lizzie Amati

“My intent was to capture the subtle beauty found within mundane objects.” Read More →

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Graduates 2017: Sam Bayles

Posted on 24 May 2017 by Lizzie Amati

“Influences include photographer Wilhelm von Gloeden – he took pictures of young peasant boys as nude Greek male statues. Italian fascists destroyed 2,000 of his glass plates.” Read More →

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Nicola Rushen

Graduates 2017: Nicola Rushen

Posted on 24 May 2017 by Lizzie Amati

“I have been particularly inspired by the idea of ‘the willing suspension of disbelief’ and find beauty in one’s commitment to put on hold their preconceived ideas about our world, to rather accept and invest in fiction.” Read More →

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Graduates 2017: Jessica Keene

Posted on 23 May 2017 by Lizzie Amati

“I explored the idea of how our relationship between popular culture and consumerism have similarities with religion.” Read More →

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Graduates 2017: Nicole Gilroy

Posted on 23 May 2017 by Lizzie Amati

“This photographic project investigates anxiety within young females living in the UK, exploring the feelings and emotions that occur when an individual becomes anxious or experiences an anxiety attack.” Read More →

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Graduates 2017: Sooeon Jeong

Posted on 23 May 2017 by Kate Miller

” The initial idea of these works comes from the notion of ‘space’.” Read More →

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Graduates 2017: Julie Tysseire

Posted on 22 May 2017 by Kate Miller

“Most of my work is created through sketches and drawing. For me it feels like a more natural process to take a pen and explain my ideas with a quick sketch.” Read More →

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Graduates 2017: Elliot Marshall

Posted on 22 May 2017 by Kate Miller

“My work focuses mainly around sentimentality and memories within designs, creating experiential and evoking designs that would allow a user to feel different emotions as they take a journey through our chosen site.” Read More →

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Graduates 2017: Calum Stevens

Posted on 22 May 2017 by Kate Miller

“My practice tends to directly explore expanded painting within the context of contemporary art, creating an aesthetic influenced by the designed environment.” Read More →

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Graduates 2017: Sophie Malyon

Posted on 19 May 2017 by Kate Miller

“For some, the topic of the environment can be tedious and hard to digest, nevertheless it is a subject of great importance. Through the use of paint I am hoping to address some vital issues that are going on around the world covering matters such as pollution, deforestation and animal welfare.” Read More →

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Graduates 2017: Johnnie Valantine

Posted on 17 May 2017 by Lizzie Amati

“My work discusses the current issues of mental and sexual health within the LGBT+ community – particularity gay men – whilst alluding to the fashionable aesthetic of art today.” Read More →

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Graduates 2017: Cameron Duke

Posted on 17 May 2017 by Kate Miller

“Throughout my three years at The University of Brighton the influence of my surroundings have always been a strong subject linked with my work.” Read More →

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Ben Merry

Graduates 2017: Ben Merry

Posted on 17 May 2017 by Kate Miller

“My final year project looks to revive the almost lost concept of the family business within Newhaven Town. Although not in the traditional sense, instead reinventing each of them as a series of portable ‘shops’ individually designed using nostalgia.” Read More →

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Graduates 2017: Eliott Mussi

Posted on 15 May 2017 by Kate Miller

“My work has taken influence from the methods and techniques from the Dada and Surrealist movements, currently furthering an exploration into the unconscious mind, studying thought, ideas and creating connections between esoteric knowledge and the contemporary world.”

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Graduates 2017: Dale John Allen

Posted on 15 May 2017 by Kate Miller

“My work explores themes surrounding social-politics of representation, particularly within the LGBT community, as well a creating work to challenge the stigma surrounding mental illness.”

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Lucia Hamlin

Graduates 2017: Lucia Hamlin

Posted on 15 May 2017 by Kate Miller

“The overall themes involved within my creative practice have been a combination of Religion, Archaeology, and contemporary concepts of Science Fiction.” Read More →

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Graduates 2017: George Chanarin

Posted on 10 May 2017 by Kate Miller

“I’m hoping that the concept will encourage the user to question how the urban environments work and draw attention to the need for greater ecological unity in the urban environments we build for ourselves.” Read More →

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Graduates 2017: David Howlett

Posted on 10 May 2017 by Kate Miller

“I wanted to design for the preteen and teenage market to build upon the experience I gained at Disney during my placement year.” Read More →

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Final year fashion students host Spielgeltent catwalk show

Posted on 10 May 2017 by Lizzie Amati

As part of the Brighton Fringe, graduating Fashion with Business students will be showing their collections at the main festival venue on 31 May at 7pm.  Read More →

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Graduates 2017: Grace Florence King

Posted on 10 May 2017 by Kate Miller

“Coming from a foreign country and having never studied in a UK based school or college, I couldn’t have asked for a better place to be, I’ve had the most amazing time!”

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Graduates 2017: Andrea Ruiz de Erenchun

Posted on 10 May 2017 by Kate Miller

“The idea of my product stemmed from my growing concern with the children enduring and living the current global refugee crisis.”  Read More →

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Graduates 2017: Gustav Freij

Posted on 10 May 2017 by Lizzie Amati

“My final piece is called Pub Crawl, a series of illustrations which document drinking culture in Brighton. I was inspired by Brighton’s fantastic range of quirky pubs and the darker subject of binge drinking which surrounds them.” Read More →

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Graduates 2017: Harriet Feest

Posted on 10 May 2017 by Lizzie Amati

“Experimenting with the way people interact with colour within an installation enables me to explore the physical connection of colour and the potential affect it may have on an audience.”  Read More →

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Cam Bacchus

Graduates 2017: Cam Bacchus

Posted on 10 May 2017 by Kate Miller

” The work I’ve been doing this year has been to explore the detrimental effects of stress within the workplace and has aimed to alter our perceptions of stress by improving well-being in the workplace.

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Anthony Henry

Graduates 2017: Anthony Henry

Posted on 4 May 2017 by Lizzie Amati

Can’t stop gaming? Product Design student Anthony hopes his design will drag you from the sofa with the power of scent. Read More →

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It's Nice That competition

Entries open for It’s Nice That’s graduates comp!

Posted on 4 May 2017 by Lizzie Amati

If you’re a student in the UK about to complete an art or design-related undergraduate course then get involved. Read More →

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Graduates 2017: Judith Ricketts

Posted on 4 May 2017 by Lizzie Amati

“The project explored the politics of diversity of European nationals based in Brighton in response to Brexit. I photographed eight people. People were very scared. It was very palpable. I asked them how they felt – you’re in a place that you think is home and it’s no longer home.” Read More →

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Graduates 2017: Nikki Compson

Posted on 4 May 2017 by Lizzie Amati

Photographic artist Nikki has already made a name for herself with her ongoing project Women Belong in the Kitchen – and her grad show will be a foodie installation. Read More →

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Graduates 2017: Matilda Grover

Posted on 4 May 2017 by Lizzie Amati

 

Remote community workshop from Matilda Grover on Vimeo.

“ I don’t want to design more products that solely use virgin materials when there are enough in the world. What I’m interested in designing are products that act as catalyst for change and education.”
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Graduate Show 2017: Studios get busy

Posted on 3 May 2017 by Kate Miller

Preparations for the Graduate Show 2017 are well underway. Fine Art Painting course leader Chris Stevens describes the atmosphere in the studios.

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Graduate Show 2017: follow our students

Posted on 24 April 2017 by Kate Miller

The annual University of Brighton Graduate Show runs from June 3-11 and turns the university into the largest art venue in the South of England. Read More →

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Graduate Shows 2017 – use #brightonshow17

Posted on 30 March 2017 by Lizzie Amati

Part of the Graduate Shows this year? If you’re posting to social media about the build up, your work, your exhibition, then use #brightonshow17. Read More →

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