School of Design undergraduate student showcase
Degree show 2022
Our first physical event for three years. We are delighted to present the School of Design undergraduate degree show, a celebration of being back on campus this academic year.
Degree show 2021
Discover some of our students' work from the 2021 degree show.
Degree show 2020
View a selection of work from our graduating students at our annual degree show.
Degree show 2018
A selection of work from our graduating students presented at the annual degree show in July 2018. The degree show is the culmination of the final year project completed by all undergraduate students in the School.
Work by Elizabeth Redhall, BA Textile Design, showcased at the 2018 degree show.
Abigail Egwunyenga, BA Art and Design student, showcasing her work at the 2018 degree show.
"My practice is focused on narrating cultural hybridity through the Nigerian female Avant Garde Fashion Industry. The debate of neo-colonialism seems to relfect on the textile and fashion trade in Nigeria and is largely influenced by Dutch Wax and other foreign fabrics. Although political, Fashion plays a very important role in Nigerian cultural activities."
Alison Levy, BA Textile Design stufent, showcasing her work at the 2018 degree show.
"My collection features a set of striking textile prints targeted at the luxury-end of the hospitality sector and is split into two key product type - fabric wall panels and uphoulstery. Urban Futures is an overriding theme. This is represented through two distinct contrasting visual themes - geometric structures and natural forms. All designs are contemporary in design and feature bold, vivid colours and striking shapes which make them the centre-piece of any room. "
Jenna Hardie, BA Art and Design student, showcasing her work at the 2018 degree show
"My practice is concerned with painting and its visual and conceptual potential to signify. This agenda is informed by modernist and contemporary takes on abstraction, as with painters such as Albert Irwin, Katharina Grosse and Fiona Rae, exploring the relationships between colour, form, line and space. This has allowed me to focus on abstract pictoral elements and their expressive potential.
My process is initially guided by colour and its spatial qualitities whilst considering how form, gesture, density and movement contribute to the image allowing a "conversation" between different elements to take place. Through improvisation, reflection, trial and error, the paintery process is just as important as the final outcome."
Taya Shovgelia, BA Art and Design student, showcasing her work at the 2018 degree show.
"This project started with the exploration of body as form, which evolved to focusing on the beauty and eroticism of flowers as an analogy of the female body. Further consideration was to potray flowers in view of scientific experiments with plant life in space and related ideas of life cycles. The photographic imagery itself alludes to the idea of the memento mori and its focus on flowers and object to reflect death within the still life genre. Additionally, my practice is informed by fashion photography, which within this project led to a series of artist's books that play with relations between art and advertising."
Amelia Sharples, BA Art and Design student, showcasing her work at the 2018 degree show
"Transhumanism is the contemporary belief that the body can be augmented beyond its natural physical capabilities via the rapid growth within science and technology. My sculptures explore these ideas, underpinning concerns of body and identity in contemporary culture, focusing on our strive for perfection and how this problematises notions of the evolutionary body."
Eleanor Marke, BA Graphic and Communication Design student, showcasing her work at the 2018 degree show.
"Most of my work examines the important role design can play in examinining intersections of race and class. This year, I've focused on how changing accessibilities within the food industry can contribute to wider societal change. I have created a concept to tackle food poverty through community-driven social spaces by designing a community café and kitchen called The Mixing Bowl. In second term, I focused on how changing perceptions of West African food in the UK could help to create a fairer society in a world increasingly disrupted by racial and political divide."
Imogen Potter, BA Fashion Marketing student, showcasing her work at the 2018 degree show.
"Over the past year, 'Get Scrapped' has been developed in response to the market need for sustainability. Get Scrapped focuses on creating desirable womenswear collections made from waste fabrics that were initially destined for landfill sites. Steering away from traditional sustainability routes, my project has a colourful and fun approach that priotises fashionable styles and accessibility for the consumer. "
Alexander Evans, BA Art & Design student, showcasing his work at the 2018 degree show.
"With the impact of consumerism, the Internet and advertising, the world we currently live in is visually over stimulating to the point where one questions the effects on the individual. My work is concerned with how this affects the human state of mind, in particular from a male perspective.
The installation Visual Incompetence is comprised of a single film exploring how the abundance of visual stimuli and gender stereotypes might condition male identity and sexual expectations. Further concerns are how we engage with the world through the aesthetics found in the details everyday life."
Callam McLoughlin, BA Art & Design student, showcasing his work at the 2018 degree show.
"Centered around a collection of glass and ceramic fragments gathered on a small stretch of coast in North West of England, this body of work explores systems of categorisation and how organisation can be used to aid our understanding of a collection. Within this body of work, three types of collection have been identified: the museum, the archive and the atlas.
Bringing three different modes of presentation together, which are normally considered as separate experiences, re-evaluates how we engage with collections. Therefore engaging a wide range of individuals, without prioritising a particular interest in the arts per se."
Hattie Kongaunruan, BA Art & Design student, showcasing her work at the 2018 degree show.
" 'A funny thing about a chair: you hardly ever think it's there.' - Theodore Roethke
We spend most of our lives moving betwen seats, whether to work, study, relax, read, or eat. Back to back, leg to leg, and arm to arm: the chair not only mimics our anatomy, but encompasses our entire being just to provide us with comfort. My practice focuses on the formal language of chairs and how they can be manipulated to explore distinctions between art and design discourses. It links ideas of the uncanny by tweaking what is known or familiar to become theatrical through variations of simple metamorphoses with often more complex anthropomorphisms."
Lucy Guy, BA Textile Design student, showcasing her work at the 2018 degree show.
"A collection inspired by urban exteriors; this work takes influence from the colours, geometric shapes and lines within road markings and street scenes. As a designer, I appreciate the tactility of knitting. I have utilised hand powered knitting machines and the latest Shima Seiki knitting technology to realise my designs.
My practice has a focus on interiors and, as well as soft furnishings, exploits knitted fabrics within interior products typically made of hard materials - in this case room dividers. I have also designed a menswear collection for the UKFT Made It Campaign, a competition I won in connection with M&S."
Work showcased at the 2018 degree show.
Work showcased at the 2018 degree show.
Work showcased at the 2018 degree show.
Work showcased at the 2018 degree show.
Work showcased at the 2018 degree show.
Work showcased at the 2018 degree show.
Art & Design Open Studio 2018
A selection of student work showcased at the Art and Design open studio in December 2018. The open studio is an opportunity for students to showcase their work in progress for family, friends and the wider student community.
Degree Show 2017
A selection of work showcased by graduating students at our annual degree show in 2017
