I have lived in Bournemouth for the past 3 years and I do like it here and I am settled.
This university has amazing facilities after seeing them at the open day 30th November last year.
The course leaders were great and the students I met were lovely and very friendly and informative. Theres a real community vibe to the place.
Interview Date: 19th February 2020
Application Status: Conditional Offer - Pass
Pros of living in Bournemouth:
- I already live here so no need to relocate.
- The beaches.
- Having friends here.
- Having work opportunities here.
- The new forest
- Bus routes are great
- The gardens
- Great weather in the summer
Cons of living in Bournemouth
- A lot of homelessness
- You have to travel for at least 30 mins to get to the countryside
- It can feel like a city at times when you're in the centre and its busy
- Apartment (1 bedroom) in City Centre £733.33
- Apartment (1 bedroom) Outside of Centre £635.00
- Apartment (3 bedrooms) in City Centre £1,258.33
- Apartment (3 bedrooms) Outside of Centre £1,082.50
I really love painting, drawing and I would love to try more printmaking and sculpture. I have a lot of experience in digital media however I am intrigued by sonic arts!
I like the sound of the community vibe thats supportive. The international and national exhibition and residency projects sound really exciting!
I like the fact you can move between zones during the course. I love the sound of studying abroad and participating in challenging projects.
Exhibiting in London sounds like an amazing experience, although quite scary! However I have always found that if I am scared to do something, it means I should definitely do it!
The International trips sound awesome, I have been to all places other than Milan, Copenhagen and Madrid. However I would love to visit the other places again with a specific area of interest in mind for inspiration.
What the current students are doing looks really good and exciting.
The studios and resources also sounds amazing!
OPEN DAY NOTES:
During the1st year:
Monday - lecture then seminar group
The workshops sound exciting.
5,10 or 15 people in a workshop.
1-1 tutorials in units
1st unit - 8 weeks
Play without worrying
Pass everything but just for experimenting
Year 2&3 - zoned practice :
Media and performance - video, projection, live performance, interactive, sonic art - normative collective, ambionic sound performance
Paint lab - materials and methods area, canvas wood metal, grinding paint workshops, man met, AUb and NYC painting exchange,
Sculpture - large scale,
Free range exhibition in London FMP
7 staff
15 artists doing workshops
75-80 students per year
Artists talks
1st year 3 London visits
2nd year internationals
£400 a year for people on low income for trips
2 week residency in Milan for 2 students
Art monthly mag
480 applicants - everyone interviewed
Up to date contemporary references and heavy weight art history artists
John hasad Southampton
I really like the sound of this University, It is local to me already therefore I wouldn't have to relocate. The facilities and course sound amazing and the tutors are lovely. I really enjoyed the open day here.
● Why have you chosen this University/ Course?
- Access to dedicated studio space - North light studios
- That it’s a small college just dedicated to creative arts.
The workshops sound exciting. Media and performance - video, projection, live performance, interactive, sonic art - nomatic collective, ambisonic sound performance
- AUb and NYC painting exchange
- space for large scale projects
- 1st year 3 London visits, 2nd year internationals
- £400 a year for people on low income for trips
- 2 week residency in Milan for 2 students - Year 2 (vri farani)
- Multi-disciplinary approach for continually testing and exploring different mediums
- Cross-campus collaborations
- 5 days a week
BEAF in April Bournemouth Arts by the sea Bournemouth Southampton - Portsmouth visits Artist collectives/talks London, Berlin, Madrid, Venice, Athens, Krakow, Milan. Year 2 exchanges - European Unis (Belgium, Holland, Norway, Prague) Worldwide Unis (South Korea, Baltimore, Oregon, New York, Japan) Fellowships at the Venice Biennale. Student Union - Supportive Careers service great Academic Support Counselling Service Student advice centre.
- Facilities
Print making workshops
Fine Art
Mac suite
Outstanding library - fine art librarian
3D workshop - cutting/ drilling/ lazer cutter/ vacuum forming/ welding
PaintLab - making your own paints and pigments
Sculpture
Stretchers & grounds workshops
● What do you know about this course?
- Lectures - Monday morning, Afternoon - Seminar groups to discuss topic in lecture ( 2 hundred years of art, something happens: Noise, Glitch & the Uncategorizable Moment, The Gaze and The Visionary, Hauntology’s - Revolutions, Futures & Ghosts, Thing power: New Materialisms & making art.
- Workshops in 5 or 10 students.
- Still have inter-zone group crits in 2nd and 3rd year.
- 3 full time technicians (MaP, Paintlab, sculpture)
175 days a year of artists coming in to do workshops
- Practice - 80%, Theory - 20%.
Year 1
1st Unit- ‘Thinking through materials’, Mixed practice - choose zone of practice (Media & performance, Paintlab, Sculpture) Experiment and discover, rotation inductions, lecture series, studio practice, materials provided for all workshops for all years. Expectations from you: 100% attendance, Enthusiasm, Motivation, Interaction with peers and tutors. 2nd Unit - ‘Developing Practice’, curating and exhibitions, 8 students curate together.
Year 2
Zoned Practice - ‘cultures of Nature’ symposia, project by proposal. Forms 25% of degree grade. Opportunity to gain work experience work in local schools and nursing homes (art therapy). Practice in context: Lower Gardens, Russell-Cotes, SGC Oxford University, Natural Science Society.
Year 3
Zoned Practice - refine your practice, professionalism, mock interviews, studio work, dissertation, exhibit twice, 75% of final grade. Unit - Defining your professional voice. Every Thursday ‘showroom 1600’ & ‘showroom live’.
● Who/what inspires your work?
- Dadaists – Hans Arp (chance) , Tristan Tzar (poems) , Hannah Hoch (gender)
- Dreams - Michael Vincent Manolo (photo-manipualtion), Salvador Dali (paranoic- , Carl Jung
- Abstract & Colour – Jackson Pollock, Kandinsky, Sophie TEA, Jack Coulter
- Techniques – Sammy Gorin (inks), Richard Serra (verbs), David S Stern (photoweave), Hockney (joiners),
- Concepts – Michael Landg (‘The breakdown’), Joanna Chamouli (social masks & mixed media)
- Work – Freya Jobbins (toy sculptures), Terry Richardson (RAW photography), Maude Fernhaut (RAW photography), Rebecca Naen (NPG ‘Learning to love’, RAW photography)
- Grayson Perry (his research methods & concepts ‘All Man’) – society & Culture
- Songwriters - David Bowie, Dermot Kennedy
- COLOUR, SOUND/MUSIC, MOVEMENT, PEOPLE (SOCIETY & CULTURE)
● What are the strengths of your work & where would you like to improve?
Strengths:
- Photography – capturing emotions
- Photoshop - I envisage, manipulate and communicate a message well with the photos I take.
- Use of colour
- Willingness to throw myself into experimentation to develop ideas further
- Excited to explore and see how I can take it further and learn how to use these skills in different ways through fine art to produce different outcomes that convey different messages, moods and meanings.
- Printmaking – repetition and layering
- Fluidity throughout my work
Improvements:
Critical Analysis. Artist research – my research is wide and good, but it needs to be deeper looking at the methods, meanings and messages behind artist’s work. Self reflection and evaluation.
● Are there any projects which have been important to you, if so why?
- Inside Outside – Due to looking into mental health and the masks people wear
- Gendered Objects – opened up my mind and let me explore on a deeper level something that I hadn’t thought of before.
● What galleries, exhibitions or festivals have you been to?
Joan Miro Museum - Barcelona, Sound exhibition Picasso Museum - Barcelona MACBA - Barcelona - Takis exhibition.
- Arts by the sea Festival in Bournemouth x2
- Lakes Alive Art Festival in Kendal x2
- Russell Cotes Museum and Gallery (William De Morgan, ‘Sublime Symmetry’)
- Surf the Wave Dance Platform (Zoielogic and others)
- National Portrait Gallery (Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize)
- The Photographers gallery (Food)
- BEAF (Bournemouth Emerging Arts Fringe)
- The Louvre in Paris
- Cookhouse gallery in The Lake District
- The Brewery Arts Centre in The Lake District
- Blackwell House in The Lake District
● What is your understanding of the relevant industry/jobs market?
Jobs I could get after degree:
Fine Art Graduates
A fifth of fine art graduates working in the UK are employed as artists.
Employed : 66.8%
Further Study: 14.4%
Working & Studying: 6.3%
Unemployed: 6.7%
Other 5.9%
Type of Work
Arts, design & media: 29.9%
Retail, catering & bar work: 24.2%
Marketing, PR & sales: 6.5%
Secretarial & numerical clerks: 6.1%
Other: 33.3%
● Where do you see yourself in three/five/ten years time?
3 years – graduating and applying for a masters in Art therapy, also applying for different creative jobs
5 years – graduating from master in art therapy and hopefully going into full time work
10 years – own practice for self employed work / art therapist within the community
● How would you describe yourself?
- optimistic, open minded, tenacious, personable, organised, forward-thinking.
● What are your main interests?
- fine art photography, sound art, print-making, sculpture & ceramics, glass making, people, society & culture.
● What achievement are you most proud of?
- Completing the foundation diploma so far
● What are your career plans?
Art therapist
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