2 YOU HAVE CREATIVE FLAIR AND YOU WANT TO TURN YOUR TALENTS INTO A CREDIBLE CAREER. AT SOLENT, WE GET YOU STARTED IN A SECTOR THAT’S EXCITING, CHALLENGING AND FINANCIALLY REWARDING. THE ART, DESIGN AND FASHION INDUSTRIES ARE AMONG THE LARGEST CONTRIBUTORS TO THE UK ECONOMY – AND YOU CAN BE PART OF IT. 1 OUR GREAT CITY Southampton has one of the finest There are world-class and grassroots art collections in the UK. The City art exhibitions and performances at Art Gallery – a stone’s throw from the John Hansard Gallery and City campus – houses 5,000 works Eye. Get involved, or just soak up spanning eight centuries. Do you the ambience as you enjoy a latte want to see a Turner or a Monet? at the Art House cafe. You can. And the best bit? It’s free. Fashion students are inspired by The city continues to invest in the Southampton’s 150-shop Westquay arts. It’s just opened a brand new centre, independent boutiques culture and arts district. Our Solent and vintage markets. Some call it Gallery is at its heart, featuring up- shopping – you can call it research. and-coming artists, contemporary art ... and maybe you. 2 3 ART AND DESIGN AT SOLENT During your studies you will have • well-lit professional studios access to a range of state-of- with fully equipped model- the-art facilities to support your making and advanced learning, including: manufacturing labs for composites, 3D printers and • traditional silkscreens and laser cutters (product design) letterpresses • a digital fabric printer and • digital and rapid prototyping laser cutter (interior design technologies decoration) • colour and black-and-white • Re:So, our student-run retail darkrooms and an in-house store, offering the opportunity colour film processing machine to gain vital work experience • film processing rooms and and the chance to sell your a modern multimedia lab creative work on the high featuring 24 iMacs with Adobe street. CS6 Suite Master Collection and Final Cut Pro Please visit individual course • large professional photographic pages at www.solent.ac.uk/ studios and associated make-up courses for specific facilities and styling rooms available for your chosen degree. 4 Strong connections with the local creative scene through our £1.4 million invested academics and our in a dedicated art and public city-centre design school. art gallery. A creative environment which gives you the Identified as a beacon freedom to explore of good practice in a your craft, try new report by the RSA on ideas and techniques, creativity in higher and collaborate across education institutions. disciplines. 55 LESLIE ATTOH BA (HONS) FINE ART, 2017 “THIS COURSE IS FOR YOU So I started looking for IF YOU ENJOY AND HAVE opportunities in film companies A PASSION FOR ARTS AND before and after completing WOULD LIKE TO BROADEN YOUR my course. SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE IN EVERYTHING ART-RELATED.” I am currently enjoying two weeks’ work experience at Rogue Films HOW DID SOLENT PREPARE where I get to assist the film YOU FOR YOUR CAREER? production crew with daily tasks. I learnt to be productive and get This involves researching, editing the best results from every task. video and audio for producers, Research and practice were the running to the shops when key words during my fine art required and also going to film studies. I became very comfortable and video shoots. with research and practising my skills by the time I completed the WHAT IS FINE ART? course and have found this to be Fine art is a creative platform very beneficial in my current that allows you to engage and career path. familiarise yourself with various artistic directions and mediums. FAVOURITE SOLENT MEMORY? I have a lot of good memories from WHAT TIPS WOULD YOU GIVE my time at Solent but my favourite TO SOMEONE WANTING A would be my first day in student CAREER IN THIS AREA? halls, knowing that I was about to Really think about what creative start a whole new experience. direction you enjoy the most and what you want from it. WHAT ARE YOU UP TO NOW? Because once you know what Towards the end of my course, you want to become/ I developed a passion for film. achieve, only then can I told myself that I would make an you focus your energy impressive film director. I saw an and productivity in interesting relationship between that direction. my paintings and film-making. 6 I SAW AN INTERESTING “RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN“ MY PAINTINGS AND FILM-MAKING. 7 8 KEV MUNDAY BA (HONS) GRAPHIC DESIGN, 2009 WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN HOW DID UNIVERSITY PREPARE GETTING UP TO SINCE YOU YOU FOR YOUR CAREER? GRADUATED? The course taught me to After graduating I worked part- experiment in a wide variety of time while building up my studio styles, think wide and learn digital practice and self-promoting my and handmade skills. illustration and artwork. I have now been working as a full-time FAVOURITE SOLENT MEMORY? artist for just over seven years, A trip to London to listen to primarily focusing on hand-drawn expert speakers. artwork on canvas and murals. I have produced work for brands WHAT IS GRAPHIC DESIGN including Graham & Brown TO YOU? Wallpaper (wallpaper designs), Graphic design/graphic art gives Ten Skateboards (skate decks), me the opportunity to express Monster Energy (hand-painted myself creatively for a living. murals) and The Hemp Trading Company (clothing designs). WHAT TIPS WOULD YOU GIVE TO SOMEONE WANTING A WHAT IS A TYPICAL DAY CAREER IN THIS AREA? FOR YOU? Work as hard outside the course as I produce around 200 original you do on it. Set yourself creative works of art a year, which I sell via briefs when you haven’t got representing galleries in France, projects coming in. Belgium, the Netherlands, the UK and online. Some of these artworks then go on to be licensed for products or print designs. 9 NEWLY DEVELOPED FOR 2020 IS BA (HONS) BODY ART, A FASCINATING COURSE FOCUSED ON EXPLORING THE HUMAN BODY AS A CANVAS AND A MEDIUM. WE CAUGHT UP WITH COURSE LEADER BRIAN REED TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT WHAT THE COURSE ENTAILS AND HOW STUDENTS WILL BE SUPPORTED. “On the body art course, you The attitude of the body art course Assisting students to realise their have the freedom to explore is to combine the analogue and vision remains at the heart of our ways in which to use the body digital creative process though creative belief and to this end as an applied medium. You will module briefs and for students we have structured the course to respond to briefs – both studio to research and experiment with introduce students to expanded and commercial – in a professional visual languages and approaches. subject content and wider creative manner, and in Solent’s dedicated Your artwork will be produced fields and practices, through studio studio environment you will while working alongside respected practical and theory modules.” receive the support and have tutors from the illustration world access to space and facilities and wider accompanying practices. that enable you to explore and challenge your creative practice. 10 11 TED JENNINGS BA (HONS) ILLUSTRATION, 2019 WHAT HAVE YOU ENJOYED I’ve often thought about trying MOST ABOUT YOUR TIME AT to find a career in design as it SOLENT? has become a great passion of I feel that my final year on the mine throughout university. illustration course has been I was also lucky enough to go my most enjoyable time at on work placement with Egmont Solent. From day one, the course Publishing in April which gave challenged my ways of working, me lots of insight into being a exposing me to new processes and designer on a day-to-day basis. building me up as an artist. The placement really opened my eyes to areas of the industry that The third year is where all of I previously thought were closed this important work culminated to me, as well as professional and I was allowed to make industry standards and practices, whatever I liked and follow my all of which I feel is great own briefs. The freedom as well knowledge to have as a graduate. as the challenge of this was really stimulating as a creative, as I was WHAT ADVICE WOULD left to my own devices to solve YOU SHARE WITH FUTURE my own problems and really delve ILLUSTRATION STUDENTS? TRY into the way I like to work and My advice to a new student would things I enjoy illustrating. be to definitely be open to new “EVERYTHING methods of working – even ones OUT WHILE WHAT’S NEXT FOR YOU? that you don’t immediately like I feel that I’m currently in a the look of. Before studying at YOU CAN – great position in regards to Solent I only worked with pens IT MIGHT the future, simply due to the and pencil, but since exploring sheer amount of good options I digital methods and print-making, JUST CHANGE have moving forward, including I feel I’ve developed my very own YOUR WHOLE“ freelancing or going on to do an way of working. Try everything MA in either illustration or visual out while you can – it might just OUTLOOK communication. change your whole outlook on art. ON ART. 12 13 14 JASON LIVINGSTONE STORE DESIGNER, TED BAKER BA (HONS) INTERIOR DESIGN DECORATION, 2017 HOW DID SOLENT PREPARE Concession design is anything WHAT TIPS WOULD YOU GIVE YOU FOR YOUR CAREER? ‘ted’ you see inside a department TO SOMEONE WANTING A By providing first-class teaching, store, for example, Selfridges, John CAREER IN YOUR INDUSTRY? access to state-of-the-art Lewis or even Galerie Lafayette, Pick the right degree for you – equipment/technology and real- Paris.