Cambridge of School Art
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Cambridge of School Art
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Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge Campus East Road Cambridge CB1 1PT Email answers@anglia.ac.uk Telephone 0845 271 3333 Admissions admissions@anglia.ac.uk internationaladmissions@anglia.ac.uk Web www.anglia.ac.uk/csa www.cambridgeschoolofart.com
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Welcome
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About Cambridge School of Art
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Ruskin Gallery
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Student Exhibitions
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Working with the Creative Industries
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Student Awards
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Student Prizes
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Alumni Success
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Cambridge - A Creative Hotspot
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Cambridge School of Art Abroad
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Research at Cambridge School of Art Undergraduate Courses
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BA (Hons) Computer Games Art
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BA (Hons) Fashion Design
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BA (Hons) Film and Television Production
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BA (Hons) Fine Art
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BA (Hons) Graphic Design
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BA (Hons) Illustration
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BA (Hons) Illustration and Animation
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BA (Hons) Interior Design
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BA (Hons) Photography Postgraduate Courses
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MA Children’s Book Illustration
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MA Film and TV Production
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MA Graphic Design and Typography
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MA Illustration and Book Arts
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MA Fine Art
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MA Photography
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MA Printmaking
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Cambridge School of Art Events
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About Cambridge
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Welcome
Welcome We are an academic community of art, design and media professionals focused on developing the creative practice of our students through studio, workshop and classroom based experimentation. Cambridge School of Art is home to some 800 students studying for undergraduate, taught masters and doctoral qualifications. All our courses offer distinctive integration of practice and theory, using industry standard facilities. You will be encouraged to be both creative and critically engaged. Our courses are taught by research-active staff recognised nationally and internationally as leaders in their fields. Students, academic and technical staff, visiting artists and industry representatives all work closely together in a supportive and friendly environment, within the historic Ruskin Building. This was built as the original art school in 1909, and remains at the heart of Anglia Ruskin University’s Cambridge campus. I hope you will take the time to read about the artistic and cultural life of Cambridge School of Art as illustrated in this publication. It has been designed by James Webber, a graduate student from BA (Hons) Graphic Design, an example of the importance we attach to professional experience on all our courses. You will also find brief details about each course we offer. Chris Owen Head of Cambridge School of Art
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About Cambridge School of Art
About Cambridge School of Art The Past The original Cambridge School of Art was opened in 1858 by renowned British art critic, draughtsman, watercolourist and prominent social thinker John Ruskin, and has remained well-regarded ever since. Legendary cartoonist and graphic artist Ronald Searle, who died in 2012, studied here as did Edward Bawden, one of Britain’s greatest graphic artists, illustrators and printmakers. During the highly creative and experimental 1960s, Cambridge School of Art was home to many talented tutors and gifted students including caricaturists Roger Law and Peter Fluck, of Spitting Image fame, and Pink Floyd members Syd Barrett and Dave Gilmour, who played one of their first gigs, at Christmas 1966, from the balcony of the Ruskin studios. The Present Cambridge School of Art retains the creative ethos of its foundation, upon which the modern-day art school is built. Engaging with current debates surrounding contemporary practice and with state-of-the-art facilities, Cambridge School of Art today is a perfect combination of the old and the new. The original Ruskin building houses light, bright studios along with industry-standard film and photographic studios, 150-year-old printing presses and dedicated Mac suites. The Ruskin Gallery is a ground-breaking digital art gallery allowing both traditional hanging and digital viewing.
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Ruskin Gallery Recent Exhibitions
Situated at the heart of Cambridge School of Art, the Ruskin Gallery is a unique exhibition space
Parasite For this new exhibition specially created for the ten digital screens of the Ruskin Gallery, artist Deborah Robinson worked alongside sound artist David Strang (University of Plymouth) and researchers Dr Julian Rayner and Dr Oliver Billker of the Malaria research programme at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, to form a new audio-visual experience that invokes the recursive, cyclical nature of malarial disease alongside historical attempts to remove it entirely from our world.
surrounded by artists’ studios, incorporating a groundbreaking digital gallery - the first of its kind in the UK. Open to the general public, all exhibitions are free and carefully curated to provide a singular and memorable gallery-going experience. The Ruskin Gallery welcomes over 10,000 visitors every year and shows touring exhibitions of international standing alongside student work. With its vaulted ceilings, character and light,
The Marmite Prize for Painting IV Sponsored by Arts Council England, The Marmite Prize is a nomadic prize championing a broad range of contemporary painting. 32 artists were selected from 850 submissions and the artists’ works were shown at a number of venues around the UK. The winner of the Marmite Painting Prize was announced in London at the Tannery, after its exhibition at the Ruskin Gallery in April 2013.
the Ruskin Gallery is the perfect backdrop for traditional shows, and the new technology (including the world’s first Panasonic 103” 3D Full HD plasma screen and a state-of-theart Bose audio system) has been installed to complement the building’s period character. The new digital technology is fully flexible, allowing both traditional hanging and digital viewing, either independently or at the same time. The area underneath the main exhibition space has been transformed into a photography gallery and there is also an interactive touch-screen information point.
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Ruskin Gallery Š Holly Pines
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Student Exhibitions
Incunabula, 6-16 Kings Street , Cambridge. From left, Macarena Rioseco, Mojtaba Peiravi
Student Exhibitions Cambridge School of Art students benefit from a range of opportunities to exhibit locally, nationally and internationally, in addition to opportunities in the Ruskin Gallery and on campus. Cambridge School of Art Degree Show Each year the Cambridge School of Art studios are transformed into exhibition spaces which lead from the central Ruskin Gallery. The result is a spectacular and celebratory degree show with 10 participating courses and over 200 graduating students. Changing Spaces Since the project started in 2009 Cambridge School of Art students have exhibited in a wide range of venues across Cambridge city centre. The project is an initiative by Cambridge City Council in partnership with Love Cambridge, to utilise vacant retail units and other spaces in and around the city centre, in order to offer artists unique exhibition spaces. Students have exhibited in a range of media including film, installation, sculpture and painting. Solo and group exhibitions have transformed a number of venues, including a disused sweet shop and a former nightclub. Other Opportunities Last year, Cambridge School of Art students also showed their work at: Bologna Children’s Book Fair, Italy; Lille Animation Festival 2013 (Fete de L’anim), France; Romanlar 2012, Istanbul; Stoptrik International Film Festival, Slovenia and Poland; DIVERSIDADE EM ANIMAÇÃO, Brazil; Film in t’Park in Huis vom Beeldcultuur, Holland; Festival international du Court Metrage, France; OFAFA Festival, Poland; Encounters, Bristol; Exposures, Manchester; British Animation Awards, London; Co-Op film festival in Manchester Bond House Project Space, London; Bank Street Arts, Sheffield; Foyles Bookshop Gallery, London; Pan Macmillan, London; East of England Show; the Royal Berkshire Show, Chiswick House, London; Williams Art; Clare Hall Gallery; Institute of Astronomy; Grafton Centre Fashion Show; King’s College Art Centre; Cambridge Style Week; Cambridge Arts Picturehouse and Changing Spaces venues including 616 Gallery and The Drawing Cube, and more... 7
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Working With The Creative Industries Our students have the opportunity to engage with industry and receive industry recognition in a number of ways including live briefs, partnerships, specialist workshops and masterclasses. Wired To ensure a continuing engagement with industry, Cambridge School of Art has established Wired, a series of screenings, seminars, Q&As and workshops with film and television industry professionals. Recent events have included a screening and Q&A with Peter Strickland (Director) and Nic Knowland (Cinematographer) of Berberian Sound Studio, a talk entitled ‘Making a living from what you love doing’ with Georgi Banks-Davies, Independent Director and an insider view on bringing the outdoors to our living rooms from wildlife film-maker Piers Warren and accomplished remote location Director/Cameraman and professional expedition leader, Phil Coates and CSA graduate Ryan Chapman. Internships and Work Experience At Cambridge School of Art we encourage students to explore routes into professional practice and secure work experience placements and internships to develop the range of skills demanded in the industry. Students undertaking work experience can find this leads to internships or traineeships or permanent employment. In addition to ongoing collaborations with the creative industries, students have undertaken work experience placements, internships and traineeships through a variety of projects and companies both in the UK and internationally. These include: Nash Matthews patent attorneys, Archant publications, Daily Express, CUTEC, Urban Larder, French Connection, 12foot6, Filofax, Sim Marriot, Guerrilla Cambridge, World of Interiors, Massivkonzept, Envy Post-Production House, Georgi Banks-Davies, Cambridge County Council, Zambian News and Information Service (ZANIS), BBC, Warner Brothers California, House of Harlot, Liberty Department Store and many more…
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Student Awards Our students receive industry recognition and success in major national and international competitions. Here are a few recent highlights: Rome Abbey Award Andrea Medjesi-Jones, a Fine Art PhD student, was awarded the highly significant and competitive Rome Abbey Award in Painting 2013 to research and practice at the British School in Rome. Andrea continued her ambitious painting practice in a studio at the British School while also researching inter- and post-war Italian painting in Rome and Venice. Macmillian Prize for Children’s Book Illustration Artists from Anglia Ruskin University have swept the board at the prestigious 2013 Macmillan Prize for Children’s Picture Book Illustration. Now in its 28th year, the Macmillan Prize was established to nurture new talent, and this year attracted over 350 entries from students at universities and colleges across the UK. Jules Bentley won first prize and a cheque for £1,000 at the ceremony at Pan Macmillan’s London headquarters for Monsieur Kibble Gets a Big Surprise, while recent MA Children’s Book Illustration graduate Lara Robinson was runner-up for Flora Grows a Problem and Wen Dee Tan, also an MA Children’s Book Illustration student, was awarded third place for Lili. To complete Anglia Ruskin’s clean sweep, second year BA (Hons) Illustration student Alex Prewett went home with a cheque for £500 after winning the Lara Jones Award, which focuses on publications for babies or very young children, for his book I’m a...
Young Creatives Network (YCN) Student Awards Congratulations to 2013 graduating BA (Hons) Illustration student Max Machen who, as well as receiving a Highly Commended in the recent Macmillan Awards, was also Commended in this year’s Young Creatives Network (YCN) Student Awards. All Commended submissions were recognised as being of outstanding quality by the judges, and the contributing students were invited to the YCN Student Awards Ceremony in September 2013, with their work showcased in the upcoming YCN Student Awards Annual and on the YCN website. BA (Hons) Illustration students have either won or been commended in this award for the past three years. Filofax Covers competition Becky Mountain (2012 BA (Hons) Illustration and Animation graduate) won this competition in 2012 and has since enjoyed a 6 month placement in the design department at Filofax. Red Bull Canimation Competition Marc Moynihan (2012 BA (Hons) Illustration and Animation graduate) won the Red Bull Canimation Competition in 2011. The prize was a one month placement on graduation at animation house 12foot6 in London. He was kept on after the placement and was soon working on the animations for the BBC’s Dara O’Briain’s Science Club along with another 2012 graduate Mike Towers. Marc has continued to work on animation projects at 12foot6.
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Student Prizes Chris Owen, Head of Cambridge School of Art, Albert Gazeley and Tom Hiscocks
Student Prizes Cambridge School of Art has a number of annual awards for our students: The Supanee Gazeley Fine Art Prize The £2,000 awarded for the best body of work displayed at the Degree Show by a final year BA (Hons) Fine Art student, donated by alumna Dr Supanee Gazeley, this year went to Tom Hisocks whose impressive sculptures, modelled on his own body using the latest digital techniques, amazed the judges and visitors to the Degree Show 2013 alike. The Eaton Portrait Prize BA (Hons) Photography students enter work to win prizes generously donated by former student Andy Eaton of Eaton Kaye. Shortlisted entries also win the entry fee to the prestigious Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery. This year’s award was won by Will Symons.
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Alumni Success Tom Sanalitro, who graduated with a BA (Hons) in Graphic Design in 2013, has been working with the World Oral Literature Project – a collaboration between the University of Cambridge and Yale University – to help save two endangered languages in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, a mountainous region in south east Bangladesh. Tom has worked with Jamie Kutner, a calligrapher from the Rhode Island School of Design, to digitalise two alphabets – Mro and Marma – and create typefaces and fonts to help preserve the languages for future generations. Asia Prusinowska, BA (Hons) Fashion Design, was invited to display work at a prestigious felt show in Amsterdam immediately after graduating in 2013 and has secured sponsorship from Cambridge Style Week to help her set up in business and prepare to launch a new collection in February 2014. “I am a conceptual fashion designer and textile artist, who designs to communicate and tell stories,” said Asia, who specialises in making clothes out of felt. “My creations are one-of-a-kind wearable art, full of magic and fantasy; I aim to create an emotional connection that motivates and excites people. I’ve been dreaming about showing my work internationally, but didn’t expect it so soon – I’m over the moon!” Chiara Parazzi secured an internship at World of Interiors immediately after graduating from BA (Hons) Interior Design in 2012. She is now in Kenya running Out Of The Blue Co. a business specializing in interior furniture and interior items, all made from wood and bone or wicker. As Chiara explains: ‘Our main objective is that all our products are made from recycled wood and we encourage our suppliers to use traditional methods of manufacturing. A percentage of our sales always go to a fantastic marine conservation project called The Local Ocean Trust.’ Other recent alumni success include 2012 graduate and, aspiring cinematographer Ann Evelin Lawford who has exhibited her Super16mm grad film Concealment at numerous venues, including at the 12th Square Art exhibition in Soho. She joins many other BA (Hons) Film & Television Production graduates enjoying industry successes.
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Cambridge - A Creative Hotspot
“Employment in the [Creative Industries] Sector has grown at double the rate of the economy as a whole”. Department for Culture, Media & Sport 2011 Cambridge has been identified as one of the UK’s top creative hotspots (NESTA Creative Clusters and Innovation report 2010). Cambridgeshire has more than 1600 creative enterprises, employing over 12,000 staff, and contributing just under £1 billion per annum to the UK economy. As well as being a centre for employment in the creative industries, there are rich opportunities for collaboration with the city’s entertainment, technological, scientific, arts and heritage industries. Computer Gaming Around 10% of the UK’s computer games workforce is based in Cambridge. Jagex run the second biggest MMORPG from Cambridge and Sony also has a major Playstation development studio here. BA (Hons) Graphic Design graduate Matt Power was part of a BAFTA winning team at the studio. Cambridge School of Art hosts the annual Brains Eden which includes a massive 48 HOUR GAMES JAM, in which teams of students compete aided by representatives from Sony, Jagex, Ninja Theory, Fontier Developments, other major UK games companies and notable indie game developers.
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Creative Front Creative Front Cambridgeshire is co-ordinated by Anglia Ruskin University. Creative Front supports and promotes creative practitioners and creative businesses. In addition to acting as a hub for collaboration, interaction and networking, it is also a vital resource for engagement with business services, development and employment within the sector. Other creative industries or businesses our students regularly work or engage with in the Cambridge area include: Games Eden, Cambridge Design Collective, Supremebeing, Grafton Centre, CAMPUS, Marshalls Aerospace, Kettle’s Yard, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Fry Art Gallery and Museum, Cambridge Arts Picturehouse, Super 8 Festival, Cambridge Film Consortium, Cambridge Arts Theatre, ADC Theatre, Menagerie, Moulin Exes, The Junction, Classworks Theatre, Heffers bookshop, Waterstones, Cambridge City Council.
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Children’s Picturebooks: The Art of Visual Storytelling Korean Book cover
Cambridge School of Art Abroad Our students enjoy a number of field trips which aim to help develop their understanding of contemporary practice in an international context. Recent field trips include: Beijing, China, Porto, Portugal; Seville, Spain; Berlin, Germany; Amsterdam, Holland; Paris, France. In addition, some students take advantage of our links with institutions in Northern Europe to enhance their experience. In 2012 and 2013 students from BA (Hons) Illustration and Animation travelled to Fete d’Anim in Lille, France, to show their films at this major international animation festival. In 2013, four students have benefitted from the EU Erasmus exchange scheme, spending the autumn semester studying in Breda, Holland. Three Graphic Design students studied Information Design at Avans University, and one joined the Excellence Programme at St Joost Akademie, as part of an important European cultural programme - VIVID. The St Joost students joined a team developing a major project with animator and social networking artist, Floris Kaayk, who was featured in news broadcasts across the world following his previous ‘Bird Man’ project. MA Children’s Book Illustration students, staff and recent graduates visit the Bologna Children’s Book Fair annually. Since 2012 the course has taken its own stand at the fair. Portfolios and unpublished dummy books by students and graduates are on show at the stand, alongside internationally published works. Word about Cambridge School of Art quickly spreads amongst
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publishers at the fair, the appointments book is soon filled, and by the end of the week offers to publish have been made by companies from around the world including the UK, China, Italy, France, Korea, USA and Japan. In 2012, the biggest hit was Mike Mason, a part-time student in the final stages of his studies, whose elaborate 3D paper-cut books received interest and offers from 10 publishers in total. Many of our staff are internationally recognised, with their expertise sought world-wide. Will Hill, Course Leader for MA Graphic Design and Typography, recently curated an international travelling exhibition of contemporary typeface design by leading type designers from around the world. The exhibition opened in London in May 2012, later travelling to a series of venues in the UK, before moving on to the Bauhaus, Weimar and the Museum fur Druck-Kunst in Leipzig. The Korean edition of Children’s Picturebooks: The Art of Visual Storytelling by Professor Martin Salisbury was recently celebrated with a launch and exhibition in Seoul, South Korea. The director of Sang Publishing, Hyun Sang, has collaborated with Professor Salisbury on a number of events and publications. The same book, which is co-authored with Morag Styles, Professor of Children’s Poetry at the University of Cambridge, shot to number 1 in Amazon.com’s Graphic Design bestseller list in April 2012, following a radio slot with Professor Salisbury on National Public Radio (NPR) in the US. More recently it won the UKLA Academic Book award 2013.
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Research at Cambridge School of Art
Research at Cambridge School of Art Academic staff at Cambridge School of Art are active in research - some theoretical, much of it practicebased. Staff publish their research through exhibitions, books, journal articles and conference papers. At the last UK Research Assessment Exercise (RAE, in 2008), Art and Design was one of 8 subject areas at Anglia Ruskin University classed as having research of ‘International’ standing. Research-active staff operate within research centres, or groups, which promote dialogue through seminars, lectures and conferences. Cambridge School of Art’s research clusters include: • • • •
Centre for Children’s Book Studies Fine Art Research Unit (FARU) Typographic Research Group Cultures of the Digital Economy Research Institute (CoDE)
These groups organise and contribute to conferences, exhibitions, screenings, articles and commissioned illustrations in international venues and publications. FARU offers regular artists’ talks, which are open to all students in the school, whilst the Centre for Children’s Book Studies organises an annual Festival of Illustration in Cambridge, in conjunction with Heffers’ Bookshop. We are also engaged in a range of research projects, connecting staff and students with international networks of artists and designers. A recent Anglia Ruskin arts project, Visualise, brought artists, scientists and technologists together in a series of exciting events. It culminated in a major exhibition in the Ruskin Gallery in July 2012 on the theme of computer arts, entitled Poetry, Language, Code, which included multimedia fractal pieces by William Latham, together with work by artists such as Eduardo Kak and Gustav Metzger. The European Union project, VIVID (Value Increase through Visual Design) brings together universities and arts organisations from the UK, France, the Netherlands and Belgium. In January 2013 an international conference was organised in Cambridge thorough VIVID, exploring the links between design and high-tech industries. The conference explored emerging ideas and developments, including the psychology of design, the role design plays in economic growth, and the relevance of visual design to a wide range of sectors. The conference included contributions from academics, as well as leading design companies around Europe, including Studio Roosegaarde, Grendel Games, Idees-3com and Akendi. Amongst the attendees were designers, artists, students, entrepreneurs, plus representatives from governmental organisations, design companies, and cultural organisations. This project is supported by the European Interreg IV A Programme “2 Mers Seas Zeeën”.
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Computer Games Art The course has been designed in consultation with key figures from the games industry to provide you with a dynamic environment in which to develop art skills relevant to this fast-paced sector. There is an emphasis on visual research, creative experimentation and technical development which will give you a solid platform to make an impact in games creation. Computer games development is characterised by a cross-disciplinary approach and you will be actively encouraged to work in close collaboration with other students on the course and with programmers, audio technicians and musicians. We have a strong track-record of industry involvement from companies such as Ninja Theory, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, Jagex and Frontier. This benefits our students who receive industry guidance on current practice for artists working in computer games. UCAS code: W281 Entry requirements: 200-240 More info: www.anglia.ac.uk/compgames
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BA (Hons) Fashion Design Design by Thanh Cong Vu as featured in fashion magazine Urban Coco Photographer: Kyle Galvin, Make-up: Freya Goodcle, Hair: Jade Dixon, model: Linea@MPmodels
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Fashion Design We offer a creative, dynamic and collaborative learning environment where you will be encouraged to develop your own creative path within the fashion industry. In the 2013 National Student Survey, 100% of students stated that they were satisfied with the teaching on their course. Our course aims to give you a professional understanding of creative and industry processes, including design, production and visual communication, within different market levels. Based on contemporary professional practice, you will graduate with a specialised portfolio and final collection to launch you into the industry for a specific market and consumer. UCAS code: W230 Entry requirements: 200-240 More info: www.anglia.ac.uk/fashion
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Film and TV Production This course is designed to equip you with a range of skills for the professional environment of television and film production. Guided by our highly experienced teaching staff, many of whom are industry professionals, you will explore a range of styles and genres in documentary and filmfiction production. You will develop your talents in production management, cinematography and postproduction through a wide range of module options in screenwriting, directing, producing and multi-camera studio operations allowing you to specialise. Key to this course is a focus on vocational training, and the techniques you will learn are used in television and film production today. UCAS code: W612 Entry requirements: 200-240 More info: www.anglia.ac.uk/film_tv 28
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Fine Art Studio work is central to this degree, as well as a critical understanding of theory and technique. The emphasis is on the development of your own visual language, and tuition is often studio-based and one-to-one. A wide choice of options allow you to specialise and develop your practice in a range of areas, including painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, printmaking, photography, video, film and digital media. We have excellent facilities to help support diverse approaches to Fine Art practice. Lectures by artists and field trips to exhibitions provide a framework for the development of your artistic identity. UCAS code: W105 Entry requirements: 200-240 More info: www.anglia.ac.uk/fineart
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BA (Hons) Graphic Design Periodic Table of Life Elements, Tom Han Wong. Promotional poster and App design.
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Graphic Design This course aims to produce informed designers and technically-skilled graduates who are well placed to pursue successful careers in graphic design. You will explore a wide range of graphic disciplines and their professional contexts. Course content is based upon graphic, typographic, web, text-image relationships and the visual communication of information and ideas and there is a focus on practice via design briefs which are principally studio or workshop based. Access to our excellent on-campus digital facilities and design studios will provide you with real understanding of contemporary design processes using industry-standard Adobe CS design software on Apple Macintosh technology. UCAS code: W200 Entry requirements: 200-240 More info: www.anglia.ac.uk/graphicdesign
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Illustration Highly respected with a growing national and international reputation and a long tradition of drawing, our course has an emphasis on visual communication and a vibrant studio culture. With access to excellent printmaking, digital, animation and life drawing facilities, our course has consistently high student satisfaction (National Student Survey) ratings. Illustration received an overall satisfaction rating of 94% in the most recent NSS with 97% of students saying they were satisfied with ‘the teaching on my course’. Our students and graduates achieve recognition in national and international competitions and our graduates go on to have great success in a diverse range of creative industries. UCAS code: W225 Entry requirements: 200-240 More info: www.anglia.ac.uk/illustration
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Illustration and Animation Illustration and Animation looks to the interaction between the two disciplines to develop a strong authorial voice. Central to both disciplines is visual communication underpinned by the development of a personal visual language. Experimentation is seen as paramount in achieving this. A keen interest in the visual world should inform this experimentation and there is a strong emphasis on drawing as a means of exploring the visual environment. The development of sequential narratives through animation allows you to use structure and composition as a key ingredient in illustration work, while use of text and image developed through illustration practice, feeds into the visual language of animation. UCAS code: WW26 Entry requirements: 200-240 More info: www.anglia.ac.uk/animation
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BA (Hons) Interior Design Sotirios Tseronis, Spa project, Second Year Interior Design 2013
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Interior Design Interior design focuses on the creative and sensitive manipulation of spaces for people and specific activities in those spaces. Interior designers enliven space, clarify movement through space and help people engage with those designed spaces. Our course supports the development of your skills to enable you to envisage creative and innovative solutions to address current design problems. You will build on your knowledge and skills throughout the course, culminating in a sustained and specialist portfolio project in your final year. Designers graduating from this course have a wideranging skillset with clear visual communication abilities. You will have a strong client focus and will be ready to engage with industry. UCAS code: W250 Entry requirements: 200-240 More info: www.anglia.ac.uk/interiordesign
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Photography This degree will provide you with the opportunity for experimentation in analogue and digital image-making techniques and concepts. You will develop the contextual framework in which you can discuss your own work and that of others. You will be introduced to related fields including moving image, book-making and exhibition and installation techniques. Lecturers are practicing photographers and/or visual artists and will be able to share their wide-ranging expertise and experience. Lectures, workshops and oneto-one tutorials will support your transition to become an independent practitioner and artist. You are encouraged to develop your own ideas and visual language. UCAS code: W640 Entry requirements: 200-240 More info: www.anglia.ac.uk/photography
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Children’s Book Illustration Our MA Children’s Book Illustration is a worldrenowned, taught studio course that focuses on the creative development and direction of each student artist. The teaching is delivered primarily by internationally recognised artists, writers and publishers who work professionally in the field of children’s books. Each module requires you to propose and develop a project through negotiation with tutors, within the broad parameters of the module definition. The course places a strong emphasis on drawing and sequential design. One-to-one tutorial support is seen as a key element of the student experience along with group critiques, briefings and seminars. This course has recently unveiled a formal partnership with the leading children’s book publishers, Walker Books and their USA partners, Candlewick Press. More info: www.anglia.ac.uk/mabookillustration
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Film and TV Production Our MA focuses on the design, writing, production and direction of factual programmes for television and nonbroadcast uses. As well as advanced skills in production, you will develop business skills to enable you to manage complex budgets and schedules. You will also make films on location and in the studio, learning to work both in groups and on your own. Taught by specialists with backgrounds in the production and broadcasting industries, the course is further supported by talks and seminars from practising producers (for example, Patrick Uden, Executive Producer of The Apprentice), directors, cinematographers and editors. More info: www.anglia.ac.uk/mafilm_tv
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Graphic Design and Typography This course is designed to explore and investigate issues and practices in graphic communication, as a means to enhancing professional understanding and academic scholarship in this subject. Based upon a combination of self-directed and industrydriven projects, this course builds on our established BA (Hons) Graphic Design, which is recognised for its emphasis towards quality and innovation in typography as well as an inclusive, content-driven approach toward graphic communication in general. The course is designed to challenge preconceived thinking, and to develop innovative approaches to professional practice while enhancing practical expertise and theoretical understanding. More info: www.anglia.ac.uk/magraphicdesign
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Illustration and Book Arts This course is a unique provision in the UK, designed to encourage a dialogue between visual practitioners in the fields of Illustration and Book Arts. Whatever your background, you will develop your own visual practice through collaboration and dialogue with staff, visiting professionals and fellow students, and in response to areas of mutual relevance to both illustrators and book artists such as visual sequencing and visual text. The MA builds on the traditions and expertise of Cambridge School of Art in the areas of Illustration and Book Arts, and you will be encouraged to make full use of our purpose-built art studios and the excellent printmaking and letterpress facilities. More info: www.anglia.ac.uk/mabookarts
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Fine Art Our MA Fine Art is a specialist course incorporating flexible study routes which cater for your individual needs and career trajectories. This practice-based course embraces a variety of creative attitudes and established practices ranging from painting, sculpture, printmaking, installation, photography, film, sound and experimental music to intermedia. You are able to focus on your practice through core modules as well as interconnected critical theory and exhibition-practice modules. The interplay of this provision will enable you to locate your practice at the forefront of contemporary fine art practice developing both critical and creative dialogues with staff and fellow students, and providing the opportunity to test out your ideas within a professional environment and context. More info: www.anglia.ac.uk/mafineart
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Postgraduate Courses
MA Photography Vanessa Mills
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Photography Designed for photographers interested in defining their practice and becoming critical practitioners, this course will invite you to experiment, research and disseminate your practice. Photography is approached as a global industry in which practitioners need to be aware of international discourses and opportunities. Specialist resources include analogue and digital photographic facilities, photographic studios, CGI HDRI lab, printmaking and laser-cutters and there are extensive digital imaging resources, including Macs, full Adobe software suites, scanners and A3/large format printers. This practice-based course focuses primarily on the development of a personal visual identity within a framework which equips graduates to pursue careers in the photographic industry and beyond, as visual practitioners, picture researchers, assistants, lecturers, curators and art critics. More info: www.anglia.ac.uk/maphotography
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Jan Peel, Whispers Echoes Traces, etchings on copperplate. Installed at Kirby Hall, 2013 MA
Printmaking Designed for creative practitioners who wish to transform their visual practice through an engagement with print media, this course offers the opportunity to extend and deepen your creative research within a supportive and critically informed environment. The course is delivered through individual studio practice through core modules and interconnected critical theory and exhibition practice modules. This is supported by lectures, seminars, presentations and one-to-one tutorials by specialist academic staff and leading professionals within the field. The course culminates in a final exhibition of work which provides both a professional benchmark and a platform for future career development. More info: www.anglia.ac.uk/maprintmaking
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Cambridge School of Art Events Children’s Book Illustration Summer School Each year we run a 5-day course looking at what makes an effective picturebook for children. Aimed at all levels of experience, the Summer School explores characterisation, pacing, pagination, the interplay of text and image, composition and design as students produce their own dummy picturebook with the guidance of tutors in a friendly, relaxed and supportive environment.
Cambridge School of Art has a number
Alongside the practical, studio based work, a series of lectures by leading internationally published illustrators run throughout the week to inform and inspire.
exhibitions can be found at:
Studio sessions are run on a one-to-one tutorial basis by experienced tutors from the MA Children’s Book Illustration, so students from all backgrounds and experiences are welcome. However, we do ask that applicants have some previous drawing experience. We also hold a one day conference in conjunction with this event. For information on all our events please visit: www.anglia.ac.uk/csa
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of events running throughout the year to welcome prospective students, members of the public and others interested in the work we do at Cambridge School of Art. These include exhibitions, workshops, talks, taster days and open days. Information for all our Ruskin Gallery www.anglia.ac.uk/ruskingallery and for all our student exhibitions at: www.anglia.ac.uk/studentexhibitions
Children’s Book Illustration Summer School Taught by internationally celebrated children’s book illustrators
29th July - 3rd August 2013
‘Orange Pear Apple Bear’, Emily Gravett, published by MacMillan Children’s Books.
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About Cambridge Anna Betts
About Cambridge Cambridge School of Art is based on our Cambridge campus in the heart of the city and has recently reached a milestone in its history with the opening of the new ÂŁ35-million redevelopment. We are approximately 15 minutes away from the city train station, which is well connected, with trains to London taking about 45 minutes. As well as being a centre for employment in the creative industries, Cambridge is a beautiful, cultural and creative city and has lots to offer including museums, art galleries, festivals and a vibrant arts scene.
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Prospectus designed by James Webber www.james-webber.co.uk
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