UCLan Creative Festival 2011

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Contents Fine Art

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Fine Art and Drawing and Image Making

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Performing Arts

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Acting Dance, Performance and teaching Music Practice Music Theatre

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Fashion

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Fashion Promotion with Styling Fashion Design

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Design

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Animation Graphics Games Design Surface Design MA Ceramics

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Architecture

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Architectural Technology Interior Design

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Contact details Upcoming events

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Editors’ notes

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Danielle Longstaff

Fine Art Liam Gilchrist

Emma Rowell


Fine Art BA(Hons) A

s you walk around the exhibition by third year Fine Art and Drawing and Image Making students, it’s impossible not to be struck by the diversity of the pieces. Head of third years, Dr Mat Gregory, feels that it’s a reflection of how diverse contemporary art is nowadays. There’s something for all tastes from the aesthetically beautiful to powerful conceptual pieces. There are sculptures, paintings,

photography, video installations and interactive pieces of work. While the tutors have been busy exposing the students to different techniques, genres and artists the students have been developing their own style. One of them, Sam Cookson, is putting the final touches to his work: “Anything that looks like it crawled in from a skip is mine,” he says. His creations are made from wood that has Sam Cookson poses with his work been thrown out and has shown Sam exactly how much we waste. He transferred from another university for his final year and says that UCLan is where he truly found his flow: “It’s been phenomenal. At my

last university it was quite restrictive and I was working on a small scale. “Here you have a large space, a wood workshop and you can do whatever you want. It’s a very industrial city as well which has played a part in my work.” The students have not only had to pick their best work to display, but also chose pieces that work well in the space they’ve been allocated over the three floors of the exhibition, a skill which will no doubt be useful in the future. Many of them, like Sam, are looking to go on to the masters in Fine Art to open more opportunities for themselves. The university has a good partnership with the Tate gallery, and students can take advantage of this on the MA while they’re studying and take lecturing positions. Others are hoping to present their work to galleries, or even pick up commissions at the Degree Show. Mat explains that the students have come on a journey which has brought them to a place where they are operating as professionals. You don’t need to ask the tutors or the students to find this out though; it’s painted on the walls.

“Anything that looks like it crawled in from a skip is mine.” Sam Cookson


Performing Arts


Acting BA(Hons) F

ollowing their final year productions, the Green Room in Manchester and the Soho Theatre in London housed UCLan’s final year BA (Hons) Acting students for a snapshot of the talent about to go out and find work in the notoriously tough acting world. Last year, around 40% of graduates from the course found themselves an agent and many of the current students are hoping that could happen off their performances at the showcase. Terence Mann, course leader, said: “As UCLan is based in Preston, many of the finest examples of our students’ work unfortunately goes unseen,” which is why they have brought the work to the big cities. Over the three years the students have developed their practical skills with classic and contemporary texts and acting for the camera while also getting behind the theory of acting and researching roles. Many students have begun developing their portfolios already with student productions, independent film work, music videos and minor television roles. They were given the scenes

for the showcase two weeks before the Manchester performance on April 14 and have spent 10 hours each week in rehearsals, and more in their own time alongside completing the rest of their course and dissertations. 17 short scenes were presented in pairs: lovers, former lovers, friends, colleagues and strangers, acted out on the stage in performances that, though short, were utterly engaging. The Soho Theatre show was particularly impressive considering that 45 minutes before the show the entire cast was evacuated due to a bomb scare, but of course… the show must go on. Their main productions of Lorca’s Yerma, Richard Bean’s translation of Serge Valetti’s Le Pub and Amanda Whittington’s Be My Baby took place in December, January and February for which the students rehearsed from 9 until 5 every day. There was a sense of achievement, a sense of excitement and uncertainty for the future and also, a little sadness that it had all come to an end.

Some of the Acting BA(Hons) students tell us their thoughts on the acting showcase. Are you pleased with how it went? “Yes. I’m looking forward to going to bed though.” Alex Richardson, Blue Bird and Le Pub. What is the best part of the production process? “When you first get the script and you’re really excited. I like developing it as well because at first I thought my character was really feisty but she’s actually a bit dumb.” Helene Fletcher, Kosher Harry and Yerma. “The rehearsals. You’re treated like a professional and you’re expected to behave like a professional.” Lauren Oakes, Blue Bird and Yerma. What is the worst part of the production process? “The nerves. As soon as I’m on stage it’s fine, it’s just before going on.” Simon Devon, Stealing Sweets and Punching People and Le Pub. What are your plans for when you graduate? “It’s a bit frightening because there won’t be that safety and that routine that we’ve had at university.” Alex Dodd, Love and Understanding and Le Pub. “Something they’ve taught us on the course over the three years is that nothing really comes easy, you’ve got to really work hard at it.” Alex Richardson, Blue Bird and Le Pub. “Move to the outskirts of London and commence my domination of the acting world!” Joe Cooper, Things That Make No Sense and Le Pub.

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Dance, Performance and Teaching BA(Hons) T

hird year dance, performance and teaching students worked with the choreography students to produce Moving On!, a professional show of short dance pieces exploring themes such as despair, childhood, wartime and

wildlife. Students on the course have studied different dance forms, research skills and teaching practices enabling them to move on to careers as dance teachers or further education including PGCEs. The students were Melanie Robinsons’s ‘First Steps’

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responsible for developing the themes in the show through not only the choreographies but also the lighting, music, props, hair, make-up and costumes. The show opened with an emotional piece by Charlotte Watt, titled ‘Help Me’. Her dancer moved under a cold spotlight, taunted by the telephone which lay front of stage. She reached out to the audience and coiled up in the chair expressing her anguish. Next came Melanie Robinson’s choreography ‘First Steps’. The dancing was playful as the two girls, dressed in white cotton dresses, stared curiously at each other like a mirror image. The ragdoll-like dancers played together, linked arms and lifted each other around the stage as if everything was a new experience. Despite having been holding rehearsals once a week since the end of February up until the show, Melanie has really enjoyed herself.


“I love the whole process of choreographing. I love researching and finding amazing new dances or pictures or music,” she said. “I love creating the movement and piecing together the dance.” Sarah Bailey’s wild safari dance was titled ‘Mwitu Kiumbe Tabia’ which means wild creature behaviour. Her three dancers moved on all fours in leopard print leggings with back-combed, messy hair and brown smudges down their faces. Their movements beautifully captured the animal kingdom. The anguish of a woman waiting for news of the war to be over was portrayed in Sophie Kemp’s ‘The Long War’. The 1940s music was interjected with a World War 2 radio announcements and air raid sirens while the solo dancer paced the stage tormented. She played with her wedding

ring as she danced around an old fashioned gramophone. ‘Geminorum’ by April Aldcroft was a mysterious piece in which the two dancers did extremely well to stay in time, considering they had no music. An untitled piece, choreographed by Glen Mannion, was highly dramatic. In it the two dancers, who wore a white shirt with black leggings and a black shirt with leggings, flung each other around the stage. Sigur Ros provided the soundtrack which built to a crescendo, reflecting the movements of the performers. The show was bought to a close with Kelly Rice’s ‘Glide Reflection’. The two dancers moved in a mechanical fashion to a song titled ‘Magnetic Resonance’ in front of a backdrop of the painting ‘stairs’ by MC Escher which inspired the piece. The dancers moved

in unison, like clones in identical costumes and blank expressions, reflecting each other’s movements, just like the image which is of several reflections of the same image. Kelly feels that the course has equipped her well to go on to teaching in community dance classes and hopes that she might be able to do that abroad at some point. “We have mainly learnt teaching skills on this course but we have modules on technique, choreography, dance cultures and somatics,” she said. “A form of dance therapy, so there is a wide range of knowledge that we gain!”

Sophie Kemp’s ‘The Long War’

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Music Practice BA(Hons) I

students Many of these pieces pushed the in the form boundaries of what the average of either performance person might consider to be or an music. installation. “It’s a reminiscent of Sonic Youth and double module but it all takes late-1960s Pink Floyd. place in the second semester,” The musicians included said Aveyard. “They’ve only numerous guitarists, an been working on these pieces accordionist, a saxophonist, a for five months maximum.” pianist and multiple vocalists. Second and first years, as well Aveyard noted that the as some outside musicians, also varying instrumental choices contributed to the event. on the course can often “The whole event is run make the second year group by second years as well, so performance a challenge. they deal with sound, lights “In previous years we’ve had and front of house,” Aveyard to try and incorporate flautists, explained. for example, into a group of The pieces took many forms. musicians that are typically One performance by the from a rock background,” he second year Music Practice said. students was based on the As well as sporadic poem The Second Coming performances across the by W. B. Yeats. The poem, weekends, numerous described by the students as installations continued “strange and disturbing,” was throughout the day. Many of reflected in the near twentythese pushed the boundaries of minute what the average person might “Moving into the Media Factory piece. consider to be music. Divided Some, like Lee Cullen’s means we have theatres, we into several Room Tones, ran for multiple have rehearsal spaces and we movements, hours and didn’t even feature was a any instruments, although are able to put on an event like itdiscordant, members of the audience could this.” - Jon Aveyard, lecturer in thrilling, participate. progressive In a room open for the Music and Audio Art. composition audience to enter and leave,

n the culmination of three years of hard work from the BA Music Practice students, 2011’s show went off without hitch. Production Line, a festival of “new works in sight and sound,” has run for the past four years since the BA Music Practice course moved in to UCLan’s Media Factory building. “It’s quite a recent thing and it was mainly because the buildings we used to run the course in were not at all suitable,” said Jon Aveyard, lecturer in Music and Audio Art. “Moving into the Media Factory means we have theatres, we have rehearsal spaces and we are able to put on an event like this.” This year marked the first occasion where the Production Line took the form of a weekend festival with multiple events running at any one time. Production Line is the final assessment for the third year

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Cullen sat at a mixing desk, in Cumbria, is known for Preston’s own Four To The Bar processing the sounds that achieving the same results as a barbershop quartet. Aveyard, as the audience made into one of DJ’s mixing desk by using live a samba drummer, was a part several microphones. performers. of the performance himself. Each microphone bore an His performance at the “We don’t often get standing instruction, such as ‘clap,’ ‘tap’ Production Line festival ovations but we got a standing or ‘whisper,’ allowing ovation for this.” “You don’t have to have a beat, those who entered the you have to be in a major or installation to become a part of it themselves. minor key.” - Jon Aveyard, lecturer The installation in Music and Audio Art. was booked to run continuously from five in the afternoon until nine in amounted to the most the evening. complex such piece he had “I don’t know if he lasted the ever attempted. More than full four hours but that was the twenty separate musicians plan,” said Aveyard. were involved including five Other installations, like members of the Worldwide Darren Brome’s Immersion, Samba Drummers and took the form of individual Darren Brome immerses performances repeated himself in his installation throughout the day. Immersion consisted of a soundproof, dark room with 5.1 surround sound speakers. Once inside, listeners experienced a roughly eleven-minute long piece of cinematic mood music punctuated by sound effects, whispers (some backwards masked) and discordant noise. Immersion couldn’t be further from popular music, something which Brome noted a lot of students would struggle with early on in the Music Practice course. “The first few weeks of being on the course is largely about letting students know that all the skills they have are valid,” said Aveyard. “[But] you don’t have to have a beat, you don’t have to be in a major or minor key.” A highlight of the festival each year has been the appearance of an outside guest artist to close the festival, with this year’s guest being Andi Chapple. Chapple, who resides 11


Music Theatre BA(Hons)

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ou’d never guess that the Music Theatre BA (Hons) course has only been available at UCLan for six years from watching the spectacular March-April production of Footloose. Despite only being the university’s fourth graduating class, the third year students put on a show as professional as any production you’d see in the West End or on Broadway. Footloose, originally a 1984 film starring Kevin Bacon, became a stage musical in 1998, written by Tom Snow and Dean Pitchford. The story concerns city boy Ren McCormack (played in UCLan’s production by Jonathan Landels), who is forced by his mother to move to the tiny town of Bomont. Bomont turns out to be a town bent to the whim of the corrupt Reverend Shaw Moore, who has banned virtually all youthful pursuits, including Ren’s favourite – dancing. Ren rails against Moore’s policy, uncovering Bomont’s tragic history and falling for the reverend’s rebellious daughter Ariel along the way. The show took place in UCLan’s St. Peter’s Arts Centre, where the majority of the Music

Theatre degree has been based since it opened. The Arts Centre floor became the stage, with a raised walkway and a screen for rear projection of backgrounds. With a note-perfect live band providing the soundtrack, every performer excelled themselves with flawless vocal harmonies powerful enough to shake the Arts Centre’s very foundations. Graham Hope smouldered as the libido-driven bully Chuck Cranston, garnering comical boos as he took his final bow. Nikee Rayner as Reverend Moore’s repressed wife was also moving in her performance, capturing the character of a woman many years her senior. Another standout was Robert Bardsley as Reverend Moore himself. In real life Bardsley is a softly spoken, fey young man, yet on stage he transformed himself into the stern, restrained and powerful character. UCLan’s Music Theatre degree is 75% practical, and includes tutoring in voice work, acting and movement, including dancing, across its three years, as well as a dissertation. The Music Theatre BA (Hons) students put on a full production in each year, with

the third year undergraduates taking part in one of four final productions in their second semester. As well as Footloose, in April another portion of the year group put together a performance of Spring Awakening. Written by Frank Wedekind, Spring Awakening attracted controversy for its frank depictions of rape, child abuse and other dark themes upon its debut in the late 19th Century. Five years ago Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater created a musical adaptation of the infamous play, which subsequently won multiple Tony Awards. During the second semester, other third year students performed Weird Romance, an unusual combination of two wildly different one-act plays, and Just So, a musical based on several stories by Rudyard Kipling.

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Claire Johnson Photos: Laura E Oliver

Fashion Steph Elliott


Fashion Promotion with Styling BA(Hons) Claire Johnson

What did you enjoy most about your final year project? I really enjoyed the freedom of being able to do something I really wanted to do. I loved doing shoots on such a big scale, and customizing all the furnishings for each look. What skills has the course taught you? I’ve learnt loads of skills - everything from customizing garments, still life styling and PR, to editorial & commercial styling and computer aided design. You’re organising this year’s The Stylist’s Closet, tell us about it. The Stylist’s Closet is a concept that started last year as part of the Creative Arts Festival at UCLan. Basically, we hold an event where members of the public can come to us for style advice, and even have a full consultation and photo shoot for free. This year it will be held at the Trafford Centre so should be really exciting! What are your plans for when you graduate? I’ve finished my uni work now and have just started a full-time job working as a brand specialist for Oasis, which is really fun and interesting. I’d like to stick at that for a year or so whilst I pick up new skills, then possibly go into creative visual merchandising! Stephanie Elliott

What was your final project brief and what did you chose to do for yours? We were able to do something that we really wanted to and had free rein pretty much. The main aspect of our brief was to visit a major city that would be influential to us and our project. I chose to visit Berlin which was amazing and became my main inspiration for my final project. What did you enjoy the most about the project? I enjoyed the sourcing the most for my shoot because all my shoots previously had been quite neutral and not very bright. So this project I could totally experiment with colour and different make-up styles. What skills has the course taught you? This course has definitely given me more confidence in every aspect with believing in myself and my work, to approaching people to work with. I would say that has been the biggest skill for me that I have really benefited from. What are you doing for The Stylist’s Closet? I am not necessarily working on the event but my final project images are being used to publicise the event, which is really exciting and I am grateful that they have been chosen.

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Fashion Design BA(Hons) G

raduate Fashion Week celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. It is a fashion event that creates as much hype as Fashion Week itself and is an opportunity for the fashion design stars of the future to literally put themselves up on a catwalk and show the industry what they’ve got. Held at Earls Court in London, there’s a buzz of fresh talent over the four-day event as universities from all over the country fight for the attention of press, buyers and the public. Hoping to follow in the footsteps of successful UCLan alumni such as Thea Bregazzi, of label Preen, and Amy Molyneaux, of PPQ this year are an 18-strong year group who wowed the crowd with exquisite womenswear and menswear.

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Marissa Owen Marina Wan

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Animation BA(Hons)/MA

Sarah Kennedy is course leader for the UCLan Animation BA(Hons) degree. She spoke to us about the student projects for the UCLan Creative Festival.

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hat skills does a student need before they enrol in this

degree? The main thing for us is their portfolio, an ability to draw and tell stories. If they’ve done animation that’s a bonus but obviously not all students have been exposed to that. What do the students have to do in third year? In third year they make a Animation BA (Hons)student Ffi Davies at work

three minute film. They do all the pre-production in the first semester and the animation and post-production in second semester. What kinds of animation do students cover in the course of the degree? What’s brilliant about our course is that we do offer everything. We’re very lucky to be able to do all of that using a variety of different animation

formats. What’s the most important thing taught on this course? The main thing is being able to animate. Most companies will actually expect you to be able to animate, not use new software. How students execute that is up to them and the more original they are the better. Why should a prospective undergraduate choose UCLan for their degree? We’ve got really good facilities and the staff are fantastic. The students can tell that we’re passionate about our subject. Have your graduates gone on to great success? I’ve had students leave and set business up or work for bigger companies. There is quite a lot of work out there, they just have to find it. Last year one of our students won the Royal Television Society award for the region, which we’ve won three years in a row. She won it for the national finals in Bradford as well.

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Graphic Design BA(Hons) Some examples of the Graphic Design students’ ever impressive work.

Megan Raby

Games Design BA(Hons)

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he Games Design course has been growing in popularity at UCLan and as the games industry changes, so has the course. It’s not just PCs and Playstations anymore, with handheld consoles and apps being widely used and the students have been thinking about this too. “We’ve tried to encourage students to move away from the run of the mill and be more diverse and innovative,” says Bev Bush, course leader. You can see this as you look around their work. Their imaginations and the themes and concepts behind their games have leapt from their minds to illustrations, 3D models, soft toy characters and the playable games. “The thing I have enjoyed 20

most about the course is being allowed to let my mind wander and come up with some original ideas.” Victoria Goldsmith, a student on the course, said. “Some are the best work I’ve ever done.” Over the course, students have had some fantastic experi-

ences including years abroad in places such as LA and New Orleans and placement years with big companies like Vipe Games and Blitz. They can now look forward to a career in an ever growing industry.

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ulie James-Turner has juggled a job, raising three children and her MA in Surface Pattern to produce some exquisite pieces which have gone on to win awards. Her collection of clothing explores themes of womanhood and domesticity. One of her bridal dress designs was shortlisted for The Wedding Guide’s competition giving brides the opportunity to vote for their favourite designs. She also won the Textile Society Bursary Award in the postgraduate category which awarded her generous prize money she later put towards a new sewing machine. Lynn Broster, Vice Chair of Bursaries/Awards at the Textile

Society, said: “Her concept of reusing pieces such as collars and buttons also brought a fresh approach through collage to the much discussed issue of recycling.” Among her designs at the Degree Show are a wedding dress modelled on a basic housecoat and made out of ribbons, symbolising bonds of love, with some having the marriage vows stitched on to them. There is also an elegant house coat with roses trailed down it starting as buds, blooming and wilting, representing the female cycle and showing that we are all the same underneath our clothing. A lot of research went into the collection, and Julie spoke to women who were young in the 50s and 60s, as a lot of her pieces reflect this era. “It was really inspirational,” Julie says “The whole make do and mend attitude which is very big right now. They were so resourceful and used so much ingenuity.”

The red blouse on show in Victoria building was inspired by one of these stories. It is made up of lots of different materials sewn together, like one lady Julie spoke to whose auntie collected lots of off-cuts of material from the place she worked to make blouses for her niece’s honeymoon. There are many more pieces to the collection which Julie hopes to send images of to museums and exhibitors, as well as continuing to teach her skills to others and venture in to making bespoke wedding pieces. She joined the course to develop her skills and push herself as she was tired of working from home where she felt quite isolated but she has got even more out of it than that. It has given her determination and reignited her love and passion for it.

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Ceramics BA(Hons) Each year the Ceramics students find new and creative ways to work within their chosen medium. These are some examples.

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Interior Design BA(Hons)/MA W

hen an Interior Design BA(Hons) student enrols at UCLan, they aren’t expected to know anything about their chosen subject. However, by the time they complete the degree, or its equivalent as an MA course, the graduates are ready to work anywhere within the Interior Design world independently. “We’d ask the students to have drawing skills, communication skills and be interested in buildings around them,” said Steve Bennett, the Course Leader for the MA. The BA Hons degree

culminates in the honours project during third year, displayed at the UCLan Creative Festival. In this assignment, the student must choose an existing, real-life building and propose a redesign for it, possibly including a change of purpose. “They’re all very personal projects to them and they’re guided through the process by the tutors,” said Nigel Simpkins, Course Leader for the BA(Hons) degree. Many of the projects are ambitious, and not limited to the Preston area.

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“We’ve got one in Glasgow, one in Northern Ireland; one’s in Lancashire and there’s one in Essex,” added Simpkins. The students undertake every stage of this process, from surveying through to the final designs and presentations. Some create a fictional client to provide funding, while others use real clients. Although the students don’t actually renovate the buildings in question, the possibility of a client deciding to go through with the design remains. “It has happened in the past where developers and building owners have taken up some of the ideas,” said Simpkins. He added: “I’m not sure if any have actually been implemented.” Course tutors are there to help throughout this project if the students need them, but the idea is to let the students be as autonomous as possible so that they are ready for the jobs market. “They’ll end up with a portfolio ready to take to an employer showing their skills at drawing, modelling and 3D designs,” said Bennett.


A spiral staircase design by Jo Horton

Sarah Engel’s honours design

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Architecture


Architectural Technology BSc(Hons) T

he Architectural Technology students have been working on their final projects for 10 months. From an indoor/outdoor theatre, to an arts centre, their building designs are all based on real areas in the North West, and there’s a lot to take into consideration. “Architectural Technology is a new profession.” Ann Vanner, course leader, said. “There is a need now for buildings to be energy efficient and cost effective which creates a new discipline.” This is something that Ann feels is making the course increasingly popular. Student Matthew Fish, has been considering these issues all through the process. He said: “There’s been a lot of design development; that was a really important part of my project. It’s not a uniform shape so there’s a lot of trial and error and thinking what it might look like.” Matthew has applied to be on the Building Conservation and Regeneration MSc at UCLan next year. “I’ve always had an

interest in old buildings,” he explained. Over the CIAT (Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists) and CIOB (Chartered Institute of Builders) accredited course, while it is largely design based, they have also been taught mode making, law and management, conservation and heritage, planning and building regulation. Another student, Jack Billam, said: “You can go any way you want because we’ve had a grounding in everything. You

can go into research, surveying, design, IT, management…” They’ve also had visits from professionals working in the industry and alumni, to help give them an idea of where they want to go. It’s reassuring to hear that the students feel qualified to enter architectural jobs having gotten to grips with industry software, improved their presentation skills and that they are keen to pursue a career they love.

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Contacts Editors Gareth Hughes Laura Oliver Olivia Pinnock

gmhughes@uclan.ac.uk - Writing/Design - BA (Hons) Journalism lauraeoliver@hotmail.co.uk www.lauraeoliver.co.uk - Photography - BA (Hons) Photography opinnock@uclan.ac.uk - Writing/Design - BA (Hons) Journalism

Additional Photography Darren Brome, Nigel Simpkins and Jonny Cunliffe (jcunliffe1@uclan.ac.uk) Students Robert Bardsley rlebardsley@uclan.ac.uk Jack Billam jrbillam@uclan.ac.uk Darren Brome dbrome@uclan.ac.uk Sam Cookson scookson1@uclan.ac.uk Joe Cooper jdcooper1@uclan.ac.uk Lee Cullen lfcullen@uclan.ac.uk Ffi Davies fhdavies@uclan.ac.uk Alex Dodd adodd1@uclan.ac.uk Danielle Doherty ddoherty@uclan.ac.uk Stephanie Elliott selliott@uclan.ac.uk Sarah Engel sengel@uclan.ac.uk Sofi Evans sevans5@uclan.ac.uk Matthew Fish mjfish@uclan.ac.uk Helene Fletcher hfletcher@uclan.ac.uk Liam Gilchrist ldgilchrist@uclan.ac.uk Victoria Goldsmith vgoldsmith@uclan.ac.uk Graham Hope gsnhope@uclan.ac.uk Jo Horton jbhorton@uclan.ac.uk Claire Johnson cljohnson1@uclan.ac.uk Jonathan Landels jjlandels@uclan.ac.uk Danielle Longstaff dlongstaff@uclan.ac.uk Fiona MacPherson fsmacpherson@uclan.ac.uk Lauren Oakes loakes@uclan.ac.uk Jamie Power jpower@uclan.ac.uk Megan Raby mraby@uclan.ac.uk Nikee Rayner nprayner@uclan.ac.uk Kelly Rice krice@uclan.ac.uk Melanie Robinson mgrobinson@uclan.ac.uk Emma Rowell ERowell1@uclan.ac.uk Sheila Tearle setearle@uclan.ac.uk Julie James-Turner jjames-turner@uclan.ac.uk

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The show goes on There are plenty more events happening over the next two months celebrating UCLan’s talent. 11th-12th June The Stylist’s Closet Fashion Promotion and Fashion Styling students will be at Manchester’s Trafford Centre to give the public a makeover. With a wardrobe full of this season’s trends to suit all looks, shoppers can get expert advice from UCLan students and professional stylists as well as hair and make-up to complete their spring/summer look. 16th-17th June Act Like it Never Happened A new play written and performed by this year’s Acting graduates. 7:30pm, St Peter’s Arts Centre, UCLan. 24th-26th June Free Range Art and Design Photography Show Photography students take their work to London, to show to the public and industry professionals. Free Range is the largest graduate talent event in Europe and is free to attend public viewings at the Old Truman Brewery. For more information visit www.free-range.org.uk. 27th–29th June DNA Graduate Show Exhibitions from Graphic Design and Digital Graphics Students Designer’s North Alliance host this show at The Lowry Outlet Centre in Salford, presenting students’ work to industry and academia in the North of England. For more information visit www.designersnorthalliance.org. 29th June – 2nd July New Designers 2011 Part 1 The Business Design Centre in London will exhibit the work of 3D Design, Textile and Post-graduate Surface Pattern Design student’s final year projects. New Designers is a graduate show providing exposure for young designers to the industry, media, public and trend predictors. Visit www.newdesigners. com for more information. 1st – 4th July New Blood The Old Truman Brewery in London hosts this graduate show which will be exhibiting work from UCLan’s Advertising and Illustration graduates. Visit www.dandad.org/newblood. 6th – 10th July New Designers 2011 Part 2 The BA Hons and BSc Hons Product Design students get their turn at the New Designer’s showcase in London. For more information visit www.newdesigners.com 29


Editors’ notes Gareth Hughes Journalism BA(Hons) In the course of my Journalism (BA) Hons degree as well as honing my writing

skills I also learned how to lay out and design for magazines, newspapers and other publications. This included my final year assignments for the magazines degree route in which, with a team of ten students, I helped conceive, design and complete the first issue of two new magazines from scratch Our first magazine was for body modification artists and was named Inkorporate. Our second magazine, aimed at the

parents of teenagers, we called Hera after the Greek goddess of motherhood. Having enhanced my talents in the course of my degree, I put them to good use helping Olivia and Laura in creating this booklet for the UCLan Creative Festival. As I’ve helped put together the finished product, I’ve been astounded at the sheer high quality of the displays that UCLan’s students have put on.

Olivia Pinnock Journalism BA(Hons) Myself, Gareth and our photographer Laura, from the BA (Hons) Photography course

have been putting what we’ve learnt in our three years at UCLan to good use. This isn’t our first attempt; for our final year projects we produced two magazines with other students. My team made OutBound, aimed at those who work in the outdoor activities industry and The Arcade, a gaming magazine for seven to 12-year-olds. Print students created weekly newspapers and the broadcast students have been invovled in radio

and TV news days. Broadcasters have also been helping out with the Degree Show and have produced a film, being shown at the event, about all the hard work UCLan’s students have been putting in. It has been wonderful seeing everything the university’s students are capable of and developing my own talents at the same time. I hope you’re as impressed as we have been.

Laura E Oliver BA(Hons) Photography What an eventful journey it has been and an enjoyable way to finish a degree - creating a

booklet celebrating the work produced by UCLan students. In photography the students have created photographic work for an open brief which allowed creative freedom. This work can be viewed in Victoria Building room 016, 115, Gallery One and also on the mezzanine which can be found on the first floor. The work consists of installations, fashion and documentary photography to name a few. This includes my own project

‘We Are Golden’ which can be found in VB115. The project focuses on Preston’s outdoor markets celebrating their quirkiness and individuality. The photographs consist of sellers, customers and the array of items for sale. The project is an affectionate look on a dying trade and highlights that it is something worth cherishing and protecting. Hope you enjoy all the work that UCLan students of 2011 have to offer.

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