UCA Crafts, Jewellery & Product Design by University for the Creative Arts

Crafts, Jewellery & Product Design

Qi Zhang â&#x20AC;&#x201C; BA (Hons) Ceramics UCA Farnham

Sophie Lindsay â&#x20AC;&#x201C; BA (Hons) Textiles for Fashion & Interiors UCA Farnham

Foreword

Here at UCA we’re proud to offer our students excellence in creative education. We are the highest ranked specialist creative university in The Guardian University Guide 2018 and the Complete University Guide 2018, and we are ranked 10th in the Red Dot Design (Design Concept) Universities Americas and Europe 2016 awards.

These accolades, combined with our unrivalled specialist craft and design workshop facilities across three historic locations – Farnham, Rochester and Hampton Court Palace (Hand Embroidery with the Royal School of Needlework) – make studying crafts and design at UCA a truly unique and exciting prospect. All our courses are closely supported by our three internationally recognised craft and design research centres – the Craft Study Centre, the International Textiles Research Centre and the Centre for Sustainable Design. Our experienced staff practitioners, educators, academics and technical teams, all aim to help support you to achieve far beyond your expectations. The workshops are the vibrant heart of our hands-on student learning experience, where practical experimentation is a key part of your incremental development process. Ultimately, you’ll be equipped with all the critical and technical skills necessary to express your personal viewpoint with confidence and to understand your own creative craft and design work within the broader subject context. Our students emerge from their experience at UCA as aspirational professionals, equipped with the potential not just to support the industry of craft and design, but to lead it forward into the future. Colin Holden Head of School, Crafts & Design

Qinzi Chen – BA (Hons) Contemporary Jewellery UCA Rochester

Find the right course for you BA (Hons) Contemporary Jewellery – UCA Rochester This distinctive course promotes a variety of approaches to contemporary jewellery, encouraging experimentation with a wide range of materials and processes.You’ll have access to excellent workshops and work in a stimulating environment where innovation and excellence are encouraged. Learning a range of methods of craftsmanship in the areas of metals, ceramics, plastics and wood, alongside digital technologies, you’ll explore ways of approaching the design process, exploring the current thinking about contemporary jewellery and investigating relationships between jewellery and the body. Thinking through making is key to the way our students learn, working alongside like-minded makers in a studiobased environment. Our teaching team are practising jewellers and are highly regarded within the profession, ensuring that the syllabus is constantly evolving to meet the latest industry developments.

We offer a range of courses in crafts, jewellery and product design.

BA (Hons) Glass, Ceramics, Jewellery, Metalwork – UCA Farnham The UK’s craft and design specialisms have a longstanding and world-renowned reputation, putting the country on the map for innovative contemporary design. Our Glass, Ceramics, Jewellery, Metalwork degree gives you the opportunity to explore all material areas before choosing to either study one area in greater depth, or continue to work across specialisms. This course fully equips you to initiate and develop creative ideas, while offering you the freedom to work with a range of materials. The diversity and standard of our studio facilities across the four specialisms is exemplary within the Higher Education sector. The use of the latest digital manufacturing technologies, alongside traditional making skills, will challenge the notion of the ‘handmade’ and bring you up-to-date with the latest trends in craft and design.

BA (Hons) Silversmithing, Goldsmithing & Jewellery – UCA Rochester This course provides the opportunity to become a distinctive designer and maker. With access to excellent workshops, you’ll work in a stimulating environment where innovation and excellence are encouraged. Structured technical workshops throughout the first year equip you with the skills to develop an informed approach to designing and making in metal, and we place great importance on the acquisition of both hand and digital fabrication skills. Physical making and material investigation are at the core of this course. You’ll work alongside like-minded makers in a studiobased environment; the teaching team are all practising designer-makers, all highly regarded within their respected professions, ensuring that the syllabus is constantly evolving and is responsive to the latest professional demands.

BA (Hons) Product Design – UCA Farnham On this course, your skills and design work will develop you as a professional product designer, ready to work in design studios and in industry around the world. You’ll be taught in specialist workshops where you can develop your own ideas using industrial processes, and you’ll have access to the latest CAD and digital technologies which will help you shape your vision. Learning from our team of professional product designers with significant international experience, you’ll develop a deep knowledge of industry approaches to manufacturing. We’ll set you projects that challenge you as a designer, refining your design ideas, model-making, RapidPrototyping and presentation skills. As the course progresses, these will also be supported by London-based design studio projects and European study visits to premier European design studios. Ultimately your new business design focus will help form an original and innovative portfolio, ready for employment.

BA (Hons) Textiles for Fashion & Interiors – UCA Farnham Our Textiles for Fashion & Interiors course offers a unique fusion of traditional skills in printing and weaving, and innovative, materials-based textile design. Practical skills are developed through research, designing, making and contextual understanding. You’ll benefit from being surrounded by people experienced in both art and commercial work.Our teams are at the leading edge of the discipline – staff undertake research and commissions, and consult and create work for international exhibitions. Our learning culture is also enriched by a network of outstanding industry contacts, work placements, an international year, collaborative working with students from our courses in Glass, Ceramics, Metalwork, Jewellery and Product Design in our School of Crafts and Design, and with our School’s artists-in-residence. At UCA Farnham, we’ve built a worldwide reputation for promoting and developing the work of innovative textile designers through the Crafts Study Centre, our own textile collection, the Centre for Sustainable Design and the International Textile Research Centre with Professor Lesley Millar MBE. Our students contribute to, and benefit from, these extraordinary initiatives.

BA (Hons) Hand Embroidery for Fashion, Interiors, Textile Art – Royal School of Needlework, Hampton Court Palace This world-renowned course is delivered by academic staff at the Royal School of Needlework (RSN) in dedicated studio facilities at Hampton Court Palace. As the only full-time specialist degree in Hand Embroidery in Europe, the programme allows you to immerse yourself in the study of contemporary and traditional hand embroidery through research and practice. You’ll explore creative approaches to drawing, visual, design and practice-based research to inform your evolving stitch practice. Through a series of thematic-led projects, you’ll be encouraged to develop your own identity as an emerging practitioner. You’ll have the opportunity to create portfolio collections of embroidery and to prototype and produce works for fashion, interiors and textile art, as well as work on high-profile live briefs.

BSc (Hons) Industrial Design – UCA Rochester (subject to validation) This course is for students with the desire to design and shape mass products for our everyday need and use. A primary focus is on the manufacturing process, a critical factor in overall product development and viability within the competitive marketplace. Students combine creative flair and vision with sound practical knowledge and experience of the industry. You’ll have the opportunity to undertake a work placement between Years 2 and 3 to gain invaluable industry insight into the relationship between design research, development and production. As a student on this course you’ll have access to our extensive workshop facilities to develop and prototype your ideas.

Eea Vatanen â&#x20AC;&#x201C; BA (Hons) Silversmithing, Goldsmithing & Jewellery UCA Rochester

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The UK has the largest design sector in Europe, employing 177,000 people and contributing £3.2billion to the economy. UCA is the UK's number one specialist creative university (Complete University Guide 2018 and The Guardian University Guide 2018), and we have a proud tradition of supporting students and equipping them with everything they need to thrive in the workplace. 94.6% of our students find employment or go on to further study within the first six months after graduating.

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Our courses in Craft and Product Design offer you a springboard to a diverse range of career paths. Many of our graduates become self-employed designers, makers or practitioners, setting up their own businesses and also taking on freelance commissions. Others go on to work in design, production, buying, marketing, retailing, teaching and curating. Recent UCA graduates have secured roles as: – – – – – – – – – – – –

Claire De Waard – BA (Hons) Hand Embroidery for Fashion, Interiors, Textile Art Royal School of Needlework

Designer makers Textile designers and stylists Print designers Fabric technologists Public art practitioners Weave interior fabric designers Fabric and accessories coordinators Textile conservators and curators Art educators and teachers Fashion buyers and retailers Arts administrators Gallery directors.

Yue Ying Lui â&#x20AC;&#x201C; BA (Hons) Textiles for Fashion & Interiors UCA Farnham

Portfolio advice

Think of your portfolio as a statement about your work – it should exhibit your creative journey, thought processes and influences. Don’t be afraid to be bold and appeal to the viewer, keeping their attention and leaving them feeling excited about your creative potential.

Make sure your portfolio is well presented. Remember, our tutors will only have a short amount of time to look through each portfolio, so you need to organise your work intelligently. Generally, we would recommend that you include between 10 and 25 pieces of work in your portfolio, neatly mounted on white or off-white paper in either landscape or portrait format (not a mixture of both). Put some of your most attention-grabbing and interesting work at the front and lead the viewer through your journey by exhibiting pieces of work that showcase a variety of skills, materials, techniques and influences – this might include paintings, drawings, photography, digital pieces, storyboards, animation images or written work. If you include moving image work, we would recommend a maximum of two minutes’ running time. Highlight your favourite pieces too, and indicate what or who inspires you.

What should my portfolio include? –

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Your portfolio should feature examples of your research and show the development of your ideas and projects – this should be highly presentable and well organised. It may be useful to arrange your work into themes, styles or chronological order. This will demonstrate good organisational skills and your own artistic awareness.

The course pages at uca.ac.uk provide clear guidance on what we’d like to see in your portfolio for each of our courses. We’ve also put together a set of videos talking you through the process:

What is a portfolio? – A portfolio is a collection of your work that demonstrates a range of skills and creative talent. It’s your opportunity to showcase your individuality, creativity, inspirations and artistic abilities, and is a useful way for us to evaluate your suitability for the course you’ve applied to. It might contain design work, drawings/art projects, photographs, films, sound work, music composition, or examples of creative writing or essays.

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It should exhibit your creative journey, thinking processes and individual personality, so we can assess your potential. It’s also important to show both your inspirations and aspirations, as your portfolio should say a lot about you and your creative identity, as well as the course you’re applying to. Documenting the development of your ideas in a sketchbook is a great way to show us how you approached the task of creating your work, allowing us to gain insight into your creative thought processes and approach to your subject, and demonstrating a clear rationale. 11

Graduate profile

Tell us a bit about your final major project. – My third year project revolves around travel. Alongside some furniture I made out of recycled plastics, I also made a bag out of recycled polyester. The aim was to look at how to improve Indonesia’s waste management through tourism with the help of design. So I thought about what objects I could create to minimize the waste in my hometown and came up with this.

What’s your next step after you graduate? –

I’d really love to develop my travel ideas, because I’ve been really interested in travel objects, what more could I do, and what other series can I do rather than just furniture, a watch and a bag to further the research. An MA is potentially on the list, if I were to do one it would revolve around sustainability. I want to get more in-depth on that, so I can know what the possibilities that I could do, with creating my projects.

Kristina Suryani – BA (Hons) Product Design UCA Rochester, 2017

What was your favourite thing about studying at UCA? – It’s been a really amazing experience; I feel like I’ve met so many people from around the world, it’s a very diverse university and I love the fact that we have exchange students and that you get to know more people from around the world. It’s been a good three years.

Graduate profiles

Tell us a bit about the work you’re exhibiting in the Graduation Show. – My work is based on individual landscapes. I’m from the New Forest so this whole collection is about the New Forest. I go to a space and record it through visuals and drawings, and then I collect stray bark from the forest floor and take it back to the workshop. I use that bark to make direct castings in bronze and then I use these to make a sculpture that then reflects my personal feelings of the space, bringing together the bark from the floor, the negative space in between the trees, and all of the textures that are involved in the space.

Rosie Wesley – BA (Hons) Glass, Ceramics, Metalwork, Jewellery UCA Farnham 2017

What are your plans for after university? – I’m hoping to set up my own workshop, probably working on a slightly smaller scale because of funding, but definitely continuing working with other foundries that can cast my pieces of bark and then making pieces in the workshop.

What did you enjoy most about being at UCA? – The technical staff you cannot fault, they’re absolutely brilliant. If you ever have a question, they’ve definitely got the answer for you and they’ll work with you to get what you want from the material, which is brilliant. The support that was available to make what I’ve achieved – it was absolutely amazing. I couldn’t have done it without the technical support.

Ellie Taylor – BA (Hons) Silversmithing, Goldsmithing & Jewellery UCA Rochester, 2017

Tell us a bit about your final project. –

What is your plan after university? –

For my final project I started looking at really historic architecture, quite decorative places. It started from a visit to the Foundling Museum in London and there’s a room in there, the ceiling is just so decorative.

I’m going to go home to the Cotswolds where I have a workbench set up so I’m just going to spend time making. I’m going to enter competitions, and set up some exhibitions. I’ve got some friends back home who do Fine Art so we thought maybe if we could merge the two subjects, fine art with the jewellery.

So I started visiting more places like churches, cathedrals, a lot of them Baroque, Regency and Rococo in style. I took some drawings of them and then stripped them down to just a very minimal concept, just picking out individual patterns that I liked. After taking them down to the bare structure and then I merged all of it to create test pieces which then became the final pieces.

What did you like most about studying at UCA? – The facilities are great, so great for what we need and for the course sizes, you couldn’t really ask for much more and it’s just a really relaxed community.

Amanda Eves â&#x20AC;&#x201C; BA (Hons) Textiles for Fashion & Interiors UCA Farnham

Course leaders Angie Wyman – BA (Hons) Hand Embroidery for Fashion, Interiors, Textile Art Royal School of Needlework, Hampton Court Palace Working specifically within embroidery, craft and design, Angie has more than 20 years’ experience of working within higher education, leading programmes at degree and Masters level. She is both a practitioner and an academic, with a careerlong commitment to the promotion and practice of embroidery.

Angie has exhibited works internationally, with pieces held in both public and private collections. She has developed and managed a number of prestigious international textile projects, including collaborative partnerships with the Australian National University, Canberra, and Novia University of Applied Sciences, Turku, Finland, culminating in country-specific exhibitions, workshops and conferences.

She completed a successful residency at the Australian National University in 2012 and taught at the international textiles retreat as part of The Australian Forum for Texiles Arts (TAFTA) at Geelong Grammar School, Victoria. Angie has been a Panel Judge for the Embroiderers’ Guild Scholar Award and the School’s National Fashion and Textiles Competition. She is also a mentor for finalists of the International Hand Lock Prize for Embroidery Design.

Sharon Ting – BA (Hons) Textiles for Fashion & Interiors UCA Farnham Sharon is a graduate of one of our founder colleges, the West Surrey College of Art and Design, and a graduate from the Royal College of Art, receiving the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers Prize and The Pantone Colour award for Textiles. On graduating from the RCA, Sharon set up a studio in Bloomsbury London and has over 20 years’ experience as a designer-maker. She has also taught widely across many higher education institutions across the UK. She has exhibited nationally and internationally through galleries and trade shows, such as 100% Design and London Designers Exhibition at London Fashion Week. Sharon has created textiles for a number of high profile fashion retailers including Liberty, Selfridges, Takashimaya, and Barneys, and for

unusual interior spaces and public buildings – these have included commissions by The Open University, Royal Caribbean Cruise Liners, Royal Horseguards Hotel, and Guys and St Thomas’ Hospital. Her work can be seen in the textiles collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Crafts Council. Sharon believes in developing a forwardthinking community of innovative textile developers, entrepreneurial artists and designers, driven by individual aesthetic vision and a strong technical fundament, with material and concept applications in art, architecture, fashion and interiors.

Richard Appleby – BA (Hons) Product Design UCA Farnham Richard has established a significant profile as an industrial designer, whose creative skills founded the ‘Atlantic Design’ product design studios. With a first-class degree in Industrial Design from Northumbria University, he went on to complete his Master’s course at the Royal College of Art, where his final work was chosen for the Victoria and Albert Museum’s ‘Boilerhouse’ exhibition in 1982, also exhibiting at the Künstlerhaus,Vienna, within the Best of Young British Design Exhibition 1984. Initial product design commissions that Richard worked on included music consumer goods and sports products for European marine industries. Later, he was responsible for the Industrial Design Studio for Bell Northern Research in Canada, developing future mobile products for world markets for BT, NEC, Psion, Maxon and many more. Richard became a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers in 1992 and his research has been published in Paris, the Czech Republic, and featured within China’s Art and Design magazine, Designing Social Interaction and Shared Experiences.

Colin Webster – BA (Hons) Glass, Ceramics, Jewellery, Metalwork UCA Farnham Colin, who graduated in Three Dimensional Design and Glass from West Surrey College of Art and Design (now UCA) and Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, USA, has been a practising designer and glass artist for over 30 years and has lived and worked in the UK, Scandinavia, Europe and the USA. His specialist practice is focused in glass, but he teaches and lectures across all material areas, in both theory and practice. Before joining UCA, Colin was a founder member of the Contemporary Glass Society and Editor of Glass Network magazine. His background includes working as the Technical and Production Director for the pioneering design and manufacturing company, Glasszoo, and ongoing global collaborations with architects, designers, fine artists and performance artists. His research interests and projects are periodically integrated into the taught curriculum to keep the course current and reflective of reallife practice.

Debra Allman – BA (Hons) Contemporary Jewellery, BA (Hons) Silversmithing, Goldsmithing & Jewellery UCA Rochester Debra studied MA Metalwork and Jewellery at the Royal College of Art (RCA), receiving the Garrard Award for work with precious metals. After graduating, she established a studio in London and exhibited nationally and internationally, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Kyoto Museum of Art in Japan and the Bröhan Museum in Berlin. With nearly 20 years’ teaching experience, Debra is committed to the promotion and continued development of jewellery. She understands the importance of current developments in the subject and has a wide knowledge of approaches to designing and making jewellery and its practice in both studio and industrial environments. Debra continues to be a practitioner. Her work is held in public and private collections.

Bronwyn Williams â&#x20AC;&#x201C; BA (Hons) Glass, Ceramics, Jewllery, Metalwork UCA Farnham

We Create Space Contemporary Jewellery studio UCA Rochester

Farnham – UCA Farnham has extensive purpose-built facilities for over 2,000 students studying a wide range of creative arts subject areas including film, animation, graphics, illustration, fine art, photography, textiles, journalism and advertising. Resources include: – Access to various kilns for ceramics work (gas, electric, woodburning and raku) – Excellent specialist workshops for glass blowing – Well-equipped areas providing hand and mechanical processes and high technology from ceramic, wood, metal, plastics and jewellery workshops to laser cutting and rapid prototyping – An extensive equipment store for hiring cameras and video equipment – Specialist technical support – Hand and digital fabrication – Access to Digital Media and Adobe Creative Suite.

Royal School of Needlework at Hampton Court Palace – As a student at the Royal School of Needlework, you’ll be taught traditional needlework skills in hand embroidery. You’ll have access to: – Dedicated computer suites – Study spaces – Technical equipment. In addition, there’s a unique collection of embroidered pieces and archives, which are available for tutor-led study, as well as a student-accessible handling collection. Please note, access to each campus and its resources can sometimes depend on the campus you choose to study at (for example, if you study at one campus, you may be using the facilities at that campus but not always at others – this depends on your course).

Rochester – UCA Rochester offers specialist studios, equipment and software, and boasts a wide range of industry-standard resources including state-of-the-art fashion technology. Facilities include: – Access to computer suites with Adobe Creative Suite, Rhino and Maxwell Render – Laser cutting and rapid prototyping facilities – Well-equipped workshops, providing ceramic, wood and metal workshops – Bespoke jewellery studios – Laser, rapid prototyping and 3D printing; ceramics, metal and wood working – Specialist technical support – Hand and digital fabrication – Access to Digital Media and Adobe Creative Suite.

Next steps

How to apply –

The course you choose determines how you apply – this could be through UCAS (the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service) or directly to UCA.

If you’ve got any queries regarding the admissions process or your application, please contact the relevant admissions team:

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Helen Stanger – BA (Hons) Product Design UCA Farnham

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