Masters of Art, Design, Media and Performance showcased at Falmouth

Work from the Art, Design, Media and Performance-based Masters degrees at University College Falmouth is open to the public this week with MA Fine Art: Contemporary Practice students breaking away from tradition and pledging to use proceeds from the sale of 100 limited edition pieces to raise money for a ShelterBox destined for flood-hit Pakistan.

The MA Fine Art: Contemporary Practice students have produced 100 limited edition A5 boxes that contain ten representative samples of work by MA students and staff. The numbered boxes are named Kyst (the Cornish/Kernewek word for box) and will be available to buy at £5 each during the shows. Once each box has been sold, the £500 raised will enable one ShelterBox to be sent to Pakistan.

Daro Montag, Course Leader of the MA Fine Art: Contemporary Practice commented: "We are thrilled to be raising money rather than asking for it.  We are hoping everyone will benefit from visiting the shows by having the unique opportunity to not only view the work but also buy a collection of artists' multiples at a very reasonable price, and in doing so make a small contribution to the people of Pakistan through the hard work of ShelterBox."

The boxes will be available to buy from Larmorva House on the Woodlane Campus, Falmouth.

Work from all the Art, Design, Media and Performance-based Masters degrees will open to the public on Tuesday 7 to Saturday 11 September at the Woodlane Campus and will give the public an exciting opportunity to view an exciting range of work created during one year of intense and explorative and creative study by the latest MA graduates.

Subjects exhibiting include:

• MA Fine Art: Contemporary Practice (please visit www.mafa10.org.uk for student exhibitors)
• MA 20th Century Art & Design: Histories & Theories
• MA 3D Design
• MA Choreography
• MA Contemporary Crafts
• MA Creative Advertising
• MA Curatorial Practice
• MA Graphic Design
• MA Illustration: Authorial Practice
• MA Interior & Landscape Design
• MA Photography
• MA Textile Design
• MA Television Production
• MA Visual Performance

Admission is free and opening times are:

7 to 11 September 2009 at the Woodlane Campus

Tuesday to Thursday 10am to 4pm

Friday 10am to 4pm and 6pm to 9pm (Film Screening and preview)

Saturday 11am to 4pm

There are still some places available on UCF's wide range of Art, Design and Media MA courses for October 2010. For further information please visit www.falmouth.ac.uk/postgraduate, contact Admissions on 01326 213730 or email: admissions@falmouth.ac.uk

UCF are holding a Postgraduate Fair on 10 September, when there will also be an opportunity for prospective students and visitors to view the extensive range of facilities at the Tremough Campus. To register to attend the Postgraduate Fair, please visit: Open Days Booking Form

ShelterBox is an international disaster relief charity, based in Cornwall that delivers emergency shelter, warmth and dignity to people affected by disaster worldwide. Currently they are providing ShelterBoxes to people who have lost everything in the floods in Pakistan. www.shelterbox.org

University College Falmouth is the only independent Higher Education institution in Cornwall with the right to award degrees in its own name.  UCF has two campuses - at Woodlane in Falmouth and Tremough in Penryn (which it owns and jointly manages with the University of Exeter).

UCF's merger with Dartington College of Arts in 2008 created a new institution focusing on the expansion of Falmouth's expertise in Art, Design and Media and Dartington's expertise in Dance, Music, Theatre, Art and Writing.  The Dartington-based courses are relocating to Cornwall this summer to a high-specification £15.4M Performance Centre at the Tremough Campus that will launch in September 2010, paving the way for the creation of a new specialist Arts University in Cornwall by 2013/2014 that will be unique to the South West.

UCF is a founding partner in the Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC), a unique initiative to promote regional economic regeneration through Higher Education, funded mainly by the European Union (Objective One and Convergence), the South West Regional Development Agency and the Higher Education Funding Council for England, with support from Cornwall Council.

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For further information about University College Falmouth, please contact Jilly Easterby Dip CIPR MCIPR, Head of Public Affairs, Telephone: 01326 213792, or email:  jilly.easterby@falmouth.ac.uk

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