Falmouth's Foundation students celebrate a year of creativity in End of Year show

The End of Year show by University College Falmouth's Foundation Studies in Art, Design & Media Diploma marks the culmination of thirty weeks of experimentation and discovery for one hundred and twenty-nine creative people, many of whom will look back at the experience as one of the best years of their lives.

This is the year when young people mature, when hunched youths stand up straight, when noisy confident characters get thoughtful and when withdrawn creative types start laughing.

The work on show includes, amongst many other things, sharp pieces of fashion design, amazingly recognisable portraits, a new theory of evolution, drawings that make your jaw drop, fine jewellery castings and a film about sound.

This show is not only very visual, but it is also teeming with ideas. Once again, UCF's Foundation students will show us their take on the world, their views on contemporary themes and their creative approach to visual issues.

As alternative thinkers, some of them are so lateral that they are nearly coming round full circle. Problem solving is such a big part of good design, and there are designers amongst them who will become great.

Some of the work on show will be immediately understood, whilst other exhibits will be harder to penetrate. This exhibition will make you think, draw you in, cause laughter, feed your imagination and even repel you in some cases. Without doubt, important artists will emerge from this group.

There are probably one or two things in the show that defy human understanding, but the exhibition catalogue that has been produced should go some way towards revealing the students' thoughts and ideas, and enable us to appreciate where they are coming from.

"Each exhibitor will be invigilating the show on different days, so you will be able to meet them and talk to them about their work," explains Course Leader, Phil Naylor. "This is an opportunity to catch a generation of artists and designers in the making, so I would encourage you to see this work while these exceptional young people are still available for comment."

The Foundation End of Year Show at University College Falmouth's Wellington Terrace Annexe and The Poly in Church Street will be open to the public from Friday 22 to Thursday 28 May (except for Sunday 24 May), from 10am to 4pm.

For further information about Foundation Studies in Art, Design & Media at University College Falmouth, visit www.falmouth.ac.uk/foundation, email admissions@falmouth.ac.uk or telephone Admissions on 01326 213850.

University College Falmouth is the only independent Higher Education institution in Cornwall with the powers to award degrees in its own name. It has two campuses in Cornwall - at Woodlane in Falmouth and Tremough in Penryn (which it owns, and jointly manages with the University of Exeter) - and a third campus at Totnes in Devon, following its merger with Dartington College of Arts in 2008.

This merger created a new institution focusing on the expansion of Falmouth's expertise in Art, Design and Media and Dartington's expertise in Choreography, Music, Theatre, Art and Writing. The Devon-based courses will relocate to a new, high-specification Performance Centre at Tremough in 2010, paving the way for a new specialist Arts University in Cornwall by 2012 that will be unique to the South West.

The College 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, the South West Regional Development Agency, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England, with support from Cornwall County Council.

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

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