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Work created by Illustration students and staff during #streetdraw24 - their 24-hour drawing event on the streets of Falmouth in August - has gone on display at The Poly.
The event aimed to raise awareness of street homelessness, and The Poly have generously provided their upstairs gallery free of charge for the two week exhibition, in support of the #streetdraw24 team's aim of raising funds for St. Petroc's Society, which undertakes valuable work with the street homeless.
Catie Close, a third year Photography student, will have her work displayed in an exhibition at Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange in Penzance.
The Many & Beautiful Things exhibition, which opens on Friday 28 September, explores the themes of youth and possibility, focussing on the rush for new experiences and the abandonment of doubt. Catie's California Roll project fits neatly into this category, as it incorporates many of the same ideas.
Fine Art graduate Jack Freeman has been featured in one of the most prominent portrait competitions in the world, the BP Portrait Award 2018 hosted by the National Portrait Gallery.
This year's event saw 2,667 entries submitted from artists across 88 different countries. Out of these pieces just forty-eight have been selected for an exhibition tour across the country. Jack's painting, entitled Tim and the Dog, was among them.
We're delighted to announce a new partnership with the Tate St Ives, where students will gain special access to the gallery through Tate St Ives' innovative Young Peoples programme.
The three-year pilot programme has two aims:
Fashion Marketing and Interior Design students have collaborated to establish an installation for the London Design Festival, in partnership with design company Campaign.
The pop-up retail experience entitled UNKNOWN opens its doors on Saturday 22 September, inviting visitors to mine for pieces of jewellery within foam structures built by the students.
Films produced by Animation & Visual Effects students will be screened at the Gyllngdune Tea Festival hosted at the Princess Pavilion.
The event, due to be held on Sunday 23 September, will feature fifteen short animations centred around the subject of tea and exploring different angles, from the comedic to the historic. The films will be shown in the theatre during the day, and were created by first year Animation students as their first client brief.
Since graduating in 2016, Dance & Choreography alumnus Bakani Pick-Up has been featured as a dancer in a new music video, performed at prestigious venues and undertaken residencies with renowned choreographers.
Film graduate Laura Grace Marr has secured a position as a Multimedia Producer at an award-winning video production company, Silverstream TV.
Based in Plymouth, Silverstream TV specialise in event television and create original video content for the events, exhibitions and conferences set up by their clients. The company broadcast the live footage to a network of screens throughout the venue and stream it online.
Marine & Natural History Photography graduate Daphne Wong has not only had her work featured in the BBC Wildlife magazine, she has also been shortlisted for the Young Talents Category at the Innsbruck Nature Film Festival for the second time in a row.
We discuss with Daphne how her thoughts on her achievements, what inspires her when working on her projects and her reflections on life in Falmouth.
Two Photography graduates, Lauren Fearn and Irene Mendez-Cruz, have each been awarded a placement at an esteemed photographers' studio for winning the EIZO 2018 Award.
The EIZO Award accepts entries from students studying at registered institutions and the winners this year were selected by a trio of renowned names in the industry. John Ross, Miles Aldridge and Simon Roberts each chose a student photographer to undertake a four-day internship at their studios.
Illustration graduate Charlotte Jones has triumphed in the You Can Now (YCN) Student Awards, scooping the accolade for the Grown-Up Chocolate Company brief.
The Grown-Up Chocolate Company produces chocolate bars aimed at a more adult audience, using luxury ingredients and a unique style of packaging. They are one of the brands included in creative media organisation YCN's annual Student Awards, in which university students present their designs for the likes of KFC, AXA and British Gymnastics.
Four Photography graduates have been shortlisted for this year's South West Graduate Photography Prize (SWGPP).
Established by creative media company Fotonow, SWGPP celebrates the photographic talent emerging from the South West, showcasing their work to a national audience. Graduates submitted work produced during their final year of study. The shortlisted photographers from Falmouth are:
Popular Music graduate Charlotte Lloyd-Butler has come a long way since learning the guitar at sixteen and writing her own songs in her West Berkshire home. Five years on, she has released two solo EPs and recently finished her second UK tour.
Charlotte and her band members all met at Falmouth and were studying music degrees at AMATA, and Charlotte feels that each of them has added his or her own talent to create the unique soundscape they are known for.
Following their success at this year's D&AD New Blood Festival, Creative Advertising duo Gabby Cork and Aaron Leong have been featured in the commercial creativity magazine Creative Review.
Zoe Harrison, a Photography graduate, has been featured in the September issue of the prestigious British Journal of Photography (BJP).
Zoe's work entitled This Bloodline of Mine has been selected for the Class of 2018 in Projects section, in which the best photography graduates from the UK and Ireland are picked and interviewed by renowned photographer Laia Abril.
Following the success of their debut single Apartment, recorded and engineered at Falmouth, new South-West quartet L I P S have gone from strength to strength within the music industry.
The band have released their second single Walls, travelled to London and Southampton for gigs and have featured at this year's Leopallooza festival, all within the last few months. We sat down with them to discuss their upcoming Boardmasters show, their style of music and how they got started.
The School of Writing & Journalism have provided students and staff with the opportunity to contribute to Fathom, a public-facing journal for the National Maritime Museum Cornwall, following a successful publishing project with the National Trust.
Equipped with only his industry insight and entrepreneurial drive, just two years after graduation, Popular Music graduate Charlie Kirby has established Nottingham's leading acoustic recording studio.
Illustration graduate Ella Kasperowicz has written and illustrated her own book entitled #SquadGoals, published by Octopus Books and stocked by Waterstones and Amazon.
Ella's vibrant and unique gift book explores the world of female friendships, delving into friend archetypes, the group chat, shared hobbies and what holds a friendship together.
Senior Animation & Visual Effects Lecturer Katharine Nicholls has spent three weeks in Queensland, Australia to help run an international film-making workshop for film and animation students.
This year's graduates and staff from the Institute of Photography have had their work shortlisted for the prestigious exhibition, Portrait of Britain 2018.
The Portrait of Britain, an annual competition hosted by The British Journal of Photography, was originally conceived in 2016 with the objective of celebrating the many faces of modern Britain. To mark the third year of the exhibition, Hoxton Mini Press will be publishing the first ever Portrait of Britain book, with all winning entries published within its pages.
A group of Sustainable Product Design students has scooped accolades at New Designers 2018.
Showcasing the very best that student designers have to offer, New Designers gathers more than 3,000 of the brightest creative minds for a two-week exhibition that unveils the leading new projects in UK design. This year, Falmouth students took home three awards from the prestigious event, including:
Third year Marine & Natural History Photography student Karl Davies has been shortlisted for the Wildscreen Panda Awards 2018, alongside nominees such as David Attenborough and Blue Planet II.
The Wildscreen Panda Awards have been a key function at the Wildscreen Festival since they were first presented in 1982. To this day, they remain the highest accolade in the wildlife film and television industry. Karl's nomination stands alongside prestigious names such as BBC Natural World, National Geographic and Al Jazeera.
It's time to celebrate as we honour our 2018 graduates this week (17 – 20 July).
Over the past few days undergraduates and postgraduates have been enjoying the celebration of their achievements alongside their peers, friends, families, academics and Chancellor Dawn French.
Each graduate was personally congratulated by Dawn, who presented each of them with a degree scroll and a unique chocolate coin known as a 'Dawn Doubloon'.
Four MA Creative Events Management students are helping children with ED to explore their environment through creativity, with a series of Structuristic Art webinars.
Structuristic Art is a practice established by Swiss communication analyst and artist Felix Stoffel, teaching his pupils a technique based on the development of systematically interwoven layers of colour.
Sustainable Product Design graduate and Creative Conscience Award winner Elliot Lunn joined us to discuss his recent success, his time at Falmouth and his upcoming Masters at the Royal College of Art.
