FINAL EXHIBITION FOUNDATION DIPLOMA IN ART AND DESIGN
FOUNDATION DIPLOMA IN ART AND DESIGN
STUDENTS OF 2025
I am very excited to showcase final student work from the Foundation Diploma in Art & Design 2025. This catalogue celebrates the hard work and boundless creativity of our most recent students. I am delighted to see that this year the work is not only of top quality but is highly individual in both style and concept. As a body of work, it is strongly representative of the ethos of this unique pre-degree diagnostic programme. It serves as a snapshot of the students’ work and ideas at this key transitional point before they leap into undergraduate study, employment or professional practice, and I trust you’ll agree that whatever their destination, their future is very bright indeed.
Simon Woolerton
Programme Leader
Foundation
Diploma
in
Art & Design
Brody
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FASHION, TEXTILES & CRAFT
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SIENNA ARCHER
DECAY
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ERIN CAIN
GIRLHOOD
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MARYAM FAWAS
FLORAL BLISS
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JESS HADFIELD
THE IMPACT OF WEATHER
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FREYA HART
THE POWER OF ARMOUR
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GURBANI KAUR
ARCHITECTURE
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FALIHA KHAN
ETERNAL THREADS
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PHOEBE LUNN
ABYSSAL BIOMECHANICS
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MAISIE SPEIRS
TEETH
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FINE ART & PHOTOGRAPHY
FINE ART & PHOTOGRAPHY
FLOWER ACOTT
COLOURS OF RECOGNITION
FINE ART & PHOTOGRAPHY
HOLLY BLUNT
ANCIENT ARTEFACTS
FINE ART & PHOTOGRAPHY
XANDER BUNNEY
A FEAR OF PHOBOPHOBIA
FINE ART & PHOTOGRAPHY
CALLUM CUMMINS
THE CHARACTER OF ANIMALS
FINE ART & PHOTOGRAPHY
EMILY MCCARTHY
DREAMS AND SURREALISM
FINE ART & PHOTOGRAPHY
TAM HUSSAIN
SCALE
FINE ART & PHOTOGRAPHY
MARTHA JENNINGS-GRAY
COMMUNICATION THROUGH PATTERN
FINE ART & PHOTOGRAPHY
RUBY JOHNSON
THE SEASONS
FINE ART & PHOTOGRAPHY
MIKA KIRSTEINE
POTENTIAL TO TRANSCEND
FINE ART & PHOTOGRAPHY
ELEANOR MCEVEDY
EXPLORING RADIANCE
FINE ART & PHOTOGRAPHY
ROSA MILLARD
LEAVING A TRACE
FINE ART & PHOTOGRAPHY
RUBY MOORE
INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS
FINE ART & PHOTOGRAPHY
XENA OWEN
FINE ART & PHOTOGRAPHY
ABBIE PAPWORTH
ISOLATION
FINE ART & PHOTOGRAPHY
ALANA RAY
CHIAROSCURO
FINE ART & PHOTOGRAPHY
ELLOUISE SURMAN
THE ART OF LIVING
FINE ART & PHOTOGRAPHY
HATTIE WELLER
THE DEATH OF THE EARTH
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SPATIAL, STRUCTURAL & VISUAL COMMUNICATION
GEORGE BAKER
THE BODY
SPATIAL, STRUCTURAL & VISUAL
COMMUNICATION
WILFRED BIRCH
FORMS AND FEATURES
SPATIAL, STRUCTURAL & VISUAL COMMUNICATION
CATHERINE IREDALE
NOSTALGIA AND CHILDHOOD
SPATIAL, STRUCTURAL & VISUAL COMMUNICATION
SHREEYA PATEL
POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE
SPATIAL, STRUCTURAL & VISUAL COMMUNICATION
YARA SCHALCH
EMOTIONAL MATERIALS
SPATIAL, STRUCTURAL & VISUAL
COMMUNICATION
TARIRO SIKIMARIRA
MEMORIES
SPATIAL, STRUCTURAL & VISUAL COMMUNICATION
RUBY SPRINGTHORPE
CHILDHOOD NOSTALGIA
SPATIAL, STRUCTURAL & VISUAL COMMUNICATION
BRODY WALKER-ELLIOTT
BONE STRUCTURES
ACK NOWL EDGE MENTS
THANK YOU
Huge thanks to Matt Evans (@mattevansdesign) who designed this catalogue, himself an alumnus of the Foundation course! And to the photographers Nigel Essex and Will Allen for providing the images.
Thanks to the DMU print centre for all their hard work and support. Huge thanks to the Foundation staff Lucie, Mark, Andrea, Will, Lorna, Heather, John and Saranne for inspiring the students all year and curating the wonderful end-of-year show.
Enormous gratitude to all our amazing technicians who ensure that students leave the course in possession of new skills, techniques and practical solutions to realizing all their crazy thoughts.
Thanks to the brilliant support of Daniel Cowlam & Michaela Hawes, and to Anna Wang for helping to make our final show a huge success. Special thanks for Lorraine Jones our FE coordinator / Foundation administrator and the ADH Admin team. Gratitude to Jill Cowley, Haley Morris-Cafiero and Stuart Lawson for their support for the course and its relationship to the faculty undergraduate portfolio.
And finally, thanks to the students for being prepared to be challenged, make mistakes, discover new methods of making & thinking, and to starting a lifelong love of learning.
Simon Woolerton Programme Leader Foundation Diploma in
Art & Design