Crafts, Jewellery & 3D 2019 Subject Brochure

Crafts, Jewellery & 3D Design

Right: Jasmine Dawson, Royal School of Needlework

Cover: Qi Zhang, UCA Farnham

Crafts, Jewellery & 3D Design

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Introduction

Here at UCA, we’re proud to offer our students excellence in creative education. 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 craft 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 are all here to support you to help you 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.

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Find the right course for you

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BA (Hons) Ceramics and Glass*

BA (Hons) Hand Embroidery for Fashion, Interiors, Textile Art

UCA Farnham

Royal School of Needlework, Hampton Court Palace

Rebecca Rowland-Chandler, UCA Farnham

Livia Papiernik, Royal School of Needlework

This exciting new course focuses UCA’s extensive experience and expertise in ceramics and glass.

The newly refitted hotshop, kiln room and ceramics studio provide an excellent home for your study.

The course is part of the vibrant crafts community at Farnham which also includes textiles, jewellery, silversmithing, metalwork and interiors.

This world-renowned course is delivered by the Royal School of Needlework (RSN) in dedicated studios at Hampton Court Palace.

The course embraces diverse approaches to ceramics and glass, supporting students with both art and design centred interests. You’ll have the opportunity to experience materials and processes across both disciplines whilst naturally focusing on your dedicated path.

With an emphasis on high-quality craftsmanship, we place great importance on traditional hand skills whilst fully acknowledging the new and exciting possibilities also offered by digital fabrication.

For a successful career in ceramics and glass, whether industrial or bespoke, you need to be highly creative, skilled and business-focused. Passion and dedication alongside open-minded speculation and thinking through making are key to your learning. *Course subject to validation.

In your first year, you’ll undertake a variety of projects to introduce you to the craft of hand embroidery from the traditional skills through to more experimental approaches. You’ll be encouraged to develop your own visual language as a foundation to understanding the context for the subject.

You’ll continue to develop your practice in the second year, advancing your technical skills and deepening your understanding of the discipline.

You’ll have the opportunity to develop a personal response to live or simulated projects within the areas of fashion, interiors and textile art.

In the final year, you’ll have the opportunity to critically examine and advance your practice with your dissertation, aligning directly with your practice as preparation for your future career. Your Major Project should be original, ambitious, and challenging, using concepts and techniques at the forefront of your discipline. Finally, you’ll present a resolved and professionally prepared outcome within a public exhibition.

Twitter: @royalschool Instagram: @rsndegree

Duration: 3 years full-time UCAS code: C93/W266/F UCAS tariff points: 112

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Duration: 3 years full-time UCAS code: C93/W271/N UCAS tariff points: 112

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BSc (Hons) Industrial Design*

BA (Hons) Interior Architecture & Design

UCA Canterbury

UCA Canterbury

Maxwell Shoroye, UCA Farnham

Wai Lok Chan, UCA Canterbury

Sitting within the School of Architecture, this course is for students with the desire to design and shape the products and artefacts of our everyday use and need. The primary focus is on the manufacturing process, a key factor in overall product development and viability within the competitive marketplace.

This course encourages you to embrace more traditional means of designing alongside emerging technologies, creating versatile, innovative and entrepreneurial graduates.

You’ll combine creative flair and vision with sound practical knowledge and experience of industry and have the opportunity to undertake an industrial work placement between Years 2 and 3 to gain invaluable industry insight into the relationship between design research, development and production.

The course runs in parallel with the BSc (Hons) Creative Computing course, sharing a core interest in coding and technology. You’ll also have access to our extensive workshop facilities to develop and prototype your designs. *Course subject to validation.

Year 1 is designed to challenge your understanding of Interior Architecture and Design. Projects introduce ways of understanding the relationships between the human body and the built environment, considering how your work impacts upon people and beginning to understand your social responsibilities as a designer.

Year 2 focuses on your understanding of the processes around the fabrication of elements by taking part in live projects. You’ll develop your knowledge and understanding of materials and fabrication processes through the design, representation and construction of an element in a site-specific location. You’ll also develop your own design brief around issues of conservation.

Year 3 offers you the opportunity to undertake a self-initiated design project that lasts the entire year. During this time, you’ll set your own agenda, conducting in-depth contextual research within a shared research theme.

Duration: 3 years full-time UCAS code: C93/W245/C UCAS tariff points: 112

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Duration: 3 years full-time UCAS code: C93/W252/C UCAS tariff points: 112

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BA (Hons) Jewellery and Silversmithing*

UCA Farnham

UCA Farnham

Rosie Sampson, UCA Farnham

Eea Vatanen, UCA Rochester

This course, one of the most established in the country, investigates the potential that interiors have to affect our everyday lives - from the home to the workplace, and the spaces enjoyed in between.

This exciting new course consolidates UCA’s extensive experience and expertise in jewellery onto our Farnham campus, in a new state-of-theart and greatly expanded jewellery studio. It is part of the vibrant crafts community at Farnham which also includes textiles, ceramics, glass, metalwork and interiors.

The course has a unique industry partnership with brand and experience design agency, Household, where students get the opportunity to work with their design directors in their Shoreditch office.

The levels of the course are structured to deliver the principles of interior architecture and design in Year 1, the processes of interior design in Year 2 and the practice of interior design in Year 3.

In your third year you’ll conclude your programme by completing a dissertation, a strategic portfolio of work and a capstone personal design project.

The capstone project reflects a culmination of each student’s learning on the course and is the single most significant expression of personal position.

Instagram: @uca_interiors_farnham

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BA (Hons) Interior Architecture & Design

The course embraces diverse approaches to jewellery and silversmithing. You’ll have the opportunity to experiment with a wide range of materials and processes, including metal, ceramics, plastics, wood and textiles.

With a focus on high quality craftsmanship, we place great importance on traditional hand skills whilst fully acknowledging the new and exciting possibilities also offered by digital fabrication.

Our aim is to help you develop a personal design identity, providing a stimulating creative environment where innovation is encouraged and you’re able to pursue and realise your ideas. You’ll be supported by access to excellent workshops and a staff team who are practising designer-makers or researchers, ensuring industry currency and relevance. *Course subject to validation.

Duration: 3 years full-time UCAS code: C93/W251/F UCAS tariff points: 112

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Duration: 3 years full-time UCAS code: C93/W271/F UCAS tariff points: 112

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BA (Hons) Textile Design

BA (Hons) Theatre Design

UCA Farnham

UCA Rochester

India Webber, UCA Farnham

Roisin Logan, UCA Rochester

On the course, you’ll explore creating textiles for a wide range of contexts, developing a range of creative opportunities within your body of work in a professional portfolio that reflects your future aspirations.

On each year of this course, you’ll learn design skills; practical making skills needed to develop concept and interpretation through to modelled form; how to design and make scaled scenic elements, props, and costume; and learn about the various approaches to staging performance.

Creative conversations will develop by rubbing shoulders with peers in dedicated studios, with personal space for each student. You’ll learn how to research, develop concepts and master specialist techniques in both print and weave, fusing traditional processes with current material practice.

You’ll work in studios equipped with high-quality print and weave equipment, including specialist dyeing labs and textile finishing areas, where you can fully experiment.

In preparation for your future career you will work on industry projects, competitions, and exhibitions as well as undertaking a work placement in the UK or abroad, with the option of an international year at one of our partner institutes.

You’ll be tutored by academics enthusiastic about textiles, who have exhibited internationally, produced commissioned work for the creative industries and are highly experienced in the areas of textile art, crafts, design, fashion and interiors.

Supported by our experienced and knowledgeable staff, you’ll be encouraged to experiment with the visual and material when designing and making.

Alongside these essential tools, you’ll also develop a thorough theoretical understanding of culture through the units Cultural Contexts and Practice in Context, examining, reflecting and writing about aspects of design, both historical and contemporary. You can explore an exciting range of opportunities to put what you’ve learned into practice via commissioned projects and work placement within the latter part of Year 2.

As you progress through to your final year you’ll have the option to choose a specialism, encouraging the development of your personal interests within design for theatrical performance.

Instagram: @ucatextiles

Duration: 3 years full-time UCAS code: C93/W234/F UCAS tariff points: 112

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Duration: 3 years full-time UCAS code: C93/W440/R UCAS tariff points: 112

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“ Following graduation, I worked for Fox Productions on Murder on the Orient Express, working on a dress for actress Dame Judi Dench, who played Princess Natalia Dragomiroff.

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“ When I graduated at just 24, I was the youngest person to have been admitted as a Trade Freeman to the Worshipful Company of Gold and Silver Wyre Drawers in the company’s over 300-year history!

Since then, I have been extremely busy, working as Costume Embroiderer for several films.

“ In 2017, I worked for five months with Working Title Productions on the dress of actress Margot Robbie, who will play Queen Elizabeth I in Mary, Queen of Scots (to be released in November 2018). I spent many hours embroidering the dress with tiny sequins and mythical animal motifs. “ During my studies, I worked on several exciting projects: an embroidered ‘Whitewalker’ for HBO Game of Thrones; an evening gown for Nicholas Oakwell Couture for the GREAT Britain Campaign, which showcases the best of British industry around the world; A/W 2015/16 menswear collection for E.Tautz, owned by Patrick Grant of The Great British Sewing Bee. “ A ll of these opportunities throughout my studies and during my career since I graduated, have been thanks to my expert skills in hand embroidery learnt at the Royal School of Needlework and the industry opportunities offered to me whilst there. I would never have had so many doors opened to me in industry had I been on another course, and I’m looking forward to many more!”

Laura Baverstock BA (Hons) Hand Embroidery for Fashion, Interiors, Textile Art, Royal School of Needlework, Hampton Court Palace Graduated 2016

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Your career

The UK has the largest design sector in Europe, employing 177,000 people and contributing £3.2 billion to the economy.

UCA has a proud tradition of supporting students and equipping them with everything they need to thrive in the workplace. 96.9% of our students find employment or go on to further study within the first six months after graduating.

Our courses in Crafts, Jewellery and 3D 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: –– 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.

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Portfolio advice

What is a portfolio?

A portfolio is a collection of your work that demonstrates your range of skills and creative talent. It’s your opportunity to showcase your individuality, creativity, inspirations and artistic abilities, and 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.

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 a viewer, keeping their attention and leaving them feeling excited about your creative potential.

What should my portfolio include?

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, demonstrating good organisational skills and your own artistic awareness.

Make sure you show your passion for the subject – look into your favourite designers, artists and makers and the other things they have created.

Show us work that inspires you, and designs that you’ve come up with yourself.

Your portfolio should exhibit your creative journey, thinking processes and individual personality, so we can assess your potential. It’s important to show both your inspirations and aspirations, as your portfolio says a lot about you and your creative identity.

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, giving us insight into your creative thinking and how you approach your subject.

Make sure your portfolio is well presented. Our tutors only have a short amount of time to look through each portfolio, so you need to organise your work intelligently. We recommend that you include between 10 and 25 pieces of work, neatly mounted on white or off-white paper in either landscape or portrait format (not a mixture of both).

Find out more 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: uca.ac.uk/study/portfolio-advice 12

Put some of your most attention-grabbing and interesting work at the front and lead us through your journey, showcasing a variety of skills, materials, techniques and influences – it could include paintings, drawings, photography, digital pieces, storyboards, animation images or written work. If you include moving image work, we recommend a maximum of two minutes’ running time. Highlight your favourite pieces too, and indicate what or who inspires you.

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Eea Vatanen, UCA Rochester

“ I’m hoping to set up my own workshop, working on a slightly smaller scale because of funding, but continuing to work with other foundries that can cast my pieces and then making pieces in the workshop. “ The technical staff at UCA 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.”

Rosie Wesley BA (Hons) Glassworks, Ceramics, Metalwork, Jewellery, UCA Farnham Graduated 2017

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Tilly Reynolds, UCA Farnham

“ I always had a great passion for embroidery and perfected my skills during the course. My work was displayed at The Knitting & Stitching shows and I interned at Alexander McQueen and Hussein Chalayan fashion houses. “ I also worked on commission pieces for Nicolas Oakwell Couture and HBO Game of Thrones. I demonstrated stitch techniques at Burberry, Luxury Made and The Knitting & Stitching shows. “ I’m currently working a series of past Irish Presidents in the embroidery technique called Blackwork. I have also been commissioned to create Blackwork portraits for customers.”

Claire Smyth BA (Hons) Hand Embroidery for Fashion, Interiors, Textile Art, Royal School of Needlework, Hampton Court Palace Graduated 2017

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Course leaders

Debra Allman

Mark Gower

Course Leader for BA (Hons) Jewellery & Silversmithing

Course Leader for BA (Hons) Interior Architecture & Design

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UCA Farnham

UCA Farnham

Debra Allman leads our BA (Hons) Jewellery & Silversmithing course at UCA Farnham.

Mark graduated from the Royal College of Art (RCA) in 1999 with an MA in Architecture and Interiors and formerly attended Kingston University, where he achieved a BA (Hons) in Interior Design with First Class Honours. While at the RCA, Mark received a commendation for his dissertation entitled ‘Football’s Hidden Architecture’.

Debra studied MA Metalwork and Jewellery at the Royal College of Art (RCA), receiving the Garrard Award for work with precious metals.

After graduating from the RCA, 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.

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Mark is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and before joining UCA was Principal Lecturer and Head of the Fashion and Design programmes at Regent’s University London, where he practised in the field of design.

Mark has worked with various design companies, including Imagination Ltd. and Studio db, on projects ranging from the recent redevelopment of Fenwick on Bond Street, to designing a European tour stage set for a pop band. Mark has been responsible for leading design teams for major clients in the UK and worldwide including Hong Kong and India. His clients have included Aquascutum, B&Q, Land Rover and Eureka! The Museum for Children.

Rob Nice

Sharon Ting

Course Leader for BA (Hons) Interior Architecture and Design

Course Leader for BA (Hons) Textile Design

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UCA Farnham

UCA Canterbury Rob has been an educator since 1995 and has contributed to Canterbury School of Architecture’s development and success for over ten years. He has established a research-intensive learning environment, encouraging students to explore the social, cultural and political context of designing within the built environment.

Alongside teaching, Rob has worked on Arts Council funded research projects through Urban-lab, which he co-founded in Brighton in 1999. It brings together artists, designers, architects and educators to explore the social, cultural and political layers that construct the built environment through a mix of installations, performance and photography.

Rob’s own practice-led research stems from a conscious effort to explore and respond to the mundane, the banal and the habitual; the parts of everyday life that go unnoticed. He makes use of various disciplines to enable everyday users of cities to establish alternative ways of seeing, doing and thinking, through even the smallest of gestures.

In 2013, Rob gained professional recognition for his teaching, becoming a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

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Sharon Ting leads the Textile Design course at our Farnham campus. Sharon brings her expertise as a maker of fashion accessories, commissions for public art and large-scale textiles for interiors to the role.

Sharon is originally a graduate of one of our founder colleges, the West Surrey College of Art & Design, and a graduate from the Royal College of Art. On graduating from the RCA, she set up a studio and workshop 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 and has retailed through Takashimaya NY, Liberty London and Selfridges.

Sharon believes in developing a forward-thinking community of individual textile designers, entrepreneurial artists and makers. Creating enthusiastic ‘Texstylers’ driven by aesthetic vision, strong technical skills and an aspirational approach, ultimately creating textiles that appeals to all our senses.

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Angie Wyman Course Leader for BA (Hons) Hand Embroidery for Fashion, Interiors, Textilte Art — Royal School of Needlework Angie Wyman leads our Hand Embroidery for Fashion, Interiors, Textile Art course at the Royal School of Needlework. Working specifically within embroidery for fashion, craft and design, Angie has more than 25 years’ experience of working within embroidery and the applied arts at degree and masters level.

Angie is both practitioner and academic, with a career-long commitment to the promotion and continued practice of embroidery. She has exhibited works internationally, with pieces held in both public and private collections.

Angie has developed and managed a number of prestigious international textile projects and developed collaborative partnerships with the Australian National University, Canberra and Novia University of Applied Sciences, Finland, culminating in country-specific exhibitions, workshops and conferences. Angie completed a successful residency at the Australian National University in 2012.

Angie is a Mentor for Finalists of the international Hand & Lock Prize for Embroidery and has served as a Panel Judge for the Embroiderers’ Guild Scholar Award and Schools National Fashion Competition.

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Course leaders

“ I’ve enjoyed the freedom the course has given me to express myself fully and independently. We were taught the core skills and processes then were free to engage and develop what we wanted to pursue. “ This personal development is so important as once you leave a university ‘bubble’, you need the confidence to continue alone.

Millie Byrne, Royal School of Needlework

“ The staff are incredibly knowledgeable. Every tutor and sessional lecturer is so helpful and this is true across the board. What I think is great is they work alongside one another – having tutorials weekly with different tutors is fantastic as each of them will have different ideas and suggestions towards your work.”

Grace Dickerson BA (Hons) Textile Design, UCA Farnham.

Graduated 2017

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Our facilities

Farnham

Rochester

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.

UCA Rochester offers specialist studios, equipment and software, and boasts a wide range of industrystandard resources including state-of-the-art fashion technology.

Resources include: –– Access to various kilns for ceramics work (gas, electric, wood burning and raku) –– Excellent specialist workshops for glass blowing –– W ell-equipped areas providing hand and mechanical processes and high technology from ceramic, glass, wood, metal, plastics and jewellery workshops to laser cutting, rapid prototyping and 3D Printing –– F ully equipped Foundry for casting bronze and aluminium –– D igital and traditional printmaking workshop for printing on to ceramics and glass –– A n extensive equipment store for hiring cameras and video equipment –– Specialist technical support –– Hand and digital fabrication –– A ccess to Digital Media and Adobe Creative Suite.

Facilities include: –– Access to computer suites with Adobe Creative Suite, Rhino and Maxwell Render –– Laser cutting and rapid prototyping facilities –– W ell-equipped workshops, providing ceramic, wood and metal workshops –– L aser, rapid prototyping and 3D printing, ceramics, metal and wood working –– Specialist technical support –– Hand and digital fabrication –– A ccess 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 studentaccessible handling collection.

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Please note, access to each campus and its resources can sometimes depend on the campus you choose to study at. For example, you may be using the facilities at the campus where your course is based but not always at others – this depends on your course.

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Next steps

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