About This Course

The FdA Illustration programme gives students the opportunity to be individual, innovative and questioning.

The course has breadth embracing a wide range of approaches and media and working within a range of contexts such as editorial illustration or sequential narrative.  Media includes screenprinting, etching and relief printmaking, animation, digital technology, mixed media, 3D, photography, ceramics as well as a big dose of drawing.  All this is underpinned by contextual studies and professional development.  Students take part in a number of outreach projects in the wider community, completed placements in London and Brighton, exhibited in local galleries and produced artwork for an ever more lively local arts and retail community.

Take another look at the blog to find out more about work experience opportunities.

BA Graduate Show

The BA Exhibition will be shown at Grand Parade  in Brighton from the 1st June - 12th June.

After intensive creative and critical study, over 500 final year students will show their work at the annual University of Brighton Faculty of Arts Graduate Show this Summer.

The event marks the beginning of an exciting future for this year’s graduates many of whom will emerge as leading lights in their chosen discipline.

The show offers visitors the opportunity to seek out, purchase and commission work from those destined to follow in the footsteps of alumni such as fashion designer Julien Macdonald OBE or Turner Prize winners Keith Tyson and Rachel Whiteread.

The show, which is free and open to the public, features exhibits in architecture, fine art, design, film and performance at the university’s city centre Grand Parade and Pavilion Parade buildings. 

The students have been involved in all aspects of creating the show, from hanging and organising building exhibition spaces, to designing the graphics. This year’s advertising campaign for the show features fonts and graphics designed by final year students Lottie Markworth and Barney Stepney.

Architecture and Interior Architecture students will again be building an exhibition pavilion in the faculty's quadrangle to showcase their design projects sharing the location with the Brighton ‘Waste House’ project.

To get a sneak peek and to get involved by sharing your views follow us on twitter@artsbrighton using the #gradshow13.