An exclusive preview of the NUA Degree Show

On Monday, June 26th I was given the marvelous opportunity to pop down and get a sneak peek of the Norwich University of the Arts Undergraduate Degree Show. As a resident NUA Blogger, I’ve been fortunate enough to see the behind the scenes goings on of setting up the show. But the Exclusive Press + Bloggers Degree Show Preview Breakfast event gave me a chance to peruse the Show and experience it in its full glory.

27 June - 5 July
nua.ac.uk/degreeshows

St. Georges communal space filled with other media representatives, students as well as some faculty members.

There was such an awesome vibe, music courtesy of Tropico – it was clear to me that everyone was having a great time! They also supplied us with some delicious, pastries and coffee for us to start our day.

Now, I’m not usually the coffee drinking type but on this occasion I went for the simple black option and was informed that Tropico’s fruity blend would be best. I have to admit, I really enjoyed mine, it was rather tasty!

This, along with the excitement and anticipation in the air, made me super pumped to go around and see what the Degree Show had in store.

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Now to begin with, I ventured into the realm of Textiles, to be pleasantly surprised, that what I had thought textiles to be was that, and so much more. I had expected to be met with reels of various colourful fabric and weaves, but it was lovely to see the prototypes for specific products and materials other than cotton, silk, polyester, wool etcetera, being used; such as acrylic, paper, concrete and ceramics. It was so interesting to see the range textiles have beyond what one could think to be typical.

I then went onto view the Fine Art part of the show, I had seen most of it beforehand but it was lovely to view the level of finesse that which the students exhibited their work.

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I of course had a swell time viewing the Architecture part of the show, since it is the I study. I honestly felt so proud of my colleagues, and the calibre of the work presented. Find out more here: http://www.architecturedegreeshow.com

I was especially impressed with the rig designed by their wondeful tutor Jerome Tsui, and built by the fantastic technicians over at the 3D workshop - great work Jim! Also shout out to the fab team of technicians we have over at Boardman who have assisted my colleagues in putting on a commendable show. Big love to Joe, Manos and Ben.

We also have some awesome 'DIVIDED CITIES' catalogues that celebrate work from across all three year groups (you can find my work across pgs 26 + 27)

One of my favourite projects was by Daniel Walford. I loved the throwback to the traditional blueprint style as well as his incredible renders and the inspired form of his building.

Another firm favourite of mine was by Kiera Schneider; loved her use of a really well considered colour palette as well as her display of materiality and its wear over time.

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I have to say that I found the show Illustration put on to be the most dynamic and I found it so intriguing at every turn - I had no idea how much of multi-disciplinary of a course it is!

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I also enjoyed the likes of Fashion, Graphics (Design, Communication and for Publishing) Photography, Animation, Games, VFX as well as Film and Moving Image. Be sure to head down to the see all the work in its full glory!

27 June - 5 July
nua.ac.uk/degreeshows