WHAT DO YOU LOOK FOR?

Your portfolio should show evidence of:

• your practical skills and how you explore and use different media and materials. This could be demonstrated in a variety of ways including Drawing, Painting, Collage, 3 Dimensional work (recorded through photographs), Photography, CAD ... and could be evidenced through sketchbooks, development work and final pieces.
• the ideas behind your work and how they progress and develop from the initial starting point/ source of inspiration through to a finished piece of work. This could be evidenced through sketchbooks/ notebooks/ worksheets and finished pieces
• your interest in Fine Art/ Design - visual evidence of historical or contemporary artists/ designers that you are looking at or inspired by; exhibitions you have visited and how this has impacted in your own work. We want to know what/ who has motivated or inspired you to apply for the specialist area.

Your portfolio provides admissions tutors with evidence of your prior achievements relevant to your chosen programme and evidence of your creativity, interests, ability and potential to succeed. It should reflect your intellectual curiosity, commitment, motivation and self-discipline and should emphasise your strengths.

You can provide evidence of your strengths through a range of "visual" work as a result of course projects or your own initiative. Your portfolio should give an idea of your interests and involvement in Design or Fine Art outside the classroom or college studio, as well as evidence of projects or set work from your previous art or design course.

We encourage you to be imaginative and to submit works in which you have used materials, processes or form in an inventive way. Portfolios are evaluated on an individual basis, in the context of the specific educational background and experiences of each applicant.

Be selective. Take advice on what should go in your portfolio; include your best and most recent work that you consider best represents your current creative interests and technical level.