Students, staff, friends, and family members celebrated the launch of the MA Degree Show at UCLan on Friday evening. The exhibition was opened by Jackie Edwards, Head of the BFI Young Audiences Content Fund, and is taking place in the Victoria and Hanover Buildings and in the Media Factory.

The Victoria Building’s PR1 Gallery hosts a multi-disciplinary showcase bringing together the creative outputs of students in the university’s design, fashion, and media departments. Included in the exhibition are award-winning short animated films, 3D modelling and concept art for games design, conceptual fashion collections, promotional campaigns, handmade textile design, ceramics and fashion or lifestyle image styling, design-focused portfolios, children’s book illustration, photography digital slideshows and computer rendered interior visuals.

On the mezzanine level, you will find the work of Studio Jonesy, whose work we featured previously on Blog Preston, as well as handmade candles and wellness products created by Sam’s Naturally Handmade, amongst others.

Across the ground and first floors of the Hanover Building, visitors can view an array of exciting and challenging work by a new generation of artists and visual practitioners produced by the university’s fine art, photography, ceramics and textiles, and surface pattern students.

From fine art students, expect to see a broad base of traditional and experimental media including painting, sculpture, print, drawing, artist publications, and installation. Photography students are showing an eclectic mix of contemporary photographic work, both innovative and artistic in approach – from everyday observation to high-end fashion concepts. Ceramics and textiles and surface pattern will showcase their innovative, sculptural approaches to their subject specialisms.

You may recognise the characters featured in the work of caricaturist Geoff Elliott on display on the ground floor, whilst upstairs in the fine art gallery you can view ‘Sailing into the Grey’, Erin Singleton’s installation which offers a window into a close relative’s cognitive decline as they succumb to dementia.

Amongst the other works on display, fine artist Gizelle Molnar has captured spontaneous, candid snapshots of friends in a series of vibrant portrait paintings.

The MA Degree show is on at UCLan’s Victoria and Hanover Buildings on weekdays from 10am to 4pm, until 5 October.

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