Selection for Art courses

Select your course above to find out everything you need to know to develop your digital portfolio, watch a short video about what we’re looking for and view the facilities section to immerse yourself in our creative spaces.

Digital portfolio

Applicants are required to submit a digital portfolio for review. Your portfolio should be a selection of your work that reflects the range of your abilities, your creative process (including your developmental work), and your interest in the course. 

Decisions will be made primarily on the basis of the work and the ideas that you present in your portfolio. We may invite applicants for an interview if we have questions about your portfolio or think further discussion may be useful.

Please send examples of your work in one, or a combination of: Flickr links and documents hosted on a platform such as Google Docs, Google Drive or Dropbox, but if you have a portfolio in another format that is fine to use too. 

Please take a look at our technical guidance for the suggested platforms to ensure you are sharing your portfolio with us successfully: 

• Flickr
• Google Docs
• Google Drive
• Dropbox

For Fine Art, we would like you to include the following in your portfolio.

1. We are particularly interested in viewing your self-initiated and project work. There is not a set number of works/projects. Consider how best to present your range of ideas and works.
2. Please show us selected work/ideas from notebooks/sketch books/research material.
3. Please submit a recent essay from school or college that demonstrates either an interest in a subject, an argument or an analysis of an art work or artist. 

We will be looking for students who:

• are self-motivated, engaged and resourceful individuals with commitment, ambition and a desire to learn
• are interested in, and aware of, contemporary fine arts practice and regularly visit online exhibitions and artist and gallery websites
• have an interest in developing a critical perspective on their own work and other artists, involving skills and abilities beyond self-expression
• have the potential to produce innovative art reflecting on contemporary themes.

Digital portfolio

Applicants are required to submit a digital portfolio for review. Your portfolio should be a selection of your work that reflects the range of your abilities, your creative process (including your developmental work), and your interest in the course.

Decisions will be made primarily on the basis of the work and the ideas that you present in your portfolio.

Please send examples of your work in one, or a combination of, Flickr links and documents hosted on a platform such as Google Docs, Google Drive or Dropbox, but if you have a portfolio in another format that is fine to use too.

Please take a look at our technical guidance for the suggested platforms to ensure you are sharing your portfolio with us successfully:

• Flickr
• Google Docs
• Google Drive
• Dropbox

For Fine Art with Foundation Year, we would like you to include the following in your portfolio:

1. A range of self-initiated and project work
2. Images from notebooks/sketch books/research material
3. A recent school or college essay

We will be looking for students who:

• are self-motivated, engaged and resourceful individuals with commitment, ambition and a desire to learn
• are interested in, and aware of, contemporary fine arts practice and regularly visit online exhibitions and artist and gallery websites
• have an interest in developing a critical perspective on their own work and other artists, involving skills and abilities beyond self-expression
• have the potential to produce innovative art reflecting on contemporary themes.

Digital portfolio

Applicants are required to submit a digital portfolio for review. Your portfolio should be a selection of your work that reflects the range of your abilities, your creative process (including your developmental work), and your interest in the course.

Decisions will be made primarily on the basis of the work and the ideas that you present in your portfolio. We may invite applicants for an interview if we have questions about your portfolio or think further discussion may be useful.

Our preferred platforms are Flickr, Instagram and Wix, or documents hosted on platforms such as Google Docs and Google Drive, but if you have a portfolio in another format that is fine to use too.

Please take a look at our technical guidance for the suggested platforms to ensure you are sharing your portfolio with us successfully:

• Flickr
• Instagram
• Wix
• Google Docs
• Google Drive

Please view the list below as a guide not a rule, but your portfolio should demonstrate:

1. an innovative approach to image making
2. a good representation of sketchbook pages to show your visual thinking and problem solving
3. a good level of drawing skills eg life drawing/observational drawing
4. evidence of visual thinking and engagement with concepts
5. experimentation with digital and/or analogue (handmade) processes
6. an individualistic and curious approach to image making.

We would like to see a digital portfolio that best shows your work and, importantly, your ideas too. For each link uploaded, please provide a short statement of no more than 100 words telling us about the work, which can include both ‘final’ pieces and developmental work. Use the words wisely to add to the reading of your work (context, rationale, subject area). Where necessary, include photos of 3D work and provide links to moving image work online. Remember, feel free to include multiple shots of sketchbook pages on a single portfolio page/slide.

In short, we are interested in your creative and visual voice. The more you can show of your individual areas of interest and expression of your ideas through your work, the better.

Portfolio task: project brief

Film or audio recording that briefly introduces yourself and answers the following questions 

1. What is illustration? 
2. Talk about one piece of work that is important to you, and the reason why.

You can use your phone or a computer to record and you do not have to appear in the film – you could just record yourself speaking the answers if you would prefer!

Digital portfolio

Applicants are required to submit a digital portfolio for review. Your portfolio should be a selection of your work that reflects the range of your abilities, your creative process (including your developmental work), and your interest in the course.

Decisions will be made primarily on the basis of the work and the ideas that you present in your portfolio. We may invite applicants for an interview if we have questions about your portfolio or think further discussion may be useful.

Our preferred platforms are Flickr, Instagram and Wix, or documents hosted on platforms such as Google Docs and Google Drive, but if you have a portfolio in another format that is fine to use too.

Please take a look at our technical guidance for the suggested platforms to ensure you are sharing your portfolio with us successfully:

• Flickr
• Instagram
• Wix
• Google Docs
• Google Drive

Please view the list below as a guide not a rule, but your portfolio should demonstrate:

1. an innovative approach to image making
2. a good representation of sketchbook pages to show your visual thinking and problem solving
3. a good level of drawing skills eg life drawing/observational drawing
4. evidence of visual thinking and engagement with concepts
5. experimentation with digital and analogue (handmade) processes
6. an individualistic and curious approach to image making.

We would like to see a digital portfolio that best shows your work and, importantly, your ideas too. For each link uploaded, please provide a short statement of no more than 100 words telling us about the work, which can include both ‘final’ pieces and developmental work. Use the words wisely to add to the reading of your work (context, rationale, subject area). Where necessary, include photos of 3D work and provide links to moving image work online. Remember, feel free to include multiple shots of sketchbook pages on a single portfolio page/slide.

In short, we are interested in your creative and visual voice. The more you can show of your individual areas of interest and expression of your ideas through your work, the better.