Solent Degree Show ‘The Graduate Show’ at Dimbola Lodge: 6th November 2009 – 10th January 2010

This exhibition presents a selection of work from the 2009 graduate honours degree students from Southampton Solent University. The degree courses represented from the Faculty of Art and Design are Illustration, Graphics, Photography, and Fashion. The exhibition comprises of pieces chosen through a selection process from the final major projects of over 250 students.

Earlier this year Southampton Solent University Graduates struck a pose Fashion Show … plastic fantastic dolls – paying homage to Barbie’s 50th birthday.  Final-year Fashion students to showcased their collections with themes ranging from plastic fantastic dolls – paying homage to Barbie’s 50th birthday – to superheroes and the Battle of Hastings.   Image Credit Laura Ecclestone.

With the credit crunch and environmental issues in mind collections will show that you can still be stylish on a shoestring, with designs created from recyclable materials and a ‘make do and mend’ philosophy. 

This highly creative body of work draws on a diversity of themes such as the 50th birthday of the Barbie doll, George Orwell’s 1984, the aesthetic beauty of derelict and abandoned buildings on the Isle of Wight and the gangland murders of the 1920s, to mention but a few.

The four represented in this exhibition are just a few of the art, design and media honours degree courses offered at Southampton Solent. The wide range of others include Film, Television, Performance, Fine Art, Fashion Styling, Popular Music, Journalism, Media Culture and Interior Design.

Exhibition Curator: Sarah Hand, Associate Lecturer in Media, Culture and Production, and Administrator to the Director – Centre for Research and Enterprise in Art, Design and Media, Southampton Solent University.

Southampton Solent University at: www.solent.ac.uk