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Celebrating exciting new talent emerging from the Faculty of Arts, Design and Media, the Inspired Festival offers a virtual window into the future of the creative industries. We are very proud to showcase our exceptional graduate work – the culmination of innovative thinking and collaboration at the end of a year unlike any before.
These artists, actors, designers, writers and musicians have responded positively and creatively to unprecedented challenges. They have demonstrated outstanding ingenuity and adopted new ways of working, with inventive ideas evolving from a range of disciplines. Nurtured in the region, the Inspired Festival now brings our graduates to a global audience. We are proud to offer this platform to share their inspiring work.
Follow the journeys of our students as they create their projects through these video diaries, from the first day up until showcasing at the festival.
Charlotte Blazier is a final year Textile Design student. Her sensory and mindfulness based project, Tactile Bliss, aims to evoke comforting, nature-like feelings.
Paul-Romulus Penciu is a third year Photography student. His striking work stems from sexuality and taboo within religion, and his project uses bold imagery to depict this.
Libby Hudson is a final year Fashion Business and Promotion Student. Her project combines innovative technology with environment-conscious fashion.
Gabriella Broadley, a final year Jewellery and Objects student, explores the connection between memories and physical objects in her heartwarming project.
Actor
Wilson McDowell is a final year Acting student at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and Birmingham City University. Wilson tells us about his final and upcoming performances.
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The Fantastic Memoir of the Life of Lucius Alexander, A Haint
Canaan Brown is a final year Art and Design student. His final project encapsulates the supernatural within nineteenth century London.
Furniture for a Small Space
Toby Hawkins is a final year Art and Design student. His project aims to solve a problem in his every day life by creating unique but affordable furniture.
Urban Impermanence
Imogen Haskey is a final year Fine Art student. Her project takes a unique approach to showcasing the negative sides of a cityscape.
Piece of Mind: An Exploration of How Objects Embody Memory
Gabriella Broadley is a final-year Jewellery and Objects student at our School of Jewellery. Her heartwarming project looks at the relationship between memories and physical objects.
Reading Between the Words
Emily Teague is a third year Fashion Design student specialising in menswear. Her project is inspired by artist Lucus Dupuy and her own experience with dyslexia.
George Saunders Reimagined
For the George Saunders Reimagined Exhibition, Anna Blanke, a fashion design student from Germany who studied textile design at BCU during her semester abroad, embarked on a project to create a wallpaper reflecting the life of George Saunders and his profession.
EBLA
Faith Chavez is a final year Textile Design student whose project encapsulates the warm feeling of her grandmother's home in Ecuador and evokes memories from her distant home.
Human Communication
Emily John is a final year Illustration student whose final project portrays human communication through several different illustrative art forms.
Stage Manager for Brontë
Joshua Howes is a final year Stage Management student at Birmingham City University and Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. His final project entails acting as stage manager for a performance of Brontë.
For the George Saunders Reimagined Exhibition, Lydia created a captivating wallpaper design that reflects both cultures and showcases Saunders' journey and successful career, her project draws on her acquired skills and support from her Textiles course, enabling her to experiment and bring her vision to life.
Rebecca Evans is a final year Acting student at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and Birmingham City University. For her final project, she performed in three large-scale productions across various venues.
Aecora
(Re)making a Community: Bordesley Green
Samuel Hearne is a third year Architecture student whose project aims to raise awareness and help those locally who are victims of domestic abuse.
TBC
Gregory Simpson is a third year Fine Art student whose final project has been created using multiple art forms and sustainably sourced or secondhand materials.
Tactile Bliss
Charlotte Blazier is a final year Textile Design student. Her sensory and mindfulness based project aims to evoke comfort to those who need it, including her grandad, who recently had a stroke.
Open Doors Open Curtains
Tanya Shah is a final year Architecture student aiming her final project at tackling social injustice for women.
Fashion and Editorial
Natasha Holt is a final year Photography student who executed six fashion photoshoots for her final major project, encompassing her self development.
FU(NA)TURE
Michael Man Lin is a final year Jewellery and Objects student taking inspiration from Japanese nature.
Evanescence
Louisa Cherry is a final year Fine Art student. Her inspiring project attempts to visualise the feeling of memories through a combination of different art mediums.
Rave your Pain Away
Zuzana Kodajova is a third year Fashion Design student using the power of the rave community to create a sustainable clothing collection.
A Serpent's Gaze
For Hollie's final project, she formed a company and created a 30-minute performance called "A Serpent's Gaze" for The Applied Theatre Festival.
Hidden in the Wetlands: New Designers Award Winner - Prestigious Textiles Award
Sarah Mills is a final year Textile Design student with a passion for the Great British countryside. Her love of this has influenced her final project, where she has created designs based on the lost beauty of the great outdoors.
FEMME
Beth Carroll is a third year Photography student who specialises in fashion portraiture. Her project encompasses empowerment through the use of mythology.
The Unseen Black Country
Hannah Pincher is a third year Textile Design student whose project celebrates her Black Country heritage and pays homage to the industrialism of the area.
Urban Regeneration Through Learning
Eduard-Dumitru Popescu is third year Architecture student trying to combat social injustice through his community hub design proposal.
Repertoire
Chloe Jones is a final year Photography student that aspires to work within music photography. This is something she has captured through her final project, where she has created a portfolio of her music-related work.
Legacies and Opportunities: Resilient Communities
Nadine Burke is a final year Architecture student. Her project focuses on the area of Duddeston, Birmingham, and aims to bring new life to the area.
Both Sides Now
Ava-Daniera Mcdonald is an Applied Theatre student. Her project is a play called Both Sides Now, which explores the relationship between an elderly care home patient and her carer.
For the George Saunders Reimagined Exhibition, Natalie aimed to develop menswear tailoring by incorporating the story of a master tailor, George Saunders and his original 1970s blocks.
ReRooted Beauty: New Business Award winner - Graduate Fashion Week 2023
Katherine Millward is a final year Fashion Business and Promotion student whose final year project, beauty brand ReRooted Beauty, won the New Business Award at Graduate Fashion Week 2023. The brand's concept revolves around using waste from the fruit industry and using it within cosmetics – considering packing – production and marketing.
The Abject Desire
Ifrah Sagheer is a final year Fine Art student at Birmingham City University, studying within the School of Art. Their project boldly showcases ideas of abjection through several sculpted artworks.
Electric Chapel
Structural Iridescences Inspired by Insect Surfaces
Alisha Khan is a final year Textile Design student aiming to portray the brilliantly iridescence and structural elements of a butterflies wings through her project.
The Role of Education Departments in Orchestras and Opera Companies
Maisy Neale is a final year BMus student at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Her final project focuses on music education within orchestras and opera companies in England.
Amy Bradley is a third year Art and Design student. Her untitled project is inspired by her passion for life and nature.
Get all the latest information on Inspired Festival 2023.
See the wonderful work of our Arts, Design and Media students and find out how they made their creations.
When possible, the best way to explore what's on offer is to come and see us in person, and we host a number of Open Days throughout the year.
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