Art and Design Foundation Year - BA (Hons)

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so originally when I signed up for the
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course I was looking to do graphic
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design afterwards but throughout the
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course we are encouraged to sort of
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experiment and try different things and
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do things that are out of our comfort
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zone and because of that I actually then
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decided to go into fine art cuz that was
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a kind of for me that was a course that
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I could continue doing that sort of
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experimental nature that was really
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great in the foundation
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in the foundation i was hoping to do a
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bit of digital graphic stuff so I
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thought maybe I'll explore a bit of that
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and see if I like it and so that was my
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main thing I wanted to explore my
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interest is in painting and print making
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that's what I am focusing on and I like
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painting because I feel like just a lot
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of very gestural
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work i really enjoyed studying the
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different modules because they were very
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different so we started off with doing a
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very experimental and broad module and
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then we kind of found our way into doing
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a more self-directed project and during
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foundation year we there were also um
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life drawing workshops held which I
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really enjoyed so I've explored some
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physical media working in the woodwork
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section mostly and also doing some
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sculpting work such as this behind me
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and working with all sorts of different
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technicians from the audio visual to as
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I say woodwork and metal work and even
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some sculpting as well i found exciting
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was when we had different artists come
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in especially um from different areas we
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had fine arts coming graphic designers
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coming and talking about their work and
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we had little workshops on each thing
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and that was quite exciting to get
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insight what would be more like focusing
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on each area one of the bits that I
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thought was really great with the
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foundation course was I think as I
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started going in I may have had like
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sort of a preconceived idea of like what
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an art degree would be like with
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foundation art but what I discovered
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from doing this was that it can be it's
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so broad and it can be sort of anything
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I want it to be and with the course and
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the the broadness of it I could you can
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incorporate all of those things and you
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can incorporate your interests and make
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something out of that which I found
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really exciting so the highlight of the
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year has to be part of the shows where
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I'll be showing off stuff like this but
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also night school where you get to tap
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in to see what other students are doing
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and what workshops they're providing cuz
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sometimes you get to join in and see
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what they're doing and maybe get some
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inspiration for building something
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yourself so I've got a couple of
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highlights and one would be the staff
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staff was really supportive and
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obviously coming into university and
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never having met anyone they were just
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the most welcoming and they made quite a
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huge experience to it the highlight of
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the year was the big show at the end i
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think it from the very start how it all
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came to the end it was mind-blowing and
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I believe it was one of my best works
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that I've did i'm very happy with it and
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that was yeah amazing for me it was a
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really proud moment that I could look
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back at this culmination of all the work
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that I'd done in the year and think
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about to where I was at the beginning of
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the foundation year and everything I'd
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learned and to kind of see it i felt
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like I think it was the first moment I
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went "Yeah I am an artist." Like it's
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all the things that I'd learned
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