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Up and Beyond

Published 11 June 2012

Event 9–14 June 2012

Colourful collars, seaside scarves and sensory sculptures are just some of the exhibits attracting 15,000 visitors to the University of Brighton's Up and Beyond Graduate Show.

More than 500 final-year graduates from the Faculty of Arts are exhibiting their work at the Grand Parade and Pavilion Parade campuses in Brighton until Thursday 14 June.

Emily Rose Potter

Emily Rose Potter, who studied textile design, came up with colourful men's collars: "They are based on the old style detachable collars that men used to wear – men's tailoring today is much more extrovert ."

Ed Fiddes

Ed Fiddes, (design and craft) combined bird boxes with sign posts: "The idea is to encourage people to be more aware of the wildlife around them. Birds nest in unusual places sometimes – even in traffic lights – so I'd like to think they’d use the sign post boxes."

Rosanna Tims

Rosanna Tims (textile design) regularly holidayed with her family in Île de Ré, off the French coast, and it was being by the sea while on the island that inspired her scarf creations. She said "This is a field I'm thinking of going into in the future."

Lucy Newbould

One of the more unusual exhibits is the sensory sculpture "Clam Puppet", a red velvet stage curtain showing two brass instruments on cushions. Lucy Newbould (fine art sculpture) is considering a career in art therapy. She said: "My exhibit is interactive and involves participants on both sides of the curtain gaining different perspectives."

Ed Liddle

Ed Liddle (painting) used fragments of imagery – a limb or piece of wallpaper : "These fragments combined, forced together, further develop a desire to bring together disparate elements of my own visual language."