If you've applied for one of our postgraduate creative media, arts or architecture courses we will ask you to share a link to a portfolio of your work. Your grades are one part of the picture – seeing your portfolio enables us to see your potential and understand your approach and motivations.
After you apply we will provide guidance on what to include and we host regular online advice sessions which can support you in prepping your portfolio.
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Students and staff share their tips and advice on creating a portfolio.
We will ask you to share a digital format portfolio with us if you apply for one of these postgraduate courses. Specific portfolio requirements for each course can be found on our portfolio request page.
The admissions process has the following steps.
What to includes varies by course – you'll find specific details on the portfolio request page. We will also send you advice about what to include when we invite you to share your portfolio. For all courses we want you to demonstrate your creative process, your development and how you research, solve problems, explore techniques and media, experiment and develop your ideas.
Your portfolio should be relevant to the course you’ve applied for and showcase your talents, interests and development. We are excited to see your work so far and your potential so don’t delay sending your portfolio because you think it isn’t ‘finished.’ We expect you to be trying things out and experimenting. We’re very happy to see work produced during your most recent studies, work experience and from your practice. You don’t need to create work specially for your portfolio but we recommend that you start thinking about what to include and how to organise it and present it before we invite you to share it.
Depending on course this could include:
All images should be in .jpg format and 72dpi resolution. Ideally, images should be flattened and optimised for screen viewing with maximum dimensions of 800 pixels on the longest side – you can do this using Photoshop if you have access to this application.
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