Summer Shows

The University of Brighton's Summer Shows are when our art, design, architecture and media students exhibit their final projects.

Our brilliant graduating students normally show their work in our gallery spaces, on catwalks and in London design shows. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic means that this won’t be happening in 2021. Instead students will be showing their work digitally.

2021 show dates

18 June: School of Architecture and Design End of Year Show
25 June: Brighton Graduate Show
16 July: MA Show

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Take a look at some of the brilliant creativity that takes place across our courses, from fine art to photography, media to fashion, music to film.

Courses covered by each show

Art design and media

3D Design & Craft BA(Hons)
Design for Digital Media BA(Hons)
Digital Music and Sound Arts BA(Hons)
Fashion Communication with Business Studies BA(Hons)
Fashion Design with Business Studies BA(Hons)
Fashion and Dress History BA(Hons)
Film BA(Hons)
Film and Screen Studies BA(Hons)
Fine Art Critical Practice BA(Hons)
Fine Art Painting BA(Hons)
Fine Art Printmaking BA(Hons)
Fine Art Sculpture BA(Hons)

Graphic Design BA(Hons)
History of Art and Design BA(Hons)
Illustration BA(Hons)
Media Studies BA(Hons)
Moving Image BA(Hons)
Photography BA(Hons)
Textiles Design with Business Studies BA(Hons)
Visual Culture BA(Hons)

School of Architecture and Design

Undergraduate

Architecture BA(Hons)
Interior Architecture BA(Hons)
Product Design with Professional Experience BSc(Hons)

Postgraduate

Architectural and Urban Design MA
Architecture RIBA Part 2 MArch
Interior Design MA (PGCert PGDip)
Sustainable Design MA

MA graduates

Arts and Design by Independent Project MA
Craft MA
Digital Media Arts MA
Digital Music and Sound Arts MA
Fine Art MA
Inclusive Arts Practice MA
Photography MA
Sequential Design/Illustration MA
Textiles MA

Graduates 2020 in conversation

We have two graduate show podcasts – catch them both here:

Graduate Show 2020

Listen to Sophie (Illustration), Sarahlouise (Visual Culture) and Josh (Digital Music and Sound Arts) discuss the show, their work and their time at the University of Brighton.

School of Architecture and Design End of Year Show 2020

Listen to Mashaal, Zara and Jamilia (Interior Architecture) and Hannah and Alastair (Architecture) discuss the show, their work and their time at the University of Brighton.

Read Q&As with students about their work, life at the University of Brighton and graduating during lockdown.

Three Brighton art graduates shortlisted for Platform Graduate Award 2021

Nina Fisher, Anja Blau and Ainoa Burgos Gonzalez will be exhibiting at Brighton’s Phoenix Art Space after being shortlisted for a major South East art award.

Digital Media Arts MA graduate show Galvanized now live

Check out the brilliant work by the 2021 graduating students.

Graduates 2021: Beth Izatt and Noah Kulman: Illustration

“It’s the people you meet at University which I find is the most important part of the university experience whether its tutors and technicians or friends who I will forever remain in contact with and collaborate with in the future.

Graduates 2021: Alice Cathcart: Sequential Design/Illustration

My aim is to encourage a shift in perspective, revealing plants as the dynamic characters that they are.

Previous graduates

At Graduate Fashion Week 2019, Fashion Communication with Business Studies was the most nominated course with a Fashion Photography win for Fay Huang, seen here.

Student adjusting a light with a mirrored surface behind it

3D Design and Craft student Ollie John with his final year project Reflections of Light – after graduating Ollie took up a job offer at David Harber sculptures as a design engineering apprentice.

Graduate Yen Wong presented her collection at London Fashion Week

Fashion Design with Business Studies student Yen Wong with her final collection which was chosen by Graduate Fashion Week Presents to show at London Fashion Week 2020.

Artist hanging a set of nine identically sized paintings in frames

Miranda Forrester with her degree show painting series Closed Doors – Miranda won the Cass Art x Phoenix Brighton Studio Award 2019, winning studio space for a year post-graduation.

Illustration graduate Lucia Vinti's work at Tate Britain

Work by Illustration student Lucia Vinti who during her final year was commissioned by Tate Britain to illustrate the families guide to the Van Gogh exhibition.

Silhouettes of two people in front of two screens

Jamie Moore’s audio-visual installation The Lily Pond – Jamie studied Digital Music and Sound Art and is an audio-visual artist, musician and music producer who has co-founded experimental label ID Spectral and hosts a radio show on Resonance Extra.