It is my great pleasure and privilege to welcome you to this online
showcase of our final year students’ annual degree work. It is a space
in which we celebrate and present the expressive results of many
months of creative thinking and hard work. It is a joyous space, in
which you will encounter astounding, intriguing, challenging examples
of student work across the full range of arts, media, communication
and creative practice that we are privileged to offer at the
University of Westminster’s Harrow Campus.
Like others across the UK and globally, our students have completed
their years of programme study under extremely challenging
circumstances. They have shown determination, perseverance and an
immense creativity and passion along the way. We are pleased to share
the results of their final year work in this online space as way of
enabling wider public appreciation of the richness of ideas and talent
we see daily within our classrooms and studio spaces.
Our students are special to us, because we know they have the ability
to change the world through their creative endeavours, and through
powerful application of the industry led knowledge they have gained
during their time with us. The work on display here illustrates how
committed they are to being the problem solvers, the artists, the
performers, the musicians, the designers and the thinkers who will
engage with, interpret and shape our cultural heritage with passion,
energy and ability. We are much the richer for it, and it has been a
privilege for us at Westminster to have played a part in supporting
them to this point in their life’s journey.
Westminster prides itself on its commitment to arts based and
professionally orientated learning. We are also an institution attuned
to our location, one that seeks to nurture a sense of creative
engagement amongst our students through practice-based reflection, and
through place-based cultural and arts driven work of the highest
calibre. You will find these themes reflected in the work presented on
this site. We invite you to celebrate and partake fully of the rich
tapestry of ideas and art forms featured here. It is a space bursting
with talent.
Professor David Finkelstein
Interim Head of School, Westminster School of Arts
