Art Life - University for the Creative Arts

PROFILEAbi ClitheroeNational Diploma In Art and Design Year 1 - 2006-0738‘I loved the HatsOff to Margateproject. Itshowed me whatit was like to putan exhibitiontogether and Iloved the feelingof working reallyhard and seeingother people’sreactions.If anything I thinkthe project mademe focus on thestyle of career Iwant. It showedme I would liketo do my ownpersonal projectsas well as maybeworking for abigger companyas a teammember.’Abi ClitheroeAbi attended both the Easterand Summer Schools beforecoming to UCA, having wantedto study art since she wasten years old. She attendedEllington School for Girls inRamsgate and loved it.‘I did rather well! Got theGCSEs I needed and an awardfor the most progress in thefive years of being there. Neverreally clever, I had to work hardat English and had an extratutor for English all the waythrough school.’Abi models her group’s creation,work by Abi, Becky Stearn andDominic Woods. Photo: Jenna HanksAbi loves university, althoughshe says it involves a lot of workand is ‘a big jump in life.’Abi has just completed the firstyear of the BA Fashion andTextiles course at MiddlesexUniversity, and also works as awaitress to pay her way throughuniversity. She described howshe feels about her studies atthis stage of the course:‘I think I might have picked thewrong course, I’m not muchinto fashion and I find it hardto do, but I love Middlesex andI’m going to stick at it for thelast two years. I love textileswith a passion and I’m goinginto construct next year. Thatmeans studying weave andknit, two things I’ve not donebefore starting uni. I’m justhoping I leave with a gooddegree and I’m hoping to do aMasters in Weave and Colour.’