Art Life - University for the Creative Arts

A selection of students’ work from the exhibition showing the diversity of theresponses: far left Toni Burns; bottom left Cat Sharpe; left Craig Scott; andabove Rebecca Truscott-ElvesThe students were briefedby Lucy Kirke, AudienceDevelopment Assistant atTurner Contemporary, aboutthe regeneration of Margateand the role of the organisation.They then researched thepast, present and future ofMargate through interviewinglocal people and creatingsketch books of drawings andphotographs of the area. Thestudents met residents in theamusement arcades, MargateMuseum, Margate’s OldTown, Arlington House and theWalpole Bay Hotel and askedthem what it is like to live inMargate, the changes theyhave seen over the years andwhat they would like to see inthe future.The Letters from Margateexhibition was the culminationof this work and was shownat the Canterbury campus ofthe University for the CreativeArts, as well as The Galleryon the Square and emptyshop windows in Regal Walk,a covered shopping area inMargate.The work continued to buildupon previous work to embedessential communicationand employability skills intowork-related practices. Thisdemonstrated to studentsthe importance of acquiringthese skills as part of theirprofessional development andto encourage their progressionto higher education.‘The Margateprojecthas beenbeneficial inmany ways.The insightI have gotfrom havingmy firstexhibition wasexhilarating.I can’t waituntil my nextone! Alsohaving a briefwith a REALclient wasinterestingand mademe want todo well andput moreeffort in. Iloved the factthat I had tohave a clientmeeting!’Bex Scott currently justcompleted the second yearof the National DiplomaCourse and planning to go tostudy Fashion Atelier at UCARochester47