Art Life - University for the Creative Arts

PROFILEChristian VenkatasamyNational Diploma In Art and Design Year 1 - 2008-0958‘A Pattern forMargate wasspecial, notjust becausethe work wasgoing to be onpublic display,but because itwas more ofan adventurethan any ofthe otherprojects, inthat you wereexploring thearea, tryingto exposeits hiddensecrets andlooking atit from adifferentperspective,and I foundthat veryexciting.’Christian has known that hewanted to study art and designsince he took his options atGCSE. Both of his parents wentto UCA Canterbury about twentyyears ago where they first met,and they are both happy abouthim going to university.Christian attended AstorCollege for the Arts in Doverand he found it to be a mixedexperience; there were someaspects he enjoyed and othershe didn’t. He prefers theart school experience as heappreciates what he sees asthe greater opportunity to thinkfreely in a philosophical wayChristian’s presentation to TurnerContemporaryand to be allowed to be more ofan individual. ‘It’s been my firststep out into the wider worldand making choices for myself.It’s taught me to be more openminded,and I feel I have madea good choice in going to UCA.’A section from Christian’s final piece, inspired by the railway station