Some highlights from this year's show.
15 Aug 2013
Student Karol Michalec is dressed from head to toe in medical equipment as he roams the streets during the University of Brighton's Graduate Show.
The 25-year-old Fine Arts Sculpture student, spent £800 sourcing sterile resuscitation pipes, feeding tubes and an ambulance bag for his outfit. "It's to show how we nowadays trust more in medicine than we do religion."
He'll be touring the city centre again before the end of the show on 12 June and for those who miss him they can catch up with his creation at the show at the Faculty of Arts Graduate Show.
The show is expected to attract more than 15,000 visitors, making it one of the biggest exhibitions of architecture, fine art, design and film in the South East.
Jessie Fleck, 29-year-old 3D Materials Practice final-year student relaxes on her green ash wood swing seat. Using steam to bend the wood, the seat took her more than a month to make. She said: "I love combining architecture, play equipment and sculpture."
Benjamin Bowe-Carter, 21-year-old Fine Arts Sculpture student, is pictured inside his 'I Stay Faithful' sculpture" "It's a reactionary piece as I leave university - it comes from wanting to be a successful artists but, at the same time, intending to stay faithful to what I believe in".
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Lauren Alderslade, 30-year-old Fine Art Painting student with a studio in New England Street, Brighton, has generated more than a few smiles with her paintings: "Lots of people have been giggling and smiling, which is what I had hoped for. I like bringing wonder out of people in a child-like way."
Sheldon Stansfield, 25-year-old 3D Design student, used a chain saw to create her 'Elm Tree Memorial' garden seat, a tribute to the elm trees stricken by Dutch Elm disease. Her two-seater came from a sound part of a rotting elm from Preston Park, Brighton: "Originally I was told I could have a tree earmarked for felling as part of the road redesign at Seven Dials, Brighton, but protesters successfully preserved it. I hope the memorial highlights how much we have in the way of creative resources right on our doorstep."
Smoke and mirrors – Saskia Buchanan's work has a "special connection" with her grandfather who died a week before her wedding. Among heirlooms he left her were two cigar tins filled with nuts, bolts and screws. The 25-year-old 3D Materials Practice student said: "I was inspired by the colours, forms and objects and decided to produce a body of work in ceramics and plastics, exploring the ideas of collecting and hoarding and the relationship between the two."
It may look like a bouncy castle but to Carly Mayer her 'Without my walls' "looks to challenge a participant's self-imposed restraints and conditioning". Visitors can kick off their shoes and jump on to "redevelop learnt physical movement in order to engage differently with an object that is seemingly familiar". Carly, 26-year-old Fine Arts Sculpture student, runs a design studio with an architecture/designer in Brighton and has worked at the Tate Gallery in London.
The free-to-attend Graduate Show will see works sold and graduates commissioned, as visitors search out those destined to follow the footsteps of alumni such as fashion designer Julien Macdonald OBE or Turner Prize winners such as Keith Tyson and Rachel Whiteread CBE.
