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Grad Fest 2025

Grad Fest 2025

Explore the Norwich University of the Arts 2025 Grad Fest, Norwich’s biggest exhibition of art, design, architecture, media, and performance.

 

Join us for Grad Fest 2025 and celebrate Norwich’s biggest showcase of art, design, architecture, media, and performance – featuring end-of-year-shows by our undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Film Screening

12–13 June | 6–8pm | Cinema City, Norwich

Film and Moving Image Production launch screening and networking event

Booking details coming soon.

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Graduate Fashion Week

13–16 June The Truman Brewery, London

Join us at this year’s Graduate Fashion Week to see end-of-year showcases from Norwich’s BA (Hons) Fashion undergraduates.

Student work by Molly Green. Model wears a dress with 'fabric' made from strawberries

Undergrad Festival

13-26 June

Norwich graduates present their end-of-year shows, a 12-day festival of physical exhibitions in our campus buildings.

For opening times see the Undergrad Festival event page:

A colorful collage of posters and flyers on a wall, featuring a large pink poster in the center that reads "All Hands on Decks at the Roundhouse" with illustrated hands around the text. Other posters show apps, products, and creative designs.
People view colorful contemporary art sculptures and paintings in a bright, modern gallery space. One large abstract sculpture is in the foreground, while several visitors observe the artworks and interact with each other.
Student work by Kimberley Gaskin shows several unusual humanoid doll figures

Industry Shows

June–July

Free Range

9–13 July | The Truman Brewery, London

Offering graduate artists the opportunity to connect with industry and their peers, in 2025 Free Range will feature work by our BA (Hons) Fine Art and BA (Hons) Photography students.

New Designers

30 June–5 July | Business Design Centre, Islington | BA (Hons) Textile Design

9–12 July | Business Design Centre, Islington | BA (Hons) Illustration

An annual showcase of the UK’s most innovative emerging design talent, New Designers 2025 will feature work from our BA (Hons) Textile Design and BA (Hons) Illustration courses.

Develop: Brighton

8–10 July | Hilton Brighton Metropole, Brighton

Bringing the game-making industry together, Develop:Brighton will showcase work from our BA (Hons) Games Art and Design and BSc (Hons) Games Development students.

Online Showcase

From July 2025

The 2025 Norwich Grad Fest Online Showcase features a selection of award-winning student work.

This immersive digital experience presents final projects from both undergraduate and postgraduate students — spanning disciplines such as Fine Art, Architecture, Fashion, Film, Animation, Photography, Graphic Design, and Games.

Details coming soon.

The motherhood shoot was inspired by renaissance portrayals of the biblical figure Mary (the mother of Jesus). (‘The Sistine Madonna’ by Raphael being the biggest influence). The images show a mother and her child outlined with Greek biblical text quoting (Luke 1:42) ‘…Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.’ The Mother figure is an allegory for mothers who in this context symbolise ‘the beginning of life’. Renaissance art often romanticises relational characters, so I conceptualised the mother and child to replicate Raphael’s ‘The Sistine Madonna’ and other classic portrayals of the biblical figure in a renaissance-esque editorial style. Creative director, stylist, set designer – Noreen M H Photographer – Eleanor Bartltop Assistant – Samuel Ogunleye Makeup Artist – Mariogona Selimi Models – Noreen M H & Aletheia R H

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