Portfolio advice for BA Studio Practice (Make-Up & Hair Design) applicants

Portfolio Requirements

Your portfolio should present recent creative work that demonstrates relevant experience and development within your chosen discipline.

For our BA (Hons) Studio Practice (Make-up & Hair Design) (top-up)  course you should submit a portfolio a 30-page that reflects a strong engagement with fashion image-making, visual culture or interdisciplinary creative practice. This may include photography, styling, creative direction, make-up and hair, moving image, digital experimentation, publication-based work or research led projects. Your portfolio should:

• demonstrate progression in creative thinking and practice
• show an understanding of fashion visual communication, composition and concept development
• reflect an ability to work independently and respond to briefs or self-directed projects

You are encouraged to include work that evidences learning and experience gained to date. You may also include speculative or proposed project ideas that indicate how you would build on your existing practice.

If it's not possible to bring your work in physical form, then the best thing to do is to save it (or photos of it) to a USB stick, as well as on the laptop/tablet you'll be bringing to your applicant day. Please make sure the work on your USB stick is not password protected, as we may ask you to leave it with us so we can review your portfolio without you present. 

You'll be invited to share your work with the course team at an Applicant Day. Our Admissions Team will invite you to book your place at one of our Applicant Days after you have applied. 

Use of AI 

Your portfolio must contain your own work. We understand that some of your portfolio may include work created in part or whole by AI. You must acknowledge this by adding ‘AI generated’ to the relevant section(s), stating how you used AI to create images, and adding a link to the original image with the date it was created (where possible).