UAL: University of the Arts London

UAL: University of the Arts London A vibrant world centre for art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts.
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Our Colleges are Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea College of Arts, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion and Wimbledon College of Arts.

UAL alum featured among 4 of the 6 Bright Young Talents shortlisted for this year’s British Fashion Council + Vogue Desi...
15/04/2026

UAL alum featured among 4 of the 6 Bright Young Talents shortlisted for this year’s British Fashion Council + Vogue Designer Fashion Fund 🎉

Since its launch in 2008, the BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund has played a pivotal role in shaping the future of British fashion - supporting names like Erdem, Wales Bonner, 16Arlington and Chopova Lowena on their rise to global recognition.

The 2026 shortlist celebrates a new wave of creativity, spotlighting designers each redefining what British fashion looks like today and tomorrow, including:

Aaron Esh (BA at London College of Fashion -LCF, MA at Central Saint Martins- CSM)
Clio Peppiatt (Foundation at LCF)
Knwls by Charlotte Knowles (BA at LCF, MA at CSM) and Alexandre Arsenault (Grad Dip and MA at CSM)
Talia Byre by Talia Lipkin-Connor (Foundation, BA and MA at CSM. Now an AL at CSM and LCF)

With £150,000 in funding plus mentorship from industry leaders, the award continues to turn bold ideas into lasting businesses and cultural impact.

Proud to see UAL talent represented on such a prestigious stage 👏

👉 Read the full article via British Vogue here - https://bit.ly/3Q9eWyA

UAL alumni win big as Paddington: The Musical sweeps the Olivier Awards 🐻✨Last night, Paddington: The Musical dominated ...
13/04/2026

UAL alumni win big as Paddington: The Musical sweeps the Olivier Awards 🐻✨

Last night, Paddington: The Musical dominated the Olivier Awards in its landmark 50th year - taking home an incredible seven prizes, including Best New Musical.

We’re especially proud to celebrate two UAL alumni whose creative work helped bring this beloved story to life:

🎭 Tom Pye (BA Theatre Design, Wimbledon College of Arts) won Best Set Design alongside collaborator Ash J Woodward

👗 Tahra Zafar (BA Theatre Design, Central Saint Martins; now BA PDP) won Best Costume Design alongside collaborator Gabriella Slade

Their work played a key role in shaping a production celebrated not only for its storytelling, but for its creativity, craft and emotional impact.

👉 See full details via the BBC https://bbc.in/4tJmRBh

Whether you're exploring AI in your work, questioning its impact, or rethinking approaches to learning and assessment - ...
13/04/2026

Whether you're exploring AI in your work, questioning its impact, or rethinking approaches to learning and assessment - this is your opportunity to JOIN THE CONVERSATION 🗣️📢

Join us and the Council for Higher Education in Art and Design for a day of student-led ideas, insight and discussion on how AI is shaping creative practice.

Following an open call, 20+ UAL students will present their work - offering perspectives on how Generative AI is being used, challenged and critically explored across art and design. From experimentation to ethics, access and the future of education, hear directly from the next generation of creatives.

📅 Wednesday 22 April 2026
🕙 10am–3pm (online)
🎟️ Open to all – book your place: https://bit.ly/4sZZOSD

Expect presentations, conversations and panels that bring together a range of viewpoints on designing, learning and working with AI - alongside thoughtful discussion on its role in education and the creative industries.

To mark the start of the season, we’re sharing A Positive Light - a new curated collection by Camilla Nicosia -artist,...
06/04/2026

To mark the start of the season, we’re sharing A Positive Light - a new curated collection by Camilla Nicosia -artist, digital curator and Chelsea College of Arts alumna. 🌱🌞

Inspired by the Spring Equinox - a moment of balance between day and night - this collection brings together artists and designers exploring light as a force of transformation, renewal and possibility.

Across photography, painting, installation, spatial design and interactive lighting, these works consider light not only as a physical phenomenon, but as something deeply emotional and symbolic. From fleeting moments of luminosity to reflections on memory, shadow and absence, each project offers a different way of seeing and feeling light.

🔗 Find out more at ualshowcase.arts.ac.uk

📸 Image credits |
- Untouchable, Yifeng Liao, MA Fine Art: Painting, Camberwell College of Arts, 2025
- In Memory, Ngai Ning Yu, BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting, Camberwell College of Arts, 2025
- Echoes of Light: Encounters of light in the city, Ella Dichlian, MA Interior And Spatial Design, Camberwell College of Arts, 2025
- Impression, Obscura, Lila Casey, MA Fashion Photography, London College of Fashion, 2025
- REFLECTION OF DAWN, Anna Narathasajan, BA (Hons) Product and Furniture Design, Chelsea College of Arts, 2025
- Mirrored Landscape, Summer Lam, BA (Hons) Photography, London College of Communication, 2025
- A Hidden Warmth Between the Particles, Jamie Pazmino, MA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins, 2025
- Filtered Sun, Ying Cao, MA Narrative Environments, Central Saint Martins, 2025
- Dew, Haoyue Wu, MA Photography, London College of Communication, 2025
- Cracked Light, Sirui Chen, UAL Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, School of Pre-Degree Studies, 2025

We’re dedicating the whole month to incredible work on that is pushing boundaries, reclaiming narratives, and opening ...
29/03/2026

We’re dedicating the whole month to incredible work on that is pushing boundaries, reclaiming narratives, and opening up urgent conversations around the female body and autonomy. ✊
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Sovereignty of Hair by Jiawen Li (MA Fashion Photography, London College of Fashion, 2025), stems from the artist's personal experience in middle school, where all students were required to cut their hair short. Realising later that this was a form of discipline - Li saw this as an early intervention into women's bodily autonomy. 💇‍♀️
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To explore this issue, Li worked with six Chinese women from her generation, documenting their hesitations, struggles, and resistance in choosing hairstyles within family, school, workplace, and public discourse.
Invoking Joan of Arc as a spiritual metaphor, placing hair and armor side by side, and using fire to mark the subject’s energy and boundaries, the outcome was a perceived tension between soft/hard and submission/resistance.
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Li's hope for the viewer? That these images give form to refusal and self-determination.
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Visit ualshowcase.arts.ac.uk to find out more.

UAL’s annual Student Support Celebration brings together scholarship and award recipients to honour the breadth and dive...
26/03/2026

UAL’s annual Student Support Celebration brings together scholarship and award recipients to honour the breadth and diversity of their creative work.

💬 What does this award mean to you?

“Reflecting on the past year, it’s incredible and surreal to see how much this reward has transformed my life… I’m excited to see where I go this year.”
— Malak Bedidi

“Receiving this scholarship means being seen and supported at a pivotal stage… It gives me the freedom to keep creating work centred on Black women and the confidence to trust my vision.”
— Shenell Wellington

“This bursary brings real relief—less time spent firefighting finances, more calm to focus on my MA work.”
— Stephen Wadcock

🎓 Scholarships featured include:
- AKO Foundation Insights Bursary
- Clive Baillie Scholarships
- GUCCI Changemakers Scholarships
- Haberdashers Scholarship
- Holmes Production Scholarship
- Manolo Blahnik Foundation Scholarship
- Mona Hatoum Foundation Bursary
- Moncler Scholarship
- Royal Female School of Art Foundation Final Year Award
- Sarabande Foundation MA Fashion Scholarship
- The Honourable Daphne Guinness Insights Bursary
- The Moorhouse Scholarship and Bursary Programme
- Worshipful Company of Clothworkers Insights Bursary

📸 Image credits |
•15-love, Oliver Roberts, BA (Hons) Textile Design, Central Saint Martins (CSM), 2025
•The Grim Reaper, Antonia Orebela, BA (Hons) Fashion Design: Knit, CSM, 2027
•I Am That I Am (2024), Malak Bedidi, BA (Hons) Creative Direction for Fashion, London College of Fashion (LCF), 2027
•Telearchive, Charlie Morgan-Anstee, BA (Hons) Graphic And Media Design, London College of Communication, University of the Arts Londonface (LCC), 2026
•The Home Body [v1.0], Quinnely Rose, BA (Hons) Fine Art, CSM, 2025
•Window Series, Zyna Dainkeh, BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting, Camberwell College of Arts, 2026
•Metanoia, Stephen Wadcock, MA Fine Art, CSM, 2027=
•Tinsel Town, Shenell Wellington, BA (Hons) Fashion Communication: Image and Promotion, CSM, 2028
•The Vampire Widow, Briana Gowe, BA (Hons) Art Direction and Visual Effects, Wimbledon College of Arts, 2026
•New Romantic, Andreea Dinu, BA (Hons) Jewellery Design, CSM, 2028

🔗 See the full collection on here: https://bit.ly/4dK5Wtm

26/03/2026

Meet London College of Fashion, student, Aishwarya Singh – whose work is featured on the cover of this year’s UAL Postgraduate Guide!

Inspired by the concept of a "Palimpsest,” the layers of posters and history found on city walls, Aishwarya’s work represents the many cultural layers that make us human.

For Aishwarya, London’s diversity and the creative freedom at UAL provided the perfect environment to step out of her comfort zone and experiment with her heritage and crafts.

Ready to join UAL’s creative community? If you’re thinking about your next steps, you can get your copy of the new Postgraduate Guide online today to see more student work and explore our courses.

Work: Aishwarya Singh
Hair/Make-Up: Kimmy (Kanghao Chen)
Footwear: Aqib Mirza
Models: Tatsat Yadav and Yakshi Arora
Stills: Ben Turner
Video b-roll: Gareth M Johnson

Find out more here - https://bit.ly/4sEGXMg

For the eighth year in a row, University of the Arts London has been ranked #2 in the QS World University Rankings 2026...
25/03/2026

For the eighth year in a row, University of the Arts London has been ranked #2 in the QS World University Rankings 2026 for Art & Design, and we continue to hold our position as the top provider of undergraduate creative education. 🌍🎉.

Across its six Colleges, UAL supports 22,000 students and a global alumni community of more than 270,000, helping to shape the future of the creative industries in London and beyond. As one of the UK’s fastest-growing sectors, the creative economy depends on sustained investment in arts education to drive innovation, expand opportunity, and deliver global impact.

"Behind every ranking are the students who chose to trust us with their creative education and the staff who come to work every day to make that education extraordinary.

Eight years at the top of the world rankings tells you something important, not just about UAL, but about what happens when a society invests seriously and consistently in creativity. Individual institutions cannot do this alone – we need to rely on a pipeline that makes creative education available to all. To maintain the UK’s world class creative industries, supporting arts education in this country has never been more important. Our graduates go on to power the economy through entrepreneurial start-ups that create more jobs and through using their creative skills to solve problems of the future.

Our 2032 strategy is our commitment to go further, widening access so that more people at every stage of life can experience a UAL education and become part of our community, deepening our global partnerships and ensuring our students are equipped to navigate and shape a world being transformed by technology. The creative industries are one of the fastest-growing parts of our economy. The world needs what our graduates create and UAL's job is to make sure they are ready."

— Professor Karen Stanton, Vice-Chancellor

Find out more - https://bit.ly/47nfua1

📸 | Myah Hasbany (), 2024, BA (Hons) Fashion Design: Communication, Central Saint Martins, UAL

24/03/2026

“Creativity is not an ornament in life. It’s the argument for it.”

Congratulations to Daphne Guinness on receiving her honorary doctorate from Central Saint Martins, awarded live from Royal Festival Hall on 18 March.

In a moving speech, she reflected on creativity, loss, and lifelong learning - honoring the influence of Isabella Blow and Alexander McQueen, and the role they played in shaping her belief that creativity is essential, not optional.

Speaking on her 15-year journey with UAL, she described finding “not just a cause, but a family,” built on shared vision and exchange - one that has supported over 60 students and continues to inspire her in return.

A powerful reminder that learning never stops, and that ‘beauty, rigor, and radical imagination’ belong together.

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