Friday 14 February 2014

University Interview - Hollie Turner, Manchester Met





University Interview – Hollie Turner


Guest blog post written by Hollie Turner, a current TRC Fine Art student.

University: Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester school of Art

Course: Fine Art BA

For my application to Manchester School of Art (http://www.artdes.mmu.ac.uk/) I was asked to submit an online portfolio using Blogger. I added 20 images of my work from my A2 coursework each with a short description of about 100 words to the Blog.


Once I’d sent this off I heard back pretty quickly saying that I’d gotten an interview. When I was at the interview we were split into two small groups – there were only 5 of us there- and while half of the people had interviews a few students took the rest of us around the studios and just explained more about the course from a student’s point of view. The studios were really spacious and light, and they showed us all of the different parts- for painting and printmaking and then the basement for sculpture. They even showed us the room where L.S. Lowry studied when he was there.

Then we were taken for our interviews in some of the studios. The man who was interviewing me asked me questions about the work that I’d taken and my interests within art. He then looked over my grades and personal statement, and asked me questions about some of the current political issues today as he saw I was studying politics.

The interview only lasted around 15-20 minutes in total – most of it taken up looking through my work- and the only time I felt a little pressured was when he talked about preferring students with a foundation degree. But, nevertheless he told me that he’d be offering me a place there and then before telling me where the best local art galleries were for me to check out before my train home!
 

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