Postpone, instead of digitalise the 2020 End of Year Degree Show

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#201

It affects people I know

Jennifer Muncey (Chichester, 2020-03-25)

#218

It’s our right to get to show our amazing work and we deserve the best end of year show and exhibitions...🤟🏻🤟🏻

taz dorodi (leeds, 2020-03-25)

#223

because i’m a final year fashion student who’s ideas of their graduate release, along with so many others have just been crushed after years of hard work

Joe Harris (Leeds, 2020-03-25)

#225

Everyone on the their final years who have worked hard on their projects for weeks deserve to have it exhibited and submitted physically rather than digital - their hard work deserves to be properly seen especially if it doesn’t suit in the digital sphere.

Hamza Ashraf (Leeds, 2020-03-25)

#232

Digitalising would be stupid is not the same opportunity .

Samuel Davies (Leeds , 2020-03-25)

#238

The digitalisation of the show does not give the same exposure to final year students as a physical show would.

Zak Haddock (Leeds, 2020-03-25)

#241

I’m signing because I believe we deserve an end of year show, understanding it should be held at a later date due to the current circumstances.

Amelia Gill (Leeds, 2020-03-25)

#246

I have friends that have worked hard for three years and been excited about their work being shown. This event is something they have spoken about all year and should be postponed to allow them to show their work off to its full potential and network.

Sian Whiting (Leeds, 2020-03-25)

#257

I think it's important the students get a chance to demonstrate their talent and hard work in a proper show at a future date (whenever is practical)

Rebekah Edgar (London, 2020-03-25)

#261

My work is heavily reliant on the resources and equipment that is available at university. I am finding it extremely difficult to figure out away around this.

Chloe Platts (Leeds, 2020-03-25)

#264

I am a student who is being deprived of an end of year show, something that is vital to arts students who are about to enter the art industry and market. My work is physical in nature and a virtual show would be all but pointless. Please postpone our show so we can have the end to our degrees we deserve, and have paid for with three years of payments.

Sebastian Smith (Leeds, 2020-03-25)

#272

It is physically impossible to show the creative talent that the fashion students at this institution have through a screen. Fabrics have different textures, they react in different lights with different movements and the time, effort heart and soul the students put into their collections can only ever be truly appreciated in person. Anything less is an insult to their work.

Charlotte Hampshire (Leeds, 2020-03-25)

#280

i am a student on fashion and have been working towards the end of year show and am so disappointed my work won't be showcased

Beth Midgley (Leeds, 2020-03-26)

#282

My niece is taking her finals and this will.not be a true representation of her work

Melissa Chatwin (Great Missenden , 2020-03-26)

#283

I am a former student, and the end of year show was a valuable part of my education and current career. Don’t take this away from the current students.

Sophia Bennett (Leeds, 2020-03-26)

#288

Without an exhibition show I would not have felt accomplished in my final year. It’s what students strive for and work so hard for

Mabel Dunbar (Leeds, 2020-03-26)

#295

My daughter has worked hard for 3 years, they deserve this chance to show their work, not all work is able to be photographed.

Jane Murphy (Nantwich , 2020-03-26)

#298

I would like to have a physical exhibition even if it is postponed by a few months

Emma Aughton (Leeds, 2020-03-26)

#304

These students, having amounted 3 years of tuition fees and living expenses, not to mention the countless hours of work they’ve put in, deserve the opportunity to display their hard work in the same way every year before them has. A physical end of degree show is the only way to make sure they are given the opportunity to showcase their work effectively to industry and celebrate what they have achieved. An online approach would not facilitate the same level of interest or opportunity. Please do not rob these students of what they have worked so hard for.

Tony Jacobs (Leeds, 2020-03-26)

#311

I'm signing because I'm agree that the digitalising can not reach the same expression as like a physical show. It is not able to deliver all the impulses to the senses so cannot reach the same emotions at the visitors.
I'm also agree that digitalising many peoples practices would degrade the quality of their work and the experience achieved from the work. Experiencing something in a personal aura is a completely different experience than seeing it from just outside, from far away. There is no intimate touching and contacting or may be created just with difficulties, so there might fail the full understanding of the work as well.

Noemi Deak (Budapest, 2020-03-26)

#321

Making the end of year show digital is failing students; it fails to give students the opportunities of their predecessors, it is beyond disappointing. Not only is it disappointing for students, it is disappointing families — people who have supported students throughout their three years. Cancellation is failure.

Lucy Hartley (Wakefield , 2020-03-26)

#323

I am a fashion photography student at Leeds Arts University.

Olivia Gray (S703NW, 2020-03-26)

#328

My daughter has worked really hard for the last 3 years and to have her final piece to be showcased in 2d rather having the full immersion would be a absolute disaster

Dominic Matraxia (London , 2020-03-27)

#331

Digital art should be an option not a requirement

Genevieve Reeves (Oxford, 2020-03-27)

#334

This is unfair to most art students across the board. My practice can not be exemplified solely through an online submission.

Tristan Fay (Leeds, west yorkshire, 2020-03-27)

#336

The degree show shouldn’t be digital and it shouldn’t be ruined for the third years who have worked so hard the last two years!!

Milly Clissett (Leeds, 2020-03-27)

#344

I believe that a major part of an art exhibition is the physicality of the work. To strip that portion of the exhibition away from students you are depriving them of something they’ve been working hard towards for 3 years and they deserve to show their passionate work in it’s rightful place.

Victoria Nash (Leeds, 2020-03-27)

#345

We pay £9000 a year for opportunities like the degree show. We are told by our tutors that physical networking is more effective than digital. Digitsing the end of year show is a joke.

Harvey Chessells (Leeds, 2020-03-28)

#353

They deserve their education

Thomas Egan (Leeds, 2020-04-01)

#354

its the right thing to do

Joe Heaver (london, 2020-04-07)

#355

My wife, amongst many other students at LAU, has worked her proverbial off for 3 years with the understanding that a final year show open to industry and members of the public would be undertaken and potential future work contacts gleaned.
For the university to take this away, whilst still expecting pretty normal deadlines (and postponing actual graduation, leaving many in limbo) then postponing the final year show rather than changing to an industry circular or a digital online show is the least they could do to showcase the culmination of all their hard work.

Simon Towers (Saltaire, 2020-04-29)



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