Exhibition
UCA Retrospective: Creativity Past, Present, and Future
27 Jan 2023 – 14 Mar 2023
Regular hours
- Friday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 17:00
Free admission
Address
- UCA Rochester
- Fort Pitt Road
- Rochester
England - ME1 1DZ
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Rochester train station.
A tantalising array of beautiful outfits, images, treasured sketchbooks, and personal testimonies celebrating UCA Rochester creatives, past, present, and future and how their course has shaped their practice, careers and lives.
About
Forty artists and creatives, including the fashion icon Dame Zandra Rhodes, acclaimed prestigious jeweller Stephen Webster, and multi-talented artist Billy Childish, will showcase their work as part of UCA - A Retrospective: Creativity Past, Present & Future, which will take place at both Rochester Art Gallery and UCA’s Zandra Rhodes Gallery from 27 January 2023.
The exhibition, which will focus on individual stories, features treasured sketchbooks, photographs, and personal testimonies from creatives, past and present, who have studied in Rochester over the past 130 years – with a variety of works on display in each location. It will include famous alumni from the world of fashion and design and recent graduates making a name for themselves in the creative industries.
Stephen Webster MBE said: “My course was the best start in life. It equipped me with the skills required for a life journey in an industry that could not have been more exciting and fulfilling.”
The university, known for its trademark cutting edge style, creativity and collaboration, will be withdrawing from Rochester later in 2023 and creating international centres of creativity at their three remaining campuses across Kent and Surrey.
