Student & Graduate Stories - Art and Design
Gray’s School of Art graduates are renowned for their professionalism, knowledge, technical skills and adaptability. Read their stories to learn more about their journeys after they have graduated.
The range of roles highlight the wide variety of employment possibilities across all sectors of industry. Each career path leverages the core skills of creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, innovation, communication, and self-management, and demonstrates how versatile our creative qualifications and education can be.
Explore our courses and the wide variety of opportunities and range of experiences on offer and make a career out of your creative passion.
Magnetised to the cover art of the movies filling his dad’s near-endless DVD collection, the seed for creating visual concepts was planted with Andy Dicks from a young age.
In February 2004, Facebook launched for people to share their narratives of the day. But over at Gray’s School of Art, plans were in motion for another portfolio of stories to be shared.
A “treasure trove of invaluable experiences” is how she reflects on her 2023 Degree Show. But the experiences didn’t stop there, Weronika Turowska gives us an update on the road to now.
Tumbling over and grazing your knee, a common past time of our childhood. But could we have avoided those knocks and bruises? At her Gray’s Degree Show in 2023, Kirsty Skea explored that very thing
It was an adventure back to his childhood through his Gray’s Degree Show in 2023. Kartik Suni turns back the clock to tell us about his exhibiting year in our Gray’s Degree Show Q&A.
After studying Fashion Design at Gray's School of Art, it didn't take long for Laura Sherriffs to start producing outdoor accessories under her brand Fernweh.
Communication Design Alumna Eilidh is flourishing in her role as a Graphic Designer for a hotel in St Andrews. She shares her career evolution and achievements as well as how the course at RGU helped her in developing the skills needed for her work.
After graduating in 2015, Shaun now manages the recruitment for Sky Creative.
After graduating in 2018, Anna returned to her native Orkney to continue her practice as a Ceramics Designers.
After graduating in 2020, Emma has been featured on the London Fashion Week website under ‘the class of 2020’ as well as being featured on the British Fashion Council website for Graduate Preview day.
Fraser graduated in 2010 and is now as a freelance cinematographer and manages the planning and creation of images on film and video projects.
Lauren is currently Graduate in Residence at Leith School of Art where she is developing her career and practice as an artist.
As a freelance animation/motion designer Zoe has worked for a range of clients and agencies including: Form Digital, as a Motion Designer to create a range of animated social media content.