A joint art and design project between students from Forth Valley College and South Eastern Regional College (SERC) in Northern Ireland, inspired creativity focusing on each other’s local environment.
This is the latest in a wide range of partnership activities between the two colleges that have strengthened and enhanced a mutually beneficial relationship over the last few years, and comes on the back of FVC’s Learning and Digital Skills Academy (LDSA) Team designing and facilitating learning sessions at SERC's INVEST corporate services staff development conference from 24-26 January.
A group of nine Art and Design Portfolio Preparation students from Stirling and Falkirk Campuses at Forth Valley College sent photographs of their environment and a group of their peers from SERC returned the favour from their three campuses. They then linked up via a Teams meeting and worked out creative briefs for them to follow using the mediums of collage, printmaking, drawing and painting.
The FVC student group – Louise Howe, Sniper McIntyre, Laura Nairne, Abigail Traill, Lyla Campbell, Rosie Nicolson, Flo Parkin, Skiaste Spudulyte and Hannah Povey – were guided on their brief by lecturers Angie McLaren, Gabriele Jogelaite and Andrew Kelly and Curriculum Manager Linda Paterson.
Linda Paterson, FVC Curriculum Manager in the Department of Creative, Digital and Leisure Industries, said: “This is the first time we have worked on a one day Art and Design project with SERC and it went very well. We had some funding to pay for the Falkirk Campus based students to come to our Stirling Campus to work with their fellow students based here. This also allowed them to have a tour of the facilities as some of them have applied to study for a full-time course here next year.
“It has also been very beneficial for our students to work closely with peers from Northern Ireland and both sets of artists have produced a large amount of work to a high standard. I am sure we will be looking at doing this again soon.”
Lisa MacLaren, FVC’s SERC Project Lead, said: “It has been great working with Linda and Andrew Corbett, from the Creative Industries Department at SERC to give students the unique opportunity to work together cross-campus and cross-colleges, to create some of their final portfolio pieces. This workshop has allowed us to enhance and strengthen our links with SERC and I look forward to supporting more projects in the near future.”