Get ready for New Creatives 2023: Oxo Tower Wharf’s graduate season
Each year, Oxo Tower Wharf’s graduate season showcases the best in graduate art and design from leading universities across the UK.
Discover the next generation of talented designers, makers, and artists at New Creatives, Oxo Tower Wharf’s graduate season from 12 June until 16 July across five UK universities.
See the incredible work produced by this year’s graduates, the creatives who will be shaping our future. Hundreds of inspiring projects are on show across disciplines including fashion, fine art, photography, product design, performance design, and interior design.
Collaboration is a common theme with students, educators, and commercial corporations working together to create thought-provoking and beautiful works of art and design as well as innovative design solutions to everyday problems. New Creatives, now an established graduate season, features five shows from universities including Kingston, Brunel, Bath Spa, The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, and Interior Educators.
This year, we’ve kicked off New Creatives with Kingston School of Art’s fashion show, followed by a full schedule of exciting exhibitions:
Kingston School of Art | BA Fashion Press Show
Gender equality, explorations of ancestry, and the use of clothing to embrace sexual identity are some of the inspirations behind final-year collections which hit the catwalk at this year's Kingston School of Art BA (Hons) Fashion show, from Kingston University London.
A group of 21 talented graduate designers unveiled their work to an invited audience of industry and press within the atmospheric surrounds of Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, in the heart of London's South Bank on Monday 12 June.
The show was hosted by fashion industry icon, commentator, and visiting professor Caryn Franklin MBE, herself a Kingston University graduate. Five students won awards sponsored by the White Company during the show, which were handed out by Clothing Director Barbara Horspool.
A wearable device to detect concussion in contact sports, a recycled silicone suture pad training device for doctors, a wrong-site regional nerve-block prevention device, a personal cooling device for commuters to reduce the risk of heat-related illnesses, and a couple’s vibrator designed to tackle ‘the orgasm gap’ are just five of over 100 projects developed by the 2023 graduates of Brunel University London on show at Made in Brunel’s ‘Cutting Edge’, from the Brunel Design School.
Many of the student projects are collaborations between Brunel University London and external organisations including Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, Limbs and Things and STYLIDEAS; with Brunel students working with real-world briefs to produce solutions that can be implemented into the market.
Aquae Sulis is an exciting new exhibition celebrating the collectivework of emerging artists from Bath Spa University.
The exhibition offers people a rare opportunity to explore the wide range of diverse works that these talented emerging artists have produced. The exhibition will include sculpture, ceramics, painting, textiles, installations, photography, print, performance, and more.
Aquae Sulis operates as both a celebratory and promotional space for the graduating artists, and we invite you to come and celebrate with us!
Featuring designs and artifacts for productions, projects, and films made at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and as part of external collaborations, ‘Balance’ showcases the work of 30 graduating designers and makers.
This annual exhibition returns to Bargehouse, bringing with it the work of both the individual creative design practitioner and the collaborative artist.
The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama is the National Conservatoire of Wales and a leading UK provider of specialist practical and performance-based training in music and drama.
The Interior Educators Summer Show returns to Bargehouse to showcase the annual awards and an exhibition of interior design and interior architecture programmes from across the UK, which celebrates academics and students within the organisation and the amazing work they have produced in 2023.
Interior Educators (IE) is a powerful network for more than 50 institutional members; a forum in which the exchange of ideas and experience contributes to the evolution of academic practice informing the design of interior space.
The IE awards are a recognition of how these are explored and interpreted through tutors’ teaching and students’ work.
Each New Creatives graduate show is Admission FREE, taking place at Bargehouse and gallery@oxo, Oxo Tower Wharf, Bargehouse Street, South Bank, London SE1 9PH.
Find out more about this year’s New Creatives graduate season:
