Arts University Bournemouth | AUB

AUB has been ranked in the top five universities in the South West by @compuniguide , making us the number one specialist art and design university in the region 🙌 We want to say a huge thank you to everyone who made this achievement possible 👏 Image by @aubcommphoto graduate @georginaemrowatson 📸 #artsuniversitybournemouth #aubmakers

Have you heard the news? We’ve been named one of the top three risers in the Guardian university guide, making us the UK’s no.2 Specialist Art and Design University and the top outside of London ⬆️ If you’d like to find out more about how to become a creative making change at AUB join us for an Open Day, running monthly on a Saturday from now until January ✨ We’re also currently hosting postgraduate Open Days online throughout October 💻 For more information on all of our upcoming events and to book your place, follow the link in our bio 🔗

We’re proud to announce that following our recent success in The @guardian University Guide, we’ve been awarded the Runner-Up Specialist University of the Year 2026 by @thetimes and Sunday Times Good University Guide🥈 This table also places AUB as the top specialist university in the South West, the second best art and design specialist university in the UK and the top outside of London ✨ Read the guide via the link in our bio 🔗

Last night marked the opening of The Archetypes exhibition, a collection of eight portraits of AUB students in their making spaces in a collaboration between the Brand, Marketing and Future Students team and third-year BA (Hons) Commercial Photography student Ruth Virgo @ruthvirgophoto , following inspiration from Ruth’s own ‘Making Spaces’ project. These portraits were part of a paid commission and have been used in the new AUB prospectus. Shot on medium format film and usually seen at A7 size, this exhibition celebrates Ruth’s photographs with blown-up prints. Those A7 cards make up our latest reinvention of the traditional university prospectus, creating a card-based system attached to a custom green and pink carabiner so you can pick and choose what’s relevant to you. Ruth’s portraits make up the core eight cards of the prospectus, depicting the various creative identities of our students to help inspire a future generation of artists, makers, strategists, world builders, performers, storytellers, visionaries and icons. The prospectus was the brainchild of BA (Hons) Graphic Design alumna Emma McEvoy @emmamc12 , working with BA (Hons) Photography alumnus Harry Davenport @harrywithafour who led on the shoots and curated the exhibition. Thanks to the photography technicians @aubphototechs for printing the portraits in house and to anatol Just from the Innovation Studio @aubinnovation for 3D printing the ‘MiniPeg’ system used to display the cards alongside the artwork. Thanks also to Violet McClean and @djrnandez from @thegallery_aub for their support in the creation of this exhibition. See The Archetypes for yourself in The Gallery on campus until 20 June. Find out more and order your own prospectus via the link in our bio 🔗 @aubcommphoto @aub_baphoto @aubgraphicdesign #artsuniversitybournemouth #aubmakers #strategy2030plus #prospectus #exhibition

Introducing our new prospectus 🔖 As creative people, we see the world differently. We learn differently, too. This is why our prospectus isn’t what you’d usually expect. In our new deck of cards, connected by a custom AUB carabiner, you can discover the best bits of university life, including our courses, students, location and community. At the heart of these cards are eight portraits of our students on campus in their making spaces, all taken by BA (Hons) Commercial Photography student Ruth Virgo on medium format film. Each one represents a creative identity, so whether you’re a maker, strategist or world builder, you can explore what kind of creative are or want to become. Find out more and request a prospectus via the link in our bio 🔗 #artsuniversitybournemouth #aubmakers #prospectus #carabiner #strategy2030plus

The tension between restriction and freedom takes center stage in this graduate collection from Katie Bilton and Molly Harman. Developed at Arts University Bournemouth, the work navigates the complexities of modern womanhood through a deliberate contrast of structure and fluidity. By pairing corsetry-inspired elements with softer, liberated silhouettes, the designers examine how strength and vulnerability coexist within the feminine form. This narrative of control and release is further articulated through thoughtful construction, where tailored forms are disrupted by transparency and layered detailing. It is a visual dialogue on autonomy and identity, tracing the evolution of garments as they shift from containment into expressions of movement and open dynamism. Designers: @k_tatelier and @mollyharman_fashion Photographers: Olivia Bullock @_obstudios Olu Ogunshakin @oounshakin

Describe AUB’s new direction in one word… 🎤 🤔 It’s been almost two weeks since we launched Strategy 2030+ and the energy’s showing no sign of stopping. Hear directly from staff, students and members of our community as they share their thoughts towards this new era for AUB from the launch event. #artsuniversitybournemouth #strategy2030plus

How it’s made: giant AUB logo 🧰 Alumnus Elliott Trent produced a giant version of the new AUB logo which you can now see for yourself on our campus Since leaving AUB, Elliott has opened his own business @trentguitars creating bespoke guitars with customers including the likes of Hester Chambers from @wetlegband , playing to thousands as part of @harrystyles ’ Love on Tour 🎸 Watch the process behind crafting these giant letters as Elliott brings our new logo to life #artsuniversitybournemouth #aubmakers #alumni #strategy2030plus

We’re excited to share a sneak peak and update you on the progress of our new cinema, community space and some of the other exciting changes on campus 📽️ You may remember that back in November, we received £1.25 million of funding from the Office for Students (OfS), allocated to our very own @bournemouthfilmschool , the largest outside of London. We’ve been hard at work over the last five months, putting that funding into exciting projects across campus, including upgrading SH001 lecture theatre into a fully-fledged 4K cinema complete with @dolby Atmos surround sound. This will be complemented by a new community hub we’re building on the ground floor of South House to invite industry onto campus and create new spaces for students and teaching. These spaces will be available to all students, not just those in BFS. We’re also introducing a new space featuring a green screen and new technology from @viconmocap , making us the first university in the UK to have markerless motion capture available to our students. This comes as part of a wave of new and updated professional equipment that students will have access to across BFS and beyond. These changes are still underway, and the team are hard at work making them a reality as soon as possible, so watch this space. #artsuniversitybournemouth #bournemouthfilmschool #strategy2030plus #aubmakers #cinema @aubsu

Initials in the sand 🏖️ ☀️ To celebrate the launch of our new logo, we created this stunning sand art spanning 50 metres across our beach to celebrate the unveiling of our new logo. Thank you to @sandinyoureye and our wonderful team of students for making this a reality #artsuniversitybournemouth #aubmakers #bournemouth #bournemouthbeach #strategy2030plus

Join @aub_baphoto student @tomliggett_ as he travels to New York to send photographic negatives 100,000 feet into space 🌍 Working with @filmedinspace , Tom’s negatives are exposed by cosmic radiation in the Earth’s atmosphere, sent up in a lightproof bag, his images depict space in a way you’ve never seen before. Watch until the end for the big reveal. We’re enormously proud of Tom, and we believe him to be the first artist in history to produce work using this method. #artsuniversitybournemouth #aubmakers #photography #space #strategy2030plus

Yesterday we launched our new Strategy 2030+, logo and brand, ushering in a new era for Arts University Bournemouth. For the launch event, we invited members of the local community and friends of AUB onto campus, giving them a sneak preview of our new cinema and and Holobox (@holoconnects ). Our Vice Chancellor and CEO, Lisa Mann, formally introduced Strategy 2030+ before guests were invited to the drawing studio for a reception featuring live music from @unimusicbmth , the Being a Boy exhibition that was recently hosted at the House of Commons, and the copy of our new logo that recently went to space 💫 Read Strategy 2030+ and discover how we’re redefining creative education for a changing world via the link in our bio 🔗 #strategy2030plus #artsuniversitybournemouth