Portfolio advice

Your portfolio is a collection of your best work – the stuff that makes you shine. We want to see what inspires you, how you approach your work, your thought processes, what you create and what makes you unique - all so we can work out whether you’ll be suited to our courses.

You don’t need to submit a portfolio for every course, so check the relevant course page to find out if you need to send us one.

If your course doesn’t ask for one, but you still want to show us your work, we’d love to see it anyway.

Depending on the subject you want to study, your portfolio might contain sketches and paintings, digital art and design, photography, fabric swatches or patterns. It might also contain sound work, musical compositions, short films, or even essays and creative writing.

We’d like to see up to 12 pieces of work, and audio or video files shouldn’t be more than two minutes long.

Be bold and give us your very best. We’re excited to see it.

This year, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ll only be accepting portfolios and auditions digitally. You can do this once you’ve applied via the online submission system within the Applicant Portal.

There are no size limits for your uploads, and you can also link to external websites such as Flickr and YouTube.

We have a whole range of advice and tips in our recent portfolios blog – it’s aimed at clearing students needing to pull together a portfolio last-minute, but still contains all you need to know about how to make a great impression.