I've already 'been there and done that' with uni. I studied fashion and textiles at Portsmouth straight out of my A levels back in 2010. I'd always been creative and interested in art but fashion was the sector of it that I preferred.
However, I struggled endless amounts trying to engage with my course. I thought I would finally have some artistic freedom but it was squashed and bogged down with having to do MILLIONS of toile samples and BILLIONS of rough fashion sketches - I am stubborn and knew how I wanted to do things and it certainly wasn't like that.
In the second year we had 'Enterprise' and that alone nearly made me not take this course. I was actually going to study at 'Esmod' in Dubai where I had been living but decided that the UK would be better as it was my home.
Enterprise was when I really started to get in my element....my ANGRY element. The whole year group consisted of all girls and whilst I like to be girly I don't enjoy all the back stabbing and bitchiness that comes with so many of them and thus always tended to have male FRIENDS. Naturally I fell out with my enterprise group and left them to it and completed that year on my own. Luckily there were some girls on the course that had shared opinions with me and we got along very well.
The final year is the year I shouldn't have even started. I failed it. Thus I ended my 3 years with with an 'HE Diploma in Fashion and Textiles with Enterprise'.
The REAL reason I failed was poor mental health from childhood trauma.
It all sounds very negative doesn't it?
That time was a sh*t time and I try to never even think about it.
BUT the outcome has taken me to where I am now. Realising that fashion was never right for me in the first place and that I should have stayed with 'Mr. heArt' all along.
I already work as an artist and illustrator but I want to delve far further into this world, my world, and see what I can unearth.
From my own experiences I would love to use this degree to help me reach the goal of being an Art Psychotherapist.
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