MFA student Robin shares the inspiration behind the Law Quilt, seen at the West Dean Fine Art Summer Show 2021, the process of how it was made and where it can be seen next.

Programme Coordinator and Tutor Tiffany Robinson gives her tips focusing on experiencing the light and the land to make more visceral responses in drawing and writing during autumn.

De La Warr Pavilion, Wellcome Collection and West Dean College of Arts and Conservation are delighted to announce interdisciplinary designers RESOLVE Collective as the recipients of a major new commission, ‘Re-wilding: Coast, Countryside, City’. 

In conjunction with Pride month, West Dean College Librarian Teresa takes a look at six related texts selected from the Library collection.

To mark the start of Pride 2021, we are sharing a brief excerpt from an unpublished text by West Dean College Founder Edward James, thought to date from the mid-1960s, focusing on his reflections on homosexuality.

In a new blog post, MA Creative Writing & Publishing Alumna Jane Freimiller shares extracts from her book, plus an insight into her writing process.

To celebrate International Women's Day 2021, we’re highlighting the work of two forthcoming artists-in-residence, Sherie Sitauze and Sonia E Barrett. Both artists have been invited to respond to the College’s African Collection as part of the Whose Heritage? research project.

Foundation Degree Arts - Metalwork student Finn has written a blog post about a unique object from the West Dean Collection, a silver porringer.

In our latest blog, Writer-in-Residence Yvvette Edwards, reflects on her time at West Dean: a creatively inspiring experience in ‘one of the whitest spaces I’ve ever stayed in’. Her thoughts on hypervisibility during her stay offers an open and honest insight into her experience as a Black author, and we thank Yvvette for sharing this with us.