Category: Conversations

Manuel did his DPS year in 2020-21. He is an international student, and spent the year working in the UK but also in his home country, Mexico.

Meet Laurie Martin, who did her DPS year in 2020-21. Part of the ‘5 questions series’. DPS Students students talk about their experience of doing a DPS year

Charles O’Brien did his DPS year in 2020-21, art the height of Lockdown and the pandemic. Part of the 5 questions series, where recent DPS Students students talk about their experience of doing a DPS year

Meera Madhu is an international student, she did her DPS year in 2020-21, art the height of Lockdown and the pandemic. Part of the 5 questions series, where recent DPS Students students talk about their experience of doing a DPS year.

This talk took place on June 16, 2022. Georgina Rowlands shared a series of interviews with DPS alumni from the last few years. She asked them to share advice about how they handled the challenge of money, and any tips they had to develop income, manage money, or alternative ecologies of support during their DPS year and since they left education. It is a generous and candid talk – do watch and consider how you can apply the advice to your DPS year.

Meeting Lily Tonkin-Wells: DPS Students students talk about their experience of doing a DPS year, 2021

Sarah is a mature student who did her DPS year in 2019-20.

Here she shares a visual map made to describe her year. Discussion happened via Zoom, May 2020

Julia did her DPS year in 2020-21, here she shares her experiences and the conclusions she reached.

Ti-Jean Roberts did his DPS year in 2020-21, listen to his experience of his DPS year and the conclusions he came to.

Meet Bea Taylor Searle, here talking with Georgina Rowlands about her experience of doing a DPS year.

This conversation is part of a series by Georgina Rowlands for the DPS course with recent DPS and CSM graduates from the last 5 years about how they support themselves, their work, and life during their DPS year and after art school, + Q&A. Here, Georgina speaks with Bea Taylor Searle, who did DPS in 2019, went on to work at the Creative Coding Institute at UAL & is leaving CSM in 2021. She describes her year from the perspective of how she handled the issue of money and also her wider experience of doing a DPS year. Bea is a co-founder of the LUVA Gallery, with artist Jordan McKenzie and others (now defunct), and works at the Whitechapel Gallery London.