Build a portfolio that argues for your way of seeing.
Every engagement is one to one and led by me from the first session to submission. Two parts are run by specialists — the portfolio critique, and a second read on every essay — and both are people with more standing than a junior tutor, not less. I studied in Australia, the UK, and the United States, took my master’s at NYU Tandon — an engineering school — and work in New York now making film-grade AI imagery. I teach the STEM-designated end of art and design: interaction, computational media, moving image. I do not teach a house style — not even my own. I work one to one to find the thinking already in your practice, then build the twelve to twenty pieces that make an admissions committee take it seriously.
A committee spends four minutes with your work. In that window they are not scoring craft in isolation. They are looking for evidence of a question you cannot stop asking, and proof that you have the discipline to pursue it. Everything I do is aimed at that four minutes.
The work of this track is deciding what your practice is about, and proving you know. I start by laying out five years of it and reading for pattern.
Work in progress
Every service is one to one. What changes between packages is the size of the school list and how much of the record I am building rather than editing. Most of the work is postgraduate — MFA, MA and MS applications are a different problem from undergraduate ones.
Individual projects built one to one, from research through iteration to a resolved outcome and documentation. The spine of every package.
For candidates whose record needs building rather than editing. Runs in parallel with the portfolio, not after it.
The execution layer, priced per school because the work genuinely scales with the list.
Offer letters, reproduced in full. Names and ID numbers removed, nothing else.
MA Visual Communication · MA Digital Direction
MFA Visual Arts, Moving Image · Interactive Telecommunications
MA Cultural & Creative Industries
Typical timeline for a twelve-month undergraduate track. Compressed and extended versions are available.
Portfolio audit, interview, and school list. I establish what you are actually interested in and where the gap sits between that and the current work.
Observation, material handling, and the technical floor a committee assumes. Short assignments, high volume, weekly critique.
Two to three self-directed bodies of work, each developed from research through iteration to resolved outcome and documentation.
Sequence, layout, PDF and site build, statement and supplements. Everything school-specific happens here.
Submission checks, portfolio day rehearsal, mock interviews, and waitlist strategy where relevant.
Writing on portfolio construction, program differences, and what committees actually read for.
What a committee is actually testing when a portfolio uses AI, and two student projects that got it right. Includes the part where I tell you not to use it.
Read the essayOne essay so far. There will be more when there is something to say that is not already written better somewhere else — not on a content schedule.
All writing