TheGallery | Opening 14/05/2026

The Archetypes

Curated by Harry Davenport

A collaboration between Arts University Bournemouth's Brand, Marketing and Future Students team and BA (Hons) Commercial Photography student Ruth Virgo, supported by TheGallery, AUB

Meet the Archetypes

Student wearing grey overalls with long, wavy hair sat amongst multicoloured, abstract artworks.

Student with red hair, dark clothing, tights and silver shoes sat on a black clothes frame and books, posing for the camera. White studio background.

Student in crimson overalls with flowing, dark hair in a dramatic pose on metal stage equipment storage box. Teal studio background.

Student with a dark beard and hair wearing denim overalls in an industrial workshop space, painting a wooden and white machine on a wooden chair.

Student sat posing on a long wavy chair with baggy grey sweater and jeans, silver glasses, chain and short locs. White blueprints behind them on a cork wall.

Student with blonde hair and glasses holding heavy camera equipment with a grey jumper and work trousers, posed on a wooden box, surrounded by film equipment on industrial set.

Student stood with crossed arms and casual clothing, colourful projection beaming onto them and the background in blue and yellow resembling a control panel.

Person sat on a high stool with one leg up, wavy blonde hair and loose blue/red clothing and skirt. They're surrounded by graphic design elements and wooden storage.

Meet the creatives

Harry Davenport, Curator

Harry Davenport is the Senior Digital Content Officer at Arts University Bournemouth. Sitting within the Brand, Marketing and Future...

Selfie of Emma McEvoy, with auburn hair and a striped t-shirt, smiling, plant in background.

Emma McEvoy, Designer

Emma McEvoy is AUB’s Graphic Designer, working within the Brand, Marketing, and Future Students team. She graduated from...

Ruth Virgo stood outside holding a camera, smiling with long hair and red glasses, wearing a necklace and white/beige clothing, foliage and sun in the background.

Ruth Virgo, Photographer

Ruth Virgo is a student in her final year of BA (Hons) Commercial Photography at Arts University Bournemouth, specialising in...

Acknowledgements

Featured models for The Archetypes creative project

Ellie Pratt, BA (Hons) Fine Art
Dylan Shaw, BA (Hons) Modelmaking
Elijah Komolafe-Bello, BA (Hons) Architecture (Part 1 RIBA/ARB)
Ayesha Sheik Madar, BA (Hons) Dance
Naomi Hubble, BA (Hons) Film Production
Zach De Saulles, BA (Hons) Games Art and Design
Lily Bluebell, BA (Hons) Fashion Communication and MA Digital Fashion Innovation
Ramona Spicer, BA (Hons) Communication Design and Strategy

We'd like to extend our thanks to the Photography Technicians, whose knowledge and expertise were essential to bringing this project to life. Thank you to TheGallery Team – Curator Violet M. McClean and William Hernandez Abreu – for exhibition management and installation.

Also, a special thank you to Anatol Just from the Innovation Studio for designing and 3D printing the MiniPeg wall attachments that present the Archetype cards alongside the main prints.

Featured collaborators

TheGallery is an award-winning, internationally-recognised space that provides a wide-reaching public platform for the arts within the sub-region. Reflecting AUB's shared commitment to excellence in education, industry and practice, TheGallery enables the university to enact its core values: Innovative, Collaborative, Connected and Passionate.

Throughout the year, TheGallery delivers a diverse programme of exhibitions, events and projects in collaboration with stakeholders across the University, creating opportunities for students and staff to present their disciplines, courses, practices and creative work.

The Archetypes is an example of these collaborative projects, developed in partnership Brand, Marketing and Future Students team. In this project, TheGallery team led on curatorial development and exhibition design in collaboration with AUB project partners.

The work of TheGallery embodies the university’s commitment to civic and cultural engagement for positive impact, and its dedication to ensuring that education and the arts are accessible to all, both within AUB and beyond.

The media relies on creative imagery to communicate messages. Our BA (Hons) Commercial Photography course gives you the opportunity to develop a specialist career, working within fashion, including beauty; advertising, including still life and lifestyle; and documentary and editorial, including portraiture.

Thinking through making is core to the BA (Hons) Graphic Design course. "Bringing ideas to life" involves taking a concept or thought and turning it into a tangible reality or action that's expressed through creativity, innovation and craft. This approach promotes design practice as a conversation, not a monologue, where you're encouraged to work with one another collaboratively on set and industry-led projects.

Our BA (Hons) Photography course offers a rigorous and expansive education designed to foster creative excellence and professional development. This degree is built on a foundation that recognises and nurtures the individual aspirations of each student, encouraging a journey that goes beyond traditional boundaries to explore new, often unpredictable, and challenging possibilities in photographic practice.

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AUB’s alumni community, AUB&, is a continuation of our campus, a home and a network for all of our wonderful graduates. It's a place to find out what everyone’s been up to and generally stay a part of our creative community.

AUB& is open to all students who've graduated from the university, whether under AUB or any previous titles (Arts University College Bournemouth, Arts Institute at Bournemouth, and Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design).

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