Dates: 22–25 April 2025
To celebrate Fashion Revolution Week 2025 and Earth Day 2025, BA (Hons) Fashion and BA (Hons) Textiles Design present Trash to Treasure: A Celebration of Sustainable Fashion and Compassion. This was a collaborative project and live brief working with Lewis-Manning Hospice Care, supported by TheGallery, and Library in partnership with AUB Honorary Fellow Mary M Mullin.
Lewis-Manning Hospice Care charity shops provided AUB students with unusable garments that would otherwise be destined for landfill. Working in small groups, students from BA (Hons) Textiles Design and BA (Hons) Fashion transformed these materials into stunning textiles pieces, which in turn inspired a series of garments and accessories.
This exhibition is more than a celebration of fashion and textiles, and the University’s sustainable and environmental promise; it's an act of giving.
Each item on display tells a story of upcycling, conscious construction, sustainability, innovation, and passion, offering a glimpse into thoughtful collaboration and the potential for interdisciplinary work.
The garments will be documented and photographed by students from our BA (Hons) Commercial Photography course who are specialising in fashion photography, to further elevate and create a lasting legacy for the project.
All works on display will be featured in a Lewis-Manning Hospice Care Charity Fashion Show and event at the Porsche Centre in Ferndown on Thursday 18 September 2025. In addition to this, AUB will be exhibiting the fashion and textiles pieces once again as part of the Undergraduate Summer Shows in the Library, curated by Suzanna Hall and Violet M McClean. This iteration of the exhibition will open on Thursday 10 July at 18.00 until 5 September 2025.
By viewing this exhibition, you're supporting a cause close to our hearts – helping Lewis-Manning Hospice Care continue its vital work within our community and sharing our philosophy of creativity for good. Thank you for joining us in this celebration of style, sustainability, and social good. We are Fashion Revolution!
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Partnerships and collaborations at Arts University Bournemouth
BA (Hons) Fashion merges traditional skills and craftsmanship with contemporary, cutting-edge technology and ethical practice. You'll interrogate the current industry while creating innovative, sustainable and bold garments of your own.
Textiles surround us – they're one of the largest design skill sets used globally. On BA (Hons) Textiles Design, you'll hone your practical and professional skills to work with all types of different materials and find your place in the vast industry.
BA (Hons) Commercial Photography offers you the opportunity to push creative boundaries and challenge the perceptions and expectations of contemporary commercial photography. You'll develop your image-making and production skills to a high standard while gaining an in-depth knowledge of the expectations of contemporary commercial practice, and how to operate within it.
TheGallery is an award-winning and internationally recognised space and provides a wide- eaching public platform for the arts within the sub-region. Promoting the University’s shared passion for excellence in education, industry and the sector, TheGallery provides a means by which AUB can enact its values: Innovative, Collaborative, Connected and Passionate.
Throughout the year, TheGallery works on a variety of exhibitions, events, and projects with AUB stakeholders across the University to create opportunities for students and staff to showcase their areas, courses, practices and work.
Trash to Treasure: A Celebration of Sustainable Fashion and Compassion is an example of one of these collaborative projects, this time with BA (Hons) Fashion, BA (Hons) Textiles Design, BA (Hons) Commercial Photography and Lewis-Manning Hospice Care, where TheGallery team leads on curating and exhibition design with its AUB project partners.
The work of TheGallery embodies the University’s promise to promote civic and cultural engagement for positive impact and our commitment to ensuring that education and the arts are accessible to all, for those here at AUB and beyond.
We've awarded Honorary Fellowships to staff, alumni and people who've made a significant contribution to the fields of arts, design, media, and performance.
Reflecting the core values of the University, the purpose-built library is dedicated to supporting research and creativity in the disciplines of art, design, media and performance by providing high quality information, resources, and services
The Library holds an excellent range of print, online and special collections and has staff who are happy to help you make the most of these resources. It has a variety of study spaces for independent and group learning. Facilities include loanable MacBooks and laptops, a bookable meeting space, and a silent reading room.
Lewis-Manning Hospice Care is a charity helping people with life-limiting illnesses and their families across East Dorset and Purbeck. At their Longfleet Road Poole hub, they offer a Day Hospice to help people who have been diagnosed with a life-limiting condition, offering practical care and social support for our patients. It has a calm, relaxing and homely atmosphere and is a safe place for people to come and meet others in similar circumstances.
