Two Northumbria Fine Art students amongst 10 shortlisted for the Woon Foundation Prize 2016
The 10 finalists for this year’s prestigious Woon Foundation Painting and Sculpture Prize have been announced after a record number of applications.
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EXPERT COMMENT: Crime Story 2016
The media is – and always has been – obsessed with crime stories. Whether a highbrow broadsheet or a populist tabloid, our newspapers devote more space to crime reporting than to most other forms of news, sport, current affairs, or human interest stories.
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Northumbria’s fashion students conquer the audience at London Graduate Fashion Week
Twenty of Northumbria’s innovative students showcased a series of six outfits each at London Graduate Fashion Week – the world’s leading event celebrating the creativity of graduates within fashion. Inspired outfits took the catwalk by storm to rave reviews with Northumbria students winning a number of awards throughout the week.
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Northumbria artists reveal There Were Islands at BALTIC 39
Eight graduating artists will tonight launch a stunning group exhibition built around the metaphor of a river estuary and its status as a site of shifting and concealed meanings.
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Northumbria presents the future stars of the fashion industry at London Graduate Fashion Week
Creative designs that reflect the effects of anxiety, delicate dresses with intricate embroidery and outfits to help you fight a zombie apocalypse. These were just some of the innovative creations that the Top 20 students from Northumbria’s BA (Hons) Fashion degree will showcase at London Graduate Fashion Week on 5 June.
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Northumbria University showcases the Northern flair of fashion
Dresses inspired by Japanese armour, outfits taking you back to 1970s Brooklyn and the birth of hip-hop, and clothing made from repurposed photo-luminescent materials. These were just some of the innovative creations that graced the runway at Northumbria’s annual graduate fashion show last night at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art.
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Northumbria premieres new play in memory of the Oklahoma City bombing
Graduating Performing Arts students from Northumbria honoured the victims of the Oklahoma City bombings last night. A group of 19 students performed the UK premiere of In the Middle of the West, a new play written and directed by Steve Gilroy, Northumbria’s Director of Performing Arts.
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Northumbria Arts and Humanities students are Cultivating Curiosity
Arts and Humanities researchers from Northumbria University, Newcastle, are hosting a series of events which will showcase their research in the areas of trauma, identity, strategy and gender.
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COMMENT: Embracing the ‘silent majority’ – Donald Trump brings back the worst of 1960s America
Randall J Stephens, Reader in History (American Studies) at Northumbria, writes about American politics for The Conversation.
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New York premiere for Northumbria lecturer’s one-woman show
Jane Arnfield, Reader in Arts at Northumbria University, Newcastle, will perform her award-winning play, The Tin Ring by Zdenka Fantlova, in New York next month.
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Northumbria’s innovative students and staff in Japanese collaboration
Students from Tsukuba University in Japanese recently teamed up with Northumbria’s MDI (Multidisciplinary Innovation) students and staff for a research project funded by Northumbrian Water.
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Record number of applications for this year’s Woon Prize
Hundreds of student artists from across the UK will compete for the 2016 Woon Foundation Painting and Sculpture Art Prize after a record number of applications.
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