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The Northern School of Art opens its doors to showcase impressive range of creative qualifications

The Northern School of Art, the only specialist art and design school in the north east, is throwing open its doors on Saturday 23 March to showcase the wide array of skills-based creative courses it offers. Visitors ... Read More
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Fashion team create knock-out outfit to help model achieve her dream

A Teesside teacher is hoping that an outfit created by fashion lecturers at The Northern School of Art will help her to clinch the top spot in a prestigious national modelling competition. Fiona Harrington (pictured a... Read More
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IWD: Jayne Hemmins

Jayne specialised in printed textiles at University. Her first commission was a children’s interiors collection for Laura Ashley and from there she has gone on to sell work to companies across Europe, the USA, Japan a... Read More
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Acting lecturer’s play takes to the stage

A play written by a lecturer at The Northern School of Art about living with OCD is being staged at Northern Stage in Newcastle. Written by Jonny Bussell, the programme leader for the School’s BA (Hons) degree in Acti... Read More
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Costume design students take to the hat walk

Costume design students from The Northern School of Art will be showcasing their extraordinary efforts in millinery at a gala evening. Over 100 hats of all shapes and sizes will be paraded as part of the event at the ... Read More
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Acclaimed play’s premiere outside London features young actor fresh from new Ken Loach film

An acting student with a part in Ken Loach’s new film is in the cast of an upcoming theatre performance by the first cohort of acting students at The Northern School of Art. Alberto Dumba, who will feature in Loach’s ... Read More
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Planning application is submitted for a new film & TV studio for the North East

The Northern School of Art is one step closer to realising its vision of establishing a major film and TV production facility in the North East. A planning application has been submitted for ‘The Northern Studios’ &#8... Read More
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Students create Christmas gifts for Chernobyl’s rebel grandmas

A range of unique printed and embroidered tea towels created by textile design students at The Northern School of Art is heading for a collection of rebel grandmas celebrating Christmas in one of the world’s most toxi... Read More
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Spice Girls prompt trip down memory lane for the School’s costume lecturer

The announcement of next year’s Spice Girls tour sparked fond memories for a costume lecturer at The Northern School of Art, of the outfits she designed for the group when they first started out. Jane Havakin, program... Read More
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Britain’s creative industries break the £100 billion barrier

New figures reveal Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport’s sectors are now worth £268 billion ·         New figures show bumper growth in Britain’s film, TV, music and advertising industries ·         Depar... Read More