The organisers of the Nightmare ’26 research conference are inviting proposals for 15-minute papers to be presented at the event being held at The Northern School of Art on Thursday 2nd April 2026. This is the s...
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The Northern Festival of Illustration returns with a packed programme showcasing global creativity
The biennial Northern Festival of Illustration is returning to celebrate all things illustration and storytelling, from storybooks and comics to animation and digital narratives. Spanning an eight-week period from 13t... Read More
Entries open for The Northern Illustration Prize 2025
The fourth year of The Northern Illustration Prize, The Northern School of Art’s prestigious biennial illustration competition hosted by the UK’s professional body for illustration, The Association of Illustrators (AO... Read More
Lecturer Tony Charles presents Groundhoppers exhibition in Berlin & Leipzig!
Lecturer Tony Charles and fellow artists Nick Kennedy, Annie O’Donnell, Will Hughes and alumni John James Perangie recently took part in a residency culminating in two exhibitions entitled GROUNDHOPPERS in Germa... Read More
Still Life: Unpainted by Tony Charles
BA (Hons) Fine Art Lecturer Tony Charles is displaying his work Still Life Un-painted at an exhibition at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art unpicking the iconic Middlesbrough Bottle of Notes sculpture, ‘The ... Read More
International Research Conference Re-Staging 25 – Call for papers!
“If you live a long life and get to the end of it without ever once having felt crushingly depressed, then you probably haven’t been paying attention” – The Representation of Mental Health in Theatre & Perfo... Read More
International horror film conference heading to School’s Hartlepool campus
An international conference exploring how mental health issues are represented in horror films is being hosted by staff, postgraduate and final year undergraduate students from the Stage and Screen faculty of The Nort... Read More
Nightmare ’24 – Call for Papers!
Nightmare ‘24 a conference of horror at The Northern School of Art invites proposals for 15 minute papers to be presented at this first film focused conference hosted at our award winning school! The conference will b... Read More
PAD: Perspectives in Art & Design Edition 5
Introducing the latest edition of The Northern School of Art’s journal PAD: Perspectives in Art & Design. This 5th publication is a special staff ‘Art Research & Scholarly Activity Conference Editi... Read More
Middlesbrough photography lecturer presents at international conference in Krakow
During the summer break The Northern School of Art‘s Middlesbrough campus photography lecturer Richard Allaway headed across to Krakow in Poland where he was an invited guest speaker at an international conferen... Read More