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The AOP Student Awards shortlist has been announced and includes three of our talented BA (Hons) Photography students Helen Graham, Georgia Moore and Jack Butcher! The AOP Student Awards were established in the early 1980s, to recognise and highlight emerging photographic talent which existed in further education institutions across the UK. Many of the AOP Student Awards winners go on […]

An acting graduate from The Northern School of Art has been has been reflecting on his "brutal but brilliant" residency at the school founded by the renowned clown teacher and performer who trained Sacha Baron Cohen, Emma Thompson and Helena Bonham Carter amongst others. Joseph Casling, who graduated from The Northern School of Art's BA (Hons) Acting for Stage and […]

Our BA (Hons) Costume Interpretation with Design degree lecturer Ian Bowden used his expertise to help bring Henry's ADHD alter ego to life in the insightful BBC Two programme 'Inside Our ADHD Minds'. The episode is part of Chris Packham's Inside Our Minds series where he 'shines a light on different aspects of our brains, helping neurodivergent people create beautiful […]

The Northern School of Art’s Class of 2025 celebrated their achievements in a series of graduation ceremonies at the historic All Saints Church in Hartlepool. Almost 200 students attended the events at the 900-year-old Grade II listed church in Stranton, Hartlepool to mark their graduation from the wide range of the School’s creative degree and postgraduate courses. The students and […]

BA (Hons) Production for Stage & Screen students Bethany Nutley and Emily Harrington won the 'Castle Players' Theatre Competition with their detail production pitches for the theatre groups upcoming performance of 'Shakespeare in Love'.  A total of six students from our degree programme were shortlisted as finalists in the competition, to design the set for their outdoor summer production including […]

Students from our Visual Arts &  Stage and Screen faculties worked on set of the New ITV comedy Transaction featuring Jordan Gray and Nick Frost which was released last week on ITVX & ITV2. The production follows Liv 'a transgender egomaniac, causing havoc in the strange world of the supermarket nightshift.' Transaction was filmed at The Northern Studios and hosted […]

BA (Hons) Costume Interpretation with Design students Esther Finlay and Eleanor Rowley had the exciting opportunity to work on Danny Boyles major feature film 28 Years Later, a 2025 post-apocalyptic coming-of-age horror film. Speaking of the opportunity Senior Costume Lecturer Jane Havakin said "the students were blown away with the opportunity to work on such a large movie and with […]

A Bunch of Plays ‘A Bunch of Plays’ is a collection of newly written and created theatre productions from our MA in Directing and Theatre Making students. This selection of plays addresses fables, rom-com, Greek myths and themes such as loss, trauma growing up and how the impact of humanity is destroying nature. There will be multimedia theatre, puppetry, movement […]

This year masters student Alice Calvert organised her first solo show, originally prompted by her participation in The Northern Art Gala, her journey into organising her first solo show had it's challenges and rewards. We spoke to her to find out more about her first steps into sharing her work in a public space to offer insight for those looking […]

A portrait painted in oils described by the judging panel as ‘simply sublime’ is the winner of The Northern School of Art’s 2025 Foundation Art Prize. ‘Opulence’ by Poppy Davidson from Bishop Auckland was chosen as the winning entry of the prize backed by the School’s Middlesbrough campus UAL Foundation Diploma in Art and Design course to celebrate the talents […]

Talented Technician Kathryn Bell whom works on a number of visual arts degree faculties including BA (Hons) Textiles & Surface Design and BA (Hons) Illustration for Commercial Application is featured in the prestigious Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2025 beating thousands of entries to be one of the selected art works on show. The RA Summer Exhibition has been "held every […]

We are working in partnership with The Freelancer Network, Arts Council England, The Space, Digital Cultural Network, and Tees Valley Combined Authority to deliver a Digital Support Day on Wednesday 25th June for creatives and freelancers! Digital Support Day Future Ready: Digital Support Day for Creative and Cultural Freelancers Are you a creative or cultural freelancer ready to explore how […]

Over 1,000 guests attended the opening night of this year’s Summer Show at The Northern School of Art’s Middlesbrough campus. Friends, families and supporters of the School were welcomed to the Newport Road campus for the official launch of the showcase of work by the final-year creative students. The event celebrates the talents of this year’s leavers from the wide […]

An animated film created by our animation and photography degree students is being unveiled as part of composer Ellie Wilson’s incredible immersive soundworld uniquely based on moth activity at the exciting New Music Biennial 2025 at Bradford UK City of Culture 2025 celebrations and in London's Southbank Centre. Called Moth x Human, the performance is based on recorded moth data […]

This years college-level Summer Show 2025 identity Bright Futures has been co-created with our UAL Graphic & Digital Design students, the final identity is a culmination of two projects MM25 from student Jibril Nasser and Bright from fellow student Beth Carr in collaboration with staff members from our graphics diploma. Beth said "For this project we were given a brief […]