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A team of students and staff from The Northern School of Art are using their skills and talents to help a local theatre group bring a tale of Game of Thrones in the 12th century to the stage. ‘The Lion in Winter’ by James Goldman, a modern-day classic that features sibling rivalry, adultery, and dungeons, is being performed by Billingham […]

Photography students from The Northern School of Art’s Middlesbrough FE campus have joined forces with Ageing Better Middlesbrough to breakdown negative stereotypes and show the positives of getting older. Students on the School’s UAL Extended Diploma in Photography worked with Ageing Better Middlesbrough volunteers to produce a photography campaign that is being displayed at the Creative Factory, Hillstreet Shopping Centre, […]

Some unusual props created by production design degree students from The Northern School of Art have gone on display beside a unique collection of famous paintings at a leading north east tourist attraction. Plates of replica biscuits made by the students using 250-year-old moulds, feature in an unusual dinner party set in the Long Dining Room (pictured above) at the […]

The Norman Rea Gallery presents ‘UP NORTH ⬆ Young Artists’ Opening Night - Monday 24th February 2020 - 19:00 to 21:00 Running - 24th February to 6th March Their second exhibition of the decade -‘UP NORTH ⬆ Young Artists’.   "In October 2019, reports from the European commission defined York as the UK’s most culturally vibrant city, in response to […]

Fine Art lecturer Tony Charles is showcasing 'Stroke' a solo exhibition at The Auxilary in Middlesbrough, with the preview night opening tomorrow, the exhibition officially runs until the 8th Feb. Stroke is an exhibition that sees Tony Charles’ continuation of his investigation into the relationship between painting, sculpture, industry and art and comprises two main elements. Main Gallery: Stroke by […]

Acting degree students at The Northern School of Art are marking the start of the year with a high energy production that captures a memorable New Year’s Eve in Manchester. ‘Rage’ is an explosive throwback to a night captured in photographs of people in Manchester partying hard into 2016, which went viral after being published in the Manchester Evening News. […]

An installation by a graduate of The Northern School of Art's specialist film and theatre set design course is enchanting book-buyers in Europe's biggest bookstore. Hannah Postlethwaite, pictured below, who graduated from the School's BA Hons in Production Design for Stage and Screen degree course in 2018, has recreated the workshop featured in the best-selling magical novel 'The Binding' by […]

Students from The Northern School of Art have been using their creative set design talents to help produce a children’s creative play installation - on dry land. The School’s Production Design degree students have used their theatre and film set design skills to work with pioneering children’s theatre company, Theatre Hullabaloo, on its newest creative play installation, Deep Sea Adventures at […]

Together with our friends at Empty Shop, we have put together the infographic above to signpost creatives to networks, websites and organisations who help others to take and create chances. Founders Carlo Viglianisi and Nick Malyan have been running the non profit arts organisation, Empty Shop CIC, since 2008 to provide much needed accessible platforms for artists of all levels […]

The festive season has taken on a darker tone for The Northern School of Art Illustration lecturer Nick Holmes, who had to draw inspiration from a scary Santa tradition from Central European folklore for a recent commission. One of his regular clients asked Nick, pictured below, who teaches on the School's BA (Hons) Illustration for Commercial Application degree course, to […]

A fascinating interview with textiles graduate Suzanne Treacy was featured in a recent edition of the leading embroidery and needle craft magazine Mr X Stitch. The publication was catching up with Suzanne as a previous prize winner in the annual Hand & Lock Prize for Embroidery, a competition which has been rewarding excellence in embroidery design since 2000. In an […]

Costume graduate Eileesh Lightowler showcased her Catherine Parr costume at our Made By degree show back in June. Now the showstopping costume is displayed at Gainsborough Old Hall in Lincolnshire to portray the wears of King Henry VIII's 6th wife. "Blackwork, I've done a tonne of it, but none more on one project than I did for my Final Major […]

An exhibition featuring work from world-famous artists, many of them alumni of The Northern School of Art, that showcases half a century of artistic talent from the Tees Valley is on show in Middlesbrough. Paintings by established artists, including one of David Bowie’s favourite artists, Teesside-born former student of The Northern School of Art William Tillyer, are displayed alongside emerging […]

A series of garments created by costume design students at The Northern School of Art that were inspired by the female heroines of a renowned seventeenth century Italian painter are on show as part of a major exhibition at The Bowes Museum. The costumes are featured as part of an exhibition dedicated to the Italian Baroque master Guido Reni, who […]

Acting student Alberto Dumba is definitely one to watch and a star in the making! He recently featured in Ken Loach's new film, 'Sorry We Missed You' and attended in the premier at the Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle. The film follows a family man father trapped in the vicious financial circle of a modern-day form of labour exploitation a.k.a the […]