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The Northern Foundation Art Prize: What's Your Discipline? #TheNorthernArtPrize The Northern School of Art is on the lookout for the next 'artist to watch'. If you’re an artist, creator, designer, maker then we want you to share an image on a public Instagram feed of a piece of your work with a short caption, using the hashtag #TheNorthernArtPrize. This competition is run by […]

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, programme leader of the School’s Costume Interpretation with Design degree at its university-level campus at Hartlepool, recalled seeing the group performing in her designs […]

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 ·         Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport’s sectors are now worth £268 billion ·         Record breaking figures in the digital industries which are now worth more than £130 billion The UK’s roaring […]

Wintertide Festival is an independent festival ran by volunteers from the Headland Festival Group. The aim is to bring the community together to celebrate local heritage, arts and culture and showcase local talent. Now in its fourth year Wintertide Festival 2018 returned last weekend with the opening lantern parade and closing with a fabulous fireworks finale display. The weekend was […]

The Northern School of Art is inviting creative people of any age to discover more about its range of specialist courses. The event being held at what is one of the north's leading arts schools will highlight details of courses that offer opportunities such as working with the costume departments of hit dramas like BBC Three’s Killing Eve, contributing ideas […]

Zoe Widdowfield studied Production Design for Stage and Screen and recently graduated in the summer. She came to study at degree-level from our Green Lane campus where she left with triple distinction in Level 3 Art and Design. Zoe's final project was shown at our Degree show in the summer and received lots of praise! She has now decided to […]

Renowned photojournalist Tom Stoddart shared stories of a career that has included covering the fall of the Berlin Wall, the election of President Nelson Mandela and the Iraq war in an inspirational talk for photography students at The Northern School of Art. Students on the School’s photography degree courses also learned more about Stoddart’s long and varied career in which […]

Students and staff at The Northern School of Art have collaborated on a series of events to mark the commemorations of the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice. A dramatic cascade of over 1500 poppies hand-crafted by textiles and A Level students and staff is being displayed outside the entrance of the Middlesbrough campus of The Northern School […]

A series of powerful contemporary images of The Somme by a photography graduate from The Northern School of Art form part of an ambitious commemoration for the Centenary of the Great War Armistice. Local photographer Helen Crute is exhibiting current photographs from some of the battlefields and the National Memorial Arboretum, alongside archive photos with a background of recorded words […]

A space formerly used for communist propaganda in Prague is the venue for a series of giant images by a fine art lecturer at The Northern School of Art that seek to challenge populist representations of the mother. Martina Mullaney, who teaches on The School’s Fine Art degree course, has included photographic images of the Duchess of Cambridge and Beyoncé […]

On Friday 19th October, national theatre company, Frantic Assembly ran a movement workshop for the acting students. This award winning, leading company are the movement directors behind The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. Frantic focuses on inspiring innovative practice and unlocking creative potential and the students had a really inspiring afternoon. Their workshop included contact improvisation, lifts and ways […]

We grabbed a chat with alumni student Jessica Langford who studied Applied Arts with us here at The Northern School of Art. Since graduating, Jess has gone on to become a contemporary applied artist creating jewelry, ceramics, illustrations and glass work. Hi Jess, your work is beautiful, can you tell us where you get your inspiration from? Oh thank you! […]

Costume degree students at The Northern School of Art showed off their millinery skills when leading fashion historian Amber Butchart visited The School’s Hartlepool campus. Amber spent time chatting to a number of students about their designs and touring the facilities before delivering a sell-out talk on her latest book. Amber, who presented who presented A Stitch in Time - […]

The Northern School of Art is supporting an event celebrating youth theatre which has attracted young people from across the north east and Yorkshire. Groups from Newcastle, Hexham, Darlington, Stockton-on-Tees, Barnard Castle and York are set to attend a special festival for northern youth theatre groups organised by NAYT (the National Association of Youth Theatre) on Saturday 20 October. The […]

Pat Chapman, Vice Principal at The Northern School of Art, reflects on the impact art and culture has on the lives of young and old and how it can transform lives. He is urging people to find out more about the next round of funding for Arts Council England's Creative People and Places initiative which focuses on places where fewer […]