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A specialist art and design college, famed for such alumni as film director Sir Ridley Scott and artist Mackenzie Thorpe, has joined the celebrations in welcoming the Great Exhibition of the North to the North East. Cleveland College of Art and Design (CCAD), a leading art and design further and higher education college with sites in Middlesbrough and Hartlepool, is […]

Foundation Illustration Alumni, Lizzy Drennan, has been making waves right across the country with her incredible sketches. With a waiting list packed up right until Christmas, Lizzy’s commission drawings are a hit with all her customers and followers on Facebook. After starting up a Facebook page, EGD Art, a few months ago, it has racked up almost 300 likes with […]

(BTech) Fine Art student, David Lee Rogers is pretty #instafamous with almost 50,000 followers on his Instagram account. Regularly drawing all the top celebrities and posting images of his illustrations on the social networking site has got David recognised and re-posted by the likes of Kylie Jenner, Kim Kardashian, Nicki Minaj, Tom Daley and more. He is aspiring to widen […]

  Contemporary Icons, by Dundee-based artist Nicola Wiltshire, is a series of paintings to be exhibited at the Hartlepool Art Gallery from 4th October to 10th November. Inspired by visiting Greek Orthodox churches on the island of Aegina, elements of these religious paintings are combined with research into fashion photography, symbology and the repetitive patterns seen in Islamic art. This […]

On October 1st, Head of Photography, Jamie Macdonald began showcasing a selection of his images at the HIP Gallery in Hull alongside 13 other fantastic photographers. The 4-week exhibition is called ‘Coming Home’ and is curated by Jamie and HIP Patron Matthew Finn, who wanted to resonate the ideas of home, lifestyle, friends, family and environment through the photographs. The […]

Riding a bike is cool, however those safety necessities that can save your life, aka helmets, are universally deemed not so popular, especially amongst Gen-Y. Stats generally scare the pants off anyone, and these ones are especially awful; a child suffers a serious head injury every five hours. Yikes. So in an attempt to combat this, Simon Higby and Clara […]

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Fine Art student, David Lee Rogers is pretty #instafamous with almost 50,000 followers on his Instagram account. Regularly drawing all the top celebrities and posting images of his illustrations on the social networking site has got David recognised and re-posted by the likes of Kylie Jenner, Kim Kardashian, Nicki Minaj, Tom Daley and more. He is aspiring to widen his […]

A few weeks ago during one of the many ad breaks, we were greeted with 1 minute 12 seconds of magic. To the beat of a new version of Tom Jones’ ‘She’s a Lady’ created and performed by the American soul duo Lion Babe, we saw curves, muscles, taut tums, afros, buzz cuts, different ethnicities, a trans actress, lesbians, freckles, […]

In a time where droids are a thing (WHAT) and we're looking at permanent holidays to mars, there's no stopping the fashion industry from evolving just as fast. We’ve seen wearable technology before in the Apple Watch but never has it been actually wearable and fashion forward from day to day; until now. Michael Kors is dabbling in tech and […]

It’s fair to say the North East’s creative reputation is ever growing; we’re surrounded by local artists, art colleges and universities, galleries, fairs, renovations, new creative brands and businesses and so much more, and we don’t shout about it enough! As we’ve had new students joining us this term from all over the country, we wanted to round up a […]

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Fans of fascinators can learn the art of hat making and make the most of their millinery skills as part of a workshop by The Northern School of Art (CCAD) at the Festival of Thrift at Kirkleatham Hall this weekend. The Festival is a hugely popular free-to-enter event focussing on living sustainably in style that takes place on Saturday 17 […]

The Northern School of Art (CCAD) is offering children and young people the chance to develop their love of all things creative with a series of art and design workshops starting from 10th September until 10th June. The specialist art and design college on Green Lane in Middlesbrough is now offering places to the young artists for its Saturday Art […]

Three former students from The Northern School of Art (CCAD) are taking part in a project to create a series of striking new artworks and temporarily transform an historic stable block as part of the Festival of Thrift. The project combines the talents of selected new and established artists from Teesside and County Durham. The emerging artists selected for the […]