ALUMNI NEWS & STORIES

Graduation ceremonies for students from The Northern School of Art's classes of 2020 and 2021 were held at the historic venue of St Hilda's Church on Hartlepool Headland on Tuesday 7 and Wednesday 8 December. Students attended the events with their families and friends to mark their achievements and celebrate the formal awarding of their degrees that had been postponed […]

Lee Ward, Production designer and recent graduate of our BA (Hons) Production Design degree has gone from strength to strength since leaving The Northern School of Art this year. From wowing visitors at our final year show with his full scale set entitled "The Billion Dollar Nightmare" a set design for the HQ of "a group of anti-capitalist drag queen […]

The 2021 Northern Festival of Illustration ended on a high bringing all the monkey sculptures together to raise funds for Hartlepool Carers in a charity auction event hosted by Gary Philipson from BBC Radio Tees. Almost £2,500 was raised at the event which was relocated to St Hilda's Church on Hartlepool Headland from the new Elephant Rock events space following […]

Congratulations to Fine Artists & Alumnae Bethany Hunton, Charlie Love, Amy Heald and Annabel Collins, on their joint collective's exhibition: LACE: At a Distance. Which opened last week at WetDovetail art space in the Hill St. Shopping Centre in Middlesbrough. WetDovetail is a collaborative virtual and physical gallery project, comprised of two arts organisations, WET Productions and Dovetail Joints from […]

Creating costumes for a performance at the Amsterdam premiere of the new James Bond film 'No Time To Die' was the latest assignation for costume design degree alumna Marloes Peerenboom. The recent graduate of The Northern School of Art's BA (Hons) Costume Interpretation with Design degree was working as part of the team behind the staging of the custom-made live […]

Level 3 Costume student Kathryn Walker is a recipient of the prestigious Godber Theatre Foundation Prize. Set up during the pandemic, The Godber Theatre Foundation is an initiative aiming to support young people from the Hull and East Yorkshire area who are studying Drama and Theatre Arts. "The Godber Theatre awards small number of students the opportunity to partake in […]

BA (Hons) Fine Art Graduate and Artist Charlie Love has collaborated with Middlesbrough Art Weekender the biggest arts festival in the North East to create a live painting entitled 'Venus', show here, filmed by Tom Sheldon. We spoke to Charlie about the pieces meaning, collaborating on this project and future plans after graduation.   Tell us about your live painting? […]

  BA (Hons) Textiles & Surface Design Alumni Ruth O’reilly, from South Shields, is one of six artists featuring in Royal Over-Seas League exhibition “First Look” This exhibition has been created to celebrate the work of artists that have been waiting to be displayed again after over a year of lockdowns and restrictions which has seen the art community unable […]

FE Textiles alumni, designer and small business owner Olivia Rose, based in Edinburgh has been listed as one of Elle Netherlands favourite made to order brands. In celebration of world earth day the international platform has listed their favourite sustainable brands that will help consumers buy a little bit more green. “Buying clothes consciously is easier said than done. It […]

A recent graduate of The Northern School of Art, 21-year-old Bethany Hunton has been announced as Celebrating Hidden Middlesbrough’s first commissioned graduate artist. Hunton, pictured, who studied on the BA (Hons) Fine Art degree at the School's Hartlepool campus has been chosen from five graduates of The Northern School of Art to create a new work inspired by the heritage […]