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The Northern School of Art’s specialist Stage and Screen faculty is hosting an international conference exploring the relationship between horror cinema and video games on Thursday 2 April 2026. Nightmare26, which takes place at the School’s degree-level campus in Hartlepool, will bring together leading creatives, academics and audiences to explore how fear is constructed, experienced and reimagined across film and […]

The organisers of the Nightmare '26 research conference are inviting proposals for 15-minute papers to be presented at the event being held at The Northern School of Art on Thursday 2nd April 2026. This is the second conference of the biennial event that explores both the practical and research developments in the horror genre. The Call For Papers states: "If […]

The biennial Northern Festival of Illustration is returning to celebrate all things illustration and storytelling, from storybooks and comics to animation and digital narratives. Spanning an eight-week period from 13th September to 1st November 2025 the festival supported by The Northern School of Art is set to take over a number of Hartlepool venues with a diverse programme of art and […]

The fourth year of The Northern Illustration Prize, The Northern School of Art’s prestigious biennial illustration competition hosted by the UK’s professional body for illustration, The Association of Illustrators (AOI), has launched with a brand-new category recognising emerging animators. Entries are now being invited from emerging and professional illustrators and emerging animators on the theme of ‘Stories of Home’. Now […]

Lecturer Tony Charles and fellow artists Nick Kennedy, Annie O'Donnell, Will Hughes and alumni John James Perangie recently took part in a residency culminating in two exhibitions entitled GROUNDHOPPERS in Germany Kunstraum Ortloff a non-profit space for contemporary art in Leipzig and art gallery Glue by Dag in Berlin. The installations examine connections between industrial landscapes in Middlesbrough and East […]

BA (Hons) Fine Art Lecturer Tony Charles is displaying his work Still Life Un-painted at an exhibition at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art unpicking the iconic Middlesbrough Bottle of Notes sculpture, 'The Secret Lives of Bottle of Notes: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen.' The exhibition features work from the sculptures original designers including sketches, models, and documents by artists […]

“If you live a long life and get to the end of it without ever once having felt crushingly depressed, then you probably haven’t been paying attention” - The Representation of Mental Health in Theatre & Performance Keynote, Robert Icke. The Northern School of Art is preparing for it's second international research conference Re-Staging 2025 and invites proposals for 15-minute […]

An international conference exploring how mental health issues are represented in horror films is being hosted by staff, postgraduate and final year undergraduate students from the Stage and Screen faculty of The Northern School of Art. ‘Nightmare 24’, which takes place at the School’s university-level campus in Hartlepool on Thursday 25 April 2024, is subtitled ‘Dreams or nightmares? Madness or […]

Nightmare ‘24 a conference of horror at The Northern School of Art invites proposals for 15 minute papers to be presented at this first film focused conference hosted at our award winning school! The conference will be held on 25th April 2024 Submission Deadline for proposals is Friday 16th February 2024. “Dreams or nightmares? Madness or Sanity? I don’t know […]

Introducing the latest edition of The Northern School of Art's journal PAD: Perspectives in Art & Design. This 5th publication is a special staff 'Art Research & Scholarly Activity Conference Edition' which gives further insight into research from some of the School's lecturers. The work included is reflective of July's Research & Scholarly Activity Conference 2023. Innovation and Impact in […]

During the summer break The Northern School of Art's Middlesbrough campus photography lecturer Richard Allaway headed across to Krakow in Poland where he was an invited guest speaker at an international conference looking at the social role of art. The 18th International Conference on Arts in Society held at Jagiellonian University Krakow was called 'New Aesthetic Expressions: The Social Role of […]

The Northern School of Art launches it's fourth edition of Perspectives in Art & Design, our scholarly activity research journal featuring the creative and academic research of students and staff. This years issue follows a successful second conference held this year at our Hartlepool campus centred around climate change.  The research papers included in this fourth edition reflect theoretical discourse […]

The award-winning Northern Festival of Illustration is back in Hartlepool for a fifth time this summer. This time the festival has a distinctly nautical feel to tie into the Tall Ships Race and extend the fun through the summer months. The Northern School of Art, who run the festival, have announced the main programme for the event which runs from […]

The Northern School of Art in collaboration with project partner the Association of Illustrators (AOI) has announced the call out for ‘The Northern Illustration Prize 2023’.  This will be the third Prize competition as part of the biennial Northern Festival of Illustration. In past years, the Prize has attracted hundreds of entries from six continents, the winning entries from 2021 […]

Last month students and staff presented our second annual student-led conference on the theme of climate action and sustainable practice on Wednesday 22 March 2023 at our Church Square Campus. Student led research included multiple strands of enquiry around this subject area and events included workshops, presentations, and an exhibitions. MA Design History student Harry Frasers - one of the […]