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Homo ex MachinAI: Artificial Intelligence & Creativity

Homo ex MachinAI: Artificial Intelligence & Creativity

Dr John Cussans, course leader for BA Fine Art and Fine Art with Psychology, will be speaking at the Homo ex MachinAI: Artificial Intelligence and Creativity event at the Benaki Museum in Athens on Friday April 12th. In his presentation 'Generative AI and Arts...

Students begin work on public mural

Students begin work on public mural

Students from the University have began work alongside renowned artist Rob Draper and external volunteers to create a public art mural with a focus on inclusivity.

ARTIST TALK: HAZEL BROWN – 3D HAIR ARTIST

ARTIST TALK: HAZEL BROWN – 3D HAIR ARTIST

Since graduating in Game Art at De Montfort University in 2017, Hazel Brown has worked as a character artist at Dambuster Studios making characters for Dead Island 2, in the past couple of years she has specialized as a Hair Artist for Roarty Digital creating real time game hair for multiple clients. She also works on educational content for hair, hoping to encourage more accurate and diverse hair in games. Hazel recently took part in an event for BAFTA as a speaker in a panel discussing hair and accurate representation in games.

Animation student Alexia Samoilova

Animation student Alexia Samoilova

Fellow student Alexia Samoilova has been awarded with a scholarship for outstanding academic achievement. And this has made headline news in her native Cyprus. The award recognised the student’s achievements throughout the 2022/23 academic year. “I am delighted to...

Art House Open Lectures: Season 11

Art House Open Lectures: Season 11

Join us for Season 11 of the Art House Open Lecture series presented by Meadow Arts and the University of Worcester’s School of Arts.

CoVE Exhibition by PhD student, Karen David

CoVE Exhibition by PhD student, Karen David

This exhibition presents Karen David’s PhD research at the University of Worcester titled Commune of the Viable Essence: Creating Myth in Artistic Studio Practice through Fictional Narrative and is presented as an archive of CoVE with written materials, maps and artworks including oil paintings, acrylic marbling and glazed ceramics.

Where are they now? Harry Hartwell

Where are they now? Harry Hartwell

Harry Hartwell finished his degree in BA Game Art in May, 2022. He has just been employed by game branding and advertising agency, Karter as a 3D artist. He has always been specialised in 3d arts, assets, and environmental design.

UCAS Manchester

UCAS Manchester

Worcester University at UCAS Create Your Future, Manchester, 2023

Watermark – Art and Climate Roundtable Event

Watermark – Art and Climate Roundtable Event

On Tuesday 18th April the Art House will be hosting the Art and Climate Roundtable Event between 5 and 7 pm as part of Watermark, a contemporary art exhibition exploring water, flooding and the climate crisis in partnership with venues across Worcester.

Artist Talk: Emma Critchley (Watermark)

Artist Talk: Emma Critchley (Watermark)

Our second artist talk this term, organized in collaboration with Meadow Arts to coincide with their Watermark exhibition, will be by Emma Critchley.

Applicant Day 2023

Applicant Day 2023

This years prospective applicants joined us across the university to get a flavour of what we do at the university. In the Art House illustration, graphic design, graphic design and marketing and fine art put on practical sessions, with tutors, current students and prospective students all joining in the fun.

Wilding – Performance as part of Out Saucy

Wilding – Performance as part of Out Saucy

Wilding is a darkly humorous and politically charged performance exploring radical protest and feminism. It has been created in collaboration with Emma Bourke (a graduate of University of Worcester and distant cousin of the militant suffragette Emily Wilding Davison).

Light Night Worcester

Light Night Worcester

A popular festival returns to the City lighting up the streets with some exciting new projections.

Worcester OPEN Climate Change Edition 2023

Worcester OPEN Climate Change Edition 2023

PITT Studio & The Art House, School of Arts, University of Worcester  are pleased to present The Worcester OPEN 2023 supported by Meadow Arts on the occasion of Watermark, a multi-venue partnership-based project on water and flooding as environmental markers of climate change, which will take place from January to May 2023.

Arts and Health Roundtable Event

Arts and Health Roundtable Event

In collaboration of our 10th anniversary between Meadow Arts and BA Fine Art at the University of Worcester, we are hosting a special Arts and Health roundtable event

Artist talk: Joseph Walsh

Artist talk: Joseph Walsh

Our tenth season of contemporary artists’ talks, presented via a partnership with the University of Worcester’s Fine Art department. The talks involve some of the most exciting contemporary artists currently making work in the UK, who talk about their artwork, ideas and the processes they use.

Barry Sykes – Artist Talk

Barry Sykes – Artist Talk

Barry makes sculptures, performances and works on paper that examine the power of authenticity, pleasure, and human connection. Referencing different modes of display, design and presentation, his objects and events are experiments in how we negotiate value, significance and trust.

Artist Talk: Sam Metz

Artist Talk: Sam Metz

The talk will take place online between 17.00 and 18.30 in Tuesday 25th of October. It will also be simultaneously screened to a public audience at the Art House on Castle Street in Worcester. Please go here to book your place for the online session. For those who want to attend in person, please come to the Art House at 16.45.

Venice Touring

Venice Touring

Working in collaboration with Worcester Museum and Art Gallery Venice Touring is a group show created from a five-day student experience of Venice. Reflecting upon the life and work of Canaletto. Students focused on the past and present. Venice then and Venice now. 

Worcester Music Festival

Worcester Music Festival

The Worcester Music Festival is run by volunteers to promote the local music scene on one weekend a year. All money raised from fund raising during the Worcester Music Festival weekend goes to local charity.

Worcester Paint Festival

Worcester Paint Festival

The 2022 Worcester Paint Festival happens at locations round the city with world renowned artists involved.

Our Degree Show 2022

Our Degree Show 2022

Our 2022 degree show for all of this year’s students from the visual arts.

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched

Join us for an afternoon of exploring the Folk Horror genre with the opportunity to have your questions answered after the showing with guests Mikel Koven and John Cussans.

Take 5 – Student Talk

Take 5 – Student Talk

Worcester Illustration hosts this year’s Take 5 talks of alumni. 5 ex arts students from across courses share their work, their expertise and advise to our current batch of students. Always inspiring.

[graphics] Be Peeters talk – The highs and lows of my career

[graphics] Be Peeters talk – The highs and lows of my career

Last Friday I gave a talk at University of Worcester for the third year students on the Graphic Design & Multimedia course, the same one I graduated from five years ago. But I didn’t tell them about my work or show them cool skills and tricks. I took them through...

[Journalism] Top Television Award for Graduate

[Journalism] Top Television Award for Graduate

Harpal Bobby scooped the Royal Television Society Midlands Student Factual Film Award for her documentary, A Change in Kismat, which explores British Indian women’s attitudes towards arranged marriages.