Our second artist talk this term, organized in collaboration with Meadow Arts to coincide with their Watermark exhibition, will be by Emma Critchley.
News
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 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).
Desdemona part of the Communication Arts Competition Jury
Our very own Desdemona McCannon is one of the judges on the Communication Arts Illustration Competition 2023.
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
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.
Creative Media Exhibition at Hanbao
Our next set of Creative Media Graduates exhibited their digital work in the heart of the City of Worcester, at Hanbao.
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
University of Worcester Research Magazine
School of Arts tutors, staff and students feature in the new Research magazine published on behalf of the research team.
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.
UCAS Manchester
Join our students and team at UCAS Manchester…
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
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
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
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.
University of Worcester MA Creative Media Exhibition
The Art House windows will be taken over by graduates from our MA in Creative Media for a public exhibition of their work.
Worcester Paint Festival
The 2022 Worcester Paint Festival happens at locations round the city with world renowned artists involved.
Our Degree Show 2022
Our 2022 degree show for all of this year’s students from the visual arts.
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
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.
Mela Festival Launch Event @The Art House
The Mela festival is designed to bring people together from all walks of life to celebrate ‘togetherness’.
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[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...
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[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.
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[gama] Hannah Watts Talk on the role of Prop Artists
Chris Pearce of Game Art talks to Hanna Watts about her work as a Prop Artist in the games industry.
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[drama] An interview with ILDIKÓ RIPPEL, COURSE LEADER IN TOURING THEATRE
Introduction I am a performer and lecturer, and artistic director of Nottingham based Zoo Indigo. The company devises autobiographical performance, combining dark humour, song, live music and multimedia in a kaleidoscopic approach, creating politically charged...
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[graphics] Where are they now? Anna Peskova: Digital Designer
Anna Peskova finished her degree in Graphic Design in 2017. Since then she has worked at web design agency Practically. She also co-designed and built this very site.
Worcester Cathedral Exhibition – Undercroft
A spectacular display of creative work by students at the University of Worcester greets visitors to Worcester Cathedral’s Undercroft.
Isla Badenoch Artist Talk
Our next Art House Artist Talk will be by Isla Badenoch on Monday December 13th at 4.30 pm. The talk will take place online.
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[animation] Laura (Veera) Kauppinen Animation Student
An interview between Laura (Veera) Kauppinen, Animation Student (Major Animation/Minor film Production) and lecturer Jamie Pardo. They cover life at Worcester, awards and working abroad.
Ikon Gallery: Graphic Design Trip
Students from our 1st, 2nd and 3rd years had a day out in Birmingham visiting the Ikon gallery, the Lego shop and exploring luxury brands in Selfridges.
Leah Gordon: Art House talk
Leah Gordon – photographer, film-maker, curator and writer – talks modernism and architecture; the slave trade; industrialisation; and grassroots religious, class and folk histories.
Crowdfund retro stylised thriller ‘Interference’
3rd year Film Students are crowdfunding for their group project: retro stylised thriller ‘Interference’…
Edie Jo Murray and…kruse Open Talk
We’re very excited to announce that Edie Jo Murray and…kruse will give the second Art House/Meadow Arts Open Talk on Wednesday October 20th at 16.30.
Arts and Health Symposium
The Government and a number of UK higher education institutions have recognised the powerful contribution the arts can make to health and wellbeing.
Through My Eyes – PhD students in Fine Art Haptics Exhibition
You are invited to a series of talks by current PhD students in Fine Art at the University of Worcester whose work is currently on display as part of the Haptics exhibition in the Art House on Castle Street.
Malvern Festival of Innovation
As part of the programme and the University’s continued links with local innovation we will be talking again at the yearly Malvern Festival. This time we return to not being virtual.
Only Bondage was the Circling Sky – Exhibition: Chris Alton
Only Bondage was the Circling Sky reflects concerns about freedom of movement across national borders, co-existence with other species in the age of the anthropocene and the essential role that green spaces play throughout civic life…
Art House Windows: Matías Serra Delmar
New Art West Midlands x Coventry Biennial alumnus Matías Serra Delmar is currently exhibiting his work No Particular Order in the windows of University of Worcester’s Art House building.
Article: 80.lv: A Fukushima-Inspired Abandoned Arcade
Final year Game Art student, Shindy Leong was interviewed for a feature in online magazine 80.lv this month.
Fiction Machines – Part III
Dr John Cussans, from the School of Arts, will be presenting his work as part of an evening of new screenings, talks and performances taking place tomorrow. The Centre for Media Research at Bath Spa University presents ‘Fiction Machines – Part III’ at 6pm, with presentations from a number of artists, filmmakers and theorists.