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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.

UCAS Manchester

UCAS Manchester

Join our students and team at UCAS Manchester…

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.

Isla Badenoch Artist Talk

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.

Ikon Gallery: Graphic Design Trip

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: 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.

Edie Jo Murray and…kruse Open Talk

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

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.

Malvern Festival of Innovation

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 – 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

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.

Fiction Machines – Part III

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.