Join in the Great Big Art Exhibition
Big names from the British art scene including Anish Kapoor, Antony Gormley and Sonia Boyce are encouraging us to turn our front windows, balconies or porches into art galleries. The Great Art Exhibition was...
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Hints and tips on using ebooks
How are you getting on with using the Library ebooks? Check out all the new books we have bought recently for the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries. Many of these are in arts, design...
Sculpting lives podcast series
Are you tired of looking at screens? During the pandemic, so many things have gone online, which has created a plethora of resources we can explore, but sometimes we just want to close our...
Creative Lives talks: 2nd February – Anthony Amoako Attah
Our School of Art and Design Creative Lives talks offer many examples of how creative professionals live, work and thrive in the arts and creative industries. You will gain an insight into the creative...
The artist’s methods – Degas’s “Waiting”
When you study a painting, do you look at it closely? Do you look for fine details of how the artist has chosen to highlight a particular feature? Maybe you’re a dancer and you...
Developing background blocks – Woodblock with Laura
Laura Boswell is a printmaker who works with linocut and traditional Japanese woodblock painting. She has kindly given us permission to embed her series of videos on this blog. This is her 12th video...
Five part podcast about how to care more creatively
The Wellcome Collection and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art are presenting a new podcast about care and healing – For All I Care. Presented by multidisciplinary artist Nwando Ebizie, the series has contributions from...
Taking inspiration from nature
Many artists, and that includes many of our own students, find inspiration for their art and performances from our natural surroundings. Cheryl Tipp, the Curator of Wildlife and Environmental Sounds at the British Library,...
Check out the International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance
The International Bibliography of Theatre and Drama is the definitive research tool for the study of theatre and the performing arts. It is a fully indexed, cross-referenced and annotated databank of over 60,000 journal articles, books,...
Dance in Video – let’s get watching
Dance in Video contains five hundred hours of dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well...
Developing the line block – Woodblock with Laura
Laura Boswell is a printmaker who works with linocut and traditional Japanese woodblock painting. She has kindly given us permission to embed her series of videos on this blog. This is her 11th video...
Dance Research – let’s explore this journal online!
Calling all dance and performing arts students and staff! Are you one for making New Year’s Resolutions? Whether you are or not, now is a great time to explore the gems that are available...
Interested in community or participatory arts?
Then check out our subscription to the Journal of Arts and Communities. The coverage of this journal encompasses active creative collaboration between artists and people across a range of communities including visual arts, media,...
Arts and health research
Are you interested in researching the interdisciplinary field of arts and health? We subscribe to the international ‘Arts and Health‘ journal which covers research, policy and practice. There is interest across the world about...
The art of comedy
Is it appropriate to find comedy within art? Comedy as an art form can been seen all the way back to ancient Greece. In this Tate podcast comedian Charlie George explores how artists have...