Cutting Kentos – 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 new series of videos on this blog. This is her 8th...
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Portraits of the quarantined mind – Doma Dovigialo
In an online collaboration, Doma Dovigialo has developed a new project ‘Portraits of the quarantined mind‘, in which people are invited to use their portraits to reveal their inner thoughts through drawing. This project...
Free webinars for PhD students
Calling all researchers! What do you know about the British Library? Does it have anything relevant to your research? The British Library are running a series of webinars in the new year where you...
Exploring Newcastle’s history through an online art exhibition
Explore this local city through a digital exhibition. The city has changed hugely over time and these lovely paintings capture key events and buildings throughout the city’s history.
Arabic music record sleeves – what they can tell us
Do you collect vinyl? Do you get inspired by music record sleeves? Hazem Jamjourm is a Gulf History Audio Curator and Cataloguer at the British Library. He has blogged about how record sleeves have...
Pressing Matters journal
This journal is a brilliant resource for our artistic students and those with artistic flair! There are interviews with artists who share their creative passions and talents using a wide range of techniques. Come...
Mapping out the tracing onto the wood – 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 new series of videos on this blog. This is her 7th...
Exhibition catalogues as a source of inspiration
The Library has an excellent collection of exhibition catalogues from many major galleries and are a great resource to help you discover artists and their work. Catalogues often include an artist statement where you...
Digitising Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius
Edward Elgar’s, The Dream of Gerontius, is a setting of Cardinal John Henry Newman’s poem of the same name for voices and orchestra. It is an important work of Elgar which helped identify him...
New Contemporaries 2020 goes online
Since 1949, New Contemporaries have highlighted the next generation of artists and art practices. It is an annual celebration of emerging artists, and can help artists transition from education to professional practice. The process...
Creative arts in education and therapy journal – latest issue now out
The journal ‘Creative Arts in Education and Therapy (CAET) – Eastern and Western Perspectives‘ is an international open access journal for artists, educators and therapists, who use and integrate creative arts in their work....
Celebrating Black History month through Art
Art UK will be celebrating Black History month throughout October by continuing to share artworks and stories including: Yinka Shonibare’s ‘Trumpet Boy‘ The story of the Black Madonnas A fantasy of the black and...
Transforming theatre from physical to digital
These are challenging times for live theatre – how do you perform to audiences with social distancing in place? Professer Aebischer and Dr Rachael Nicholas from the University of Exeter have produced a...
MA Degree show 2020 – Creativity in a time of Covid
Head over to Sunderland Creatives and explore work by students on our MA Photography, MA Photography, MA Design and MA Glass and Ceramics. Lockdown caused great challenges for these very practical subjects but our...
Online photography exhibition – Photo London 2020
This year’s Photo London exhibition is taking place online 7-18th October 2020. Using the description provided on their web site, “Photo London has established itself as a world-class international photography fair featuring exhibitors...