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ISSUE 11WINTER 2012
THE MAGAZINE FORALUMNI AND FRIENDSOF NORWICHUNIVERSITY COLLEGEOF THE ARTS
CONTENTS
PRINCIPAL’S WELCOME 03
NUCA NEWS 04
GALLERY NEWS 11
JAY POTTER 12
MA DEGREE SHOW 2011 16
ALUMNI NEWS 18
GRADUATION 2011 20
GRADUATE PROFILE 22
BA FASHION 24
NUCA NEWS 26
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO 28
TIM DAVIES 30
ALUMNI BENEFITS & SERVICES 34
DIARY DATESTHE GALLERY AT NUCA:
Magazine written and edited byLouisa Milsome with contributionsfrom Stuart Anderson, Henry JacksonNewcomb, Tom Rowland, Jay Potterand Helen Carter.
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For more information about the Alumniand Development office please visit:www.nuca.ac.uk/alumni
Or email Caroline Bailey, Alumni and Development Officer at:[email protected]
REPEAT Tuesday 10th January –Saturday 28th January 2012An exhibition of works byNUCA Textiles staff
THE INFORMATION SHOWTuesday 14th February –Saturday 3rd March 2012EASTinternational Archive exhibition
PRINTED IN NORFOLKFriday 9th March – Saturday 21st April 2012 Works from the Coracle Press 1987-2011
OTHER EVENTS:
NUCA FASHION SHOWWednesday 30th May 2012
UNDERGRADUATEDEGREE SHOWSWednesday 27th June –Tuesday 3rd July 2012
www.nuca.ac.uk
Front cover image: Vintage spray cans, Jay Potter
I am pleased to introduceBeyond, the magazine foralumni and friends of NUCA.This autumn’s edition gives youa flavour of the developmentshere at the University Collegeand in particular our increasingpopularity with new students,including those from outsidethe European Union.
Our new undergraduates thisyear top 600 for the first timeand our MA numbers nowapproach 100. The Guardianplaces us as the best art,design and media specialistinstitution in England in theirsummer league tables and ourstudents were complimentary in the National Student Survey2011, placing us as the jointtop specialist art and designuniversity in the country. All ofthese outcomes are the resultof much hard work byacademic and support staff aswell as our students.
We have undertaken a numberof estate projects over thesummer including a newPhotography Studio in the EastGarth Building, a new GraphicDesign Studio in the top floor of Guntons and a new DrawingStudio and Model Making Areain St Georges. These resources
will particularly support our new BA Architecture starting in September 2012. Thesechanges are all designed tokeep us at the forefront of oursubjects. I hope that you mayhave the opportunity to visit usto see the way that we aredeveloping and responding tohigh demand to study with us.
We regularly receive visits from graduates both to see theUniversity College campus and in many cases to contribute tocourses and discuss theircareers. We very muchappreciate this and welcomeyour continued engagement and contribution to theeducation of the next generationof creative practitioners.
Next year will see the start of a different fee regime forundergraduate study but withhigh demand and positive viewsfrom students and externalstakeholders we are confidentthat student recruitment willremain strong.
I hope you enjoy the content ofthis issue of Beyond magazineand invite you to submit yourown stories and contributions forfuture editions. We are alwaysvery interested to know what ouralumni are doing and pleased tolearn how successful you are inyour chosen paths.
With best wishes
Professor John LastPRINCIPAL
PRINCIPAL’S WELCOME
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NUCA NEWS
Three graduates have received£2,500 and a nomination for aBAFTA after winning the gamesdevelopment competition Dareto be Digital. Kristian Francis(BA Games Art and Design2010), Sophia George andRosie Ball (BA Games Art andDesign 2011) will find out inMarch 2012 if they have wonthe BAFTA Ones to WatchAward at the British AcademyVideo Games Awards.
Dare to be Digital is run by theUniversity of Abertay Dundeeand attracted entrants from 70universities across the UK,Canada and India. Rosie,Sophia and Kristian, togetherwith two Abertay-basedstudents, formed TeamSwallowtail and pitched agame idea called ‘Tick TockToys’ to a panel of judges towin a place in the final 15.They spent nine weeks atAbertay using the University’sfacilities and technicalmentoring from industryprofessionals to build a
Cornelia Parker’s talk openedup her history box of ideas,from which emerged aninformative network ofmethodologies bridging thewide variety within her work.Cornelia spoke persuasivelyabout the act of giving a newlife to objects, resurrectingthem from destruction into amidway state of flux, hoveringbetween their original contextand the space or area theyoriginally filled (‘Thirty Pieces of Silver, 1988-9’). Brieflyprojecting a whole string ofhung works, she discussed her interest in the way peopleperceive the work and thepolitical and personalmessages people unearth whenyou transport and re-exhibit art(‘Edge of England, 1999’). Thetitles of her work display apoetic interest, toying withwords to introduce a brief flareof light-hearted humour to herlarge and heavy installations.Her free, confident and opendiscussion within NUCA’spacked out lecture theatre leftlittle to be questioned; herunprecedented and individualpractice is definitely one we’llbe seeing a lot more of in years to come.
prototype, which went ondisplay to the public in videogaming event Dare ProtoPlayin Dundee.
‘Tick Tock Toys’ is an app game which uses the tilt andtouchscreen functions of theiPad to control a toy robot as it traverses a toy box, solvingpuzzles along the way.
Rosie says: “I think our gamestood out because it is designedfor people to be able to pick up and play straight away. AtProtoplay we had lots of youngpeople playing the game butalso their parents were gettinginto it too. The competition hasbeen such a great opportunity to make contacts with othertalented games designers,people in the games industryand people outside the industrywho also make games. Forexample I have met people fromDisney and CBeebies and that’sgiven me a lot to think about.” www.swallowtailgames.co.uk
GRADUATES WINBAFTA NOMINATION
NUCA HOSTS NORFOLKCONTEMPORARY ART SOCIETY ANDCORNELIA PARKER
Kristian Francis, Sophia George and Rosie Ball Cornelia Parker
To keep up to datewith NUCA eventsfollow @NUCAnews
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NUCA NEWS
Norwich Heritage, Economicand Regeneration Trust(HEART) has engaged NUCAGraphic Communicationstudents to work with localspecialist website developersto bring its Digital HeritageProject to life via an excitingand unique business/education collaboration.
Ideas factory@NUCA andNorwich digital agency, Soak(home to two NUCA alumni),have successfully teamed up towin a competitive national fourway pitch to secure the webdesign work that will act as thekey media platform to showcasearchive films from East Angliaand Upper Normandy.
Norwich HEART’s DigitalHeritage Project is bringing thearchive alive by working withtwo major film archives fromboth sides of the channel, theEast Anglian Film Archive andRouen based Pôle ImageHaute-Normandie. The DigitalHeritage Project’s mainobjectives are to research andselect for digitisation films fromas far back as 1896 and toshowcase these East Anglianand French films which are animportant part of our socialhistory and heritage.
The creation of a dedicatedbi-lingual website by NUCA andSOAK will launch in 2012 andwill showcase a state-of-the-art
timeline of East Anglian andFrench films of the last century.
Ed Walker, Business Director atNUCA said: “NUCA aredelighted to be partnering Soakto provide HEART with aninnovative and engagingwebsite. Young peopleconsume digital video onlineevery day, so the challenge willbe creating a site which worksnot just for young people, butalso for a much wider audience.It is a very exciting opportunity.”
www.heritagecity.org www.eafa.org.uk www.poleimagehn.com www.interreg3.com
NORWICH HEARTAPPOINTS WEBDEVELOPERS IN UNIQUEBUSINESS/EDUCATIONCOLLABORATION
DEGREE SHOWS 2011
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UG DEGREE SHOW 2011
AN EXTREMELYHIGH STANDARD
Henry Jackson Newcomb Amy Rogers Grant Ley
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DEGREE SHOWS 2011
Samantha-Louise Cleverdon
The work went on display atthe St Georges and Guntonsbuildings, and for the first timethe Duke Street building wasused for exhibitions for GraphicDesign, Design for Publishingand Graphic Communicationwork. Games Art and Designstudents created a show areain the Media Lab where visitorscould view not only theirshowreels and websites butalso game prototypes. VisualStudies students created aquiet pamphlet room within
their exhibition space wherevisitors were able to lookthrough journals anddocuments. Selected filmsfrom Film and Moving ImageProduction and Animationstudents were shown at specialscreenings at Cinema City.Students from Textiles andSurface Design turned TheGallery at NUCA into a retailspace where everything wasfor sale, enticing visitors in withthe vibrant displays of lanterns,tea towels, prints and crockery.
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As always the campus turned into agiant exhibition space in June 2011for the Undergraduate Degree Shows.Friends, family, alumni and thosekeen to seek out creative talent of thefuture poured in to see the shows.
Katriona Parkinson Katriona Parkinson
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Jonathon Bursnell
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DEGREE SHOWS 2011
More students sold work than ever before and visitorsincluding future employers,buyers and curators, allcommented on the extremelyhigh standard of the work andthe professional presentationof the show. Patrick Burgoyne,Editor of Creative Review anda member of NUCA’s CreativeIndustries Liaison Group for Artand Design, who regularlymeet to discuss curriculumdevelopment, commented onthe Creative Review Blog:‘Dotted around several sites inthe city centre, the graduatesof NUCA have produced somereally strong shows this year.’He concluded: ‘Illustration wasone of the strongest studentillustration shows I’ve seen.’
www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2011/June/Norwich
Samantha Thorley
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GALLERY NEWS
‘Sunlight’ has been anoutstanding show by RogerAckling, an internationallyreputed artist who shows atFrieze Contemporary Art Fairand exhibits worldwide, and currently lives and works in Norfolk. Roger is also a respected figurewithin the regional and national artistic community.
The Gallery at NUCA wasparticularly pleased to beexhibiting Roger’s work given his association with the University College as aGovernor and Fine Art Lecturerover the past four decades,and his recent acceptance ofthe award of Honorary Doctorin Fine Art from NUCA in June 2011.
Roger’s intimate sculpturalworks are made by theritualistic focusing of directsunlight through a hand-heldlens which burns marks onto a surface. The objects onwhich this dialogue withsunlight takes place includehand- held garden tools,clothes pegs, pieces ofdiscarded wood and scraps ofcard. The time and care takenin making the work and thenatural energy harnessed to‘draw’ onto the materials areindicative of an artist whosework is deeply contemplativeand entirely empathetic withthe materials and means at his disposal.
Professor Roger Ackling wasborn in Isleworth, London in
1947 and went on to study artat St Martin’s School of Art inthe 1960s with Hamish Fultonand Richard Long. Aftergraduating Roger embarked ona career as a practising artist.
Highlights included ‘Voewood2011’, sunlight on wood withnail and Japanese string, and‘Bird 1974’, sunlight on wood.
‘Sunlight’ by Roger Ackling ispart of the ongoing programmeof public exhibitions at theGallery at NUCA.
NUCA would particularly like toacknowledge the kind supportand assistance of Annely JudaFine Art, London in making thisexhibition possible.www.nuca.ac.uk/thegallery
ROGER ACKLING EXHIBITSNEW WORKS AT NUCA
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JAY POTTER
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JAY POTTER INTERVIEW
FOR THE LOVE OF STREET ART
TELL ME ABOUT YOUR JOBI’m a full-time in-house ArtDirector/Designer for afamily-owned and operated,multi-million dollar artisanbakery, delicatessen andcatering operation:www.ithacabakery.com. There are five locations inIthaca, New York, that serve an average of 35,000customers per week.
When I started I was essentiallygiven carte blanche as theowners really value design.There was so much I wanted tochange about the brand. A lotof the existing design had ahandmade feel – a little too‘granola’ – and the stores hadmany chalkboards thatrequired constant updating. So, for the last six years I’vebeen cleaning house,simplifying the clutter, andelevating our look to a pointwhere it can stand up againstthe corporate chains.
HOW DID YOU GET YOUR JOB?With a strong portfolio and a telephone interview fromout-of-state. I made myself alarge hot chocolate, sat on thebed and kept the TV on low –not sure how anyone couldn'tcome across as relaxed inthose surroundings.
WHY GRAFFITI ART?Graffiti grabbed my attentionwhen I was around 14 yearsold on a summer exchange inParis. The entire city Metrosystem was covered with allthis colour and I wasimmediately obsessed withlearning everything I couldabout the culture – such ashow something so powerful iscreated illegally, with precisionand passion. I spent all of myremaining time watching thetrains, also known asbenching, and startedsketching letters from thatpoint forward. Everywhere I goI take sketch paper and pens.There’s so much that goes intothe structure of a sketch andwhat makes something goodversus bad.
It paid off eventually. I showedmy graffiti book during myinterview with NUCA and wasaccepted purely on that bodyof work without having everformally studied art.
WHAT IS SPECIAL ABOUTENJOYING BOTH GRAFFITIAND DESIGN?Escaping from the tightconstraints of the monitor byusing a different set of toolsallows me to get away fromfeeling so confined, althoughworking on a much larger,
loose scale with graffiti thesame graphic rules still apply.Negative space, balance, flow,weight and letter structure allplay a critical role if the work isgoing to look good. Essentiallyeach inspires the other andover time the boundaries havenarrowed to the point wherethere’s a lot more crossover. I try to relax compositions tobe a little looser, while carefullycritiquing and tightening mywork on the wall.
WHAT’S GREAT ABOUTMAKING ART IN THE US?It’s been an amazing experienceto be immersed in a differentculture and to grow with it. Tobe honest, I just feel like there’sa lot more opportunity overhere, even if it’s just for a shortstint for the experience. Fordesign, I love the fact that theUS is so expansive that certainstyles emerge from specificstates or regions. From anoverall perspective I suppose I would say that I like the levelof illustration that's fused withdesign. I believe I see it heremore than anywhere else,particularly with identities.
A number of friends that I stillkeep in touch with aftergraduating have almost all left towork overseas: Australia, NewZealand, Dubai and the US.
JAY POTTER STUDIED GRAPHIC DESIGN AT NUCA ANDNOW COMBINES HIS PASSION FOR GRAFFITI WITH ASUCCESSFUL CAREER IN ART DIRECTION AND DESIGN INAMERICA. WE ASKED HIM ABOUT HIS WORK AND HIS ART,AND WHY HE STILL LOVES BOTH.
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WHICH ARTISTS/DESIGNERS DO YOUADMIRE?Graffiti Artists: Great & Bates,Dare, Serval, Jepsy, Giant.
Designers: My good friendJason C. Otero at Art &Anthropology, Sussner DesignCo., Blok Design, N8W, LittleFriends Of Printmaking, id29.
WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOUGIVE TO ALUMNI WHO HAVELET THEIR CREATIVITY GO?I guess I would have to ask –are you happy with what you'redoing? If not, can you focus onyour true passion in your owntime and then try to work thatenergy and those ideas intoyour job somehow? It mightnot be possible in all cases,but if you can get the creativitygoing at least it could help givea mundane job new life or leadto a more fitting position downthe road. When you're trulypassionate about something,working toward a goal feels somuch easier because you'realready in that zone. I think thatmakes it possible at any time inyour career to turn the tablesand take another course.
ANY OTHER THOUGHTS?You're only as good as your last work and the FirstThings First Manifesto.
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‘Guru Tribute’
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2011MA DEGREESHOW
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The September 2011 MADegree Show exhibition inNUCA’s St Georges Buildingdisplayed a finely balanced anddiverse range of postgraduatework including graphic design,painting, short films andanimations and experimentaltextile patterns. The body ofwork represented theoutcomes of NUCA’s MAcourses in Textile Design,Moving Image and Sound,Communication Design,Animation and Sound Design,Fine Art and Digital Arts.
Welcoming invited guests to apacked newly-launched BarNUCA, Principal John Lastsaid: “This end-of-yearexhibition presents work that is the resolution of intensefocus and theoretical rigour.”
MA Fine Art exhibitor BarbaraDougan (pictured) describes her work as: “Actions definedby constraint or confinement,which are recorded as filmsand drawings. It provides acathartic release for mystruggles to understand
political and social ‘progress’,and seeks to express thefrustrations and impotence of people who are cowed ordisregarded by the politicalprocess and public policy dueto accidents of birth, location,health or opportunity.”
From 2011 NUCA has alsooffered MA Fashion and MACuration, with the first cohortof students beginning theirpostgraduate study in October 2011.
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ALUMNI NEWS
Former Norwich School of Artstudent and Honorary DoctorStuart Craig OBE has beendesigning the screen world ofHarry Potter for over 10 years,alongside his Norfolk based SetDecorator Stephenie McMillan,with whom he has worked forover twenty years on manyfilms. Stuart won Oscars fordesigning Ghandi, The EnglishPatient and Dangerous Liaisons.
Stuart and Stephenie presentedan exclusive screening of HarryPotter and the Deathly Hallows– Part 2, to an invited audienceincluding over 70 local schoolchildren studying arts andmedia. After introducing the filmand giving the audience specialtips on things to look out for on set, they also delivered aspecial Q&A where they talked
OSCAR WINNING FORMERSTUDENT TALKS ABOUT CAREERIN PRODUCTION DESIGN
about their life in films and how they work together sosuccessfully. It was an inspiringinsight into how film productionson such a magnificent scalecome together, and thestaggering amount of work thatgoes into the creation of everytiny detail which gives the film a unique look and feel.
Stuart studied Fine Art atNorwich School of Art andbegan painting sets at theMaddermarket Theatre. Hiscareer in production designtook off from there, and Stuarthas been involved in the HarryPotter series right from the start.
Speaking at Cinema CityNorwich about his work on thephenomenally successful HarryPotter series, Stuart said:
“Directors have changed,camera men have changed, butthere’s been this core group thatcouldn’t be shifted. I did say‘you don’t have to have us’, butI think they were intimidated byour permanence.”
Despite the release of the finalHarry Potter film, Stuart is stillheavily involved in Potter andhis sets can be seen at theWarner Bros studios in Watford.He said: “I’ve been involved inthe consultation on the contentand choosing the sets. Theyare not all being built in exactlythe same way as they were inthe films – we’ve got to be ableto get 5,000 people throughthere every day.” He has alsodesigned ‘The Wizarding Worldof Harry Potter’ theme park atUniversal Studios in Orlando.
Photographer: Andi Sapey
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Ben Farrin (BA GraphicDesign 2002), Founder andManaging Director of TheStudent Pocket Guide haswon a £50,000 cash prizethrough the Barclays ‘Take One Small Step’ enterprise competition.
Ben started his business in2005 from a tiny flat in Norwichand the idea came from hisown experiences of moving toNorwich to study. Ben trialledthe concept at NorwichFreshers Week in 2005, havingspotted a gap in the market fora publication distributed tostudents at multiple universitiesand colleges within the samecity, promoting all the bestplaces to eat, drink and go out. The magazine is free so the only revenue is through advertising.
A few years on the companyemploys six full-time staff and circulates the magazinesacross 20 cities. Thecompany is using the prizemoney to launch a mobilephone application and todevelop the business’s online presence.
www.thestudentpocketguide.com
BUSINESSSTARTED INNORWICH BEDSITWINS £50,000CASH PRIZE
JONATHANCOLAM-FRENCHSCHOLARSHIPThis year’s recipient of the Jonathan Colam-FrenchScholarship is Anna Burbidge, Year 3 BA Surface Design.
The top twelve students whoachieved an overall mark of72% or above at the end ofYear 2 were invited to submit a written statement about theirwork and also a selection ofimages. After careful
consideration Anna Burbidgewas chosen by JonathanColam-French to receive theaward of £1,000 which he has generously donated again this year.
Rhino Repeat Design
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GRADUATION 2011
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HONORARYDOCTORATES ANDGRADUATIONOn 28th June 2011 over 500undergraduate and postgraduatestudents from NUCA’s Schoolsof Art, Media and Designcollected their degree certificatesalongside the Design Editor ofthe Sunday Times, GordonBeckett and internationallyacclaimed artist Professor RogerAckling. The certificates werepresented as usual in StAndrew’s Hall, where graduands,friends and family were also ableto enjoy a glass of champagneafter the ceremony.
An alumnus of NUCA who was raised in Great Yarmouth,Gordon Beckett has workedfor the Sunday Times for 33years and has held the post ofDesign Editor since 1988.Gordon has kept up a closerelationship with the UniversityCollege returning as a guestlecturer, offering work
placements to students and employing alumni, whocontinue to make a substantialcontribution to the output ofthe Sunday Times each week.
Many Fine Art alumni will havehad the privilege of workingwith Professor Roger Ackling,who exhibited his solo show‘Sunlight’ at the Gallery atNUCA in November 2011.Roger has had over 100 majorsolo exhibitions worldwide,including showing extensivelyin Japan during the 1980s. Hissculptural installations explorespiritual and poetic themesand provide insight into thematerial world. He hasmaintained a relationship with NUCA spanning fourdecades as a visiting lecturer,Research Fellow and animportant member of theUniversity College's governing
body. Many alumni recallinspiring tutorials with this wellrespected international artist.
Professor John Last, Principalof NUCA, said: “We aredelighted to award HonoraryDoctorates to Gordon andRoger, both of whom haveparticipated so thoroughly inthe academic evolution ofNorwich University College ofthe Arts. Through their guestlectures they have served assources of inspiration togenerations of NUCA studentsand their examples will inspireour latest cohort of graduatesas they embark on the nextstage of their lives.”
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GRADUATE PROFILE
After graduating I went toLondon to work as a juniordesigner at Stocks AustinSice (now known as SASand part of the MSLGROUP).After a few months I realised I preferred working oneditorial as opposed tocorporate design and soapplied for a position atTIME magazine. It was afairly steep learning curveand the following year wasspent getting used tothinking more editorially.
During my six years at TIME I was fortunate enough towork with internationallyacclaimed illustrators andwas given free rein on thesupplements, including onfashion supplements whichinvolved shoot art directionand working withphotographers and stylists. I travelled to the Hong Kongoffices and worked a summerat Fortune in New York. By my third year at TIME Iwas Associate Art Directorworking on a large portion ofthe weekly news magazine,as well as designing specialfeatures and covers.
It was during one of mysummers in Hong Kong that I stopped in on an old workcolleague who had moved to Dubai to work with apublishing company outthere. Grazia was launchingand she asked me if I’d like to be the Art Editor. Initially I said no but after a year Iwas approached once more,as the art editor was leaving,and this time I took the job.
After two years I waspromoted to Art Director andone and a half years after thatappointed as Group ArtDirector for Grazia MiddleEast and Grazia Bahrain. Noweach month I design betweenfour and five weeklies and amonthly publication.
Art Directing is such arewarding job role. Passingon knowledge andrecognising and encouragingsomeone’s creativity issomething to enjoy. Despitewhat some people think, I believe print magazines stillhave a place and relevanceregardless of the onlinephenomena. And most
importantly, whilst the internetmay provide instant updatesand easy access, we humanslike to have somethingphysical to touch. I still get akick each week when I seepeople picking my magazineup off the shelves or readingit in cafes.
My dream magazine to workon would be W Magazine andof course Vogue! As well asbeing art director, I’ve beenfortunate enough to also writefor Grazia. I’ve written travelfeatures, opinion columnsand beauty reviews – therearen’t many jobs that offerthis kind of addition to yourjob role and for that I amthankful. Weekly magazinedesign is not for everyone –I’ve worked with otherdesigners who have comefrom monthly titles and justcan’t handle the pace anddeadlines for weeklies. Afternearly 11 years on weeklies I wonder if I could handle themore sedate process ofworking solely on a monthly!
GRADUATEPROFILEHELEN CARTER
Grazia Middle East and GraziaBahrain Group Art DirectorHelen Carter (BA GraphicDesign 1998) tells us about hercareer in editorial design.
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BA Fashion Course LeaderSue Chowles says: “TheFashion Show is a wonderfulopportunity for the studentsto showcase their designwork in a professionalcontext. Throughout the first year of the degree thestudents have beenencouraged to challengecreativity within their workwhilst maintainingconsideration of creativepattern-cutting andprofessional garmentconstruction techniques. The Fashion students haveproduced some exciting,
innovative and inspirationalwork which will set abenchmark for future years.”
The event showed work fromthe students’ first majorproject, Deconstruction-Reconstruction, whichchallenged them to creategarments from unwantedsecond-hand clothingdonated by Cancer Research UK.
The show was supported bymain sponsor John Lewis,with hair by L’Oreal, make-upby MAC at Jarrolds, shoes byTopShop, tights sponsored
by Pretty Polly, Henry Hollandfor Pretty Polly, Aristoc andJohn Lewis.
John Lewis NorwichOperations Manager LesleyGeorge says: “It’s fantasticthat the fashion course isnow available in Norwich andJohn Lewis is excited to playits part in supporting thegrowing creative talent in thecity. Norwich is now a topfashion destination and it’sgreat to add the fashioncourse into the mix.”
www.nuca.ac.uk/courses
BA FASHION
IN VOGUEIN MAY 2011 BA FASHION STUDENTS SHOWCASED A SELECTION OF THEIR DESIGNS AT THE INAUGURAL NUCAFASHION SHOW, WITH A CATWALK SET UP IN THE DUKESTREET BUILDING, FOR SPECIALLY INVITED FASHIONINDUSTRY REPRESENTATIVES AND LOCAL VIPS.
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NUCA NEWS
Jules Allen (BA Fine Art –Printmaking and Photomedia2004, MA Fine Art 2006) is apractising artist and foundermember of ‘turn the page’. ‘turnthe page’ builds on a growingprogramme of high profile visual
2012 will be the inaugural yearfor this unique two-day event(4th – 5th May 2012) for artiststhat are informed and inspiredby the conceptual and structuralproperties of the book and a‘must see’ for bibliophiles, artlovers and collectors. The fair will be the first in the region toshowcase an eclectic mix ofsculptural and altered books,traditionally produced limitededitions, zines and multiplesalongside book basedinstallation, digital and virtualbooks that are functional,fictional, informative, evocativeand above all innovative.
Submissions must be receivedby 5th December 2011, judgingwill take place in January 2012and successful artists informedby 13th February 2012. Thepanel of four judges includesNUCA Fine Art Course LeaderCarl Rowe. www.turnthepage.org.ukwww.julesallen.co.uk
MA Textile Culture 2011graduates have formed theSeamless Textile Group andare exhibiting at the 16thEuropean Textile NetworkConference, TEXERE Exhibition2011 in Lithuania.
The Association of TEXERE(Textiles Education andResearch in Europe) resulted
from the first ever Europeanconference for people involvedin Textiles Education at alllevels in 1990 in Kehl,Germany, organised by theGerman associationFachverband Textilunterricht.
In 2007 TEXERE was invited tobecome an Education WorkingGroup within ETN (EuropeanTextiles Network) whichopened the doors to severalnew members from Africa,Canada, USA, Taiwan, andEurope. It is the onlyorganisation for internationaltextile teachers for every levelof education from primaryschool to university level as
well as postgraduate, adulteducation and textile artistswho give textile workshops foradults and schools, all workingtogether equally.
The exhibition at the KaunasBiennial shows a variety of workfrom members, their educationgroups and textile art groups atevery level from Austria, Cyprus,England, Ireland, Italy,Netherlands and USA.
Exhibitors: Caroline McNamara,Sue Foster, Jane Ironside,Gillian Hills, Cathy Rumsey,Stephanie Potts, Mary Wardand Janine Oxley.
and public art projects that havebeen showcased at The Forum,Norwich including NCA08,NCA10 and Photo ID (all inpartnership with NorfolkContemporary Art Society), Earthfrom the Air and Go Elephants.
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SEAMLESS TEXTILES
Sal Sapientia, Jules Allen and Krystyna Hamera
Caroline McNamara and Les Bicknell
Award for the NUCA MonasteryMedia Lab, said: “Adrian Friendis a fantastic appointment, andwill get the School ofArchitecture at NUCA off to agreat start. The new BAArchitecture is very welcomenews for local students andarchitecture practices alike asthere is a need to attract andretain talented and well-trainedarchitects in the region. Adrianis extremely talented himselfand I am sure he will be a hugeasset for NUCA.”
Adrian Friend added: “The newcourse is a superb opportunityto return the study ofarchitecture to its traditional artschool context supported bytalented architects, old andnew. We are lucky to have onour doorstep some of the besthouse designers and architectsin the UK. I believe Norfolk and Norwich architects are the future model of asustainable profession. It isimportant we understand theprofessional micro-climate and how the definition ofarchitecture is constantlychanging and evolving.”
www.nuca.ac.uk/courses
From September 2012students will be able to studyBA Architecture at NUCA. Thisnew course, the first of its kindin the region, has beendeveloped in close consultationwith the architecture professionand will be complemented by a network of visitingpractitioners and industryrepresentatives to ensurestudents are equipped withprofessionally relevant skills.
NUCA has appointed ArchitectAdrian Friend to write and leadthe course, who joins us fromthe University of Nottingham.
An architect with 20 years’experience, he studied atKingston University and theBartlett School of Architecture,going on to found Friend andCompany Architects. Adrian’swork has been widely publishedin Blueprint, Architects’ Journal,Building Design and Wallpaper*.His latest ‘Corner House’project was published inArchitect's Journal (22ndSeptember 2011).
Anthony Hudson of Norwichbased Hudson Architects, whorecently won the RIBA EastSpirit of Ingenuity Workspace
ADRIAN FRIENDAPPOINTED BA ARCHITECTURE COURSE LEADER
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NUCA NEWS
Architect: Friend and Company Architects. Photographer: Ioana Marinescu
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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO
JENNY LEONARD (BA FINE ART 2011)
I’ve just been selected as anartist with a gallery in NottingHill, London called DebutContemporary (www.debutcontemporary.com) on thebasis of my degree show work.I’ve been selected for anotherexhibition in London, DrawingCrowds (www.drawingcrowds.co.uk), which opens ineast London in November2012. I have also recentlycompleted an eight foot longmural for a company based inNorfolk called Comm-Tech andhave painted several murals around Norwich including at the Grays Fair CourtCommunity Support Centre.
www.jennyleonardart.com
HELEN BREACH (MA DRAWING 2009)
Starting in September 2011, I’ve been selected as Artist inResidence for the College ofWest Anglia. The residency is for the full academic yearculminating in an exhibition atKings Lynn Art Centre in July2012. As an artist in residence I will be sharing my knowledgeand experience with students,delivering workshops or providingsupport with curriculum projects,supervising and assisting smallgroups of students or informalassessment for individuals. I have also participated in ‘OnLandguard Point’, part of ArtistsTaking the Lead – a major workat the heart of the London 2012Cultural Olympiad. LandguardPoint is the site of the lastsuccessful defence of England in 1666 and the project exploresthe notions of home, trade anddefence across the six countiesthat form the East of England.The film of all the East Anglianevents will be shown in 2012 and there will be a poeticsequence with a view of an artist drawing the disintegratingcliffs of Overstrand. That artist isme, sketching in pencil a viewtoward a house perilously closeto the edge of the cliff. The musicfor the film is composed byMichael Nyman.
PAUL GOODWIN (BA GRAPHIC DESIGN 2000)
I have recently started acompany making homeaccessories and our productscan be viewed online at:www.goodwinandgoodwin.com.We started last year and thingshave grown very quickly. Wecurrently have products in about20 independent shops andgalleries and are in negotiationswith two large departmentstores. We completed our firstshow at London Olympia andphotos are online at:paulgoodwin.wordpress.com.Our products have also beenfeatured in the Sunday TimesStyle Magazine, Living Etc, IdealHome and the Daily Mail.
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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO
FRANK PUDNEY (BA GRAPHIC DESIGN 2003)My latest piece of work ‘People’was selected for the JerwoodDrawing Prize 2011. No victoryto report, but my work showedat the Jerwood Space in centralLondon with the other selectedartists and the exhibition is nowtravelling to other galleriesaround the country until themiddle of next year, dates andvenues to be confirmed. Achildren’s book idea I actuallycame up with for my degreeshow eight years ago has beendeveloped into an animatedshort this year. Babycowproduced it, Steve Coogannarrated it and it has been reallysuccessful at film festivals andhas allowed us to travel allaround the world. It wasawarded second place inToronto for the Audience ChoiceAward, third place in Ottowa,and received lots other awards.
www.frankpudney.com
MATTHEW CRAVEN (BA ILLUSTRATION 2011)I’m working on a couple ofpieces for two London-basedmagazines and have beencommissioned to do anillustration for the New YorkTimes. It appeared in print inthe Sunday Review. It is for apiece written by Sarah Shourd,a writer who was imprisoned in Iran from July 2009 toSeptember 2010. The NewYork Times on Sunday sells1.4 million copies so it is greatpublicity for me to have mywork published by them. Mywork was also featured in theDegree Show edition ofCreative Review this summer.
crav.co.uk
LAUREN GREAVES (BA GRAPHIC DESIGN–ILLUSTRATION 2010)I have been commissioned byagency Carter Wong Design,London. The brief was to createan illustrated map of Englandrelating to the National Trust FineFarm Produce Awards for 2011.The map had to illustrate awhole range of produce fromacross the country, includingmeats, beers, jams andpotatoes. I wanted the image tohave a lively and very British feelto it, so also loosely included anEnglish summer fete theme.
Carter Wong Design was founded26 years ago by Phil Carter andPhil Wong (both BA GraphicDesign 1977). The agency hasjust completed another fullproject for The National Trust, to promote the introduction ofcontemporary art into theirhistoric properties across the UK.
www.carterwongdesign.comwww.laurenmarina.com
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TIM DAVIES
Drift, 2011, HD Video, 10mins 49 secs.
Courtesy of the artist and Tom Rowland
Fine Art. Photo: Sean Puleston.
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TIM DAVIESREPRESENTS
WALES ATVENICE
BIENNALE
The exhibition contains aselection of recent video andframed works as well as newwork made by the artist inresponse to the site of Venice.The works within the fiverooms of the Ludoteca arechoreographed to climacticallyend with the HD video ‘Frari’,2011. This film documents ajourney through the internalarchitecture of the FrariCampinile as the artist climbsand descends the medievaltower. The negotiation of thefive exhibition spaces allowsfor a still, contemplativemoment at its middle with‘Bridges’, 2009-10, 60 sandedpostcards, 9 x 15cm.
TIM DAVIES (BA FINE ART 1990) ISREPRESENTING WALES THIS YEARAT THE 54TH VENICE BIENNALE INA SOLO SHOW CURATED BY TOMROWLAND (FOUNDATION 1991).
Cadet, Parade at Cardiff, 2010, Looped Digital Video. Courtesy
of the artist and Tom Rowland Fine Art. Photo: Sean Puleston.
TIM DAVIES
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The Ludoteca Santa MariaAusiliatrice has many beautifuldecorative features. The marblefloor of the Chiesa, room 1, hasbeen cleaned and polished to a high sheen. The idea is toproduce a shimmering effect asboth light and sound from thevideo, dart and bounce aroundwithin the ecclesiastical interior.
The second and smaller room of the Biennale Exhibition isthe Sacristia. Here a singleprojection is found on a raw,crumbling and untreated wall.‘This is Cadet (Standing atAberystwyth)’, 2006 is a silentlooped video, each looplasting under four minutes. Theplaster and paint of this spaceis falling away, enhancing theprojections ghostly glow. Thesimple native projection of acadet as she stands during a memorial ceremony isappropriately positioned in this intimate chamber.
After a simply formed andsympathetically treatedtransition space, the third roomof the exhibition is Bridges.This group of 60 pieces isdisplayed over a largeprefabricated wall designed toblock the windows and allowthe lighting to be controlled.Each postcard has beendelicately sanded away by the artist, so that scenery andbackground information istaken away, until only thebridges, the common theme of all the cards, remains.
The success of the suite ofspaces is the transition betweenrooms. The larger, dark spacesfilter sound through to smallersilent spaces while bright lightfrom the exhibitions centrecreeps back into the darknessthat proceeds it.
Cadet, Running at Cardiff, 2010, Looped
Digital Video. Courtesy of the artist and Tom
Rowland Fine Art. Photo: Sean Puleston
View of Drift from Room 3, Bridges.
Courtesy of the artist and Tom Rowland
Fine Art. Photo: Sean Puleston
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