Nottingham Trent University, School of Art & Design - Achievements

Jessica Forgie (Fashion Communication and Promotion) has won The Graphic Design Award (19-24 Age Group) at The Young Creatives Awards Nottingham .

Sarah Price (ex-Fine Art 2002) wins 2nd Gold Medal at Chelsea Flower Show.

"Her first foray into design came as a painter, when she did a degree in fine art at Nottingham Trent University (She is often commended for the painterly quality of her gardens.) "

Quote from Vogue

Bill Balaskas, Associate Professor in Visual Communication, has been selected out of 273 nominated artists as one of the four winners of the annual European Investment Bank Institute Artist Awards.
https://institute.eib.org/

Ben Wood and Tom Knowles for their Male Baggage project:

https://www.dandad.org/awards/new-blood/2018/dropbox-paper/3386/male-baggage/

And Leah Davies for her game ‘In your Face’:

https://www.dandad.org/awards/new-blood/2018/hasbro/3346/in-your-face/

MFA student Szilvia Ponyiczki has won the award of the 10th Grotesque Triennial in Hungary, awarded by the Hungarian Art Academy's Fine Art College (equivalent to the Royal Academy of Arts in the UK).

These awards are nominated by students and are in recognition for outstanding teaching and outstanding support. We had several staff who were shortlisted:

Kathryn Coates
Catherine Bellamy
Jemma Gilboy
Duncan Howell

We also had two members of our staff team who went on to win; Dan Radburn won the award for Outstanding Support and Andy Pepper won the award for Outstanding Teaching.

The Vice-Chancellor's Teaching Award, which recognises and celebrates inspirational teaching.

The observers praised Tim for his breadth of experience and knowledge and his delivery of memorable, engaging and positive learning experiences.

The panel also selected Tim for the Vice-Chancellor's Outstanding Teacher Award for an Established Teacher. This award celebrates and showcases the work of an established academic who embodies distinguished teaching and learning.

Tim will be receiving his awards at the Summer Graduation.

MA Illustration student Tilly Matthew's was shortlisted to the final 9 for:
STRATFORD LITERARY FESTIVAL/SALARIYA
CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOK PRIZE 2018

Jazz Bather , Chang-Yi Yun (Mi Mi), and Tilly Matthews have also been shortlisted for:
50 years of fashion.

A new work by Andrew Pepper (Fine Art) has been included in Analogue Ensemble : Extending the Frame as part of the Whitstable Biennale 2018.

Curated by Cathy Rogers the exhibition features; Amy Dickson, Simon Payne, Andrew Pepper and Mary Stark.

Bringing together holograms, woven film, recorded mobile phone performance and a classic avant-garde film used anew as a graphic score, the exhibition explores the relationship between screen space, physical space and the experience of viewing moving image within the conditions of the gallery.

More details at www.whitstablebiennale.com/project/extending-the-frame

Alison Ballard (Fine Art) is showing new work on the Big Screen Southend.

'The Inner Voice', 2017
Alison Ballard
05:08 minutes

80% of people hear an inner voice when they read. It helps us to understand and digest what we are reading but it also slows us down. Speed-reading technologies can help us to remove the inner voice but this voice may be a profound part of what it means to be human. What impact could removing it have on our cognitive abilities and our sense of self? In this short text-based video, Ballard invites us to do battle with our own inner voice, to experience life without it, while musing upon its significance within our own lives.

She is exhibiting with: Hazel Brill, Nikhil Vettukattil and Sam Williams.

Exhibition dates: 20 January to 22 April 2018

A sound walk by Andrew Brown (Fine Art) commissioned by NTU graduate and curator Rosie Hermon, part of the Winter Trails: Remapping Nine Elms festival.

Participants will be led together on an accessible and immersive soundwalk through the area undergoing massive redevelopment. Within the augmented reality of the soundwalk opportunities are created for personal speculation on place, time and the processes of change.

http://nineelmslondon.com/events/winter-trails-remapping-nine-elms/opencity-nine-elms

Ben Judd (Fine Art) is participating in Bloc Assembly with Compass Live Art at Bloc Projects Sheffield. He will be working with with Faye Green, a 2013 graduate from Fine Art at Newcastle University. Bloc Assembly creates a short-term, experimental platform to support the work of two artists at different points in their careers, whose practices incorporate performance and live elements in different ways. Judd and Green will be using the space to test or develop work in progress with an audience, and a dinner and round-table discussion will draw their work in relation to wider questions surrounding process in live art and performance and their distinction/intersection with other fields.

A solo exhibition by Danica Maier (Fine Art) combining drawings, stitch and wall drawing with a selection of embroidery and textile pieces from The Usher Gallery collection, Lincoln, UK.
26 Sep 2014 - 11 Jan 2015
Taking a rarely seen embroidered Jacobean bedspread as a starting point, Maier has created a series of new works, including a large wall drawing which are rooted within the Lincolnshire textile collection, and the history of embroidery.

Emma Cocker (Fine Art) & her collaborator Clare Thornton (a participant in the NTU Fine Art Summer Lodge) have a new exhibition at project space plus in Lincoln from 3rd November.
The Italic I is a collaborative interdisciplinary project by Emma Cocker and Clare Thornton, comprising new sculptural, time-based and textual works for exhibition, animated by a series of live events. Within The Italic I, Cocker and Thornton approach the gallery as gymnasium, a training space for exploring the different states of potential made possible through voluntarily surrendering to the event of a repeated fall. The Italic I involves an attempt to slow and extend the duration of falling in order to suspend and elaborate upon its discrete phases or scenes, which in turn sheds light on the process of artistic collaboration itself and the making of meaning within creative labour.

Rob Flint (Fine Art) presented a short talk on the context of the work 'Flock Mnemonics' in the Sonophilia Conference at Bishop Grossetest University at 11.15 on Friday 24th October 2014.

Duncan Higgins will be exhibiting, testing and developing new visual material along with Sue Brind and Shauna McMullen from Glasgow School of Art, in the Reid Gallery at GSA between 16th - 21st September.
This has resulted from a residency carried out during the summer of 2014 in Odda, Norway and the Orkney Islands.

Early research by Andrew Pepper (Fine Art) has been acknowledged in a new book: 3D, History, Theory and Aesthetics of the Transplane Image by Jens Schröter

Published by Bloomsbury in Volume 6 of the International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics, Pepper's work is referenced in the chapter Since 1948: Holography.

The publishers also used one of Andy's drawings as the main book cover illustration.

3D, History, Theory and Aesthetics of the Transplane Image.
Jens Schröter
Volume 6 of the International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics. Founding editor: Francisco J. Ricardo.
Bloomsbury Academic, New York and London, 2014.
ISBN: HB: 978-1-4411-9408-4