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ISSUE 13WINTER 2013

THE MAGAZINE FORALUMNI AND FRIENDSOF NORWICHUNIVERSITY COLLEGEOF THE ARTS

CONTENTS

PRINCIPAL’S WELCOME 03

NUCA NEWS 04

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE SHOWS 2012 06

ALUMNI AWARDS 09

MARK ALLEN INTERVIEW 10

ALUMNI NEWS 14

GRADUATION 16

ALUMNI REUNIONS 17

NUCA NEWS 18

IDEAS FACTORY 19

ALUMNI NEWS 20

COLIN SELF 22

MA DEGREE SHOW 2012 24

MA CURATION SHOW 2012 26

MA CAREER PROFILE 28

DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES 30

ALUMNI BENEFITS & SERVICES 31

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO 32

EVENTS 34Magazine written and edited byCaroline Bailey with contributionsfrom Stuart Anderson, AlisonHumphrey, Alice Kent, Gemma Melton and Louisa Milsome.

Designed by Emma Bailey.

Proofreading by Joanna Peios at WORDetc.

Copyright © Norwich UniversityCollege of the Arts 2012.

All rights reserved. Under nocircumstances can any part of thismagazine be reproduced or copied inany form without the prior permissionof the copyright owners.

All information is understood to be correct at the time of print. TheUniversity College cannot accept any responsibility for any errors oromissions in the information provided.

For more information on the Alumniand Development Office please visit: www.nuca.ac.uk/alumni or email: Caroline Bailey, Alumni and Development Officer at:alumni@nuca.ac.uk.

Front cover image: Black Swan by Rupert Smissen

formally launching the newuniversity in the new year,including the installation ofJohn Hurt CBE as our firstChancellor. As some of you willknow, John studied Fine Art atGrimsby School of Art andCentral St Martins beforeswitching to acting and RADA.The rest, as they say, is history,but John has kept a stronginterest in fine art as well as his obvious expertise in mediaand acting.

Normal business at NUCA hascontinued and we enrolled over1,700 students at the start ofthis academic year, our largestever body of students. Thisreflects the continuing popularityof our courses. Included in thesefigures were 28 students on ournew BA Architecture degree,which brings a further richnessto the mix of courses across ourcampus. Estate developmentscontinue with new facilities to support drawing andmodel-making, an upgradedillustration studio and anupgraded media room in theWest Garth.

Regardless of when you studiedat the institution, we hope youwill feel part of the new universitycommunity and will continue tosupport and visit us. We’d bevery pleased to welcome youback to see the developmentstaking place first hand. We havean exciting calendar of eventscoming up (see page 34), whichwe hope you will be able toattend and we look forward toseeing you very soon.

With best wishes

Professor John LastPRINCIPAL & CEO

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It is a great pleasure to have theopportunity to update you withdevelopments since the lastedition of Beyond. As we go toprint we have just heard Ministerfor Universities and Science,David Willetts’ announcementthat we are one of 10 highereducation colleges which havemet the criteria to be awardeduniversity title. He hasrecommended that NUCA is putforward to Privy Council forformal approval to becomeNorwich University of the Arts –our preferred new title as agreedin consultation with currentstudents, staff and Governors.

The announcement is verysignificant for specialistinstitutions like ours. It removes the little understoodanomaly that granted auniversity title on the basis of size not quality. The‘University College’ designationwas applied to those withfewer than 4,000 students and the announcementoverturns this.

There is a great deal ofexcitement on campus and the announcement is much welcomed bycurrent students (andgraduates we hope) whodeserve recognition for theirhard work and commitment to the creativity, innovation andacademic rigour that makes the UK a world leader in thecreative industries.

We will celebrate thisachievement during our 170thAnniversary celebration

in 2014/15 and will letyou know more of ourplans in due course.We will however be

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Norwich School of Art and Design formed

First BA coursesoffered in Fine Artand Graphic Design

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The new ruling corrects theanomaly that institutions requireat least 4,000 students to be adesignated university and iswelcome news to smallerspecialist institutions like NUCA.

After consultation withstudents, staff and Governorswe have proposed our newname to be Norwich Universityof the Arts (NUA). Followingapproval from the Privy Councilwe will change to the newname in January 2013.

This announcement is the startof another exciting chapter inthe institution’s 170 year history,which we will celebrate in 2015.Established in 1845 as theNorwich School of Design, theSchool was set up to providedesigners to local industries. In 1965, we became NorwichSchool of Art following theintroduction of the Diploma inArt and Design (DipAd). In 1975,we offered our first BA degreesin Fine Art and Graphic Design.

Following a merger with GreatYarmouth College of Art andDesign in 1989, we wererenamed Norfolk Institute of Artand Design (NIAD) and the GreatYarmouth campus remained openuntil the mid 1990s. In 1993, weestablished our first Mastersprogramme in Fine Art and in1994 we became a designatedHigher Education Institution. This led to another change ofname to Norwich School of Artand Design (NSAD), which weremained until 2008, when afterreceiving our own Taught DegreeAwarding Powers we becameNorwich University College of theArts (NUCA).

We hope that whicheverinstitution you studied at, you willremain part of the new universitycommunity and will join us tocelebrate the history and thefuture of Norwich University ofthe Arts during our anniversary year in 2015.

www.nuca.ac.uk

The Norwich Schoolof Design is formed

Guntons and HaversFactory acquired to beknown as ‘Guntons’

Merged with GreatYarmouth College ofArt and Design

St Georges Buildingwas built

Norwich School ofArt and first DipAdoffered

We are pleased to announce that NorwichUniversity College of the Arts (NUCA) isone of 10 Higher Education Institutions in the country to have met criteria to beawarded the ‘University’ title.

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A number of design and mediacourses at NUCA have beenaccredited with a CreativeSkillset Tick and highlighted as some of the best courses in their field. Creative Skillset isthe industry body that supportsskills and training for the creativeindustries and is supported bythe top companies in designand media.

BA Film and Moving ImageProduction, BA Games Art and Design, BA Graphic Design,BA Photography and MAMoving Image and Sound haveall received approval inrecognition of their links to thecreative sectors and trackrecords in securing graduateemployment. Accreditation isbased on rigorous assessmentby industry professionals andrecognises practice-basedcourses that provide studentswith the technical andproduction skills, experience andabilities that employers look for.

The BA Games Art and Designcourse is one of only four similar

A new MA Photography*course is planned forSeptember 2013 entry. Thecourse will emphasise theimportance of professionaland business skills alongsidecreative practice and isdesigned to support studentsin producing a highlyindividual body of work andan informed commercialpractice. The courseencourages an engagementwith all areas of thephotographic industry whichwill help to develop studentsas critically-aware,aspirational practitioners.

MA Photography students will work in the recentlyrefurbished East Garth, fittedwith contemporary studiospaces and industry-standarddigital facilities.www.nuca.ac.uk/maphotography

*Subject to validation

BA courses to receive theCreative Skillset Tick and the firstoffered by a specialist institution.

The accreditation follows asuccessful year for the courseincluding Team Swallowtail, ledby a group of graduates fromthe course, picking up the BestNewcomer award at the BAFTAVideo Games Awards. TheiriPad game, Tick Tock Toys isnow in development for releasethrough the Apple App Store.

The course has also recentlypartnered with Sony to offer a number of internships tocurrent students and NUCAhas been selected to host ajoint BAFTA/Creative Skillsetstudent lecture in 2013. BA Animation is currentlyundergoing the accreditationprocess and is expected toreceive the Creative SkillsetTick by the end of theacademic year 2012/13.

TiCK OF aPPrOVal FOr DESiGN aND mEDia

Ryan Pentney Giulia Ranchetti

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UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE SHOWS 2012

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Photography by Sarah Kennedy

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The campus once againbecame one large exhibitionspace with work beingexhibited in St Georges Street,Guntons, Duke Street and theMedia Lab. Work on displaycovered textiles, surfacedesign, fine art and the

basement in Guntons wascurated specifically to showsculpture and video work fromthe BA Fine Art course. Graphic Design and GraphicCommunication showed theirwork in their new studio for thefirst time and was described by

many visitors as the “beststudent graphics show” they had seen.

Visiting the degree show for thefirst time was John Hurt CBE,who is soon to becomeNUCA’s first Chancellor. He claimed: “It is a really

BIGGER AND BETTEREVERY YEAR

Samantha KerrAlex Searle

In June 2012 over 400 final year students unveiled their degreeshow featuring a range of work across all BA courses. The privateview attracted a wide audience from artists to potential employers,buyers and curators all looking to find the next big talent.

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Stacey Knights

John Hurt CBE at the Degree Show

Joshua Lockwood

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Final year media studentsfrom the Animation and Film and Moving ImageProduction coursespremiered their work at aspecial industry screeningheld at Cinema City,Norwich, introduced by John Hurt CBE.

Attending the screeningwere professionals from the animation, film andtelevision industries whohad descended on Norwichto view the work by excitingnew animators andfilm-makers. AssistantPrincipal (Quality andResearch) and Dean ofMedia, Keith Bartlettcommented: “It is hard toremember that these filmshave not been created bythose with years ofexperience and Hollywoodbudgets, but by studentfilmmakers and animatorswith tight deadlines, smallproduction teams and low budgets”.

impressive show. I hope in myrole as Chancellor, I will be ableto help NUCA become an artsuniversity second to none.From what I have seen today,this is eminently possible.”

With Professor John Lastawarding a ‘Principal’sCommendation’ to more

students than ever before, hesaid in his speech at the privateview: “Every year I say that theshow is the best I have seenand I can say it again this year.The standard of work is veryhigh.” The quality of the showwas reflected in the increase insales of student work – it was a record year with studentsselling more of their work than ever before.

With next year’s showincorporating the firstgraduating cohort from BA Fashion, it is going to beanother exciting display.

Still from Jessica Waterhouse film

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A number of graduating students from this year’sDegree Shows received the following professionalawards for their work in the show including:

DEGrEE SHOwSUCCESSES

Alex Searle, (BA Animation2012) already has two trophiesto his name for his degreeshow film titled What isAnimation? The film won theCritics’ Choice Award at theSunrise Film Festival 2012 andthe Creative Filmmaking Awardat the National Association forHigher Education in the MovingImage (NAHEMI) studentawards in October 2012. Alex,who was thrilled with bothawards, commented: “Havingalready won the Critics’ Choiceat the Sunrise Festival, it wasbrilliant to win the NAHEMIStudent Award, I feel like I needto build a trophy cabinet!”

www.vimeo.com/44930199

Rupert Smissen,(BA Illustration 2012) had adouble success with hisdrawing Black Swan, inspiredby the film starring NataliePortman. In June 2012 Rupertwas awarded a coveted YellowPencil at D&AD New Bloodexhibition and in July 2012 hebecame the first winner of theHermione Hammond DrawingAward, a national studentdrawing competition set up inmemory of artist HermioneHammond and worth £4,000.

Also shortlisted for a YellowPencil was Stacey Knights (BAIllustration 2012), for her WhiteLies magazine cover featuringGary Oldman's role in the filmTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

Gregory Pye, (Design forPublishing 2012) won theprize for Best Student Book at the Book Design andProduction Awards 2012.Gregory’s typographical booktitled A Snippet of Sound, tellsthe story of Norwich throughthe sounds Gregory observedas he walked through the cityincluding the bells of St PeterMancroft church and peopleon the market. He said: “Tosee my book alongside thosepublished by large publishinghouses was a real honour.”

Kerrie Scott, (BA Design forPublishing 2012) was alsoshortlisted for the award forher book titled The Waitress.

Alex Searle and NAHEMI award Black Swan by Rupert Smissen A Snippet of Sound by Gregory Pye

THE BBCWEATHERSYMBOLSDEFINED MYCAREER

MARK ALLEN INTERVIEW

MARK ALLEN GraDUaTEDFrOm THE DiP aD COUrSE iN1974. a SEriES OF wEaTHErSYmBOlS HE CrEaTED FOr HiSFiNal YEar PrOJECT lED TO aSUCCESSFUl 30 YEar CarEEriN TElEViSiON GraPHiCS.

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Weather symbols by Mark Allen

On 16 August 1975, the BBC’sweather broadcast featured aseries of weather symbols forthe first time. These symbolswould become one of themost iconic pieces of designin broadcasting, if not designhistory. There was a nationaloutcry when in 2005 thesymbols were replaced with acomputerised weather mapbut the symbols are still usedon the BBC website today.

After a call to the Alumnioffice from the BBC OneShow looking to contactMark, we were set thechallenge of tracking himdown. Thanks to the power ofsocial networking, we foundMark and asked him about theweather symbols and hiscareer since.

What memories do you haveof your time at NorwichSchool of Art?

John Tomlinson or ‘JT’ as hewas affectionately known wasHead of Graphic Design and hewas an extrovert, charismatic

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and innovative leader. I alwayslooked forward to Wednesdayswhen the freelance graphicdesigners arrived like KenKirkwood and Brian Love. They were so inspirational, in particular I found Ken’sboundless enthusiasm somotivating and Brian Love evenput a roof over my head when I first moved to London. I wasa rubbish first year student asJohn Hall, AKA ‘Arnos Grove’told me: “well Mark this issimply just the worst”.However in my second year I won the Richardson BrownTravel Prize as most improvedstudent of that year.

We had guest lecturers fromindustry such as Michael Wolfffrom Wolff Ollins who came into give a talk on the Blue Circlelogo which I thought was themost influential and meaningfulinsight into the world ofcorporate identity I learnt as a student.

Mark Allen

MARK ALLEN INTERVIEW

How do you think the courseprepared you for yourprofessional career?

It all began at Norwich for meand it was my weather symbolsproject for my final year showthat started my career. After Igraduated, the fact I had studiedat Norwich definitely openeddoors for me. The long days andbeing in the studio until late eachnight was good preparation forwhat was to come.

Where did the idea for yourweather symbols come from?

I have always had a passionfor the weather and wouldhave loved to have been aMeteorologist. I used to watchthe BBC show Pebble Mill atlunchtimes in the commonroom, I was amazed at thenumber of letters from viewersasking what “the brown dot orthe black triangle?” meant. I knew they were theinternational standardrecognised by meteorologistsbut evidently not by thelicence payers. At this time self explanatory pictogramsdepicting individual sports had been used at the 1972

Olympics and had a highprofile in the design press. It became screamingly obviousthat the same principle should be applied to theweather symbols.

How did the weather symbolsend up on national television?

Key to my success, accordingto Colin Cheesman, Head ofGraphic Design at the BBC wasapproaching the Met Officefirst. Had I approached theBBC the plan would have gotcaught up in Met Office andBBC bureaucracy. Design bycommittee is everyone’s worstnightmare! Jack Scott, SeniorWeather Presenter, helpedenormously to counter some of the Met Office reservations.They thought the cloudsymbols were too generic andlooked like cumulus nimbus(thunderstorms) and as rainleaves the cloud it is sphericalnot teardrop shaped. Jackpointed out that the BBCmission statement was toinform, educate and(importantly) entertain.

With a letter of introductionfrom the Met Office, my next

stop was Rex Moorefoot, Head of the BBC PresentationDepartment, who in turnintroduced me to ColinCheesman. I was offered athree month contract to workon the October ’74 Electionand after that I was given a six week secondment to thepresentation department. Mybrief was to refurbish theexisting set of symbols and todevelop my new ideas for the project A Change in the Weather.

In 1976 I was awarded aspecial citation for innovation in television graphics fromD&AD (Designers and ArtDirectors Association) for theweather graphics.

Where did your career go from here?

After the weather project Imoved to the Open University(OU) broadcast. I worked oninformation graphics for themaths and chemistry coursesincluding creating graphics forthe periodic table which was achallenge. I stayed with the OUfor three years before moving

Michael Fish weather forecast 1975. © BBC Photo LibraryWeather symbol concepts

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to BBC Manchester in 1979.Here, I worked on a wholespectrum of television graphicsfrom the network transmissionof the cult TV programme Red Dwarf, current affairsprogramme That’s Lifeand a brief stint in theentertainment department as an Assistant Producer.

In 1991 I was appointed SeniorGraphic Designer and for fiveyears headed up the awardwinning Manchester graphicsteam. In 2001 I joined3sixtymedia as Client Manager.3sixtymedia was a joint venturebetween Granada and BBCResources. I was there until2007 when I was fortunateenough to take early retirement.

What technology wasavailable to you?

There were many innovatorsduring my time, and newtechnology which wasconstantly evolving. We usedQuantel for creating graphicsand were always having tothink of new ways to do things.A good example was RedDwarf’s ‘Timeslides’. I had tocombine a number of moving

images and a nonlinear movingbackground. Sounds awfullyboring but the secret of a goodvisual effect is that you don’teven see it.

How do you spend your time now?

Since retiring I have startedpainting. I have a photographicapproach to painting and workwith gouache. I have a passionfor walking and climbing: thepinnacle of my achievementswas the ascent of theMatterhorn on Friday 13th (ofall days!) August 1983. I havejust returned from trekking inPeru, and I still have a passionfor the weather.

Have you ever felt theweather symbolsovershadowed the rest of your career?

I have never been terriblyambitious or interested in thecelebrity culture. I am aware thatthe weather symbols defined mycareer but I have no regrets, infact quite the opposite. Everyday was different at the BBCand I loved every minute of it. I have two wonderful loving and

supportive daughters who areboth creative; having a family lifewas also very important to me.

Finally, if you were graduatingthis year, what advice wouldyou give yourself?

I think the best piece of advice I was ever given was by adesigner from a top West Endstudio. After presentingmy portfolio to him we spokefor 10 minutes with the lastpage, which is never your bestpiece of work, open. He said tome: “We have just spent the last10 minutes talking with melooking at your worst piece ofwork.” Therefore my top tip isalways leave your portfolio openon your best piece of design!

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Farmers of the Sea Red Dwarf logo

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BiG BaNGSCiENCE Fair

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TWO GRADuATES FROM NuCA HAVE BEENSELECTED TO WORK WITH THE INSTITuTE OFFOOD RESEARCH (IFR) TO CREATE AWARENESSOF NETWORK SCIENCE TO VISITORS TO THE BIGBANG SCIENCE FAIR IN MARCH 2013.

Alison Atkins (BA Fine Art2006) and Cordelia (Doo)Spalding (BA Visual Studies2009) are working with the IFRto create an interactive displayrelating to Network Science, a contemporary area ofinvestigation into thetraceability of food and asuccessful tool in combatingthe spread of disease in thefood chain. Over 65,000visitors are expected at ExcelLondon, during the three dayfair and the pair will beexhibiting alongsidemulti-national companiesincluding Rolls Royce, BAESystems and NASA.

It is not the first time the pair will collaborate as theyregularly work together underthe pseudonym Me and Er, a

play on the word meander andwhich they describe as a“travelling arts emporium”,visiting community artsprojects and events in an openended rice horse box. The ideaof the horse box is that visitorscan walk through and view theart on display as if in a gallery.Their aim is to make art funand to make it moreaccessible to people who maynot otherwise engage with art.

After meeting in 2009 at anArtists for Climate Changemeeting, they discovered theyshared a mutual interest inscience art and were keen towork together. They launchedMe and Er in 2011 and havecollaborated on projects for theSainsbury Centre for Visual Arts(SCVA), the Yorkshire Sculpture

Park, Norfolk County Counciland the Broads Authority.

Each artist is also successful in their solo practices, Alison is a sculptor and her workexplores the relationship wehave with the landscapearound us. Cordelia’s work is about connections andexplores why we respond in certain ways.

Their next project will be atouring exhibition in 2013relating to the topic ofAlzheimer’s disease anddementia. They are keen to work with other NUCAgraduates and will put out a call for artists in early 2013.

www.meander.org.uk

Me and Er travelling arts emporium Cordelia Spalding and Alison Atkins

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Katie Mantell (BA Textiles2012) was featured in a recent edition of the BBC2craft programme Paul Martin’sHandmade Revolution. Theprogramme gives designer-makers the opportunity to gainfeedback on their productsand the judges select a winnerfrom each episode.

Katie’s colourful hand woventeddy bears were picked asthe judges’ favourite for herepisode. Katie impressed thepanel with her weaving skills,developed during her time atNUCA, in creating thetwill-based weave her bearsare made from, as well astheir universal appeal. Katie’s prize was to have her bearCedric displayed at theVictoria and Albert Museumalong with other winningwork from the series.

www.creative-threads.co.uk

KATIE VOTEDJUDGE’SFAVOURITE

STUDENTWALLPAPERCOMPETITION 2012Textile Designer, Rachel Parker (BA Textiles 2012) was announced as one of the winners at the 2012Student Wallpaper Design Competition held at Imago Gallery, London, in September 2012.

The brief was to create a rangeof contemporary wallpaperstaking inspiration from the workby British Architect AugustusPugin: 2012 marks thebicentenary of his birth.Organised by CAMAC Design,founded by NUCA graduateCaroline McNamara (MA TextileCulture 2010), the competitionis an opportunity for studentsto design their own wallpapersand to have them displayed inan established gallery.

Rachel’s winning design titledDigital Gothic was described by Designer Peter Gomez, as: “A colourful exploration of therelationship between patternand space.” Her prize is a work

placement with Zoffany, thefabric and wallpaper house,and her work was selected tobe exhibited at the House ofLords in October 2012.

Despite only graduating in July2012, Rachel has had a busy sixmonths. She was voted TextileStudy Group’s Graduate of theYear and her work has beenpicked up by Flock, a designcollective that represents newdesigners under their own name.Most excitingly, her fabric designNorthmore Blend has beencommissioned by exclusiveLondon store Liberty, and will be on sale in the store in 2013.

www.rachel-parker.tumblr.com

Digital Gothic wallpaper by Rachel Parker Cedric by Katie Mantell

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GRADUATION 2012

Concluding each ceremony,NUCA Principal, ProfessorJohn Last, commended andcongratulated students on thesuccess and standard of theirdegree show. He said:“Graduation is a day for thewhole institution to celebrate.We hope our graduates willhave as distinguished careersas our Honorary Doctors whowe have honoured today.”

Next year’s ceremony will bethe first as Norwich Universityof the Arts and the inauguralgraduation ceremony for theUniversity’s new Chancellor,John Hurt CBE.

investment remit deliveredthrough the British FilmCommission to attract andsupport the production ofinternational feature films in the UK.

Illustrator Graham Rawle is bestknown for his Lost Consonantsseries, which ran in TheGuardian for 15 years. In 2009,he won Book Design of the Year award at the British BookDesign and Production Awardsfor his reinterpretation of TheWizard of Oz and another of hisbooks, Woman’s World, iscurrently being made into a film.

Also collecting their degrees inrecognition of their services tothe fields of the arts, designand media, were our threeHonorary Doctorates. DavidJuda, a gallerist withinternational significance, wasawarded his Honorary Degreein recognition of his commercialand curatorial work at Annely Juda Gallery, London.

Adrian Wootton has served asChief Executive of Film Londonsince 2003. During this time,London filmmaking hasincreased by an impressive30%, with Film Londonreceiving a national inward

THIS YEAR’S GRADuATION CELEBRATION TOOKpLACE IN JuLY 2012 AS OVER 500 pOSTGRADuATEAND uNDERGRADuATE STuDENTS COLLECTEDTHEIR DEGREE CERTIFICATES AT ONE OF THE THREECEREMONIES TAKING pLACE DuRING THE DAY.

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Graham Rawle

Photography by Andi Sapey

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LONDON puB NIGHT 2012 It was great to see so manyformer students at our first everLondon get-together at the endof November 2012. Graduatesfrom a range of year groupsattended the event held in apub near Shoreditch andenjoyed meeting up with oldfriends plus other graduatesfrom NUCA. Due to thesuccess of the event, we willdefinitely be holding anotherevent next year. To receivedetails about this and otherexclusive alumni events, pleasejoin our Facebook group: TheOfficial NUCA Alumni Group; or register your email addresswith us at:

www.nuca.ac.uk/alumni/register

London Pub Night

Caption1980 GRADuATESREuNITE IN NORWICHA group of students whograduated in 1980 revisitedtheir alma mater in September2012 as part of a weekendreunion in Norwich. The eventorganised by Phil Birch (BAFine Art 1980), was the firsttime the group of friends hadmet up in Norwich for manyyears and for some, it was thefirst time they had revisited theUniversity College sincegraduating. After a tour of theirold departments, the groupreminisced about their time atthe then Norwich School of Artand were impressed by, if notslightly envious of, the facilitiesand equipment students nowhave access to.

contact Caroline Bailey, AlumniRelations and DevelopmentOfficer at: c.bailey@nuca.ac.ukor call: 01603 756288.

If you would like to arrange areunion for your former courseor year group and would likehelp in contacting people orholding it at NUCA, please

Back row L-R: Mark Hiner, Maddy Orme (née Pickard), Nigel Orme. Front row L-R: Jill Hiner (née Nurse), Phil Birch, Piotr Hennig, Dave Fallows, Dave Nicholson

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BY THE riVErSOF BirmiNamProfessor Lynda Morris, Chair ofCuration at NUCA, recentlycurated By the Rivers ofBirminam, a collection of 100photographs by Vanley Burketaken between 1968-2011recording the lives of the peopleof Handsworth, Birmingham.

Widely recognised as one of theUK’s foremost photographers,Vanley Burke’s contribution tophotography has beensignificant. It is a contributionwhich represents probably thegreatest photographicdocument of the CaribbeanDiaspora in post-war Britain,detailing the experience of blackpeople in the UK and theircommunity identity.

Having dedicated the past 45years to recording the lives ofthe people of Handsworth,Vanley continues tophotograph those around him

with a determination toreclaim, recognise and re-establish the cultural presenceof African Caribbean people;to readdress the community as‘British Caribbean’, a definitionfar more representative ofwhere we are now.

Professor Morris spent twoyears researching the historicalcontext of the photographs andselected a number of local presscuttings to be included in apublication to accompany theexhibition. Cuttings coveredsocial issues facing thecommunity such as housing,schooling, employment and theirrelationships with the Police andthe white community.

The exhibition was funded byArts Council England, theRoughley Trust and NorwichUniversity College of the Arts.

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NEW TATELECTuRESERIES AT NuCAA series of lectures given by Marcus Dickey-Horley,Curator of Access andSpecial Projects at TateModern, began in November2012. The first lecture, heldin the Duke Street LectureTheatre, titled RevealingQueer Art from the Tatecollection discussed theissues that arise whendefining and presentingQueer Art. The talk wasscheduled to coincide withthe screening of Tate’s queer art history film Art with a Captial Q at Fusion in the Forum. Two furtherlectures to be given byDickey Horley are scheduledfor February and May 2013.For more details on eventsat NUCA, please visit:www.nuca.ac.uk

African Liberation Day, Handsworth Park, 1977. Photo by Vanley Burke

IDEAS FACTORY

NEW ONLINEARCHIVEGOES LIVE

A new website which bringsalive the history of East Angliaand Upper Normandy waslaunched in October 2012 atthe Forum, Norwich. Thewebsite (www.archivealive.org)is the result of a collaborationbetween the HeritageEconomic and RegenerationTrust (HEART), the ideasfactory@NUCA and Norwichagency Soak Digital. The siteaims to give the public anopportunity to view curatedfootage, showcasing events,places and people from bothFrance and England over

several decades, starting as far back as 1896.

NUCA students, guided byexperienced staff, were involvedin the pitching process andwere then tasked with creatingthe timeline module for thehomepage and to present thearchive in an engaging, clearand user friendly way for bothFrench and English audiences.

Technical restraints wereconsidered and addressed suchas the inclusion of three viewingscreens to show the previous,current and next film and how

the imagery would be viewedon different platforms includingsmartphones and tablets.

At the website launch, JaneJarvis, Digital Heritage ProjectManager at HEART,commented: “Norwich HEARTis very pleased with the websitedelivered following thecollaboration between NUCAand Soak Digital. Working witharchive film shot so many yearsago, and with an aim to ensurethe website and films reach anintergenerational audience, itwas good to have the input ofthe creative minds of NUCAstudents to showcase thefootage – we are more thanhappy with the results.”

To commission a projectthrough the ideas factory,please contact Ed Walker,Business Director at:e.walker@nuca.ac.uk or call: 01603 610561.

www.nuca.ac.uk/ideasfactory

HEART Digital Archive Web Still

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SERCO ILLuSTRATION pRIZE 2012It was a double win forNUCA’s BA Illustration course at the Serco Prize forIllustration 2012 with twoformer students winningprizes. The winners wereannounced at the LondonTransport Museum inNovember 2012. This year’stheme was Secret London andentrants were asked to createan illustration which depictedlittle known or unusual aspectsof the capital’s history, culture,characters and communities –past or present.

Chris King who graduated inJuly 2012 won Second Prize,worth £1,000, for his illustration,titled Pigeon Disco. His imagefeatures Nelson’s Column byday and a home for pigeons by

night. On accepting his award,Chris commented: “I was reallysurprised as the standard ofentries was extremely good butI was delighted to win.”

Guy Roberts who graduated in2011 won third place for hispiece titled W4. His image isinspired by the area of Londonhe grew up in and it has beenselected as one of four entriesto be printed as a posteravailable to buy. Guy said: “It is great for my CV. Theawards ceremony was also agood opportunity to chat tothe judges and to makecontacts within the industry.”

Pigeon Disco by Chris King

Forest Floor by Georgia Dodson

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YOuNG MASTERSpRIZE 2012Georgia Dodson (MA Fine Art2012) was named as a runnerup in the Young Masters Prize2012. Georgia’s work wasexhibited in November 2012 atCynthia Corbett Gallery and atSphinx Fine Art along with theother shortlisted artists. Shewill also exhibit in specialprojects organised by CynthiaCorbett Gallery in 2013.

The competition recognisesartists whose work combinesinnovation with awareness ofthe Old Masters and art of thepast. Georgia was shortlistedfor the prize for her detailed oilpaintings of forest floors,

which echo the 17th centuryNetherlandish sottoboscopaintings of artists such asOtto Marseus van Schrieck(1619-1678). Georgiacommented: “It’s very excitingto have the opportunity toexhibit alongside artists withsimilar concerns, makingreference to art history. Mytutors at NUCA have been verysupportive providing me withprofessional and technicaladvice to apply for awards andprizes which could further mypainting practice.”

www.georgia-dodson.blogspot.co.uk

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ALUMNI NEWS

A character created by a NUCAgraduate for his degree showfilm is set to be released as agame to millions of usersworldwide. Daniel Saunders,(BA Graphic Design (Animation)2010) has been developingLard over the past two yearsinto a multi-platform project.Supported by BAFTA awardwinning writer and producerand visiting lecturer to the BAAnimation course, Keith Tutt,they formed Lard Ventures andlaunched the Lard Wants WorldPeace website in December

2011. Each day Lard posts anew way in which world peacecan be achieved. The projectwas a winner in AnimationMagazine’s Pitch Party 2012 inwhich US TV executives picknew projects they’d like to seesucceed in the coming years.

With the help of another NUCAgraduate, Andrew Matlock (BAGames Art and Design 2009),Lard’s first video game, LardWants Waffles has just beencompleted. Andrew hasextensive experience inproducing and releasing videogames through his companyIndustry based in Canada.With discussions underway onfuture collaborations including a feature film, Lard looks set forworld domination and hopefullyworld peace.

www.lardwantsworldpeace.com

GRADuATE BOOKpuBLISHED

Elizabeth Earle’s (BA CreativeWriting 2009) debut novelTartarus was published inAugust 2012. The novel isdrawn from Elizabeth’spersonal experience of nightterrors and is based on thecharacter Diane Stillman whotravels to the underground cityof Tartarus in the pursuit offinding her sister’s killer. The novel explores how farsomeone would go if they hadnothing to lose with Diane’sbattle of keeping her humanity

as she commits onemonstrosity after another.

Elizabeth started writingTartarus as an outlet for hernightly hallucinations whilststudying at NUCA. Aftergraduation she taught at a maleprison before moving home toWarwickshire. Elizabeth has justcompleted her second novelEdge of Demons. Tartarus isnow available from mostbookshops and for the Kindle.

www.eearle.com

LARD’SQuEST FORWORLDpEACE

Lard by Daniel Saunders

COLIN SELF

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COLIN SELF:

ONE THOUSaNDSKETCHESIN ASSOCIATION WITH JAMES HYMANGALLERY, LONDON, THE GALLERY AT NuCAWAS HONOuRED TO HOST AN ExHIBITION BYINTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED pOp ARTISTAND NuCA ALuMNuS COLIN SELF.

One Thousand Sketches installation at the GalleryPhotography by Denisa Ilie

COLIN SELF

The exhibition encompassed aunique and dazzling display of1,000 sketch-based works bythe artist dating from the1950s to the present day.Self’s irreverent and obsessiveproduction and collection of works included rapidsketches, mementos,assemblage and collage.

Colin Self studied at NorwichSchool of Art between1958-1961 before going to theSlade School of Fine Art. Hequickly became an importantand widely exhibited figure inBritish art and was aninfluential artist in the mid1950s Pop Art movement,

eloquently characterising theparanoia and fear of nuclearweapons, nuclear power andthe Cold War. In 2001 he wasawarded an HonoraryDoctorate at NUCA and in2008 was commissioned to design NUCA’s firstceremonial mace to be used at graduation ceremonies.

To coincide with the exhibition,Fine Art and Visual Studiesstudents spent two daysworking with Self. The first daywas spent in the drawingworkshop and on the secondday, the group made rapiddrawings from a moving traintravelling from Norwich to Ely.

Self also appeared inconversation with ProfessorLynda Morris at the Gallery,which was attended by alumni.The talk gave a fascinatinginsight into the life of the artistfrom his childhood, his time asa student at Norwich School ofArt, to his more recent work inthe exhibition.

Still based in Norfolk, Selfcontinues to paint landscapesas well as addressing a widerange of themes and ideas invarious media.

www.nuca.ac.uk/thegallery

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MA DEGREE SHOW 2012

Peta-Stacy Wainwright

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Swee Ling YewKelly Hamilton

MA DEGREE SHOW 2012

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iNDiViDUalaND UNiQUE

A highlight of the show waswork by Peta-StacyWainwright (MA Fine Art 2012),whose work was selected forMAstars by Harriet Loffler,Curator of Modern andContemporary Art at NorwichCastle Museum and ArtGallery. MAstars is an annualselection of the mostpromising artists from the UK'sleading MA courses to befeatured on the artists’ websiteAxis (www.axisweb.org).

Other highlights included fabricsdesigned by Jo Rolfe (MA TextileDesign 2012), a collection ofsmock dresses by Swee LingYew (MA Fashion 2012), KellyHamilton’s (MA CommunicationDesign 2012) stunning handdrawn graphics and calligraphyand screenings of short films bystudents on the MA MovingImage and Sound course.

Professor John Last, NUCAPrincipal, visiting the exhibitionsaid: “Our commitment to

providing extensive teaching toour MA students including aprogramme of professional guestspeakers, full-time access topractical workshops and tutorswho are practitioners themselves,results in an end-of-yearexhibition which presents artists,designers and media makers thatare intensely creative andinnovative.” More work from theshow can be viewed online at:

www.nuca.ac.uk/thegallery/madegreeshow

THE ANNuAL MA SHOW OpENED AT THE END OF AuGuST 2012AND ExHIBITED THE “INDIVIDuAL AND VERY uNIQuE” WORKOF 40 pOSTGRADuATE STuDENTS ACROSS pROGRAMMES INART, DESIGN AND MEDIA, INCLuDING THE FIRST GRADuATESFROM MA FASHION AND MA CuRATION.

William Freeman

MA CURATION SHOW 2012

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Photography by Fergus Good

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I thought I was the audienceand then I looked at you wascurated by Charlotte Carver,Alison Humphrey and PhoebeO’Donnell, the first cohort ofgraduating students from theMA Curation course at NUCA. A show within a show, theexhibition opened in theGallery at NUCA prior to themain MA Degree show inAugust 2012.

The exhibition’s aim was to bevaried and thought provoking,fully reflective of the NUCACollection from which theselection was made, whereworks were borrowed from

their original context andinserted into a new narrativepremise. The narrative againstwhich the exhibition was hungcame from A Happy Eye: A School of Art in Norwich1845-1982, written by MarjorieAllthorpe-Guyton in 1982. “A traditional archive exhibitionthat deals with ‘time’ and‘history’ didn’t seemappropriate here”, commentedcurator Phoebe O’Donnell.“Many people involved in theshows documented in thearchive are still working andliving locally. It felt fitting touse our concept to create aweb of connections in anattempt to capture thehumanness and sense of placethat ties them all together.”

A variety of media featured inthe exhibition, including a verypopular cinema space, whichviewers entered through acurtain printed with an imageof Bik van der Pol’sEASTinternational 1997installation, which recreatedKonrad Fischer’s conceptualgallery, a piece which ProfessorLynda Morris had promoted as one of her favourites. Manyvisitors recalled MarleneHaring’s Because Every Hair is Different from East 2009. The show stoppers wereundoubtedly the procession

of original figurative plastercasts in the window whichhave been used by generationsof art students as drawing aidsfor anatomical drawings.

It was challenging for the threecurators to search through allthe material, but by employingan explorative approach,literally every file wasinvestigated intuitively.Through some generousconnections they managed to source works by artistsincluding Alexis Hunter and Alexandre Singh.

A publication whichaccompanied the exhibitionintended to provide anextension of giving space tothings which physically couldnot be included in the show.The mini archive alsocontained dispatches frompast exhibitions held at NUCA.

Phoebe O’Donnell reflects; “I am incredibly proud of whatwe have achieved, on both aconceptual and organisationallevel. I feel the exhibition paystribute to the legacy of theGallery and NUCA in a playfuland subtly complex way.”

www.nuca.ac.uk/macuration

Marlene Haring

MA CURATION SHOW 2012

i THOUGHT i waSTHE aUDiENCE THENi lOOKED aT YOU

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MA CAREER PROFILE

planted in my mind. I was originally consideringMA Fine Art, I previouslystudied BA Fine Art atNorwich in the 1990s, butwhen I read NUCA was nowoffering fashion as apostgraduate degree itseemed like fate! I wasimpressed with the emphasison practical skills andcraftsmanship. It was perfecttiming for me in several ways,my children were both atschool, and I was ready for a challenge.

How did the MA help you to develop your practice?

The MA Fashion course wasfantastic, it enabled me tocombine my existingknowledge with new creativeapproaches to pattern cuttingand garment construction. I was able to develop apractice that integrated fine art-based concepts within afashion context. The staff

ROMILLY QUAYMA FASHION 2012

Romilly Quay was one of thefirst cohort of students tograduate from MA Fashion atNUCA in September 2012. Weasked Romilly to tell us moreabout the course and whyshe chose MA Fashion.

What were you doing prior to starting your MA?

I was working from home as a dressmaker, mainly doingalterations and repairs as well aslooking after my children. Whenmy youngest started school, I began volunteering at theMaddermarket Theatre, Norwichin the wardrobe department.

Why the MA Fashion course at NUCA?

Prior to the MA I hadundertaken a short course atthe Slade School of Fine Art. I enjoyed being a student againso the idea of doing an MA was

CASESTuDY

IF YOu WOuLD LIKE MOREINFORMATION ABOuT COuRSES AT NuCA, pLEASECONTACT ALICE KENT,MARKETING ANDRECRuITMENT OFFICER AT: A.KENT@NuCA.AC.uK OR CALL: 01603 610561.

“I WAS IMpRESSEDWITH THE EMpHASISON pRACTICAL SKILLSAND CRAFTSMANSHIp.”

combined a rigorous criticalapproach with a positiveattitude that encouraged us to generate and extend ourindividual methodology. Wealso had the opportunity toshow work at House of Fraserand to be in the annual FashionShow. The positive feedback I received gave me a lot ofconfidence. I loved being in alively and thriving environment.

www.nuca.ac.uk/mafashion

MA collection by Romilly QuayRomilly Quay in the Fashion studio

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All former studentsreceive a £500 MAtuition fee discount

Book online: www.nuca.ac.uk*Subject to validation

MA OPEN DAYS 2013 17 January 11 April16 May18 July2 September (during MA Degree show)

ma Communication Design

ma Curation

ma Fashion

ma Fine art

ma moving image and Sound

ma Photography*

ma Textile Design

Still from Anomie by Roscoe Gibson-Denney

DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

The start of the new 2012/13academic year saw newscholarships presented to two third year undergraduatestudents as they embark ontheir final year and the build up to their degree show.

Siobhan O’Keeffe, BA FashionYear 3, was awarded theannual Jonathan Colam-FrenchScholarship now in its thirdyear. Siobhan was selected forthe scholarship for her passionand commitment to her studiesand her future career. CheriSmith, BA Fine Art Year 3, wasnamed as the first recipient ofthe Jennifer Davey MemorialAward for Fine Art. The awardwas offered by Brian Davey inmemory of his late wifeJennifer, a supporter of the artsand who had a specific interestin art history.

The Alumni Fund supportsand enhances the learningexperience of current andfuture students ensuringthey receive access to thebest facilities and teachingresources available. TheAlumni Fund supports threecore areas: Scholarships andBursaries, the Gallery and aGeneral Development Fund,which is distributed to areasaround the institution whereit is needed the most.

Whatever the size of yourdonation, you can reallymake a difference and if we can claim Gift Aid onyour behalf your donationgoes even further.

If NUCA has made adifference to your career andyou would like to contributeto someone else’s, you canmake a donation bydownloading a form fromour website, setting up adirect debit or you may evenwish to consider leaving us agift in your Will. www.nuca.ac.uk/supportingnuca

Receiving a scholarship cannot only support a studentfinancially but can also givethem an added confidenceboost to know that someonerecognises and invests in their potential.

If you are interested insupporting an award orscholarship for a student atNUCA, either personally orthrough your company, pleasecontact Caroline Bailey, AlumniRelations and DevelopmentOfficer at: c.bailey@nuca.ac.ukor call: 01603 756288.

For more information onsupporting NUCA, please visit our website at:

www.nuca.ac.uk/supportingnuca

DEVElOPmENTaCTiViTiES

Brian Davey, Cheri Smith and Professor John Last. Photography by Fay HarrisSiobhan O’Keeffe, BA Fashion Show 2012Photography by Denisa Ilie

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KEEp IN TOuCHPlease don’t forget to tell us if you move house,change email, telephone/mobile number, start a newjob or launch a newventure. We always love tohear what our graduatesare up to. You can updateyour contact details at:www.nuca.ac.uk/alumni/register

and email us your news at:alumni@nuca.ac.uk

SuppORTINGOuRGRADuATESFormer students cancontinue to use the CareersService for up to three yearsafter graduation or for longerwith an Alumni Card.Richard Peat, CareersAdviser, is available for aone-to-one pre-bookedappointment, which can beby telephone, face to face,email or Skype. To book anappointment, please contactRichard at:r.peat@nuca.ac.uk

call: 01603 751471 or Skype: nuca.careers

SIGN up FOR OuR NEWE-NEWSLETTERRegister for our newmonthly e-newsletter andreceive news updates,invites to events, creativeopportunities and othernews that cannot wait until the next magazine. To subscribe to the mailinglist, please register yourcontact details at:www.nuca.ac.uk/alumni/register

JOB SHOpReceive new job alertsstraight into your inbox bysigning up to our free onlinejob page. To register andview current vacancies,please visit:www.nuca.prospects.ac.uk

If you have a job vacancythat you would like toadvertise to NUCAgraduates, please emailRichard Peat, CareersAdviser at: r.peat@nuca.ac.uk

One-to-one careerappointments with theCareers AdviserAccess to BarNUCAReduced membership to Cinema City, NorwichAlumni membership to the Sainsbury Centre forVisual Arts, Norwich.

You can renew yourmembership after three yearsby re-applying for your card.

An application form can be downloaded from the website:

www.nuca.ac.uk/alumni

Send it with your paymentand a good quality passportsize photo to the AlumniRelations and DevelopmentOfficer at NUCA. Cards areusually posted within five to seven working days.

ALuMNICARD

Graduates from NUCA cancontinue to access some ofthe University College’sresources with an Alumni Card.The card costs £25 and is validfor three years and gives you:

Access to Duke Street,including the Library andUniversity ShopPersonal log in and accessto the computer facilities in the LibraryRemote access to theintranet to view the Library,Careers Service and Alumni pages

JOIN uSONLINEKeep in touch with us and other graduates by joining our socialnetworking groups:

Search ‘The OfficialNUCA Alumni Network’

Join other creativeprofessionals on LinkedIn, search ‘NUCA Alumni’

Follow us @NUCANews

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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO

CHRIS LOuKES

(MA FINE ART 2007)

My short film titledGentleman’s Walk wasselected for the AestheticaShort Film Festival (ASFF) heldin York in November 2012. Thefour day festival showcasedover 150 films from 30countries in all genresincluding experimental andartist’s films. The film recordspeople as they pass up anddown the busy shopping streetin Norwich. Using Final CutPro, the digital video uses amoving grid to presentpassers-by, the film is removedand colours added which referto the six states of being.Adding to the ambient soundis a meditation gong whichstrikes for each line. My workis inspired by Rothko’sSeagram Mural, which I saw in the Tate and my aim is tocreate work that evokes asimilar emotional and visual response.

www.chrisloukes.co.uk

HILLY BEAVAN

(DIpLOMA IN ART

AND DESIGN 1975)

After graduating from Norwichalong with Anthony Lawrence,we set up Lawrence andBeavan and have had afascinating career since. We have worked with everyonefrom public schools to publiccompanies, artists and artsorganisations, and the world’slargest animal rightsorganisation. As well ascommissioned work we’vealways created our ownprojects although often theseare completely pointless (seewww.shelfofshame.com)! Our latest venture is a series of glasses cases which wedesigned and printed on toretro style tins – the idea beingthe design is specific to thespectacles inside and why they are needed – reading,driving or music. They may make a fun present for somebody.

www.whichglassesarewhich.com

www.landb.co.uk

WILL TEATHER

(DIpLOMA IN

FOuNDATION STuDIES

ART & DESIGN 2000)

After a very enjoyableFoundation at Norwich, I studiedin the big smoke at Central StMartins, before returning toNorfolk about five years ago. Since then I've tutored drawing at NUCA on various courses, but spent most of my timedeveloping my artistic practice. I was selected as theArtist-in-Residence for AberdeenArts Centre in the summer 2007,which was followed byresidencies with the Anteros ArtsFoundation in Norfolk and ascholarship to America asArtist-in-Residence for the ArtsStudents League of New York in 2012. I have had artworkfeatured in the internationalCeleste Prize and Royal Societyof Portrait Painters, and recentlycompleted a paintingcommission for the City ofAberdeen. In 2010 I completed apostgraduate course at Chelsea.I have recently received an Arts Council England grant tostage a performance aroundsome the fictional characterswithin my artworks.

www.willteather.com

willteather@hotmail.com

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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO

pATRICIA MuLLIN

(MA WRITING THE

VISuAL 2007)

Since graduating from MAWriting the Visual in 2007 I haveset up a number of site-specificwriting courses at Julian Shrineand Norwich Cathedral, whichculminated in the publication of ‘Voices from the Cathedral’ an anthology of short fiction. In January 2013 I will bedelivering Fictional Narratives, a course inspired by the WorldArt collection at the SainsburyCentre for Visual Arts. Afterreceiving some mentoring fromthe author Jill Dawson, my novelCasting Shadows is ready forpublication and I am launchingmy novel Gene Genie on Kindleand e-reader platforms in December 2012.

www.patriciamullin.com

www.scva.org.uk

JOHN RANCE

(FA FINE ART 2005)

For the last five years I havebeen a member of the Norwich20 Group and I am currently onthe committee. I’m also part ofNOVA and exhibit with bothgroups on a regular basis. I show in London at theEspacio Gallery, which is anartists collective near BrickLane and I curated a showthere on behalf of the 20 Groupin December 2012. I alsoorganise and curate the annualArt Show for the WorsteadFestival. I also had a solo showat the Atrium North Walsham,Norfolk in autumn 2012.

www.norwich20group.co.uk/John_Rance

johnrance@talktalk.net

JuLIA WEBB

(BA CREATIVE

WRITING 2009)

After graduating from BACreative Writing in 2009, I continued my studies with aMA Creative Writing (poetry)degree at UEA and was awarded a Malcolm Bradburycontinuation grant for poetry. In 2011, I won The NationalPoetry Society's StanzaCompetition with my prosepoem Lent. I currently workfreelance in the literature sector(clients have included The ForumTrust, Writers’ Centre Norwichand City College Norwich). I also teach Creative Writing at4women Resource Centre inNorwich. I am on the editorialteam of a new literary journal fornew writing called Lighthouse,which will be launched inJanuary 2013. I recently receivedsome Arts Council funding and I am currently working on myfirst poetry collection.

julia.webb2@gmail.com

juliawebb.org/blog/

www.poetrysociety.org.uk

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EVENTS@NUCa

THE GallErY

MY GIANT

COLOuRING BOOK

JAKE & DINOS CHAPMAN

4 December 2012 –12 January 2013

AVIS NEWMAN

MOBILE RELATIONS

22 January – 2nd March 2013

TEN MINuTE GALLERY

TALK – AVIS NEWMAN

22 January 2012 12.30pmFree entry

WASHI: THE ART OF

JApANESE pApER

12 March – 20 April 2013Free entry

TEN MINuTE GALLERY

TALK– WASHI

12 March 2013 12.30pmFree entry

*WASHI SYMpOSIuM

16 and 17 March 2013Duke Street

DEAR LYNDA…

30 April – 25 May 2013

TEN MINuTE GALLERY

TALK – DEAR LYNDA…

30 April 2013 12.30pmFree entry

For opening times visit:www.nuca.ac.uk/thegallery

OTHEr EVENTS

NORFOLK

CONTEMpORARY ART

SOCIETY LECTuRE

John Christie talking about thework of John Berger 12 February 2013 Duke Street Lecture Theatre 7.30pmFee payable on the door

TATE LECTuRE SERIES

Marcus Dickey-Horley 27 February 2013 Duke Street Lecture Theatre6.00pm – 7.00pmFree entry

*COWBIRD DESIGN

SYMpOSIuM

7 and 8 March 2013Open, Norwich

NORFOLK

CONTEMpORARY ART

SOCIETY LECTuRE

Mariele Neudecker23 April 2013 Duke Street Lecture Theatre7.30pmFee payable on the door

TATE LECTuRE SERIES

Marcus Dickey-Horley15 May 2013 Duke Street Lecture Theatre 6.00pm – 7.00pmFree entry

LECTuRE: DRINKING WITH

GILBERT AND GEORGE

Professor Lynda Morris16 May 2013 Duke Street Lecture Theatre6.00pmFree entry

*NuCA FASHION SHOW

22 May 2013

For more details on events at NUCA please visit:www.nuca.ac.uk

*More details to follow

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