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ISSUE 11 WINTER 2012 THE MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF NORWICH UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF THE ARTS

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DIARY DATES THE GALLERY AT NUCA:

PRINCIPAL’S WELCOME

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REPEAT

NUCA NEWS

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GALLERY NEWS

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JAY POTTER

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Tuesday 10th January – Saturday 28th January 2012 An exhibition of works by NUCA Textiles staff

MA DEGREE SHOW 2011

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THE INFORMATION SHOW

ALUMNI NEWS

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Tuesday 14th February – Saturday 3rd March 2012 EASTinternational Archive exhibition

GRADUATION 2011

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GRADUATE PROFILE

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BA FASHION

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NUCA NEWS

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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO

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TIM DAVIES

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ALUMNI BENEFITS & SERVICES

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PRINTED IN NORFOLK Friday 9th March – Saturday 21st April 2012 Works from the Coracle Press 1987-2011

OTHER EVENTS: NUCA FASHION SHOW Wednesday 30th May 2012 Magazine written and edited by Louisa Milsome with contributions from Stuart Anderson, Henry Jackson Newcomb, Tom Rowland, Jay Potter and Helen Carter.

Proofreading by Joanna Peios at WORDetc: www.wordetc.co.uk Designed by: www.designpod.info Copyright © Norwich University College of the Arts 2011.

All rights reserved. Under no circumstances can any part of this magazine be reproduced or copied in any form without the prior permission of the copyright owners.

All information is understood to be correct at the time of print. The University College cannot accept any responsibility for any errors or omissions in the information provided.

For more information about the Alumni and 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: Vintage spray cans, Jay Potter

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE SHOWS Wednesday 27th June – Tuesday 3rd July 2012 www.nuca.ac.uk

PRINCIPAL’S WELCOME

I am pleased to introduce Beyond, the magazine for alumni and friends of NUCA. This autumn’s edition gives you a flavour of the developments here at the University College and in particular our increasing popularity with new students, including those from outside the European Union.

will particularly support our new BA Architecture starting in September 2012. These changes are all designed to keep us at the forefront of our subjects. I hope that you may have the opportunity to visit us to see the way that we are developing and responding to high demand to study with us.

Our new undergraduates this year top 600 for the first time and our MA numbers now approach 100. The Guardian places us as the best art, design and media specialist institution in England in their summer league tables and our students were complimentary in the National Student Survey 2011, placing us as the joint top specialist art and design university in the country. All of these outcomes are the result of much hard work by academic and support staff as well as our students.

We regularly receive visits from graduates both to see the University College campus and in many cases to contribute to courses and discuss their careers. We very much appreciate this and welcome your continued engagement and contribution to the education of the next generation of creative practitioners.

We have undertaken a number of estate projects over the summer including a new Photography Studio in the East Garth Building, a new Graphic Design Studio in the top floor of Guntons and a new Drawing Studio and Model Making Area in St Georges. These resources

Next year will see the start of a different fee regime for undergraduate study but with high demand and positive views from students and external stakeholders we are confident that student recruitment will remain strong.

I hope you enjoy the content of this issue of Beyond magazine and invite you to submit your own stories and contributions for future editions. We are always very interested to know what our alumni are doing and pleased to learn how successful you are in your chosen paths.

With best wishes Professor John Last PRINCIPAL

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NUCA NEWS Kristian Francis, Sophia George and Rosie Ball

Cornelia Parker

NUCA HOSTS NORFOLK CONTEMPORARY ART SOCIETY AND CORNELIA PARKER

GRADUATES WIN BAFTA NOMINATION Three graduates have received £2,500 and a nomination for a BAFTA after winning the games development competition Dare to be Digital. Kristian Francis (BA Games Art and Design 2010), Sophia George and Rosie Ball (BA Games Art and Design 2011) will find out in March 2012 if they have won the BAFTA Ones to Watch Award at the British Academy Video Games Awards.

Dare to be Digital is run by the University of Abertay Dundee and attracted entrants from 70 universities across the UK, Canada and India. Rosie, Sophia and Kristian, together with two Abertay-based students, formed Team Swallowtail and pitched a game idea called ‘Tick Tock Toys’ to a panel of judges to win a place in the final 15.

They spent nine weeks at Abertay using the University’s facilities and technical mentoring from industry professionals to build a 4

prototype, which went on display to the public in video gaming event Dare ProtoPlay in Dundee.

‘Tick Tock Toys’ is an app game which uses the tilt and touchscreen functions of the iPad to control a toy robot as it traverses a toy box, solving puzzles along the way.

Rosie says: “I think our game stood out because it is designed for people to be able to pick up and play straight away. At Protoplay we had lots of young people playing the game but also their parents were getting into it too. The competition has been such a great opportunity to make contacts with other talented games designers, people in the games industry and people outside the industry who also make games. For example I have met people from Disney and CBeebies and that’s given me a lot to think about.” www.swallowtailgames.co.uk

Cornelia Parker’s talk opened up her history box of ideas, from which emerged an informative network of methodologies bridging the wide variety within her work.

Cornelia spoke persuasively about the act of giving a new life to objects, resurrecting them from destruction into a midway state of flux, hovering between their original context and the space or area they originally filled (‘Thirty Pieces of Silver, 1988-9’). Briefly projecting a whole string of hung works, she discussed her interest in the way people perceive the work and the political and personal messages people unearth when you transport and re-exhibit art (‘Edge of England, 1999’). The titles of her work display a poetic interest, toying with words to introduce a brief flare of light-hearted humour to her large and heavy installations.

Her free, confident and open discussion within NUCA’s packed out lecture theatre left little to be questioned; her unprecedented and individual practice is definitely one we’ll be seeing a lot more of in years to come.

To keep up to date with NUCA events follow @NUCAnews

NUCA NEWS

NORWICH HEART APPOINTS WEB DEVELOPERS IN UNIQUE BUSINESS/EDUCATION COLLABORATION Norwich Heritage, Economic and Regeneration Trust (HEART) has engaged NUCA Graphic Communication students to work with local specialist website developers to bring its Digital Heritage Project to life via an exciting and unique business/ education collaboration.

Ideas factory@NUCA and Norwich digital agency, Soak (home to two NUCA alumni), have successfully teamed up to win a competitive national four way pitch to secure the web design work that will act as the key media platform to showcase archive films from East Anglia and Upper Normandy.

Norwich HEART’s Digital Heritage Project is bringing the archive alive by working with two major film archives from both sides of the channel, the East Anglian Film Archive and Rouen based Pôle Image Haute-Normandie. The Digital Heritage Project’s main objectives are to research and select for digitisation films from as far back as 1896 and to showcase these East Anglian and French films which are an important part of our social history and heritage.

The creation of a dedicated bi-lingual website by NUCA and SOAK will launch in 2012 and will showcase a state-of-the-art

timeline of East Anglian and French films of the last century.

Ed Walker, Business Director at NUCA said: “NUCA are delighted to be partnering Soak to provide HEART with an innovative and engaging website. Young people consume digital video online every day, so the challenge will be creating a site which works not just for young people, but also for a much wider audience.

It is a very exciting opportunity.” www.heritagecity.org www.eafa.org.uk www.poleimagehn.com www.interreg3.com

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DEGREE SHOWS 2011

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Henry Jackson Newcomb

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Amy Rogers

Grant Ley

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Samantha-Louise Cleverdon

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DEGREE SHOWS 2011

Katriona Parkinson

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As always the campus turned into a giant exhibition space in June 2011 for the Undergraduate Degree Shows.

Friends, family, alumni and those keen to seek out creative talent of the future poured in to see the shows.

The work went on display at the St Georges and Guntons buildings, and for the first time the Duke Street building was used for exhibitions for Graphic Design, Design for Publishing and Graphic Communication work. Games Art and Design students created a show area in the Media Lab where visitors could view not only their showreels and websites but also game prototypes. Visual Studies students created a quiet pamphlet room within 8

their exhibition space where visitors were able to look through journals and documents. Selected films from Film and Moving Image Production and Animation students were shown at special screenings at Cinema City.

Students from Textiles and Surface Design turned The Gallery at NUCA into a retail space where everything was for sale, enticing visitors in with the vibrant displays of lanterns, tea towels, prints and crockery.

DEGREE SHOWS 2011

Jonathon Bursnell

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DEGREE SHOWS 2011

Samantha Thorley

More students sold work than ever before and visitors including future employers, buyers and curators, all commented on the extremely high standard of the work and the professional presentation of the show. Patrick Burgoyne, Editor of Creative Review and a member of NUCA’s Creative Industries Liaison Group for Art and Design, who regularly meet to discuss curriculum development, commented on the Creative Review Blog: ‘Dotted around several sites in the city centre, the graduates of NUCA have produced some really strong shows this year.’

He concluded: ‘Illustration was one of the strongest student illustration shows I’ve seen.’ www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/ 2011/June/Norwich

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GALLERY NEWS

ROGER ACKLING EXHIBITS NEW WORKS AT NUCA ‘Sunlight’ has been an outstanding show by Roger Ackling, an internationally reputed artist who shows at Frieze Contemporary Art Fair and exhibits worldwide, and currently lives and works in Norfolk. Roger is also a respected figure within the regional and national artistic community.

The Gallery at NUCA was particularly pleased to be exhibiting Roger’s work given his association with the University College as a Governor and Fine Art Lecturer over the past four decades, and his recent acceptance of the award of Honorary Doctor in Fine Art from NUCA in June 2011.

Roger’s intimate sculptural works are made by the ritualistic focusing of direct sunlight through a hand-held lens which burns marks onto a surface. The objects on which this dialogue with sunlight takes place include hand- held garden tools, clothes pegs, pieces of discarded wood and scraps of card. The time and care taken in making the work and the natural energy harnessed to ‘draw’ onto the materials are indicative of an artist whose work is deeply contemplative and entirely empathetic with the materials and means at his disposal.

1947 and went on to study art at St Martin’s School of Art in the 1960s with Hamish Fulton and Richard Long. After graduating Roger embarked on a career as a practising artist.

Professor Roger Ackling was born in Isleworth, London in

www.nuca.ac.uk/thegallery

Highlights included ‘Voewood 2011’, sunlight on wood with nail and Japanese string, and ‘Bird 1974’, sunlight on wood.

‘Sunlight’ by Roger Ackling is part of the ongoing programme of public exhibitions at the Gallery at NUCA. NUCA would particularly like to acknowledge the kind support and assistance of Annely Juda Fine Art, London in making this exhibition possible.

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JAY POTTER

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JAY POTTER INTERVIEW

FOR THE LOVE OF STREET ART JAY POTTER STUDIED GRAPHIC DESIGN AT NUCA AND NOW COMBINES HIS PASSION FOR GRAFFITI WITH A SUCCESSFUL CAREER IN ART DIRECTION AND DESIGN IN AMERICA. WE ASKED HIM ABOUT HIS WORK AND HIS ART, AND WHY HE STILL LOVES BOTH. TELL ME ABOUT YOUR JOB I’m a full-time in-house Art Director/Designer for a family-owned and operated, multi-million dollar artisan bakery, delicatessen and catering operation: www.ithacabakery.com.

There are five locations in Ithaca, New York, that serve an average of 35,000 customers per week.

When I started I was essentially given carte blanche as the owners really value design.

There was so much I wanted to change about the brand. A lot of the existing design had a handmade feel – a little too ‘granola’ – and the stores had many chalkboards that required constant updating.

So, for the last six years I’ve been cleaning house, simplifying the clutter, and elevating our look to a point where it can stand up against the corporate chains.

HOW DID YOU GET YOUR JOB? With a strong portfolio and a telephone interview from out-of-state. I made myself a large hot chocolate, sat on the bed and kept the TV on low – not sure how anyone couldn't come across as relaxed in those surroundings.

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WHY GRAFFITI ART? Graffiti grabbed my attention when I was around 14 years old on a summer exchange in Paris. The entire city Metro system was covered with all this colour and I was immediately obsessed with learning everything I could about the culture – such as how something so powerful is created illegally, with precision and passion. I spent all of my remaining time watching the trains, also known as benching, and started sketching letters from that point forward. Everywhere I go I take sketch paper and pens.

There’s so much that goes into the structure of a sketch and what makes something good versus bad.

It paid off eventually. I showed my graffiti book during my interview with NUCA and was accepted purely on that body of work without having ever formally studied art.

WHAT IS SPECIAL ABOUT ENJOYING BOTH GRAFFITI AND DESIGN? Escaping from the tight constraints of the monitor by using a different set of tools allows me to get away from feeling so confined, although working on a much larger,

loose scale with graffiti the same graphic rules still apply.

Negative space, balance, flow, weight and letter structure all play a critical role if the work is going to look good. Essentially each inspires the other and over time the boundaries have narrowed to the point where there’s a lot more crossover.

I try to relax compositions to be a little looser, while carefully critiquing and tightening my work on the wall.

WHAT’S GREAT ABOUT MAKING ART IN THE US? It’s been an amazing experience to be immersed in a different culture and to grow with it. To be honest, I just feel like there’s a lot more opportunity over here, even if it’s just for a short stint for the experience. For design, I love the fact that the US is so expansive that certain styles emerge from specific states or regions. From an overall perspective I suppose I would say that I like the level of illustration that's fused with design. I believe I see it here more than anywhere else, particularly with identities.

A number of friends that I still keep in touch with after graduating have almost all left to work overseas: Australia, New Zealand, Dubai and the US.

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WHICH ARTISTS/ DESIGNERS DO YOU ADMIRE? Graffiti Artists: Great & Bates, Dare, Serval, Jepsy, Giant.

Designers: My good friend Jason C. Otero at Art & Anthropology, Sussner Design Co., Blok Design, N8W, Little Friends Of Printmaking, id29.

WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO ALUMNI WHO HAVE LET THEIR CREATIVITY GO? I guess I would have to ask – are you happy with what you're doing? If not, can you focus on your true passion in your own time and then try to work that energy and those ideas into your job somehow? It might not be possible in all cases, but if you can get the creativity going at least it could help give a mundane job new life or lead to a more fitting position down the road. When you're truly passionate about something, working toward a goal feels so much easier because you're already in that zone. I think that makes it possible at any time in your career to turn the tables and take another course.

ANY OTHER THOUGHTS? You're only as good as your last work and the First Things First Manifesto.

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MA DEGREE SHOW

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MA DEGREE SHOW

The September 2011 MA Degree Show exhibition in NUCA’s St Georges Building displayed a finely balanced and diverse range of postgraduate work including graphic design, painting, short films and animations and experimental textile patterns. The body of work represented the outcomes of NUCA’s MA courses in Textile Design, Moving Image and Sound, Communication Design, Animation and Sound Design, Fine Art and Digital Arts.

Welcoming invited guests to a packed newly-launched Bar NUCA, Principal John Last said: “This end-of-year exhibition presents work that is the resolution of intense focus and theoretical rigour.”

MA Fine Art exhibitor Barbara Dougan (pictured) describes her work as: “Actions defined by constraint or confinement, which are recorded as films and drawings. It provides a cathartic release for my struggles to understand

political and social ‘progress’, and seeks to express the frustrations and impotence of people who are cowed or disregarded by the political process and public policy due to accidents of birth, location, health or opportunity.”

From 2011 NUCA has also offered MA Fashion and MA Curation, with the first cohort of students beginning their postgraduate study in October 2011.

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ALUMNI NEWS

Photographer: Andi Sapey

OSCAR WINNING FORMER STUDENT TALKS ABOUT CAREER IN PRODUCTION DESIGN Former Norwich School of Art student and Honorary Doctor Stuart Craig OBE has been designing the screen world of Harry Potter for over 10 years, alongside his Norfolk based Set Decorator Stephenie McMillan, with whom he has worked for over twenty years on many films. Stuart won Oscars for designing Ghandi, The English Patient and Dangerous Liaisons.

Stuart and Stephenie presented an exclusive screening of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, to an invited audience including over 70 local school children studying arts and media. After introducing the film and giving the audience special tips on things to look out for on set, they also delivered a special Q&A where they talked 18

about their life in films and how they work together so successfully. It was an inspiring insight into how film productions on such a magnificent scale come together, and the staggering amount of work that goes into the creation of every tiny detail which gives the film a unique look and feel.

Stuart studied Fine Art at Norwich School of Art and began painting sets at the Maddermarket Theatre. His career in production design took off from there, and Stuart has been involved in the Harry Potter series right from the start.

Speaking at Cinema City Norwich about his work on the phenomenally successful Harry Potter series, Stuart said:

“Directors have changed, camera men have changed, but there’s been this core group that couldn’t be shifted. I did say ‘you don’t have to have us’, but I think they were intimidated by our permanence.”

Despite the release of the final Harry Potter film, Stuart is still heavily involved in Potter and his sets can be seen at the Warner Bros studios in Watford.

He said: “I’ve been involved in the consultation on the content and choosing the sets. They are not all being built in exactly the same way as they were in the films – we’ve got to be able to get 5,000 people through there every day.” He has also designed ‘The Wizarding World of Harry Potter’ theme park at Universal Studios in Orlando.

ALUMNI NEWS

JONATHAN COLAM-FRENCH SCHOLARSHIP This year’s recipient of the Jonathan Colam-French Scholarship is Anna Burbidge, Year 3 BA Surface Design.

BUSINESS STARTED IN NORWICH BEDSIT WINS £50,000 CASH PRIZE Ben Farrin (BA Graphic Design 2002), Founder and Managing Director of The Student Pocket Guide has won a £50,000 cash prize through the Barclays ‘Take One Small Step’ enterprise competition.

Ben started his business in 2005 from a tiny flat in Norwich and the idea came from his own experiences of moving to Norwich to study. Ben trialled the concept at Norwich Freshers Week in 2005, having spotted a gap in the market for a publication distributed to students at multiple universities and colleges within the same city, promoting all the best places to eat, drink and go out. The magazine is free so the only revenue is through advertising.

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The top twelve students who achieved an overall mark of 72% or above at the end of Year 2 were invited to submit a written statement about their work and also a selection of images. After careful

consideration Anna Burbidge was chosen by Jonathan Colam-French to receive the award of £1,000 which he has generously donated again this year.

A few years on the company employs six full-time staff and circulates the magazines across 20 cities. The company is using the prize money to launch a mobile phone application and to develop the business’s online presence. www.thestudentpocketguide.com

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GRADUATION 2011

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GRADUATION 2011

HONORARY DOCTORATES AND GRADUATION On 28th June 2011 over 500 undergraduate and postgraduate students from NUCA’s Schools of Art, Media and Design collected their degree certificates alongside the Design Editor of the Sunday Times, Gordon Beckett and internationally acclaimed artist Professor Roger Ackling. The certificates were presented as usual in St Andrew’s Hall, where graduands, friends and family were also able to enjoy a glass of champagne after the ceremony.

An alumnus of NUCA who was raised in Great Yarmouth, Gordon Beckett has worked for the Sunday Times for 33 years and has held the post of Design Editor since 1988.

Gordon has kept up a close relationship with the University College returning as a guest lecturer, offering work

placements to students and employing alumni, who continue to make a substantial contribution to the output of the Sunday Times each week.

Many Fine Art alumni will have had the privilege of working with Professor Roger Ackling, who exhibited his solo show ‘Sunlight’ at the Gallery at NUCA in November 2011.

Roger has had over 100 major solo exhibitions worldwide, including showing extensively in Japan during the 1980s. His sculptural installations explore spiritual and poetic themes and provide insight into the material world. He has maintained a relationship with NUCA spanning four decades as a visiting lecturer, Research Fellow and an important member of the University College's governing

body. Many alumni recall inspiring tutorials with this well respected international artist.

Professor John Last, Principal of NUCA, said: “We are delighted to award Honorary Doctorates to Gordon and Roger, both of whom have participated so thoroughly in the academic evolution of Norwich University College of the Arts. Through their guest lectures they have served as sources of inspiration to generations of NUCA students and their examples will inspire our latest cohort of graduates as they embark on the next stage of their lives.”

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GRADUATE PROFILE

GRADUATE PROFILE HELEN CARTER Grazia Middle East and Grazia Bahrain Group Art Director Helen Carter (BA Graphic Design 1998) tells us about her career in editorial design.

After graduating I went to London to work as a junior designer at Stocks Austin Sice (now known as SAS and part of the MSLGROUP).

After a few months I realised I preferred working on editorial as opposed to corporate design and so applied for a position at TIME magazine. It was a fairly steep learning curve and the following year was spent getting used to thinking more editorially.

During my six years at TIME I was fortunate enough to work with internationally acclaimed illustrators and was given free rein on the supplements, including on fashion supplements which involved shoot art direction and working with photographers and stylists.

I travelled to the Hong Kong offices and worked a summer at Fortune in New York.

By my third year at TIME I was Associate Art Director working on a large portion of the weekly news magazine, as well as designing special features and covers.

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It was during one of my summers in Hong Kong that I stopped in on an old work colleague who had moved to Dubai to work with a publishing company out there. Grazia was launching and she asked me if I’d like to be the Art Editor. Initially I said no but after a year I was approached once more, as the art editor was leaving, and this time I took the job.

After two years I was promoted to Art Director and one and a half years after that appointed as Group Art Director for Grazia Middle East and Grazia Bahrain. Now each month I design between four and five weeklies and a monthly publication.

Art Directing is such a rewarding job role. Passing on knowledge and recognising and encouraging someone’s creativity is something to enjoy. Despite what some people think, I believe print magazines still have a place and relevance regardless of the online phenomena. And most

importantly, whilst the internet may provide instant updates and easy access, we humans like to have something physical to touch. I still get a kick each week when I see people picking my magazine up off the shelves or reading it in cafes.

My dream magazine to work on would be W Magazine and of course Vogue! As well as being art director, I’ve been fortunate enough to also write for Grazia. I’ve written travel features, opinion columns and beauty reviews – there aren’t many jobs that offer this kind of addition to your job role and for that I am thankful. Weekly magazine design is not for everyone – I’ve worked with other designers who have come from monthly titles and just can’t handle the pace and deadlines for weeklies. After nearly 11 years on weeklies I wonder if I could handle the more sedate process of working solely on a monthly!

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BA FASHION

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BA FASHION

IN VOGUE IN MAY 2011 BA FASHION STUDENTS SHOWCASED A SELECTION OF THEIR DESIGNS AT THE INAUGURAL NUCA FASHION SHOW, WITH A CATWALK SET UP IN THE DUKE STREET BUILDING, FOR SPECIALLY INVITED FASHION INDUSTRY REPRESENTATIVES AND LOCAL VIPS. BA Fashion Course Leader Sue Chowles says: “The Fashion Show is a wonderful opportunity for the students to showcase their design work in a professional context. Throughout the first year of the degree the students have been encouraged to challenge creativity within their work whilst maintaining consideration of creative pattern-cutting and professional garment construction techniques.

The Fashion students have produced some exciting,

innovative and inspirational work which will set a benchmark for future years.”

by Pretty Polly, Henry Holland for Pretty Polly, Aristoc and John Lewis.

The event showed work from the students’ first major project, DeconstructionReconstruction, which challenged them to create garments from unwanted second-hand clothing donated by Cancer Research UK.

John Lewis Norwich Operations Manager Lesley George says: “It’s fantastic that the fashion course is now available in Norwich and John Lewis is excited to play its part in supporting the growing creative talent in the city. Norwich is now a top fashion destination and it’s great to add the fashion course into the mix.”

The show was supported by main sponsor John Lewis, with hair by L’Oreal, make-up

by MAC at Jarrolds, shoes by TopShop, tights sponsored

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NUCA NEWS

TURN THE PAGE

Sal Sapientia, Jules Allen and Krystyna Hamera

Jules Allen (BA Fine Art – Printmaking and Photomedia 2004, MA Fine Art 2006) is a practising artist and founder member of ‘turn the page’. ‘turn the page’ builds on a growing programme of high profile visual

and public art projects that have been showcased at The Forum, Norwich including NCA08, NCA10 and Photo ID (all in partnership with Norfolk Contemporary Art Society), Earth from the Air and Go Elephants.

2012 will be the inaugural year for this unique two-day event (4th – 5th May 2012) for artists that are informed and inspired by the conceptual and structural properties of the book and a ‘must see’ for bibliophiles, art lovers and collectors. The fair will be the first in the region to showcase an eclectic mix of sculptural and altered books, traditionally produced limited editions, zines and multiples alongside book based installation, digital and virtual books that are functional, fictional, informative, evocative and above all innovative.

Submissions must be received by 5th December 2011, judging will take place in January 2012 and successful artists informed by 13th February 2012. The panel of four judges includes NUCA Fine Art Course Leader Carl Rowe. www.turnthepage.org.uk www.julesallen.co.uk

SEAMLESS TEXTILES from the first ever European conference for people involved in Textiles Education at all levels in 1990 in Kehl, Germany, organised by the German association Fachverband Textilunterricht.

Caroline McNamara and Les Bicknell

MA Textile Culture 2011 graduates have formed the Seamless Textile Group and are exhibiting at the 16th European Textile Network Conference, TEXERE Exhibition 2011 in Lithuania.

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In 2007 TEXERE was invited to become an Education Working Group within ETN (European Textiles Network) which opened the doors to several new members from Africa, Canada, USA, Taiwan, and Europe. It is the only organisation for international textile teachers for every level of education from primary school to university level as

well as postgraduate, adult education and textile artists who give textile workshops for adults and schools, all working together equally.

The exhibition at the Kaunas Biennial shows a variety of work from members, their education groups and textile art groups at every level from Austria, Cyprus, England, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands and USA. Exhibitors: Caroline McNamara, Sue Foster, Jane Ironside, Gillian Hills, Cathy Rumsey, Stephanie Potts, Mary Ward and Janine Oxley.

NUCA NEWS

Architect: Friend and Company Architects. Photographer: Ioana Marinescu

ADRIAN FRIEND APPOINTED BA ARCHITECTURE COURSE LEADER From September 2012 students will be able to study BA Architecture at NUCA. This new course, the first of its kind in the region, has been developed in close consultation with the architecture profession and will be complemented by a network of visiting practitioners and industry representatives to ensure students are equipped with professionally relevant skills.

An architect with 20 years’ experience, he studied at Kingston University and the Bartlett School of Architecture, going on to found Friend and Company Architects. Adrian’s work has been widely published in Blueprint, Architects’ Journal, Building Design and Wallpaper*.

His latest ‘Corner House’ project was published in Architect's Journal (22nd September 2011).

NUCA has appointed Architect Adrian Friend to write and lead the course, who joins us from the University of Nottingham.

Anthony Hudson of Norwich based Hudson Architects, who recently won the RIBA East Spirit of Ingenuity Workspace

Award for the NUCA Monastery Media Lab, said: “Adrian Friend is a fantastic appointment, and will get the School of Architecture at NUCA off to a great start. The new BA Architecture is very welcome news for local students and architecture practices alike as there is a need to attract and retain talented and well-trained architects in the region. Adrian is extremely talented himself and I am sure he will be a huge asset for NUCA.” Adrian Friend added: “The new course is a superb opportunity to return the study of architecture to its traditional art school context supported by talented architects, old and new. We are lucky to have on our doorstep some of the best house designers and architects in the UK. I believe Norfolk and Norwich architects are the future model of a sustainable profession. It is important we understand the professional micro-climate and how the definition of architecture is constantly changing and evolving.” www.nuca.ac.uk/courses

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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO

HELEN BREACH (MA DRAWING 2009) Starting in September 2011, I’ve been selected as Artist in Residence for the College of West Anglia. The residency is for the full academic year culminating in an exhibition at Kings Lynn Art Centre in July 2012. As an artist in residence I will be sharing my knowledge and experience with students, delivering workshops or providing support with curriculum projects, supervising and assisting small groups of students or informal assessment for individuals.

I have also participated in ‘On Landguard Point’, part of Artists Taking the Lead – a major work at the heart of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Landguard Point is the site of the last successful defence of England in 1666 and the project explores the notions of home, trade and defence across the six counties that form the East of England.

The film of all the East Anglian events will be shown in 2012 and there will be a poetic sequence with a view of an artist drawing the disintegrating cliffs of Overstrand. That artist is me, sketching in pencil a view toward a house perilously close to the edge of the cliff. The music for the film is composed by Michael Nyman. helen.breach@talk21.com

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PAUL GOODWIN (BA GRAPHIC DESIGN 2000) I have recently started a company making home accessories and our products can be viewed online at: www.goodwinandgoodwin.com.

We started last year and things have grown very quickly. We currently have products in about 20 independent shops and galleries and are in negotiations with two large department stores. We completed our first show at London Olympia and photos are online at: paulgoodwin.wordpress.com.

Our products have also been featured in the Sunday Times Style Magazine, Living Etc, Ideal Home and the Daily Mail. paulgoodwinuk@aol.com

JENNY LEONARD (BA FINE ART 2011) I’ve just been selected as an artist with a gallery in Notting Hill, London called Debut Contemporary (www.debut contemporary.com) on the basis of my degree show work.

I’ve been selected for another exhibition in London, Drawing Crowds (www.drawing crowds.co.uk), which opens in east London in November 2012. I have also recently completed an eight foot long mural for a company based in Norfolk called Comm-Tech and have painted several murals around Norwich including at the Grays Fair Court Community Support Centre. www.jennyleonardart.com

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO

FRANK PUDNEY (BA GRAPHIC DESIGN 2003) My latest piece of work ‘People’ was selected for the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2011. No victory to report, but my work showed at the Jerwood Space in central London with the other selected artists and the exhibition is now travelling to other galleries around the country until the middle of next year, dates and venues to be confirmed. A children’s book idea I actually came up with for my degree show eight years ago has been developed into an animated short this year. Babycow produced it, Steve Coogan narrated it and it has been really successful at film festivals and has allowed us to travel all around the world. It was awarded second place in Toronto for the Audience Choice Award, third place in Ottowa, and received lots other awards. frank@frankpudney.com www.frankpudney.com

MATTHEW CRAVEN (BA ILLUSTRATION 2011) I’m working on a couple of pieces for two London-based magazines and have been commissioned to do an illustration for the New York Times. It appeared in print in the Sunday Review. It is for a piece written by Sarah Shourd, a writer who was imprisoned in Iran from July 2009 to September 2010. The New York Times on Sunday sells 1.4 million copies so it is great publicity for me to have my work published by them. My work was also featured in the Degree Show edition of Creative Review this summer. crav.co.uk

LAUREN GREAVES (BA GRAPHIC DESIGN– ILLUSTRATION 2010) I have been commissioned by agency Carter Wong Design, London. The brief was to create an illustrated map of England relating to the National Trust Fine Farm Produce Awards for 2011.

The map had to illustrate a whole range of produce from across the country, including meats, beers, jams and potatoes. I wanted the image to have a lively and very British feel to it, so also loosely included an English summer fete theme.

Carter Wong Design was founded 26 years ago by Phil Carter and Phil Wong (both BA Graphic Design 1977). The agency has just completed another full project for The National Trust, to promote the introduction of contemporary art into their historic properties across the UK. www.carterwongdesign.com www.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 DAVIES Cadet, Parade at Cardiff, 2010, Looped Digital Video. Courtesy of the artist and Tom Rowland Fine Art. Photo: Sean Puleston.

TIM DAVIES REPRESENTS WALES AT VENICE BIENNALE TIM DAVIES (BA FINE ART 1990) IS REPRESENTING WALES THIS YEAR AT THE 54TH VENICE BIENNALE IN A SOLO SHOW CURATED BY TOM ROWLAND (FOUNDATION 1991).

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The exhibition contains a selection of recent video and framed works as well as new work made by the artist in response to the site of Venice.

The works within the five rooms of the Ludoteca are choreographed to climactically end with the HD video ‘Frari’, 2011. This film documents a journey through the internal architecture of the Frari Campinile as the artist climbs and descends the medieval tower. The negotiation of the five exhibition spaces allows for a still, contemplative moment at its middle with ‘Bridges’, 2009-10, 60 sanded postcards, 9 x 15cm.

TIM DAVIES

View of Drift from Room 3, Bridges.

Courtesy of the artist and Tom Rowland Fine Art. Photo: Sean Puleston

Cadet, Running at Cardiff, 2010, Looped Digital Video. Courtesy of the artist and Tom Rowland Fine Art. Photo: Sean Puleston

The Ludoteca Santa Maria Ausiliatrice has many beautiful decorative features. The marble floor of the Chiesa, room 1, has been cleaned and polished to a high sheen. The idea is to produce a shimmering effect as both light and sound from the video, dart and bounce around within the ecclesiastical interior.

After a simply formed and sympathetically treated transition space, the third room of the exhibition is Bridges.

This group of 60 pieces is displayed over a large prefabricated wall designed to block the windows and allow the lighting to be controlled.

Each postcard has been delicately sanded away by the artist, so that scenery and background information is taken away, until only the bridges, the common theme of all the cards, remains.

The second and smaller room of the Biennale Exhibition is the Sacristia. Here a single projection is found on a raw, crumbling and untreated wall. ‘This is Cadet (Standing at Aberystwyth)’, 2006 is a silent looped video, each loop lasting under four minutes. The plaster and paint of this space is falling away, enhancing the projections ghostly glow. The simple native projection of a cadet as she stands during a memorial ceremony is appropriately positioned in this intimate chamber.

The success of the suite of spaces is the transition between rooms. The larger, dark spaces filter sound through to smaller silent spaces while bright light from the exhibitions centre creeps back into the darkness that proceeds it.

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