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ISSUE 10
Editor’s Letter
I think it goes without saying – but I’ll say it anywho - that this has been a transitional period for Storehouse, a new Editor, new heads of departments and saying goodbye to some old team members. As a second year student I have watched my peers in third year pull their hair out over dissertations and push their work to amazing lengths. It’s been an overall inspiring time for me. Taking on the role of being an editor wasn’t something I would expect myself to do, but because of the encouragement from my friends and the storehouse team (shout out to Alex Francis for helping me find my feet) I somehow plucked up the courage. Without any regrets, I must add. If you choose to ignore opportunities presented to you, you may regret that decision later in life. So when presented with the opportunity to be the Editor of Storehouse I thought ‘hmmmmm yeah why not’!? One thing I’ve learnt from becoming a student magazine editor (I know it’s not Vogue but bear with me) is how much we rely on other people. You can claim to be ‘the boss’ or ‘Miss Independent’ but really your life would be nothing without the people who surround you. This magazine wouldn’t be anything without each and every team member, our student union and you the reader. YES - you contribute too. So as I swiftly Google ‘how to write an editors letter’ I sit back and ponder on what this issue is about. How could I forget? This is the tenth issue. Holy mac and cheese, what an amazing stepping stone, not only for us as the current team but also for the former students of NUA who founded Storehouse. Years ago when we were called the ‘Norwich University College of the Arts’ ; a small collective of students got together in their spare time and thought up a clever idea of publishing their fellow NUCA students work. It’s a tough world out there for us creative peeps and so platforms such as Storehouse gives us an opportunity to have our work exposed. So thumbs up to those founding fathers of Storehouse! Oh, we also had the chance to interview one of the founders so give that a little nosey if you please. You can tell I’ve never written anything professional before, ha! I’ll go now but I’ll leave you with the reminder that we will have a working website soon to feature more articles, interviews and more work from NUA. Enjoy this 10th issue, have a wonderful day.
Rosie Scanlon-Jones, Editor
ROSIE SCANLON-JONES
DAN BURNAGE
EDITOR
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MICHAEL GRIMSHAW
MARK NG
ART DIRECTOR
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PHILIPPA NASH
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contents STUDENT WORK 08 Sarah Rebecca 09 Charlie Beerling 10 Shane Ng Bing Ming 12 Conner White 14 Tim Wood 16 Karim Skalli 17 Benjamin Beauchamp 19 Alice Potts 20 Karolina Holubova 24 Billy Machin 26 Gemma Carson 27 Sarah Thornton 28 Kirsten Hamilton 32 Jordan Cook 36 Em Bruce 39 Charlie Barkus 40 Sophie Moates 42 Sean Hancock
49 Heather Iles 50 Jeanette Bolton-Martin 51 Jemma Rayner 52 Silvia Boni 54 Sam Brooks 56 Olivia Trowell 57 Daisy Allen 58 Jessie Whitehead INTERVIEW 22 Martin Schooley FEATURES 29 Looking back and looking forward 34 Clubs and Societies 44 Engagement or Estrangement
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Sarah Rebecca Illustration sarahrebeccaillustration.tumblr.com A love of the natural world and the flora and fauna inhabiting both informs and inspires my work. This is characterised by the spontaneity and unpredictability of the processes and materials I use. Experimental pieces such as these focus on the anatomy and movement of rabbits. This piece attempts to capture some of the unpredictable nature and energy that these creatures display.
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CHARLIE BEERLING Photography cbeerling.wix.com/cbphoto
These images are for my BA4 brief titled “Landscape, Portrait, Still Life� where we had to submit a series of images that were visually linked but not through a narrative. The link in my images looked at creating a summer - like feel through a mixture of natural and ambient lighting, soft tones and warm colours. These aspects combined to give a sense of warmth and comfort that felt very inviting. I wanted to create a false narrative
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between the viewer and the image, where they might look at a picture and feel as if they were there when it happened. A lot of my personal work is shot using 35mm film on an analogue petri camera. I also shoot live shows for Outline Magazine using a Nikon D3200. I like creating soft tones and shooting with natural light to experiment with lines and shapes created by highlights and shadows.
shane NG Bing MING Fine Art
My work explores the beauty in the ‘appreciation of depreciation’; through transience, imperfection, impermanence and the incomplete. Previously majoring in oil, acrylic and watercolour painting, my recent work is expressed in sculptural forms - performative ceramics that questions the relation in the identity
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of objects and the environment, via an ‘active tea appreciation’ exhibition; the exploration of imperfection through the flawed aspect of pottery in a time based ceramics sculpture that involves flowing water.
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Conner White Illustration connerperry.tumblr.com
I have always been fascinated by 80’s Hip-Hop culture and it is something that has always found it’s way into my work in some form, so being able to self direct my own brief and focus on the culture I love is great fun. I really enjoy responding to music within my work and finding
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a narrative or theme within a song, whether it’s lyrically or sonically. I don’t like to limit myself with media. Instead I like to use the materials I feel are best suited to the subject matter or the design rather than having a specific and distinct set of tools I always use.
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The brief was for a project to redesign a leading product’s packaging. My idea draws on the unique taste and knobbly shape of the Twiglets and the fact that each one is individual. The design revolves around the ‘Twiglets Freak Show’ - an emporium of bizarre looking Twiglets, from the Headless Twiglet to Twiglet Kong, and even the peculiar Twiglet Faced Twiglet!
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KariM Skalli Photography
My project was to create a connection between human interaction within nature, using natural surroundings and light to create frames,shadows
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and tones on my subject, thus showing how nature is always present.
Benjamin Beauchamp Fine Art
Arcadia follows a small synthetic figure in a plastic paradise. This, and the rest of the series, were fairly lighthearted experiments with orientating the small, Morph-Like anthropomorphic creature, creating artificial animation in stills images, in conduction with artificial grass samples, agains and idilc plastic blue background. The hermit is agonisingly self destructive, tormented by the ridiculousness
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of his benign being as an ornament in a plastic garden. Arcadia stems from Grecian antiquity; an ideal pasture and natural harmony, adopted Romantic landscape artists. This formed the backdrop to a Tom Stoppard’s play of the same name, which dealt with the impossibility of realising the ideal. The figure is no Adonis; the Astroturf no Arcadia.
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Alice potts Fashion
The development of my tailored collection originated from my influence of “The hidden geometry of life’ This is where I looked into the natural occurring tessellation patterns created by plants and skin textures. Also, I was influenced by the idea of the golden ratio. This, in turn, influenced
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the use of origami manipulation techniques in my pattern cutting process. I developed this idea by creating different pleated samples and experimenting with how the silhouette altered the samples and how they could work together. This gave me the base outline of my collection.
KarolĂ?na HolubovĂ Photography karolinaholubova.com
Movement is an indicator of identity. It is essential aspect of everyday life and is often connected with our spiritual self as it often expresses our values and brings together different cultural traditions. It is a medium of creativity, which tends to avoid time and geographical distances.
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My aim was to create in colour/contrast rich photographs and capture the subject in dynamic poses. By using sky as a background I wanted to resonate on a spirituality of the observer and highlight our connection to the nature we nowadays tend to forget about.
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getting schooled by schooley AN INTerview with the new head of graphics
In October Martin Schooley took over as course leader for Graphics at NUA. Dan Burnage finds out more about the designer and his work.
draw. I liked the graphic design pathway and ended up doing a graphic design degree. I always tell students that I didn’t really understand graphic design until the 3rd year of my degree, but at that point I was really lucky to be on a course that I finally understood and liked.
What’s your background? I did my BA degree at Coventry Polytechnic - Coventry University as it is now. I then went to the Royal College of Art to do my master’s degree (MA), because all of my design heroes had gone there. I was desperate to set up my own company and was lucky enough to meet a client whilst studying at the Royal College, so myself and another guy who I’d met on my BA set up a business called twoTalk. To some extent it still runs today: I run it as a ‘sole trader’ practice.
What made you want to come to NUA? It’s an easy question to answer: I’ve been a fan of the Graphics course at NUA for years. There’s lots of really good practice going on here, there’s lots of good staff, there are some amazing students. I love the focus on ideas. When I saw the job advertised I was really excited. I didn’t expect I’d get it.
I started teaching about 19 years ago at Ravensbourne [college], initially as just a visiting lecturer leading to nearly 2 years as a course leader. I then ran the Graphic Design and Illustration degree at the University of Hertfordshire for 10 years. My aim while there was to bring the course ‘onto the radar’ and make it industry relevant. My background practice is branding, advertising, corporate identity and all the things that businesses need. That’s where I come from.
Can you show us some of your work? This is a very simple brand identity for Melson Wingate. The company doesn’t exist anymore, but they were a national chain of opticians with about 50 stores and a £15 million turnover. I did all sorts of things for the company; lots of points of sale, annual reports, recruitment, advertising, packaging, all sorts of things.
What made you choose graphic design as a career? When I was 16 I was introduced to a friend of the family who was a graphic designer. Back then I didn’t really know what a graphic designer did. He showed me how to do a logo, literally just sketching on a piece of paper. Looking back on it now, it’s not how I would tell students to design a logo, but at the time it really impressed me. I realised I had a real interest in letter forms. When I was going through school in the 80s I was the kid in the class who could draw. My old exercise books - which I’ve kept - are all covered in doodles and drawings and me endlessly recreating logos I was familiar with, mainly sports brands - Nike, Fila, Puma - although I was never particularly sporty at school. When I went to art college to do a foundation - as everybody who had an interest in art did in my day - everyone there was the kid in their class who could
Their initials are an ‘M’ and a ‘W’. The idea is based on the common knowledge that the retina in the eye has an upside down projection of the thing that the eye is looking at. It occurred to me that if you picked the right typeface - in this case ‘Meta’ - a ‘W’ is the opposite of an ‘M’. It struck me as
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a bit of a lucky accident. It was built as a model by me and my business partner out of wood, coat hanger wire and the top of a lemonade bottle. Then we lit it and photographed it. It looks like a Photoshop model but it was done at a point when I didn’t have the skills to make it digitally, so it was done in the old fashioned way.
and almost anything by Lawrence King. Those of some of my recommendations. What are your aims for the Graphics course? To build on the great practise that’s happening here already. I’m very impatient and there are lots of things I want to be doing now that I’m here. It takes a while for people to settle in, I’ll be different in my role next year and the year after to how I am today. I’m all about industry and I hope as students get to know me they will know that my focus is to help them get jobs. And good jobs at that.
What are your favourite books on design? The book that startled me as a student was Typography Now, published in the very early 90s. It blew my head; I’d never seen anything like it. It was a collection of contemporary New Wave typography. And it was completely different to what we were being taught on the course. Related to that was a magazine called Emigre. It used to be published in California but you could buy a few copies in London if you were quick - once a month I used to get the train from Coventry and leg it down to London to buy a copy, so I’ve got a nice little collection of Emigres.
NUA’s reputation is immense and people talk about it; industry are hyper aware of it. It’s a well-deserved reputation. My mission is to further enhance that. I want us to be the best course in Europe, end of.
I quite like Adrian Shaughnessy’s writing and Rick Poynor’s written several good books about the state of graphic design and graphic design as a cultural phenomenon. Herbert Spencer’s book Pioneers of Modern Typography is an absolute classic. There are lots of good books on typography and layout; the AVA books tend to be really good
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INTERVIEW
ILLUSTRATION
Dan Burnage
Mark Ng
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Billy Machin Game Art & Design billymachinart.tumblr.com
This environment piece is a part of a 1930s reinterpretation of the short story “The Tinderbox� by Hans Christian Andersen. I imagine the character in the corner has come back from whatever errand he’d been away on to find that the boat he uses to cross the icy river to his secluded camp has floated away in an ice flow. I particularly enjoyed painting the clouds.
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In general, my work is fairly painterly. I tend to take inspiration from traditional painters when it comes to technique and execution. The subjects of my work, however, tends to be drawn from more contemporary science fiction and historical fantasy. My ultimate goal is to become a Concept Artist attached to a studio, and as such, I focus on figurative and environmental work, as opposed to abstract or impressionist. I have a particular interest in anatomy and form.
Gemma Carson Fine Art
This image depicts a symbolic environment in relation to your own state of mind. The sunset on the building forms a relationship between the urban environment and that of your own emotional state and geographical placing. As I had just moved to Norwich the sun setting on
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the building is referencing my feelings to the consequences of moving away again. I use photographs as I see them as a true representation of what you choose and want to see. The photographs are 35mm colour film.
Sarah Thornton Illustration sarahcreanathornton@gmail.com
These models are based on early memories. As a child I became obsessed with making tiny models with materials stolen from the recycling bin, replicating in miniature anything and everything around me. Model making ultimately became my unique way of understanding the world.
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My work looks into our compulsion to miniaturise, replicate and build little worlds of our own of which we are able to tower above - to create the distance needed to increase understanding or simply to offer a sense of control.
Kirsten Hamilton illustration
This image is an excerpt from a short story I’m writing in preparation for our exhibition. It is a sub story which I will make into a booklet, derived from a larger piece of text which will be my final outcome, and a hard back book.
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I want this story to show sensitivity and curiosity, and show this through the detail of my line.
Looking back and looking forward The history and progression of storehouse
To celebrate ten issues of Storehouse we had a natter with one of the founding members, Martyn Garrod, to get to know the history of the magazine a little bit better.
creativity that they could not necessarily express in their courses, and we felt that this was really important. Although the design on the surface appeared a little chaotic, this allowed each piece of work to speak for itself, fighting against conformity. It was not overly designed, simply a collaboration between creative individuals. This feeling of organised chaos was what we loved about going to Art School.
As one of the founders of storehouse could you tell us about why you started it? In 2008, Norwich School of Art and Design, as it was then called, was going through the process of change. Our much-loved ‘Art School’ was seen to be becoming a standard corporate university, something that many of the students felt strongly against. It felt like we were losing our identity and needed an outlet to express what we thought Art School was about. So I suppose, Storehouse was born out of this.
Could you tell us about the process of creating a storehouse issue? Now this wasn’t the easiest! We had the idea of what we wanted to create, knew how to design it, but none of us had any experience on how to set-up, fund and run a student magazine.
How many of you were there to begin with and what courses were you guys on? We were a team of about 10, including Alec Cummings who was the student president at the time. The majority of us were from the Graphic Design courses and all from the same year. When we started there wasn’t really any particular structure to how things ran, everyone did a little of every job, and surprisingly it worked!
We turned to local enterprises, the ones who we felt had the same ethos as the Art School, to advertise in our student magazine. Unfortunately, that fact that this was a new student magazine, it was hard to get companies to commit. The UEA Concrete newspaper actually offered to fund it completely, although it would have to have been a supplement to their newspaper, which went against why we started up.
The following year (and two issues later) we had a fresh new team. Students from other courses had joined us, including Textiles, Visual Studies, Creative Writing, as well as a new generation of Graphic Designers. This gave us more diversity, with individual strengths lying in different places, creating a strong team to take over once we had graduated.
Eventually, with support from these companies, the student union, hard fund-raising and even the students own pockets, we sent the first issue to print. How many issues did you print each year?
What was the idea behind storehouse?
We managed to print two issues a year, but the fourth was a real challenge. Being in my final year, the Storehouse Editor and having a part-time job at the time, we were really stretched for time. Thankfully a few days before our Private View Storehouse went to print and we got it back in time for the Degree Show, where they were free for visitors to take. My time working on Storehouse ended seemingly as chaotic as it started!
Our inspiration for the name came from the Arabic word for ‘magazine’, which means ‘storehouse’. This felt like a good analogy for what we wanted the magazine to represent and be, a collection and showcase of creativity in all of it’s forms, stored in one place. Each issue had a one-word brief, enabling all students to submit pieces of work outside of their course curriculum. What came as a pleasant surprise to us was the number of students who used this as an opportunity to cross-pollinate with other subject areas. They could explore mediums of
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Where storehouse is going? The future of Storehouse is bright and large. As a team we hope to see our magazine expand beyond a printed edition, we want Storehouse to become a recognisable link between us as a body of creative students to the professional creative industry. Technological expansion will enable Storehouse to launch our publication online; we dream of iPhone and android accessible apps where the public can view our magazine in all it’s glory. As a team we want to grow in numbers, collecting more creative variation by gathering more students from all courses, allowing Storehouse to become wider in variety and imagination. We may be a society but we are also the voice and public platform of NUA students - our platform allows us to stand separately from the university and become identifiable creative individuals. We may have done ten issues but the future of Storehouse relies on our team expanding, we need you as the future leaders of the creative world to join us and help storehouse becoming everything we dream it can it. We can only do this with your help. If you want to see all ten issues of Storehouse go to issuu.com/storehouse
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Jordan cook Illustration facebook.com/jcookartwork ‘The Circular Ruins’ is a short story written by Jorge Luis Borges which communicates themes of creation, illusion and infinite regression . Throughout the project I found myself being drawn towards the end of the story where the main character discovers he has too been created. I worked to investigate ‘The Circular Ruins’ by illustrating the story through the viewpoint of the past creator, watching over his creation as he too dreams up a person. I used the imagery of a jar to depict a sense of containment, demonstrating the main characters lack of power. The hand imagery on the book cover pulls the audience into the story and builds questions of our existence in the “real world” and our “creator”.
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CLUBS & SOCIETIES The LGBT+ Society holds social events (like bowling, clubbing and general meetings) to enable LGBT+ NUA students to meet each other in a friendly environment, as well as offer support. The society aims to introduce students to the ‘gay scene’ of Norwich, and encourage students to get involved with LGBT+ issues politically.
At the Drama Society we love improvisation and creativity, regardless of acting skill! The Drama Society is a friendly place to have a bit of a laugh and improve your confidence with speaking or performing in front of people, or just to come along and play some fun drama-based games.
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Football is both a physical and social sport and NUA Football Club gives both male and female students the opportunity to get fit whilst having fun. Battle it out in the league and learn new skills at one of our training sessions.
Students are invited to explore their faith and hang out with like-minded people at NUA Christian Union, run by Chaplain Martin Young. With regular meetings, you will be able to converse, share and create a network both nside and outside of university.
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For all the music lovers at NUA! The Music Society is open to anyone and everyone who has a passion for music, whether it be listening to it or playing it. We have been hosting regular open mic nights over the past year and hope to continue these, with many more events to come!
The Enterprise Society is a great platform for networking with students, graduates and visiting speakers. Whether you are interested becoming freelance, self employed or starting your own business, we can provide you with the knowledge, skills and tools to feel confident in doing so! With the help of professionals your ideas can develop and flourish
facebook.com/groups/nuamusicsociety facebook.com/groups/nucaenterprisesociety The NUA Manga and Anime club is a brand new friendly and supportive group full of people interested in Japanese culture. Whether you are a hard-core fan and already have a large amount of nerdy knowledge on the subject, or your interest has just peaked and you are ready to discover the beautiful and bizarre world of Anime/Manga, you will be welcome here! Our club provides a mixture of growing activities for members to enjoy in an informal and relaxed environment, which is not just based around the quirky art style Japan is known for but also Japanese culture itself. Club activities include anime viewing and discussions, quiz nights, cosplay, manga reading, convention trips, group meet-ups zand much more as the club continues to progress.
NUA Photography Society is for students from all courses who love photography! You don’t have to be a pro at taking photos to get involved, all NUA students are welcome no matter your photographic expertise! We’ll be offering a range of fun activities: competitions, challenges, pub crits, opportunities to collaborate, and more. We also want to help provide access to darkroom facilities for NUA students interested in analogue photography. facebook.com/groups/nuaphotosoc
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NUA Comic Society gets together every Wednesday lunchtime. Our meetings are full of fun comic-making activities and are where members can discuss and swap their favourite comics with each other. Every year we make a themed anthology of comics together, as well as a group trip to a convention. If you love comics then, hey, join the club!
NUA Games Society is for students who love gaming in all its forms, from tabletop to video games. We run games-themed events for the benefit of NUA students, such as pub quizzes and competitive tournaments. Games Soc isn’t just for games-art students, everyone at the university is welcome to get involved. If you have an idea for a gaming-related event get in touch!
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In Zine Society all members contribute their artwork to regularly self-published and illustrated zines of various creative themes. We communicate mainly through our Facebook page and occasionally meet up to discuss ideas and to put the zines together to print. This is a society for students who are motivated to make art together outside of university for fun.
The aim of the Drawing Society is to rendezvous once a week and sketch either at a scenic location around the city or, on rainy days, practice life drawing indoors. We encourage a range of styles and subject matter from architecture to portraiture and warmly welcome students from all courses to take part in our activities. For those new to Norwich, our outings are a great way to explore and discover new areas of town.
facebook.com/nuazines facebook.com/groups/outdrawsociety NUA Feminist Society provides a safe and supportive environment for students of all genders interested in discussing feminist issues. FemmeSoc is also a place for like-minded students to socialize and network with a variety of exciting activities, as well as the opportunity to connect with other local feminist groups. All NUA students interested in feminism are welcome to get involved, no matter how much knowledge you already have!
The Multicultural Society works in support of third culture, of the minority folks of the NUA as well as all other students interested in these different cultures and ideologies. Here, we sit discuss an discover ourselves amongst ourselves, holding each other holding up in conversation and in spirit. To educate ourselves, to speak about our news and our art and our media and our representation. To ask questions. To find answers of this institution.
facebook.com/groups/nuafemmesoc su.multicultural@nua.ac.uk Storehouse is a society, too! There’s no special procedure for getting involved, all students are welcome to turn up to our weekly meetings. Details can be found online at bit. ly/storehousemeetinginfo. Alternatively, you can send us an email at su.storehouse@nua.ac.uk, or message us at facebook.com/storehousemagazine. Student creative work is welcome all year round and we want to showcase as varied a range as possible. To find out more about submitting your work to feature in Storehouse, either in print or online, go to bit.ly/storehousesubmissionguidelines. Stay up to date with everything Storehouse by following @storehousemag on Twitter, our Tumblr at storehouse.tumblr.com, and Instagram at instagram.com/storehouseonline.
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Em Bruce Photography emma-bruce@hotmail.com
Exploring a combination of high end fashion combined with a sense of the surreal, this portrait has a sense of dark mystery to it. The aim was to juxtapose a cold atmosphere with a warmer attribute. There is a sense of stillness to the image that combats the illusion of the fluid smoke. The model has a sense of power and strength, his eye contact locked on the viewer. Combatting the cold
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atmosphere with warm colours, the desired effect was to show a more sophisticated and contemporary side to an ageing and outdated building. There is a cinematic, dramatic presence to the scene, as well as a sense of mystery created by the contrasts in the artificial lighting. The feeling of unknown narrative is created, lead by the geometric lines and lights.
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Charlie Barkus Fine Art
These are three discoveries from the famous author and social commentator Harriet Martineau. Once these separate plants could be found in specific locations all over the globe. The Bellum Mixti from the mid European Pannonian Plain, the Callidus Satellitibus from the Polar forests of Scandinavia and the Videantur Capite could be found along the Mediterranean coast along the Aegean Sea. Unfortunately these three plants are all now extinct.
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Sophie Moates Graphic Design
I have created these collages by hand using a scalpel to cut out each element. My idea behind the collage titled ‘Mindless’ was to give the illusion
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that thought and stress are spiralling out of control in the mind, yet she may look perfectly fine on the outside.
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Sean Hancock Photography sean.hancock@hotmail.co.uk This image was taken at a nuclear bunker museum in Essex. The staff saw fit to populate the interior with mannequins whom I felt coincidentally reflected the futility of survival after a nuclear event. Their sombre, distant expressions seemed to echo this feeling perfectly. A red gel over flash is used to further emphasise their indifference to the potential catastrophe happening around them.
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engagement or estrangement It’s hard to imagine now, but before 1998 going to university was pretty much free.
fees], rioted, they were condemned. People riot when dialogue fails, when they feel unrepresented and bored by the illusion...”
Although tuition fees have always existed in some form, they were usually covered in full by the government (with grants for living costs, too). Tuition fees as we know them now were introduced in 1998 by the Labour Party - £1,000 upfront per year. The fees were supposed to inject extra funding to help universities keep up with an ever increasing number of students. Demonstrations against this change were held at 150 universities, with one group of Oxford students refusing to pay the fees. Students occupied university buildings in protest until 2000.
Perhaps new technologies can help alleviate our political apathy. The rise of the internet means it has never been easier for people worldwide to connect and share information. The fact that so many countries - including our own - are looking to censor the web is evidence for its potential to help us speak truly freely. The technological revolution of our generation is certainly a game changer; social media can direct our attention and guide public opinion - as Black Mirror’s unfortunate pig-porking prime minister graphically illustrated.
A few years later Labour announced another rise in tuition fees - a maximum of £3,000 that graduates paid back once earning over £15,000 per year - despite pledging not to increase them in their 2001 election manifesto. The policy scraped through parliament, winning by 5 votes, with 30,000 students demonstrating against it in Trafalgar Square.
In Spain the left-wing Podemos party uses the open source software ‘Agora Voting’ to select their European Parliamentary candidates, with 33,000 voters using the online platform. Podemos is currently researching new apps and internet tools to achieve instant mass polling, optimising the voting process to create fast, direct democracy. At Podemos’ 800 local participation groups members use ‘Titanpad’, an application which allows many users to edit a single document simultaneously, which is then brought to the party’s national assembly. The popular online forum ‘Reddit’ and the ‘Appgree’ app are further tools that allow many voters to be polled at once, creating a direct link between the people and their representatives. Such fledgling technology may require development, but it suggests a future of immediate, accessible engagement in matters political.
Then, in 2010, the Browne Review (a report into the future of higher education funding) controversially recommended there should be no limit to the amount universities can charge in tuition fees. Once again students protested across the UK, with 50,000 marching in London against the report’s proposals. In infamous scenes the Conservative Party’s headquarters (‘Millbank’) was trashed and occupied by angry students. However, undeterred by these substantial demonstrations, the coalition Government increased tuition fees to a maximum of £9,000 from 2012 (which most universities charged). Despite pledging explicitly to vote against tuition fees before the election many Liberal Democrat MPs voted in favour of the increase, including party leader and Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg.
In the meantime, although it might feel like giving your consent to policies you don’t agree with; reading up on the manifestos of the parties, becoming aware of the political system that surrounds and affects us, and making an informed decision in May’s general election means that your voice can be taken into account - whether you decide to vote or not. In the words of anthropologist Margaret Mead,
Now, in 2015, students leave university with over £40,000 of debt, which the vast majority of us will never even manage to pay off. The variable interest rate on student loans means that graduates’ debt may actually increase as the years go by.
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
Broken promises and political disenfranchisement means young people often don’t bother voting, and politicians have little reason to engage with non-voters. The predicament is circular. As the ever ubiquitous Russell Brand famously commented in 2013, “The only reason to vote is if the vote represents power or change. I don’t think it does... When students, perhaps students who had voted [against tuition
In contrast to European tuition fees Not all countries have embraced tuition fees like England. From this academic year all higher education in Germany is
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free, after Lower Saxony became the last state to abolish tuition fees. State funding helps replace university income lost through fees. Although most states in West Germany brought in fees around 2007 the public has been consistently against them; the state of Hesse, for instance, abolished tuition fees after only a year, and a petition of 70,000 signatures. State governments that refused to remove the fees found themselves promptly out of office.
Voting is done using the ‘first-past-the-post’ system, meaning the candidate with the most votes in a constituency wins. After the general election the party (or combination of parties) with the most elected MPs is then invited to form a government by the Queen. This year’s general election takes place on Thursday 7th May. Along with MPs, voters will elect their local council representatives. If you came to study from outside the UK but your home country is the Republic of Ireland or a member of the British Commonwealth you can still vote in the general election. If you’re from a country in the EU you won’t be able to vote in the general election but you will be able to vote in the local election. If you live at a different address outside of term time, you may be able to vote in multiple local elections.
Similarly, when Scotland received ‘devolved’ governmental powers (the ability to set its own laws independent of the rest of the UK) one of its first acts was to abolish tuition fees for Scottish and EU students (although students from elsewhere in the UK are still charged to go to University in Scotland). The situation is similar around the rest of Europe, with most countries’ universities offering free tuition for the majority of their courses. Perhaps tuition fees are not as inevitable as our political establishment would have us believe.
You must already be registered to vote in May. The simplest way to register is online, at gov.uk/register-to-vote. Registering takes around 5 minutes. The deadline for registering to vote is Monday 20th April.
Infomation about voting
Still can’t decide who to vote for? voteforpolicies.org.uk can help you work out which party best represents your political views. Be careful though, not everyone keeps their promises once they’re in power!
The general election decides who the member of Parliament (MP) is for each of the 650 constituencies in the UK. Each ‘constituency’ refers to a geographical area and all the people that live within it. The MPs represent their constituents in the House of Commons (the UK’s elected Parliament) and will vote on proposed laws. The Government must have support from a majority of MPs to create new laws.
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norwich north & south candidates Chloe Smith, Conservative, Norwich North
until earning over £21,000, with payments lower than under the previous system. The cap on university places will be removed, so that an estimated 60,000 more students will be able to access higher education.
I believe passionately in young people’s future and my action shows it; I’ve worked with NUA and others already to help over 1,600 Norwich young people into work. I’ve been one of the youngest MPs and I know our generation’s values.
The Conservative Party is the largest member of the current coalition Government. Chloe Smith is also the current member of Parliament (MP) for Norwich North. The Conservatives - often called ‘Tories’ - are politically centre-right, encouraging business and personal enterprise as the route to a better society. The party’s website is conservatives.com
The previous university funding system was breaking and unsustainable. I think it’s fair for students to contribute to their education, not up-front, but when earning more. We have opened higher education up to as many young people as have the ambition to go; I’m proud that nearly twice as many poorer students now apply for uni. We’ve removed the old cap on student numbers, and supported students from disadvantaged backgrounds or with disabilities, and I’ve worked with NUASU on these issues.
Although students with disabilities are mentioned, it was Conservative universities minister David Willetts who announced plans to cut the Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA) last year. Chloe Smith has voted consistently for increases in tuition fees as MP. Jess Asato, Labour, Norwich North
I sponsored a Bill in Parliament which asks universities to show students how their fees are spent because that empowers you. I’ve also supported Norwich’s arts, creative and tech industries so there are more exciting opportunities which can go directly to NUA graduates.
Labour stands for a more equal society where we value education for education’s sake, and not just to get a job afterwards. If you believe in living in a fairer society you should consider voting Labour. As for myself, I am a new mum and there are precious few in the Houses of Parliament.
Lisa Townsend, Conservative, Norwich South I was lucky to be able to follow my chosen career path after university and I believe that all students should have the opportunities I have had, but this is only possible with a strong economy that can support a range of industries.
When Labour was in government the number of students from the least well-off backgrounds increased year on year. We also introduced the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA), which helped many young people access higher education. EMA was abolished by the coalition Government in 2010. Labour’s plans to crack down on rogue landlords and legislate against rip-off letting agents’ fees will help many students who find themselves at the mercy of unscrupulous landlords.
A university education should enhance your prospects of a better job and give you more choice about your future. Britain has one of the best higher education systems in the world, but it isn’t cheap and the old funding model was simply unsustainable. We must create a sustainable model for university funding that supports anyone who wants to study, regardless of background, while also being aware of the economic realities of the world we live in.
I think it’s important that students contribute to the cost of university, but clearly the tripling of fees by the coalition has led to widespread concern among students about the amount of debt they will leave university with. I support Labour’s move to cut fees from £9,000 back to £6,000 and eventually replace the fees system with a graduate tax.
The Conservatives are absolutely committed to ensuring that background is no barrier to a university education. Under the current Government those from disadvantaged backgrounds are going to university more than ever before. The system is now a fairer one and ensures graduates will not pay back their loans
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Clive Lewis, Labour, Norwich South
Loans will be available from 2016 and repaid alongside undergraduate student loans. This will tackle the issue of bright students being deterred by the upfront costs of master’s study.
A Labour vote is a vote for increasing opportunities for young people, with greater access to well paid jobs. We have been engaging with young people to create Labour’s Youth Manifesto, and it was fantastic to meet NUA students as part of this consultation. Many of the 1 million people who have dropped off the electoral register across the country are students and we are making a massive effort to boost student voter registration, otherwise come May 7th far too many young people will be left without a voice.
We would introduce bus passes for under 21s, offering a minimum two thirds discount. More affordable housing of a decent standard must be available for young people, with rogue landlords held to account. We would aim to boost house building to 300,000 a year. I want Norwich to benefit as much as possible from the fantastic talent that our universities attract through the creation of skilled, graduate-level jobs that drive forward the fantastic contribution made by the arts in Norwich. Unemployment has halved in Norwich since 2010, and I would continue to champion a strong, jobs-led recovery.
I would like to see a universal education system allowing everyone to access higher education insome form, be it apprenticeships, technical, vocational or university degrees. There is a shortfall in university funding but burdening students with greater debt on graduation is not the answer. I welcome any reduction in tuition fees but believe we should explore other alternatives. My preference would be a form of progressive taxation.
Along with the Conservative Party, the Liberal Democrats are the smaller partner in the current coalition Government. Simon Wright is the current MP for Norwich South. The Lib Dem candidate for Norwich North is James Wright, who unfortunately could not reply to our questions.
On a personal level my commitment to students goes back to the 1990s when I was vice president for education for the National Union of Students (NUS).
The Lib Dems are normally defined at the centre of the UK’s left-right political spectrum. Some of their policies - such as drug decriminalisation - are arguably more left-wing than Labour’s, however. Their website is libdems.org.uk
Concrete information on Labour’s ‘graduate tax’ proposal is not available as we go to print. However, the NUS has proposed a graduate tax of between 0.3% and 2.5% on earnings for 20 years after graduation. Critics of the tax suggest it could incentivise some graduates to leave the UK after uni.
Glenn Tingle, UKIP, Norwich North Students should vote for UKIP because we are totally against tuition fees and openly promote grammar schools - talent in whatever form should not be held back because of personal finances. We want every child and school leaver to reach their fullest potential.
Labour and the Conservatives are the two most established parties in England, alternately holding majority governments throughout the 20th century. Labour is ‘centre-left’, although it drifted towards the right during the late 90s, often adopting a pro-business stance. The party’s website is labour.org.uk
UKIP can only campaign for things like free tuition as we currently have only a small voice in parliament however if the people want change, believe in ‘the new kids on the block’ and we attract common sense voters we can make real changes for students in all areas of learning.
Simon Wright, Lib Dem, Norwich South I voted against the tuition fee increase in 2010. Liberal Democrats have created a fairer loan repayment system; if you earn less than £21,000 you pay nothing and the wealthiest pay back the most. The repayment system is in effect a ‘graduate tax’ in all but name. The rate of disadvantaged students applying to higher education is at an all-time high.
I am totally against tuition fees - colleges, universities and adult education centres should all be free, providing students complete the course so that the tutors and students don’t waste each other’s time. The current Government sponsors Scottish students to attend university for free, so why can’t they do the same for English students and let Scotland fund their own degrees?
Last year we announced the introduction of a student finance package of up to £10,000 for postgraduates.
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Steve Emmens, UKIP, Norwich South
throughout a citizen’s life. The arts are as important as science in all areas of life, including work and culture.
Students should vote for UKIP because we believe in Great Britain; a political union of 4 nation states that brought democracy to the world. The European Union will make us a third rate country, a marginalised suburb of the Brussels super state.
Green Party MP Caroline Lucas has been at the forefront of the campaign to stop the government privatising the Student Loans Company. Young Green groups in a number of universities organised a day of action against the sell-off in November 2014.
Unlike the ‘legacy parties’ who have had 50 years to woo the student vote with their freebies, pizzas and false promises, we have had no opportunity to engage with students and in fact certain SUs in the UK block us from campus. I hope to build a greater understanding with student supporters of UKIP and all other students who believe in free speech.
I am against tuition fees and cuts in public funding for universities. The Green Party has had a policy of scrapping tuition fees ever since they were introduced in 1998 by the Labour Government. Universities should be fully funded through general taxation. Freely available higher education is a benefit to the whole of society.
This country is in a financial mess. It’s not students’ fault - most of you did not put these politicians in power - but you do have an opportunity to change the future. Voting for the same old parties will not make things better. To get our country on its feet again we must invest in our future; UKIP will offer free degree courses to students within the core subjects and improve the quality of university uptake by the reintroduction of grammar schools.
Lesley Grahame, Green, Norwich South Greens campaign for education as a right and a benefit to society. A strong economy and democracy need an educated population free from unmanageable debt. Arts and education should not be limited to those who can pay. Both should be funded from fair taxation, properly enforced. Young people, like anyone else, need warm, affordable and secure housing and we are campaigning to ensure fairer rents, higher standards and an end to ‘revenge evictions’.
Contrary to Glenn Tingle’s statement, UKIP’s manifesto states “Subject to academic performance UKIP will remove tuition fees for students taking approved degrees in science, medicine, technology, engineering, maths…” suggesting art & design courses like those at NUA would still have tuition fees.
Everyone needs fair and equal pay regardless of age, and jobs you can build a life around. Greens would reverse cuts to public services and make the investment needed in sustainable transport, housing and other industries to meet our climate change commitments. These measures would create 2 million jobs, payable by short-term borrowing and cutting tax fraud.
Grammar schools are designed to teach the most ‘intellectually able’ school children separately from the rest of the population. Entrance to grammar schools is decided by the ‘Eleven plus’ exam or the school’s own entrance exam. Most grammar schools became comprehensives during the 1960s and 70s, although 164 still remain in England.
Greens oppose university tuition fees, and support the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA).
UKIP’s full name is the United Kingdom Independence Party. Their other policies focus on leaving the European Union and decreasing immigration into the UK, which they claim affect the country detrimentally. UKIP tends to be more right-wing than the Conservatives. Their website is ukip.org
The Green Party is the only major party in England that opposes all tuition fees. They would also introduce grants to meet students’ living costs. The Green Party’s other policies focus on environmentalism and addressing social inequality. The Green Party is generally more left-wing than Labour. Their website is greenparty.org.uk
Adrian Holmes, Green, Norwich North I believe that higher education is a fundamental right for all and should not require students to get into debt. The Green Party has a policy of lifetime education, which promotes the availability of further education
Representation of party policies is based on information available in February 2015.
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Heather Iles Graphic Design heatherlouiles@gmail.com
This was a project to create a new drink or snack brand that was not already on the market. I created a package that highlights the health benefits of eating mixed nuts and seeds on parts of the body. I aimed
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to be informative about health foods in a more fun and visually interesting manner, in response to the dull and uninformative mixed nuts and seeds packaging on the market currently.
Jeanette Bolton-Martin Photography jeanetteboltonmartin.com
In my third year I’ve been using photography to explore themes of memory and mortality, through the technique of ‘vanitas’- a 17th century art movement in which ‘still life’ objects represent the transient, fleeting nature of life. Although I’d love to claim the shot was constructed
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neatly in NUA’s studio, in reality it was a MacGyvered combination of found fabric, a clothes horse, and (a lot of) gaffer tape arranged in my living room. To capture the painterly vanitas style, I shot through a layer of tulle fabric, tied over the lens. Student budgets are the mother of invention.
Jemma Rayner Graphic Design
This is my final piece for our first project, ‘Ways of Seeing’. We were set the task to pick an item - or collection from The Castle Museum and experiment with it. I picked the Twinings tea pot collection, deciding to focus on the different patterns on the teapots. They reminded me of the patterns that William Morris designed and I also looked at Bridget Riley.
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I ended up making my own pattern and lino printing it. I then used Photoshop to enhance and repeatthe pattern as many times as I liked. To bring the teapot back into the project I decided to project my pattern on to a white teapot on a white background so the teapot became secondary to the emerging pattern.
silvia boni Graphic Communication slvboni@gmail.com
These are some extracts from a project I’ve been working on. We were asked to represent through a visual outcome the ‘passing of time’. Representing the passing of time can be really difficult, you need to make the visible invisible. I’ve made a series of images from Bjork’s album Biophilia;
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I’ve used a technique that allows to convert mp3 files into jpg format and I’ve created ten visual outcomes out of something that is purely immaterial. Every song has different parameters to work with, one of them is precisely length/time, that make every outcome different and unique.
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Sam brooks
‘The Cherokee Legend’ was done on A3 Bristol board using a variety of pencils. I felt that the use of a Bald eagle fitted well as this bird was worshipped by many Native Americans and was very prominent in their folk lore. I wanted the composition to be a core factor in this work as I really wanted to accentuate this piece.
Games Arts and Design facebook.com/sambrooksart
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olivia trowell Photography olivia.trowell@student.nua.ac.uk
These images were taken at an old abandoned car scrapyard just outside of Norwich. I love old classic cars so definitely wanted to visit this place! In my images I just tried to show how these cars have been left and are now disappearing into their enviroment.
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Daisy Allen Illustration
This work was a response to the short story ‘The Circular Ruins’ by Jorge Luis Borges. We had to produce a book cover and four inside illustrations. My intention was to create an un-locatable location, a dream world. These images
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are made on photoshop using my own collage material, mostly from vintage National Geographic magazines. and anatomy books.
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Jessie Whitehead Illustration behance.net/jessiewhitehead
These are an exploration of Gender Identity and Sexuality. As part of my year three final project, I intend to investigate the nature and disposition of our internal spaces as opposed to our external realities. Throughout my working practice I aim to explore the
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subject of form, specifically the human form in contrast with the external man made world around us, and the duality of masculinity and femininity, attempting to capture the splintered versions of ourselves co-existing throughout the places we inhabit.Â
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