Art and Design news

• Cary Comes Home - UWE Bristol supports first festival for Bristol screen icon

  03/10/2014

  Vintage clothing, red carpets and paparazzi, students and staff from UWE Bristol are helping to recreate some old style Hollywood glamour in bringing Bristol's favourite son, Cary Grant back to our screens at the Bristol Hippodrome, as part of a two day festival in the city, Cary Grant Comes Home For The Weekend (11-12 October 2014).

  UWE Bristol is a major festival sponsor, working with The Bristol Hippodrome and Watershed to host this inaugural festival celebrating how Bristol-born, Archie Leach changed his name and his fortunes to become internationally famous film star Cary Grant, yet never forgot his Bristol roots. The event includes talks, tours, cocktails and film-making challenge.

• UWE artists on show in WW1 centenary exhibition programme at Royal West of England Academy

  14/07/2014

  Artists and academics from UWE Bristol are playing a prominent part in an exhibition programme to remember World War 1 at the Royal West of England Academy.

  The exhibition programme is called Back From the Front, starts on 19 July and is in three parts. The first part, entitled Brothers in Art, shows paintings by the major British war artists Paul Nash and John Nash. Professor Paul Gough, formerly UWE Deputy Vice-Chancellor, is curator of the entire exhibition programme and in July will publish a book entitled 'Brothers in Arms' to coincide with the show.

• Cinematographer Ben Smithard to speak at UWE Bristol London Graduate Show

  19/06/2014

  Guest Lecture: Saturday 21 June from 13:00 – 15:00

  Venue: The Bargehouse (4^th Floor) South Bank, London SE1 9PH

  London Graduate Show: 19 – 22 June 2014,The Bargehouse, South Bank, London SE1 9PH

  Talented graduates from UWE Bristol's BA (Hons) Photography, Filmmaking and Creative Media (FCM) and Animation courses will be joined by renowned Cinematographer Ben Smithard BSC at their London Graduate Show as part of celebrations to mark 20 years of graduating students from the FCM course.

• UWE Bristol animation interns work on Disney film with Arthur Cox

  02/05/2014

  Graduates from the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) have worked with a team from BAFTA winning animation studio Arthur Cox in Bristol on a new preschool series for Disney Junior.

• UWE Bristol students get animated at the BBC Food and Farming Awards 2014

  01/05/2014

  Talented student animators from UWE Bristol will unveil their animation shorts to an audience of over 500 people at this year's 2014 BBC | Food and Farming Awards (1 May) marking the start of Bristol's ground breaking city-wide food event -Bristol Food Connections (1-11 May)

• UWE Bristol Illustration students go 'Hot & Cold' at the Tobacco Factory

  27/02/2014

  'Hot & Cold', Tobacco Factory (Main Bar) until 2 March 2014

  'Hot & Cold' is an opportunity to take in the talent of UWE Bristol's final year BA (Hons) Illustration students as they showcase their latest work in an exhibition at the Tobacco Factory, Bristol.

• Double success for UWE students at British Book Awards

  06/11/2013

  Graphic design student Jake Gunn from UWE Bristol has just won Best Student Book of the year for his book Seven Samurai. UWE graduate Sherony Lock was one of the shortlisted designers and received a highly commended award for her interpretation of Jane Eyre.

• UWE Bristol awards Honorary Degree to Katie Alcott

  18/07/2013

  UWE Bristol is awarding the Honorary Degree of Master of Business Administration to Katie Alcott in recognition of her pioneering work in setting up a social enterprise and registered charity to fund life-saving clean drinking water projects.

• UWE Bristol awards Honorary Degree to Tom Morris

  18/07/2013

  UWE Bristol will award the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Arts to Tom Morris in recognition of his significant contribution to the arts, arts heritage and creative design.

  The Honorary Degree will be conferred at the Awards Ceremony of the Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries and Education on Tuesday 23 July at Bristol Cathedral.

• UWE Bristol offers 3D printing to all students

  21/01/2013

  UWE Bristol is leading the way amongst UK universities by making 3D printing technology available to all students by locating a 3D printer in the main university library.

  It is believed to be the first 3D printer in an academic library in the UK. The new initiative is made possible through a donation from 3D Systems Limited.

  3D print technology, also known as additive layer manufacturing, is a rapidly developing technology with applications in manufacturing, engineering and academic research. It is sometimes available to university students on relevant courses – such as creative product design or engineering courses. For example UWE Bristol already has 3D printers within the Faculty of Technology and in the leading Centre for Fine Print Research.

• Locative storytelling and interactive library projects win REACT funding

  09/01/2013

  Two lecturers from UWE Bristol will each work with media industry partners on projects that will create exciting new ways of authoring and consuming literature through location based storytelling and transforming a library space into a beautiful interactive experience.

• Project Zulu take on charity swim to bring South African Choir to Bristol in 2013

  10/12/2012

  Saturday 15 December, 09:00, Clevedon beach

  Project Zulu, a group of 10 student teachers and two tutors from UWE Bristol will bravely take on the chilly waters of the Bristol Channel for a charity swim to raise funds to bring a South African primary school to Bristol next June.

• Do we really want a British FBI? UWE Bristol researcher thinks we need to learn from history

  03/12/2012

  In an article posted on the History and Policy today website, Dr Michael Woodiwiss, a historian from the University of the West of England, argues that our government needs to observe lessons from history before pushing ahead with a British FBI.

• UWE helps save 'integral part of English ceramic history' by combining late 19th century and digital print techniques

  15/11/2012

  UWE Bristol's Centre for Fine Print Research (CFPR) is helping retain traditional English pottery decorating skills by finding ways of combining them with digital print techniques.

  Professor Steve Hoskins, director of the CFPR, and Mr Dave Huson are collaborating with Burleigh Pottery in Stoke-on-Trent, the last remaining company to produce ceramic tableware decorated using the traditional printed underglaze tissue method. The pottery was saved from the threat of closure by the Princes' Regeneration Trust in June 2011.

• UWE Bristol academic receives The Birgit Skiöld Trust Memorial Award

  12/11/2012

  UWE Bristol academic Jonathan Ward has been awarded The Birgit Skiöld Trust Memorial Award for his collaborative artists' book 'Home', at this year's London Art Book Fair at the Whitechapel Gallery.

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