Graphic Design Now In Production
Graphic Design course leader Noel Douglas features in a major new exhibition that is touring the USA this year. Featuring work produced since 2000 in the most vital sectors of communication design, ‘Graphic Design: Now in Production’ explores design-driven magazines, newspapers, books, and posters as well as branding programs for corporations, subcultures, and nations.
Nigel Grimmer – Staff billboard commission
The Roadkill Family Album, is an ongoing series of works shown here for the first time in a public location. Taking the form of an alternative family album using his friends and family the series highlights the constructed nature of images in Nigel’s photographs. Each piece silently questions the role of the human within nature, paring it with self destructive nature displayed within pockets society.
Ben Gets Creative With Business
A graduate and staff member in the art and design department, Ben Hodson has won a number of awards for his company. ATP Media, based out of the Hat Factory in Luton has recently been awarded at both a local and national level. The creative business has just received a Future 100 award and one of the directors, Ben Hodson won Community Businessperson of the year in the Luton’s Best of Awards ceremony at Luton Hoo last week.
Rebecca Meanley – Drawn In
Rebecca Meanley, a Visual Art Practice lecturer, will show abstract paintings in her exhibition, ‘Drawn In’ which explores the relationship between the artist and the canvas.
Ben Hodson – The Re Show
Staff member Ben Hodson is taking part in an arts council funded exhibition called “The Re Show”. The Re… Show is a group show of 12 artists. The venue for the show is the ‘Street Dreams’ workshop in High Wycombe. Street Dreams is a charity that equips young people with life skills and provides them with personal development opportunities.
Sława Harasymowicz – Dispatches
Sława Harasymowicz, a London based artist and lecturer in the Division of Arts and Design will be opening Dispatches, on Tuesday, 1 November in London.
Sława said: “The show is called Dispatches because it relates to the idea of ‘dispatching’ memory, and information, whether authentic, or ‘assumed’. It is a narrative which offers no explanation. I think it is an interesting opportunity to show art in the middle of a major political institution’s building.”
Nigel Grimmer – Time’s Relentless Melt
Friends and family enter Nigel Grimmer’s photographic work through his continual reworking of the family album format. Disrupting our expectations of “traditional” family portraiture Grimmer obscures the identities of his models, protecting them from the viewer’s gaze; his family are pictured turning their backs to the camera, or masking themselves with a variety of disguises and props.
Break Out At The Rebel Zoo
Recently graduated MA student Anna Skopinska has turned her masters project into a real publication Grafik Rebel which was just launched in August in Warsaw. For the launch Anna, as part of her new studio, Rebel Zoo Studio put on an exhibition featuring Design For Communication’s Course Leader, Noel Douglas and typographer and designer Jonathan Barnbrook.
Iraq – The Next Step by Ben Hodson & Ian Rowlands
Staff member Ben Hodson and Luton based photographer Ian Rowlands have brought together an emotive exhibition at The Hat Factory throughout July 2011. This exhibition is part of an ongoing project in which they seek to challenge some of the stereo typical images we see coming out of Iraq. The artists present the nation’s history, with its savagery against humanity, but they also aim to look to the future with hope.
Ben Hodson published in Digital Photographer
Staff member Ben Hodson has been published in Digital Photographer Issue #110. Ben was interviewed and profiled on some of his recent Iraqi work over the last year.
Spring has Sprung!
Design for Communication course leader Noel Douglas has been published in ‘Springtime’ a book on student protests around the world. The book produced by Verso includes a large section on the UK student movements against increased tuition fees, Noel has illustrated these struggles in a 16-page section, some images of the spreads are below.
Pick Me Up
Illustration tutors, INK Illustration were recently invited to create a drawing workshop ‘With Draw’ as part of Pick Me Up 2011 at Somerset House, in London. The collective asked visitors to contribute their illustrations in response to INK’S drawings using their imagination, memory and observation to form a collaborative mural which took over the walls. [...]
Photomedia Salon 2011
Nigel Grimmer, Course Leader for Photography and Video Art, recently won the ‘Crash Open’ art competition at Charlie Dutton Gallery in Holborn, London. The competition was judged by art critic Matthew Collings. The prize for the competition is a solo show at the gallery. ‘Time’s Relentless Melt’ a solo show of new photography and sculpture [...]
3,000 prints created into a single photomontage.
Ben Hodson is a staff member for the Art & Design department at the University of Bedfordshire. Specifically for a current show in the UCMK Gallery, UK Ben has created a one off large (6.5m x 3.5m) photo-montage out of 3,000+ photos from the inside of one of the cells from Amna Suraka. Amna Suraka [...]
Iraq: Amna Suraka – Exhibition by staff member Ben Hodson
Iraq: Amna Suraka – Exhibition by staff member Ben Hodson Luton based artist and photographer Ben Hodson has brought together an emotive show at the UCMK Gallery in Milton Keynes throughout March 2011. The University of Bedfordshire student is exhibiting Iraq: Amna Suraka, which is a collection of work he created whilst on a recent [...]
Planetary Patriotism
Design for Communication Course Leader Noel Douglas features in a new book, Green Patriot Posters, published by Thames and Hudson in the UK and Metropolis Books in the US. Noel’s work is a poster called ‘Dead End’ this was part of a body of work made for street protests during the 2009 G20 Summit in [...]
Escape from Colditz – Annette & Erasmus Schöter
Exhibition: Escape from Colditz – Annette & Erasmus Schröter 22 January – 5 March, 2011 Opening Reception: Saturday January 22, 5 – 8pm, Admission free, all welcome. The Exhibition will be formally opened at 6pm by Cord Meier-Klodt Cultural attaché at the German Embassy, London Artists Annette and Erasmus Schröter are based in Leipzig, South [...]
Disruptive Members -Exhibition by Staff member Nigel Grimmer
Departure Lounge is a new contemporary arts and media initiative, which will bring the work of UK and International contemporary artists to Luton. Presenting exhibitions within and beyond the traditional gallery environment, Departure Lounge will occupy temporary premises in Luton’s High Town Road for an inaugural exhibition entitled Disruptive Members featuring emerging British artist Nigel Grimmer. There has been [...]
Artists Commission Work in Progress
The University of Bedfordshire has commissioned two established artists to produce work for the new Campus Centre in Luton. Susan Stockwell and Cedric Christie are currently in the final stages of creating their work, which will be installed in the near future. This video gives a short insight into the work in progress and the [...]
Light in the Darkness
Ben Hodson, the technician demonstrator for Art & Design, is exhibiting a recent collection of work titled: “Light in the darkness”. The series is a smaller selection from a recent solo exhibition and is currently hanging in the corridor space by the media hub in the Luton Park Square campus. “Light in the darkness.” This [...]
High Town Art For All
High Town Art For All is a collective of artists who have gained access to two otherwise empty shops on High Town Road in Luton. The shops are animated with visual art, workshops and collaborative art projects. The shops (No. 37 & 40) are open most days between 3-7pm until January 2010. The project is [...]
Polish Poster Party!
Design for Communication course leader Noel Douglas, has just had work shown in the most prestigious and largest poster bienniale in the world, held at the Wilanów Poster Museum, in Warsaw, Poland. Selected from 3,453 entries from 50 countries the 22nd International Poster Biennale exhibited just 453 original designs in three categories, advertising, ideological and [...]
