Last Friday 25 November saw Hiraeth, a play written by Wimbledon College of Art BA Theatre Design graduate Buddug Jones being performed at the Lyric Theatre in London as part of their Lyric Lounge series.
Hiraeth explores the decline of Welsh Tradition and identity through the story of one woman’s struggle to escape. Hiraeth was produced in association with multi award-winning international touring theatre company Bear Trap, of which Buddug is a part of.
Katie Pratt, Wimbledon College of Art BA Fine Art Painting Pathway Leader has an upcoming show at The Fine Art Society in London.
‘This is her first solo exhibition at The Fine Art Society’s Bond Street gallery, which will display large-scale and smaller works made since 2009. From the late 1990s, Pratt has been making richly inventive works which merge abstract painting with material physicality and the mere possibility of allusion to reality.’
Show dates: 1 Dec 2011 – 7 Jan 2012.
Venue: The Fine Art Society, 148 New Bond Street, London W1S 2JT
Wimbledon College of Art BA Print and Time-based Media alumna and current MA Fine Art student Judith Hayes has been awarded the £5,000 1st prize in the Art Photography category of the 2011 Towry National Open Art Competition for her ‘Still Life. After Caravaggio.’
An exhibition of the winners will run from 3 – 15 January 2012 at the Pallant House Gallery in Chichester.
Wimbledon College of Arts theatre alumni Mike Leigh, Bunny Christie and Mark Tildesley have been nominated for Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
Mike Leigh in the Best Director category for Grief (at the National’s Cottesloe).
Bunny Christie and Mark Tildesley in the Best Design category for Men Should Weep (at the National’s Lyttelton) and Frankenstein (at the National’s Olivier) respectively.
This year’s awards are being held on November 20 at the Savoy Hotel, in association with Vogue and sponsored by Hobbs and American Airlines, will be hosted by Australian diva Dame Edna Everage – aka Barry Humphries. Presenters will include Downton Abbey star Dan Stevens and Anna Chancellor, currently on stage in The Last Of The Duchess at the Hampstead Theatre.
Full coverage of the winners will appear in the Standard on November 21.
Image: Frankenstein (at the National’s Olivier) – Benedict Cumberbatch as Victor Frankenstein and Jonny Lee Miller as his creation.
Wimbledon College of Art theatre graduate Hyemi Shin has been awarded the 2011 Linbury Prize for Stage Design.
As well as collecting £3,500, the prize also gives Hyemi a unique opportunity to design a professional production for a major theatre or opera company. Hyemi will be working with The Lyric Hammersmith and Filter to “to remix, rework and revitalise A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
The awards were presented by Anya Sainsbury CBE, founder of the Linbury Prize, Caro Newling, Chair and Sir Nicholas Hytner, Director of the National Theatre. The judges for this year’s award were renowned designers Jon Bausor, Miriam Buether and Ian MacNeil.
An exhibition of work by all 12 finalists runs until 29 November at the National Theatre.
Wimbledon College of Art BA Technical Arts and Special Effects students have created puppets for a performance of Noye’s Fludde, which is part of the the Wimbledon Music Festival.
Noye’s Fludde is the story of Noah and the Ark. Shows take place on Monday 21 and Tuesday 22 of November.
Book tickets – www.wimbledonmusicfestival.co.uk
See more photos – www.wimbledonmusicfestival.co.uk/noyes_fludde
FdA Production for Live Events and Television students have also organised this ‘Fashion for Freedom’ event in aid of MAP – a charity which provides medical aid for Palestinians.
Join them on Wednesday 16 November from 19.00 – 20.30.
FdA Production for Live Events and Television students have organised a Winter Fete at Wimbledon College of Art. The event is in aid of Emmaus – a charity for the homeless.
Get yourself in the festive mood with some mulled wine and pick up some gifts for Christmas!
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