Wimbledon College of Art in partnership with the V & A, and as part of London Design Week are involved in the Edward Gordon Craig: His Legacy Exhibition (open 11th September 2010 until March 2011) at the V & A Museum  Jane Collins, Reader in Theatre and currently acting Course Director Theatre at the College has worked  on the exhibition and will take part in the Day of Lectures taking place on Saturday 25th September  in the Hachhauser Auditorium, Sackler Centre V&A.  Tickets £12 (£5 concessions) – to book visit www.vam.ac.uk/tickets

Wimbledon BA Technical Arts and Special Effects graduate Eun Jung Ha has won the college’s first Madame Tussaud award, winning her a £1,000 prize. Eun Jung Ha’s lifelike re-creation is of the college’s assistant facilities manager Paul Lurkins!

The annual award will be open to students who produce a figurative sculpture for their final major project.

Here’s a selection of work from the Wimbledon BA Show. Images from top to bottom -

Olly Fathers – BA Painting
Jessica Wan – BA Sculpture
Eun Jung-Ha – BA Technical Arts and Special Effects
Yasuhiro Onishi – BA Painting
Ed Naujokas – BA Print and Time-based Media
Shelley Brook – BA Sculpture
Sebastian Van Beirs – BA Technical Arts and Special Effects

See more images from the BA Show here.

Find out more about the 2010 Summer Shows -

www.wimbledon.arts.ac.uk/summershows2010

Wimbledon BA Theatre have launched their 2010 Summer Show website. We selected a few images that caught our eye!

From top to bottom:

Genevieve Cox – BA Costume Interpretation
Eun Jung Ha – BA Technical Arts and Special Effects
Elizabeth Richards – BA Costume Design

See more work – www.wcatheatre10.co.uk

Find out more about the 2010 Summer Shows -

www.wimbledon.arts.ac.uk/summershows2010

This week we continue our Wimbledon Summer Show series. In this video we talk to Eun-Jung Ha – BA Technical Arts & Special Effects 3rd year and get a glimpse of her final piece, a rather realistic model of the caretaker!

Find out more about the 2010 Summer Shows -

www.wimbledon.arts.ac.uk/summershows2010

3rd Year, Set Design for Stage and Screen student, Oliver Lloyd has decorated, on a James Bond theme,  one of the 25o elephants currently on parade across the Capital.  His elephant, with quotes from several Ian Fleming books designed in the swirling flight path of 3 bullets, includes Fleming’s signature, can be seen by the London Eye at Waterloo. Each elephant will be auctioned at the end of this unique open air exhibition on 4th July, to raise money to support the conservation of Asian Elephants.

Wimbledon was delighted to welcome Fukusuke Nakamura, Kabuki grand-master to the College recently for the first UK performance of ‘Sumire’. In an ‘east meets west’ colloboration about the life of Chopin and his connections with Japanese culture, actors, musicians and designers held workshops for our students in  Japanese Kabuki dance, makeup, music and costumes. With performers from East 15 Acting School, and Wimbledon’s Design for Performance,  and Costume Design students supporting this production, a wonderful Kabuki piece was performed to students and an invited audience.

The parade theme this year was Let Us Entertain You. Students from Wimbledon Technical Arts & Special Effects course created these huge puppets for the Merton Council float.

Merton won  £6,000 cash for coming second in the 2010 in the New Year’s Day Parade, They puppets  look fantastic!

If you managed to catch James May’s Top Toys on BBC2 last week you will have seen the handy work of  BA Technical Arts and Special Effects alumna Poppy Boden. She was responsible for the superb life cast of Mr.May as an Airfix Spitfire Pilot!

See more of Poppy’s work on her website: www.castforlife.co.uk