Lady Gaga's Monster Ball tour (2009-10), set design by Es Devlin. Photograph by Es Devlin.

Wimbledon College of Art’s Senior Lecturer in Theatre Design, Peter Farley has designed and curated The Society of British Theatre Designers exhibition, Transformation & Revelation. The exhibition, which is showing at the V&A from 17^th March until 30^th September 2012, follows its great success in Cardiff, where approximately 5,500 visitors saw the show and its trip to the Prague Quadrennial, where it won both of the special awards for Sound Design and was seen by approximately 40,000 people.

Exploring the theme of transformation, this exhibition reveals contemporary designs for performance by over 30 British Theatre Designers. It provides an intriguing insight into the designers’ creative process and includes costumes, set models, photographs, drawings, sound productions and lighting designs.

The exhibits include WCA alumnus Richard Hudson’s designs for the Royal Ballet, Pathway Leader of MA Drawing at WCA, Michael Pavelka’s designs for Off the Wall, LCF/V&A Research Fellow, Donatella Barbieri’s film Encounters in the Archive and distinguished former Course Director of Theatre Design at CSM, Ralph Koltai’s designs for An English Tragedy. The exhibition also includes the work of the 2011 overall winner of The Linbury Prize for Stage Design, Hyemi Shin, a recent graduate of WCA.

Admission is free, so why not take a look this weekend?

The nominees for Future Map 11 have been announced. Wimbledon College of Art graduates included this year are (from top to bottom):

• Alex March – MA Fine Art
• Poppy Bisdee – BA Fine Art: Sculpture
• Jade Heritage – BA Fine Art: Print and Time-based Media
• Nathan Murphy – MA Fine Art

Future Map is an annual survey show exhibiting the best cutting edge talent from the graduating year at University of the Arts London. Reviewing all the graduate and postgraduate courses in art, design, fashion and communications, a panel of industry experts chose works they feel best represent the next generation of creativity.

This year’s panel are David Roberts – Collector and Founder of the David Roberts Arts Foundation, Mark Rappolt – Editor, Art Review, Lulu Guinness – internationally acclaimed handbag designer and Matt Stinchcomb – European Director, Etsy.com.

The winner of the Future Map prize – £3,000 and an opportunity to make a commercial edition with the Zabludowicz Collection will be announced in January 2012.

The Future Map 11 exhibition runs from 12 January - 5 February 2012 at Zabludowicz Collection.

www.futuremap.arts.ac.uk

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.

www.bear-trap.co.uk

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

www.faslondon.com

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.

www.nationaltheatre.org.uk

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

If you visited the Wimbledon College of Art BA Summer Show this year you will no doubt have come across the work of BA Print and Time-based Media graduate Max Dovey (@maxdovey). His ‘Emotional Stock Exhange‘ piece was part performance and part tech wizardry. The work embraced live feeds from Twitter whose subject matter centred around happiness, love and sadness.

We are really excited to announce that Max is back this time with his Twitter Theatre for an event entitled ‘A Limited Engagement’ at the University of the Arts London Gallery in High Holborn on Thursday 3 November, 12.00 – 19.00.

Twitter Theatre turns individual moments from around the world into real time entertainment.

Live Twitter updates provide the subject matter for improvised participatory performances throughout the day culminating in a special seated evening theatre.

Venue: Arts Gallery, University of the Arts London, 272 High Holburn, London WC1V 7EY.

Twitter Theatre will be streamed live from 12.00 on Thursday 3 November.

www.TwitterTheatre.co.uk

Follow @TweetLiveArt

Zoe Payne, a graduate from the BA Theatre Design course was recently Artist in Residence at The Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon for their Macbeth production.

Zoe produced a series of drawings during the rehearsals and a selection of these are now being exhibited at the RSC.

Zoe will be exhibiting the drawings again during The Chocolate Factory Open Studios weekend which takes place on 12-13 November.

During her residency Zoe also created an animation based on the Macbeth production. This will be screened at the BFI (British Film Institute) in London on the 1 December accompanied by a live score, composed and performed by AMOPHA.