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BBC News
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Northampton student's bogeyman inspired by Billie Eilish song
A student who created a bust of a monster set to go on display said she was inspired by singer-songwriter Billie Eilish and an Oscar-winning make-up creation by Amy Spencer will be part of the Degree Show at the University of Northampton, which begins on at the Waterside Campus, the exhibition features work by the Faculty of Arts, Science and Technology students in their final Spencer, who is from the town, said she used "hyper-realistic effects to bring the look together". The student said she began studying hair, make-up and prosthetics at the university after taking up bodypainting during the Covid-19 said she was "really pushing my boundaries of make-up and truly discovering my passion"."I reached a point where I couldn't teach myself anymore, which was when I discovered the new course at the University of Northampton – and it was the best decision I've ever made," she Spencer said of her work: "I was inspired to create a bogeyman-inspired monster by a lyric from Billie Eilish – 'When we fall asleep, where do we go?'."The line features in song Bury A Friend, from the US musician's debut album."Everyone has a different image in their mind of what the bogeyman looks like, so I created a replica from my own mind." Alongside her studies, Ms Spencer also works with Rutland Musical Theatre. She was the make-up and prosthetic lead for a stage production of Shrek the Musical earlier this said she was helped by a session put on by the university with three-time Oscar winner Ve Neill."When Ve came to campus and led a prosthetics workshop on foam latex, I followed these exact steps for the promo shoot and on-stage looks of Shrek the Musical – I was so pleased with how they turned out," she Degree Show at the University of Northampton runs until Tuesday next week. Follow Northamptonshire news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
Yahoo
03-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
University of Cumbria degree show 2025 opens
The University of Cumbria is opening its doors this week and invites visitors to enjoy the work of its final year creative and media arts students. The university's Institute of Education, Arts and Society is inviting people to its undergraduate degree show 2025 - Made in Carlisle – taking place on its Brampton Road campus in Carlisle, where studio spaces have been transformed into exhibition galleries that are free and open to visitors. The exhibition showcases the work of this year's 70 final year students from across a range of subjects including Film and Television, Fine Art, Games Design, Graphic Design, Illustration, Photography and Wildlife Media. READ MORE: Reform UK to win majority of seats in Cumbria says polls | News and Star Dr Ruth Harrison-Palmer, Dean of the Institute of Education, Arts and Society, said: 'We're so pleased to share our students' work publicly and celebrate their success as they progress. "The annual Degree Show is both a celebration of students and their work, and a critical point in their professional careers."
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Scotsman
02-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Art reviews: GSA Degree Show 2025
Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter, get the latest news and reviews from our specialist arts writers Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Glasgow School of Art Degree Show, Stow Building, Glasgow ★★★★ Edinburgh College of Art Degree Show, Edinburgh College of Art ★★★★ Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Glasgow School of Art is the biggest of Scotland's art schools, and this year's graduating cohort feels bigger than ever, with over 160 graduates on Fine Art courses. The fifth floor of the Stow building has been commandeered for the first time for this year's Degree Show, to give more exhibition space. For the visitor, it is something of a mountain to climb, the incentive being that each new studio space offers something different from the one before, a new creative voice with something to say about the world. With so many students, it is harder to stand out from the crowd, but the best work marries clear vision, skilled application and effective presentation. Line Up by Gabriella Burns at the GSA Degree Show 2025 | GSA / courtesy of the artist Painting has made a resurgence across the Degree Shows this year, and GSA is no exception. Esther Douglas is a fine portrait painter, capturing the spirit of her sitters and bringing them together in a book, Letters to Glasgow, where they are invited to write about their relationship with the city. Kyle Blain has made a commitment to exploring working-class culture and paints mainly with emulsion. His Common People series captures moments, family interactions and a sense of place. Evelyn Munro is doing something similar with aristocrats; her ambitious, large-scale paintings depict a family of eccentrics in their mansion. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Gabriella Burns is interested in the male gaze on young women. She uses the repetitiveness of uniforms to create semi-abstract images where faces are hidden and individuality minimised. Isla Nicholson works in pure abstraction inspired by the experience of live music; her airbrush paintings pulsate with colour. Mary Lydon, who is from Ukraine, builds up complex patterns using traditional and contemporary symbols to explore personal and cultural trauma. Several students have undertaken ambitious building projects which require technical as well as artistic skills. Florence MacLennan's tin chapel is a thing of beauty, a quiet devotional space which feels both freshly made and as though it had existed for centuries. She has decorated the walls with frescos which pay tribute to the unseen hands of artists and craftspeople through time. The Sun is Low by Mary Lydon at the GSA Degree Show 2025 | GSA / Courtesy of the artist Ethan Logan has built an immaculate recreation of a Chinese restaurant, right down to the smell of five spice, and plans to cook there at times during the show. Harry Boulton's I Lost My Keys is a sealed environment which captures an unsettling range of domestic objects, some of which move mechanically. Conor Browne has built a large and complex machine which generates its own soundscape. Maha Al Yousefi has a sophisticated sculptural voice working on both large and small scales, using figurative language to explore strength and fragility, what is concealed and revealed. Also from Syria, Medeni Yanat has created a complete sensory environment - including smell - in which a kinetic sculpture sends shadow figures dancing across the walls. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Morfo Nikita's work is about the military partition of Cyprus, inviting visitors to watch a film, Life on the Other Side, through gun holes in a wall constructed of oil barrels and sandbags. Closer to home, Ellis Bairstow has made Vertical Glasgow, an impressive installation of photographs of the city's tower blocks displayed on light boxes, charting their history from utopian affordable housing to demolition as slums. Thomas Main has made some exquisite photographs of the ageing male body. Claire Duquesne's photography looks at Scotland as an island nation through the eyes of an artist from the Pacific Northwest who has made the country her home. Oli Turner explores ancient sites, and builds monoliths which become containers for intricately constructed objects. Orla Bradie is a dedicated printmaker who explores the Scottish landscape through its ruins and drystone walls. Identity, home, and the experiences which form us is always a theme at degree shows, with some sophisticated examples here: Sol Pawlyn explores his experience as a young man on Grindr in Icarus Affection; Alexandra Smart delves into aspects of her Welsh and Scottish identities with humour and affection, using ceramics and printed tea towels; Kristine Haritonova, who is from Latvia, creates a charming 'snail trail' with ceramic snails and her mother's lace knitting. Aoife Hogan's home is by the sea and she depicts the ocean thoughtfully and inventively using glass and sculpted paper. One could go on: Veronica Mee's textile hangings; Emma Nicol's beautifully constructed (not to mention funny) board game, Stagger Hame; Lauren Smith, who has reproduced the features of a hotel room in cloth. But there is much to see, and one must always move on. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Specifically, that means moving on to Edinburgh College of Art, which is presenting over 100 graduates in Fine Art. While GSA allocates each student a subdivision of space a bit like a chicken coop, ECA invites students to curate their own rooms, selecting those with whom they'd like to show. The effect is less relentless on the viewer, and sometimes highly effective. Here, painting dominates particularly strongly, with nearly half the year's cohort committed to the brush; they have even got together to produce their own painting catalogue. With so many painters, it becomes possible to see clearly the range of ways in which the students are using the medium across style, scale and subject matter. Hattie Quigley's work is about women and food, although the subject is secondary to the ambition, scale and energy of her pictures. Her biggest is the size and shape of an altarpiece, with light cascading down through it. Alyssa Atkinson works at the opposite end of the scale, capturing moments of everyday life in paintings the size of coasters. Painting at degree shows can diverge greatly in quality, so seeing a wide range of students committed to developing serious painting chops is a joy. Finlay Trevor paints farming and fishing in the North-west Highlands in a traditional style. Ella Williams manages to paint what memories feels like: people, places and objects which emerge and recede in gorgeous pastel tones. Esther Forse has a realist style and paints places with a disconcerting artificiality to them - model villages and film sets - each with their own brand of trouble in paradise. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Ella Markell leans more towards a kind of symbolism, working instinctively and removing paint as well as adding it, creating images weighted with meaning. Tash Runciman's work is cinematic and colourful, her figures often captured in moments of distraction or private communication. Amy McLean's Seeing Double series brings together pairs of images with a thematic or visual connection. Elene Sturua is from Georgia, a country with its own troubled politics, and her paintings have a touch of the surreal about them as well as evoking the flat, steppe landscape. Amy Val Sema digs into her Albanian heritage, picking out elements of that country's history from its independence in 1912 to its rebirth as a Communist dictatorship. Alexandra Winton's dreamy paintings plunder memories of growing up in the Philippines. Detail from one of Brynn Byers' "speedscapes" at ECA | Stewart Attwood Brynn Byers' 'speedscapes' are half-abstract, as if glimpsed from the window of a speeding train, a comment on how we often absorb things - or fail to - in over-busy lives. Connor Scott, has devised a kind of anti-painting, making marks on the walls by pressing colour into them, producing fresco-like palimpsests which makes me think of all the layers of painting these studios have witnessed over the years. There is plenty going on among the non-painters too. Jackie Gibb's installation of laundry on washing lines blackened with charcoal is about how political actions create traumas which play out in the domestic realm. Laura Compton uses materials like insulation, steel wool and silicone to create beings which erupt into the space from the walls and floors of the building itself. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Kristel Bodensiek has a sophisticated grasp of materials, making a screen of diamond shaped pieces of glass and a fountain in which clay coins gradually disintegrate. Freya Glass paints with materials such as coffee on old bedsheets, and places her painting work in dialogue with carefully placed sculptures made of found materials. Elena Gadd's The Funeral invites viewers to stand inside big suspended masks to listen to voices around the coffin: one gossips, another simply weeps. Alyssa Miller has made 1001 origami cranes from family photographs, speaking to Japanese and Hawaiian traditions; they look great hanging above the main stairwell. Beyond these are the impressive banners created by Ishrat Rahim, from her photographs. Abbie Stewart uses photos from the family archive too, but collages them with found images and prints in her own laser-cut frames. As at the other degree shows, film is sparse, though those who use it are ambitious: Bobby Lamond's animation Benny in Blunderland uses Disney-style animation, stop-motion animation, found footage and family holiday films to explore the loss of innocence. Immersive work is rare too, but Ione Jenkins' installation of paintings, cushions and glowing snowdrops is a beautiful place to be. Three degree shows into the season, it would be a pleasing place to rest awhile.
Edinburgh Live
29-05-2025
- Health
- Edinburgh Live
Edinburgh student creates 'cancer friendly clothing' after mum's leukaemia battle
Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. You can check out at any time. More info A student has designed cancer treatment-friendly clothing in honour of her mum's battle with leukaemia. Kirsty Blyth, 21, took inspiration from her mother's resilience during treatment to develop a new type of clothing for others going through the same ordeal. The Edinburgh Napier University student has titled her project 'Thread of Hope,' and the concept involved a top which allows easy and discrete access to a Hickman line - a tube commonly used for medicine during chemotherapy. Kirsty, from Broxburn in West Lothian, said her mum Lynne encouraged her to come up with the solution. Kirsty said: "My mum had three different Hickman lines during her treatment because it kept getting budged about by clothing. Join Edinburgh Live's Whatsapp Community here and get the latest news sentstraight to your messages. "When I was coming up with ideas for my final project, she suggested doing something about that. "After speaking to her about it and others who've gone through similar procedures, they all said it was something they struggled with." Hickman lines are typically attached to a patient's chest, just above the heart, with part of the tube staying outside the skin. Clinicians use it to administer medication and food, or to take blood samples. As Lynne continued her treatment during 2024, Kirsty began looking into ways to make the experience more personal. (Image: SWNS) "The idea came when I was focusing on the emotional side of things," Kirsty continued. "My mum was given a piece of cloth that hangs round her neck to cover the line at first, so I thought about ways of making that better. "I thought that instead, patients could fill out a form and get the jumper made for them when they have the Hickman line fitted. "There are similar ideas for people who've gone through hair loss or a mastectomy during cancer treatment. "I wanted it to be personal and went through so many design ideas - but I'm happy with what I've ended up with. "Everything seems to get taken out of your control when you're going through cancer treatment. "I thought having a jumper like this could give some of that control back to the patient, while maintaining their dignity and comfort." Her working prototype and unique concept is on display at the university's Degree Show. The annual showcase for students from the School of Arts & Creative Industries gets underway with a launch event this evening (Thursday 29 May 2025). Kirsty's mum will be among her proud family and friends visiting her display, which sits alongside work from the BDes Product Design programme. Sign up for Edinburgh Live newsletters for more headlines straight to your inbox She will also join course mates in July who are taking their final projects to New Designers 2025, the annual London showcase of the UK's most innovative emerging design talent - where she hopes Thread of Hope could be taken further. "Working on a project that was so personal to me has been tough," Kirsty added. "But I've found it to be a helpful process. It helped us accept everything that was going on last year. "It feels like such a relief to get to this point. I'm looking forward to showing it off. "I'd love to see the idea go further too. "I've got friends in nursing who have told me they think it could make a difference."
Daily Record
29-05-2025
- Health
- Daily Record
Student designs chemo friendly clothes after watching mum 'struggle' during cancer treatment
Kirsty Blyth's design would allow for easy access to a tube commonly used for administering medicine during chemotherapy. A Scots student has created clothing designed for people undergoing cancer treatment, in honour of her mum's battle with leukaemia. Kirsty Blyth, 21, took inspiration from her mum Lynne's resilience during her treatment to develop a new type of clothing for others going through the same ordeal. The Edinburgh Napier University student came up with the concept for her final project, which she has titled "Thread of Hope". It involves a top which allows easy access to a Hickman line, a tube commonly used for administering medicine during chemotherapy. The prototype is set to go on display at the university's Degree Show, which launches on Thursday, May 29. Kirsty, from Broxburn, West Lothian, said Lynne encouraged her to come up with the solution. She said: "My mum had three different Hickman lines during her treatment because it kept getting budged about by clothing. "When I was coming up with ideas for my final project, she suggested doing something about that. "After speaking to her about it and others who've gone through similar procedures, they all said it was something they struggled with." Hickman lines are typically attached to a patient's chest, just above the heart, with part of the tube staying outside the skin. It can be used to administer medication and food, or to take blood samples. As Lynne continued her treatment during 2024, Kirsty began looking into ways to make the experience more personal. She continued: "The idea came when I was focusing on the emotional side of things. "My mum was given a piece of cloth that hangs round her neck to cover the line at first, so I thought about ways of making that better. "I thought that instead, patients could fill out a form and get the jumper made for them when they have the Hickman line fitted. "There are similar ideas for people who've gone through hair loss or a mastectomy during cancer treatment. Join the Daily Record WhatsApp community! Get the latest news sent straight to your messages by joining our WhatsApp community today. You'll receive daily updates on breaking news as well as the top headlines across Scotland. No one will be able to see who is signed up and no one can send messages except the Daily Record team. All you have to do is click here if you're on mobile, select 'Join Community' and you're in! If you're on a desktop, simply scan the QR code above with your phone and click 'Join Community'. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don't like our community, you can check out any time you like. To leave our community click on the name at the top of your screen and choose 'exit group'. If you're curious, you can read our Privacy Notice. "I wanted it to be personal and went through so many design ideas - but I'm happy with what I've ended up with. "Everything seems to get taken out of your control when you're going through cancer treatment. I thought having a jumper like this could give some of that control back to the patient, while maintaining their dignity and comfort." Her working prototype and unique concept will be on display at the university's annual showcase for students from the School of Arts & Creative Industries. Kirsty's mum will be among her proud family and friends visiting her display, which sits alongside work from the BDes Product Design programme. She will also join course mates in July who are taking their final projects to New Designers 2025, the annual London showcase of the UK's most innovative emerging design talent - where she hopes Thread of Hope could be taken further. Kirsty added: "Working on a project that was so personal to me has been tough. "But I've found it to be a helpful process. It helped us accept everything that was going on last year. It feels like such a relief to get to this point. I'm looking forward to showing it off. "I'd love to see the idea go further too. I've got friends in nursing who have told me they think it could make a difference."
