DUAS Loop

  Welcome to the February Edition of the DUAS Loop!   What’s On Don’t forget about our Tuesday Life Drawing and Thursday Sessions. As always, please check the Instagram pages  @dulifedrawing  and  @duthursdaysessions  for more details and updates. Art Social with Sarah Stamp Wednesday 1 February 4-6pm at the Oriental Museum Join artist Sarah stamp for a paper collage, conversation and creative writing workshop. Suitable for all abilities and levels of experience with making and being creative. It will be an informal social environment where participants can have a go at being creative in a safe and friendly space.   World Economic Funfair – 14 February Tuesday 14 th  February, 10am – 3pm Durham Town Hall, Market Place, Durham DH1 3NJ Opportunity for students to participate and help facilitate economics-meets-culture creative ideation workshop.   Led by UK leading creative agency Bompas & Parr (bompasandparr.com), this workshop brings together 20 people from a wide range of backgrou

  Welcome to the January edition of the DUAS Loop!   What’s On Hello all and welcome back for Epiphany term! We have some exciting events in store for you this month which I will list below but please don’t forget about our Tuesday Life Drawing and Thursday Sessions. As always, please check the Instagram pages @dulifedrawing and @duthursdaysessions for more details and updates.   As for our collaboration events…  Finding Sanctuary in the Archives Wednesday 11 January, 2-3pm at 5 the College Find out more about the Cathedral Archive and view pieces related to this years Student Art Prize theme, Sanctuary. From 14th Century petitions asking for refuge to threats for giving sanctuary to criminals, to a creative interpretation in fabric of the Cathedral sanctuary knocker itself.  Sign up here.   Objects, Materials & Memories Tuesday 24 January, 4-6pm at Palace Green Library In this workshop participants will experiment with sculpting, casting and assemblage techniques. They will use

Welcome to the December edition of the DUAS Loop! What’s On Our Tuesday and Thursday Sessions will be going ahead as normal, unless otherwise stated on  the Instagram pages  @dulifedrawing  and  @duthursdaysessions .  Unfortunately, we only have one other event to present to you this month due to our time in Durham being cut short by the Christmas holidays. However, please do get excited for…   Sanctuary in Words with Lizzie Lovejoy Wednesday 7th December, 4-6pm at 7 Owengate What is Sanctuary? This year's Student Art Prize theme follows this concept, and throughout the word-based workshop, with artist and writer Lizzie Lovejoy, you are invited to explore what Sanctuary means for you. Where do you find it? What does it look like? Each participant will delve into words that represent these ideas and, with guidance, create their own visual poem to create a piece of art which is part word, part illustration. Spaces are free but limited. Please sign up here . Enjoy your Christmas holid

Welcome to the new DUAS monthly newsletter for the year 2022! We hope to bring you a little newsletter like this each month just to keep you up to date with our society's goings on and keep you in the loop about what is happening in the art world.  There will be three main sections: What's on? – what the society has planned so far for the month and any other art-related events happening in Durham that we are aware about.  What's in? – a section dedicated to any recent happenings in the art world locally, nationally or globally. Who’s about? – each month give a brief overview of an artist and feature some of their work.  If you have any suggestions for content in any of these sections please don’t hesitate to email me at duartsoc@gmail.com Introductions This month, however, there is an extra section so that the DUAS exec and I can introduce ourselves! Our lovely Publicity Officers have already created a series of posts on our Instagram page @duartsoc so please follow the

Welcome to the first edition of the Durham University Art Society Newsletter for the new 2021/2022 academic year!  We will be updating you on:  What's been on - find out about art-related activities that have been going on within the society and further afield! What's going on - events and activities that are happening that you can get involved with! What's "in" - recommendations of podcasts, books and exhibitions that we think you might enjoy! We will be releasing an edition of our Newsletter every other month. In the months between these releases, we will be publishing "Art Feature" posts. The first Art Feature will be released in early November, so make sure you look out for that and follow our social media accounts to keep updated on it's release and all that's going on in DUAS!  A word from our president... "I'm Sophie, your DUAS president for 2021/22! Welcome back to all our DUAS members! This year we plan to return to in-person Tu

'Elusive', 'Ontological', and 'excitable':  Petra  Szemán's work in three words. Petra  is a moving image artist working with animation and game-like immersive installations, whose practice is 'centred around instances in which real life can be experiences as fictional.' In her most recent project 'Vug', she teamed up with Durham University's 'Durham Digitale' and the Killhope Lead Mining museum in Durham. Amana caught up with Petra to discuss this exciting new project and other aspects of her pioneering digital art practice.   Amana Moore: First off, who are you? What do you do? How did you get to where you are now? Petra: I’m Petra, a video artist working with animation and computer games. I grew up in Budapest, Hungary; came to Newcastle to do an art degree, and ended up loving it here. I lived in Japan for two years on the MEXT Research Scholarship, and ended up returning to the North East in 2020. I have a studio in Newcastle