Final Year Art Show attracts talent scouts

13 June 2006

Talent scouts visited the Final Year Art Show at the North Wales School of Art and Design last week to appraise NEWI students’ art work. The talent scouts were from Cosgrove Hall Film Studios in Manchester and came to view the students’ animation work with a view to offering them future employment.

Cosgrove Hall Film Studios have produced many famous animations including children’s television favourites Dangermouse, Postman Pat and Wind in the Willows and the animated feature film of Roald Dahl’s BFG.

Not only did the talent scouts get the opportunity to view the students work it also enabled them to view the recent development of the Regent Street campus. Over half a million has been invested in the building development and on new state-of the art equipment.  The new buildings cover 526m² and include: wood workshops; design areas; ceramics workshops including glazing areas and pottery workstations; jewellery and metal workshops incorporating kiln rooms; welding bays and an external working area with lean to canopy which provides a space for welding. 

The final year degree show which finished last week show cased the students work and attracted hundreds of visitors from throughout the local area.  Work on display was outstanding and ranged from traditional pieces to the groundbreaking and innovative.  The show is always a highlight in the NEWI calendar and this year was no exception with examples of outstanding work being shown.  Alec Shepley, Principal Lecturer at the North Wales School of Art and Design, said, “It has been an excellent show.  Amongst those exhibiting are a number of students who have won very prestigious awards, the standard of the work is exceptional and it has been fantastic to see so much of it on display.  We were also all very proud that the show was officially opened by Estelle Thompson, an internationally renowned British abstract painter who is currently a visiting Professor at NEWI.” 

For anyone who missed the show a selection of work from students graduating from the BA (Hons) Fine Art degree course at the North East Wales School of Art this summer will be on display at the, Wrexham Library & Arts Centre, Rhosddu Road, Wrexham, 24 June - 15 July 2006.