Goldsmiths' Alumni Blog
20,000 Days on Earth directed by Iain Forsyth (MA Fine Art, 2004) and Jane Pollard (MA Fine Art, 2004) won Televisual Best Arts Documentary at this year’s Grierson British Documentary Awards. The Grierson Awards commemorate the pioneering Scottish documentary filmmaker John Grierson (1898 – 1972), famous for Drifters and Night Mail and the man widely… Read more Alumni win at 2015 Grierson British Documentary Awards
Exhibition: And The Dark And The Dark Artist Gemma Kauffman invites you to And The Dark And The Dark. This three-person exhibition of painting and sculpture addresses themes of the visionary and the other-worldly and features Gemma Kauffman, Lana Locke and Vanessa Mitter. Private view (first Thursdays): Thursday 5 November 2015, 6.00pm – 9.00pm A-side B-side Gallery, Hackney… Read more Guest Post: And the Dark…
Going viral with Emily Pelleymounter I attended the Visual Anthropology MA course in 2005 and it was challenging for me academically and artistically but it was also the first time that my creativity had been fully supported. Goldsmiths was an environment where not only was it okay to have these ideas, but it was applauded.… Read more Guest Post: Going Viral
The Drama of the Middle East After 8 years teaching in schools and continuing his studies part-time, alumnus Ken Pickering became a Lecturer in a number of Colleges of Education and wrote the book and lyrics for several successful stage musicals. After a period as Professor of Theatre at Gonzaga University in the USA, he… Read more Guest Post: The Drama of the Middle East
Grandad And The Machine presented by Jack Dean My name’s Jack, and I like art. I like the way it transforms places and situations. I like the way it makes people think about life and the universe in new ways. I like the way it forms an outlet for emotions that you otherwise might not… Read more Guest Post: Grandad and the Machine
Avril O’Neil (BA Design, 2010) and John Nussey of ONN Studio won the first round of Design Council Spark for Ding, a doorbell connected to your phone informing you when visitors are waiting at the door. Design Council Spark is a product innovation fund dedicated to uncovering the UK’s next great inventions. Design Council hosted a Spark showcase… Read more Alumna wins Design Council Spark
Behind ‘Ignore Gravity’ Ignoring Gravity is a novel about thinking you know yourself, then finding out that what you know is wrong. Yes, Ignoring Gravity is my first novel, says author Sandra Danby (BA English, 1982). It is about a journalist, Rose Haldane. Yes, I was a journalist. Therefore I must be Rose? Wrong! Yes,… Read more Guest Post: Ignore Gravity
Olivia Humphreys (MA Screen Documentary, 2010) won the 2015 ShortDocs Challenge for her radio story, What Makes a Good Marriage, at the Third Coast Festival in Chicago. What Makes a Good Marriage is a story about how her grandparents met. Now in their 90s and married for nearly 70 years they offer their advice on… Read more Alumna wins 2015 ShortDocs Challenge
Behind ‘Supercharged’ I am Sebastian Kalwij and I did my MA in Photography and Urban Cultures in 2004. This was 10 years after I graduated in medicine at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. I came to London in 1994 to do an MSc in Control of Infectious Diseases at the London School of Hygiene… Read more Guest Post: Supercharged
The Making of And So Forth I’m currently in rehearsals for Damsel/Wife/Witch, the inaugural show of And So Forth (ASF), a new London-based company I co-founded earlier this year dedicated to interdisciplinary collaboration. Performed by two actors, a singer and a pianist, the show was written by a close partnership of artists: a playwright, a… Read more Guest Post: The Making of And So Forth
