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22 January 2018
Top New Digital Portfolio Platforms for 2018
Whether you’re applying for university or finding a space for your Gold or Silver Arts Award work, you may need something other than Microsoft Word or Powerpoint to showcase the best of you (cue Foo Fighters). Here are some ideas we’ve gathered for digital platforms you can use.
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15 January 2018
Top 5 inspirational artists to look out for in 2018
A rundown of my favourite inspirational artists of all time, from Renaissance to Instagram fame.
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8 January 2018
How to Plan a Project
Some top tips to help you start planning your project. Useful if you’re doing your Gold Arts Award.
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24 December 2017
A Year in Arts Award 2017
Another year has gone by, and whilst to many, it has been a tumultuous one, it has been yet another 12 months of growth & success Arts Award. Here are our highlights of a year of Arts Award.
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24 December 2017
How to use Canva to create brilliant images for your project
Canva is a creative online program that you can use to create any graphic you need - a film poster, a book cover, Facebook cover images, and even logo designs. It’s very easy to use, so it’s great if you’re a graphic design novice!
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19 December 2017
Top tips to avoid burnout in an arts career
If you’re feeling overwhelmed and disillusioned by your career, or you’re just about to enter an art career and want a balanced approach to enable a long and stable career, here are my top five tips to avoid burnout in an arts career.
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19 December 2017
Top 5 successful artists of 2017
As mentioned in my year in review: the arts in 2017, there have been some important individual artists excelling in their form throughout the year. Why not learn more about them?
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7 December 2017
How to form and communicate an opinion from Rants N Bants
To help us explore the best ways to form and express an opinion we got in touch with one of the most opinionated people around: Rants N Bants.
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4 December 2017
Molly Treves, Bronze and Silver Arts Award Achiever
We talk to Molly about her experience of doing her Bronze and Silver Arts Award with Nucleus Arts Centre. Molly shares with us her experience of photography, videography, writing AND art, and how she built her portfolio.
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30 September 2017
Erin Moffat, Explore and Bronze achiever and Gold student
We hear from Erin from the Customs House Youth Theatre who's doing her Gold in drama, improv and directing.
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29 September 2017
Tina Dickinson, Bronze and Silver achiever, Gold student
We asked some questions to Tina Dickinson, who is currently doing her Gold Arts Award with 2017-2018 Arts Award Good Practice Centre, Carousel and where she helps out with their disabled-led film festival, Oska Bright Film Festival.
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29 September 2017
Connor Gribben, Bronze and Gold achiever
We asked some questions to Connor, who has done his Gold Arts Award through The Sage Gateshead in graffiti and breakdance.
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24 September 2017
Owen Daughtery, Gold achiever
We hear from Owen Daughtery who did his Gold Arts Award by joining a course called Creative Technologists ran by the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
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1 September 2017
Joshua Lewis-Handley, Bronze, Silver and Gold achiever
Joshua takes us through his highly detailed Gold Arts Award portfolio wherein he produced the Alderbrook School's 'Spotlight' show all the while finding his feet with photography.
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25 August 2017
RSC Backstage Tour
A review of the Behind the Scenes Tour at the RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon.
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22 August 2017
Molly Armitage, Explore and Bronze achiever
We spoke to a few students from Herts and Essex High School who've recently completely their Bronze awards about what they did and what they thought of it all.
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22 August 2017
Lilly Hall, Bronze and Explore achiever
We spoke to a few students from Herts and Essex High School who've recently completely their Bronze awards about what they did and what they thought of it all.