Associate Professor wins first prize at lighting exhibition

Christopher Cook, Associate Professor in Painting, has been awarded the £10,000 first prize at the biennial New Light exhibition, which has recently opened at the Bowes Museum in County Durham. New Light is a charity formed to promote and support artists with connections to the North of England, either through birth, work or residence. The exhibition… Continue reading Associate Professor wins first prize at lighting exhibition

Associate lecturer wins award for art installation

Tabatha Andrews, a sculptor and installation artist who is an Associate Lecturer on the MA Contemporary Art Practice programme, has won the prize for Best Collaborative Arts Project (Static) at the national Building Better Healthcare Awards. Working in collaboration with the patients of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and woodturners in Devon and Cornwall, she won… Continue reading Associate lecturer wins award for art installation

Plymouth University Lecturer shortlisted for prestigious writing prize

An award-winning novelist and academic at the University has been shortlisted for the prestigious Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Alumnus, Tom Vowler, is one of just 21 writers to be selected from 6,000 entries for the honour of the best piece of unpublished short fiction in English. Tom, an Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing in the… Continue reading Plymouth University Lecturer shortlisted for prestigious writing prize

Nuria Bonet receives the William A. Gribbon Award … again!

A doctoral researcher at Plymouth University has received the prestigious William A. Gribbon Award from the American Musical Instrument Society (AMIS) for the second consecutive year. Nuria Bonet was awarded a travel award to attend the AMIS General Meeting in Vermillion, South Dakota in May 2016. The award recognises her work into Catalan shawms and she has been given the… Continue reading Nuria Bonet receives the William A. Gribbon Award … again!