Art students win at UK design show

MMU students have won four more prizes at the ‘Oscars’ of graduate art and design.

Winners at New Designers (London) 2004 included two textiles designers, a graphic artist and a furniture designer, taking the number of MMU prizes at the prestigious event to 13 in the past three years, confirming the Faculty of Art & Design as one of the top five in the UK.

Katherine Hartley, from Matlock, a BA Textiles graduate, won the £2,000 Tiger Print Prize and a work placement. Claire Joynson, from Stoke-on-Trent, also BA Textiles scooped the £2,000 Hallmark Award.

BA Embroidery student Lucy Smethurst, from West Yorkshire, won the Embroiderers’ Guild Scholarship, and Three-Dimensional Design degree student Stuart Westwell, from Wigan, took the one of three furniture awards.

Previous MMU winners at New Designers have had their work commissioned by well-known design houses such as Terence Conran, Donna Karan and Vittorio Radice.

Around 35,000 people graduate in art and design each year in the UK. one of only 40 prizes handed out each year to the UK’s art graduates*.

Notes:
MMU’s Faculty of Art and Design is the largest in the UK with more than 3,000 students in everything from architecture, landscape, painting, sculpture, fine art, illustration, animation, acting, dance, art direction, jewellery, metal, photography, graphic design, bronze casting, video, TV programme design, fashion and more.
For more information, go to www.mmu.ac.uk, and for New Designers, go to www.newdesigners.com

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