Go Safari Northampton

Love Northampton

ruth-mcallister — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 17:50:30 +0000

As a long established county town and commercial centre, Northampton has a rich and interesting social, architectural and commercial heritage. There’s so much to love. We’ve got fantastic heritage, theatre to rival the West End, great shops, fantastic food and music 365 days a year.

Find out more at www.lovenorthampton.co.uk

Northampton Museum and Art Gallery

ruth-mcallister — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 17:40:14 +0000

Discover more about the arts, local history and the nationally recognised shoe collection through the permanent galleries and changing exhibitions.

Website: www.northampton.gov.uk/museums

The University of Northampton

ruth-mcallister — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 17:23:55 +0000

The University of Northampton is a higher education establishment situated in the heart of England and offers various subjects at undergraduate and postgraduate level. The University is globally renowned in subject specialisms such as Wastes Management, Leather Technology and Fashion.

As part of the University’s new strategy, we aim to be the top university in the UK for social enterprise by 2015. Our social enterprise strategy is based on a desire to be distinctive, forward-thinking and responsible.

Our strategy is unique; we are the only university taking an institutional and holistic approach integrating social enterprise into our student offer, into teaching and learning and research, and working with local authorities, businesses and the wider community, to deliver improvements to Northamptonshire.

Website: www.northampton.ac.uk

Ross White Sculptures

ruth-mcallister — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 17:17:06 +0000

As an artist, Ross has been a keen sculptor for the best part of his life. He takes pride in the versatility of techniques and materials he uses, spanning from traditional figurative clay sculpts to contemporary steel sculptures.

Ross gained his degree in Theatre Design: Technical Arts Interpretation from Wimbledon School of Art and has since worked on many different commercial and private commissions. These have included music videos, television advertisements, Notting Hill Carnival floats and sculptures for Kew Gardens.

Ross is currently the Deputy Head of Workshop at the Royal and Derngate Theatres in Northampton, as well as a freelance sculptor.

Website: www.rwsculptor.weebly.com

Land Rover

ruth-mcallister — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 17:08:31 +0000

Affectionately known as Huey, the first Series I production vehicle, our Luey the Lion sculpture is inspired by our famous ‘HUE 166′ Land Rover. Luey uses the same colours, graphics and textures from this icon, celebrating both our association with the Born Free Foundation and our long heritage.

Website: www.landrover.com/ourplanet

Danielle Howard, Gemma Brooker, Claire Jones, Emma Wakefield

ruth-mcallister — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 17:00:21 +0000

Tracie Marshall

ruth-mcallister — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 16:59:27 +0000

Land Rover Design Team

ruth-mcallister — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 16:58:29 +0000

Sue Cook

ruth-mcallister — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 16:57:01 +0000

Langhorne Family

ruth-mcallister — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 16:56:40 +0000

Kristian Movahed

ruth-mcallister — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 16:56:03 +0000

Rosalind Hargreaves

ruth-mcallister — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 16:55:27 +0000

Hazel Evans

ruth-mcallister — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 16:54:59 +0000

Janet Fishwick

ruth-mcallister — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 16:54:26 +0000

Daniel Goodman

ruth-mcallister — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 16:40:05 +0000

In his work, Daniel strikes a dialogue with the past through re-working and re-imaging classical paintings into something much more of our time.

Website: www.dgoodmanart.com

Rory Davis

ruth-mcallister — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 16:36:54 +0000

Rory had an interest in painting and drawing from a young age, copying and creating characters and scenes to adorn his bedroom walls. It preoccupied most of his primary and secondary education and combined with a love of theatre Rory graduated in Theatre Design from Nottingham Trent in 2006. In his three years at university Rory steered his abilities towards scenic art and since then has painted over sixty productions in both freelance and full time positions for various theatres.

Rory is currently Head of Scenic Art it The Royal and Derngate Theatres in Northampton.

Rory has been collaborating with Ross White in both theatre and sculpture for the last two years.

Go Team GB

ruth-mcallister — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 23:16:10 +0000

Lofty

ruth-mcallister — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 23:15:28 +0000

Lofty is a giraffe.

Cyberilla

ruth-mcallister — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 23:14:55 +0000

Based upon Dr Who’s collective enemy The Cybermen, Cyberilla was an evolving piece in which Ross designed him as he sculpted him, using a five inch Cyberman toy as reference. As the current Dr Who Matt Smith is originally from Northampton, this sculpture was inspired … Continue reading →

Graffy

ruth-mcallister — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 23:14:21 +0000

Graffy is from the plains of Africa, but her true home is down at the skatepark! She was inspired by the urban arts and skate culture, painted using a mixture of hand painting and spray cans. Sports such as skating and skateboarding have always had close links to the urban arts, and Graffy was just so happy to be representing these incredibly diverse and creative cultures!