If creativity is in your DNA, then imagine yourself crafting a career from your passion.
Express your ideas and develop technical skills with a range of pathways.
Your artistic talents will be developed in our faculty which contains specialist studios and industry-standard equipment. Throughout your course you will build a portfolio of work and have the opportunity to enter your work in industry and sector awards as well as exhibiting in our fantastic end of year art exhibition.
Once you’ve completed your studies, you could progress to a creative university or bag a creative job like some of our former students. Pete Bebb won an Oscar and BAFTA for Visual Effects in the Hollywood movie Inception.
"Learners enjoy their time at college very much. They rate highly the excellent facilities and experienced and welcoming staff."
Ofsted, 2019
Department Highlights
Meet the Team
newcastle College
Mike Kelly
Assistant Head of Creative Studies
Before teaching I was a freelance cartoonist for magazines like Punch and a broadsheet cartoon newspaper called The Cartoonist, mostly caricature and topical gag cartoons. I was balancing commercial work with teaching life drawing at a college in Newcastle upon Tyne, two jobs I really enjoyed. The whole arrangement was exciting but unsustainable, so when an old friend from Staffordshire (where I’d studied on a degree in Fine Art) told me that Newcastle-under-Lyme College were looking for someone to teach life drawing and illustration I sent in a CV and covering letter. I was invited down for an interview and my career direction moved slowly into teaching full time.
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