Ellen Smithies

Berlin is well-known as being one of the cultural capitals of the world, but I never realised quite how much culture and art is crammed into the German capital. Over summer I travelled to Berlin with my family for four days, and we spent the time being classic tourists,...

Another week, another blow dealt to the Arts. This time it’s students who are most affected, with AQA making the decision that this will be the final year they offer Art History as an A-Level, claiming “the existing specification is challenging to mark and award.” In a statement released...

When you think of waste products of the meat industry, it’s unlikely that you think of ‘art’. The meat industry isn’t glamorous, and the waste products even less so, but what Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva has installed at Nottingham Lakeside Arts using that very thing could only be called ‘ethereal’. Born...

After a tasking first day of lectures, and a painful first week of post-summer, post-Freshers fun ahead of us, we here at Impact Arts decided to relish our nostalgia by asking three of our contributors to put forward their best books of summer 2016. From young adult feminism to twisted fairy tales, which novel...

Two priceless Van Gogh paintings have been recovered by Italian police 14 years after they were stolen from the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam. After a ‘massive’ police investigation into the whereabouts of the missing works, stolen in 2002 by the Italian Cammora group while the paintings were on...

At the start of the week, we brought you an article on how to make the most of Welcome Week. Now that you’ve registered, made new friends and nursed one too many hangovers, Ellen Smithies is giving us a hand to give Five Final Top Tips for Freshers. So...

Funny, tense and in places downright surprising, Nottingham Playhouse’s revival of Anthony Shaffer’s Sleuth is full of twists and turns that will leave you yearning for more even after the curtain falls. A masterful manipulation of tension and intrigue, this play is one of the best I have ever...