Priestley College Alumni Association

19/12/2022

https://www.priestley.ac.uk/ashton-and-the-art-of-acceptance/

Congratulations to former Priestley student Ashton who has been included on a list of artists that once featured the likes of David Hockney and Damien Hirst.

AN ARTIST who studied at Priestley College has been included on a list that once featured the likes of David Hockney and Damien Hirst. Ashton Blyth, who studied Fine Art at Priestley, has been included on the list of emerging talent produced by New Contemporaries – a prestigious organisation that ...

01/12/2022

Inspiring for our Protective Services students to hear from a Priestley alumnus who is now achieving his ambitions in the
RAF.

Thank you to Corporal Callum Farnan for sharing your experiences > https://bit.ly/3AZt9DZ

30/09/2022

10/05/2022

Congratulations to former Priestley student Meg Byrom for her win in the Orwell Society's prestigious Young Journalist’s Award.

Meg left Priestley with A*s in Geography and English and an A in Politics and went on to study Politics at Cambridge.

Meg won the review category for “Sam Fender: the canary in the coal mine”, which discussed the place of Sam Fender’s music among political changes in the North >

Of the four awards up for grabs, three were taken by Cambridge students

04/04/2022

Former Priestley Drama student Jess Meade chalked up another career landmark as she celebrated being assistant director for the critically-acclaimed Cherry Jezebel.

Critics described the drama as a ‘stand-out play with a big heart’ and it garnered several five-star reviews during its run at the Everyman Theatre.

Congratulations Jess - we can't wait to see what you do next!

28/02/2022

We always love to hear about former Priestley students doing well so congratulations to Sarah Ash who is currently working on her PhD project at the Institute of Cancer Research, London.

Sarah left Priestley to study Medical Sciences at the University of Leeds, which included a one-year industrial placement with AstraZeneca during which time she developed a passion for research in the areas of oncology and immunology.

Her PhD combines those research passions as she is investigating the efficacy of CAR T-cell therapy directed against the tumour microenvironment of solid tumours.

She is due to complete her PhD this year and will then be moving abroad to continue her academic career as a postdoctoral researcher in the field of immunoncology.

Good luck to Sarah!

21/02/2022

Priestley currently has five former students working on the West End. Among them is Oliver Ormson who is playing Hans in Frozen. So proud of our Performing Arts and Production Arts students past and present. What a talented bunch!

28/01/2022

Good luck to former Priestley student Cameron Brown with his exhibition at Pyramid & Parr Hall >

Cameron Brown's profile has continued to rise since he won 'Art Battle Manchester' at Parr Hall as part of Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival 2019.

14/12/2021

Huge congratulations to former Priestley student Danyul Brown who has styled his first Vogue cover featuring none other than Paris Jackson >

AS a boy, Danyul Brown would pick up the latest copy of Vogue and tell his mum that he was going to style the cover one day. It would have been easy to question his ambitions, but any doubters have now been proven wrong. For the former Priestley College student and Runcorn lad recently did […]