Cardiff School of Art & Design Newsletter: Summer 2015

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SUMMER 2015 CSAD NEWSLETTER

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he summer term has come to end with a bang! The Summer Show, held in the new School building and unified on one campus for the first time, has been a roaring success. A programme of activities, from an evening event for industry partners to the weekend opening for family and friends, saw a constant flow of visitors around the building for the duration of the show. Comments and feedback on the show has been incredibly positive - congratulations to all our graduating students!

Another, significant event for this School this term was the official opening of the CSAD building. Held on 4 June, the opening included talks by David Emanuel, the Chair of Governors Barbara Wilding, the University’s ViceChancellor Professor Antony Chapman, and Professor Gaynor Kavanagh, Dean of CSAD. The end of the 2014-15 academic year also marks the end of an era for CSAD as Professor Gaynor Kavanagh will be retiring in the Autumn.

Gaynor was appointed in September 2005 after working at Bath Spa, Southampton and Falmouth Universities, and was nineteen years with the world renowned department of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester. Gaynor has steered the School through a period of great development, change and relocation. Describing, her time at CSAD, Gaynor said “I will leave you with much sadness, but considerable admiration for the School’s determination to succeed […] I have, indeed, been very fortunate; this has been by far the best experience of my career.”

Cover image: work by Samantha Emily Alland BA Artist Designer: Maker

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FOVOGRAPHY UPDATE

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he Summer term was a busy one for the Fovography team, which expanded to include a full-time research assistant, admin assistant, casual studio assistants and consultants from a variety of fields. The Fovography technology has developing quickly and is now installed in CSAD’s Perceptual Experience Laboratory and, alongside a new website, two journal articles were published in May. The first, co-authored by Prof Robert Pepperell and Dr Louise Hughes has been published by the Tate Papers.

Based on research part funded by WIRAD and the Paul Mellon Foundation, “As Seen: Modern British Painting and Visual Experience” uncovers how, during the twentieth century, several important British artists began to paint features of visual experience rarely ever painted before. The second, “Artworks as dichotomous objects: implications for the scientific study of aesthetic experience” (Frontiers in Human Neuroscience) suggests that scientific studies of aesthetic experience should take into account the dichotomous nature of representational artworks.

Image: Fovography More information http://www.fovography.com/fovograph.html

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PEL AND RIAS

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he Perceptual Experience Laboratory (PEL) has now been fully installed. During the next phase, the team will develop the lab’s capabilities ahead of two Research Innovation Funded (RIA) research programmes with the Cardiff School of Management (CSM), the Cardiff School of Health Sciences (CSHS), and Cardiff School of Sport (CSS).

The first RIA has been awarded to Prof Steve Gill, Prof Robert Pepperell and Dr Gareth Loudon to support a new PhD research project entitled: “Thought for Food: A research-led approach to improved Welsh food industry competitiveness”. The project will focus on applied retail research for Food Industry Applications, especially food branding and packaging. It will examine whether retail research data gained in a synthetic reality space – PEL - can deliver robust and reliable design knowledge to give Welsh food industry SMEs a competitive edge.

Loudon with CSM’s Tourism department and CSS. Led by Professor Annette Pritchard with additional input from sport psychologists Dr Stephen Mellalieu and Dr Richard Neil, the funding will support the employment of a research assistant to explore workplace stress and the increasing number of employees failing to take their full holiday entitlement. The project will use PEL to explore the relationship between stress and tourism experiences.

A number of external collaborations are also being explored, and PEL was part of a successful Classic KTP bid in 2014-15.

The second RIA is a collaboration between Prof Steve Gill, Prof Robert Pepperell and Dr Gareth

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CSAD ACCELERATES!

DR WENDY KEAY-BRIGHT: UPDATE

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SAD has received Cardiff Met Accelerator Funding for 3 projects. Richard Morris was awarded funding to support the development of an online shop. The shop will be run by a student panel and chaired by an academic member of staff, and students will pay a small selling fee to the School for use of the ‘Shop site’. The Accelerator funding helped to purchase mobile camera equipment to allow students to take professional web-ready photos of their work. The FabLab was also awarded funding to develop a series of workshops, specifically targeting secondary schools’ A&D/Technology departments. Finally, Research Assistant, Clara Watkins, will use the funding to test the market and impact potential of the Trauma Pack developed as part of her PhD.

FUTURE OF MUSEUM PROVISION

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n October of last year, Professor Gaynor Kavanagh was appointed by the Wales Assembly Government to serve on an Expert Panel charged with reviewing the future of local museum provision in Wales. The report is now complete and will be published later in the summer.

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ongratulations to Dr Wendy KeayBright, who’s latest project Somability, was shortlisted as one for three finalists in the “Better outcomes through working together” category of the 2015 Accolade Awards. Somability is an interactive project based on Wendy’s research using everyday technologies to develop creative, aerobic and therapeutic opportunities for people with profound disabilities. The Awards ceremony took place at Cardiff City Hall on 18 June.

Wendy has also been invited to run two workshops in Melbourne, Australia in November. The first, “Somability: An interactive art experience for improving self-confidence and physical fitness for people with Physical and Intellectual Disabilities”, is for the Australasian Society for Intellectual Disability 50th Anniversary Conference. The second, “Towards Inclusive Design: Using gesturebased interactive arts environments support a range of outcomes for people with a learning disability”’ is for the charity Scope, Communication and Inclusion Resource Centre

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KTPS

COLLECTED HISTORIES: PERFORMANCE ART IN NORTHERN IRELAND

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he School has been awarded two Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs). KTPs are UK-wide programmes to encourage collaboration between academia and business.

Each three-way project is an exchange between an academic, a business and a recent graduate with a view to developing new knowledge that can be applied by the business partner, as well as providing graduates with the opportunity to work in their chosen field. Bethan Gordon will lead a classic KTP with the Window Cleaning Warehouse, which extends the School’s existing relationship with the company and Dr John Littlewood will supervise a short KTP with Morganstone, a company in South Wales that provides development solutions for housing associations, public sector bodies, local authorities and private developers.

rof André Stitt is showing work and presented at a new exhibition Collected Histories:” Performance Art in Northern Ireland, running at the GT Gallery, Belfast, from 13 August to 12 September 2015. The exhibition looks at performance art and its impact on conflict transformation in Northern Ireland during and since the civil conflict known as ‘The Troubles’.

André also gave a keynote presentation on his research at the Live Art Development Agency in London in March.

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SAD received Cardiff Met Get Started funding for two projects. The first project, led by Wendy Keay-Bright and Olivia Kotisfa, is to work with partners to explore the creation of an innovation space at the Pontypridd YMCA. CSAD will host a design charette with the Muni Arts Centre and Pontypridd YMCA that will bring together stakeholders from academia (CARIAD and FabLab), industry, fundraising, and building management to discuss the space and come up with creative solutions. The second project, led by John Counsell, is to develop a network on the refurbishment of heritage properties between CSAD’s Architecture department and UK and EU partners.

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Image: work by André Stitt

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JONATHAN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES

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onstellation lecturer and Constable Expert Jonathan Clarkson recently gave an interview to the New York Times commenting on the misattribution of a work by the artist. It was originally listed and sold by Christies as a work by a Constable follower. Its new owner took it to a Constable expert and it was confirmed as a work by the artist. In his interview, Jonathan described Constable’s recognizable painting technique: “He leaves bits of the primed canvas showing through a finished painting; he leaves these visible brush strokes; he doesn’t smooth out the tones of his colors so there’s an even gradation, and at the time people just thought this was sloppy practice, that it was because he couldn’t paint better rather than he was choosing to paint this way.”

JAMES GREEN: SOUTH AMERICAN TRIP

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ames Green has received Santander funding to support a residency at Universidad de Santiago de Chile this summer. James will be furthering his research into mask-making and will continue to develop a Field module for 2015-2016 “Magical Objects: Masks and Reliquaries of the World”.

BETHAN GORDON - INNOVATION CONFERENCE

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ethan Gordon presented at the WMG Doctoral Research and Innovation Conference, which took place from 30th June - 1st July.

The theme of the conference was ‘Innovation through Collaboration’, focussing on research from both academia and industry. Bethan presented on work conducted as part of her PhD study and as an advisor for CSAD’s first Knowledge Transfer Partnership with the Window Cleaning Warehouse.

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Work by Dr James Green

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PROFESSOR CATHY TREADAWAY: UPDATE

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rof Cathy Treadaway has continued to work on the Research & Enterprise Innovation Fund (REIF) project, Sensor-e Textiles and launched the new, AHRC-funded project, LAUGH. Held in early June, the launch included a two-day programme of events and workshops including artists, designers, hackers and representatives from dementia groups and organisations. LAUGH is a 3-year project in collaboration with researchers at University of Technology Sydney and Birmingham City University, partnered by Gwalia Cyf and supported by Age Cymru and the Alzheimer’s Society.

The Sensor e-Textiles team visited the Gwalia Mynydd Mawr residential care home in Llanelli, where they hosted an afternoon Funshop to make textiles for people with dementia. The event was a collaboration with Mynydd Mawr and Friends, bringing together people with dementia, their families and carers in a practical creative event. Poet John Killick from Dementia Positive and Dr David Prytherch from Birmingham City University joined the team and the information gathered during the Funshop will be used to inform the development of innovative textiles to support the wellbeing of people with dementia. Cathy has also ran a series of Hand i Pocket training events in conjunction Age Cymru Retail as part of June’s Gwanwyn Festival ‘celebrating creativity in older age’. The workshops involved up-cycling textiles and haberdashery to make sensory textiles for people with dementia.

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In addition, Cathy and Dr Gail Kenning (UTS) met with Sabine Wildevuur and Paulein Mellis from the Waag Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands to discuss future research collaboration with the Waag Society on ageing and dementia and also attended a research round table discussion at the Social Dimensions of Health Institute at the University of Dundee, Scotland. Finally, Cathy presented at the OPAN Celebratory Event in Swansea in April and at the EU Commission as part of June’s Textiles for Ageing Society TAGS Consortium.

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MEDICAL EDUCATION AND THE ARTS

INC. SPACE’S LATEST ACHIEVEMENTS

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n 26 May Illustration’s Chris Glynn joined a panel discussion with Dr Trevor Thompson and Dr Catherine LamontRobinson from the Out of Our Heads project based at the University of Bristol Medical School, at an event organised as part of the Wales Millennium Centre and Clod Ensemble’s Performing Medicine season exploring medicine, healthcare and the arts. The event focused on what the arts have to offer medical and health education, how an artistic perspective on the human body can be useful to healthcare practitioners and how artists and medics might collaborate to improve patient care.

PLANETEDU

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SAD has developed a suite of new courses with PlanetEdu, a global network of education providers. Starting in 2015-2016, the courses will mirror CSAD’s Undergraduate programmes up to diploma level, with a BA/ BSc International Design programme designed as a one year top up for the PlanetEdu and other International Diplomas. It is hoped that the new scheme will attracted an increased number of international students to the School.

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he past few months have been extremely busy for the current Inc. Space team members. Product Designer Laura Smith has been working on a new range of modular, affordable rabbit and guinea pig houses and painter Aidan Myers has sold more of his vast paintings through his London galleries and a piece bought by CSAD has been hung in the Heart Space. Ceramicist Kathryn Lewis is expanding her range of candle sticks and other decorative items, showcasing her talent for creating interesting colourful glazes and illustrator Helen Turnbull has been working on a number of commissioned pieces as well as having undertaken work at the University of Wales Hospital with Prof Judith Hall. Fine Artist and researcher AJ Stockwell has run her first session for Cardiff Open Art School, is completing a six month internship with g39 that included helping organise a symposium. Jenny Cashmore has recently undertaken a residency at a new arts space in Bridgend and is about to take up a place on the National Theatre Wales Summercamp, a 12 day adventure for theatre makers and artists to explore ideas, form new collaborations, inspire each other and create exciting possibilities. The whole Inc. Space team are therefore on course to launch their businesses and promote their careers at their final show in September.

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INC. SPACE - MEET THE NEW TEAM

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SAD was delighted with the interest in places for the 2015-16 Inc. Space.

16 candidates were interviewed for the limited number by a selection panel that included Sarah Thomas from Santander, PJ Statham from Momentum, a Cardiff designer furniture store, and Dewi Gray from the Cardiff Met Centre for Student Entrepreneurship.

The new team members who will be taking up their places in September are:• Sophie Adams, an Artist Designer: Maker graduate who will be launching Little Room Press to produce bespoke handmade blank books and artists books.

• Alexana Blott, an Artist Designer: Maker graduate who makes sculptures from cutlery.

• Rhiannon Crowley, a ceramic textile artist and jewellery designer who will be launching Rhiannon Lewando.

• Alice Elliott, an Artist Designer: Maker graduate and home décor and decorative lighting designer who will be launching Flux Lux. • Sarah Jenkins, an Artist Designer: Maker graduate and furniture designer.

• MA graduate and ceramic artist Kate Haywood.

• Chrisoula Konstantakou who has just launched C(K)eramics and will be developing her line of functional tableware and art pieces.

• Ceramicist Kate Miller who will be launching a range of ceramic tableware and who is also very interested in promoting locally made arts, crafts and design pieces.

• Anna Palamar, a Textiles graduate who is launching her own range of wallpaper, textiles, soft furnishing and a bespoke design service.

• Rebecca Thomas, an Illustration graduate who will work as a freelance illustrator and explore the

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possibility of running workshops and creating a shared studio space for other artists and designers.

• Laura Welsman, a 2014 Fine Art graduate who will focus on making large paintings as part of immersive installations.

• Ceramicist Katie Weyman, who will shortly to complete her Masters programme CSAD is very grateful to the Fenton Arts Trust for providing bursaries to cover the full Incubation Unit fees for five of the new team members - Sophie Adams, Rhiannon Crowley, Alice Elliott, Laura Welsman and Katie Weyman - and to Santander for providing the full fee bursary for Anna Palamar.

The School is also delighted that the team will include graduates from the past two years as well as newly graduating BA and Masters students and to the current Inc. Space team for providing this year’s applicants with so much encouragement.

Image: Kate Haywood, MA Ceramics

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RESEARCH STUDENTS Sarah Younan at EVA Research student Sarah Younan presented at July’s Electronic Visualisation and The Arts conference. The event was aimed at researchers working with emerging technologies and provides networking opportunities for practitioners in this field. Sarah presented on the research conducted as part of her PhD programme, which will be followed by another presentation in October 2015, this time at the CHArt Conference, London.

Ludic Activities: Steve Coleman attended the Care Home Managers Meeting of project partners Gwalia in March 2015.

The opportunity was used to give an in-depth explanation of his Ludic Activities project which looks at designing creative strategies to support the subjective wellbeing of older people with dementia in residential care. The presentation focused on using Probes as a design-led research method to generate insights into the types of creative activity that could be employed by care staff to support the wellbeing of residents living with dementia. The proposed methods received the full support of the care home managers, who welcomed the project and have asked for further presentations to be delivered as the project develops.

Paul Marais Professional Doctorate Student, Paul Marais will present his first conference paper at the 7th International Sustainability and Energy in Buildings Conference (SEB15), Lisbon. Co-authored with his supervisory team, the paper, “The use of polymer stabilised earth foundations for rammed earth construction� documents the case studies from his professional change research project.

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ne of the key benefits of a university education is that students are immersed in a learning environment informed by cutting edge research and enterprise opportunities. CSAD is determined to ensure that our students benefit from the School’s research and enterprise excellence in both the richness of their education and in their career prospects. With so many activities taking place across the board, in this issue of the newsletter, we are focussing on some of the exciting opportunities our Illustration and Ceramics students have taken advantage of.

AN ILLUSTRATION OF TEACHING EXCELLENCE

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ongratulations to Amelia Johnstone, one of five Cardiff Met staff to be awarded a Fellowship for Teaching Excellence.

The Fellowships invite students to nominate staff for the awards, and Amelia’s success follows on the heels of fellow Illustration Lecturer, Anna Bhushan’s successful nomination in 2014-2015.

Amelia received her award at this year’s graduation ceremony, and a publication containing examples of best practice from all five winners will be available soon.

Work (right) by Pete Evans

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WORK EXPERIENCE

PERFORMING MEDICINE ILLUSTRATION

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fter the initial buzz of completing the Work Experience Field Project, two illustration students reflect on their placements and what they learnt whilst working for different organisation.

Maelle Chevallier, who spent the duration of her placement with A&O Studios said: “I can now fully appreciate the impact they had on my work and my way of approaching my discipline. The Work Experience module made me realise I can take my practice and thinking to other fields, such as production and animation, but also pushed me to be more ambitious about the projects I engage in”.

Sophie Holbeche took a different approach and spent time with three different organisations – MaterialMaterial, a small design, gallery and bookstore, Arena Illustration, an illustration agency and ShowMedia, a magazine company: “I’m really grateful for the experiences I gained from work experience, I have met a great deal of interesting people from different creative areas. It was wonderful to be able to see different designers and artists work, be able to talk and also hear them talk about their work, gain advice and think about how I can relate my practice to different ways of working.”

SAD Illustration students and staff have again been involved in the Wales Millennium Centre/Clod Ensemble Performing Medicine season, in association with Cardiff University’s Cardiff School of Medicine.

They illustrated “Inside Information: Heart”, which took place on 21 May at the University Hospital of Wales, and explored the anatomy of the heart, though a simulated demonstration of a medical emergency and a dancer’s perspective on this most celebrated part of the human body.

BEHIND THE DOOR

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nvited by 2014 graduate Mary James, a group of Illustration students have been responding to Duffryn House and gardens. When the National Trust took over the property in 2013, available knowledge of its history was full of gaps.

Over the last two years they have begun to discover fragments and snippets, from newspaper articles, auction and photographs. CSAD’s students were invited to interpret these stories illustratively, and the resulting works ranged from large scale drawings of the house interior by Laura Selbie, to embroidery and paper cutting. Leanne Burnell’s peephole 3D collages played with restricted perspectives, while Emma Harry’s installation of coal and drawings drew attention to the physical matter and labour involved in building the Cory family’s fortune. Other students taking part in the project included Ayu Baker, Yomna Khalil, Katie Harris, Rhiannon Parnis, Georgia Pearson and Louise Thomas.

Mary James won a residence opportunity with the National Trust at Duffryn in 2014 and has since been employed at the site as an Education Assistant.

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‘THE SENSORIAL OBJECT’ STUDENT PERSPECTIVE

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eramics students Charles Conreur, Chloe Monks, Anne Frost, Ellie Cooper and Tsz Ying Fung worked with Dr Natasha Mayo and Zoe Preece for a feature in the Wales Arts Review. Working with co-curators Natasha and Zoe, the students shared their reflections and experiences of the Sensorial Object exhibition held at Craft in the Bay during January 2015. The full article is available here.

FRAGILE? WITH NATASHA MAYO

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he exhibition Fragile? at the National Museum, Wales, has provided a rich opportunity for Dr. Natasha Mayo to extend research into the ‘Exhibition as a Site of Debate’. Building on the exhibition’s aim of raising dialogues between historical and contemporary ceramics, Natasha’s collaboration with museum applied arts staff, CSAD graduate, Heloise Godfrey and Inc Space’s AJ Stockwell, seeks to find ways to reposition methods of ‘in conversation’ to uncover previously silent encounters between objects.

As part of establishing the approach for this research, level 5 ceramics students witnessed the initial negotiation of the interaction between works through privileged access to the selection of pieces and their eventual curation. Work Experience also enabled them to discuss the exhibition with the museum’s designers, curators and conservators, as well as the artists themselves. The phenomenon of conversations arising between artworks has since informed students devising their own workshops,

specifically drawing visitor’s attention to interactions between historic and contemporary narratives. It is also offered invaluable insight to their training and practice as tour guides for Fragile?, giving them an approach from which to discuss the material, skill and meaning behind the exhibition.

CREATIVE CAREERS DAY

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taff and students took part in the National Museum Wales’ Creative Industries Careers Day in May. Ceramics students demonstrated throwing on a potters’ wheel and alongside Dr Natasha Mayo, talked to visitors about life as a student at CSAD. Illustration lecturer Chris Glynn joined a panel of experienced professionals from across the Creative Industries to answer visitors questions with fellow panel members including photographer Chalkie Davies whose show is currently on at the Museum, record producer Charlie Francis, Emma Geliot, editor of the CCQ Magazine, Helen Sear, Professor of Photography University South Wales who is currently representing Wales at the Venice Biennale, music promoter Dai Davies and musician Dan Bettridge.

Image: Charlotte Burke

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CERAMICS STUDENTS MINGLE WITH MOVERS AND SHAKERS

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he Ceramics department in conjunction with the Centre for Student Entrepreneurship at CSAD held a Mingle event on Wednesday 25 March, inviting fifteen movers and shakers from the Ceramics and wider Arts community in Wales to share their knowledge and experience with our Ceramics students. The students were left brimming full of inspiration, contacts and initiatives and the event offered an excellent opportunity to develop professional practice skills. A follow up will being planned for 2015-2016.

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SUMMER SHOW

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his year’s CSAD Summer Show has been one made up of many firsts. It was the first to take place in the School’s new, awardwinning building, with visitors providing positive feedback about being able to see work from all subjects in one venue for the first time. The benefits of new curriculum, which gives students more opportunity than ever to work across disciplines also shone through the work of many. The show was also the first to be significantly student-led as an exhibition module was incorporated into the new curriculum, giving the final-year students experience presenting and promoting their work and gaining valuable organisational skills. Needless to say that many students were delighted to discover they had achieved First Class honours degrees too.

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For the first time, a Friday night industry focused private view attracted many visitors and events organised by the Alumni team attracted twice the number of alumni visiting the show. CSAD was also delighted to welcome many school students to the Summer Show including groups from Porth Comprehensive, The Willows High School in Cardiff and The Cathedral School in Llandaff, whose students then spend an afternoon in the FabLab and in the drawing room creating images based on the School skeleton.

Made in Cardiff TV’s What’s Occurrin’ show was presented from the exhibition on Thursday 4 June, so if you missed the exhibition you can see highlights from it on their website along with interviews from Prof Gaynor Kavanagh and some of the third year students.

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THE ORIGINS OF THE SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN

CSAD SCOOPS PRESTIGIOUS WELSH ARCHITECTURE AWARD

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rofessor Gaynor Kavanagh delivered a lecture on the Origins of the School of Art and Design as part of the official opening ceremony for the new School on 4th June. From the 1830s into the 1880s, successive Governments funded the establishment of art schools throughout the UK and steered their subsequent development.

The purpose of this long-term initiative was unequivocal: to compete successfully, especially with the French, Britain needed to manufacture and trade in first-rate products, which could only be achieved through the application of first rate-design and artisan skills. In November 1865, Cardiff Council elected to join with the national scheme and set up an art school. Cardiff’s Art School began its classes in January 1866, in a large room off St Mary’s Street that already contained the Council’s library and burgeoning museum collection. Just over a hundred years later, the Cardiff Met, as we now know it, began to take shape.

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SAD’s new building has been honoured by the Royal Society of Architects in Wales, the benchmark in identifying the best new architecture in Wales. Receiving one of just five awards, the £14 million building was designed by architects Austin-Smith:Lord and features permanent artworks by renowned sculptor Gideon Petersen and emerging painter and CSAD graduate Aidan Myers. In the fitting-out and furnishing of the accommodation, the project team drew upon the design expertise within the School. This enabled exciting choices in the use of finishing materials as well as furnishing. Professor Gaynor Kavanagh, Dean of CSAD said “Everyone involved in the build is absolutely delighted to have won this award; it is well-deserved recognition for a truly outstanding building that provides a home for our students and staff. The project team, in which we were active participants, achieved a level of understanding and shared ambition that particularly enabled the delivery of this amazing facility.”

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POST-WAR TO POST-MODERN: A DICTIONARY OF ARTISTS IN WALES

‘KILLING TIME’

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‘TO THIS I PUT MY NAME’ ON TOUR

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new publication from Gomer Press features many current and former academic staff from Cardiff School of Art & Design. The book also features many CSAD graduates who have become successful artists. Post-War to Post-Modern: A Dictionary of Artists in Wales is a major academic reference work covering a rich period in the arts in Wales. It is the first illustrated survey, in Welsh and English editions, of the careers of artists and applied artists in Wales over the last sixty years.

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fter the success of Claire Curneen’s touring exhibition To this I put my name, has now continued onto Switzerland with its opening at Galerie Kunstforum Solothurn in April.

Curneen’s figures are inspired by myth and legend, drawing upon religious iconography and her study of art history at the National Museum of Ireland.

Angels and saints are decorated with rich glazes or deep smudges of inky colour, reminiscent perhaps of fine porcelain whilst others are left unglazed and unadorned like reimagined figures from Ancient Greek vases.

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r Keireine Canavan and Prof Cathy Treadaway took part in the performance of ‘Killing Time’ at Wales Millennium Centre on Saturday 16 May, led by contemporary composer Jobina Tinnemans. The event was supported by Age Cymru and was part of the Gwanwyn Festival. The interactive performance involved knitting on long white knitted ‘scores’ containing embedded sensors to help create a musical soundscape of the Pembrokeshire coast.

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nternationally recognised Dutch textile artist, Tilleke Schwarz, visited CSAD recently to deliver a talk to students about her exhibition at Craft in the Bay. Tilleke’s embroideries show a mixture of contemporary influences including graffiti, icons, text and traditional imagery with a narrative element in her design.

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pike Dennis has recently exhibited a collection of hand embroidered objects and short films at The Show Gallery, Cardiff.

The body of work critiqued attitudes towards sex, identity, morals and privacy in our increasingly digitally inter-connected society. Subverting commonly held assumptions that embroidery is an activity reserved for women, Spike revealed the phallocentric language of sex through stitch. In his work familiar digital pixels were replaced with pixelated cross-stitches, exposing the aggressive and often harassing nature of the way in which messages and images are often distributed across our multifarious wi-fi’d networks.

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BA GRAPHICS STUDENT SHORTLISTED FOR PENGUIN DESIGN AWARD

VOLUNTEERING AND INTERNSHIPS EVENT

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ongratulations to BA Graphic Communication student Toby Hartwell who has been shortlisted in two categories in this year’s Penguin Design Awards. Toby has been shortlisted in the ‘Adult Fiction’ and ‘Adult Non-Fiction’ categories. Good luck Toby!

Work (below) by Toby Hartwell

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SAD’s students from all years packed out a talk given by Arts & Business Cymru and representatives of other creative industry organisations about the benefits of volunteering, work experience and paid internships. Art & Business Cymru and Ffotogallery’s Diffusion, Cardiff International Festival of Photography are hoping to recruit a number of paid interns and the National Museum Wales, Chapter Arts Centre, Made in Roath, and Criw Celf (part of Arts Active at Cardiff Council) are all looking for volunteers and work placement candidates. The speakers stressed the importance of gaining industry contacts and practical work experiences for students to add to their CV, along with the benefits of stepping outside their comfort zones to gain new skills and discover opportunities that they might not have come across otherwise.

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‘HAND HELD: HAND MADE’

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econd Year Artist Designer: Maker students displayed a series of medals at Craft in the Bay from 20 March - 10 May 2015. The work displayed the combination of traditional skills and the use of new technologies, which makes the Artist Designer: Maker course so unique and exciting.

Bridging the gap between traditional skills and new technologies, students work in a myriad of ways, including producing work for batch production, bespoke one-off pieces or manufacture.

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materials and Product Designer, Adam Davies for his elegant ceramic speakers manifesting an enthusiasm to push course boundaries and explore alternative materials and approaches. Rachel Codd was selected as the overall winner for her beautiful ceramic jewellery. The judges felt that there was a sense of ‘completeness’ and consistency of design integrity and vision in this work from inception, through design and creation to presentation.

Image (below) L-R: Kerry Clements, Richard Morris, CSAD’s Associate Dean: Enterprise, Adam Davies, Martin Roe, Austin-Smith: Lord, Rachel Codd.

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he School was delighted that architects of the CSAD and Cardiff School of Management buildings have inaugurated the annual Austin-Smith: Lord Design Award.

Staff from the Architects’ firm will select work from each year’s Summer Show, with this year’s judging panel including Martin Roe, Partner and Cardiff Studio Principal, Tim Young, Associate and Lead Architect for the CSAD project, and Kate Smith, Head of Interior Design. The panel were hugely impressed by the quality of work on display and welcomed the input of the course leaders to help them to focus their concentration in the extremely difficult task of selecting a winner.

Choosing an overall winner was very challenging given the high standard of work and so the judges selected two students for Highly Commended certificates - Artist Designer: Maker, Kerry Clements for her striking furniture which integrates an innovative mix of natural and manufactured

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SO MANY GENEROUS SUPPORTERS

SPONSORED BY SHAPEWAYS

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he School is lucky to receive very generous support from many others who give prizes to its students each year including: the Alan Barrett Danes Memorial Award for technical achievement in Ceramics; the Capita Prizes for best Architectural Design and Technology projects; the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists (CIAT) Award for an outstanding graduating student; the Dulcie Mayne Stephens Art Trust Awards for artistic achievement in Fine Art; the Evan & Felicity Charlton Awards Travel Award for Fine Art; the Helen Gregory Memorial Trust Purchase Prize; the Lavinia Bletchley Award recognises the most improved practice in Textiles; the Ria Blakeman Memorial Award for Textiles recognises the best technical improvement in Textiles; the Semaphore Award for Innovation in Illustration; the Zenith Media Award in Graphic Communication for Outstanding Studio Practice; Regina Lasker Award recognises artistic achievement in Ceramics; and the Ede & Ravenscroft Achievement Award is made for made to the highest achieving student in their year across the School of Art & Design 2014-15.

Finally, the Welsh Government also select work each year to be exhibited in the First Minister’s office.

Congratulations to all this year’s award winners!

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rtist Designer: Maker student, Matthew Bush, has been sponsored by Shapeways, a 3D printing service and market place.

Matthew’s work combines complex 3D printed fractal pieces with fine china pieces to form elegant bowls that demonstrate how cutting-edge technology can merge with our everyday objects.

The sponsorship included printing services and the display of Matthew’s work on the Shapeways’ website.

Work (below) by Matthew Bush

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CAPTURING THE SPIRIT OF CSAD

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his year CSAD has been lucky to benefit from two of the BA Photographic Practice Level 4 students based at Bridgend College’s Arts Academy in Cardiff City Centre who chose to spend much of their time at the Llandaff Campus. Ian Clark and Tony Charles used the School as the inspiration for several of their modules and captured hundreds of shots reflecting the spirit of the School and its creative community. The images are being used on the School website and in the forthcoming prospectus. Ian and Tony also helped the Textiles students with shots for their publicity materials and press packs for the Summer Show.

CHEMICAL WEDDING AT CARDIFF MADE

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wo very different artists currently studying on the MFA programme have just had a joint exhibition at Cardiff MADE in Roath. Aiming to reconcile their own positions to a contemporary culture within a historical perspective, Californian Taylor Zepeda mixed pop culture references and trashy materials with the natural and mystical, in particular the transformative properties of the philosopher’s stone.

Pip Barrett’s paintings and drawings formed a collective statement, a visceral response to how she feels the media places its demands upon her as a young woman.

Student & Graduate Focus

MOTHERS OF AFRICA QUILT

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st year Textiles students have made a beautiful quilt for Mothers of Africa, which they raffled to raise funds to rebuild a run down community school in Shiyala, Zambia. The quilt went on display in the Heart Space, CSAD, along with work from Maggie Cullinane and Sue Hunt’s and own collaborations with Mothers of Africa. Packs of cards featuring designs from the quilt and sun prints created by Sue in Shiyala last year also went on sale to raise money for the charity.

FIRST AND SECOND YEAR EXHIBITIONS

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or the first time, all CSAD first and second year students held their own exhibitions at the end of the summer term. Taking over the degree show space to exhibit the work they have produced over the past year, the student-led exhibitions formed part of their assessment. The shows, which were open to friends and family, were a great opportunity to view the work of our current undergraduate students.

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UNDERGRADUATE • HNC Building Technology and Management (Ystrad Mynach) • BSc (Hons) Architectural Design & Technology • BA (Hons) Artist Designer: Maker • BA (Hons) Fine Art • BA (Hons) Ceramics • BA (Hons) Textiles • BA (Hons) Graphic Communication • BA (Hons) Illustration • BA (Hons) Product Design • BSc (Hons) Product Design • BA (Hons) Photographic Practice (Bridgend

TAUGHT POSTGRADUATE • Master of Fine Art (MFA) • Master of Design (MDes) • Master of Design (MDes) SADI • MA (Cardiff School of Art & Design) Specialist Pathways only: • Art & Science • Philosophy • Ecologies • Death and Visual Culture • Design Futures • Postgraduate Certificate in Research Skills: Art & Design • MA Ceramics • MSc Advanced Product Design

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RESEARCH DEGREES • MPhil • PhD • Professional Doctorate in Art • Professional Doctorate in Design • Professional Doctorate in Ecological Building Practices

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