cardiff school of art & design newsletter: spring 2015

NEWSLETTER: SPRING 2015

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150 years of Cardiff Metropolitan UniversityResearch and Enterprise activities in the School

Research undertaken by our StudentsResarch and Enterprise in Teaching

Engagement Student and Graduate Focus

Our regular newsletter aims to give an insight into the work taking place in the School. Our focus is on how our engagement with research, enterprise and teaching are interdependent, to the benefit of both staff and students.

dockland, but one with a rapidly developing hinterland. In these circumstances, the design skills most needed were those of value to the construction industry and in design for print. In the initial years of the School, this is where the emphasis in tuition lay.

As Cardiff became more prosperous, a distinctive middle class developed. Their needs were met by Cardiff’s retail and finance centre and by the rapid development of the grander suburbs, such as Roath. This led to the expansion of the courses provided in the Art School, with an emphasis now on drawing and painting, as well as design.

The history of the School holds many questions, including why Cardiff’s Art School was never housed in purpose built accommodation, until the end of the 1960s. This was unlike so many of the 19th Century art schools, including that in Newport. This may be due to its relationship with Cardiff’s

fluctuating prosperity and its confidence as an urban centre, but other reasons may underlie this. There are also interesting questions about how the School evolved and how the demographic profile of its students changed the curriculum over the time.

In 1976, just over a hundred years after the founding of Cardiff’s Art School, it became a constituent part of the South Glamorgan

The origins of Cardiff’s Art School lie in a significant national initiative, which ran from the 1830s into the 1880s. The purpose was unequivocal: to compete successfully, especially with the French, successive governments agreed that Britain needed to manufacture and trade in first-rate products. This could only be achieved through the direct application of first rate-design and artisan skills. For this, the country needed a highly skilled workforce.

Britain’s art schools were therefore charged with the training of the adult artisan, in both technical and free hand-drawing, along with associated skills, such as model making. This was primarily led by the Board of Trade, through a national curriculum and a centralized examination system. The level of achievement in the UK’s art schools was stimulated by annual national competitions.

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 first floor room, above the Royal Arcade, off St Mary’s Street.

The accommodation was inauspicious; the room already contained the Council’s much used library and a burgeoning museum collection, so the School had to fit in as best it could. Alongside the Art School was one in science, in time to merge fully into the Art School.

Cardiff in the 1860s and 70s was neither a capital nor a city. At best, it was a rough and ready

The School’s Birthday and the University’s Celebration

Institute of Higher Education, the predecessor of Cardiff Metropolitan University.

So, like art schools in Nottingham, Manchester and Bristol, Cardiff’s Art School became a constituent part of an established higher education institution, and ultimately a university. Other art schools, established in the same way as Cardiff, such as Glasgow, Norwich and Falmouth, remained independent higher education bodies in their own right and are now recognized as Universities. Others still ceased to exist, for example art schools set up in Frome and Bridport, or have been retained as adult education facilities, such as Penzance Art School.

In 2015, Cardiff Metropolitan University is celebrating the 150th Anniversary. The celebrations will include a service at Llandaff Cathedral on 20 March at 1100.

There will be a lecture on the setting up of Cardiff’s Art School on 4 June at 1800, as part of CSAD’s Degree Show week.

Professor Gaynor KavanaghDean, Cardiff School of Art & Design

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150 years

Prof Robert Pepperell has been awarded funding by Cardiff Met’s Vice-Chancellor’s Board to support Fovography, a three-year project looking to understand the structure of visual perception. Developed by Robert and his team, Fovography is a new way of depicting visual experience based on centuries of research by artists, designers and scientists. Robert will lead this ambitious programme of research and development, which has the potential to generate high level research outputs and impact, prestigious international collaborations, attract major funding and generate enterprise opportunities.

REF Success

Cardiff Met invests inFovography

CSAD was delighted with the results of the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF). CSAD made a joint submission to the REF under the auspices of the Wales Institute for Research in Art and Design (WIRAD); a partnership with Cardiff Met’s PDR and art and design researchers at the University of South Wales, University of Wales Trinity Saint David.

The panel recognised the strength of WIRAD’s research, rating 97% as of an international standard, with 75% rated as either Internation-ally Excellent or World Leading. For the first time the REF also assessed the economic, social and cultural impact of research; 50% of WIRAD’s submission was judged to have outstanding impact (4*) and 50% deemed to have very considerable impact (3*).

Cardiff Met was also the highest ranked post-1992 institution with 80% of the Universi-ty’s overall quality profile rated as ‘world leading’ (4*) or ‘internationally excellent’ (3*).

CSAD is now preparing for the next exercise, thought to be in 2020, with all members of academic staff committing to their individual five-year research and enterprise output plans.

Congratulations to Prof Cathy Treadaway, who has been awarded a major grant by the AHRC for her research on designing for dementia. The funding is for Ludic Artefacts Using Gesture and Haptics (LAUGH), a three-year research project in collaboration with research-ers at University of Technology Sydney and Birmingham City University

Painting Installation

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Congratulations to Cathy Treadaway(above, right) and Olwen Moseley (above, left) who have both been awarded personal chairs. Cathy has become the School’s Professor of Creative Practice and Olwen is the Professor of Design Industry Engagement. Well done both!

Prof André Stitt has been awarded a major Arts Council of Wales Creative Wales Award to explore the relationship between painting and installation art. As part of the award, he will be spending a period of time in Texas where he will explore the work of Mark Rothko at the Rothko Chapel in Houston and the work of Donald Judd at the Judd Foundation. He will also collaborate during a studio residency with James Cobb, an artist based in San Antonio. The result of their collaboration will be exhibited at Flight gallery in San Antonio in 2015.

AHRC Award for LAUGH

New Professors

Research / Enterprise

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Prof Cathy Treadaway’s Sensor-e Textiles project is already yielding exciting results. Supported by Cardiff Met REIF funding, the project is investigating the development of sensory textiles for people with dementia. Cathy has established a new collaboration with Dr Roya Ashayer-Soltani (materials engineer) and Dr Chris Hunt (materials physicist) at the National Physical Laboratory, a large government funded scientific research and development facility. The collaboration will explore the practical applications of Nano solutions for printing conductive materials onto fabric.

Cathy has also received a further OPAN grant to fund the development of a technical Research Development Group to inform the Sensor e-Textiles. The funding will assist with travel expenses to enable diverse technical expertise to attend workshops held at the FabLab Cardiff.

Finally, Cathy and Dr Gail Kenning University of Technology Sydney (UTS) presented a paper about the Sensor e-Textile project at January’s “International Conference of Design Creativity”. Held at Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India, the conference provided the opportunity to strengthen the HANDS collaboration with UTS, which is investigating design to support the wellbeing of people with late stage dementia.

Somatopia - Creative Computing through Inclusive Design

Sensor-e Textiles

Dr Wendy Keay-Bright has received funding from the RaspberryPi Foundation for a new project that will generate computing modules using the RaspberryPi as a creative platform for inclusive, experimental artworks.

The project will foreground participatory design methods, bringing novice developers together with potential beneficiaries, and will test the feasibility of Somatopia as a method for

enriching the learner experi-ence of inclusivity and accessibility in Human

Computer Interaction (HCI). The outputs of this process are expected to be creative,

experimental interfaces that can be scaled to suit any

environment.

International SIP

After FabLab Cardiff’s launch and its first months in operation, the team ended 2014 with a Festive Workshop. Over 50 people attended to 3D print Christmas decorations, laser-cut festive tumblers and enjoy some Christmas refreshments. FabLab Cardiff has great plans for 2015. Two groups of students have been working on developing prototypes: A group of CSAD students designed chairs to meet individuals’ needs as part of the Are you sitting comfortably? Field Project and a group of Cardiff School of Management students used the facilities to design a hotel room as part of a Venue Design module. FabLab Cardiff is also hosting work experience for students and continuing to collaborate with Cardiff Met’s other Schools via various small projects. In the near future the FabLab will launch more workshops and will be welcoming students from Luzern, Switzerland for a week long designer-maker project in April.

Prof Cathy Treadaway has been awarded an International SIP to work with Sabine Wildevuur and researchers at the Creative Care Lab of the Waag Society in Amsterdam. The Waag Society aims to 'empower the healthcare field with knowledge about the creative and innovative use of modern media and ICT’. Sabine's research is located in the medical and technology domain and she has research interests in ageing and dementia and is looking to collaborate on research with Cathy.

FabLab Cardiff: Update


Research /Enterprise

Work informed by Prof André Stitt on-going research focussing on the historical significance of performance art made during ‘The Troubles’ was featured in Mobile Encounters – Documenting the Early Years of Performance Art in Ireland. Launched in December 2014 at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, the exhibition looks at the past thirty years of performance art in Ireland and features documents, artefacts and videos by André Stitt from the collection of the National Irish Visual Arts Library.

André’s work is also featured in the touring exhibition, Art of the Troubles. The exhibition opened at the Wolverhampton Art Gallery in November 2014, where André gave a public lecture there about performance art and the civil conflict in Northern Ireland in January 2015.

Making employabilityvisible

Andre in Ireland

Research and Enterprise Co-ordinator Angie Dutton attended January’s Enterprise Educators UK workshop at the University of East Anglia, which looked at making employa-bility visible within the university sector .

The day highlighted the importance of 'telling the story' to highlight the benefits of universi-ties collaborating with industry- both business-es and academics alike- of keeping in contact with alumni and of networking events that give academics the chance to meet with potential stakeholders and learn more about their needs and the challenges they face in an informal way.

Research / Enterprise


Congratulations to research student Jo Atkinson, who is now working for the Carbon Trust in Wales. Jo is managing the trusts’ work in Wales, which includes delivering resource efficiency support to businesses and public sector organisations through the Welsh Government’s Resource Efficient Wales programme. Jo received a first class honours degree in Architectural Technology at CSAD and the role draws on her PhD research evaluating retrofitted external wall insulation.

In April 2015, Clara Watkins will be attending The Value of Design Research, 11th Interna-tional Design Conference, in Paris, to present her paper entitled: ‘The challenges of taking a user-centric approach within developing countries: A case study of designing medical solutions for Zambia.’ The paper presents some of her findings from her PhD studies which question the most appropriate method of developing medical product solutions for the developing world, with a focus on Zambia.

Sarah Younan: Behind the Scenes

SEB 14 paper published

Sarah Younan presented a paper at Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) 2015 Conference at the University of Siena in March. The conference focused on the field of computing technologies applied to archaeology, giving Sarah the opportunity to present her research findings and received feedback from specialists in the field.

Papers presented by research students John Cosgrove, Mohammad Alhazim and Trevor Butler at the 6th International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings, SEB-14 have been published in Energy Procedia (vol. 62, 2014).

Claire in Zambia

Jo Atkinson: Carbon Trust Wales

Sarah presents at ‘Computer Aplications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology’ Conference


ResearchStudents

Two Field projects have provided opportunities for students to engage with international cultures. The first was in the form of a trip to India in December as a part of a project based around the cultural exploration of Rajasthan. Led by Prof Olwen Moseley, Olivia Kotsifa and Richard Cox, the project encouraged students to consider the culture of place from both an

artistic and a design perspective. Activities include a series of planned workshops, movie screenings, a visit to the V+A Indian collection in London, research seminars and theoretical discussions on the impact of culture in design and making. Whilst in Rajasthan, students were also given the chance to collaborate with Indian undergraduates studying at the National Art Workshop and Rajasthan School of Art and undertook studio visits with internationally acclaimed artists and designers to see how they approach making work.

The second was a trip to Marrakech, Morocco. Led by Dr Keireine Canavan and grounded in her research on traditional weaving techniques. The project encouraged students to identify their own values as artists or designers by developing an intercultural awareness. Students were able to study ancient and contemporary Arabic culture through visits to Ancient medina and artisan workshops, 16th century Moorish museums, traditional architecture and formal gardens, Berber campsites in the Atlas Mountains, traditional belly dancing, cooking and crafts. Students were encouraged to consider how their own creative practice may be perceived and valued by other cultures and reflect on how the experience has influenced their own work.

Field Projects

International Field

The spring term sees second year students take part in the second phase of this year’s exciting selection of Field Projects. ‘The Field’ is designed to enable interdisciplinary study and collaboration between undergraduate students at CSAD. The 26 options open to students range from starting a business to considering the links between the nature of art and the human mind, to undertaking work experience or exploring the culture of Rajasthan. The Field Projects provide a unique opportunity to engage with external organisations and experience working in a cross-disciplinary team. All projects are designed to draw directly on the research and enterprise expertise of the academic staff. They give CSAD students direct access to, and engagment with, the School’s research and enterprise activities.

The Mind you Own Business Field Project run by Richard Morris, Associate Dean: Enterprise, was fully subscribed this year and saw 7 groups of Level 5 students launch their own micro-businesses. Each team received seed funding of £100 and their challenges was to research, design, make, market and sell a product over the course of five weeks.

As the final sale took place in CSAD’s Heart Space a few days before Christmas many chose to develop festive products which ranged from Christmas stockings to screen printed wrapping paper, board games and table lamps featuring laser-cut designs. The project gave students the opportunity to experience the challenge of working with peers from other subject areas, take a product to market and receive feedback from genuine paying customers.

At the end of the project, the teams present-ed their product and their business plans to a panel, which included Petra Aydin-Barberini, owner of Rowley’s the Jeweler, Penarth. All of the groups make a profit from their design and kept the money they made once they paid back their seed funding, and, as an unexpected result, some of the groups were offered the opportunity to sell their design in Rowley’s the Jeweler’s.

Mind your Own Business


R&E inTeaching

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Final year Textiles students were invited by Ystrad Mynach-based company International Greetings, one of the UK’s largest manufac-turers of greetings cards and gift wrap, to design either a range of paper greetings products including a gift wrap; gift bag; gift tag; ribbon; gift bow and greeting card or a collection of eight greetings card. Selected by Sarah Barker, International Greetings’ Head of Creative, the four most successful designers were awarded £300 and an eight week work placement at the company. Sarah Morris; Tiffany Gravenor; Ellie Jarvis and Lauren Bevan were named winners at an awards reception held at CSAD; with other runner-up gift voucher prizes going to Elen Davie; Cara Hearne; Ceris Butterworth; Daisy Dando; Nia Hendry; Sam Birch and Emma Bagnall.

Work experience

Graphic Communication gets real

BA Graphic Communication’s third year students collaborated with 9 mentors from the design industry to work on a Real World brief. The brief, set by clients from Cardiff Met’s Estates Management, was to develop communication campaigns that generated a greater awareness of the need for sustainability and to bring about a behaviour change amongst Cardiff Met students. Led by Dr Wendy Keay-Bright and Neil Angove, the project emphasised the importance of developing and applying professional skills as aspects of design practice, asking students to consider how they, as graphic communicators, engage with the communities and environments of which they are a part.

By placing a significant focus on the contextual setting of the discipline and profession, the project provided opportunities for students to consider how their individual critical and creative practice relates to wider social, economic and environmental agendas. The winning team focused on reducing waste packaging through the introduction of a Farmers’ Market stall in student halls of residence. The outputs were so successful that several of the campaigns are being implemented by the clients, and both clients and mentors were impressed by the capacity of CSAD students to tackle challenges, seek solutions and to champion their ideas.

International Greetings

Dr Natasha Mayo has been awarded SIP to work with ArtWorks Cymru, a partnership between Welsh national arts organisations that provides a framework for sharing experience in participatory practice. Drawing on her own research in this field, Natasha will use the opportunity to take a group of students to observe practice in a participa-tory arts context, consider how participatory practice can work within the student curriculum and what crossovers there might be between workshop methods and creative strategies used in Education.

Natasha is also working with second-year students to devise and run of a number of workshops in collaboration with the National Museum, Cardiff. The work produced will be installed into the National Museum to coincide with the Fragile? exhibition. In order to achieve the highest quality workshops, Artworks Cymru has been invited to consult and help guide the methodology.

40 Level 5 students took part in the Work Experience Field Module project co-ordinat-ed by Ian Weir that ran for five weeks in the winter and spring terms. Students from almost all subject areas took up the opportunity to undertake an external placement and the feedback demonstrates that the experience has greatly increased the students’ confidence and developed the ways in which they talk about their subject. 16% of CSAD students are now taking up a formal work placement as a part of their course, up from 11% in 2013-14.

Natasha Mayo: Update


R&E inTeaching

Curated by Dr Natasha Mayo and CSAD alumni Zoe Preece on behalf of the Makers Guild in Wales, the Sensorial Object exhibition at Craft in the Bay features work by Natasha as well as by Artist: Designer Maker lecturers Ingrid Murphy and Jon Pigott. The opening event on 16 January featured guest speaker Dr Zoe Laughlin, Creative Director and Curator of the Materials, Institute of Making, UCL, who discussed the material and sensorial properties of objects, including which kind of mental makes the best tasting cutlery.

Cardiff Open welcomed a record number of students at the start of the spring term and the team were especially pleased to run the first 3D printing workshop in FabLab Cardiff. Other new courses planned for the term include a Saturday courses about learning to use the potter’s wheel and a laser-cutting course run in by FabLab Cardiff.

Dr Canavan speaks at PittRivers Museum

CSAD was delighted to welcome Artes Mundi to the Heart Space for its two day conference in January. All 10 exhibiting artists took part with nine talking about their work and the eventual winner, Theaster Gates, delighting the audience with sung performance. At the final Q&A, Theaster was challenged to split the winnings with his fellow participants if he was the recipient of the £40k prize, something that a few hours later he honoured when the result was announced at the National Museum. The conference audience included many from Cardiff’s creative community, representatives from organisations such as White Cube and Arts Mundi judge JJ Charlesworth, art critic and associate editor of ArtReview, as well as CSAD students and staff.

Cardiff Open

Artes Mundi Conference

The Sensorial Object

Fragile?

In April 2015, the National Museum of Wales will host a major international show on ceramics titled Fragile? The exhibition includes key works from the museum’s collection and ambitious new works by four Wales-based artists, including Ceramics lecturer Claire Curneen and CSAD alumni Lowri Davies, plus Walter Keeler and Adam Buick. These four artists will be shown together alongside specially-commissioned films that will delve into each maker’s creative process.

Dr Canavan speak at Pitt Rivers Museum Dr Keireine Canavan spoke at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, in November on ‘Middle Eastern Al-Sadu Textiles: lost meanings and future prospects’’ as a part of the Friends of the Museum lecture series. The talk was based on Keireine’ s research on Al-Sadu weaving, an ancient textile craft that conveys the Bedouin’s rich cultural heritage, with patterns and semiotic codes messaging instinctive expressions of beauty and their nomadic lifestyle. Demands for tribal textiles have virtually ceased and all associated weaving skills, and knowledge is in danger of being lost.

image: Zoe Preece


Engagement

Duncan Ayscough was selected as March’s Maker in Focus by the Mission Gallery, Swansea. Duncan aspires for his work to embody the narrative of its making; to communicate the values of its material and process of making. It is this fluid discourse between process, concept and material, which lies at the heart of his practice.

Printmaking lecturer Sue Hunt has examples of her ‘Chinese folding books’ featured in a touring exhibition of Welsh, European, Australian and Chinese artists using this traditional technique to make new and original work. The exhibition opened on 12 December at the Art Museum, Institute of Chinese Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and was accompanied by a symposium where Sue presented on The Spirit of Collaboration.

Paul Granjon is working with an interdisciplinary team of engineering, fine-art and business students from the Université de Lorraine in Nancy, France, to develop a robot that will guide visitors in a forthcoming exhibition. The show, Eppur Si Muove (And yet it moves) features a selection of landmark technological inventions from the collection of Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris, combined with contemporary artworks. ‘Guido’ the robot guide can perform the tour on its own, but an operator can take over at any moment to give the robot a more responsive presence. The exhibition opens 9th July 2015 and will comprise works by Olafur Eliasson, Conrad Shawcross, Wim Delvoye, Jean Tinguley, as well as Paul Granjon's ‘Smartbot’.

Paul Granjon: Roboticguide

Folding books inHong Kong

Duncan Ayscough: Makerin Focus

2015 is the year to try 3-Dprinting at home

2015 is the year to try 3D printing at home FabLab Cardiff manager Martijn Gommeren has written an article in Conversation UK discussing the exciting potential for 3D printing in 2015. Martijn explained his enthusiasm for the technology and its processes: “Working with 3D printers every day there isn’t much that surprises me anymore. The possibilities of 3D printing seem endless. [...] Now is the year you should buy a 3D printer and learn how to work with CAD - it will transform the way you design and work.” Martijn also had a piece published in the Western Mail’s university news and comments column about 3D printing.

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The Mothers of Africa Quilt Project have recently held an exhibition at The Senedd in Cardiff Bay. The exhibition, which was sponsored by Jane Hutt AM, included work by first year Textiles students, as well as a quilt made by Maggie Cullinane, inspired by her two recent trips to Zambia with the charity.

David Fitzjohn’s Fimbulwinter was shown at Cardiff MADE gallery, Roath in January / February. The exhibition featured a paper-cut installation drawing on apocalyptic Norse mythology, reflecting upon the fluid and changeable state of our reality and the cyclical order of destruction and rebirth embedded in our landscape. This installation has evolved over five years; while its essence remains intact its physical state, like the changing landscape, it has morphed with every site-specific experience.

Fimbulwinter

Quilt exhibition atthe Senedd

Paul Granjon promotes‘Geek Cool’

‘Geek Cool’ by Fine Art lecturer Paul Granjon is one of ten new Pop Pi videos commissioned and produced as part of Sonic Pi: Live and Coding. Ten artists were asked to make a three-minute pop video using Sonic Pi, a new piece of software developed by Dr Sam Aaron to allow people to create music by writing code. The songs and code will be released as a pack in primary schools for kids to play around with and gain a better understanding of computer programming. Paul describes ‘Geek Cool’ as a propaganda song encouraging children to become geeks.


Engagement

Inc. Space’s Kathryn Lewis has just had an exhibition at Abacus, an artists’ space in the city centre run by CSAD graduates. As well as continuing with her fine art ceramics practice, she is also gearing up to sell her work at the 14th Manchester International Tattoo Show that took place on 28 February and 1 March having sold work very successfully at a previous tattoo convention.

To coincide with the first of the major CSAD Interview Days, The Inc. team held an Open Day to showcase their work. They were delighted that not only did many of the interviewees visit the Inc. Space, but that more than 50 others came to visit them, in some cases buying their work including these bowls (right) by AJ Stockwell.

Inc. Space members Laura Smith, Helen Turnbull and Kathryn Lewis also sold their work at Cardiff’s Christmas Market in the city centre, thanks to support from the Centre for Student Entrepreneurship, and individuals also selling work at tattoo fayres and the Students Union over the festive period.

Well done to our clients at Auriella who are almost ready to launch their new Solar-Buddy children's sun cream applicator. This product was project managed by Gareth Barham, principal lecturer in product design. The concept was developed by our level 6 BA and BSc Product Design students, and then developed into a commercially manufacturable and tested design by Laura Smith in our Inc. Space. Prototypes were fabricated at FabLab Cardiff. The official launch of the product will take place in March with Solar hitting the market place in late spring.

Laura is now extending her portfolio of designs by revisiting some of the products developed as part of her degree and working with Cardiff School of Sport on new designs for camera accessories that will help to improve the filming of athletes’ performances.

Sold! Tattoo convention Solar Buddy

Inc. Space Open Day

2015 has got off to a busy start for Inc. Space’s Aidan Myers. He has sold and rented more pieces through his gallery in London and is making work as fast as he can sell it. He is also preparing for a residency later in the year at CardiffMADE that has been set up as a result of the mentoring he is receiving from the gallery’s owners Zoë Gingell and Josh Leeson.

bowl: AJ Stockwell


Student &GraduateFocus

Helen Turnbull, the Inc. Space’s resident illustrator, has just spent a week at the University Hospital of Wales’ maternity unit. Helen has undertaken a residency there previously and was invited back to observe and record life in many areas of the hospital, including the operating theatres. Helen is very grateful to Prof Judith Hall OBE who helped organise the residency and who has been so supportive of her work. Helen is now in discussion with the maternity team about how these can be used as communications tools.

A little bit of the old Howard Gardens building has been moved temporarily to the new School building in the form of Jenny Cashmore’ s installation Untitled. Untitled is currently installed in the foyer of B Block and is made up of cubes constructed from numerous sections of doors, surfaces and found materials from the old Cardiff School of Art and Design building.

Jenny is one of the Inc. Space team and her artistic practice is interested in site specific responses, or artistic interventions that investigate and challenge our experience of contemporary society. Largely exploring socio political concerns she focuses on changing histories, alternative constructs, and different viewpoints, whilst working with familiar and everyday materials. Jenny has also been selected to be the first Artist in Residence at Carnegie House, a new arts and culture venue in Bridgend town centre.

Internship for AJ

Santander support

A week in Maternity

Untitled

g39 gallery in Roath have offered an internship to AJ Stockwell, one of the Inc. Space team. She has taken over the running of the Saturday morning Warp breakfast club that brings together artists from across the city and will also be working with Bedwyr Williams in the run up to his show at g39. AJ has also secured a residency at CardiffMADE where she will be taking over the ground and first floor galleries with a project exploring coffee and our relationship with it, including in it ceramic work that actually incorporates coffee grounds from the gallery’s coffee shop.

Following a successful two-week work experience placement, Graphic Communication graduate Max Harding has started a paid Santander Internship with the Bristol based design company. The Santander internship has enabled the company to keep Max on for an extra three-months and will give Max the opportunity to build up his skills and professional portfolio and to help them build their business.



On the CSAD Architectural Design & Technology website is a Q&A with Seija Tansill who talks about her career after graduating from the BSc programme. She explains what her job title means, the kinds of projects she has worked on and her advice for anyone thinking of applying for the course: “If you’re looking for a technical based course, Cardiff School of Art & Design is the place to go”.

Second year Cardiff Illustration student Rhiannon Parnis was one of 26 illustrators long-listed for the Folio Society Book Illustration Competition. Entrants were asked to illustrate The Folio Book of Ghost Stories and Rhiannon’s work was selected from 400 entries from 24 countries. The long-listed entrants were on display to the public for three weeks at the House of Illustration, London before the winner was announced. Congratulations Rhiannon!

At the beginning of December the final year Fine Art students held their Affordable Art Auction at the g39 gallery in Roath. Over 50 art works were available for sale by Level 6 students and by staff which raised money for their Summer Show which will open in May 15.

Recent CSAD Product Design graduate Daniel Marshall won “Rising Star New Engineer of the Year 2014” at the 2014 Elektra Awards. The Elektra Awards celebrates the achievements of individuals and companies across the European electronics industry. This is the second year in a row that a graduate of CSAD has won this prestigious prize. Many congratulations to Daniel!

Graphics Go Green

WJEC FADEx Awards

A folio of Ghosts

Seija gives insight into thecareer of an ArchitecturalTechnologist

Product Design graduatenamed ‘Rising New Star’

Affordable Art Auction Cardiff Arts Academy is proud to announce that two 3D students (taught by Craig Thomas, Tim Forrester and Dave Sopwith) from the Foundation Diploma in Art and Design won major WJEC awards in 2014: Angela Magee won the FADEx Overall Winner and Sophie Darmanin won a Highly Commended Award. The awards were presented by Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas.

Building on our links with Cardiff School of Management, four level 5 Graphic Communication students volunteered to work with Events Management students to create graphic design elements for Go Green Week (9 - 15 February 2015). The Events Management students briefed the Graphics students who later presented a number of design solutions to their clients. The printed poster designed by Holly Hughes was displayed around the campus to promote the week and to reveal daily events taking place. Digital designs were also displayed on the information screens to raise awareness.



2010 Fine Art graduate Johanna Shepherd has returned to Cardiff Met but this time as an interim member of the Development and Alumni Relations team. ‘Just before the end of my final year, I heard about a paid internship opportunity with Arts & Business Cymru. The Creative Internships programme, now in its second year, embeds graduates in arts organisations and provides on-the-job training for a career in arts fundraising. Having spent so much time contemplating the case for supporting the arts for my dissertation, I realised that this was my chance to be involved in creating a sustainable future for the arts - and to get paid to do it’. Find out more about Johanna’s career after graduation on the CSAD website.

In January, The Lord mayor of Cardiff launched a school’s poster competition, supported by Western Power Distribution at CSAD to raise awareness of the Lord Mayor’s Charity, Tenovus. The competition offers school children in Cardiff the opportunity to win cash prizes for their school by using their imagination to create a poster based on the theme ‘Cardiff City of the Future’. The poster publicise the competition was designed by Graphic Communication student Stephen Chen, who met The Lord Mayor of Cardiff, Cllr Margaret Jones at the launch. The entries will be judged by The Lord Mayor of Cardiff, Cllr Margaret Jones, Karen Welch, Western Power Distribution, Cardiff Metropolitan University and a Lord Mayor’s Charity Tenovus Draw with Us group representative.

CSAD was delighted to welcome Valentina Gonzalez Wohlers, a designer specializing in bespoke furniture and product design, who presented a guest lecture at CSAD in January 2015. Valentina trained as an industrial designer and with 15 years of consistent work experience designing and making furniture between Europe and America, and her work fuses conceptual thinking.

Are you Lost Yet? Graduate Profile: Johannare-joins the team

Guest Lecture: Valentina Gonzalez Wohlers

Lord Mayor’s Tenovus Poster Competition

Current Illustration students have been working hard to produce a new arts magazine for Cardiff called Are You Lost Yet? The new zine is aimed at 16 – 25 year old creative souls and features content from students and graduates from the BA Illustration degree course. The magazine is edited by current second year student Danielle Willison and issue 2 can be picked up from the CSAD reception desk.



‘Chairs’ exhibition

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Second year students from a range of disciplines collaborated to produce a range of innovative results.

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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

RESEARCH DEGREES• MPhil• PhD• Professional Doctorate in Art• Professional Doctorate in Design

FOUNDATION• Cardiff Diploma in Foundation Studies (Art & Design) (Bridgend) - allied programme only• Foundation Degree in Applied Art & Design (Bridgend)• Foundation Degree in Ceramics (Cardiff and The Vale College)• Foundation Degree in Contemporary Textiles Practice(Cardiff and The Vale College)• Foundation Degree in Graphic Communication (Cardiff and The Vale College)

cardiff school of art & design newsletter: spring 2015

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