cardiff school of art & design newsletter: spring 2016

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Prof Robert Pepperell has been awarded Seed Funding by the Wellcome Trust for a new

project in collaboration with Tony Langford, Director of Kinetica Museum. The award, totalling just under £40K, will allow the team to work with experts in science, art, the humanities and medicine to evaluate and determine whether Fovography can improve technologies used for mindfulness training by broadening the focus of attention to the whole visual field.

NEW PROFESSOR

Congratulations to Wendy Keay-Bright, who has been awarded a personal chair. The title

of Professor of Technology and Inclusivity was awarded in recognition of Wendy’s research and experience in the area of interaction, animation and moving image design, knowledge transfer and public engagement. Wendy’s research explores human-to-human social interactions with young people on the autism spectrum, in particular enabling the user/player to choreograph physical input with abstract visual and musical outputs.

Research and Enterprise

WELLCOME AWARD ANDRE GOES STATESIDE

Professor André Stitt has recently returned from extended research leave in the USA. André

has been researching and collaborating with Texas based artist James Cobb as part of his Creative Wales award. The trip included periods of research at the Chinati/Donald Judd Foundation in Marfa, West Texas and at the Rothko Chapel in Houston. Work resulting from the residency, Low-Rise Stack17D, will also be shown at the Oriel Davies Open Exhibition until 15 June 2016.

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Low-Rise Stack17D¸ Professor Andre Stitt

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OLWEN TALKS

Professor Olwen Moseley also gave her Inaugural & Professorial Lecture at the end of January.

Be bold or italic, never regular will pose the question ‘graphic design – it’s not really a matter of life or death is it?’

FOVOGRAPHY UPDATE

The interdisciplinary nature of Prof Robert Pepperell continues to be recognised by the

scientific community. Robert presented “Using Art to Map Visual Space” to 50+ students and staff members at UCL’s Neurosciences Society in March and has been invited to address an international symposium on Art and Perception hosted by the University of Liverpool’s Psychology department. The Fovography team has also continued to explore a number of potential collaborations with academic and industry partners to investigate further possible applications of the technology, including a collaboration with Cardiff Met’s own Psychology Department investigating if Fovography has an effect on brainwaves.

CATHY BACK IN OZ

CARIAD researcher Prof Cathy Treadaway, spent the early part of 2016 working in

Australia at University of Technology Sydney with Dr Gail Kenning (International co-Investigator) on the LAUGH design for dementia research project.

This is the first of three visits to Australia, which will enable ideas and knowledge to be exchanged as part of the AHRC funded LAUGH project. Whilst in Oz, Cathy visited Alzheimer’s NSW and leading academic in the field of dementia research in Australia, Professor Henry Brodarty, University of New South Wales, Sydney, to discuss the LAUGH project and other related dementia projects in Australia.

Back in the UK, the third workshop for the AHRC LAUGH project, led by Prof Cathy Treadaway and Dr Jac Fennell, took place in Swansea on March 16th. The event brought together health professionals academics, carers and care managers to discuss hand use and craft in relation to dementia.

Cathy also delivered a public lecture to the Monmouth WI on the Hand i Pocket project and a keynote presentation about CARIAD’s design for dementia research at the 8th Cambridge Workshop on Universal Access and Assistive Technology, Fitzwilliam College Cambridge on Wednesday 23rd March.


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DR JOHN LITTLEWOOD: UPDATE

Dr John Littlewood recently presented his latest research to Community Housing Cymru’s Fire

Safety Group. Supported by a Cardiff Met Research & Enterprise Innovation Fund (REIF) and Community Housing Cymru, one of Wales’ leading housing associations, the research focuses on fire safety in community housing, investigating the effect of inadequate compartmentation between dwellings. This was followed by an invitation to speak at the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologist’s UK Design Futures symposium.

John’s presentation, ‘Testing residential building fabric and reporting on the impacts upon performance and potential risks to occupant safety’ illustrated one of the case studies that gave context to REIF project. Other recent industry presentations include the Zerocarbonhub’s workshop on Building Better Buildings, the Wales Green Market Place conference, and the Low Carbon Swansea: Heating Solutions event.

SUCCESSFUL CONCLUSION TO EASTN

The three year European Art Science and Technology Network (EASTN) has reached

a successful conclusion. Led by Alexandros Kontogeorgakopoulos (UK project leader) and Olivia Kotsifa, CSAD contributed to this EU funded project to create and showcase artistic work related to art-science-technology in different European countries by offering: a series of artistic residencies in FabLab Cardiff; a week-long workshop including talks and events; involving an MSc Produce Design students in a collaboration with the ACROE institute in France; a festival and symposium showcasing the work of 20 European artists across Cardiff; and the development of numerous research papers and workshops.

If that wasn’t enough, the project also led to paid work experience, commissions for a number of students and provided opportunities to promote the School and its facilities to the project partners and audiences across Europe.


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THE IMITATION GAME

Senior Lecturer Paul Granjon is currently exhibiting work in Manchester Art Gallery.

Inspired by the work of Alun Turing, The Imitation Game is an exhibition of eight international artists whose work explores the theme of machines and the imitation of life. Paul’s new work, ‘Am I Robot’, features a robotic presence which roams the gallery, interacting with visitors in some surprising and intriguing ways. Paul will also present a live performance during the exhibition. The exhibition runs until 5 June.

PRODUCT DESIGN RESEARCH

In January, Dr Gareth Loudon and Bethan Gordon ran a 2-day workshop on prototyping and

user testing for a consortium of UK companies as part of the “UKCES Project – Skills for Innovation in Manufacturing Project”, run by Pete Dorrington at PDR. CSAD’s contribution involved using the Fab Lab for low-fidelity prototyping of new medical devices and testing the prototypes in the PEL environment, dressed to simulate a care home.

Gareth also gave an invited talk entitled “Opportunities for Future Innovation” at the Food for the Future Conference and published a paper co-authored with CSAD graduate, Dr Gina Deininger in the Journal of Behavioural & Brain Science. “The Physiological Response during Divergent Thinking” studies the physiological response of participants during a creative task to investigate if a person’s psychophysiological state was correlated with divergent thinking performance.


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ALEXANDROS AT MIXD

Alexandros Kontogeorgakopoulos has been invited to give a talk to the Music Interaction

Design Symposium MiXD held by Birmingham Conservatoire. MiXD 2016 was the first national symposium on Music Interaction Design.

The event was hosted by The Integral Lab research group and included talks and demos on a wide range of topics related to the field. Alexandros’s presentation, “Tangibility in Electronic Music Today: Turning Data into Haptic (Real) Musical Instruments / Turing Data into Haptic (Virtual) Musical Instruments” looked at the role of haptics and digital fabrication in digital musical instrument design and music composition.

MAKING FUTURES

Following their presentation at the Making Futures conference in September, Ingrid

Murphy and Jon Pigott’s paper was selected for the Making Futures iV journal publication. The paper discusses their collaborative piece the Campanologist’s Teacup, made and exhibited last year at Cardiff Craft in the Bay, Oriel Q Narbeth, and British Ceramics Biennale in Stoke-on-Trent. In addition,

Jon also presented at the Alternative Histories of Electronic Music (AHEM) conference held at the Science Museum in April. His paper, titled ‘Electromechanical Perspectives of Sound and Music’ presented Jon’s kinetic sound sculpture developed as part of his PhD.

Campanologist’s Teacup, Ingrid Murphy & Jon Pigott


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KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER WITH MORGANSTONE

The EBERE team have recently kicked-off a new short Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP)

project with Morganstone. Dr Masoud Sajjadianas has started as the KTP Academic Associate and will work with academic supervisors, CSAD’s John Littlewood, Nick Evans and Tony Whyman, along with industry mentor Stuart Jones, Development Director at Morganstone to apply in-construction testing methods developed by the EBERE group to the construction of two building developments underway by the Cardiff Community Housing Association.

WHAT’S NEXT?

In January and February CSAD hosted a run of 6 weekly meetings for the What’s Next? Cardiff

Group. What’s Next? Is a forum for Wales’ cultural organisations including, amongst others, the Welsh National Opera, National Museum and Galleries of Wales, Welsh Government, British Council, BBC Cymru and S4c. Guest speakers lined up include Claudia Castro, a recent International Clore Fellow from Brazil, Amelia Womack, Deputy Leader of the Green Party, Wales Arts International and Yvette Vaughn Jones of Visiting Arts.

FABCRE8

Following support from a Cardiff Met Research & Enterprise Innovation Fund, the FabCre8 research

group has been established and is swinging into action!

FabCre8 is a new, multi-disciplinary research and enterprise group driven by an interest in emerging technologies and centred around FabLab Cardiff. Membership is open to Cardiff Met academic, research and technical staff who wish to engage in collaborative and interdisciplinary work.

To date, supported activities include Alexandros Kontogeorgakopoulos & Olivia Kotsifa designing and fabricating new musical instruments, visits from FabLab Guru Alex Schaub, and a collaboration with sonic artist Odysseas Kleisouras to investigate the crossover of 3D printed ceramics, algorithmic design and sound art; Paul Granjon will investigate the potential of remotely accessing artworks; Claire Curneen is exploring how 3D anatomical scans and 3D printing could be used to create porcelain human figures; Jon Pigott will use a Meccano system to develop a set of open designs that can be appropriated and applied to a range of projects; Tom Edgar will explore the use of digital fabrication tools to create both digital and physical animation objects and environments; and John Counsell and Ingrid Murphy will the use of virtual reality to enhance the student experience.


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DR JAMES GREEN: UPDATE

James Green and collaborative partner, Mexican artists Jennifer Lopez Rateikeike, were selected

to take part in January’s The Camaradas exhibition organised by the Embassy of Mexica and British Council.

Held as part of the dual year between the U.K. and Mexico, the Cardiff and London based artists used Facebook and Whatsapp to create an altar combining ancient Welsh traditions, such as the Mari Lwyd, Welsh cakes and spoon carving, with Mexican Day of the Dead festivities suck as tissue paper cutting, piñatas and tequila.

The use of technology in the collaboration process informed how James taught a module for first year students that, in part, focused on collaborative working.

This was followed by James’s solo exhibition, Rhondda World at the Cardiff M.A.D.E gallery in February & March. The exhibition brought together a range of works, including a series’ of collage titled ‘A Day in the Life of…’, a set of new paintings, and a series of masks titled ‘The World Masks of The Rhondda’ made in response to a Santander funded trip to Latin America in 2015. James will look to further establish links with Mexico during a trip to the country in 2016, also supported by Santander.

SOMATOPIA LAUNCH

Prof Wendy Keay-Bright gave an invited lecture at National Autistic Society Conference on

Autism and Technology on 1st February. The talk offered a journey through her work using interactive arts to augment autistic creativity.

At the conference, Wendy launched the first release of Somatopia, her collaboration with Cariad Interactive and Raspberry Pi, which aims to bridge the gap between genuine innovation and end users who are disenfranchised through perceptions of disability and lack of resources (human and technological).

The software, code and instructions are available through FabLab Cardiff. Later in the year, Wendy will also participate in a Method Stories Workshop at CHI 2016, the top conference for Human-Computer Interaction at San Jose, California, USA.


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FINE ART LIGHTBOX

Dr Jonathan Clarkson delivered a public lecture on Constable at the Lightbox Gallery, Woking

to accompany the gallery’s show on the painter. The lecture looked at Constable’s open air oil sketches and how they contributed to the formation of his art, and became the means by which he revolutionised the practice of landscape painting in the early nineteenth century.

INTERPRETING OBJECTS

‘Interpreting Objects’, an interdisciplinary project run in conjunction with the National Museum,

Wales is coming to a close. Dr Natasha Mayo has been working with partners to create a series of films documenting different frameworks for exploring ceramic artefacts to for the Museum’s website.

The project was jointly funded by CSAD and National Museum Wales brings together a rich diversity of approaches to interpretation from dance, music to object orientated ontology.

FABLAB CARDIFF MEETS BUSINESS

FabLab and CSAD were delighted to host a meeting of the Federation of Small Businesses

recently. Associate Dean: Enterprise Richard Morris and Karl Couch from Research and Enterprise Services (RES) gave short talks on how SMEs can work with the University. RES also invited FabLab to be part of Venturefest, providing a wonderful opportunity to meet a vast range of businesses working in the technology sector.

The team also made a second 3D printed hand for another child, gaining extensive media coverage on ITV Wales news and ran a Festive Workshop attracting about 40 visitors of all ages to learn about laser cutting and working with basic electronics.


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COAS NEWS

COAS had a very busy spring term with the launch of new courses including former CSAD

Graduate Inc. member AJ Stockwell’s new Ceramic Sculpture class.

Illustration tutor Layla Holzer organised a show of her students’ work at CSAD and to help mark the BBC’s Get Creative Campaign and new COAS tutor Kimberly Jones organised a free screen printing taster session.

CREATE CHALLENGE

CSAD held its first CREATE Challenge, a staff development day focused on bringing together

research and enterprise with learning and teaching activities. Participants were given two hours to develop proposals, which were presented and voted on by the audience.

The winning proposal by Prof Wendy Keay-Bright, Dr Natasha Mayo and Pip Lawrence won £500 and will empower CSAD’s Masters Students to attune, react and respond to the buildings they inhabit through sensory perception, culminating in an exhibition in B Block.

RESEARCH DEGREE NEWS

2015 PhD graduate Dr Jo Atkinson has co-authored a paper with her former supervisory

team, Dr John Littlewood and Professors George Karani and Andrew Geens. Entitled ‘Wales’ deprived dwellings energy and carbon cuts from Arbed I’, the paper builds upon the EBERE’s research work on monitoring the environmental performance of dwellings and their impacts upon occupants and will be published in the International Journal Engineering Sustainability.


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INCUBATION NEWS

Inc Space members have been a busy bunch over the last few months. Handmade book

artist Sophie Adams is thrilled to have been selected to exhibit at Liverpool book Art in July, ceramicist Katie Weyman currently has shows at the Victoria Kern gallery and Giles gallery in Cardiff and textile designer and printmaker Anna Palamar is now selling her prints, t shirts and bags in boutiques in Cardiff, Penarth, Newport and Bristol and has been invited to take part in a number of fairs over the next few months. She is also about to launch a new range of designs.

Rhiannon Lewando exhibited in the Hundred Years Gallery’s Blind Plural exhibition. The exhibition is part of the Hundred Years Gallery‘s programme that supports emerging artists and creativity in the East End of London and will hold a solo show of work for the most voted artist by the audience during the exhibition. Rhiannon’s ceramic sculptures were also selected for the Fresh show at the British Ceramics Biennial and were highlighted amongst Culture 24’s Six of the Best Feature and she is about to have her first exhibition in Australia.

As one of the winners of the recent Future Lights competition, Kate Haywood was invited by Porzellanikon to show her work at Ambiente, the world’s most important consumer goods fair. Ambiente attracted some 134,000 trade visitors from 150 countries and Kate used the opportunity to showcase some new table based pieces. Kate has also been selected to feature in One Year On at New Designers, London this year and has recently been exhibiting work at the Lotte Inch Gallery in York.

Laura Welsman and Pip Barrett have just held a show in the CSAD foyer of recent paintings, including individual work and some created as collaborative pieces. Until joining in in September 2015, Laura and Pip had not previously collaborated but felt as their studio spaces in Inc are side by side the opportunity to experiment with something that they would not otherwise have had the opportunity to do was too good to miss. Laura and Pip have both also successfully applied to be Cardiff Open Art School tutors and Pip has just had a successful show at Little Man Coffee in Cardiff city centre and is to have her first solo show at Arcade Cardiff in May.

Aidan Myers has had his first solo gallery show which was staged at Cardiff MADE in Roath. The month long exhibition got off to a very busy start with a packed opening night. This was followed up by an evening of talks and discussion hosted by Cardiff MADE’s Zoë Gingell with Aidan and CSAD lecturer Martyn Woodward discussing and responding to the paintings.

Salient Dead, Rhiannon Lewando


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MSC TRIP TO AHMEDABAD

In collaboration with MDes Product Design students at the National Institute of Design in

Ahmedabad, India, CSAD’s MSc Product Design students undertook a research project as part of their modules on Sustainability and User Testing.

The project built upon research work by Dr Clara Watkins in developing low cost disruptive innovations in Zambia and exploring how those innovations can also have an impact back in the UK, and the broader international community. In Ahmedabad, students examined opportunities for new and improved low cost washing and cleaning solutions, taking into consideration water re-use, grey water management, and purification processing were investigated.

The field work by the MSc students involved the understanding of current methods of washing and cleaning in domestic and commercial contexts in Ahmedabad, India; research into new cleaning technologies; and collaborative idea generation workshops together with the MDes students at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, sharing knowledge from different cultural, design and technical perspectives.

STUDENT EXPERIENCE FUND SUCCESSES

CSAD has received three grants from Cardiff Met’s Development & Alumni Office to

enhance student experience at the university. Following on from a project based Outdoor Learning Centre, Olivia Kotsifa and Chantelle Haughton have been awarded £2000 to work with students from CSAD, the School of Education and local primary schools. Students will implement the user-centred design methods and new technologies explored through Olivia’s research to co-design and fabricate a pop-up play spaces. The students’ designs will be made in Fab Lab Cardiff and built in Cyncoed in September 2016.

Dr Keireine Canavan has also received the award to establish a natural Dye Garden at the Llandaff campus. The project has been set up in response to student interest in colour and dyeing, with a view to revitalizing endangered natural dying skills and techniques in Wales. As well as providing a relaxing space for all to enjoy, the long-term aim is to link the garden to an academic dyeing lab based in CSAD. The project will kick off with student and staff visits to the Wales National Wool museum, invited talk from dye expert, Jane Meredith, and a staff visit to the Horniman’s Dye Garden in London before planting begins!

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Finally, Richard Morris will work with Student Reps to develop the CSAD Enterprise Club. The University provides excellent careers advice and professional practice support services, but CSAD students have identified the need to build on this through bringing in a range of creative sector specialist to talk about issues such as CV writing, professional portfolio presentation, freelancing skills and more.

The award will also support a trip to a relevant exhibition or event for a group of students. The new student society is to be called Dot Dot Dot…

MEDAL WINNING MAKERS

Congratulations to Artist: Design Maker Students whose designs were selected for

this year’s British Art Medal Society (BAMS) competition, in particular Evan Moore, who was awarded the prize for ‘Cutting Edge’ design.

Based in the British Museum’s coins and medals department, the BAMS annual Student Medal Project promotes the art of making medals throughout UK art colleges. Each year over one hundred student medals are submitted for judging for prizes and selection for exhibition. Evan was prised by the judges for producing a work that takes the medal slightly outside its usual zone. Evan explained: “I wanted my medal to kinetically explore the battle between nature, the environment and manmade machines of this day and age. The kinetic nature of the medal allows one to rotate the centre combining the two juxtaposing sides.”

The Maker students also exhibited their designs in Cardiff in the Bay from 18th March – 24th April 2016.

Prize-winning medal: Rings of Nature and Machine, Evan Moore.


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STUDENT LED TEACHING FELLOWSHIP FOR RICHARD MORRIS

Associate Dean: Enterprise, Richard Morris, has been awarded a student-Led Teaching

Fellowship by the student’s Union in partnership with Cardiff Met’s Learning & Teaching Development Unit. The Fellowships, which are nominated and voted for by students recognise excellence in teaching. Richard will use his to further embed enter[rise into the CSAD’s student experience.

TRIPARTITE COLLABORATION

Undergraduate students and academic staff from the BA/BSc Product Design programmes

at CSAD (led by Gareth Barham) engaged in a tripartite collaboration with product design students from the University of Rotterdam, Holland and Howest University, Belgium during the spring term.

Each university sent 12 students to the two other universities to participate in product design projects. The students were able to form intercultural and multilingual design teams in order to tackle commercial design problems. Students at Howest University, Belgium, worked with a commercial industry partner on health and wellbeing projects, whilst students at the University of Rotterdam worked with a commercial partner to improve and promote cycling in the South Rotterdam district.

Led by Theo Humphries, students who visited CSAD took part in a live project with Facebook, San Francisco. Collaborative partner, John Anthony Evans, flew in from the US to task students with imagining how everyday products in the near future might intelligently and innovatively use streams of data that flow from, to, and through Facebook. The exchange was supported by Cardiff Met’s Short-Term Mobility Programme and the Student Experience Fund.

ADT IN TURIN

Architectural Design and Technology’s Tony Whyman and Dr John Littlewood will be

taking 20 students to Turin, Italy in June 2016 to attend an International Summer School hosted by the Politecnico di Torino.

The focus of the summer school will be ‘the integrated approach between architectural design, technologies and building physics’ enabling our students to work alongside architectural and engineering students from the Politecnico di Torino. The project has grown from a research relationship between John and Assistant Professor Capozzoli, both of whom are part of the Organising Committee for the International Conference on Sustainability and Energy in Buildings.

Before attending the Summer School, CSAD students will be briefed on John’s research into sustainable design as part Research into Practice module.


image: Tripartite collaboration

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THE TIPPING POINT

Led by Prof Wendy Keay-Bright and Anna Bhushan, the Tipping Point: How to be a Change

Agent challenged students to consider their role as artists, designers and makers, and use their creative skills to make small interventions with the potential to create big change.

Working on a brief set by Size of Wales, an independent charity that aims to protect an area of rainforest the size of Wales, the students used a range of the mindfulness and co-design techniques employed by Wendy and Anna in their research to develop engagement activates for the charity. By working to a brief and focussing on co-design methods, the students had the opportunity to work as part of a creative team and explore new working practices.

The mindfulness sessions led by Anna also helped students to reflect on the project themes of behaviour change and sustainability. The final ideas were presented to the charity at Cardiff ’s Temple of Peace. Director of the charity, Claire Raisin commented “We are amazed by the quality of the work done in such a short amount of time. The students all stuck to the brief, understood us and our resources. We would love to work with any of the students to take their ideas forward”.

OPPOSING LANDSCAPES

David Fitzjohn, Chris Short, Terhi Sallinen, Jon Clarkson, Prof Andre Stitt, Alexandros

Kontogeorgakopoulos, James Green, Prof Robert Pepperell were amongst the speakers questioning What is the value of landscape art in the 21 Century, at a symposium organised for CSAD staff and students in April. The speakers discussed how landscape art inhabits other art practices and its overall relevance to how artists work today.

OPEN-SHED

Olivia’s research on Open Design and the Fab Lab network, has informed this year’s

Architectural Design and Technology project briefs by downloading and customising open designs for shed-type structures. The Fab Lab Network as well as the Wikihouse Network’s open shed/house designs were downloaded, customised and uploaded to be shared with others.

The students had to choose from a list of functions, each one informed by the Future Generations Act for Wales 2016, including (amongst others): alternative office shed; meditation shed; homeless or refugee shed; and recycling / upcycling shed.

Sow, Rebekah Seaman and Rebecca Davies


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JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH

Students opting for the Faking It Field Project had the opportunity to exhibit their final

projects for two different charities. Led by Bethan Gordon, Faking It briefed teams of students to create sculptural set designs, this time, to transform and decorate the Marriott Hotel in Cardiff for Age Cymru’s gala event.

The designs were based around the theme of Ronald Dahl and students were delighted when the Touch Trust heard about their projects and invited them to present their work at the Wales Millennium centre to provide a dramatic centre piece to the children’s production of James and The Giant Peach that took place in the foyer stage.

FINE ART SITE PROJECTS

As part of the Fine Art Subject module ‘SITE Projects’, students prepared a number of

exciting events that took place throughout the Spring and Summer.

Open to the whole School, a Goth Sports Day featured ‘Cheerless Leaders’, ‘Sky-Fishing’ and an ‘Eye and Spoon’ race. David Fitzjohn’s and James Green ran a ‘Do It Yourself ’ project which encouraged students to take control of how and where they exhibit their work, without the confines that can come with exhibiting in a conventional gallery. As part of this project, 20 students took part in a Locker Exhibition, showing their work in 20 lockers and organised two exhibitions at the Roath Park Pub.


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SORRELL SATURDAY CLUB LAUNCHES

25 students across South Wales are developing their creative skills as CSAD and First Campus

has launched a National Art and Design Saturday Club. Those participating will have the chance to visit London and see their work being exhibited at Somerset House.

The project, which is led by ceramic artist Kelly Campbell with support from PGCE secondary Art students, offers young people the opportunity to develop a broad range of skills and knowledge within the extensive facilities available at CSAD. The Saturday club which runs weekly during term time and is free for all members.

Prof Olwen Moseley, Dean of Cardiff School and Art and Design, said: “We are thrilled to be part of the Saturday Club, and to be able to introduce young people to the possibilities and excitement of an art and design school environment. For some of them it will be the moment of self-discovery, and the encouragement they need to embark on a fulfilling career in the creative industries.”

THE SCENT OF SUCCESS

Textiles students) were given a rare insight into iconic fashion brand Chanel. Invited by

Sally Grant, Alex Rees, a Fragrance Specialist at Chanel London, visited CSAD to host an interactive fragrance session with lab swabs and the oils that go into the composition of Chanel’s iconic No. 5 fragrance, for 20 CSAD students.

Sally said: “We run a pathway on the Textiles course which has a huge focus on fashion branding, so the story behind the Chanel brand was very insightful for our students. Chanel No. 5 is a particularly iconic brand that has stood the test of time and really blazed a trail by being the first fragrance to have a woman’s name on the packaging. It is the human connection that draws people in and attracts them to a brand.”

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ROGELIO MANZO’S LECTURE

James Green organised for contemporary Mexican artist and lecturer, Rogelio Manzo, to

talk to CSAD staff and students about his career as a painter while he was visiting the UK. Rogelio’s work is exhibited internationally and is kept in private and public collections. He is interested in building ties with artists from Wales to set up artistic collaborations between Wales and Mexico.

WYNNE LEARNS TO THROW

Cardiff Open Art School was delighted to welcome BBC Wales’ Wynne Evans to CSAD

to learn how to throw a pot with COAS tutor Margo Schmidt. Wynne is on a mission to learn new skills and chose to try out pottery to help promote the BBC’s Get Creative Campaign weekend in April. His session with Margo was broadcast as a part of his weekday morning radio show.

TEXTILES FOUNDATION: IKEA FASHION

The All Sit Down live project run for Fashion and Textiles students on the Bridgend College’s

Arts Academy, Cardiff’s Foundation Course in Art and Design, resulted in an exhibition of work at the Cardiff IKEA over Easter.

The theme for this year’s project was Welsh Culture, with students developed ideas evolved from their research into the historical, contemporary and multi-cultural aspects of Wales, utilising recycled materials, and emphasizing the importance of sustainability.

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ONE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Fine Art student Emily Panizzi organised a campaign in March to collect food donations

for the Cardiff Foodbank. Emily was inspired to organise the collection after meeting one of the Cardiff Foodbank organisers, visiting their warehouse and discussing the challenges of poverty and hunger in the UK.

HOMUNCULUS

Technical Demonstrator Dallas Collins has just taken part in an exhibition at

Caroline Garden’s Chapel, London, curated by Rekha Sameer. The show was a response to the humanitarian crisis caused by mass migration.

KAREN EXHIBITS

Fovography team member, Karen O’Shea was selected to exhibit artworks in the Rebirth

Exhibition, Carmarthen in February and in the On the Surface Exhibition, Caerphilly in March. Being a Wales-born emerging artist, Karen has also been selected to submit a piece of artwork for the Imago Mundi Collection in the private collection of Luciano Benetton, capturing the culture of Wales and accepted as a member of Made in the Valleys.

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QUILT

Working with Maggie Cullinane and Steve Murray, Textiles students have created a

glorious quilt in support of the Mothers of Africa Quilt Project, to be raffled in aid of the charity in June. The quilt, along others made for the project, was included in April’s Wales for Africa Exhibition, in the new HeARTh Gallery at Llandough Hospital.

Maggie’s own ‘Story of Shiyala’ quilt, created in response to her two trips to Zambia, hangs alongside smaller pieces, produced by local colleges and textiles groups. Some of the quilts will be auctioned during the exhibition, to raise funds for Mothers of Africa. Also featured is the Wales/Zambia Health Messages Project by Sue Hunt.

Following on from its exhibition at Butetown Arts Centre, Cardiff Bay, and Neville Hall Hospital, Abergavenny, ‘Health Messages from Chongwe’ now continues its presentation in a healthcare environment.

DRAWING BOOK COMPETITION SUCCESS

Subject Leader for Fine Art David Fitzjohn, Dr James Green and students Arun Samuel-Thomas,

Ella Jones, Rebecca Davies, Danielle Adair and Mary Walter Thomas took part in the recent Welsh Drawing Book Exhibition and Competition held in Oriel Henry Thomas, Carmarthen School of Art, Coleg Sir Gar. Out of the four students prizes awarded CSAD Fine Art students won three prizes of £100 each.

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UNDERGRADUATE

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

TAUGHT POSTGRADUATE

• Master of Fine Art (MFA) • Master of Design (MDes) • MA (Cardiff School of Art & Design) Specialist Pathways only: • Art History through Practice • Art , Science and Technology • Philosophy • Ecologies • Death and Visual Culture • Design Futures • Fashion Design Futures • Postgraduate Certificate in Professional and Research Skills: Art & Design • MA Ceramics • MSc Product Design

RESEARCH DEGREES

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

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)

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