Spring 2013 - Cardiff School of Art and Design

CSAD R&E Newsletter Spring 2013
CSAD is host to a wide variety of exciting research & enterprise activities. The School strives to build
links and share its expertise, creativity and innovation with academic, industry and community
partners. The R&E Newsletter provides a quarterly snapshot of work by the School’s staff and
students.
Research
Creative Wales Success
Congratulations to Paul Granjon, Associate
Tutor Davida Hewlett and CSAD graduates
Matt Cook and Rebecca Spooner, who are all
recipients of the 2012/13 Creative Wales
Awards. Paul will use his award to explore arts
and creative technology initiatives for
alternative futures and experiment with
electronic circuits and rapid prototyping
methods with a view to including commonly
found electronic parts in installations,
workshop projects and sustainable energy
systems. Davida will use her award to learn
new skills and evaluate and integrate new
working methods into her practice.
School of Med meeting
The School was delighted to welcome staff
from the Cardiff School of Medicine to an
evening event on the 21st March 2013 at
Howard Gardens Gallery. The event
encouraged staff from both institutions to
share research interests, identify synergies
and potential collaborations over a glass of
wine and crudités. The unique setting also
allowed researchers from CSAD to showcase
some of their outputs in the form of a mini
exhibition of artworks and posters. This visual
display offered insights into our projects, and
a variety of art and design research practices.
CSAD is excited by the opportunity to engage
with our medical partners and predict there
will be many interactive events, projects and
products to come.
Banner Images: Pam Jones (Ceramics), BA Textiles, Ellen Leber
(Illustration), Jack Gaffney (Fine Art), Mei Ge (Fine Art).
New Professorships
Congratulations to Jeffrey Jones, who has
recently become the School’s first Professor
of Ceramics. Prof. Jones’s research focuses on
historical and contemporary developments in
ceramics, with a specific interest in the shared
concerns of British post-war studio
ceramicists and sculptors, most notably
developed through a Research Fellowship at
the Henry Moore Institute and conference
convened with Andrew Renton (National
Museum Cardiff). Other new Professorial
appointments for the School include on
Honorary Professorship made to Prof. Richard
Park (Samsung Art and Design Institute), and a
Visiting Professorship to Prof. Alan Dix as a
Visiting Professor of Human Computer
Interaction. Prof. Dix contributed to Cardiff
Met’s Professorial Lecture series in April with
his presentation Treading Out Technology:
Exploring The Edges During a Thousand Mile
Walk Round.
Dr Cathy Treadaway Fellowship at the Royal
Society of the Arts
Dr. Cathy Treadaway, Reader in Creative
Practice, has been awarded a Fellowship of
the Royal Society of Arts. The citation for her
nomination as Fellow was for her ‘invaluable
contribution to Higher Education.’ The RSA is
an enlightenment organisation committed to
finding innovative practical solutions to
today’s social challenges. Cathy has worked
for the last ten years at Cardiff Metropolitan
University as a researcher and lecturer and
currently holds the position of Research
Leader at CSAD.
André in the WEST and Pigs & Rabbits
Prof. André Stitt exhibited new paintings and
drawings in a number of locations during
2013. The work was a culmination of a site
specific research project concerning postcolonial identity, migration, community,
location and belonging. Based on a residency
at Maesglas Farm in West Wales during 20112012, the work evolved from a series of walks
and journeys through Welsh speaking
communities in coastal and rural locations
between Aberteifi and Machynlleth. The work
went on show at Oriel Myrddin Gallery,
Carmarthen and Maesglas Farm, Cardigan
during January and February 2013 and was
opened by Professor Mike Pearson
(Aberystwyth University). The exhibition then
moved to Leeds College of Art Gallery from 30
May - 6 July 2013.
André also presented ‘Murmur’, a painting
performance, and two further site-specific
works at other locations in Northern Poland
as part of January’s Pigs & Rabbits, an
international performance event being held at
Sopot National Museum in Poland.
Claire Curneen New Blue and White
Claire Curneen, Blue Study, 2008
Claire Curneen exhibited her work ‘Blue
Study’ as part of New Blue and White at the
Museum of Fine Arts Boston from 20 February
- 14 July 2013. Blue and white means, at its
simplest, cobalt pigment applied to white
clay. Curated by Emily Zilber, the exhibition
takes its inspiration from global blue-andwhite traditions, and invited 37 international
artists to examine the ways in which
contemporary makers have explored this rich
body of material culture.
As Seen: Modern British Painting and Visual
Experience
Organised by Prof. Robert Pepperell this
symposium explored the contribution made
by British artists to our understanding of
visual perception. Taking place on 8th May at
the National Museum Wales, the event
considered if there is something unique about
the way modern British artists have
approached the task of recording visual
experience. Taking as starting point the
extraordinary late work of the Wales-born
painter Evan Walters, the symposium
presented the results of a collaborative study
supported by WIRAD and undertaken
between staff at CSAD, the National Museum
Wales, Swansea Metropolitan University, and
Bristol University.
Sally presents her research on Ossie Clark
Sally Grant, Senior Lecturer in Textiles Design
presented a paper on the influence of ethnic
clothes and the counter culture (1968 - 1977)
at Creative Cut, the first International
Conference on the subject of creative pattern
cutting in Fashion. Hosted by the University of
Huddersfield in February 2013, the
conference aimed to provide a platform for
pattern cutters, fashion designers, students,
and educators to explore the impact and
direction for creative pattern cutting. Sally’s
participation at the conference was supported
by a Higher Education Academy Travel Fund
and a CSAD research Small Award.
Open Heart Research Assistant appointed
Congratulations to Leah McLaughlin who was
recently appointed as the Research Assistant
for the Centre for Applied Research in
Inclusive Arts and Design (CARIAD). Leah’s
role will be to combine the use of video
ethnographic methods with exploratory filmmaking to capture creativity and innovate
inclusive design outputs. The post is funded
by a Cardiff Metropolitan University Research
Innovation Award (RIA) and will form the basis
of the Open Heart project.
Dr Cathy Treadaway Update
Dr Cathy Treadaway has been awarded CEWN
funding for the research project she is leading
called i-Magine, to scope development of an
interactive environment for the new
Paediatric Unit at Moriston hospital. Cathy is
working with Prue Thimbleby, Arts in Health
coordinator for Abertawe Bro Morgannwg
University Health Board, Karen Yunqiu Li from
Swansea University and Richard Crandon from
On Par Productions Ltd. Cathy has also been
awarded Cardiff Met Seed Funding to host
two events associated with this project.
In addition, Cathy has been working with
Gwalia Cyf Housing Association on a SIP
placement. She has been visiting residential
care homes for the elderly to scope further
research on playfulness in later life and
meeting with managers and care workers
involved with care for elderly residents with
dementia in Gwalia’s homes in the Swansea
area.
CARIAD Nominated
The Centre for Applied Research in Inclusive
Arts and Design (CARIAD) has been nominated
to represent Cardiff Met in the Queens
Anniversary Prize for Further and Higher
Education. The Trust currently works to
promote world class excellence in UK
universities and colleges and this biennial
prize is the UK’s most prestigious form of
national recognition open to a UK academic or
vocational institution.
Research Seminars
CSAD’s programme of Research Seminars
has continued in the spring term with an
interesting line-up of speakers. Open to all
staff and students, the seminars took place
on Wednesday Evenings at Howard
Garden’s Tommy’s Bar. Speakers included
Prof. Clive Cazeaux on metaphor, Product
Design research students Clara Watkins and
Claire Andrews, Prof. Gaynor Kavanagh on
memory, ceramicists Dr Natasha Mayo and
Leah McLaughlin, followed by Paul Granjon
on hand-made machines.
Live Notation
Professor Andre Stitt is continuing to develop
links with the ‘Live Notation’ research group.
The group is a collaboration between the
Department of Fine Art & C3RI, Sheffield
Hallam University, live digital coders at the
Department of Computer Science, University
of Sheffield, and an invited group of
practitioners from both fields. The group’s
aim is to take a novel approach to the fields of
performance, live art and live coding.
Following last year’s AHRC funded
symposiums at Sheffield Hallam University
and the Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, the group is
continuing to meet and explore possibilities
for the future.
Pip Cloth and Memory
Salts Roof Space and Salts Mill
Pip is starting site-specific research for a new
commission as part of the Cloth and Memory
2 exhibition, to be held at Salts Mill, Yorkshire
in 2013. Pip was invited to submit a proposal
by curators June Hill, Jennifer Hallam and
Professor Lesely Millar. The new work will
extend links with British industry by drawing
on expertise from William Halstead, Bradfordbased weavers of luxury suiting fabrics for
many of the top fashion houses. The project is
supported by Cardiff Met SEED funding.
Art & Design MA Studentships 2013-2014
The School is currently recruiting for up to 3
WIRAD / AHRC Research Preparation Masters
studentship. Bursaries are available in the
fields of: Film Digital & Media Production;
Communications, Graphics and Photography;
and Fine Art. These awards are available for
studentship commencing in October 2013.
The deadline for applications is Friday 26 April
2013.
Dr Canavan Presents
Dr Keireine Canavan presented her research
at the Endangered Textile Tradition
Symposium & Exhibition. Organised by WEFT
(World Eco Fibre & Textiles), the symposium
took place at Brunei Gallery SOAS, London on
the 18th and 19th January, and brought
together international textile artists and
scholars. Keireine’s paper, ‘Al Sadu Textiles
from Kuwait: lost meanings and future
prospects’, focussed on her research into
traditional weaving techniques and symbolism
in Al Sadu Textiles.
Philippa Lawrence - Darning the Land: Sewn
Darning the Land: Sewn is an exhibition
inspired by close study of unseen aspects of
the textile collections in store at National
Trust property, Waddesdon Manor. Philippa
Lawrence’s research unearthed many lightdamaged items in the collection and used the
patterns made by their threads as inspiration
for plantings on Tree Hill. The plantings
reflected the feminine collection and
connected the interior space of the Manor to
the external space of the grounds.
Philippa will give a lecture and tour of her
planting schemes in July.
Product Design Publishes
Professor Steve Gill and participants at Tiree Techwave 4
Prof Steve Gill and Dr Gareth Loudon saw
their hard work come to fruition in 2012 with
a combined total of 12 journal papers being
accepted for peer reviewed publications.
On Thursday 29th November Steve also gave
an invited talk at Lancaster University’s
Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts
(LICA). The talk focussed on the design
challenges faced by those who wish to
develop products properly suited to use by
the illogical, imperfect beings we all are. In
addition to this, Steve spoke publically on
bollards as part of the fourth Tiree Techwave,
covering a range of design examples from the
traffic calming bollards used on Tiree (which
he designed) to the uses of product design
techniques in the development of surgical
implants. The Techwaves are hands-on
making and meeting events ‘exploring the
edges of technology on the wild edge of
Scotland’. Techwave 4 was also attended by
Gareth Loudon, Alexandros
Kontogeorgakopoulos, Olivia Kotsifa, research
student Claire Andrews and several
undergraduate students.
Andre’s Back catalogue
An interview with André Still has been
featured on Girona University’s European Live
Art Archive (ELAA) website, which aims to
share knowledge, experience and
documentation of live art throughout the
European Union. André’s work has also been
featured in the recent issue of Scope:
Contemporary Research Topics, which focused
on the documentation of and responses to
the 2011 ‘AAA’ residency at Dunedin School of
Art, New Zealand. The month-long residency
brought together performance artists André
Stitt, Alistair McLennan and Adrian Hall and
“inhabited the confines of *the] institution
whilst questioning its constraints and making
the artists’ agency visible for their audience”
(Leoni Schmidt, Head: Dunedin School of Art).
Finally, through spoken word, text, sound and
projected image André Stitt reflected on the
place of performance art in his life during
May’s Hitparaden - the best of liveart which is
being held at Pumpehuset, Copenhagen,
Denmark. From his childhood, and the civil
conflict in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to a life
spent travelling and making art around the
world, André considered how memory and
recall, allegory, communal narrative, conflict,
codes and myth inform the present.
Repository Days
CSAD held a series of Repository Days to help
staff add their work to DSpace, the
university’s online research repository.
DSpace allows staff to add their research in a
variety of formats and the repository includes
a range of articles, videos, catalogues, etc.
Research Student News
Success for Jan Bennett
Congratulations to Jan Bennett, who has
successfully completed her PhD. Jan’s thesis
Visions of Human Enhancement: Art, Popular
Science Imagery, and Public Opinion was
praised by the viva panel and described as a
‘groundbreaking piece of work’ and unique in
its approach which ‘ thoughtfully engages
with the visual elements of science
communication, while attending to
understanding how audiences react to
imagery, taking into account the potential for
artists to occupy a more critical space in the
milieu of scientific, public engagement’.
Axis MAStars
Research Student Sarah Younan has been
selected as one of Axis MAStars for the works
she presented in her MA show. The scheme is
designed to highlight art’s rising superstars
and is selected by a panel of artist, academics,
writers and curators from across the UK.
Sarah is one of the 20 MA students selected
by the panel from institutions across the UK.
Sarah was also the beneficiary of a WIRAD /
AHRC Masters studentship and Doctoral
Award.
Ben Ewart-Dean (no cert)
Ben Ewart-Dean’s film Send/Receive was
shown as part of this year’s Experimentica
performance art festival at Chapter Arts
Centre. Send/Receive is an independent film
about the thriving Scottish experimental noise
and abstract music community. It was
assembled from interviews with over twenty
sound artists and features sonic contributions
and live footage from many more. The film
screening included a Q&A with two of the
filmmakers and sonic / sound artists from the
Festival and the wider Cardiff experimental
music scene.
Enterprise
SEED Funding
Congratulations to the 5 members of CSAD
staff who secured Cardiff Met SEED Funding.
Mahnaz Shah, Chris Glynn, Pip Lawrence,
Steve Gill and Cathy Treadaway will all use
their awards to develop new research &
enterprise collaborations and networks.
Maritime study and Twenty 20 leadership
Gareth Loudon participated in a feasibility and
technical study for Maritime Heritage Wales
looking at the future link between tourism
development and maritime heritage in Wales
in the context of future digital technologies.
He also ran an innovation workshop for SMEs
in South Wales as part of the Twenty 20
Leadership Programme.
Coasting to success
Professor Andre Stitt’s The Little Summer of St. Michael coaster
collection
Prof. André Stitt’s painting ‘The Little Summer
of St. Michael’ was on view as part of the
prestigious John Moores exhibition at the
Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool until 6 January.
André’s painting has also been immortalised
in the form of a coaster set and as a set of
greetings cards, souvenirs to accompany the
show.
The Social Potentials of Creative Thinking
In the new year Senior Lecturer Natasha Mayo
undertook a placement with Valley and Vale
Community Arts as part of the HEFCW funded
Strategic Insight Programme Project. The
purpose of the placement was to determine
shared approaches between the ways in
which community arts based projects
facilitate exploration of thought and creativity
by using methods identified by the Making
the Creative Process Visible research project,
which seeks to identify patterns and
tendencies in creative thinking.
COAS
The spring term attracted very good numbers
of students, with 115 signing up for the
evening class programme, up 15% on the
same term last year. 10 students also joined
the new, 4- week Saturday sessions, Learn to
use the Potter's Wheel and Decorate your
Pots. The programme for the summer term
and Summer School is now on line with
bookings beginning to come in.
exploring the potent power of puppetry in
enabling talkative images in Illustration.
Amelia and Puppet Company P*A*S*T
performed a shadow show to close the
symposium in her theatre built on location,
which remained at the Function of Folk
exhibition with some of her puppets until 31
December.
Spectrum exhibition
COAS student Julie Parker, inspired by taking
part in the Developing your Portfolio and the
Life Drawing course organised the Spectrum
exhibition with her daughter Natasha, at
Rumney Library in Cardiff.
School News
Professor Perivoliotis visits CSAD
Professor Margaret Perivoliotis, Professor
with Tenure from the Faculty of Fine Arts and
Design of the Technological Educational
Institution (TEI) of Athens, Greece recently
visited Cardiff School of Art & Design for a
four day Erasmus TS Mobility visit. Dr
Perivoliotis was hosted by the Textile
Department at Llandaff Campus and visited
Fine Arts at Howard Gardens Campus. The
meeting secured a bilateral agreement
between the two institutions, and concluded
with Prof. Perivoliotis delivering a lecture
about Hellenic Textiles to final year students.
Annie exhibits at the European Parliament
Annie Giles Hobbs’s work has been on show at
the Welsh Office in Brussels as part of an
invited exhibition. The work then moved to
the European Parliament. Annie was also an
invited attendee at the inaugural meeting of
Welsh contemporary printmakers to discuss
the establishing a pan-Wales printmaking
organisation.
Amelia Johnstone in Krakow
Amelia Johnstone has had a very busy year so
far. In November, Amelia co-convened
Function of Folk Symposium at the
Ethnographic Museum, Krakow, Poland and
delivered her paper 'Illustration off the page'
P*A*S*T puppet company
P*A*S*T also took the opportunity to explore
Krakow with their Drawing machine
‘Pheidippedes’ (Peter Hathaway and Amelia
Johnstone), the results of which went on
display as part of Open an exhibition of
Postgraduate work at Ink Spot in Cardiff.
P*A*S*T also performed the Princess and the
Sea and the Deep Blue Sea at the Smoking
Puppet Cabaret (Bristol) in November and
presented Amelia's Muse 'Give My heart' in
December, which cohered her research so far
in a very special Christmas Muse exploring the
themes of Folk at Christmas, Faith, puppetry
and believing.
CSAD students help create a giant version of
Charles Byrd’s Cardiff Castle
CSAD Fine Art and Illustration students
volunteered to help with the BBC’s Big Canvas
Day at Cardiff Central Library to help the
public create a giant version of Charles Byrd’s
painting of ‘Cardiff Castle in Autumn’. The day
was organised by the BBC to publicise the
launch of the Your Painting’s website. The
giant painting was displayed at The Cardiff
Story throughout March.
Howard Gardens Gallery
Two exhibitions were on display during the
spring in the Howard Gardens Gallery.
Portfolio brought together staff from the
CSAD with staff and students from Montclair
State University’s (New Jersey) MFA
Printmaking Department. The exhibition
explored several different and contrasting
approaches to work on
paper, including printmaking, collage,
drawing, paper making and artists’ books.
CSAD team members taking part included
Chris Glynn, Sue Hunt and Tom Martin.
Light Over the Horizon, an exhibition of work
by Avtarjeet Dhabjal, took place from 15
February until 14 March. Avtarjeet has a long
and distinguished history of working in the
public art sector in the UK and internationally
since the 1970s. He has completed
numerous commissions working in mixed
media including stone carving, drawing,
photography and light installation.
Fimbulwinter
Chris Glyn at Children’s Literature Festival
In the run-up to the inaugural Cardiff
Children’s Literature Festival, Chris Glynn ran
a workshop on author-illustrator collaboration
with Ruth Morgan, with whom he has just
published a new book, The Gardening Pirates.
The workshop took place as part of a
conference on writing for children at
Glamorgan’s Treforest campus on 23 February
2013. The conference included an hour’s
speed dating for illustrators and authors, and
Chris documented some of the other talks.
CSAD Illustration students were also involved
as audience and illustrators-in-residence.
Duncan Ayscough: Guest Maker showcase
Between 8th March and 28th April 2013 CSAD
staff member and Ceramicist Duncan
Ayscough was featured as Guest Maker at an
exhibition at Cardiff’s Craft in the Bay gallery
entitled ‘A personal Perspective’.
Project Cardiff
February saw part two of Project Cardiff, an
exhibition that gives recognition to some of
the 50 most influential movers and shakers in
the Cardiff creative community as nominated
by their peers, was on show at Milkwood
Gallery, Cardiff. The initiative was organised
jointly by CSAD’s Chris Dennis and
photographer Lann Niziblian and the
exhibition included photographic portraits of
Cardiff residents involved in art, design,
photography and performing arts, highlighting
the many people behind Cardiff’s thriving
creative scene.
David Fitzjoohn, Fimbulwinter
David Fitzjohn’s work Fimbulwinter was
selected as part of a call for artists responding
to the idea of Tall Tales. Curated by Rachel
McManus, the exhibition was shown at Oriel
Davies Gallery, in Newtown, from 2 to 17
April. In this piece, David, references lost
ideas whilst imagining an uncertain future.
The exhibition formed part of the gallery’s
TestBed programme, which supports new and
experimental work by artists based in Wales
and the Borders.
Chris Dennis and Pack of Wolves
The artists’ collective, the Pack of Wolves,
exhibited at Milkwood Gallery, Cardiff during
February and March. Once Upon Again
included work by Chris Dennis, Amelia
Johnstone and Illustration student Layla
Holzer amongst others.
Chris also exhibited at Hemmed In
(Contemporary Embroidery), MK Gallery,
Milton Keynes, December2012 -January 2013
and Stitchgasm (Contemporary Embroidery),
Hive Gallery, February 2013.
Print International 2013 Invitation
Prof. David Ferry RE was invited to be the
sole selector for the 2013 Print International.
Working with the Arts Manager of the
Wrexham International, David was
instrumental in establishing the structure and
concept of the exhibition. We are delighted
that CSAD students and staff Amanda Agyei,
Bill Chambers, James Green, Florence Walkey,
Ian Wilkins are among the featured exhibitors.
David is also writing the catalogue essay and
will showcase some of his own prints in the
exhibition, which will tour around the UK after
the initial Wrexham dates.
Painting the town yellow
Illustration is getting it out there
George Moreton (Illustration Year 3) was
featured in Plastik Magazine talking about the
inspiration behind his work, including the
pieces that he’s preparing for a forthcoming
exhibition at Urban Outfitters in Cardiff city
centre on the theme of Alzheimer’s. George
met Platik magazine’s editor Marc Thomas at
the ‘Content@: Magazine in a Day’ event that
Marc organised in October as a part of Cardiff
Design Festival. Lindsey Gibbs (Year 3
illustration) recently came second in the
Barbican’s Where the Wild Things Are drawing
competition and Anna Lisa Bissett (Year 3
Illustration) exhibited a piece as a part of The
Sylvanian Families - A Study in Art at The
Strand Gallery. All the work exhibited was
available to buy via a silent auction. First year
illustration students presented ‘The Snow
Goose’, a shadow puppet show based on the
story by Paul Gallico in Tommy’s Bar.
Textiles shows
Level Six Makers exhibited at Washington
Gallery, Penarth, during the early part of the
Spring Term. The exhibition included work by
Rachel Davies, Sophia Griffiths, Bethy
Helliwell, Jennifer Kirkham, Julie Morse,
Natasha O'Connor, Julie Rees and Fiona
Trumper. Textiles students will also showed
work at Milkwood Gallery, Cardiff during
January, and Melin Tregwynt selected 8
students to a show they organised in response
to their involvement with one of the modules
they supported during the autumn term.
Third year Illustration student Pip Walter
recently painted a mural on the windows of
local creative hub, Milgi Lounge, Cardiff. Pip
chose for her design to create a warm, happy
and comfortable atmosphere and was
delighted when two weeks after she had
completed her mural that the café then
painted the outside yellow, perfectly setting
off her work.
Also in January, Becca Tudor Price saw her
textile hangings exhibited at the Harrogate
Gift Fair as part of the trade stand for Festive
Productions Ltd. Becca’s work was selected by
Jonathan Hughes, Production Manager for
Festive Productions Ltd. from work produced
as part of a collaborative consultancy project
in the autumn term. Louise Webber also had a
series of laser cut wood designs selected for
use by the company. Finally, 2nd year textiles
students ran the Vintage Vision ‘pop- up shop’
selling vintage clothing, bags and accessories
at the Christmas Fair in Llandaff’s
Management building in the run up to
Christmas.
Textiles News
It has been a busy autumn term for the
textiles department. In addition to a series of
‘live projects’ with Wales-based companies,
Third year Textile Design Students recently
welcomed University of Glamorgan’s Fashion
Students to CSAD when they took part in a
very successful joint project. The event took
place on Thursday 25 October as part of a
collaborative element of the CSAD Textiles
‘Consultancy’ Module. The programme also
hosted a day dedicated to looking at
sustainability in the Textiles Industry in Wales.
Speaking about the event, Senior Lecturer
Sally Grant said “We have worked with CYLCH
[the Wales Community Recycling Network] to
bring together different aspects of this
fascinating area of Textiles of the future.
Speakers from Vintage Vision came offering
placements and talks to our students, and two
design companies held up-cycling workshops
using donated woollen goods. The day ended
with a ‘swishing’ event, where students
exchanged clothes through a tariff system
where no money changes hands, to promote
the idea of re-loving clothes”.
Cathy Treadaway and Helen Watkins visited
the studio at International Greetings, Ystrad
Mynach, in February where they met with
Sarah Barker, Studio Manager and several
recent textiles graduates now employed in
the studio. International Greetings will be
partnering Textiles in a collaborative industrial
project during the autumn term 2013.
Product Design student raises money for Ty
Hafan children’s hospice
Gethin Ceidiog Hughes and headlining DJ
Mikey-Ro, recruited a host of DJs for a
drum’n’bass night in aid of Tŷ Hafan children’s
hospice. Gethin, a Product Design student at
CSAD, said: “A children’s hospice certainly
puts everything else into perspective – we
really don’t know how lucky we are.” The
event, Pitch Presents Mikey-Ro took place at
the Moon Club in Womanby Street on Sunday
25 November.
Mothers of Africa – Zumbathon, Jumpers and
OBE
Lydia Spurrier-Dawes Jumpers
Angharad Jones and Vikki Jenkins’ Zumbathon
raised £1065 for Mothers of Africa. Around
40 participants from CSAD and Cardiff
University took part, and a second event is
being planned for May at Cardiff University.
Second year Fine Art Student Lydia SpurrierDawes had a busy Christmas knitting jumpers
for Mothers of Africa , which were taken out
by the team from Cardiff School of Medicine
to the projects they are working on in Zambia.
The School was also delighted to learn that
Prof. Judith Hall, founder of Mothers of Africa,
was awarded an OBE in the New Year’s
Honours List.
CSAD does Movember!
A large number of moustachioed gentlemen
were spotted gracing the halls of CSAD as staff
and students from Fine Art and Graphics took
part in Movember. Between them, over £650
has been raised to help support and promote
men’s health issues, specifically prostate
cancer and testicular cancer. Well done all!
Graduate news
The Cat Who Wore A Hat
Illustration graduate Lucy Freegard has
published The Cat Who Wore a Hat, children’s
eBook, in conjunction with author Rob
Horlock. The book is the second in the
‘Creature Teachers’ series of books aimed at
children aged 18 months to 6 years. Both
books are available to down load from
Amazon.
Colossal feature
Work by Illustration graduate Ed Fairburn has
been recently featured in the press, both on
the popular art and design blog Colossal and
The Daily Mail (3 February 2013). Ed works
with a patchwork of patterns made by the
features on the map to create large scale
portraits that emerge from the topographical
features.
A talk at the Castle
Dan Peterson illustration
2012 Graduate Dan Peterson gave a talk on
his experiences as the War Artist of 1st The
Queen’s Dragoon Guards in Afghanistan at
Cardiff Castle in November. As well as
studying with CSAD and having worked as an
illustrator and graphic designer for over
twenty five years, Dan was also a member of
the armed forces for nearly 14 years. He
recorded his experiences using pens, paints,
sketches and his camera to create a visual
diary of day to day life on the front line.
In January, Dan also exhibited his portraits of
former Welsh Prime Minister Lloyd
George and leading British political
contemporaries at the National Assembly for
Wales' Senedd building.
CSAD graduates Marking Diction
Work by a number of CSAD graduates was
include in Marking Diction, an exhibition
mapping contemporary painting in Cardiff at
Milkwood Gallery from 23 November - 16
December 2012. The exhibition consisted of
artists born in different places, but now living
and working in the city, and explored the
impact of place, the social dynamic or
something far more discreet, on works
created in the city.
Fine Art graduates commissioned for hospital
artwork
Three CSAD graduates are working on a
pioneering art therapy project to treat mental
illness in South Wales. Commissioned by The
Gwanwyn Arts Festival from Age Cymru, and
the Cardiff and the Vale University Health
Board, Adam McGee-Abe, Joseph Simon
Murray and Elizabeth Alison are producing a
piece of tactile artwork for Llandough
Hospital. Philip Thomas of the Gwanwyn
Festival explains: “We came up with the idea
of asking some-up-and-coming talent to
contribute their ideas to help make this
project a reality, and so we approached the
Cardiff School of Art and Design. There were a
lot of really good and imaginative submissions
and it wasn’t an easy decision for us when it
came to awarding the commission, but we
finally chose Adam, Joseph and Elizabeth’s
idea of producing four, three-dimensional and
tactile wall panels on the theme of the four
seasons.” The artwork will be installed at the
new mental health facilities being developed
at Llandough Hospital which will open in 2013.
Waddesdon Manor Placement
Finally, congratulations to 2012 BA Textiles
graduate Stephanie Bastin, who recently
undertook a two week placement at the
prestigious national trust and Rothschild’s
property, Waddesdon Manor in
Buckinghamshire. The placement was
organised by Textiles Lecturer Philippa
Lawrence.