Autumn 2015 - Cardiff School of Art and Design

AUTUMN 2015 NEWSLETTER
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AUTUMN 2015 CSAD NEWSLETTER
I write these words of introduction to Cardiff School of Art & Design’s winter
newsletter pretty close to 100 days into my role as the new Dean.
I’m lucky enough to have experienced various roles - teaching,
management, enterprise – in this inspiring place. Now at the end of my first
term as Head of School I can reflect on the experience.
Being a leader doesn’t mean having all the answers – it means creating
the culture and the opportunities for people to contribute to a common
purpose.
The Dean’s job in this instance is firstly to set the tone about how people
feel about their place of work, to engender trust, teamwork, mutual
respect, responsibility, ambition and pride.
In this newsletter you’ll discover our community, the work and endeavours
of our staff and students. Art & science, academia & industry, the
traditional & contemporary, theory & practice; these are the dynamic
relationships we work with.
Whilst we plan for portfolio development, introducing new courses that
we’ve been asked for - animation, interior design and in 2017, fashion – you
can see how our values of making a global contribution, internationalising
our curriculum, sustainable practice, ethical research, engagement with
employers, entrepreneurship and human centred art & design permeate
through our work.
Whether you’re a student, staff or just interested in the work of the School, I
hope you enjoy this record of activity.
Olwen Moseley
Dean of Cardiff School of Art & Design
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CLINICAL INNOVATION DAY
UPDATE
ARTWORKS CYMRU PROJECT
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SAD hosted October’s Clinical Innovation
Wales event, one in a series of interdisciplinary
workshops aimed at kicking off new NHS design
concepts. Organised by CSAD’s Clara Watkins in
partnership with Cardiff University’s Bill Mapleson
Centre, Innovation Cardiff and MediWales, by
sharing knowledge and enabling interdisciplinary
collaboration between clinicians, academics,
students, industry and designers, the day explored
some of challenges faced in clinical innovation.
Presentations were delivered by the British Ministry
of Defence, MediWales, the Aneurin Bevan Health
Board, NHS clinician’s, Public Health Wales
and CSAD’s Profs Cathy Treadaway & Robert
Pepperell. Attendees also visited the Perceptual
Experience Laboratory (PEL), Fovography and
FabLab Cardiff, resulting in a number of potential
projects being identified for further discussion.
Product Design students were encouraged to
actively contribution to the event, gaining a valuable
insight into research and professional practice and
illustration students ran a Pop-up visual Facilitation
Theatre. Based on Chris Glynn’s interest in
developing new forms of visual facilitation, the
illustration students worked with participants to
recorded conversations and highlight barriers to
innovation. The results were displayed in CSAD’s
Heart Space from 9-15 October.
Pop-up Visual Facilitation Theatre: Chris
Glynn, Maelle Chevallier, Arron Hamer, Gideon
Summerfield, Helen Towrie
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r Natasha Mayo has started a new research
project with artist Melenia Warwick and
Artworks Cymru, a partnership of artists and
arts organisations including (amongst others) the
Welsh National Opera, National Theatre Wales
and Literature Wales. The collaboration stemmed
from a SiP project that examined how participatory
practices could advance areas of curriculum delivery.
Now funded by Artworks Cymru, this second phase
of the project seeks to extend the research to Include
a wider spectrum of participatory arts practice.
TIDAL ENERGY AND ESTUARIES
ART OF THE TROUBLES ON
YOUTUBE
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r Mahnaz Shah’s current project Reimagining Architecture, the city and the
landscape through the prism of energy is entering
its final stages. Led by École Nationale Supérieure
d’Architecture de Bretagne, the interdisciplinary
project is funded by a French IMR Award:
Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication.
The project initiated a detailed critical and
comparative analysis principally between La Rance,
Brittany and the Severn Estuary and Swansea Bay
Wales. Resultant studies have allowed the group to
determine a number of reflective alternate strategies
along with initiatives for future research.
n interview with Prof Andre Stitt’s is now
available to view online as part of the Art of
the Troubles online archive. The archived has been
developed alongside Ulster Museum’s exhibition and
collection of the same name. The archive Includes
information on the artists, the wider collection and
interviews with some of the featured artists talking
about their reaction to the Troubles in their work.
Still taken from ‘Art of the Troubles’ interview
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WENDY AT THE RCA
MAKING A DIFFERENCE:
DESIGNING FOR HAPPINESS
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r Wendy Keay-Bright was amongst the
keynote speakers for October’s Autism-friendly
Design Conference. Organised by The National
Autistic Society and hosted at the Royal College of
Art, London the event outlined recommendations
and concepts that show good practice in the design
of buildings and technology. This was followed
by a trip to Melbourne, Australia to deliver two
workshops in November. The first, “Somability:
An interactive art experience for improving selfconfidence and physical fitness for people with
Physical and Intellectual Disabilities”, is for the
Australasian Society for Intellectual Disability 50th
Anniversary Conference. The second, “Towards
Inclusive Design: Using gesture-based interactive
arts environments support a range of outcomes for
people with a learning disability”’ is for the charity
Scope, Communication and Inclusion Resource
Centre.
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athy Treadaway, CSAD’s Professor of
Creative Practice, presented her Inaugural
and Professorial Lecture at Cardiff Metropolitan
University on 14th October 2015. Making a
Difference: Designing for Happiness explored how,
by putting people at the heart of the design process,
creative and participatory research methods can be
used as tools to unlock thinking, reframe problems,
aid communication and develop appropriate
solutions. The lecture coincided with the September
issue of the UK Journal of Dementia Care, which
featured articles written by Dr Gail Kenning and
John Killick about the work Cathy did as Visiting
Scholar at the University of Technology, Sydney.
FOVOGRAPHY AT ECVP
CSAD AND THE TIMES HIGHER
EDUCATION AWARDS
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ot only have the Fovography team been
busy meeting potential collaborators and
stakeholders, they have also been presenting their
research on visual perception at the European
Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP). Held in
Liverpool during August, ECVP is one of the largest
international conferences devoted to the scientific
study of vision and visual perception. Prof Robert
Pepperell presented two papers at the conference,
“Where do we see? Beyond Veridicalism” and
“How British artists challenged the conventions of
linear perspective” and research student, Nicole
Ruta, presented a poster “Comparing angular and
curved shapes in terms of implicit associations and
approach/avoidance responses”.
ovography has been shorted listed for a Times
Higher Education Award in the Research Project
of the Year category. The winners will be announced
at an awards dinner and ceremony on 26th
November. The Perceptual Experience Laboratory
was highlighted by the 15th October edition of
THE.
Robert Pepperell, Fovography
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HEFCW COMMITTEE
MEMBERSHIP
HAND I POCKET FUNSHOPS
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rof Steve Gill has been invited to join
HEFCW’s Research Innovation & Engagement
Committee. The committee meets twice a year
to advise HEFCW on strategies for innovation,
engagement and research and the underpinning
policies and principles required to ensure their longterm success.
rof Cathy Treadaway and Helen Watkins
have led two Hand i Pocket Funshops in the
past few months. Hand i Pocket funshops were
developed in 2014 by Professor Cathy Treadaway in
collaboration with Dr Gail Kenning from University
of Technology Sydney as part of the HANDS
international design research for dementia research
project. Participants are invited to get involved
in making sensory textile pockets from recycled
materials for people with late stage dementia. The
first workshop took place at the Wales Millennium
Centre as part of Age Cymru’s Age Positive week.
The second, with added expertise from Dr Keireine
Canavan, took place in collaboration with the Tiree
Tapestry Group at the Taigh a’ Rudha care home.
The event was funded by the Argyll and Bute Health
& Wellbeing Network and the Tiree Community
Windfall Trust, and included a presentation by
Azheimer’s Scotland’s Dementia Advisor, Sue Pagan.
Hand I Pockets Funshop at the WMC
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NEW RESEARCH STUDENTS
WHO’S ZOOMIN’?
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SAD is delighted to welcome five new research
students: Christian Hirst joins the Professional
Doctorate programme to analyse and reduce the
barriers to developing community renewable energy
projects; Danah Alhussain will investigate if Higher
Education Spaces in Saudi Arabia can be developed
to improve the creativity and innovation of students;
Emma Tanner is exploring if the interaction of
sound and colour devices can an aid individuals
with Autistic Spectrum Conditions to regulate
emotions; Hussah Al Otaishan is seeking to develop
urban ‘wayshowing’ a graphic communication
system for the built environment; and psychology
student Nicole Ruta is joining Fovography to look
at Emulating the Perceptual Structure of Human Vision in
Digital Media.
esearch student, Paul March, delivered a paper,
“Who’s Zoomin’ Who? The agency of clay”
at the Interactivity, congnition and the Embrained Body
Conference held at Centre for Human Interactivity,
University of Southern Denmark. The conference
helped Paul to locate his research within the world of
cognitive science and expand his network within the
field. Fellow research student, Ben Ewart Dean, also
presented his latest research at the British Education
Studies Association Conference. Held at Cardiff Met
in June, Ben presented his paper, “How film-making
can improve the social communication skills of
children on the autism spectrum”.
Emma Tanner, ‘Out of the Chaos Came Yellow’
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TIREE: 72 HOUR CHALLENGE
EASTN: EUROPEAN ART SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY NETWORK CARDIFF FESTIVAL
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group of 16 staff and students participated in
October’s Tiree Tech Wave. Whilst on the
island, Prof Steve Gill and Richard Morris gave
the 7 MSc Advanced Product Design students
their Techwave challenge: 72hours to design and
build a fully automatic robotic sandwich using the
mobile FabLab. Meanwhile a bespoke projection
table designed by last year’s MSc students was
installed in the Tiree Rural Centre. The table is
part of a Brunel University led multi-touch surface
interaction project and in 2014, MSc students
designed a table for the community to use and
prototyped it at 1:5 scale. A full scale version was
later machined in FabLab Cardiff and brought
to Tiree for assembly. It is now sits under the
projection system installation (also designed by MSc
Advanced Product Design students).
he European Art Science and Technology
Festival in Cardiff took place from 16th – 18th
October 2015. The EASTN network aims to make
creativity and digital artworks more accessible
by promoting the development of a deep and
collective awareness of the current artistic trends
and technologies. Organised by Dr Alexandros
Kontogeorgakopoulos with Olivia Kotsifa, the UK
festival presented over 20 artworks on the theme
‘tangibility’ at Cardiff M.A.D.E. gallery and in CF24
Project. The festival concluded with a symposium
the Sunday. 15 CSAD students from all years and
subjects got involved in the festival, invigilating the
exhibition and providing information to the public
about the different pieces. Graphics student, Connor
described the festival as: “A big eye opener to ways in
which we can visualise mediums which are typically
seen as non-visual”. Inc. Space member, Anna
Palamar also worked with Olivia and FabLab Cardiff
to fabricate a large-scale information board and
screen printed t-shirts for the volunteers.
MSc Product Design students in Tiree
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MAGICAL MASKS
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upported by Santander, James Green recently
spent 5 weeks in South America researching
ancient and contemporary artworks for a new series
of ceramic masks and collages. The project aims to
generate a better understanding of mask culture in
South America and highlight contemporary artists
who draw on this tradition in their work. During
his trip, James visited Santiago and Easter Island,
Chile, and Quito in Ecuador, giving lectures and
workshops at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile.
His experiences also feed back to CSAD via the
Magical Objects: Masks and Reliquaries of the
World Field Project. The five-week project invites
students to discover how early humans may have
used masks for magical purposes in the caves of
Trois-Frères, how artists used masks to reinvent
Western art traditions, and how masks are used
in festivals and traditions in contemporary world
culture, as well as study the semiotics of masks and
the textiles that often adorn them. Find out more
about James’s travels here.
James Green Drawing of the Moai at Tahai
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COME OUT AND PLAY
STOMPING THE COB - CERAMICS
AT GREEN MAN FESTIVAL
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livia Kotsifa and Alexandros
Kontogeorgakopoulos have been
furthering their research into the use of new
media, art and music to enhance outdoor
adventure tourism activities by presenting at
Wild Hack Haverfordwest. Organised by The
Lab Haverfordwest and by Bloc, a creative
technology network for Wales, each presented
work on technology and public engagement in
an outdoor environment. Participants included
Pembrokeshire Coast National park, architects,
Pembrokeshire County Council, Forest School
Wales, Outdoor educators, music technologists
and artists. Olivia also drew on this interesting
area of research to challenge first year Product
Design students to implement user-centred design
and new technologies to develop solutions that
encourage more children to spend time outdoors.
The students visited the Outdoor Learning Centre
in Cyncoed where Chantelle Haughton (Senior
Lecturer, Education) together with Leaun Gardiner
and Emily Sevenoaks (2nd year students in Early
Childhood Studies) gave a tour and an introduction
on how they approach early child education
outdoors.
r Natasha Mayo helped six Ceramics students
run an ambitious community clay event at
this summer’s Green Man Festival, which saw the
students to design and construct a large scale clay
cob sculpture. The event was a student-led initiative,
establishing strong links with external partners
and enabling students to engage with professional
practice. The event built upon the student’s prior
experience of running workshops on behalf of the
National Museum of Wales, drawing on Natasha’s
research into participatory art and the exhibition as
a site of debate. Whist at the Festival, the students
also employed an ‘Observing Participatory Arts
Practice Framework’ to record and learn from other
workshops taking place. The framework was devised
by level 6 students as part of Natasha’s collaboration
with ArtWorks Cymru, seeking to find ways of
integrating participatory arts into the curriculum at
HE level. As a result of this event, the department
was contacted by the Crafts Council and asked if
they would be interested in running a similar session
as part of the Hey Clay Day, and initiative run
in association with the BBC to tie in with its new
programme, the Great British Throw Down.
Stomping the Cob at Green Man
First year Product Design students
at the Outdoor Learning Centre
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REAL WORLD COMPETITION
FINE ART TRIP THE VENICE
BIENNALE
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r Wendy Keay-Bright has recently run the
annual Real World Competition project for
Graphic Communication students. This year’s
clients were Cynnal Cymru, Sustain Wales and
partner organisations, Wales Rugby Union,
Glamorgan Cricket Ground, Natural Resources
Wales and the Climate Change Commission.
Student teams worked on a challenge set by the
clients and pitched their ideas to win an overall
prize. Clients and partners were impressed with
the quality of the work, whilst the Climate Change
team were overall winners, all of the teams are
likely to have their projects taken forward.
he Fine Art department took 60 students from
all year groups to see All The Worlds Futures,
this year’s Venice Biennale. The Venice Biennale
is a major, international art exhibition and the
three-day trip incorporated visits to the Biennale’s
main Pavilion and Aresenale, as well as satellite
exhibitions, including the Welsh Pavilion. Led by
David Fitzjohn, Jon Clarkson, James Green and
Davida Hewlett, all the students had a great time
and took advantage of the opportunity to get to
know each other better and experience the breadth
of contemporary practice taking place around the
world. By visiting the Biennale at the start of the
academic year, the students will have the time to feed
the experience back into their studio practice.
Fine Art student in Venice
Real World Competition design
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HELLOS & GOODBYES
MASTERS EXHIBITION
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his term, CSAD waived goodbye to Dean,
Professor Gaynor Kavanagh and three longserving members of the Tech Dem team Pauline
Monkton, Keith Waldron and Allan Jones. All
will be greatly missed by staff and students. The
School has also said hello to 10 new members of
staff; Gemma Wilde, Tom Edgar, Laura Lillie and
Joe Vanables have joined the Tech Dem team; Dr
Martyn Woodward, Jayne Hall Cunnick, Huw
Williams and David Wrenne have all taken up new
lecturer posts; Jacqueline Fennell has joined the
LAUGH project team and Fiaz Hussain has started
as CSAD’s new Associate Dean: International.
Inc. Space exhibition
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he 2015 Masters Exhibition opened with a
private view on 4th September 2015. The
exhibition showcased the work of graduating master
students in Art & Design, Ceramics, Fine Art and
Advanced Product Design. Running alongside
was Show, an exhibition of work created by recent
graduates who have taken advantage of the School’s
incubation unit, Inc. Space, which provides an
opportunity for graduates to spend an additional
year with the School to launch their own business or
a sustainable career as a practicing artist or designer.
Well done all and good luck with your next steps!
CLAIRE ON CLAY
PERFORMING ILLUSTRATION
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laire Curneen was interviewed on the
properties and uses of clay for the BBC
World Service’s radio programme, The Forum.
Interviewed alongside geologist Tim Jones, Claire
discussed the powerful visual language of clay.
hris Glynn and Coleridge in Wales festival
director, Richard Parry, presented a
performance paper ‘In And Out Of The Margins:
Affirming The Illustrator As Philosopher and
Boundary Catalyst in the Public Realm’ at the 6th
Annual Illustration Research Symposium. Held at
the Rhode Island School of Design, the symposium
explored the role of the illustrator as not only
conveyor of established intellectual thought in the
public sphere, but also as a vital, potent voice in
public discourse. Chris and Richard also performed
at a dinner hosted by the French Ambassador in
London to celebrate the launch of the new Cardiff
French Cultural Centre due to open in 2016.
Claire Curneen, “Blue” (detail), 2013
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CSAD @ BRITISH CERAMICS
BIENNIAL
FABLAB CARDIFF AT BOSTON
CONFERENCE
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ollowing hot on the heels of a presentation on
their collaborative practice-based research at
September’s Making Futures conference, Ingrid
Murphy and Jon Pigott are amongst a dozen artists
shortlisted for the British Ceramics Biennial (BCB)
Award. Taking place every two years, the BCB
is held in the former Spode factory in Stoke-onTrent. This year, the Biennial featured the work
of over 75 artists and highlighted the dynamism of
contemporary ceramic practice. The award finally
went to CSAD ceramics graduate (2005), Sam
Bakewell, for his installation, Imagination Dead
Imagine, a purpose-built clay structure housing
twelve-years of object making.
Inc. Space’s Kate Haywood and Rhiannon Crowley
were also selected for the BCB’s Fresh show, with
Rhiannon’s work The Salient Dead highlighted
amongst Culture 24’s “Six of the Best”. As a result
of the show, Rhiannon has been approached about
exhibiting work in Australia and Kate’s work has
been selected to feature in the European Future
Lights ceramics competition.
Work by Kate Haywood
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livia Kotsifa, Alexandros Kontogeorgakopoulos
and Martijn Gommeren, visited Boston for
the 11th international Fab Lab Conference at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in August.
During the one-week conference, they met people
from across the Fab Lab network, and talked
about new approaches to digital fabrication and
technology. Olivia presented her research topic
and became part of the Fab Lab research group.
Outcomes of this visit will be implemented in CSAD
through their teaching and research.
THE SHEEP ARE COMING!
DNA: MOLECULAR MUTATION
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hepherdess and spinner, Jane Bissett returned
to CSAD with her flock of rare breeds. Textile
students had the opportunity to meet with Jane and
the sheep, which have been bred for fleeces ideal
for hand spinning. The visit coincided with British
Wool Week and took place as part of a second year
module that focuses on Welsh textiles. Elsewhere,
first year textiles students visited the National
Museum of Wales’ Botanical Drawings collection,
where they were asked to make work in response to
the collection. The results will be exhibited later in
the year.
rof Andre Stitt’s painting DNA: Molecular
Mutation was shortlisted for the Windsor &
Newton oil painting prize as part of the Griffin
Gallery Open. The Open Included the work of 93
artists and offered three prizes for outstanding work;
Andre was selected as one of three runners-up for
the Windsor & Newton prize.
Textiles student with Jane Bissett’s
sheep
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NERU PHUYT PUBLICATION
HEALTH MESSAGES FROM THE
CHONGWE
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r James Green has been invited to create a
series of works to contribute to the second
series of Neru Phuyt, an art book dedicated to
artists interested in the connections between ancient
and modern modes of living. James has created
six collages that draw on knowledge gained from
his recent trip to South America. James has also
recently showed a series of collages and talked on
the history of collage at Line Gallery in Stroud.
Run by CSAD Fine Art Alumni David Evans, Cut
& Stick brought together four contemporary artists
who use college.
ine Art lecturer, Sue Hunt, has been working
with Mothers of Africa and the Go Zambia
project for several years. This summer, Sue returned
to Chongwe with photographer Paul Compton
to undertake a health messages project with the
region’s local residents. The outcomes of their work
were featured in Cardiff’s Butetown History and
Arts Centre this September. Alongside this project,
Sue also visited Shyiala village to deliver a series of
cyanotype workshops for the local children, followed
by similar workshops in Rumney Primary School.
This local Cardiff primary school has been working
alongside the charity for some time, engaging the
children in similar workshops and sharing their
experiences across the two nations.
Health Messages from Chongwe
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163RD ANNUAL OPEN
CSAD AND DIFFUSION
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echnical Demonstrator Dallas Collins’
work was featured the 163rd Annual Open
Exhibition at the Royal West of England Academy
in Bristol this autumn. Art, science & engineering
plays an important part in his work incorporating
both science fiction and science fact into his
practice. Dallas’s work was also included in an
exhibition at Wells Art Contemporary in October
and will feature in Transmitter at The Controle
Room, Bristol in February 2016.
SAD was delighted that one of its current Fine
Art student, Sarah Thomas, and new Fine Art
graduate, Miriam Davies, won Santander internships
to work with the Diffusion Festival. Diffusion is a
city-wide, international photography exhibition
and symposium organised by Ffottogallery. Sarah
acted as Volunteer Co-ordinator and organised a
training session for the 60 Diffusion volunteers at
the Cardiff Met Llandaff Campus - many of whom
were CSAD students or graduates. FabLab Cardiff
also ran two very successful workshops combining
photography with new and traditional technologies
and techniques. One taught visitors to laser cut a
woodblock from a favourite photography which they
then made prints from. The second combined 3D
printing and laser cutting to create pinhole cameras.
The visitors then took photos using their new
cameras and developed them in the School’s dark
room with some amazing results.
Dallas Collins, ‘Panned All Over’
Diffusion Festival
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EMILIE RECEIVES BEST BIRTHDAY
PRESENT
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abLab Cardiff have made eight-year-old Emilie
Riddell’s dreams come true with a £60 hand
in her favourite colour – pink with glow in the
dark fingers. Eight year-old Emilie was born with
rudimentary digits at the end of her left hand and
a fully formed right arm. After hearing about a
similar hand made for five-year-old Cian Morris,
Emilie’s family contacted FabLab Cardiff for more
information on the ‘Raptor’ hands, which are
strapped onto the wrist with Velcro and operated
just by bending the wrist. The fingers and palm
were printed by FabLab Cardiff manager Martijn
Gommeren and his team, who downloaded the
design template from Enabling the Future, a website
focusing on 3D printing technology. Emilie’s mother
said: “It has taken just over a month from my sister
reading about Cian on social media to our getting
in touch and being fitted and receiving the finished
product. The FabLab team has been absolutely
fantastic. Martijn showed us exactly how the 3D
printer works and spent time with Emilie to explain
how he would make her new hand”.
Cian Morris, Martijn Gommeren
- FabLab Manager and Emilie
Riddell.
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MADE IN ROATH
INC. SPACE NEW MEMBERS
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rom leading drawing sessions involving giant
ostrich skeletons to making music in a Cardiff
side street, many of CSAD’s staff, students and
graduates took part in this year’s Made in Roath
Festival. Current Ceramics student Sarah Martin
took over The Crow’s Nest on the top floor of the
Roath Park Pub with her piece Tripping Through
the Woods of My Mind. A group of new ceramics
graduates Inc.luding Harriet McCormick, Charlotte
Burke, Rhiannon Lewando, Katie Wayman, Jude
Gill, Rachel Codd, Donna Leach, Jane Plahe
Harriet and Inc.’s Kathryn Lewis staged a show
at St Edward’s Church Hall. Two recent graduates
from MA Fine Art, Gethin Ceidiog Hughes &
Llinos Gunn, present a joint exhibition at Cardiff
MADE of different but complementary work using
music as their inspiration.
Current Inc. Space residents Pip Barrett and
Rebecca Thomas helped organise drawing
workshops at the Museum in A House, working with
children and taking inspiration from the National
Museum Wales’s collection of taxidermy animals,
preserved specimens, skeletons and models that it
had loaned for the weekend. Former Inc. Space
member Kathryn Lewis Ceramics visitors to follow a
Skullmap of tattoo studios in Roath, taking photos in
front of ceramic skulls she has left at each studio and
share them on social media.
nc. Space’s new members kick started their
residency with a trip to the London Design
Festival, Tent London and Design Junction to gain
inspiration from the exhibitors, many of whom are
start-up businesses and individual makers. Since
then they have been undergoing an induction
programme taking in a range of skills, from business
planning and finance, marketing, the importance
of intellectual property and the effective use of
social media. They have also received inductions
to FabLab Cardiff’s facilities and sessions on useful
open source software as well as ones Illustrator,
Photoshop and In-Design. Arts Mundi’s Assistant
Curator, Melissa Hinkin, delivered a workshop on
curating a mixed show, which has proved invaluable
as the group organised an exhibition of their work
at Arts and Business Cymru’s Oriel A&B in Cardiff
Bay from 9 to 16 November. Inc. Space’s Chrisoula
Konstantakou has won fourth prize in the 53rd
PanHellenic Ceramics competition.
Rhiannon Crowley,’
The Salient Dead’
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CARDIFF OPEN UPDATE
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ardiff Open Art School is having a very
busy autumn running its regular classes and
launching two new courses; experimental Lino
cutting course run by Tom Martin and Laura Lillie
and a narrative illustration run by Layla Holzer.
06/08/15: Alice Nkomo,
the first ever Cameroonian
female lawyer well known for
her defence of gay rights
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HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW
ABOUT AFRICA?
BA Illustration student Gideon Summerfield is
nearing the end of a year-long project exploring
his understanding of the African continent and its
people. After realising his lack of knowledge about
the African countries was embarrassing, Gideon
decided that on every day of 2015 he would draw
an African newsmaker, titling the project ‘Sketch A
Day Africa’. His first drawing was of surgeon Denis
Mukwege, whose skills save the lives of women who
have experienced sexual violence in the Democratic
Republic of Congo. In the process, Gideon learnt
about what kind of stories the British media cover
and what they ignored and noticed that the stories
about Africa were negative and generally focused on
wars, failing states, the spread of disease and impact
of corruption. In November 2015, Gideon will be
exploring the project further by visiting The Gambia
and Senegal.