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Professor Pepperell involved in neuroscientific study
A neuroscientific study conducted by a team based at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and involving Professor Robert Pepperell, Head of Fine Art, has been published in the leading journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. The study looked at the effect of training subjects with no special art historical knowledge how to read cubist paintings by Picasso, Braque and Gris. These subjects were then shown a series of cubist paintings and asked to identify objects within them. Their reaction times were compared with other subjects who didn’t have the training. The study found that even though the training session was short, it had an unexpectedly strong effect on their ability to recognise objects.
posted 10th Mar '10
'Inner Space' exhibition
‘Inner Space’ is a week-long exhibition featuring ten exciting women artists from the Cardiff School of Art and Design.
The ten women investigate various aspects of a woman’s inner life, her identity, and her experiences of the world, using metaphor and symbolism to create an exhibition of fresh, exciting and innovative work.
posted 8th Mar '10
South Korean students enjoy exchange trip
Cardiff School of Art & Design was pleased to have played host to a dozen students from South Korea who came for a six-week stay.
CSAD arranged the exchange programme with Dong-A University in South Korea, after forming collaborative academic links with leading institutions in the country.
Read more on the UWIC website.
posted 8th Mar '10
Howard Gardens Gallery - "Taking Issue"
“Taking Issue” (25th Feb - 18th Mar) is a show especially looking at the work of eight London Print Studio artists whose work is founded on issues, responding to political, sociological and ethical concerns through the medium of printmaking and employing a strong aesthetic language to transmit their ideas and interests.
posted 4th Mar '10
Richard Cox's Touring Exhibition
"Subterranean Architecture, Stepwells in North Western India & the Jagmandir Series" is the title of CSAD Curator Richard Cox's touring exhibition of digital prints and paintings.
The exhibition can be viewed at the Pittville Studios, Cheltenham from 18th March - 9th April 2010.
posted 3rd Mar '10
Product Design project a great success
Students from CSAD's Product Design programme met with students from 8 other Universities across Europe to take part in a two week long 'Intensive Project' at Howest University in Belgium.
As a result, 8 Product Design students won 2 of the 3 available prizes.
Congratulations to all who took part.
posted 23rd Feb '10
Richard Cox's images tour UK and India
Richard Cox's Subterranean Architecture, Stepwells in Western India is currently touring the UK and India.
Over the last three years Richard has been working in North Western India documenting a little known aspect of Indian traditional architecture, Stepwells. This digital photographic record has formed his exhibition.
Richard is currently in India collaborating with INTACH, The Indian National Trust for Art Culture and Heritage, documenting wells in Haryana. This is in support of their current bid to establish some of the most important stepwells as World Heritage sites with UNESCO. One in particular, Abhaneri Chand Boari, built in 825 AD is an especially large and impressive structure in the form of an immense inverted pyramid nearly 200 feet square and 180 feet deep. Unusually its design, originally Hindi, has been partially restored and added to by the Mogul Dynasties making it architecturally hybrid. These wells are extremely strong and can resist earthquakes to 7.6RS.
posted 17th Feb '10
The Cardiff Group receive major funding award
The Cardiff Group have received a major funding award from Safle for a forthcoming project and exhibition in March 2010.The Cardiff Group - including Fine Art staff members Mark Halliday, Dallas Collins and Luke Mintowt-Czyz will be exhibiting large-scale work in the ‘Blue Bell’ aircraft hangar in St. Athan.
The group will be constructing, exhibiting (and flying) a forty by twelve by twelve foot flying sculpture based on Alexander Graham Bell’s ‘Frost King’ and ‘Cygnet’ tetrahedral kite constructions. The project will be documented by a film made by BAFTA award-winning artist John Minton, as well as a small book of short associated and interpretive essays and images that will represent an exhibition of work by individual members of the group and invited artists.
The Sculpture is currently being made by the Cardiff group with hands on assistance from BA(Hons) & MA Fine Art students together with CSAD Graduates.
posted 17th Feb '10
David Ferry: MOMA Collection
A copy of CSAD Fine Art Lecturer David Ferry's Artists Book, A Picture History of England
mainly in Black and White (2007) has been purchased by the Museum of
Modern Art, New York. The book, part of a series of original
photomontage, will sit in the 'Prints and Illustrated Books Collection'.
The work is a satire on a classic 'Country Life' volume of the same
title published the year of David's birth. A copy of the limited edition
catalogue, written by Brandon Taylor was also purchased to go alongside
the art work.
posted 16th Feb '10
Dr Jeffrey Jones awarded Readership
Dr Jeffrey Jones was recently awarded the title of Reader in Ceramics at Cardiff School of Art and Design.
Dr Jones is currently a visiting Research Fellow at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, where he is researching the relationships between ceramics and sculpture.
Read more here.
posted 16th Feb '10
Head of Fine Arts awarded personal Chair
Rob Pepperell, Head of Fine Arts, was recently awarded the title Professor of Fine Art at Cardiff School of Art and Design.
Congratulations to Professor Pepperell on this very well deserved recognition for being an outstanding academic in his field.
Read more here.
posted 16th Feb '10
Textiles student's design success
A talented young artist from Cardiff School of Art & Design is hoping to see her work go into production this year after winning a prestigious competition sponsored by one of Wales’ leading woven textile brands. More details here.
posted 10th Feb '10
BA Ceramics 100% success and other latest news
BA Ceramics receives 100% success in the latest Student Satisfaction Survey.
BA Ceramics staff complete Ceramic Skill video project.
Dr Natasha Mayo completes her HEA funded project: “Making the Creative Process Visible”.
National funding Award for 3rd Year Students Ceramic Blog – “sliponline".
Read more about all these stories here.
posted 8th Feb '10
Call for Papers
CSAD's Ecological Built Environment Research and Enterprise group (EBERE) is inviting contributions for a themed session on Biodiversity and the Built Environment that will be held as part of the RICS COBRA 2010 conference.
More details here.
posted 2nd Feb '10
Dr Canavan's research
Dr Keireine Canavan is now more than half way through her sabbatical research leave in Kuwait, studying Al Sadu weaving.
You can read Keireine's latest blog entry reviewing her research and experiences here.
posted 1st Feb '10
Wendy Keay-Bright presents paper in Mumbai
Senior lecturer and Reader in Inclusive Design Wendy Keay-Bright will be travelling to Mumbai, India next week to give a paper and meet colleagues at the Designing for Children Conference at the Industrial Design Centre (IDC), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay).
Visit the 'Designing for Children' Conference website here.
posted 29th jan '10
Drawing the Crowd
Despite atrocious weather conditions the Interior Architecture Degree Part 1 show drew a good audience at the Howard Gardens gallery on 8th January. Students put on a high quality show yet again.
posted 15th Jan '10
Camouflage, Scarpa & Longitude
Commenting on the end of winter term show put on by the second year Interior Architecture students, second year tutor Michael Cameron said that “this was probably the strongest show of work on this challenging series of exhibition projects, since rejoining the course teaching full time, over five years ago”.
posted 15th Jan '10
Call for papers
Super Vision: insight and interaction in graduate art and design research
Tuesday 23 March 2010. Keynote speakers: Suze Adams and Dr Iain Biggs (UWE, Bristol)
CSAD is holding a half-day symposium on graduate research in art and design, focusing on the supervisory process.
For full details click here.
posted 14th jan '10
In Transition
An exhibition of contemporary textile practice from CSAD Textiles students is being held at the Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre from Jan to Mar 2010.
Dates: 16 Jan '10 – 6th Mar '10
Times: Mon - Fri 10am – 5pm, Sat 10am – 4pm
Admission free.
View a range of images from the show here.
updated 11th jan '10
Dr Short publishes 'The Art Theory of Wassily Kandinsky, 1909-1928'
Fine Art senior lecturer Dr Chris Short will publish his book 'The Art Theory of Wassily Kandinsky, 1909-1928 - The Quest for Synthesis' this year. View full details on the publisher's website.
posted 4th Jan '10
'Colossal Cats' at Howard Gardens Gallery
The next exhibition at the Howard Gardens Gallery will feature the work of Angela Lizon. 'Colossal Cats' will run from 14th January - 10th February 2010.
posted 8th Dec 09
Tell it to the trees (11 July 2009 – 15 September 2010)
A yearlong exhibition is being held by the National Trust at Croft Castle, Herefordshire, featuring the work of Textiles for Fashion and Interiors/Art Textiles lecturer Philippa Lawrence alongside other artists. The work will be installed in the Croft parkland, the walled garden, the early 19th century stables and the Castle itself. More details on the National Trust website.
posted 3rd Dec 09
Applications up!
Applications to CSAD are up 15% compared with the same period last year, with BA/BSc Music Production & Technology leading the way, doubling their applicant numbers.
posted 1st Dec 09
Student residency in Florence
CSAD Art Foundation student Amie Lipley applied for the prestigous 'ECTARC's Leonardo da Vinci Programme' in Florence, Italy and was accepted. She will be living and working in Florence, Italy for 3 months, during this time she will keep a blog and keep in touch with her cardiff tutors and Fellow Foundation students. The time in Florence will be an invaluable experience to Amie and she will use it to inform her Foundation Studies work, it will provide a background for her Final Major Project when she returns.
posted 1st Dec 09
Jon Pigott presents
Music Production & Technology lecturer Jon Pigott recently presented some practice based research at the ‘Seeing Sound’ symposium at Bath Spa University. He also recently worked on a sound / film piece for the South Bristol Riverscapes Project involving underwater sound recordings using a hydrophone. The film was exhibited at the Bristol Create centre as part of the West Bristol Arts Trail in November '09.
posted 29th Nov 09
Dr Canavan lectures at American University of Kuwait
Textile Design for Fashion and Interiors staff member Dr Keireine Canavan was invited to deliver a public lecture and weaving workshop at the American University of Kuwait, Liberal Arts Department. The lecture, entitled 'Communication & the Language of Textiles', was recorded and televised for Kuwait TV, and has been covered in English and Arabic newspapers. Two Bedouin Master weavers helped with the related workshop and were described by Dr Canavan as 'the stars of the show'. Further information on the American University of Kuwait website.
Visit Dr Canavan's blog documenting her ongoing studies in Kuwait here.
posted 19th Nov 09
Gallery Talk
As part of the current MAPPING Exhibition at the Howard Gardens Gallery, Fine Art lecturer Rona Lee and sonar-geophysicist Tim Le Bas will discuss their current project exploring ways of modelling and visualising the emergent landscape of the deep seabed. All welcome.
Further information on the MAPPING Exhibition here.
posted 17th Nov 09
Window Wonderland win for Holly
Congratulations to BA Illustration 3rd year student Holly Rogers for winning Apostrophe boulangerie-patisserie's competition, judged by the editors of 'Computer Arts' and 'Design Week', and the director of 'Art London' contemporary art fair. Holly received a £1000 educational bursary and her winning design will be displayed at Apostrophe's Great Castle Street branch in London.
Images of the final designs will be posted at www.apostropheuk.com.
posted 16th Nov 09
Politics Show feature
Third year BA Graphic Communication students Joanne Hawker and Ritchie Evans have designed a poster for a feature on BBC's The Politics Show being aired this coming Sunday (15th Nov) at 12.15pm. A film crew came and filmed Jo and Ritchie in the studio working on their design. Congratulations to you both.
View the BBC article here.
posted 13th Nov 09
09-09 Reflecting Wales (BA Interior Architecture)
At the final night of the '09 09 Reflecting Wales' show, Patrick Hannay (Programme Director of Interior Architecture) chaired a discussion and presentations by 7 of the exhibited designers, who all addressed subtleties of interpreting “place” in their design approaches. More...
6th Nov '09
Cardiff School of Art & Design Masters Degrees
A pdf of CSAD's portfolio of masters courses is now available to download. Our masters awards are designed to give graduates the opportunity to get to grips with their subject through practice at an advanced level and to do so in a lively community of practitioners and researchers.
Download the Masters Degrees pdf here.
6th Nov '09
Award win for interior Architecture (BA Interior Architecture)
For the second year running, a degree student on the Interior Architecture BA Hons course at UWIC’s Cardiff School of Art and Design, has scooped the Form Z Joint Study award for CAD in Interior Design. More...
4th Nov '09
CSAD is currently inviting applications for two KESS PhD scholarships in the field of Environmental Architecture. KESS PhD scholarships are for collaborative projects with external partners. More...
12th Oct '09
"Wedge Crimson" Graduate Exhibition
A trio of recent CSAD ceramic graduates have an exciting exhibition opening on the 4th of September at Oriel Q in West Wales. Read more here...
15th Sept '09
CSAD’s new Postgraduate Certificate in Professional and Research Skills: Art & Design (CPRS) programme starts in October 2009. Read more here ...
2nd Sept '09
Fine Art graduate Simon Blackmore is part of 'Owl Project', which has recently received an Urbis 'best of manchester' award. Read more on the Urbis website here ...
2nd Sept '09
Fee reduction bursaries and Studio assistantships offered
A range of bursaries and fee-reductions are being offered for applicants to the new MFA and MA programmes. More...
26th June '09
Vice Chancellor Doctoral Scholarship
As part of UWIC’s Vice Chancellor Doctoral Scholarship Scheme, CSAD is inviting applications from talented graduates wishing to pursue doctoral level study in the field of Ceramics. More...
19th June '09
The Times Good University Guide 2010 shows that UWIC has leapt up nine places in the highly regarded league table to be named as Wales’ number one new university. More...
11th June '09
It has been announced this week that the winner of the Welsh Artist of The Year 2009 has been awarded to CSAD graduate Tim Freeman. More...
27th May '09
CSAD recognised for art and design research
Ranked by the Times Higher Education as the leading centre for art and design research in Wales and in the top 12 in the UK, an impressive 70% of art and design related research submitted has been rated as ‘Internationally Excellent’ or ‘World-leading’. More...
22nd Dec '08
Latest News
Professor Pepperell involved in neuroscientific study
A neuroscientific study conducted by a team based at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and involving Professor Robert Pepperell, Head of Fine Art, has been published in the leading journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
posted 10th Mar '10
BA Illustration Exhibition
An exhibition of second year BA Illustration students' work entitled 'Scatter' will take place from March 14th - 20th, 2010, at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Cardiff, CF10 2FC.
For more information, visit the Scatter blog here.
posted 9th Mar '10
'Inner Space' exhibition
‘Inner Space’ is a week-long exhibition (9th-14th March) featuring ten exciting women artists from the Cardiff School of Art and Design.
The ten women investigate various aspects of a woman’s inner life, her identity, and her experiences of the world, using metaphor and symbolism to create an exhibition of fresh, exciting and innovative work.
posted 8th Mar '10
South Korean students enjoy exchange trip
Cardiff School of Art & Design was pleased to have played host to a dozen students from South Korea who came for a six-week stay.
CSAD arranged the exchange programme with Dong-A University in South Korea, after forming collaborative academic links with leading institutions in the country.
Read more on the UWIC website.
posted 8th Mar '10
MA Graduate in touring exhibition
Following the recent completion of his MA in Fine Art, Chris Dennis will be exhibiting alongside 63 postgraduate students, professional and emerging artists from around the world in a touring exhibition called 'A Moving Exhibition'.
More information on the 'Moving Exhibition' website.
posted 8th Mar '10
Howard Gardens Gallery - "Taking Issue"
“Taking Issue” (25th Feb - 18th Mar) is a show especially looking at the work of eight London Print Studio artists whose work is founded on issues, responding to political, sociological and ethical concerns through the medium of printmaking and employing a strong aesthetic language to transmit their ideas and interests.
posted 4th Mar '10
Richard Cox's Touring Exhibition
"Subterranean Architecture, Stepwells in North Western India & the Jagmandir Series" is the title of CSAD Curator Richard Cox's touring exhibition of digital prints and paintings.
The exhibition can be viewed at the Pittville Studios, Cheltenham from 18th March - 9th April 2010.
posted 3rd Mar '10
Exhibition for Haiti at the Chelsea Arts Club
Fine Art lecturer Cherry Pickles is holding an exhibition and sale of her work at the Chelsea Arts Club, London, in aid of Fondation le Mabouya, Haiti.
The exhibition runs from 2nd March - 6th April 2010.
posted 1st Mar '10
Product Design project a great success
Students from CSAD's Product Design programme met with students from 8 other Universities across Europe to take part in a two week long 'Intensive Project' at Howest University in Belgium.
As a result, 8 Product Design students won 2 of the 3 available prizes.
Congratulations to all who took part.
posted 23rd Feb '10
Fine Art Venice trip
BA Fine Art staff and students recently took a trip to Venice to visit the International Biennale, as well as its large collections of churches, museums and cultural sights.
They stayed on the island of La Certosa, which is currently being developed by the Venetian authorities as an educational, cultural and sports facility.
posted 19th Feb '10
The Cardiff Group receive major funding award
The Cardiff Group have received a major funding award from Safle for a forthcoming project and exhibition in March 2010.The Cardiff Group - including Fine Art staff members Mark Halliday, Dallas Collins and Luke Mintowt-Czyz will be exhibiting large-scale work in the ‘Blue Bell’ aircraft hangar in St. Athan.
posted 17th Feb '10
Fine Art Masters Open Events
Feb. 23rd 4.30 - 6.00
April 27th 2.00 - 4.00
Open events for our exciting and innovative Masters programmes in Fine Art will take place at our Howard Gardens Campus and we would be delighted to see you there.
Full details on the Fine Art Masters level website.
posted 4th Feb '10
Call for papers
Super Vision: insight and interaction in graduate art and design research
Tuesday 23 March 2010. Keynote speakers: Suze Adams and Dr Iain Biggs (UWE, Bristol)
CSAD is holding a half-day symposium on graduate research in art and design, focusing on the supervisory process.
For full details click here.
posted 14th jan '10
Research studentship applications 2010
For students considering applying to Cardiff School of Art and Design (CSAD) to undertake a research degree (MPhil or PhD), commencing October 2010, now is the time to get in touch with us. Early contact is especially important if you are considering applying to research councils, such as the Arts and Humanities Research Council, for funding to meet the costs of living expenses and tuition fees.
Click here for more information.
posted 17th Dec 09
Cardiff School of Art & Design Masters Degrees
A pdf of CSAD's portfolio of Masters Degree courses is now available to download. Our masters awards are designed to give graduates the opportunity to get to grips with their subject through practice at an advanced level and to do so in a lively community of practitioners and researchers.
Download the Masters Degrees pdf here.
posted 6th Nov 09
