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posted 21st July '09

MA Graduate Show, 11 - 18 Sept 2009, Howard Gardens Gallery

MA Fine Art / MA Ceramics

A show incorporating the work of graduating
MA Fine Art and MA Ceramics students.

Public Opening Hours

Sat 12th Sept: 10.00am - 4.00pm

Mon 14th Sept – Thurs 17th Sept: 10.00am - 8.00pm

Fri 18th Sept: 10.00am – 1.00pm.

The following students will be showing work:

MA Fine Art: Glyn Bateman, Amanda Blake, Morag Colquhoun, Spike Dennis, Christopher James, Rabab Ghazoul, Theodore Griffiths, Jennifer Lewis, Mandy Pritchard, Christian Olsen, Craig Thomas.

View the MA Fine Art Exhibition website here.

MA Ceramics: Bronwen CORRALL, Rena FRIEDENT, Yisha HE, Diane HORNE, Alan OLDHAM, Shelley MONTAGUE, Amy O’DRISCOLL, Hilary ROBERTS, Deniz TIRPANCI and Funda SUSAMOGLU, Erasmus Exchange Program, Reyaz BADARRUDIN Charles Wallace Fellowship, Michelle AKED recipient Next Move Crafts Council Award.

The show will take place at the Howard Gardens campus gallery (view map here).

MA Ceramics

Wales is seen as a major centre for ceramic practice in Britain and this exhibition demonstrates what a pivotal role the MA Ceramics Programme at Cardiff School of Art and Design has played in this accolade.

Having celebrated its 25th year of student intake the programme remains one of the longest established discreet Masters Ceramics programme in the UK.Over 500 students (with a third from countries outside of the EU ) have successfully completed the programme ,many of whom are now today’s leading practitioners ,researchers, academics and educationalists in the field of Ceramics and related professions within the visual arts.

The MA Ceramics programme part of the National Centre for Ceramic Studies in Wales boasts a truly international reputation and has drawn students from all over the world. Many graduates have chosen to make Wales their home and have contributed significantly to the vibrant and diverse practice that is ceramics in Wales today. The recent MA Ceramics 25 years exhibition was a testament to the high calibre of graduate that has consistently emerged from the programme over the past 25 years and the diversity of work on show, from figurative sculpture, to time based practice demonstrates the philosophical ethos of the programme on the individuals creative exploration and practice with clay. The MA Students exhibiting demonstrate a continuance of this ethos demanding of themselves and the material as a conduit to their concerns and sense of place within the world and their contribution to the ongoing debates within the discipline of Ceramics.. Diverse, engaging and technically accomplished the show bears witness to the strength of contemporary ceramic practice in Wales and bodes well for the graduates of many years to come.

This years MA Ceramics cohort 08-09 including students from USA ,China, India, Turkey and the UK will continue to contribute to the critical debate within the discipline and in their practical engagement both through personal practice and as educators, academics and facilitators within Ceramics and the Visual Arts.

‘I would like to give my congratulations to the students and ex-students who have played such an important role in their contribution to the excellence of your Ceramics programme and to our cultural industries in Wales. It is internationally recognised.’
- Jane Hutt AM Minister for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning & Skills

MA Fine Art

Established over 22 years The M.A. Fine Art Programme, at CSAD is one of a handful of specialist Fine Art MA programmes within the UK that can demonstrate such longevity.

It enjoys a national reputation for cutting edge enquiry, combining practice based investigation with theoretical contextualization, prompting students to reflect on the relationship of their work to the expanded framework of contemporary art practice and wider field of 21st century thought.

As well as from Wales and the UK students emanate from a wide range of countries (Korea, Syria, Jamaica, France, China, Japan) and backgrounds within both Fine Art and other disciplines: Textiles, Graphic Design, Architecture, Zoology etc. Circumstances which echo the interdisciplinary character of the course and the range of media employed by its graduates: photography, installation, sculpture, painting, video, print making, performance, site and context related work; many of whom have gone on to occupy key positions as leading artists, curators, policy makers, academics and lecturers.

2009 sees the launch of two additional masters programmes in Fine Art at UWIC to compliment the reputation of the existing course (see http://www.csad.uwic.ac.uk/mfa) while this year's exhibition similarly extends the legacy of past graduates, offering visitors the opportunity to witness the physical, visual and material evidence of the sustained enquiry that each of the exhibitors has made into the relevance, sustainability and nature of their practice.

"Practice produces its own complexity, disrupting the world as-is, and what we see in this exhibition is the implication of each artist in that which they study. Through independence of direction, strong self-motivation, a willingness to pursue an idea through practice, (and to allow practice to suggest its own course) we can count this exhibition as a valuable contribution to the field.

This exhibition is a snapshot a freeze-frame; a moment within a process whose end-point cannot be plotted. For the artists, the creative act continues"

Simon Pope

Course Leader MA Fine Art

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Gaynor Kavanagh At Cardiff School of Art & Design, we believe in being at the top of our game and that includes being able to deliver programmes that really make a difference. We give our students every opportunity to explore all kinds of creative and professional possibilities, in an environment that recognises the importance of taking risks and seizing the initiative. We are interested in ideas and how these are examined through practice.