Please be aware that the School of Art will be closed 21/12/2018 – 04/01/2019. It will reopen on Monday, 07/01/2019.
This Is How It Feels explores the intimate stories of eighteen transgender men and their journeys of transition from female-to-male. Holcombe uses new media art techniques, including augmented reality, to give audience members a glimpse of the FTM transgender experience through their own perspective. The exhibition features manipulated QR (quick-response) codes that explore the relationship between the lived experiences of the transgender man and the fabricated world of social media. These codes, in turn, ask audience members to participate in a new context of social media, both inside and out of the gallery space.
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, sisters Gwendoline and Margaret Davies of Plas Dinam, Montgomeryshire endowed £5,000 to the art department at Aberystwyth University. The gift was to help establish an Arts and Crafts Museum and build up a teaching collection in order that our students could appreciate original works of art. The first purchase using interest from the endowment was in 1920. 
