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‘Make/Believe’: Photographs of/by Angus McBean – Tessa Sidey Gallery, School of Art – 16 May-30 September 2022

May 6, 2022May 25, 2022soacollectionsLeave a comment

This exhibition showcases the work of Welsh photographer Angus McBean (1904-1990) in advertising, his commissioned portraits, and his annual Christmas cards. It offers glimpses of McBean’s private life, holidaying on the continent and portraits of McBean at home, in later life, by the contemporary photographer Robert Greetham. Most of the work on display was purchased for the School of Art collection with the aid of grants from the Art Fund and V&A Purchase Grant schemes. It has been curated by students on the undergraduate module ‘Curating an Exhibition’.

The exhibition is on from the 16th May to the 30th September 2022, Monday – Friday, 10am – 5pm.

Degree Show & Postgraduate Exhibition 2022 -School of Art – 16 May-26 May 2022

May 6, 2022May 11, 2022soacollectionsLeave a comment

The undergraduate exhibition represents the high point of our students’ achievements over three years of study. Our postgraduate students are participating in the first of two exhibitions on their Masters’ program. On display is a mixture of disciplines such as photography, illustration, painting, printmaking and multimedia installation.

The exhibition is open Monday – Friday, 10am – 5pm, from the 16th May to the 26th May 2022.

The School of Art Kodansu and George Powell’s Japonisme – an essay by Isaac Peat

March 1, 2021September 17, 2021soacollectionsLeave a comment

During my time studying the School of Art collections there has been one object which has always captured my attention and constantly enthused me – a small, Japanese, box-shaped object delicately dressed in fine iron inlay by a masterful craftsman (figures 1a-1e). This cabinet, which has never been opened in recent times, has only occasionally been displayed in public exhibitions and seemed too beautiful not to be put in the spotlight. The cabinet has led me to the story of its patron George Powell, as well as to its own cultural history and development, but also onto a bigger story of the influences of a western world opening itself to Japanese art and culture.

(Figure 1a) *Iron Inlaid Japanese Zogan Kodansu, Meiji Period 1868-191*2, possibly by *Kyōto-ju* *Komai-sei,* (Japanese) 25cm x 20cm x 12cm

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Justine Allison Demonstration, at the Arts Centre 27th March 2019, 1pm – 2.15pm

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Justine's Demonstration 27th March 2019

Artist Peter Davies’s Talk on Friday, 24th November 2017, 10am, School of Art Gallery

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Our visiting artist PETER DAVIES, whose exhibition opens at the School of Art on Thursday evening, will be giving a free gallery talk about his work and career on Friday, 24th November, at 10am.

For more information about his the artist and work, please click:

Peter Davies – Peregrination