‘Travelling Through: Landscapes/Landmarks/Legacies’, School of Art Gallery, 12/10/2018 – 8/2/2019

‘Platform Two’, Steve Whitehead, 1985, oil and alkyd on canvas

Drawn from the School of Art’s extensive collection, Travelling Through traverses five centuries of visual culture ranging from sublime and picturesque landscapes to nineteenth-century travel photographs, twentieth-century London Underground posters and contemporary responses to our environment in a variety of media.

The exhibition, curated by Dr Harry Heuser, explores relationships between tourism and landscape art, between the consumption of signposted sights and the production of personal insights, between the fleeting experience of our journeys and the carbon footprint we leave behind.

 

 

Degree Show & Postgraduate Show Opening, Saturday 19th May 2018 – A Photo Gallery

 

 

Megan Elsey (Photo: Courtesy Grace Warwick)

Clodagh Metcalfe (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)

Richard Boalch (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)

(Photo: Courtesy John Harvey)

Sophie Mockett (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)

Claire Murray (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf

Claire Murray (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Gemma Woolley (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

(Photo: Courtesy John Harvey)

Richard Boalch (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

(Photo: Courtesy Joanna Bonarek-Gnat)

Genevieve Wilson (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Emily Griffin (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

(Photo: Courtesy John Harvey)

Simon Robert Tune (Photo: Courtesy John Harvey)

Joanna Bonarek-Gnat (Photo: Courtesy Joanna Bonarek-Gnat)

Mai Thomas (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Sophie Lewis (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Ashley Caldwell (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)

Abi Graves (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Sophie Long (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Mai Thomas (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Sophie Lewis (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Sophie Long (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Brigitte Bailey (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)

Grace Warwick (Photo: Courtesy Grace Warwick)

Biran Swaddling (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Luciana Marçal Barata (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)

Junko Burton (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)

Sarah Spencer (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Heledd Grug Jones (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Frida Lyholm Limi (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Polina Kyprianou (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Dean Mather (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Rachel Rea (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

(Photo: Courtesy John Harvey)

Sydney Fletchter (Photo: Courtesy Joanna Bonarek-Gnat)

(Photo: Courtesy Joanna Bonarek-Gnat)

Alecia Jackson (Photo: Courtesy Joanna Bonarek-Gnat)

Kara Knowler-Davies (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

(Photo: Courtesy John Harvey)

Megan Elsey (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

(Photo: Courtesy John Harvey)

Brian Swaddling (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Raine Eaday (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

(Photo: Courtesy Joanna Bonarek-Gnat)

Annabelle Aston (Photo: Courtesy Grace Warwick)

Joe Dunlop (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)

Ellie Hall (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Clodagh Metcalfe (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)

Angharad Taris (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)

Joseph Coyle (Apologies for the bad quality of the photo. The reflections were unavoidable.) (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

(Photo: Courtesy Joanna Bonarek-Gnat)

(Photo: Courtesy John Harvey)

Luciana Marçal Barata (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)

Abi Graves (Photo: Courtesy Grace Warwick)

Anna Greenwood (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

(Photo: Courtesy Joanna Bonarek-Gnat)

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‘the TAKEOVER’ at the Arts Centre, 8th May 2018

The Creative Arts 3rd year curatorial team and course director Miranda Whall are very excited to welcome you to the Arts Centre Aberystwyth on Tuesday May 8th from 12.00 – 3.00 for the third 2nd & 3rd year annual student TAKEOVER exhibition.

The exhibition includes performance, installation, text, video and audio projects.

You will be greeted at the welcome desk (outside the Great Hall) by Miranda and the students with various goodies, a publication and guide map and a cup of elderflower cordial.

Please arrive for one of the guided tours at either 12.30. 1.30 or 2.30 for the 40 minute (approx) tour, you can leave the tour at any time if you cannot stay that long.

 

There will be a Q&A in the cinema from 3.00 – 4.00 we would be delighted if you could also join us for that.

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‘Sea Change’- exhibition at the School of Art, 21st May – 31st August 2018

Strandgutsammler, photograph, circa 1930-1945, Hans Saebens (1895-1969)

Sea Change is a student-curated exhibition of prints, paintings, photographs and ceramics from the School of Art collection.  The exhibition borrows for its title a phrase from Shakespeare’s Tempest to explore its metaphorical potential.

‘To hell with nature!’ A Reappraisal of Charles Tunnicliffe Prints – at the School of Art Gallery, 12/02/-16/03/2018

‘To hell with nature!’ – A Reappraisal of Charles Tunnicliffe Prints

Painter-printmaker Charles Tunnicliffe (1901–1979) grew up on a farm near Macclesfield in Cheshire. A scholarship enabled him to study at the Royal College of Art in London. Soon after his studies, Tunnicliffe gained a reputation as an etcher of farming subjects. Today, he is widely regarded as Britain’s foremost twentieth-century wildlife artist.

Towards the end of a career spanning six decades, Tunnicliffe was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. In an interview published in the Society’s magazine, Tunnicliffe stated:

‘I have shocked quite a lot of people by saying ‘To hell with nature!’ Nature is made to be used, not to be dictator, as far as the dyed-in-the-wool artist is concerned.’

Tunnicliffe’s exclamation expresses the frustration of an artist whose pictures are often judged on the strength of their fidelity to nature. Instead, Tunnicliffe’s prints show us nature transformed by culture and outdone by art. They demonstrate their maker’s knowledge of art history, his love of design, and the need to tell his own story.

Printmaking earned Tunnicliffe his Royal Academy of Arts membership in 1954. By then, he rarely produced fine art prints. For decades, Tunnicliffe’s work in various media appeared in magazines, on calendars and biscuit tins.

The stock market crash of 1929 had made it necessary for Tunnicliffe to rethink his career. Turning from etching to wood engraving, he became a prolific illustrator. His first project was Tarka the Otter.

Anglesey was no retreat for Tunnicliffe. Working on commission, he created colourful paintings he described as ‘decorations for modern rooms.’ He also continued to turn out mass-reproduced designs that promoted anything from pesticides to the Midland Bank.

Since the mid-1930s, Tunnicliffe’s work has been appreciated mainly second-hand. Until last year, when Robert Meyrick and I put together a catalogue raisonné of his etchings and wood engravings, Tunnicliffe never had a printmaking exhibition at the Royal Academy.

For some of his early prints, no contemporary impressions are known to exist. The plates were proofed by School of Art printmaker Andrew Baldwin.

Tunnicliffe’s career does not fit into the narrative of Modernism. It is a product of modernity. In his work, at least, he never said ‘to hell’ with culture. Pragmatic yet passionate, he made images to make a living.

Harry Heuser, exhibition curator

Curatorial team: Phil Garratt, Neil Holland, Robert Meyrick, Karen Westendorf

Terry Bell Hughes- exhibition: 11 November 2017 – 21 January 2018, CERAMIC GALLERY, Aberystwyth Arts Centre

Ceramics Gallery Talk 07/11/2017

Music and Art: Alternative Facts with Chris Grooms at the School of Art Gallery, Thursday 27 July 11am

For more information, please click here:

http://musicfestaberystwyth.org/events/music-and-art-legends/

Alternative Facts: Interpreting Works from the School of Art Collection: 22 May to 29 September 2017 at the School of Art Gallery, Aberystwyth University

The phrase ‘alternative facts’ is a recent addition to our vocabulary.  It has come to prominence in a political climate in which views and actions are shaped more by emotions than by reliable intelligence.  Reflecting this shift, Oxford Dictionaries declared ‘post-truth’ to be Word of the Year 2016.  And yet, alternative facts are as old as language itself.

Matter of Life and Death: An Exhibition of Photographs from the University Collection 16 May – 9 September 2016 at the School of Art Gallery, Aberystwyth University

Matter of Life and Death was an exhibition of black-and-white photographs from the School of Art collection at Aberystwyth University. About sixty photographs were selected for display by a group of School of Art undergraduates who were enrolled on the module Curating an Exhibition.