Postgraduate Show September 2018 – Some Impressions

Our Postgrads have worked hard to create this exhibition and they can be proud of what they have achieved. Here are some impressions of the show and the private view, which was on Saturday, 19th September.

The show is still open Monday, 24th & Tuesday, 25th, 10am-5pm, and Wednesday, 26th September, 10am-3pm. You’re very welcome to visit and explore the postgraduate show and the Sea Change & Discourse: Reynolds to Rego exhibitions in our public galleries! The latter are still on until Friday, 28th, 10am-5pm daily.

Alecia Jackson

Gemma Woolley

Gemma Woolley

Rachel Hannah Luxton with tutor Dr. June Forster

Megan Elsey

Megan Elsey

Alecia Jackson

Sarah Spencer

Michele Shiels

Brian Swaddling

Ellie Hall

Emily Griffin

Rachel Rea

Amelia Sellers

Carmel Reid

Carmel Reid

Emily Griffin

Kara Knowler-Davies

Claire Murray

Bronwen Pritchard

Jenny Mynett

Michele Shiels

Bronwen Pritchard

Simon Robert Tune

Kayla McInnes

Brian Swaddling

Rachel Rea

Simon Robert Tune

Jenny Mynett

Claire Murray

Simon Robert Tune

Kara Knowler-Davies

Leanne Blairs

Sarah Spencer

Leanne Blairs

Sarah Spencer

Claire Murray

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Postgraduate Exhibition at the School of Art, 10th – 26th September 2018

The private view of this year’s postgraduate exhibition is

on Saturday, 15th September 3pm – 4.30pm.

All welcome.

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

 

 

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

Abi Graves (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Polina Kyprianou (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Alecia Jackson (Photo: Courtesy Joanna Bonarek-Gnat)

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

Frida Lyholm Limi (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

(Photo: Courtesy John Harvey)

Claire Murray (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Genevieve Wilson (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Junko Burton (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)

Sophie Lewis (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

(Photo: Courtesy John Harvey)

(Photo: Courtesy John Harvey)

Brigitte Bailey (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)

Grace Warwick (Photo: Courtesy Grace Warwick)

Luciana Marçal Barata (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)

Annabelle Aston (Photo: Courtesy Grace Warwick)

Claire Murray (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf

Brian Swaddling (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Ashley Caldwell (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)

Sophie Mockett (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)

Anna Greenwood (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

(Photo: Courtesy John Harvey)

(Photo: Courtesy Joanna Bonarek-Gnat)

(Photo: Courtesy John Harvey)

Gemma Woolley (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Sydney Fletchter (Photo: Courtesy Joanna Bonarek-Gnat)

Abi Graves (Photo: Courtesy Grace Warwick)

(Photo: Courtesy Joanna Bonarek-Gnat)

Biran Swaddling (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Sophie Long (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

(Photo: Courtesy John Harvey)

Richard Boalch (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Mai Thomas (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Sophie Long (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Ellie Hall (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Dean Mather (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

(Photo: Courtesy John Harvey)

Kara Knowler-Davies (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Simon Robert Tune (Photo: Courtesy John Harvey)

Clodagh Metcalfe (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)

(Photo: Courtesy Joanna Bonarek-Gnat)

Megan Elsey (Photo: Courtesy Grace Warwick)

(Photo: Courtesy Joanna Bonarek-Gnat)

Emily Griffin (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

(Photo: Courtesy Joanna Bonarek-Gnat)

Raine Eaday (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Mai Thomas (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Clodagh Metcalfe (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)

Megan Elsey (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Sarah Spencer (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Richard Boalch (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)

Rachel Rea (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Joe Dunlop (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)

Heledd Grug Jones (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Sophie Lewis (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)

Angharad Taris (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)

Luciana Marçal Barata (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)

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Exploring the School of Art Collection – 2016

 

As part of the first year art history module Exploring the School of Art Collections, students have the opportunity to write a small piece for this blog. This year the group focused on our photography collection. Each student had the opportunity to choose from a selection of prints from British, American and Italian photographers active in the mid 20^th century. They only had one week to undertake some research before presenting their drafts. They all worked very hard on these projects so please take the time to view their efforts.

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.

German Photographers Erich Retzlaff & Hans Saebens in the School of Art Collection

Back view of young girl with toy pram, Erich Retzlaff, ca. 1943, © Estate of Erich Retzlaff

Die Kinder wachsen zum Teil noch in die schöne Tracht hinein, Hans Saebens, 1936, © Estate of Hans Saebens

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Erich Retzlaff donation – another treasure uncovered

© Estate of Erich Retzlaff

In November 2015, Dr. Anna-Claudia Guimbous, daughter of the photographer Erich Retzlaff (1899-1993), donated to Dr. Christopher Webster van Tonder and the School of Art Collection, over 1000 negatives and around 160 black and white vintage prints that she recently discovered stored securely in her basement. Dr. Guimbous has, along with her sister Bettina Retzlaff-Cumming, already generously donated a large number of vintage photographs by Erich Retzlaff to the School of Art Collection in recent years making our collection of Retzlaff’s work the largest outside of Germany and the second largest in the world. This new and important addition to the Collection includes portraits and landscapes from the 1930s and 1940s, examples of his innovative colour work, and an extensive number of Retzlaff’s post-war architecture, travel and landscape work.

Purchase Grant Award for Hans Saebens Photographs

Dr Christopher Webster van Tonder has secured funding from the ArtsFund and ACE/V&A Purchase Grant Fund to add 75 vintage photographs by the German photographer Hans Saebens (born Bremen 1895, died Worpswede 1969) to the School of Art Collection.

New donation of 250 Erich Retzlaff prints

 

 

© Estate of Erich Retzlaff

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Anna-Claudia Guimbous has kindly donated a collection of 250 vintage prints by her father, Erich Retzlaff, to the School of Art Gallery and Museum.