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 decided on the theme of ‘deference’ – historical and contemporary pictures that demonstrate traditions (imaginary or real) of loyalty be it to the church, to the state, to royalty, to their communities or even within personal relationships. Each student had the opportunity to choose from a selection of prints, drawings and photographs. 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. Continue reading
Illustration
Mary Ellen Edwards – A Victorian Woman Illustrator
Illustrator Mary Ellen Edwards was born to Mary (née Johnson, c.1809-1898) and Downes Edwards (c. 1805-1882) on the 6th November 1838 on her father’s farm in Surbiton just outside London. The family had nine children of which two died in infancy. The Edwards moved frequently. Her father was an engineer and inventor and had by 1848 enough funds to built a family residence, Ravenscliffe in Douglas on the Isle of Man. Eventually they settled in London and lived there at various addresses in fashionable parts of town such as Pimlico, South Kensington and Chelsea.
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
Megan Elsey (Photo: Courtesy Grace Warwick)
(Photo: Courtesy John Harvey)
Annabelle Aston (Photo: Courtesy Grace Warwick)
Joanna Bonarek-Gnat (Photo: Courtesy Joanna Bonarek-Gnat)
Clodagh Metcalfe (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)
Rachel Rea (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Heledd Grug Jones (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Claire Murray (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf
Sophie Lewis (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Richard Boalch (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Sophie Long (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Genevieve Wilson (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Claire Murray (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Joseph Coyle (Apologies for the bad quality of the photo. The reflections were unavoidable.) (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Emily Griffin (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
(Photo: Courtesy Joanna Bonarek-Gnat)
Polina Kyprianou (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Angharad Taris (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)
(Photo: Courtesy Joanna Bonarek-Gnat)
(Photo: Courtesy John Harvey)
Brigitte Bailey (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)
Abi Graves (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Biran Swaddling (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Frida Lyholm Limi (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Sophie Lewis (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Sarah Spencer (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
(Photo: Courtesy Joanna Bonarek-Gnat)
Anna Greenwood (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
(Photo: Courtesy Joanna Bonarek-Gnat)
Sophie Mockett (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)
Brian Swaddling (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Kara Knowler-Davies (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Simon Robert Tune (Photo: Courtesy John Harvey)
Megan Elsey (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Gemma Woolley (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Sophie Long (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Dean Mather (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Grace Warwick (Photo: Courtesy Grace Warwick)
Mai Thomas (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Clodagh Metcalfe (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)
Luciana Marçal Barata (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)
(Photo: Courtesy John Harvey)
Ashley Caldwell (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)
Joe Dunlop (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)
(Photo: Courtesy John Harvey)
Richard Boalch (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)
Alecia Jackson (Photo: Courtesy Joanna Bonarek-Gnat)
(Photo: Courtesy John Harvey)
Raine Eaday (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Mai Thomas (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Sydney Fletchter (Photo: Courtesy Joanna Bonarek-Gnat)
(Photo: Courtesy John Harvey)
Abi Graves (Photo: Courtesy Grace Warwick)
(Photo: Courtesy Joanna Bonarek-Gnat)
Junko Burton (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)
Luciana Marçal Barata (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)
Ellie Hall (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
(Photo: Courtesy John Harvey)
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“Recapturing ‘Mighty Joe Young’: The Movie, the Memory, the Make-believe.” Exhibition 20 November 2017 – 02 February 2018
Postgraduate Exhibition at the School of Art, 11 – 28 Septemer 2017
This year’s postgraduate exhibition features a variety of media such as photography, painting, illustration, printmaking and video installation.
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. Continue reading
Year of Legends 2017
2017 is the ‘Year of Legends’ in Wales, and we delved deeply into our collection to see what treasures relating to this fabulous theme might come to light. We selected a few, some of which will be included in a small display at the School of Art; others will only be viewable online. This is an on-going project and from time to time we might add to this post, so keep an eye out for updates.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens with illustrations by Phiz (Household Words, 1874)
“I say insolent familiarity, Sir,” said Mr. Pickwick, turning upon Fogg with a fierceness of gesture which caused that person to retreat towards the door with great expedition.”
“Standing before the dressing-g;lass was a middle-aged lady in yellow curl-papers, busily engaged in brushing what ladies call their ‘back hair’.”
“A compliment which Mr. Weller returned by knocking him down out of hand: having previously with the utmost consideration, knocked down a chairman for him to lie upon.”
“I say, how nice you look.”
“The words were scarcely out of the old gentleman’s lips, when footsteps were heard ascending the stairs.”
Mr Pickwick sat in a wheelbarrow. Frontipiece
“Heyling!” said the old man wildly. “My boy, Heyling, my dear boy, look, look!” Gasping for breath, the miserable father pointed to the spot where the young man was struggling for life.
“Old Lobbs gave it one tug, and open it flew, disclosing Nathaniel Pipkin standing bolt upright inside, and shaking with apprehension from head to foot.”
“The mottled-faced gentleman reviewed the company, and slowly lifted his hand.”
“The horse no sooner beheld Mr. Pickwick advancing with the chaise whip in his hand.”
“The chair was an ugly old gentleman; and what was more, he was winking at Tom Smart.”
“Mr. Wardle looked on, in silent wonder.”
“Mr. Pickwick no sooner put on his spectacles, than he at once recognised in the future Mrs. Magnus the lady into whose room he had so unwarrantably intruded on the previous night.”
“He has come out,” said little Mr. Perker, greatly excited; the more so as their position did not enable them to see what was going forward.
“Who are you, you rascal?” said the captain, administering several pokes to Mr. Pickwick’s body with the thick stick. “What’s your name?”
“Permit me to introduce my friends — Mr. Tupman — Mr. Winkle — Mr. Snodgrass.”
“Sam stole a look at the inquirer.”
“The door was just going to be closed in consequence, when an inquisitive boarder, who had been peeping between the hinges, set up a fearful screaming.”
“Mr. Pickwick….went slowly and gravely down the slide, with his feet about a yard and a quarter apart, amidst the gratified shouts of all the spectators.”
“The heroic man actually threw himself into a paralytic attitude, confidently supposed by the two bystanders to have been intended as a posture of self-defence.”
“Before Mr. Pickwick distinctly knew what was the matter, he was surrounded by the whole body, and kissed by every one of them.”
“Mr. Snodgrass and Mr. Winkle had each performed a compulsory summerset with remarkable agility?.”
“Sam, having been formally introduced . . . . as the offspring of Mr. Weller, of the Belle Savage, was treated with marked distinction.”
“Mr. Tupman looked round. There was the fat boy.”
Frontispiece for chapter 1 ‘The Pickwickians’
“Old Mr. Wardle, with a highly-inflamed countenance, was grasping the hand of a strange gentleman.”
“God bless me, what’s the matter?”
“You just come avay,” said Mr. Weller. “Battledore and Shuttlecock’s a wery good game, vhen you an’t the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores.”
“Mr. Weller was dispelling all the feverish remains of the previous evening’s conviviality, . . . . when he was attracted by the appearance of a young fellow in mulberry-coloured livery.”
“Seated on an upright tombstone, close to him, was a strange unearthly figure.”
“There was a scream as of an individual — not a rook — in corporeal anguish. Mr. Tupman had saved the lives of innumerable unoffending birds by receiving a portion of the charge in his left arm.”
“Sam looked at the Fat Boy with great astonishment, but without saying a word.”
“The Kitchen door opened, and in walker Mr. Job Trotter.”
“Take this little villain away”, said the agonised Mr. Pickwick.
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