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.

Karen’s Cabinet of Curiosities December 2017

 

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Curiosity: 2 miniature portraits of Napoleon Bonaparte

Created: 1824

Artist: Maestro di Pavia

Measurements: Full-length portrait: 183×118 mm

                              Head portrait: 74×62 mm

These two miniature portraits have come to the University museum’s collection through the bequest of George Powell of Nanteos. As with so many of his objects, we have unfortunately no idea how, when and where he bought them. Holland and Meyrick explain that “Powell was very taken with Romantic struggles for liberty and nationhood. Like many other collectors in the 19^th century he collected material associated with Napoleon Bonaparte.” This and the exquisite execution of the portraits might have been his reasons for acquiring them.

Lens 2017 – 4th November 2017 – The National Library of Wales

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.

Degree Show and Alternative Facts Exhibition Opening, Saturday, 20 May 2017

Eleanor Hall BA Fine Art

Nicole Scott BA Fine Art

Alex Tanton MA Fine Art

Emily Griffin BA Fine Art

Jennifer Moffitt BA Fine Art

Works by Eleanor West MA Fine Art

Bumblebee part of Jess Raby’s installation

Jennifer Goodwin BA Fine Art & English Literature

Natasha Harris MA Fine Art

Professor Robert Meyrick Head of School of Art and Keeper of Art

Bronwen Pritchard BA Fine Art

Alternative Facts exhibition

Patryk Szpak BA Fine Art

Claudia Ronaldi Pocrnic BA Fine Art & English Literature

Megan Skelcher BA Fine Art

Alternative Facts exhibition

Liliane Hauser BA Fine Art

Alysia Webster MA Fine Art

Madeline Peters BA Creative Arts

MA Fine Art student works, Eleanor West and Sarah Rachael Cleary

Alternative Facts exhibition

Jemma Garvey BA Fine Art

Jennifer Goodwin BA Fine Art & English Literature

Emma Finnigan BA Fine Art

Gemma Woolley BA Fine Art

Daniella Gear BA Fine Art

Magdalena Sledzikowska BA Fine Art

Works by Nicole Scott

Alternative Facts exhibition

Alex Tanton MA Fine Art

Zoe Rowson BA Fine Art & Film and Television Studies

Rebecca Byrne MA Fine Art

Alternatitve Facts exhibition

Sophie Hible BA FIne Art & English Literature

Jess Raby MA Fine Art

Works by Liliane Hauser BA Fine Art

Brit Jackson BA Fine Art & Art History

Amelia Sellers BA Fine Art

Nevyana Hristova MA Fine Art

Alecia Jackson BA Fine Art

Entrance area School of Art

installation Rebecca Byrne

Rebecca Fletcher BA Fine Art

Alternative Facts exhibition

Megan Hayes BA Fine Art

Imogen Jones BA Fine Art

Jakob Buraczweski MA Fine Art

Siân Evans BA Fine Art & English Literature

Tom McOwat MA Fine Art

Madeline Peters BA Creative Arts

Vin Førde MA Fine Art & Art History

Our dedicated catalogue seller Helen.

Beth Edwards BA Fine Art and Art History

Myfanwy Powell BA Fine Art

Video Installation by Rebecca Byrne MA Fine Art

Jenny Mynett MA Fine Art

Bradley Rees BA Fine Art

Sophie Clifton BA Fine Art

Ashlynn Wardle BA Fine Art

Natalia Heathcote BA Fine Art

Natalie Downes BA Fine Art

It was certainly very busy.

Sarah Rachael Cleary MA Fine Art

Samantha Robinson BA Fine Art

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School of Art Degree Show 2015

Daniel Fountain BA Fine Art & English Literature

Alice Courtley BA Fine Art & English Literature

Faith Flower MA Fine Art

Llinos Davies MA Fine Art

Laura Roll BA Fine Art

Stephanie Stratton BA Fine Art & English Literature

Jasmine Law BA Fine Art

Emma Beech BA Fine Art

Melissa Sarson BA Fine Art & Art History

Louise Hampson BA Fine Art

Ann-Kathrin Spangenberg BA Fine Art

Judit Boor BA Fine Art & Art History

Jennifer Skemp BA Fine Art

Lola O’Reilly BA Fine Art

Tali Wilson MA Fine Art

Marie Pierre MA Fine Art

Olga Ventura MA Fine Art

Ruth Jen Evans MA Fine Art

Holly A. H. Smith BA Fine Art

Daniel Fountain BA Fine Art & English Literature

Charys Wilson BA Fine Art

Faith Flower MA Fine Art

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You can find the complete exhibition catalogue here: Degree Show Catalogue 2015

School of Art Degree Show 2016

Briony Jones BA Fine Art & Art History

Annie Gadsby BA Fine Art

Charlotte Meddins BA Fine Art & Art History

Jessica Nightingale BA Fine Art

Georgia Record BA Fine Art

Rachael Rea BA Fine Art & English Literature

Carmel Reid BA Fine Art & Art History

Carmel Reid BA Fine Art

Alex Tanton BA Fine Art

Emilia Nardiello MA Fine Art

Emilia Nardiello MA Fine Art

Hanna Lindstrom MA Fine Art

Hanna Lindstrom MA Fine Art

Eleanor West BA Fine Art

Joseph Brookes BA Fine Art & English Literature

Oliver Hardcastle BA Fine Art

Melissa Sarson MA Fine Art

Kayla McInnes BA Fine Art

Kayla McInnes BA Fine Art

Vin Førde BA Fine Art

Owen Barry MA Fine Art

Rebecca Jone MA Fine Art

Rosetta Marsdon BA Fine Art & Art History

Georgina Bouzyk BA Fine Art & Art History

Emily Harrison BA Fine Art

Elizabeth Hale MA Fine Art

Lydia Bennett BA Fine Art

Alexandra Girardey BA Fine Art

Georgina Gale BA Fine Art & English Literature

Alison Phillips BA Fine Art

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You find a PDF copy of the exhibition catalogue with all Postgraduates’ and Undergraduates’ statements here: Degree Show Catalogue 2016

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Handel Evans: Abstracting the Figure – Schools Workshop, Llanberis

Art students in North Wales recently partook in an ‘abstracting the figure’ workshop as part of an Aberystwyth University A Level Enrichment Day in Llanberis.

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.