PhD candidate Holden Holcombe will talk about his research and the background of his exhibition. This is also a great opportunity for those who are unable to visit the School of Art Gallery during the usual opening hours. The talk will be in English. For more information about the exhibition, please click here.
Student Research
Exploring the School of Art Collection 2018
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 ‘The Stage’. Each student had the opportunity to choose from a selection of prints, drawings and photographs featuring theatres, concerts, ballets, circuses and more. 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.
Exploring the School of Art Collection 2017
Gathering Storm
Three women sit on a bench huddled close together. Backs to us, their arms wrap around each other snuggly, they look intimate and protected. Heads bent forward with faces close, these women are in the middle of a private moment, excluding the rest of the world. Rain falls from black clouds in the sky above, whilst overhead telephone wires stretch across poles from either side of the women, as if framing them. They are centre and focus of the print.
Holden Holcombe’s ‘This Is How It Feels’ – PhD exhibition, School of Art, 22/11/2018 – 08/02/2019
This Is How It Feels explores the intimate stories of eighteen transgender men and their journeys of transition from female-to-male. Holcombe uses new media art techniques, including augmented reality, to give audience members a glimpse of the FTM transgender experience through their own perspective. The exhibition features manipulated QR (quick-response) codes that explore the relationship between the lived experiences of the transgender man and the fabricated world of social media. These codes, in turn, ask audience members to participate in a new context of social media, both inside and out of the gallery space.
Degree Show & Postgraduate Show Opening, Saturday 19th May 2018 – A Photo Gallery
Megan Elsey (Photo: Courtesy Grace Warwick)
Sophie Mockett (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)
(Photo: Courtesy Joanna Bonarek-Gnat)
Sophie Long (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Luciana Marçal Barata (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)
Raine Eaday (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
(Photo: Courtesy John Harvey)
Junko Burton (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)
(Photo: Courtesy Joanna Bonarek-Gnat)
Joseph Coyle (Apologies for the bad quality of the photo. The reflections were unavoidable.) (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Dean Mather (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Kara Knowler-Davies (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Sophie Long (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Richard Boalch (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)
Sydney Fletchter (Photo: Courtesy Joanna Bonarek-Gnat)
Gemma Woolley (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Anna Greenwood (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Ashley Caldwell (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)
Angharad Taris (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)
Heledd Grug Jones (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
(Photo: Courtesy John Harvey)
(Photo: Courtesy Joanna Bonarek-Gnat)
Brian Swaddling (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Richard Boalch (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Sophie Lewis (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Genevieve Wilson (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Brigitte Bailey (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)
(Photo: Courtesy John Harvey)
Sophie Lewis (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Biran Swaddling (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Mai Thomas (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Clodagh Metcalfe (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)
(Photo: Courtesy John Harvey)
Grace Warwick (Photo: Courtesy Grace Warwick)
Rachel Rea (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Abi Graves (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Megan Elsey (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Abi Graves (Photo: Courtesy Grace Warwick)
(Photo: Courtesy Joanna Bonarek-Gnat)
Luciana Marçal Barata (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)
(Photo: Courtesy John Harvey)
Alecia Jackson (Photo: Courtesy Joanna Bonarek-Gnat)
Joanna Bonarek-Gnat (Photo: Courtesy Joanna Bonarek-Gnat)
Claire Murray (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf
(Photo: Courtesy John Harvey)
Ellie Hall (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
(Photo: Courtesy Joanna Bonarek-Gnat)
Mai Thomas (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Polina Kyprianou (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Sarah Spencer (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Annabelle Aston (Photo: Courtesy Grace Warwick)
Clodagh Metcalfe (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)
Emily Griffin (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
Joe Dunlop (Photo: Courtesy Paul Croft)
Frida Lyholm Limi (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
(Photo: Courtesy John Harvey)
Simon Robert Tune (Photo: Courtesy John Harvey)
Claire Murray (Photo: Courtesy Karen Westendorf)
(Click on the images to enlarge them.)
‘Sea Change’- exhibition at the School of Art, 21st May – 31st August 2018
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.
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 20th 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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
Alternative Facts Exhibition 22 May – 29 September 2017
Aberystwyth University School of Art Museum & Galleries 