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A busy install day ahead with selected Swansea College of Art UWTSD Art & Design Foundation students at the National Waterfront Museum!

The students were given a unique opportunity to experience, engage and respond to Swansea International Festival, a two-week city-wide celebration of music. They were asked to develop work in response to the Festival and these are the outcomes of their residency at the Jane Phillips Award studio at Elysium High Street studios.

Looking forward to seeing all of the finished work!

 01 December 2016 – 28 February 2017

As part of the 2016 Jane Phillips Award Graduate Residency, the Jane Phillips Award partnered with the BEEP Painting Prize, to offer a painter from either Swansea College of Art UWTSD or Carmarthen School of Art & Design a residency opportunity, with the winner selected by both Jonathan Powell, founder of Beep and the Director of Elysium Gallery, Swansea, and the Jane Phillips Award Committee.

The residency recipient is Phoebe Phillips, a Fine Art: Painting, Drawing and Printmaking graduate from Carmarthen School of Art & Design. Along with the residency, Phoebe will also receive a £250 bursary from the Jane Phillips Award to help with travel costs, as well as use of the ‘Is This/This Is’ space within Elysium High Street studios, from 18 March – 12 April 2017.

About Phoebe Phillips

Phoebe’s work is an exploration of human expression through the genre of portraiture. She paints from photographs of people she’s drawn to and who interests her, to explore painting as a viable mode of representation and a valid experience of looking.
When painting from life an expectation of likeness exists whereas a photograph can allow greater objectivity. The very act of painting a photograph infers that the photograph was insufficient, and through the language of paint she strives to present her own sense of the person with more integrity, validity, and value than the source images she starts with.

Born in Wales in 1995, Phoebe Phillips is a figurative oil painter working through the genre of portraiture. She studied Fine Art: Painting, Drawing and Printmaking at Carmarthen School of Art where she became interested in painting multi-layered, intimately honest portraits of familiar subjects. Her larger than life portraits are both striking and inviting, and seek to create a harmony between gestural mark making and the negotiation of form. Phoebe currently lives and works in West Wales.

In partnership with Swansea International Festival

01 October – 30 November 2016

Jenny Alderton, Tony Alexander, Chloe Brown, Kay Byrne, Dee, Adele Gerke, Jen Graham, Simon Jones, Jane Pagler, Charlotte Pendrick-Case, Roberto Pierri, Owen Rees, Carmen San-Miguel, Jude Sked, Michelle Smith, Tracey Walmsley

We are pleased to offer a unique opportunity to selected Art & Design Foundation students at Swansea College of Art UWTSD to develop work at our residency space during October and November 2016. It will be a chance to experience, engage and respond to Swansea International Festival, a two-week city-wide celebration of music. The outcomes of the residency will be exhibited at both Mission Gallery and our partners, the National Waterfront Museum, in February 2017.

Alice McKenna-Jones
01 September – 30 September 2016

A month-long residency for a Raising the Bar student, to gain confidence and explore creativity, ability and imagination in their own space before going on to further education – be this university or foundation. The selected student will be supported by the Mission Gallery Education team as well as the Jane Phillips Award.

To find out more about Alice’s residency experience click here

To mentor, nurture and support the professional artistic growth of emerging and early career artists across the Visual and Applied Arts

The Jane Phillips Award is a memorial to Jane Phillips (1957 – 2011) Mission Gallery’s first Director.

Launched at Mission Gallery in 2011, the award is intended as a legacy to Jane’s passion for mentoring and nurturing talent, consistently supporting emerging and early career artists across the Visual and Applied Arts in Wales and beyond.

The Jane Phillips Award has been successful and is evolving, responding to the artistic community and forming new partnerships.

To find out what Catrin Llwyd has been up to during her Jane Phillips Award residency, click here