We’re bringing you our picks of the 2019 graduate exhibitions; we’ll be searching degree shows across South Wales and New Designers to discover fresh talent. Part of the Jane Phillips Award.
Artists will be announced in July 2019.
Friday 5th April 2019 | 6 – 8pm
Location: Mission Gallery
Join us from 6pm for the exhibition opening of Thibault Brunet’s latest work – produced as part of his month long Jane Phillips Award International Residency. Supported by Swansea College of Art, UWTSD.
Image: Untitled by Thibault Brunet, part of the “Territoires Circonscrits” project
Thibault Brunet will be giving a public lecture about his practice on Monday 18 March, 1pm – 2pm.
Brunet is currently undertaking a month-long artist in residency within the Photography Department at SCA, UWTSD as part of the Jane Philips Award International Residency Programme. Brunet’s work addresses the relationship between photography and the virtual, in a society that is increasingly on its way to being fully digitalised.
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1pm – 2pm, Monday 18 March 2019 |
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Reading Room, ALEX Design Exchange, UWTSD |
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Free Entry |
The residency is being kindly supported by Swansea College of Art, UWTSD.
Image: Untitled by Thibault Brunet, part of the “Territoires Circonscrits” project
March 2019
Following a month long International Artist Residency, this exhibition will showcase the work developed by Paris based artist Thibault Brunet. French artist Thibault Brunet was born in 1982. He is represented by Galerie Binome in Paris and Galerie Heinzer Reszler in Lausanne.
His work plays with photography’s coded genres and questions the relationship with virtuality in a society where the world is on its way to being fully digitalised.
A graduate of the ENSBA Nîmes, Thibault has travelled through virtual worlds with his camera in pursuit of images, exhibiting at reGeneration2 (2011), Mois de la photo in Paris, Berlin and Vienna (2012) and at Talents Foam (2013). Thibault is part of the group project, France (s) Territoires Liquides the work of which was exhibited at the Biennale de Lyon in 2015 and at the BnF in 2017. His last project Territoires Circonscrits has been shown at the Centre Pompidou in 2017 and has been recently exhibited at the MBAL in Switzerland.
Image: Untitled, part of the “Territoires Circonscrits” project
Jane Phillips Award International Residency: Administered by Mission Gallery in partnership with Swansea College of Art, UWTSD & Elysium Gallery
For more information on Thibault Brunet’s practice, please click here
Residency dates: 31 August – 28 September 2018
This is the opening shot to the episode, setting the location and mystery the episode will follow.
*All p/in/p videos fade in and out*
Half profile shots of the two leads of the episode (a police investigator and the leader/ sub-boss of the biker gang suspected of the murder. Beside each are small videos showing actions of the upcoming episode to give a brief insight to the characters.)
Main title card for the episode, pic 1 is independent, while 2 and 3 are together.
I have a new project to complete for my university course, called ‘Winter is Coming.’
The aim of this project is to create an opening title for a fictional anthology series called ‘Winter is Coming,’ with each of us creating a basic outline for an episode and constructing the opening title sequence around that.
Below you will find some preliminary notes I made about the project.
Winter is Coming opening credits
Episode style/story notes-
Opening credits content notes-
Here’s a selection of behind the scenes shots from a photoshoot I organised today (Sunday, 14/10/18) at Afan Argoed forest park, for my university project, taking influence from the Wendigo legend.
This is a brief portfolio tracking my research and development of my first university project, which is to create six images to form a story revolving around the concept and theme of dreams.
The first slide gives a brief summary of Jung’s study of dreams and his concept of the Shadow archetype.
The second slide is a series of pictures that I produced as part of exercises in my university lessons that I have found to be fairly inspirational towards the development of this project.
My third slide is simply just a small collection of films that explore a similar theme of an “inner monster/animal” to myself and that have inspired me in some way on this project.
Slide four is rather self explaining in that it describes my main inspiration (the Wendigo) for the project.
Slides five and six are also very self explaining as they are the storyboard for my proposed pictures.
The Jane Phillips Award Digital Residency offers support and promotion for artists, providing online space through its website to develop work, ideas and display new artwork.
It can feature images/documentation of objects, photographs, textiles, art, creative writing, sculpture, oral history, and archival materials. Artists whose practices include performance, sculpture, film, video, new media, video, sonic art, live works and cross-disciplinary practices.
This residency presents an opportunity to an artist/s working with exclusively online practices or who make work using digital processes, wishing to exploring the boundaries of art and technology and the interactions between digital, online spaces and/or their physical materiality.
Nathan Mason: 01 October – 31 December 2018
As an artist, I prefer to make the type of art I would like to see, but that doesn’t mean that I won’t take the time to experiment with different styles and mediums.
Typically,I’m a filmmaker (currently taking a university course for this), focussing on horror and action films, though I do tend to try and stay away from the regular trapping of the two genres. What I expect this residency to showcase, for me, is the processes that I go through when making films.
I recently watched a few videos of Fluid Art made using silicone oil to help produce ‘cells’, I bought a small bottle online and here is an example of a first test run on some paper.
First page of a new mini sketch book I just bought to keep on me at all times when I’m out and about. I like to doodle and this is just an example of the kind of thin I like to do – free form drawing with no conscious conection to anything. Just shapes and lines. 
In partnership with Swansea College of Art UWTSD.
Edward Jones is an Artist and Designer working from Swansea and Bristol. Driven by a fascination with modes of representation, simulation and mediation, Edward Jones believes that there is something integral to the material qualities of glass, that can be drawn upon to interrogate our increasingly mediated construction of reality.
Further to an understanding of Edward Jones’ practice are three major concerns:
– Firstly, the seemingly instinctive human drive to represent, replicate and reproduce – in greater and greater, similitude – existing aspects of the physical world.
– Secondly, the relationship between these representations and their origin; or more specifically, the threshold where our lived, physical, temporally unfolding reality meets with an increasingly manipulated, mediated, re-presented, version of that reality.
– And thirdly how these mediated experiences of representations feed back into, and affect our experience of our lived physical reality.
Edward will showcase the outcomes of his Summer residency at ALEX building, Swansea College of Art UWTSD, in the […] space from 13 October – 17 November 2018.
Axis 2017 Digital print.180cm x 320cm
Buffer the World 2018 Digital projection, Semi opaque vinyl. Size Variable.
Compound Axis 2017 Glass cube, four digital projectors, multiple live news feeds, direct drive turntable. Size variable.
Digital Borderlands (Clone Stamp Tool) 2018 Double sided mirror, your digital images of the artwork. 180cm x 200cm
I used an extra chunky canvas on with this pour which draws the eye around to the sides of the canvas.
This how the Blue and white jug pour turned out after it had dried (which took at least two days considering the thickness of the paint) Since I re-used a canvas from a previous pour this pour features some cracking and interesting textures.
Re-using my Last canvas for this pour, I used a glass jug filled with layers of acrylic paint which I then poured onto my canvas. I also use a small kitchen blowtorch to pop any bubbles in the paint which encourages ‘cell’ shapes to appear.
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