This time I have played with creating posters just for fun, to explore the feeling of a bad or good design. Comment, critique.
Please comment and critique.



















This time I have played with creating posters just for fun, to explore the feeling of a bad or good design. Comment, critique.
Please comment and critique.
The concept of talent is firmly engraved in our culture, we often see those great people archiving great things and we wish we could do what they do if only we were that talented.
But what if the people we idealise weren’t actually more talented than us. What if we were just as talented as them? I think an interesting person to look at is Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Because he is generally described as the most talented street photographer we have ever had but he famously quoted saying “your first 10.000 photographs are your worst” and that doesn’t seem like the words of someone that was born with a natural talent, but rather someone that dedicates thousands and thousands of hours to master a discipline. In 2007 a study was initiated, which looked at there’s actually no such thing as a natural talent, just hard work and dedication and making sure your effort is focused on the right areas. Basically intelligence and skill are things we aren’t born with but things we develop through practice and this is true across the board.
Apart from a few athletic examples where something like weight might be an advantage.
But it’s not what I’m talking about here so what does this mean? Well, firstly it means that you can achieve the same level of skill as the people you idealise, all those film makers, artists, photographers, you can be as skilled as all those, as good as them. Secondly it means that everything you have already achieved is not by innate talent but through your own hard work and dedication. So well done you, don’t ever give up because you don’t think your talented enough.
We now know it’s not how ability works, embrace mistakes because mistakes are discovering gaps in your knowledge that you need to overcome and you need to find the right resources in order to help you overcome this. Traditionally that would be teachers, lecturers and libraries but today we have the internet, we have the greatest resource that humanity ever had at our fingertips, we have phones in our pockets. So stop worrying about what you can’t do
and just do it .
Beware of feeling comfortable, as soon as you start to feel comfortable, challenge yourself, change something, try something new, learn to let go of old work, we all have our best work that we feel that is our best but try to better them, try to forget about them.
And move forward, if you keep coming to old work it means that you are not progressing.
Try to push yourself, build on what you have already done. Ask yourself questions, ask for feedback and critique on a regular basis, it can be difficult because it’s hard to hear it.
And it’s the critique that’s really gets you but it’s probably the most important because you know they are right,
take the temporary pain for the long term benefit.
You need to know what you’re doing wrong, ignore haters and trolls on line.
Learn to not be precious your work.
Learn to embrace the criticism and move forward.
always keep learning, you have never learnt everything
because the world moves forward.
Most of the time, you’re creating parts of a bigger project but not realizing it .
Picking a direction, and adjusting as you go, is the way to progress.
I called this collection
The middle point
Sometimes it’s a struggle, the hardest thing is to get up and do your stuff . You know what to do but you just want to do too many things at once, and have a great idea. But doing something is completely separate, I always have more important work to do than let my soul flow.
Flyer for exhibition. In Alex. Art 🏫 school created on a mobile using double exposure
Collaborating.
Blending a portrait I’ve shot of one talented Student with a coloured painting of another one.
The Mystery of an image. It forces my imagination to work.
A painting with a natural light and I love this.
I am inspired by Claud Monet, french painter .
I have focused on textures and colours seen within the landscape, creating one of a kind impressions of a forest in a longer exposed time frame.
Time is key here, as time is the only thing that is constant. You can’t stretch or squeeze it, only the perspective can change. So this is my perspective of a time, represented in a ICM photography style.
Exhibition at Mission Gallery, Swansea
17 August – 07 September 2019
Our picks of the 2019 graduate exhibitions; from degree shows across South Wales and New Designers. The Graduate Showcase is part of the Jane Phillips Award.
The selected artists are:
Alex Baitup, Carmarthen School of Art
Daisy Fay Ray, Carmarthen School of Art
Elin Hughes, Cardiff School of Art
Jacqs Scourfield, Swansea College of Art UWTSD
Katalina Caliendo, University of Hertfordshire
Kaya Cohen, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham
Keeley Shay, Swansea College of Art UWTSD
Lillemor Latham, Cardiff School of Art
Mark Dutton, Carmarthen School of Art
Niamh Duddy, University for the Creative Arts, Rochester
Rhiannon Gwyn, Cardiff School of Art
Siwan Medi Davies, Carmarthen School of Art
Selected artists for the […] space:
Ibrahim Maadani, Swansea College of Art UWTSD
Gabriel East, Plymouth College of Art
Chelsea Waites, Manchester School of Art
For Raising the Bar participants at Mission Gallery | Based at Jane Phillips Award Studio in Orchard Street, Swansea | In partnership with Elysium Gallery
A fantastic opportunity to gain valuable experience in how to manage a studio for 4 weeks this summer, before moving onto University or preparing for final year in College or Sixth Form. A chance to experience having an independent workspace away from home which can be used for a variety of purposes, such as:
We are pleased to announce the winners as Joseff Rowlands and Gemma Yeomans – congratulations both!
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
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.