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Isabella Watkins

Posted in Blog Post, Shared Residency : Seren Trodden, Nia Davies and Isabella Watkins

My name is Isabella Watkins. I have just recently finished my studies on the Foundation Art and Design course with Swansea college of art and design. I am headed to the Product and Furniture Design with UWTSD. I have been given the chance to have a shared digital residency with the other artist from my class with the Mission Gallery. I am honored to have this opportunity to explore and expand my skills further. 

These are some photos from my final exhibition piece from my Foundation course. There was a lot of planning involved, many angles to figure out and was definitely a labor of love! As you can tell from the above I like to manipulate forms and see what they could become, even through my testing and modeling I didn’t know what a flat sheet of A4 copy paper could really do.

Nia Davies

Posted in Blog Post, Shared Residency : Seren Trodden, Nia Davies and Isabella Watkins

Hi, I’m Nia and I’ve just completed my Foundation Art and Design course in Swansea Collage of Art and above are photos of my final exhibited piece, The Inbetween. Next I am going to do a Fine Art degree in Swansea Collage of Art to hopefully further my practise.

I really enjoy expressing my emotions through my art and incorporating the natural world into my subject matter. I mostly use acrylic paint and try to use natural materials in my work, however one of my favourite ways to create is using print making, such as dry point etching and lino cutting. I plan over this digital residency, and the summer to continue to explore these materials and subject matters and document my progress to share with you!

Harvey Childs

Posted in Blog Post, Harvey Childs

My name is Harvey Childs. I have recently finished my studies on the Foundation course at GCS, and I am going on to study a BA in photography at SCA. I regularly specialise in monochromatic photography, primarily digital. I’m also looking to expand my skill set into videography, which I have been experimenting with. It’s an honour to be offered a digital residency from the Mission Gallery and I hope this will help to showcase my work to a broader audience.

If you would like to see more of my work, check out my Instagram page @monomediaaa

In the meantime, I’m looking forward to showcasing some new material and I am truly thankful for the people at Mission Gallery and the Jane Phillips Award for giving me this opportunity.

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Posted in Blog Post, Claire Jones, Digital Residencies
Mic drop

I joke that my Mum put a crochet hook in my hand before I could even walk.
In reality I walked at 10 months and by the time my sister came along when I was Two I was already following so many women in my family by experimenting with wool and a hook. Crochet is my first creative love and remains the strongest. It pulls me back whenever I need comforting or reminding who I really am inside.
It felt right to finish this residency with something I love so much and has been with me for as long as I can remember.
I’ve used hooks and thread inherited from great aunty Nelly. Embodying the family heritage that taught me so much.
I’ve been full of mixed emotions finishing up this work. Excitement especially with the crystal spheres and how beautifully crochet lends to the shape and more sad than I realised I would be at it all coming to an end.


I want to thank all my tutors and technicians in UWTSD for the most amazing experience and their continued support. They have touched my life in a way I hadn’t expected and leaving them weighs heavy in my heart.
I felt at the start of this journey that I was in a no mans land. Now writing my last post I feel somewhat lost. But there is still so much to play for. A new course on the horizon with all the new learning and opportunities that will bring.

For all the future adventures, princesses and warriors,
dream big,
the world is ours for the taking.

Middle finger to the sky

Posted in Blog Post, Claire Jones, Digital Residencies

And other ways to wear rings.

As this residency comes close to an end, the full circle of a ring feels right.
I’ve used wood, porcelain, wire and crystals. I am very much a hands on artist and enjoy the physical making process so much. I love the repetition of perfecting a design.
The rings we wear (or absence of them) and where on our hands we wear them, can be a sacred bond between people or a misleading impression of our status, a symbol of wealth or our association with a group. They say so much about us to the world.