BA Illustration | Cardiff School of Art & Design

Eccentric Worlds: and Nonsensical Scribbles

Spike Dennis — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:53:05 +0000

*Poster by Layla Holzer & Jade Fisher

29 January – 5 February 2012

The world is invited to ‘Eccentric Worlds & Nonsensical Scribbles‘, an exhibition by Cardiff School of Art and Design’s 2nd Year BA (Hons) Illustration students.

As well as work from students, the exhibition will host several events including guest speakers and workshops taking place over the course of the week.

The opening night is on Saturday 28th January 2012 from 5.00pm and will include guest speakers and auctions. Originals and prints of exhibited work will also be available to purchase.

If you can’t make the opening night then fear not; the exhibition will be open for public viewing from 29th January until the 5th February.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Keep an eye on www.eccentricworlds.blogspot.com for the latest news regarding events and activities taking place in the Eccentric World of our second year illustrators.

Stuck on Repeat

Spike Dennis — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:11:42 +0000

Submission deadline: 1 February 2012

It’s competition time! Here’s the first opportunity to have your work feature alongside Ohh Deer’s regular contributors. 5 Winning entries will be produced as stationery; swish elasticated notebooks to be precise.

Work from a range of disciplines is welcomed: Illustrators, Graphic Designers and Photographers alike.

Ohh Deer want you to interpret the brief ‘Stuck on Repeat’ as a reference to pattern or the repeated. It might not be the typical response, your work might focus on a repeating event but lack tessellation all together. It’s up to you. Be inventive!

Details:
The 5 Winners will have their work produced as lined and unlined notebooks in A4, A5 and A6 sizes. They will receive 15% of the profit from sales and will be stocked in Ohh Deer’s stockists and online store. The artwork remains the property of the artist, but cannot be produced in a similar format (i.e. stationery) while the product is still on sale with Ohh Deer.

The submission deadline is the 1 February 2012. Work will be displayed in the competition gallery for a week after that date and a winner will be selected shortly after.

Artwork Size: 43cm x 30cm (9mm spine) 300dpi
File Types: JPEG or PNG
Colours: Anything goes

Please submit entries to: competitions@ohhdeer.com

Work submitted earlier than the deadline will be uploaded onto the competition section so people can see it, like it, retweet it etc. The selectors will take the popularity into consideration, but ultimately we will select work that we think best fits the brand.

via www.ohhdeer.com

Competition logo designed by: Nicholas Darby

Forthcoming Monday Muses

Spike Dennis — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:54:28 +0000

Image by Dan Peterson

Every Monday
16:00-17:00 Howard Gardens Lecture Theatre

30 January: Ideological Muse
Rev. Paul Fitzpatrick on Clashing Ideologies
6 February: Reportage Muse
Dan Peterson on Illustrating in Hellmand Province
13 February: Operatic Muse
Beatrice & Benedict dress rehersal at the Welsh National Opera, 15:00 (Chris Glynn regarding tickets)
20 February: Argumental Muse
The Big Debate…watch this space

All CSAD staff and students welcome.

CSAD Masters Open Day

Spike Dennis — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:24:31 +0000

Date: 10th February 2012

Location: Space Workshop, Room 1.41, Howard Gardens

11.00am – Tea and Coffee
11.15am – Welcome and introductions – Gareth Loudon,
11.20am – Overview of Masters Courses (why do them and what we offer) – Gareth Loudon
11.50am – Questions and Answers
12.00pm – Experiences of current Masters Students
12.15pm – Breakout into subject area discussions with specialist staff
12.45pm – Tour of HG facilities (for those who don’t know Howard Gardens) – Pete Castle, David Fitzjohn and Gareth Loudon
1.15pm – Finish

A pdf document containing further information about postgraduate study at Cardiff School of Art & Design can be downloaded here via our website.

New CSAD Library Blog

Spike Dennis — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:41:30 +0000

Image of Phonograph by Anon courtesy of www.bridgemaneducation.com

The new CSAD library blog is now live and takes the place of the previous CSAD Library web pages. It features the familiar New Book Display listings as well as the latest news from the Cardiff Met CSAD libraries but we also have some new features, articles and links highlighting the resources, collections and services we provide.

Additionally, being a blog there are widgets on our side bars and all sorts that will make the information more easily accessible to you such as the following:

Monthly archive
Category cloud
Tag cloud
Cardiffmetlearn Twitter feed
Follow this blog by email alerts button

And we aim to get you more involved by inviting your comments on our posts and getting you to cast votes in some future polls.

Please visit the blog via the CSAD website www.cardiff-school-of-art-and-design.org/library and let us know what you think.

All the best

Paul Wearing
Senior Information Assistant
Howard Gardens Library

Shape Open Exhibition 2012

Spike Dennis — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:44:46 +0000

Submission deadline: Monday 19th March 2012

Shape in association with Westway Development Trust and our sponsors HSBC would like to invite applications for the Shape Open from artists who have work that comments or makes reference to issues surrounding ideas of disability or its definition as below:

disability, n.

Lack of ability (to discharge any office or function); inability, incapacity; weakness.
An instance of lack of ability. Chiefly in pl. Now rare.
A physical or mental condition that limits a person’s movements, senses, or activities; (as a mass noun) the fact or state of having such a condition.
Incapacity in the eye of the law, or created by the law; a restriction framed to prevent any person or class of persons from sharing in duties or privileges which would otherwise be open to them; legal disqualification.

“disability, n.”. OED Online. September 2011. Oxford University Press.

Theme: Work related to any definition or meaning of disability
Venue: Portobello Gallery, 6 Thorpe Close, W10 5XL
Fee: £10 for up to 2 pieces
Prizes:

Shape Open Prize of £500 – The Shape Open Prize will be given to the artist with the best work in show as selected by the selection committee
The People’s Choice Award of £250 – Will go to the artist whose work has been most voted for by the people visiting the exhibition

Medium: 2D, small 3D pieces and video.

For more information and to download an application form visit: www.shapearts.org.uk/artandexhibitions

Creative Spaces: Stapleton Road Tavern

Spike Dennis — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:07:56 +0000

Free Use of Space for your Creative Activity

Do you have an amazing idea of how to use the Stapleton Road Tavern (Bristol) for your temporary creative activity? If so, we want to hear from you. This could be anything creative, from an exhibition to a performance or screening, a workshop or private or public event. If you can manage your project yourself, there are no limits to what you can propose. Stapleton Road Tavern will offer free use of space to as many proposed projects as possible throughout Spring 2012.

Please email your proposal to stapletonroadtavern@gmail.com quoting “Use of Space” in the subject line. There is no deadline for this opportunity. However, please be aware that suitable activities will be scheduled on an ongoing basis.

Please include the following information:

Your name / Group name
The name / title of your activity
A brief description of your proposed activity (maximum 200 words)
The proposed duration for your activity (up to a maximum of 5 days per activity)
Supporting information, such as images, links to videos (maximum of 5) if appropriate.
Links to your Website / Blog if you have them
Your contact information

www.stapletonroadtavern.blogspot.com

200 Voices: Open Call

Spike Dennis — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:38:18 +0000

200 Voices will profile, spread and showcase some of the world’s most exciting artists online throughout 2012. Launching on January 1, submissions will be streamed throughout the year.

We are asking for submissions of an image, short film, piece of music or text which reflects on your local experience as a practising artist in your country, for example, a photograph of your studio or the view from your studio window. What is it like to be an artist working in your country? How do your local surroundings and context influence your work and your practice? Is there anything you would like to say to other artists across the world?

Subsequently, on your more detailed online profile, we will be able to upload details of your specific art practice, artistic portfolio and information about any upcoming exhibitions.

In 2012 the eyes of the world are on London and the UK for the world’s biggest sporting event, the London 2012 Olympics. We want to reflect this global occasion back to those people looking into the UK. We want to give artists from all over the world the opportunity to tell the world what it’s like to live and work in their country in the 21st century. To inspire and be inspired.

If you would like to be one of our 200 Voices please get in touch today by emailing Miriam.metliss@visitingarts.org.uk, also check out our

Facebook page for more info and updates- www.facebook.com/visiting.arts

www.visitingarts.org.uk

Image credits – Work from ‘Nowhere’ series by Susan Keshet, UK artist based in Sussex.

Open Call: Papergirl Cardiff

Spike Dennis — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:32:24 +0000

Papergirl Cardiff invites artists, photographers, illustrators and designers to submit original artwork for it’s 2012 art and cycling event.

All submitted artwork will be publicly exhibited for a week.At the end of the exhibition the artwork is packaged up and distributed by a team of volunteers on bicycles to passers-by on the streets of Cardiff.

Papergirl Cardiff 2012 will be an opportunity for students to have their work exhibited and enjoyed by members of the public. Artwork submitted to Papergirl cannot be returned, but the artist has the pleasure of knowing that someone, somewhere out there is taking great wonder in their work.

For more information about Papergirl Cardiff, details of how to submit artwork and updates about the project, please visit: www.papergirlcardiff.blogspot.com

Wunderland II

Spike Dennis — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:33:00 +0000

Submission Deadline: Friday 17th Feb 2012

TactileBOSCH Gallery Cardiff, 9th – 30th March 2012

Following on from the 2011 Wunderland exhibition artists are invited to create and/or submit works in any media for a follow up art exhibition entitled Wunderland II to be held at TactileBOSCH in Llandaff North.

Initiated by the Women’s Art Association Wunderland was one of a series of satellite exhibitions held in and around Cardiff to mark the centenary of International Women’s Day in 2011

Selection panel:

Jacqueline Alkema – Artist and Vice Chair of the WAA
Jessica Mathews – Artist and Co-ordinator of the exhibition
Helene Roberts – Artist and Co-ordinator of the exhibition
Kim Fielding – Artist & Curator / Art Direction @ tactileBOSCH Gallery
Guest Panel Judge

Application Guidelines:

Please submit the following:

Up to 6 low res JPEG images of the submitted work, file name to include artist name and work title
Artist Statement – 100 words
Submission Form – see below
SAE envelope for postal applications if you want your application returned
Submission fee of £10 via cheque payable to tactileBOSCH or via the ‘Donate’ button on the left hand at the bottom of the page on the tactileBOSCH website at http://tactilebosch.org/about/ . Make sure you put ‘Wunderland II’ as the subject / exhibition you are submitting / donating to.

Please Note: Successful Artists will be required to deliver and collect works to and from the gallery (see dates below)

For More Info Call: 07870 388098 / 07964 339718 / 07951 256255 …Or email:

Jessica Mathews jess_mathews_jkm@hotmail.co.uk
Helene Roberts: hapticism@gmail.com
Kim Fielding: kim@tactilebosch.org