Photo Art 2012 / 2013 Meet & Greet

It's the start of another academic year. There's a lot of post-summer catching up to do as well as the greeting of our new Freshers. So on Friday 21st September there will be a meet and greet with all current years of Photo Art followed by a drink and lunch at the Hanbury Arms. Hope to see everybody there!

Original message from Peter Bobby:

"I'd like to invite you all to a short all-course meeting (years 1, 2 and 3) on Friday 21st September at 1pm (last day of induction week), in B4 (Main Fine Art Space). It is essential that you attend this if you can as important information for the year will be corresponded in this session. It is also an opportunity to get everyone in one room at the same time, so there will be plenty of people to meet.

 After this, the plan is for all three years to venture down to the Hanbury in Caerleon for a welcome back drink and lunch. This is a fantastic opportunity for you to meet the 1st years and get to know some of those in the 2nd year a little better. Staff will of course be present on mass.

So just to recap:
1pm - All course meeting in B4 (Main Fine Art Space)
1.30pm - All move down to the Hanbury Arms in Caerleon

I think that's about it.

I hope you're all well
Best wishes
Peter"

New Essay: Elliott Wilcox - Walls with Attitude

Walls with Attitude is a new essay on the work of 2008 Photo Art graduate Elliott Wilcox available over at Photomonitor: 

"From the moment we are born we embark upon a lifelong relationship with walls, with all their connotations of containment, protection, division, demarcation, ownership and all the emotive associations that they arouse in us. Walls that we decorate with wallpaper or paint, hang with paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, ornaments etc., become familiar, affording us the sanctity and reassurance of that familiarity and the confirmations of our identity that they bring, as their trappings weave the ambience of domesticity. Other walls such as those in schools, in our workplaces, or those of transit lounges, waiting rooms or prisons offer totally different connotations. These have impersonal, neutral qualities, walls that denote the non-place that we are rarely able to interact with, or to impose our identities upon; and if we do so, we do it at the risk of prosecution, sanction or other punishment. Walls are not to be touched lest they become marked – their history only scantily marked by light, heat or dust, a history that is subtly registered, weightlessly applied. Structurally strong, paradoxically walls often have vulnerable, fragile surfaces that we feel compelled to protect. So, while they protect us we also need to protect them – this symbiotic relationship is one that is unsung, rarely acknowledged, yet a timeless and enduring one." Continue reading ... 

 

Graduate: Opening Night

Some of you may be aware that Charlotte Winter and Jo Sowden, who graduated from Photoart this summer, have both been selected for the forthcoming show 'Graduate' at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff. The opening is on Friday 7th September, 6pm-8pm. If you happen to be in the Cardiff area, this show is well worth a visit and I'm sure Charlotte and Jo would very much appreciate your support. This is the first year that this has taken place, so I also think it's really important that it is well supported. There will be music and drinks at the opening. Friends and family are very welcome. Sam Laughlin from DocPhot and Sarah Wooldridge from Fine Art have also been selected.