About

Edward Davies Building

School of Art

Buarth Mwar

Aberystwyth

SY23 1NGA

The Edward Davies Building, a listed building that celebrated its centenary in 2007, retains many of its original features, but has been carefully adapted to meet the needs of today’s fine art education. It is an elegant symbol of the School’s aim to join the traditional and the contemporary.

Set in its own grounds, the building houses spacious, well-lit studios, darkrooms, print workshops, a Mac suite, as well as lecture theatres and seminar rooms. Allowing students to move with ease from one area of study to another and to remain in close contact with the staff, the proximity of the postgraduate working spaces fosters a strong sense of community and cooperation.

The building also accommodates a museum, modern galleries, and extensive art archives. At the heart of the teaching programme, these resources express the School’s commitment to serving the interests of the public that come to our student exhibitions.

The Introduction

This is the first Creative Arts Winter Show exhibition.

The students exhibiting are 1st, 2nd and 3rd year Creative Arts, Fine Art students taking the Interdisciplinary Practice 1, 2 & 3 core modules and a small selected group of first year fine art students.

The C.A students select from a wide range of modules from across the faculty of arts and humanities to develop individually tailored pathways through Fine Art, Creative Writing, Film & TV and Theatre, Performance & Scenography. The suite of Interdisciplinary Practice core modules guide and support the students through a rigorous process of self reflection, experimentation and research towards self -led projects that draw from the expertise and skills they have gained through their selected modules, culminating in a final site and situation specific intervention project that directly or subtly intervenes with the architecture, culture and creative education programme offered by the School of Art.

At the beginning of the semester the students are asked to identify an aspect of the School of Art that particularly interested them, through a series of workshops and discussions the students are led more deeply into an understanding and appreciation of the structure, function and culture of the ‘situation and site’, enabling them to explore and reveal qualities of the school in pursuit of unique expressions of their findings.

I hope you will agree that the interdisciplinary interventions in this years Winter Show are exciting, challenging and original responses, interpretations and revelations to the beautiful Georgian Edward Davies School of Art.

I would like to express my thanks to Phil Garratt and the School of Art staff for accommodating and supporting this project, to Hannah Mann for overseeing the first year fine art students exhibition in the gallery, to the student exhibition promotional team for all their ideas, enthusiasm and hard work in helping to bring this exhibition to its audience and of course to the students for their inspired and insightful projects.

Miranda Whall

Coordinator of the Creative Arts Degree Scheme.

Thanks to

Miranda Whall

Phil Garratt

Hannah Mann

Karen Westendorf

Robert Meyrick

School of Art Staff

The student exhibition promotional team