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Swansea College of Art UWTSD Fine Art / Photography Photojournalism / Digital Film & Television Production Computer Animation / Digital Arts Computer Games Design / Sonic Art Music Technology / Film and Visual Culture / New Media Production Product Design / Automotive Design Transport Design / Glass Surface Pattern Design Textiles Advertising and Brand Design Illustration / Graphic Design Certificate of Higher Education Art & Design Foundation

For information on other courses we run please see the back page or email us on artanddesign@uwtsd.ac.uk

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Contents Why choose Swansea College of Art UWTSD?

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Location and Facilities Our Students Our Teaching Our Research Things to do in Swansea

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BA/MDes Surface Pattern Design (Maker) 20

Glass BA/MDes BA/MDes Glass: Surface Pattern Design (Textiles for Interiors) 22 Architectural Arts

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BA/MDes BA/MDes Glass: Contemporary Practice 54 Surface Pattern Design (Textiles for Fashion) 24 MA Glass 56 BA/MDes Student Support 68 Surface Pattern Design (Fashion Object) 26 Accommodation 68 How to apply 70 Contact Details 72 MA Textiles 74 MA Surface Pattern Design 28 Other courses

The information contained in this booklet is correct at the time of publication, but is subject to change as part of the University’s policy of continuous improvement and development.

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Ciara Long

It’s an art school Experience in a Contemporary University...

Our location You will find bays and beaches, surfing and sailing, climbing and canoeing, swimming and cycling – it’s all here. With soaring limestone cliffs, small “smugglers’ coves”, castles and historic buildings and breathtaking stretches of long There are all the amenities and sandy beaches, the scenery is both cultural activities that you would expect to find in a modern, vibrant, spectacular and inspiring, and all university city – theatres, cinemas, on your doorstep. excellent galleries, museums, restaurants, bars and great Our Facilities student nightlife.

Swansea is a seaside city, a great place to live and study: big enough to offer you the space you need; small enough to make you feel that you belong.

We also have an award-winning maritime quarter, a multi-million pound Waterfront Museum and the Wales National Swimming Pool. And what’s more, the cost of living here is very reasonable compared with most other university towns and cities.

We respect and celebrate our traditions. This is why we have retained traditional equipment and processes in the areas of ceramics, glass, printmaking and photography. But we are also forward-looking, and the Faculty is bristling with new technology.

Just on our doorstep, beyond the Mumbles, lies the Gower Peninsula, the UK’s first officially designated “Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty” and also great for surfing.

We are proud to have the latest Apple Mac digital equipment for all our programmes, and we also have specialist state-of-the-art equipment to meet the needs of individual programmes, from a water jet cutter, digital photographic and textile printers, laser cutters and digital ceramic print facilities to editing suites and video resources, including access to the latest Ultra HD RED camera.

Swansea has real people, real personality and is probably one of the most exciting cities in the UK to be in right now. We are just three hours from London and 2.5 hours from Birmingham.

We have excellent motorway (M4) and mainline railway links.

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So, whether you choose to work with traditional processes or new technologies, or across both, we have it here for you. The creative possibilities are as exciting as they are enormous.

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Our students It is due largely to our students and our graduates over 160 years that we have built the reputation that we have. Many have gone on to distinguished careers in the arts, some have established multimillion pound design companies, or are working as freelance artists. Others are working for Lego, MacLaren, Jimmy Choo or well-known filmmakers and media producers, including the BBC and ITV. Our students are continually winning awards and are given the opportunity to exhibit throughout their courses. Graduate shows take place in Swansea and London with students showcasing their work at prestigious exhibitions including New Designers, Free Range and New Blood.

Our teaching All our programmes benefit from a team of highly qualified staff who are research active, are exhibiting both nationally and abroad and are often involved in projects with Industry.

The amount of contact time students get with our staff is among the highest in the country.

Our links / employability We have designed modules that will help you gain employment skills and have excellent links with the creative industries and major manufacturing companies so that when you graduate you already have a ‘foot in the door’.

Other students protect their ideas at this stage with design registrations or patent applications with the support of the University.

We have an excellent range of visiting lecturers and the Faculty regularly holds conferences and symposia that give you a much broader understanding of art and design. Most recent were two exhibitions and symposia in Illustration and Fine Art/Drawing that attracted international artists and speakers.

In the third year you are encouraged to enter national and international art and design competitions and undertake external projects that apply your individual creativity, extend your portfolio and your professional profile.

Live projects with external clients are also an important part of each course and every student will leave with experience of projects that demonstrate their ability to do it ‘for real’ (see programme details for examples).

In the Professional Promotion, Marketing and Exhibition modules students develop their own ‘brand identity’ to promote themselves and prepare for professional employment. Some arrange interviews with high-level professionals from organisations such as The Photographers’ Gallery and Saatchi & Saatchi, often resulting in employment and placements.

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More opportunities During your time with us you will have the opportunity to study abroad with the Erasmus exchange programme - currently running with universities in Norway, Barcelona and Finland.

Our research Swansea College of Art has a long and established record of excellence in research in Art, Design and Media. Each of our Schools has an established and vibrant postgraduate culture that embraces a dynamic MA/ MSc taught master’s portfolio, MPhil/PhD research programmes and post-doctoral research of the highest standard. The 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) categorised 95.8% of our research as being of world renown or internationally excellent.

The Creative Industries Research and Innovation Centre (CIRIC) acts as a catalyst for developing and maintaining our strong international partnerships and industry links. CIRIC is an innovative, entrepreneurial and commercial centre that fosters knowledge transfer between the University and the private sector.

The College of Art has four integrated research hubs covering Contemporary Fine Arts, Contemporary Crafts, Life-Science & Health and the Digital Creative Industries. These hubs cover a wide and growing number of specific research centres such as CLASI (The Centre for Lens Arts and Science Interaction), ISD (Institute for Sustainable Design), IPCRES (The International Project Centre for Research into Events and Situations) and ATIC (Assistive Technologies Innovation Centre).

We hold regular public symposia and research forums with speakers of international renown.

The most important thing I learnt whilst studying in Swansea was how to properly research and develop a collection both practically and theoretically, especially when it comes to the final graduate collection.

Most important of all was the encouragement to develop our own styles and ways of working, as well as the emphasis on placements and entering external competitions.

Rosie Cook, Graduate SPD

The research and practice of all staff in the College enriches our postgraduate programmes and ensures their currency.

Staff are invited to exhibit at prestigious international events and venues such as the Venice Biennale and the Three Gorges Museum in China.

The combination of location, cutting-edge facilities and internationally recognised research profile makes Swansea College of Art at UWTSD a leading centre for research and postgraduate studies.

Image: Michael Sheen in the Port Talbot Passion filmed by students on work experience with Moving Image Wales

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Things to do in Swansea In town

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Visit the many art galleries and museums, including the Mission, Elysium and Glynn Vivian, the National Waterfront Museum and Swansea Museum. Try the slides at the LC, Wales’ biggest indoor waterpark. Have a go at kite surfing, volley ball or paddle boarding at the beach. Enjoy a big night out in Wind Street. Buy a warm Welsh cake in the largest covered market in Wales. Go to the top of Wales’ tallest building There are also plans for a £1bn transformation of the city centre and a tidal lagoon.

Visit this spectacular peninsula, the first designated area of outstanding natural beauty in the UK, home to around 50 unspoiled beaches, coves and bays Feast your eyes on Three Cliffs Bay, voted one of the top four views in Britain (Britain’s Favourite Views, ITV). Picnic at Rhossili, voted one of the top 25 beaches in the world (The Sunday Times) and 3rd in the UK (2015 Trip Advisor Travellers’ Choice Awards). Ride the waves at Llangennith, a top 10 UK surf spot. There’s also an airport for parachuting and paragliding.

Mumbles Take a trip to the beach - Langland or Caswell - for a sandwich and a surf. Get an ice cream from Joes.

Browse the shops in Newton Road Explore Oystermouth Castle.

Uplands Relax in the bars/restaurants Visit Dylan Thomas’ childhood park, Cwmdonkin, for a cup of tea Stroll around the monthly street market.

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Emily O’Grady

The Surface Pattern Design portfolio is all about a passion for the creation of exciting and innovative surfaces and structures, which consider colour, texture, image and concept within the context of contemporary art and design practice.

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What makes the Surface Pattern Design course special?

The world really can be your oyster on this course. We have an amazing and enviable range of digital equipment and facilities including luxurious computer suites, lasercutters and engravers, digital textile printers, a digital embroiderer and water jet cutter. Our non-digital equipment is equally impressive with full facilities for dyeing, screen printing, stitch, metalwork and much more. In addition to this, you will have your own personal space in our lively, light and airy studio accommodating all three years of the course.

We focus on creative inspiration, which will allow you to fully develop your individual voice and style. Initially you will experience a wide range of techniques, processes and materials. You will explore the exciting potential that comes with combining traditional skills with the latest cutting-edge digital technology. This will be taught through a vibrant series of workshops, lectures and seminars, supported by regular tutorials and group critiques.

Workshops include dyeing and printing, fine art printmaking, stitch, knit, embellishment and manipulation of a wide variety of materials, including paper, wire, metal, glass, plastics, acrylics and, of course, textiles. All work will be informed by a lively programme of visual studies, designed to develop a strong sense of line, form, colour and composition.

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As the course progresses you are encouraged to develop your own themes and approaches and to become increasingly self-directed.

You will contextualise your work and develop a clear direction for your practice. During this time you will be fully supported by the programme team to suit your individual needs.

To support the major study modules, all students undertake core modules such as Visual Studies, Historical & Contextual Studies and Professional Practice for Artists and Designers.

Your programme of study is enhanced and underpinned by a wide range of optional workshop choices, giving you flexibility and many opportunities. This programme has a major aim – to provide a stimulating, creative and challenging environment in which you can thrive. At the same time we promote a realistic appreciation of market requirements, contemporary trends and professional attitudes.

Anything is possible – whether you are an artist, designer or maker, we will help you to develop your full potential.

Induction workshops and facilities include: • Traditional printing, dyeing and manipulation • Digital printing • Laser cutting, etching and engraving • Water jet cutting • Traditional and digital stitch • Metal work

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We are a multidisciplinary materials-based course with textiles at the core. The four Surface Pattern pathways are all housed within our fantastic studio space allowing a great platform for transferable influence and skill. We encourage a student’s individuality rather than enforce a house style. Drawing underpins our programme and is taught from the beginning to the end of the course. A rigorous and lively approach to design process is fostered.

Year 1 / Level 4 Year 1 is diagnostic and teaching intensive. You will be introduced to materials techniques, research methods, and so on, through a structured programme of workshops, Visual Studies and Historical & Contextual Studies.

Live projects are built in where opportunities allow, in many instances with long held course/ industry liaisons, and in other cases in an ad hoc manner reflecting trends in industry and invitations from the outside world.

These are built in from year one.

Recent live projects have been undertaken with Toast, Tigerprint, M&S, Jayne Pierson, National Botanic Garden of Wales, Mission Gallery, National Museum of Wales portfolio and Creative Bubble.

You will look at surface in terms of unusual paper treatments, as well as in-depth textile techniques, chemical processes and dyeing.

The concept of layers will be introduced through printmaking as well as through digital techniques using Painter and Photoshop.

The programme also takes part annually in an International Fashion and Textiles trade fair “Indigo” – at Premier Vision Paris.

Employability and enterprise are important and distinct elements of the course.

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From the outset you will experience a rich and varied programme, providing you with workshops relating to all four pathways. You will work both two and three dimensionally.

Other workshop activities include printing and manipulation through textiles, stitch and fine metals.

Catrin Jones

Surface Pattern Design (Course Structure) There will be workshops in design development and advanced textiles.

From the first semester onwards you are encouraged to develop your work in a highly individual manner, to push the boundaries and to take these ideas in unusual directions.

The course strongly recognises the importance of new technologies and the integration with traditional techniques.

You will be taught extensively in a range of digital applications and encouraged to apply these technologies in a highly creative and innovative manner. The Faculty has outstanding cuttingedge equipment and facilities to help you realise your ideas.

By the end of the first year you will be ready to embark upon your chosen pathway.

The theme of layer will be continued covering fabric manipulation, traditional and digital montage as well as concepts and 3D structures.

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Year 2 / Level 5 Year 2 builds upon the experiences gained at Level 1 and consolidates skills. You will be encouraged to take risks, to analyse, to challenge conventions and to evaluate your individual approach. There will be advanced textiles workshops, design studies and options in surface construction and knit.

There will be advanced workshops in digital techniques introducing the wide format digital textiles printer and laser cutters as well as courses in PowerPoint as a method of digital presentation.

You will begin to write your own briefs and you are able to take part in live projects and competitions.

An Enterprise and Employability Studies module introduces you to the professional context you are working in.

An External Project will be carried out between Level 2 and 3, which gives you the opportunity to make contacts, build networks, take research trips or go on a placement.

Year 3 / Level 6 Year 3 will be contextualising your work in response to your External Project and developing a clear direction for your major practice.

Your programme of study within the Major Project modules at this stage is self-directed and negotiated with your tutors.

A dissertation contextualises your practice and offers you the opportunity to delve deeper into the ideas and concepts you are investigating. Semester 6 is entirely student led and culminates in a body of work

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or design collection that fully expresses your creative journey as a designer or maker. This work is exhibited in a public space and is known as your final show.

There will be workshops in formats of marketing and presentation, for example, self-marketing techniques, conventional and digital portfolio, installations, and so on.

The Faculty of Art & Design houses The Creative Industries Research and Innovation Centre (CIRIC), which fosters research and innovation in Textiles and the Applied Arts and provides invaluable links to industry.

Year 4 / Level 7 (MDes only) This is an option for our undergraduate students who wish to continue working in Surface Pattern Design to an integrated Master’s level (MDes). The year is student led, focusing on further enhancing the creative identity of the individual through material research and innovation as well as a targeted employment or enterprise strategy for their future.

The integrated Master’s allows those students who are truly pioneering and innovating in the context of a traditional threeyear programme to see these discoveries through to a more advanced level. The programme is a challenging and an invigorating venture enabling our most capable and ambitious students to achieve at a higher level.

(The MDes allows you to study on a four-year course that allows you to to achieve a Master’s award within a single fee structure.)

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BA (Hons) / MDes (Hons)

Surface Pattern Design (Maker) The Maker pathway meets the needs of students who wish to specialise as designer makers, making innovative pieces which would be suitable for a singular or multiple outcome. There are major studies in Textiles but you may well find yourself specialising in other materials such as metal, wood, paper, glass or ceramics.

Refinement of making skills is constantly encouraged, as is rigorous drawing, material sampling and maquette making.

“The Surface Pattern course at Swansea is a fantastically diverse course. It opens lots of new avenues of exploration by providing so many different opportunities and facilities.�

Hannah Stowell

An awareness of traditional and contemporary craft practices are essential and this will be achieved through taught sessions and independent research. Students become increasingly aware of their position and potential role in creating future designs that will be innovative, useful and necessary.

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BA UCAS Code: W790 MDes UCAS Code: T5F3 Location: Swansea

Harriet Popham

Our multidisciplinary programme provides the framework for students to develop dynamic and innovative ideas. The central philosophy is to foster, yet challenge, the creativity of those who are versatile and well motivated, and who will enjoy experimenting with a range of materials.

Contact: Georgia McKie georgia.mckie@uwtsd.ac.uk

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BA (Hons) / MDes (Hons)

Surface Pattern Design (Textiles for Interiors) This pathway is designed for students wishing to specialise as designers and makers, with a passion for enhancing interior spaces with innovative textiles.

The aim is to challenge and influence the interiors of the future with surfaces to excite the senses.

BA UCAS Code: W235 MDes UCAS Code: 5RC2 Location: Swansea Contact: Georgia McKie georgia.mckie@uwtsd.ac.uk

“This course has been a great learning experience. We have a fantastic range of facilities and our own studio space.

I have learned so many new skills including textile printing and dyeing, metalwork, knitting, embroidery and computer design.”

Malin Odermark

Emily O’Grady

A strong emphasis is placed on conceptual development, as is a sound understanding of the issues and expectations associated with a 21st century lifestyle. A wide range of environments can be explored to include domestic, public and corporate space.

You will develop a sound understanding of cutting-edge developments and market requirements, and will look beyond the obvious in terms of materials and processes used in interior surfaces and products.

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This pathway is for those students wishing to specialise in textiles for fashion. Through workshops, lectures, seminars and visits, students develop a sound understanding of how to meet the particular needs of the fashion industry.

Emphasis is placed on innovation with materials and techniques, supported and encouraged by highly experienced tutors. You will learn how to identify trends, market requirements and client profiles, and create fashion textile design collections to show your understanding and increasingly establish your own unique identity as a designer for this fast-moving context.

“Surface Pattern Design has provided me with a variety of experience and skills in a wide range of digital and traditional practices. It has been the ultimate experience and has given me great confidence for the future in designing textiles for fashion.�

Daisy Jones

Georgia Hampton

Surface Pattern Design (Textiles for Fashion)

Chloe Pullin

BA (Hons) / MDes (Hons)

We aim to produce designers who can create cutting-edge textiles to influence the way we look and feel, and who will have a dynamic impact on the fashion world.

BA UCAS Code: W234 MDes UCAS Code: 8V7C Location: Swansea Contact: Georgia McKie georgia.mckie@uwtsd.ac.uk

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BA (Hons) / MDes (Hons)

Surface Pattern Design (Fashion Object) The Fashion Object pathway aims to produce designers and makers who can create cuttingedge work to influence the way we look and feel, and who will have a dynamic impact on the fashion world. Through workshops, talks, seminars, visits and live projects you will develop a sound understanding of how to meet the specific needs of the fashion industry. Emphasis is placed on innovation with materials, techniques and application, supported by highly experienced tutors.

This attention to detailing and embellishment within a fashion context will allow students to design, make and style one-off sculptural pieces, conceptual fashion jewellery and bespoke accessories. An overall awareness of the fashion industry will be taught but the focus will be particularly niche. Students will be free to explore their own personal creative vision and individual style to interpret the term ‘fashion object’.

The course is a dynamic hybrid of fashion design, fine detailing and styling to create unique three dimensional wearable pieces or fashion ‘objects’.

Contact: Georgia McKie georgia.mckie@uwtsd.ac.uk

Grace Coughlan

Danielle Guess

BA UCAS Code: W230 MDes UCAS Code: Y28U Location: Swansea

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Kate Coode

MA Textiles/MA Surface Pattern Design The MA Textiles course begins with multidisciplinary exchanges via seminars and lectures designed to stimulate new perspectives and challenge directions. This cross fertilisation of ideas, through dialogue with photographers, fine artists, and visual communication students, is designed to promote a rethinking of how textiles and textile practice are both understood and produced. This approach is maintained throughout the course and students have access to tutors across the four MA disciplines.

Research of contemporary issues, textile skills development and material investigation are fundamental to your progress and individual practice is developed through an engagement with critical and theoretical dialogues.

You are supported by lectures, seminars and tutorials with specialist staff and leading professionals within the field. We have an exceptional range of traditional and digital equipment and facilities, housed in purpose-built workshops.

Contact: Angela Maddock angela.maddock@uwtsd.ac.uk

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The MA Surface Pattern Design course offers a unique MA experience in Wales, with it’s distinctly design driven flavour, tailored to address live briefs, shaping students to pursue employment, launch themselves as freelancers, or establish enterprises.

The MA is practice based, fast paced and built on the long established success and ethos of our BA Honours Surface Pattern Design programme.

The MA will ask students to innovate as they firmly establish and deepen their material practice with a heightened appreciation and application to their chosen context. Collaboration will be encouraged within the Faculty’s growing Masters Portfolio of courses.

Workshops and facilities include:

• Traditional printing, dyeing and manipulation • Digital printing • Laser cutting, etching and engraving • Water jet cutting • Traditional and digital stitch Through these we encourage creative freedom and technological • Metalwork • Construction techniques in hand advances across a broad range of the art, craft, design and theorisation and machine knitting of textiles. Application of your ideas • Needle punching • Video and knowledge, both practical • Printmaking and theoretical, plays a part in the • Adobe Illustrator future of textiles and it is expected • Adobe Photoshop that independent research • Dedicated AVA Textiles software through national and international collaborations will promote the potential of your investigation.

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Facilities The department is fully equipped to explore a broad range of materials and processes for both traditional and digital work. The main studio is large and airy with individual desks and spaces for all four years.

The traditional textiles area has full-size print tables, a baking room, dark room, heat presses and full dyeing facilities. We have a needle punching machine (900 needle bed), for textile fusions and we are equipped for metal and wire work with a pendant drill and rolling mill. We have a dedicated stitch room with full machine sewing facilities, traditional knitting machines and a large industrial knitting machine.

We have a dedicated Fashion Object room with mannequins, jewellery benches and industrial sewing machines to tackle leathers, plastics and an array of unconventional materials.

We are equally well equipped with our digital facilities. Our digital areas house two digital textiles printers (Mimaki TX2), three laser cutters, a laser engraver, a plotter cutter and a digital embroidery machine. The water jet cutter allows for even greater exploration and experimentation with metal, glass, stone, wood, metal and other hard materials.

In addition to the core Surface Pattern facilities noted we access cross Faculty resources such as Mac Suites where visual computing sessions are undertaken for the duration of the programme.

Packages such as Photoshop, Illustrator and AVA are key to the digital facilities noted above.

Large scale scanners allow A2 and A1 drawing to become digitized with ease.

Similarly we access traditional printmaking as a Faculty resource and students can experience workshops in this area at particular times within their programme or may decide to major here in response to their own creative leanings.

We access cross School of Design and Applied Arts resources such as hard materials workshops and expertise. This opens up opportunities for our students to create innovative dialogues between soft and hard materials – textiles with glass, metal, ceramic and more.

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Graduate Employment Directions The programme is structured to enable our learners to continue working in the field they have developed a particular specialism within, with creative passion and an ability to identify and capitalise on opportunity.

Our most notable enterprise project is an international trade fair in Paris where we host a stand to promote the students’ work to the global fashion and textiles market.

We are one of a few courses who go to this fair and this sets our graduates apart.

Students liaise with and sell to international clients and make vital contacts for their future. This is proven to open doors and secure opportunities for our graduates.

In 2014 students exhibited for the first time at a New Delhi trade fair whilst on placement at two different textile studios in India.

Recent graduates are working with the following: Monsoon Accessorize Mini Moderns Marks and Spencer Toast John Lewis Hallmark Tigerprint Jimmy Choo Donna Wilson Belle and Boo Bay and Brown New Designers - One Year On Mission Gallery National Museums of Wales Eisteddfod Welsh Artist of the Year

Employment roles for graduates from the programme are varied and wide reaching, the most typical are listed below and there is huge cross over between pathways so a generic list is offered.

Freelance working for textiles for fashion studio / fashion brands, designers and retail / textiles for interiors studio / interiors brands, designers and retail / on bespoke commissions for individual clients Self-employed textiles designer producing own name products Designer within design brand or retail operation / Self-employed designer-maker supplying galleries, retail outlets, selling through high-end craft events, own website Employment within Industry Graduate training scheme within large-scale design retail operation Stylist / Trend forecasting / Buyer for design-related operations / Visual Merchandising Employment within the arts organisation, museum, gallery Curator / TV and Film -Set design assistant / Costume design assistant / Art direction assistant Artist/Designer in Residence Community arts practitioner Workshop lecturer for adult education, community groups, Postgraduate Training PGCE / MA

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Graduate Case Studies Stephanie Cole graduated with a 1st class degree in Surface Pattern Design in 2010.

She made the decision to go it alone as a designer-maker and has steadily built her lifestyle brand since then. She works from her studio in Surrey, but has also spent two years based in Helsinki in the interim.

She has been awarded prizes for her blog and was voted as one of the top 10 crafters and makers to watch and invest in by Channel 4 in 2012. Her current product range echoes the success of her degree show body of work, and remains true to the core ethos of the Surface Pattern programme – a celebration of drawing, pattern, exquisite making skills and playful application to her context. www.stephaniecole.co.uk

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Rosie Cook is a graduate of Surface Pattern Design Swansea.

She now lives and works as a Textile Designer and Artist in Pembrokeshire.

Rosie has exhibited at a number of high profile national exhibitions including Interiors UK and New Designers One Year On. She has gained freelance work and launched her printed designs under her own named scarf collection and through Printed and Co.

Rosie’s colourful and playful style developed in her third year at University through her love of painting, collage and pattern.

She continues to be inspired by travel, landscapes and the familiar coastline of Pembrokeshire.

You can follow her progress in her blog at: rosiecooktextiles.tumblr.com

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Catrin Jones has won the New Designers Tiger Print Award at this year New Designers Exhibition in London.

opportunities. They worked us hard but we expected that and it has certainly prepared us for the real world.

The prize consisted of a cash prize and a two-month paid placement at their Bradford studio.

Tiger Print is a subsidiary of Hallmark exclusively producing gifts, toys and stationery for Marks and Spencer’s. The New Designers exhibition at the London Business Design Centre is a showcase for the most promising graduate talents from Britain’s leading design courses.

“Swansea was a great place to study, it’s a city but it has a town feel, full of nice people where everyone knows each other. The course also had a great community, competitive but everyone was working together. Our studio space was wonderful, with all three years together.”

“The course was absolutely brilliant, the tutors are so dedicated and provided us with invaluable external project

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Catrin is now working as an illustrator for Hallmark Cards.

“Catrin has been a great student.

In the second year she won a pitch to produce props for the set of the TV show Da Vinci Demons. She also won a live project with the luxury clothing and lifestyle company Toast, run in conjunction with the Surface Pattern programme.

“In the third year she won the Per Una print for women’s wear live brief, a project set by M&S for the Surface Pattern course resulting in a month’s placement at their head office in London.

“Earlier this year she was selected to represent the university at Indigo Paris, Premiere Vision international fashion and textiles trade fair. She was well

placed to do this having spent last summer undertaking a placement with Amanda Kelly design studio in London.

In response to her graduate show in Swansea she was short listed by the Mission Gallery for the Jane Phillips Award and will be exhibiting in the Swansea Waterfront Museum”.

exciting opportunities including openings with many other companies, but equally she is well poised to further develop the innovative work she has produced this year under her own name.”

Programme Director Georgia McKie

“We knew from early on that she was talented but its great to see this being endorsed by so many external industry professionals.

She has used the course incredibly well, she has developed the skills to interpret all given briefs and she is incredibly versatile as a designer. She has many

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10 Fascinating Facts about Surface Pattern Design at Swansea 01

Every student has their own desk space in our vast and vibrant topfloor studio – we encourage our students to LIVE here.

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We have first class facilities and boast a plethora of traditional and digital technologies.

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We foster a lively, creative and supportive environment where tutorials are at the heart of the student experience.

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Industry-standard equipment enables students to apply their creative thinking in a way that ensures a sustainable transition from undergraduate to graduate, to designer of the future.

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Live briefs proliferate the programme – recent projects include working with National Museum Wales, Tigerprint (part of Hallmark Cards), Toast, M&S and Jayne Pierson.

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Placements and employment gained after graduating include Jimmy Choo, Lush, Mini Moderns, Donna Wilson, Belle and Boo, M&S, John Lewis and BBC.

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Staff are exhibiting nationally and internationally, the SPD team include practising artists and designers and recipients of Creative Wales Awards and Ambassador of Arts in Wales from the Arts Council.

Students have the opportunity to go to Premiere Vision in Paris and sell their work to the international fashion and textiles market.

Students undertake external projects during the course to build their cvs and expand their understanding of their chosen pathway – recently these have included placements with Zandra Rhodes and Jonathon Saunders, working in textiles studios such as Amanda Kelly, Lemon Ribbon and Pattern, and working on film and TV sets such as Da Vinci’s Demons and DIY SOS, to name but a few.

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Students represent the University at New Designers in London.

“I think that the course is such a success because there are few constraints and a lot of support.”

Hannah Stowell

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Surface Pattern Design Staff Catherine Hammerton Lecturer

Anna Lewis Lecturer

Kate’s background in Ceramics, and experience in Hand Printed and Digital Textile methods are evident in her personal practice, feeding her passion for materials and process. Work exhibited towards her MA in Textiles combined digital processes, while exploring her connections with family through the giving of handmade objects.

Anna is an artist and designermaker exploring ideas through the mixture of jewellery, fashion, photography and film. Originally trained as a jewellery designer, she has exhibited in contemporary craft galleries and events all over the world including a solo show in Japan. Anna’s work has been featured in many international design publications including Elle Décor, living etc., Crafts, Selvedge and The Times magazine.

Sharon Cooper Technician Demonstrator Sharon has qualifications in Craft Design – Specialising in Metalwork, Silversmithing Jewellery and Surface Pattern.

She is currently undertaking an MA in Textiles working with leather, metal and broken ceramics. She has expertise in digital printing, laser cutting and traditional screen printing.

Julia Griffiths Jones Senior Lecturer Recently awarded the Creative Wales Ambassador Award, Julia has a well-established metalwork practice, exhibiting in Slovakia this summer her work was also recently exhibited at Collect at the Saatchi Gallery where a piece of work was purchased by the Metalwork Department of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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Angela Maddock Senior Lecturer Angela is interested in how traditional craft practice can be used to question our relationships with things and with each other.

She teaches undergraduate contextual studies, is the MA Textiles Pathway Leader and a researcher by practice in the School of Material at the Royal College of Art. Georgia McKie Senior Lecturer Georgia is the Programme Director and third year tutor.

She works across all pathways of Surface Pattern Design, bringing her experience of design and enterprise to the programme.

She has worked freelance for fashion design houses, textiles studios and designers, including

Alexander McQueen and Donna Karan. A graduate of the RCA she has also marketed products under her own name nationally and internationally through a New York showroom.

Stephanie Tuckwell Senior Lecturer Stephanie teaches drawing and painting, which she passionately believes is the foundation of any design process, and her specialism is stitch and embroidery across all pathways. Since graduating from Goldsmiths’ College of Art, Stephanie has continually developed her practice, exhibiting her work nationally and internationally.

Cath has exhibited work all over the world and has been featured in global publications like Elle Decoration, Vogue Living, Blueprint and Wallpaper magazine. Her collections have sold in beautiful department stores including ABC Home and Carpets in New York, Le Bon Marche in Paris and Liberty of London, alongside bespoke commercial and residential projects for contract clients in the UK and Europe.

Claire Savage-Onstwedder Lecturer Claire’s role encompasses all the platforms that digital textiles are concerned with, from digital design using Adobe packages to more advanced textile manipulations using AVA CADCAM software and applying this to laser cutting. Her practice explores the digital realm, including both software and hardware, creating hybrid fusions of digital technical design.

Anna Lewis

Kate Coode – Technical Demonstrator/Lecturer

Cath trained as a Textiles and Surface Designer and works across all pathways of Surface Pattern Design teaching printed textiles.

Since graduating from the Royal College of Art she has worked as a freelance textile designer for fashion, before launching her own interior products and lifestyle label.

Julia Griffiths-Jones

The expertise of our staff is one of the key elements to our courses, giving our students access to a wealth of knowledge and expertise regarding their future employment.

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Glass at Swansea offers you the opportunity to become a specialist in working with and understanding the properties of this fascinating material. Practical skills and making are core to the glass department.

With a strong heritage and tradition for stained glass, complemented with cutting-edge technology and contemporary approaches, we strive to protect the traditional and innovate for the future.

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The Glass programmes are delivered at the newly refurbished ALEX building. The £14m ALEX development ensures students have access to excellent facilities including dedicated design studios with individual work spaces, traditional and specialist workshops with comprehensive computer suites to support digital design. Dedicated wood, metals, plastic and ceramics workshops allow students to work with a broad range of materials to support and enhance their glass work.

The teaching team consists of highly experienced glass artists and designers who are either engaged in professional practice or are research active, supported by industrially trained technical staff. This ensures that the course delivers a comprehensive experience that is highly relevant to the changing needs of the architectural glass industry and community.

“Before I started the course in Swansea I thought I knew what glass was about, how it could be used, etc... Then once I came to Swansea my eyes were opened wide with the possibilities that glass brought when used effectively within a building. Not only that, but the course has opened up so many possibilities for career paths for me – from doing workshops with children, to working in the community, to making beautiful pieces of glass art for commission.

My journey started in Swansea, but is continuing to expand with every new day.”

Helen Scarrett: Glass graduate. Studio assistant.

Steve Robinson Studios. Pembroke

Professional standards of creative design, sound craftsmanship and architectural awareness, are instilled throughout the course, building the students’ employability skills and experience. The school has good links with industry in Britain and abroad, especially Finland, France and Germany, and provides opportunity for visits, exchanges and work placements.

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Glass This well-established and internationally renowned course based at Swansea, draws together the best traditions of hand working in glass with the latest creative technologies.

Students study traditional and contemporary glass practice underpinned by solid, sustainable skills, including drawing, designing and making.

Students build their knowledge and skills of working with glass through studio and workshop practice. External projects are a consistent feature within the course. Students frequently undertake commercial projects through the Glass Departments commercial glass studio, the Architectural Glass Centre, ensuring graduates leave with the necessary skills for industry.

Specialist areas within the course include kiln formed glass, traditional glass painting, decorative applications such as sandblasting, screen printing, acid etching and gilding as well as contemporary technologies such as water jet cutting.

The modules are project-based and taught by specialist staff in newly equipped and excellent workshops and facilities.

Our small student groups mean you can always find a tutor to help you with your work. The teaching team consists of highly experienced glass artists and designers who are either engaged in professional practice or are research-active, supported by industrially trained technical staff. This ensures that the course delivers a qualification and experience that is highly relevant to the changing needs of the industry and wider architectural glass community.

The two glass pathways offer the opportunity to focus on specific elements of glass art, design and making.

“I love what I do. I can’t imagine anything else I would rather do than combine working with restoration of stained glass alongside making my own panels for commissions and exhibitions.�

Elisabeth Voss Sinnerud Glass graduate Glass restorer, Nidaros Cathedral, Norway.

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Glass (Course Structure) Year 4 / Level 7 (MDes only):

Year 1 / Level 4 Students will gain a sound knowledge of the skills and concepts associated with glass, via lecture, demonstration and practice-based workshops.

Workshops in glass processes develop strong and professional practical skills. Modules such as ’Design Practice’ require the student to design with reference to skills learned in other modules and demonstrate their knowledge with reference to items such as fabrication requirements, available technologies and processes while presenting their proposals with awareness of the context of the design, environment and clientele.

Year 2 / Level 5 At level 5, students are introduced to advanced processes and techniques which are explored through live and simulated project briefs. Students are directed to develop in-depth understanding of process, design and its context by finding appropriate solutions to challenging design problems.

There are core modules delivered at Levels 4 and 5, covering the basic skills in both traditional and contemporary glass processes. Level 5 is the point at which students begin to focus on their particular pathway before continuing to level 6, where they are expected to utilise the skills learned at Level 5 in self-directed projects.

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Students at the start of this level select one of the following two pathways, Glass: Architectural Arts, Glass: Contemporary Practice.

Towards the end of the year the students can make the decision to progress to the MDes. The 4 core modules undertaken at level 5 support the students to continually develop their academic and practical skills in this specialist arena.

Year 3 / Level 6 Level 6 provides the opportunity for students to synthesize their knowledge and understanding through independent learning tailored to their individual learning direction and define their originality and personal expression through a final and substantial body of practical work.

With the view of strengthening the graduate’s competitiveness in the marketplace, all students undertake the Professional Development module.

The modules at Level 7 are designed to encourage advanced practice and entrepreneurial thinking. In particular, students studying at this level are encouraged to display resourcefulness, entrepreneurial skills, and the capacity to establish new and innovative enterprises.

Level 7 provides an advanced understanding of research tools that can be implemented within a range of contexts and extend critical and creative thinking.

Students are encouraged to extend their professional standing in their chosen field through either developing existing assets generated at undergraduate level or exploring collaborative opportunities with commercial partners, public sector or social enterprises; or may seek to develop a new business start-up.

(The MDes allows you to study on a four-year course that allows you to achieve a Master’s award within a single fee structure.)

This module ensures that graduates are equipped with the appropriate skills and abilities to operate effectively in the marketplace. In particular, they are encouraged to display resourcefulness, entrepreneurial skills, and the capacity to establish new and innovative work.

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BA (Hons) / MDes (Hons)

Glass: Architectural Arts

The Architectural Arts pathway provides skills and knowledge in traditional stained glass and glass painting with a focus on architectural glass which can then be applied in a contemporary and / or a conservation and restoration context.

BA UCAS Code: W770 MDes UCAS Code: 5H3M Location: Swansea Contact: Lisa Burkl lisa.burkl@uwtsd.ac.uk

Gaining my BA in Architectural Glass has enabled me to pursue a career in both traditional and contemporary stained glass design and fabrication. My experience has made it possible for me to work with some of the leading artists and studios in Great Britain and internationally.

Stacey Poultney: Glass graduate Glass Centre Technician. Architectural Glass Centre, Swansea

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BA (Hons) / MDes (Hons)

Glass: Contemporary Practice The Contemporary Practice pathway allows a broader approach to glass as not only a medium for architectural context, but as a material for the applied artist or designer-maker.

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BA UCAS Code: W771 MDes UCAS Code: 0H3A Location: Swansea Contact: Cath Brown catherine.brown@uwtsd.ac.uk

I have been fascinated by stained glass from a young age, but developed a real passion for it whilst studying A-level art.

After completing my A-levels in 2007 I moved to Swansea to train to become a teacher. I found that teaching really was not for me and wanted to do something more creative. When I saw the glass course I thought it sounded perfect. I’ve always been interested in history and conservation, so specialised in glass painting and conservation in my final year, with the ultimate aim of working in a stained glass studio making or conserving glass.

Following my graduation, I enjoyed 40 weeks of work experience as a part of the Award for Excellence, travelling around some of the most prestigious stained glass studios in Britain and Germany. Since finishing the placement I have worked for Reyntiens Glass Studio in London, on a project for the Houses of Parliament while studying for a Master’s degree in Stained Glass Conservation.’

Megan Stacey, Glass graduate

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MA Glass The MA Glass programme seeks to develop practice that is concerned with re-evaluating architectural glass traditions, conventions and value systems. It is this rigorous reinterpretation process; both physical and psychological, that will inevitably define the parameters of the individual student’s personal study.

Glass offers some remarkable properties, not least transparency and durability. These have been exploited in the architectural context for thousands of years.

Huge advances have been made in glass technology, and it would seem that the possibilities of the material grow daily rather than diminish. The pace of change is such that it has made it difficult for the practitioner to keep abreast of new developments.

This MA provides the opportunity to explore these new possibilities and knowledge as well as developing new skills and approaches to working in glass.

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The programme aims to develop those critical and reflective faculties to empower the student to engage in a more proactive, educated dialogue with architects, industry, designers, artists and scientists working in glass.

The main strands of the programme are: design philosophy, material innovation and glass design.

These themes are considered in the context of glass for the environment, to fulfil the need to develop innovative, sustainable and possibly universal solutions for a variety of architectural, public and private spaces.

Contact: Lisa Burkl lisa.burkl@uwtsd.ac.uk Cath Brown catherine.brown@uwtsd.ac.uk

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Facilities The Glass courses occupy the newly restored and extended Grade II listed building, the home of the original School of Science & Art which was opened on Alexandra Road in 1887.

The department benefits from dedicated specialist workshops in sandblasting, screen printing and mould making as well as an acid bay and full range of small and large glass kilns.

The advanced CAD studios are equipped with Wacom Cintiq workstations running the latest versions of industry-standard 3D design and visualisation software such as Autodesk AliasStudio, SketchBook Pro, Solidworks and Adobe Creative Suite.

“The specialist facilities available were fantastic.

We were really encouraged to challenge ourselves and to explore new ideas, so it was a very exciting and interesting place to learn. Swansea is a great city to study in, with lots of interesting things to see and do. I really enjoyed the close-knit community atmosphere on the course, and it was very inspiring to see the work of the other students.�

Megan Stacey

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Graduate Employment Directions

Examples of student commissions and competition successes include: The Stevens Competition; Glaziers Award for Excellence; and, Aston Hill Placement Award.

The Glass Department has a long and successful record of producing graduates of the highest professional calibre in the field of architectural and stained glass.

Although a relatively small school by comparison to other UK institutions, achievement has reached an unprecedented high in recent years. This success reflects the development of innovation practice and the intellectual engagement with both material and subject.

Exhibition at Senydd, Cardiff

During their studies the students enjoy the opportunity to attend social events such as enterprise initiatives, exhibitions and guest lectures from Industry and alumni.

The Glass Department enjoys close and supportive contact from alumni such as Sashiko Yamamoto, Martin Donlin, Sarah Hall and Amber Hiscott, Rodney Bender, Catrin Jones and Christian Ryan.

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Archetectural Glass Commission

• Designing for industry or • Employment opportunities working in the glass industry within arts administration, curation, teaching and mentoring, community work • Working on private and public commissions and and arts editorial. becoming an established • Continuation of studies to artist, designer or maker. postgraduate level and • Employment in a specialist beyond. MA, MPhil and PhD programmes are available. glass studios for both contemporary and restoration projects.

World Skills

Career pathways include:

The Glass Department also benefits from strong links with the AGC (Architectural Glass Centre) that initiated and managed a number of student commissions, including and of note: Delyth Evans St Peter’s, Peterston-super-Ely, 2013 Nicolette Bromhead Crematorium, Bridgend, 2013 Georgina Foster St James’ Church, Swansea, 2012 Rosemary McMullen St Mary’s Church, Bonvilston, 2011 Shelagh Mainwaring HMP Parc, Bridgend, 2011 Neil James Holy Trinity Church, Port Talbot, 2011 Helen Hughes West Wales General Hospital, Carmarthen, 2011

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Graduate Case Studies Megan Stacey Megan graduated from Swansea School of Glass in 2010 with a BA Honours and has since continued to develop her skills and continue her work in this highly specialised field.

In her final year Stacey applied for, and won, a 40-week placement with the Worshipful Company of Glaziers. It gave her the chance to work in different stained glass studios across Britain and Germany. After the placement she went on to work at Reyntiens Glass Studio where she assisted with the production of a stained glass window for Westminster

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Hannah Roberts Hall as a gift from the Houses of Parliament to the Queen on her Diamond Jubilee.

In 2012, she was awarded a scholarship to study an MA in stained glass conservation at the University of York by the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust.

After completing her first year, she is currently working as an assistant stained glass conservator at the Burrell Collection while conservation work is carried out on the stained glass windows from Boppard. Stacey intends to resume her Master’s studies in the near future.

Hannah graduated in 2015, and as a result of her graduate exhibition has been awarded a ÂŁ1000 RIES internship at Jonathan Cooke Studios, Yorkshire, specialising in glass painting.

Jonathan Cooke is an Accredited Conservator- Restorer (ACR).

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10 Fascinating Facts about Glass at Swansea 01

Glass students at Swansea have been selected for the Stanislav Libensky Award three years in succession.

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Glass students at Swansea are worldskills Gold medal winners 2012 and 2013.

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The archive contains unique original art works by Johannes Schreiter and cartoons by Poensgen, Schaffrath and Klos.

Staff are practising artists, published works including ‘New Technologies in Glass’ and exhibiting internationally.

Students engage in an annual glass competition promoted by the Worshipful Company of Glaziers: The Stevens Competition.

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It is possible to cut glass with scissors by holding it under water.

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When lightning strikes sand, it is possible to form glass.

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The oldest examples of glass are Egyptian beads dating from 12,000 BC.

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It is thought that the Glass department at Swansea holds the largest archive unique in the education of stained glass.

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There were 60 glass panels found in the cleaner’s cupboard while the new ALEX building was being refurbished, forgotten for many years and found in remarkably good condition.

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Glass Staff

Cath Brown – Lecturer

Rachel Phillips – Lecturer

Cath works between the Glass and Ceramics departments and teaches through the process of making. Her practical work currently involves working with techniques in three-dimensional kiln-formed glass, as a medium to manipulate and experiment with light.

Rachel specialises in stained glass techniques such as acid-etching and glass painting. She uses these in a variety of work ranging from exhibition pieces to largescale architectural commissions.

Her practice is concerned with exploring the richness of colour, textural qualities and the opportunities for lyrical storytelling offered by glass.

Lisa Burkl – Senior Lecturer

Rachel Phillips

The expertise of our staff is one of the key elements of our courses.

Having access to this wealth of knowledge can be highly beneficial for students when they are seeking employment.

Lisa is a seasoned lecturer whose interests lie in the use of specialised glass techniques such as gilding, sandblasting and frit work. She combines these in the development of intimate artworks that explore layering and reflection in conjunction with decorative and symbolic themes.

Marilyn Griffiths – Lecturer (Historical and Contextual Studies)

Cath Brown

Marilyn has recently completed an MPhil researching the background of the stained glass course and establishing an archive of the historical works of the department.

She teaches historical and contextual studies on the glass courses and is a long-standing member of the Arts in Action team and a practising glass artist.

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Student Support Accommodation & Open days Study skills support is available to all students who need assistance with their studies, providing high quality information, advice, guidance, practical and emotional support to enable all students to reach their full potential. A drop-in study skills service is available every day of the working week.

The University’s Careers Service offers students help with identifying their career objectives throughout university. Staff provide appropriate assistance and support to enable students to implement these objectives.

We offer a wide range of financial support, including bursaries and scholarships which can provide some extra cash. These awards include departmental scholarships, support for students from low-income backgrounds, residential bursaries, Welshmedium / bilingual scholarships, support for care leavers, support with childcare costs, internships, educational bursaries and awards for part-time students, postgraduate students, disabled students and international students.

The University also manages the Money Doctors service which provides students with impartial advice on handling student debt, and offers all students money management guidance.

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International Students Deciding where to study in another country is a huge decision, and is one that really will change your life! Not only is it an opportunity for you to get an international perspective on your studies, you'll also learn about a different culture, history and way of life.

Accommodation When it comes to accommodation, Swansea is one of the cheapest places in the country for students to live. UWTSD Swansea has five halls of residence based on two separate campuses. There is also a great range of private student accommodation in the city centre, including residential blocks and houses.

Visit Us The Faculty holds official open days, details of which can be found on our website, but we welcome students at any time of the year.

To arrange a visit please contact the relevant course tutor.

For further information or to request a main university prospectus please contact us.

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How to apply

Interviews and Portfolios

University of Wales Trinity Saint David Faculty of Art & Design Dynevor Centre for Art, Design and Media De La Beche Street Swansea, SA1 3EU Wales, UK

University of Wales Trinity Saint David College Road Carmarthen SA31 3EP

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Glasgow

Edinburgh

M6

Our interviews are friendly and informal and you will also be offered a tour of the Faculty and facilities. For most course interviews, you will be required to submit a portfolio of work.

As a general guide, portfolios should contain examples of work (both finished and work in progress) that showcase your particular skills and interests.

The content of a portfolio should be presented in a logical, ordered and simple fashion. We also love to see sketchbooks.

Leeds

2

M6

2

M4

M6

A5

Birmingham

M

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Lampeter Carmarthen

Pembroke

M25

Swansea M4 Cardiff

M4

Cardiff

M1

Swansea

Fishguard

M5

Lampeter Carmarthen

Pembroke

Manchester

M1

Liverpool

Fishguard

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M90

A74

If you are selected for interview you will find you have the opportunity to demonstrate your commitment to your chosen area of study and show your selfmotivation. You will have a chance to discuss aspects of the course and to ask any questions that you many have.

Carmarthen Campus

M9

Please apply directly to the University for part-time and postgraduate courses.

Swansea Campus

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Applications for full-time art and design courses are made through UCAS. Further details can be found at: www.ucas.ac.uk

London

M4 Bristol

A3

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A3

M2 Dover

M5

Southampton

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How to find us Alex Campus Dynevor Campus

Map is for ‘artistic’ illustrative purposes only, please use the following postcodes for more accurate directions.

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ALEX Campus

Orchard Street NCP car park SA1 5AS Kingsway NCP Car park SA1 5JQ

Dynevor Campus (restricted parking) SA1 3ES Alex Road Campus (no parking available) SA1 5DU

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Other Books in this series This book is part of a series.

If you would like to receive another book please contact the faculty, artanddesign@uwtsd.ac.uk 01792 481285

Fine Art & Photography

Advertising and Brand Design Illustration Graphic Design

Product, Automotive & Transport Design

Film & Digital Media

PDF versions are also available on www.uwtsd.ac.uk/art-design www.uwtsd.ac.uk

BA/MArts BA/MArts BA/MArts MA MA Cert HE

Fine Art Photography in the Arts Photojournalism Fine Art Photography Art & Design Foundation

BA /MDes BA /MDes BA /MDes MA

Advertising and Brand Design Illustration Graphic Design Visual Communication

BA/MDes Product Design BSc/MDes Product Design & Technology BA/MDes Automotive Design BA//MDes Transport Design MA Product Design MA Transportation Design MSc Industrial Design

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BA/MArts Digital Film & Television Production BA/MArts 3D Computer Animation BA/MArts Digital Arts BA/MArts Creative Computer Games Design BA/MArts Sonic Art MMus Tech Music Technology MA Creative Sound Production MA 3D Computer Animation BA Film & Visual Culture BA New Media Production

Certificate of Higher Education Art & Design Foundation

Celf a Dylunio

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The information contained in this booklet is correct at the time of publication, but is subject to change as part of the University’s policy of continuous improvement and development.