Cardiff School of Art & Design

Welcome to Cardiff School of Art and Design

Find out what's on at the Howard Gardens Gallery here.

Click here for virtual tours of CSAD and UWIC campuses, facilities and accommodation.

Social Media

CSAD NEWS

Read the latest News on Twitter and WordPress.

COAS NEWS

Read the latest Cardiff Open Art School updates on Twitter and Facebook.

CSAD ON FACEBOOK

Stay in touch with CSAD on Facebook.

CARDIFF DESIGN FESTIVAL

Keep up-to-date with the Cardiff Design Festival on Facebook.

TOMMY'S BAR

Visit the Facebook page for CSAD's Student Union bar based in Howard Gardens.

Staff profile / Louise Short

Lecturer
Email:lshort@uwic.ac.uk

Louise has exhibited widely in the Europe, the Middle East and Australia.

The installation work 'Teething Room' was purchased by the Arts Council Collection of England in 1999. She has been involved in curation, exhibition organisation and consultation, ever since initiating STATION based on Bristol's docks of which she is Director. It was opened in 2000 by Tacita Dean and artists who have done projects there include Phyllida Barlow, Louis Nixon, and Michael Snow.

Louise teaches in Site Based Practice and Photography at Plymouth University and has been visiting lecturer on the Sculpture and M.A. Programmes at the Cardiff School of Art & Design since 1993.

She currently also works as a consultant for Arts Council England and Artsmatrix, and is commissioned to produce a new public art work for Crest Nicholson.

Louise Short is a member of the Centre for Fine Art Research (http://www.wirad.ac.uk/research-themes/centre-for-fine-art/) part of the Fine Art and Ceramics theme within WIRAD.

Book Chapters / Essays

(2008)Short, L. ‘How do I know that I am awake?’ (catalogue essay) Anna Barratt Solo Show, G39, Cardiff

Editorship of Journals

Regional Representative, National Artists Network (NAN) for A-N Magazine

Conference Contributions

2008: Climate Change, Gauging the Temperature, Artes Mundi Conference (Instigator and Member of the Steering Committee)

Conference Papers / Presentations

2008 Artists Resource Cardiff launch (invited speaker)
2008 North Devon Arts (invited speaker)
2008 Newport Graduate Show and Book Launch, Ffotogallery, Penarth (Chair of discussion)
2006 ARC+ Museum Modern Art Oxford (Speaker)
2005 Landscape and Chance, University of Plymouth (Speaker)
Curatorial Dialogues, University of Salford (Speaker)
2004 Professional Development in the Arts, University of Warwick (Speaker)

Exhibitions / Events

2008 ‘a momentary’ film commission for My City, Cube Cinema, Bristol
2008 ‘Being Bird Performance’ Resound Stroud Valley Artspace
2007 5th Gyumri Biennial, Armenia
2006 CrossOverUK gallery Miroslav Kraljevic Zagreb, Croatia
2005 Art Caucasus International Exhibition, Tbilisi, Georgia
2005 ‘Closed Doors’, Brief Encounters Film Festival, Watershed Media Centre, Bristol, UK
2005 Curating Degree Zero Archive, Spike Island, Bristol, UK
2005 Far From the Sea, October Foundation, Kunsterhaus Palais Thurn, Bregenze, Holland
2004 TRACE Editions, Hirschl Fine Art, Cork St, London UK
2003 ‘The Shock of the Old’, Dialogue Public Art Works on Bristol’s Docks, UK
2002 American Tan, Heimlich Unheimlich, Melbourne Festival, Australia
2002 Plaats Maken (Place Sense) Quartair, Den Haag, Holland
2002 Glass, Pancevo Gallery of Contemporary Art, Federal Rep. Yugoslavia
2002 Don’t Make Me Nervous, Bideford Museum & Art Gallery

Enterprise / Consultancy

Current: ALIAS Advisor, Arts Council of England (SW)

Gaynor Kavanagh At Cardiff School of Art & Design, we believe in being at the top of our game and that includes being able to deliver programmes that really make a difference. We give our students every opportunity to explore all kinds of creative and professional possibilities, in an environment that recognises the importance of taking risks and seizing the initiative. We are interested in ideas and how these are examined through practice.