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Staff profile / Philippa Lawrence

Senior Lecturer
Email: plawrence@uwic.ac.uk

Philippa Lawrence’s work usually consists of site-specific installations or collections of objects in response to place. Her work is informed by a desire to learn about and understand the material world, to meet people through her research and practice and to make a real and lasting connection to both people and place. Ideas often require the acquisition of a new set of skills or knowledge such as gilding or working with glass.

A graduate from the Royal College of Art in fine Art Printmaking she is interested in the multiple, either repeating an action or re-employing a seemingly insignificant object in an exploration and study of difference. Pattern and play are both pertinent; pattern in nature and in our daily lives - the pattern of living.

Philippa Lawrence 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.

Exhibitions/Events:

2008 Land, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
2008 Welsh Artist of the Year, St Davids Hall (winner)
2008 Through the Lens, Royal West Academy, Bristol
2008 Public Art Commission, Llandrindod Wells
2007 Philippa Lawrence, Oriel Davies, Newtown. Solo Show (touring exhibition)
2006 Sense in Place, Site-ations, Reykjavik, Iceland
2005 Philippa Lawrence & Reiko Aoyagi, House of Art, Czech Republic
2005 Anima, B312, Montreal, Canada
2005 MaP. Rhondda Heritage Park
2004 Mostyn Open, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno
2004 Eisteddfodd, Newport
2003 Explorations - Site Specific Art Work. National Botanic Garden of Wales
2002 Ffresh, Chapter Arts Centre & G39, Cardiff
2002 Like Gold Dust, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
2001 Glow, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea Artspace, Sydney, Australia

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.