Staff profiles

Prof. Robert Pepperell | Prof. Andre Stitt

Cecile Johnson Soliz | Dallas Collins

Philip Nicol | Cherry Pickles

Nigel Bowles | Mark Halliday

Annie Giles Hobbs | Luke Mintowt-Czyz

Dr. Jonathan Clarkson | Denise MacCormac

Mal Bennett | Chris Lloyd

Sue Hunt | Allan Jones

Nigel Williams | Neil Pedder

Dr. Chris Short | Louise Short

Julian Kelly | Prof. David Ferry

Dr. Clive Cazeaux | Karin Hiscock

Paul Granjon

 

 

Dr Robert Pepperell

Professor of Fine-Art

Head of Fine-Art

Tel: 02920 416669

Email: rpepperell@uwic.ac.uk

 

Robert Pepperell is an artist and writer. He studied at the Slade School of Art and went on work with a number of influential multimedia collaborations including Hex, Coldcut and Hexstatic. As well as producing experimental computer art and computer games he has published several interactive CD-Roms and exhibited numerous digital installations including at Ars Electronica. Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art, the ICA, London, the Barbican Gallery, London and the Millennium Dome, London. His book The Post-Human Condition was first published in 1995 and a new version published in 2003 with the subtitle, Consciousness beyond the brain.

 

His second book The Postdigital Membrane, published in 2000, was a collaboration with Michael Punt, with whom he has recently co-edited further volume, Screen Consciousness: Cinema, Mind and World. He has spoken and lectured widely on philosophy, new technology and the relationship between art and consciousness. He is Associate Editor for Leonardo Reviews for the journal of the International Society for Arts, Science and Technology.

 

Personal website: www.robertpepperell.com

Robert Pepperell, 2005. 'Succulus', Oil on panel. 150cm x 145cm

 

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Professor André Stitt

Subject Leader Time Based Practice

Tel: 02920 416624

 

Born in Belfast, N. Ireland, Stitt is considered one of Europe's foremost performance and interdisciplinary artists. He has worked as a time based artist since 1976 creating hundreds of unique performances at major galleries, festivals, alternative venues and sites specific throughout the world including the Venice Biennale 2005, Baltic Contemporary Art Centre, Gateshead, 2005 and The Drawing Centre, New York, 2006.

 

In 2004 he became a professor of the University of Wales. In 2000 he opened trace: Installaction Artspace in Cardiff initiating a robust programme of international time based work: www.tracegallery.org. There are several books published about his life and work.

 

André Stitt is represented by curcioprojects New York.

Personal website: www.andrestitt.com

André Stitt, 2005, 'Nostalgia', Performance Art, Baltic Contemporary Art Centre, Gateshead

 

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Dr Clive Cazeaux

Reader in Aesthetics

Email: ccazeaux@uwic.ac.uk

 

I studied Fine-Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London (1984-87), and it was the questions I encountered there concerning the nature of representation in drawing which led me to Philosophy. An MA in Philosophy at Cardiff University allowed me to locate these questions in Kant’s theory of knowledge (1989-90), and prepared the ground for my PhD study – at the Technische Universität, Berlin (1992), and at Cardiff University (1990-95) – on how recent theories of metaphor in art and science can be informed by Kantian philosophy. In 1995 I was appointed Lecturer in Philosophy at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, part of the University of Central England as it was then. I took up a Senior Lectureship in Aesthetics at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, one year later. From 2003 I was Programme Leader for BA Art and Philosophy, and since 2007 I have been Graduate Studies Coordinator.

 

My research lies in three areas:

- metaphor in aesthetics and the theory of knowledge

- the relation between art and knowledge, and between art and science

- ecological aesthetics and listening as responses to dualistic subject–object thought.

 

Underlying all three is an interest in the role which belonging plays in thought. The concept of belonging governs a person’s ontology: their view of the boundaries of things, the lines and points at which one thing becomes something else. It could be said to determine a person’s ecological awareness: their sense of ‘what belongs to me’ and ‘what is beyond or outside of me’. Philosophy conventionally works with binary oppositions, such as subject–object, mind–body, and inner–outer. Recent debates in phenomenology and the realism–anti-realism contest draw attention to the problems created by trying to assign priorities to opposing terms. My interest lies in what happens when one tries to stop thinking in dualisms, and has to address the textures of experience without the comfort of being able to ascribe qualities to one side of an opposition or the other.

 

To view Clive’s full profile, visit www.csad.uwic.ac.uk/csad/res_profile_cazeaux.htm.

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Cecile Johnson Soliz

Subject Leader Sculpture

Tel: 02920 416602

Email: cjohnson@uwic.ac.uk

 

In a complex, homogenised and highly technological society, Cecile Johnson Soliz’s work, with a focus on the hand-made, offers a new framework for reflecting on the interrelationships between people and their cultures. Her work makes us question how we think about the material world we live in, how we order ourselves in it, and how we communicate and relate to one another. Her work is both contemplative and functional –qualities which together reflect the human condition. Her work often questions the boundaries between Fine-Art, design and craft and she locates her practise in the studio, urban and rural locations and the factories where some of her works are made. She has worked in numerous factories on projects with workers in Italy and England (Warm, Castellamonte; Cocoa Sets, Bournville; Skyline, Measham Leicestershire).

 

Johnson Soliz has exhibited in group shows such as Objects for the Ideal Home, Serpentine Gallery, London (curator Marco Livingstone; 1991), Affinita, Castello di Rivara, Italy (curators Franz Paludetto and Carolin Lindig; 1996), In the Midst of Things, Bournville (curators Gavin Wade and Nigel Prince; 1999), Private View, Barnard Castle (curators Penelope Curtis and Veit Gorner; 1996) amongst others. More recently she has shown in Still Life, Roche Court (image attached; curator Helen Waters; 2006/07). She has exhibited in one-person shows at the National Museum and Gallery of Wales (1999), the Castello di Rivara (2000, 2004) and Arte Contemporanea in Turin (2004). She is currently on an Extended Research Leave from Cardiff School of Art working on a new series of work started with the Creative Wales Award (Arts Council of Wales; 2005) and the Good Ideas Award (Cwaith Cymru/Artwork Wales; 2004) to be exhibited in the UK and Italy later this year.

Cecile Johnson Soliz, Vases for a Painter of Still Life.

 

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Dr. Chris Short

Telephone 02920 416666

Email: cshort@uwic.ac.uk

 

Dr Chris Short is Senior Lecturer in the History of Art and in Photography. He did his PhD on Friedrich Nietzsche and German Expressionism in the Department of Art History and Theory, University of Essex, graduating in 1995. He has published books on Egon Schiele (Phaidon, 1997) and on Wassily Kandinsky (Peter Lang, 2010), and is currently producing a body of artworks relating to the shoreline and surf culture in South Wales.

 

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Louise Short

 

Louise Short studied Fine-Art at Exeter College of Art (graduating in 1986) and in 1992 completed an M.A. in Fine-Art at University of Wales Institute Cardiff.

 

She has exhibited widely in the Europe, the Middle East, Georgia and Australia. The installation work 'Teething Room' was purchased by the Arts Council Collection of England in 1999. Her interest in collections and commonly used objects has culminated in installations and sculptural assemblages, which often utilise forms of dirt and discarded material.

 

In 2007 she was Artist in Residence at the Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail, marking its 21st Anniversary and is currently directing a short film (funded by Arts Council England) described as ‘a momentary’ which would be shown in the Georgian Film Festival 2009.

 

Louise has also had a long and passionate involvement with curation, exhibition organisation and consultation. In which capacity she has played a significant role within both the community of Bristol and wider art world, initiating debate and developing opportunities for artists to create new work.

 

She is the Director and founder of STATION (www.stationbristol.org), a former fireboat station and an old donkey stable/cave situated on the dockside in Bristol, which offers, a temporary Research and Development Context for Art. It was opened in 2000 by Turner Prize candidate Tacita Dean and has shown work by a wide range of artists including Phyllida Barlow, Louis Nixon, and Michael Snow.

 

She is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Plymouth and Camberwell and currently works as an ‘agony' aunt for ALIAS (www.alias.org).

 

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Philip Nicol

Senior Lecturer Fine-Art

Tel: 02920 416602

Email: pnicol@uwic.ac.uk

 

Philip Nicol is an artist who has exhibited widely in Britain and abroad, including Brussels, Berlin, Stuttgart and Vilnius. He has work in a number of public collections including, amongst others, the National Museum of Wales, The National Assembly of Wales, Newport Museum and Art Gallery and the Slovak National Museum, Czechoslavakia. He has been awarded major bursaries and grants by the Arts Council of Wales in 2004, 1999 and 1993. In 2006 Philip collaborated with Diversions dance Company in a performance of Benjamin Britten’s ‘Les Illuminations’ at the Blue Room in the Wales Millenium Centre, Cardiff.

 

Philip has also been prizewinner at several open art competitions including being awarded the Gold Medal in Fine-Art at the 2001 National Eisteddfod of Wales, the prizewinner in the University of Glamorgan Painting Prize of 1998 and awarded second prize at the Welsh Artist of the Year in 2003. As well as a lecturer and artist Philip is also a director of the BayArt Gallery in Cardiff.

Philip Nicol, Departure

 

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Cherry Pickles B.Sc., B.A., M.A.

Senior Lecturer in Fine-Art

Tel: 02920 416658

Email: cpickles@uwic.ac.uk

 

Cherry Pickles studied mathematics in Ulster before studying art at Chelsea School of Art followed by a post grad course at the Slade School of Art. Her first posts were a Residency at St Andrews University and a part-time teaching post at Falmouth school of art. Various other residencies and part-time teaching followed. She is represented by dealers in London, Athens and New York.

Cherry Pickles Cherry Pickles, Exit, Orlando, 18x22 inches acrylic on paper

 

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Paul Granjon

 

Paul Granjon teaches video, digital media and performance in the Media Art and Performance area School of Fine-Art. His video, performance and installation work is shown internationally. He was one of the artists representing Wales at the Venice Biennale in 2005.

He works with electronics, robotics, video and computer programming. His subject matter is the evolution of the relation and respective status of human and machine. He applies a playful, hands-on approach to the production of machines for video films, installations and performances. The presentation of his work often comprises humorous elements, combined with a darker vision.

More details about Paul Granjon's work at: www.zprod.org

Paul Granjon wearing Robotic Ears, Bournville, 2003

 

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Karin Hiscock

Senior Lecturer in Art History/Theory

 

Karin Hiscock is a Senior Lecturer in Art History/ Theory. She is a member of Association of Art Historians, Garden History Society, Brecknock History Society & Museum Association, Art Fund, and founding member of Welsh Historic Gardens Trust.

 

Recent work includes:

• Presented a paper on The Llanthony Priory Series by John Piper for Art Fund (2006), an independent charity that enables museums and galleries to collect work

• Recommended by Dr. Francis Spalding O.B.E. to submit book proposal based on doctoral work to Tate Gallery Publications (now in progress), March 2006

• Invited by David Fraser Jenkins (Tate Britain) to review exh. at Dulwich Picture Gallery, of John Piper. Abstraction on the Beach for Burlington Magazine. June 2003

 

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Annie Giles-Hobbs

Part-time Lecturer, Printmaking

Tel: 02920 416619

Email: ahobbs@uwic.ac.uk

 

Annie Giles Hobbs was born in Cardiff and continues to live and work in the city. She teaches part time in the Printmaking section of the Fine-Art course, School of Art and Design. She is also co-director of the Cardiff Print Workshop, a non-profit organisation that fosters an interest in Printmaking through its workshop and public access programmes.

 

Annie is a member of the Bute Town Artist group and is a director on the Bute Town Artist Company board. She has taught for over 17 years having developed a special interest and expertise in relief printing, the collagraph and etching.

 

Her personal work is constructed of complex surfaces reminiscent of Gothic and Renaissance glaze painting. The concepts however are contemporary and the layered images are built using a unique set of processes including printmaking and painting.

 

Annie Hobbs exhibits widely in Wales and internationally and her work is in many private and public collections. The Arts Council of Wales is currently supporting the production of Annie’s latest works.

 

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Luke Mintowt Czyz

Lecturer Fine-Art Painting

Email: lmczyz@uwic.ac.uk

 

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Mark Halliday

Senior Lecturer Fine-Art Sculpture

Email: mHalliday@uwic.ac.uk

 

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Dr. Jonathan Clarkson

Subject Leader Art History & Theory

 

Jonathan Clarkson is an art historian. He studied at the University of Kent and the University of Essex where he wrote his PhD on the relation between fantasy and the visual imagination in the English School of psychoanalysis. Before coming to Cardiff he taught at Chelsea School of Art, the University of Essex and Colchester Institute. He has a special interest in contemporary art practice and has published essays on contemporary painting, sculpture and photography.

 

In 2000 he was involved in curating an exhibition around Constable’s painting of Wivenhoe Park, and was co-editor, with Neil Cox, of the book Constable and Wivenhoe Park: Reality and Vision which accompanied the exhibition. The book includes an essay by him looking at Constable’s strategy in balancing the rival claims of place and painting. More recently, he has completed a major book on the painter due to be published by Phaidon.

 

His research interests centre on the question of the relationship between artwork and viewer, and include: psychoanalysis, contemporary art, theories of representation and the history and practice of landscape art.

 

Tel: 02920 416664

 

email: jclarkson@uwic.ac.uk

 

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Denise MacCormac

Programme Administrator

Tel: 02920 416669

Email: dmaccormac@uwic.ac.uk

 

Denise MacCormac has worked as an Administrator at UWIC for eighteen years. For the past ten years she has been the Programme Administrator for BA Fine-Art.

 

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Mal Bennett M.A. P.G.C.E.

Technician Demonstrator

Tel: 02920 416362

Email: mbennett@uwic.ac.uk

 

Malcolm Bennett is a photographer. He studied Documentary Photography at Newport and later worked in the field of commercial photography. He has nine years experience in Higher Education having been previously employed as a lecturer at Filton College in Bristol. His recent work looks at the seaside and the liminal environment that exists between the land and the sea. He often works at nighttime or during twilight exploring a time when our visual sense may become compromised.

Mal Bennett, 2005. 'Clarence Parade Pier', Southsea', RA4 Print 20" x 24"

 

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Julian Kelly

Technical Demonstrator, Media Arts and Performance

Tel: 02920 416623

Email: jkelly@uwic.ac.uk

 

I have been a technician in the Media Arts and Performance (formerly Time Based Practice) area of the School of Fine-Art since 1992. I studied Fine-Art at South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education, specialising in film. Following this I worked as a freelance film technician (sound recordist, lighting cameraman), as lighting technician for the performance group Live Support System, and as a film course tutor covering all areas of film production at Chapter Film Workshop.

 

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Chris Lloyd

Technical Demonstrator

Tel: 02920 416602

Email: clloyd@uwic.ac.uk

 

Born 1950 at Stockton-on-Tees in the northeast of England, Chris studied painting at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (1969-73), and screen printing for a further 2 years at Newcastle College of Arts and Technology. He was awarded an MA Fine-Art at the University of Wales in1998.

 

He helped to establish the artist/printmaker/publishing group virtually-6, and is active in CSAD research group PROOF. Chris is currently making screen prints, compiling books and bilingual text plates, and writing spoof reviews for exhibitions, catalogues, and website pages…

 

An extract from a review of the artist’s work, published in Apollo magazine 1974, reads…”Grace and delicacy are among the distinguishing traits of the style of Chris Lloyd. The slender, elegant figures are plastically modelled with but a slight tendency to schematize the draperies. The soft, subtle colours that predominate in the compositions are occasionally heightened by vivid touches of red… These different procedures contribute to the diversity of the general effect.”

 

website: www.virtually-6.com

 

 

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Sue Hunt

Senior Lecturer, Printmaking

Tel: 02920 416620

Email: shunt@uwic.ac.uk

 

Sue Hunt is a Painter and Printmaker. She studied at Canterbury College of Art and went on to study her MA at Cardiff School of Art. As well as maintaining and developing her own practice she went on to take part in a number of long-term residencies in schools as well as commissions for the Arts Council for public and community programmes.

 

A Travel Scholarship to study 'Contemporary Mural Practice' took her to Detroit, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles as well as Mexico City to study the work of Diego Rivera. In the early 1990's came an invitation to work at the Brandywine Printworkshop, Philadelphia, to produce a suite of Lithographs ( and to work on 60x 40 ft Mural with local students).

 

In 1992 she was awarded a Travel Scholarship to study Woodblock Printmaking and Papermaking in Sanganer, Rajasthan, India. This trip was also to act as a catalyst for the initiation of the long-running exchange programme between artists from Wales and Northern Rajasthan.Sue was Invited to return for a one-person exhibition at the Jawahar Kala Kendra in Jaipur in 2004. Throughout this time Sue has maintained her own painting and printmaking, always influenced by the places she has visited and worked in. She has shown widely, Nationally and Internationally and has work in many public collections.

 

Website: www.suehunt.co.uk

 

 

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Nigel Williams

Workshop Technician

Tel: 02920 416602

Email: nwilliams@uwic.ac.uk

 

Nigel Williams is a Technician Demonstrator who works in the Sculpture Department. His specialist area is in the field of machine wood working and joinery - Nigel has a vast knowledge in all things timber related. He studied at UWIC and has over 20 years experience, 12 of which have been working in the Sculpture Department. He is primarily based in the woodworking studio and holds demonstrations of all wood working equipment,including tools, finishes and other demos such as wood turning, wood construction, carving, wood adhesives, wood finishes and other processes.

 

As well as his specialist skills in wood working, Nigel is instrumental in the running of the sculpture workshops. In recent years, Nigel has worked with staff and students within the School of Art & Design, both B.A. and M.A. In 2006 he was commissioned by the Royal Variety Club to produce presentation boxes for HRH Her Majesty the Queen and Prince Phillip.

 

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Neil Pedder

Technical Demonstrator

Media Arts and Performance

Tel: 02920 416602

Email: npedder@uwic.ac.uk

 

Neil studied sonic art for his B.A. at South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education (1981 – ’84) and for his M.A. sonic installation work at Cardiff Institute of Higher Education (1991 – ’92) Since then he has worked as one of the two technicians in the Timebased Practice area. Up until 2002 he worked as a freelance sound/lighting engineer, with 18 years experience of a vast range of applications, from theatre and pantomime to catwalk fashion shows and touring rock bands. Neil is a musician and since 1984 has been playing with the long running jazz group the Heavy Quartet. Described as “magnificently iconoclastic” by the Wire magazine and as playing “excellent po-faced music” by the Guardian, the band has played all over the UK and Europe and are currently working on their 14th album.He has also performed in many smaller groups, notably the free improvisation ensemble the Diggers and in his solo work, creates ambient soundscapes.

 

Web sites: www.heavyquartet.com

www.myspace.com/heavyquartet

 

 

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Dallas Collins

Sculpture Technician

Tel: 02920 416604

Email: dcollins@uwic.ac.uk

 

1995-2003: Using the skills I had gained throughout my engineering career and my love of Art I was able to progress from a diploma at City of Bath College through to a first class Hon¹s degree in sculpture at Norwich School of Art and design. I then gain a place at one of the most prestigious Art Schools in the world, The RCA in London. After my MA I was employed by the RCA as a foundry Assistant/Technician, helping with the everyday running of the foundry and helping MA students gain a good understanding of their own professional working practice. I stayed with the RCA for two years and taught sculpture- part time at Chelsea school of Fine-Art.Between 2003-2006 I worked part time as a Lecturer/Technician and artist in residence at the University of Wales Institute of Cardiff (UWIC). As from January 2007 I was offered a full time position as sculpture and foundry art technician/demonstrator at CSAD.

Dallas collins, 'Sweet' 2007, 177cm high x 203cm diameter, about 7UK tons and It's made from cast iron, Image shown is bronze Maquette 30cm high x 34cm diameter. Location: Jerwood Space London

 

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Allan Jones

Painting Technician

Tel: 02029 416658

Email: aojones@uwic.ac.uk

 

Allan Jones was born in Bangor , North Wales .He studied at Lanchester Polytechnic Coventry (foundation Course) and UWIC Cardiff (B.A. Hons Fine-Art Painting) .Since leaving college Allan has continued painting in a number of studio buildings in Cardiff ( former A.A.D.W. Studios at Tyndall Street and Collingdon Road ) . Since 1996 Allan has worked at his home studio in Caerphilly. He has shown work in numerous exhibitions and has works in both public and private collections. From 1979 employed as Fine-Art Painting Technician at U.W.I.C. Allan is predominantly a painter and works usually on a large scale in acrylics, however he also produces book works and diaries using collage and photocopy transfer.

Allan Jones “Untitled” 2004 . 24”x24” Acrylic Emulsion, papier mache and varnish on cotton duck canvas 2004

 

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David Ferry

Senior Lecturer, Printmaking

Subject leader, Printmaking

 

David Ferry ARE, studied at the Blackpool, Camberwell and Slade Schools of art. He has an international exhibition and award record in the field of printmaking ,photomontage and artists books. Recent solo exhibitions have been in Berlin, London, New York, Poznan, and Seoul.

 

David gained a major Pollock-Krasner award from New York in 2002 and was awarded the Bronze Medal at the First International Book Arts Fair in Seoul ,Korea in 2005.He has represented the Uk in the Krakov and Tallinn International Print Triennials He is a well known figure in the world of artists books and is represented in many associated publications about the genre, his work has been reviewed in leading publications including the New York Times. His own writings about collage and British humour have also been published.

 

David was appointed associate professor in Fine-Art media from the Long Island University in New York where he worked between 1999 and 2002.David is currently Head of Printmaking at the Cardiff School of Art and Design and a visiting lecturer at the Crawford College of Art and Design in Cork, Ireland. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts he was made an ARE ( Royal Society of Painter/Printmakers )in 2005 and is a committee member for the society.

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Nigel Bowles

PGCE Teaching Assistant

Printmaking, Fine-Art

Tel: 02920 416620

Email: nbowles@hotmail.co.uk

 

Nigel Bowles is an artist who has been based in Cardiff since 2000, where he undertook the BA (Hons) Fine-Art degree in the School of Art and Design, specialising in Printmaking. He went on to complete the Fine-Art MA in the School in 2005. As an artist who deals with a range of mixed media methods and techniques, including traditional print processes through to digital-print and photography, Nigel’s work is characterised by variety and diversity. He has exhibited throughout Wales and England and is at present completing the PGCE teacher training, higher level certificate with a residency in the Printmaking department, in The Cardiff School of Art and Design.

 

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