October FORUM - Threats To Art Practice

Thursday 31 October 2013

6.30pm 

g39, Cardiff CF24 3DT

Appropriately falling on Halloween, we'll be talking about the difficulties and pitfalls of maintaining an art practice, the trials and tribulations that come with developing your work, and alongside discussing and evaluating the main three threats; time, space and money, this evening will be an opportunity to discuss and hopefully remedy some problems artists might be having. A ghoulish antidote to the threats to art practices! Threat themed refreshments will be provided.

This Weekend: Cognition Exhibition at The Atrium

Sophie Simon, Chelsea Edwards, Nia Manning, Alexandra Robbins, Bill Bryant, Heidi Smith, Katie Graham, Sammy Hamilton, Amy Shorter & Brittany Sims

Open 11am - 5pm Until 22nd October.

A series of personal projects by thirteen third year BA(Hons) Photography students at the ATRiuM: Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries.

An eclectic mix of genres including fine art, natural history, documentary, wildlife and more. Showcasing a range of styles and techniques; from traditional and experimental darkroom imagery, to more contemporary and very sharp, precise digital work.

These differences in style and personal interest within the imagery is particularly thought-provoking as the students have been together learning and practicing over the past two years and finally coming into their own in terms of where they want to go within their practice. The differences bind the work together in unison, as this is a first time exhibition for many of the students involved.

Contact Sophie Simon at sophiebsimon@gmail.com for more details.

£30k Bursary Opportunity!

Photography students and alumni will be interested to know that Sky Arts and IdeasTap are giving away five bursaries of £30,000 each to emerging artists aged 18-30.

The bursaries are designed to help talented individuals from a range of creative disciplines focus on their creative practice for a whole year. In addition to the funding, winners are paired with creative and business mentors to support their development.

The Futures Fund is open to UK and Irish applicants working in the following fields:

· Visual art including painters, photographers, animators, digital artists

· Creative producing for people who bring together different artists

· Creative writing including playwrights, novelists and poets

· Performing arts theatre-makers including directors, producers, puppeteers

· Dance including dancers and choreographers

· Music including composers, conductors, musicians and songwriters

The deadline for applications is 5pm on Friday 6 December
Find out more and apply at www.ideastap.com/sky

Lumen Digital Art Prize 2013

The winner's announcement will be held today - Tuesday 8 October 2013.
Arcadecardiff are honoured that celebrated Welsh artist and Lumen jury panel member Ivor Davies, President of the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art, will be awarding the prizes at 6pm!

Arcadecardiff
Queens Arcade, Queen Street, Cardiff / Caerdydd, CF10 2BY
By New Look, down the escalators /  Gerllaw New Look, i lawr y grisiau symudol

FORUM - Test Something

Thursday 26 September 2013: 6.30pm
First Space, Chapter, Cardiff CF5 1QE

For this month’s event Forum will become a lab for new ideas; artist Matthew Britton will be testing out his ideas for a micro curatorial platform for showing web-based works. If you have any, please bring your mobile devices - smart phone, iPad/tablet.

OPPORTUNITY

Are you an early career or graduate lens-based artist/photographer living, working or studying in Wales?

At Ffotogallery, we're making plans for a second Wish You Were Here season in Summer 2014 and would love to see your work!

For more details click here to see our opportunities page

Kickplate Gallery’s current exhibition, "Collaborators"

Dafydd and Zosia has successfully received its ‘kickstarter’ funding to sustain their innovative Kickplate gallery and feature the current exhibition of collaborative works from international artists. The work shows a broad variety of styles and techniques from film swaps to Kaleidoscopes that complement each other through their use of colour and universal themes shown from disparate political and cultural perspectives: http://thekickplateproject.blogspot.co.uk/

‘“collaborators” is the third event organised by the *kickplate* project, an initiative to bring high-quality international art to people who are not the target audience of art.’ 

 – The Kickplate project

The exhibition is open from 17 September - 8 October in Abertillery, Wales.