News & Events February 2011

The Silent Village

21st January - 12 March 2011

Oriel Mostyn

For this touring exhibition, curator Russell Roberts (eCPR) invited artists and writers Peter Finnemore, Paolo Ventura and Rachel Trezise to respond to The Silent Village, a film that re-enacts in Wales the Nazi destruction of the Czech village of Lidice committed on June 10th 1942.

Following the assignation of SS Deputy Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich by Czech resistance fighters, the village of Lidice was obliterated in reprisal, its 173 male residents murdered by firing squad while the women and children were taken to concentration camps or sent to live with SS Officers to be Germanised. Within weeks, work had began on translating the events into a film supported by the Ministry of Information, London and made in South Wales.

Exploring common themes of loss and memory, Finnemore, Ventura and Trezise create new commentaries that link with Lidice through personal responses. Observing collective ways of remembering and considering generational memory as a vital means of continuing to know the past is a key theme.

Roberts will be discussing the exhibition at an Artists Talking event on 26th February at 2pm. Further information on the exhibition is available from the BBC website.

VARIO Print Exchange

Goulburn Regional Art Gallery 10 - 26 February, 2011

Instigated by Tony Ameneiro, Vario is an exhibition of work by 48 printmakers from Southern Highland Printmakers (Australia), Impress Printmakers Group Brisbane (Australia), Hawaii University Print Group (U.S.A.) and V6 printmakers (Wales), and including work by Sue Hunt (CFAR).

This is the second leg of this touring show, with the first exhibition taking place in BayArt, Cardiff. A range of approach, subject matter and printmaking techniques are illustrated, including traditional printmaking methods such as etching, lithography and screen-printing along with examples of digital print.

Interpreting Ceramics: Issue 12

Issue 12 of the electronic journal Interpreting Ceramics is now available online. The majority of this issue has been edited by Prof. Mary Drach McInnes of the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, USA, and includes several transcripts of conference presentations focussing on interdisciplinary approaches in ceramics studio practice and ceramics education. There is also a review by research student Leah McLaughlin of the 2010 International Film Festival on Clay and Glass held in Montpelier, France.

SURegen Workshop 8

7th February 2011
Dragon Hotel, Swansea

Organised by Dr John Littlewood and Dr Caroline Fox (EBERE), the workshop will provide an introduction to the EPSRC funded Sustainable Urban Regeneration (SURegen) project, the activities of Coastal Housing Group, and review the research which UWIC is contributing to SURegen, in collaboration with Coastal Housing Group in Swansea. More information and details of how to register for this free workshop visit are available here.

COBRA 2011: Biodiversity and the Built Environment Theme

Following the success of the 2010 COBRA conference, Dr John Littlewood (EBERE) will again be organising and chairing the special theme, Biodiversity and the Built Environment. The conference, which will be hosted by the University of Salford in September 2011, is the annual conference for property and construction research, convened by and in conjunction with the RICS.

Contributions are invited for the Biodiversity and the Built Environment theme, which in its second year aims to stimulate further ideas arising from research, practice, case studies and learning by exploring the range of perspectives from which the built environment industry is able to contribute towards an improved bio-diverse built environment and by facilitating the dissemination of the existing knowledge, practice and learning base. For more information on the theme and call for papers, visit the EBERE pages.

Personal Professorial Chair awarded

Steve Gill, Director of Research at CSAD has been awarded a personal Professorial Chair. From 1st February 2011, his title will change to Professor.

Steve (PAiPR) has achieved considerable standing in his field, with research outputs that situate him as a significant figure internationally in product design research. He has achieved this whilst carrying out other demanding responsibilities, and he remains a passionate and committed teacher.