Month: May 2019
Jay Rogers

Jay Rogers

As designers we have the potential to change the world for the better. With the amount of plastic and obsolete products littering our beautiful planet, it’s our duty to explore alternate routes. For this reason, I have attempted to distance myself from typically...

Benjamin Griffiths

Benjamin Griffiths

In healthcare, The word transition is to describe the process of preparing, planning and moving from children’s to adult services. Moving away from a team of doctors and nurses that patients have been with for many years can be scary experience and being in adult...

Rhiannon Gwyn

Rhiannon Gwyn

My practice explores a sense of place and the notion of having a deep involvement with the landscape. I am interested in how materials can act as identity markers; influencing the way in which we view ourselves and the world around us through the imprinting of emotion...

Menna-Clare Samuel

Menna-Clare Samuel

This project focuses on the interesting and beautiful landscapes of broken ceramic created by an explosion in a bisqueware kiln. The original form has shattered and birthed a collection of small to tiny shards, each with its own individual surface texture. In my study...

Lowri Rees

Lowri Rees

The reason for creating my pieces of jewellery is to show my individuality and it allows me to become part of other peoples life stories. The influence of my work is about repurposing materials which I found challenging, e.g., old copper water tanks and old silver...

Llŷr Williams

Llŷr Williams

A slight anxiety towards using ‘harsh’ machine based processes has pushed me towards a desire for a more calming approach to making, and one that seeks to be as sustainable as possible with material choice. I am driven by the extensive use of hand-made skills to...

Llio Davies

Llio Davies

I believe in design that helps us in our daily lives, whether that’s physically or mentally. Improving individual’s standard of living is my driving principle. All of my work is designed to improve wellbeing, productivity and happiness. My research focuses on how...

Alaw Roberts

Alaw Roberts

As an Artist: Designer Maker, I believe in the value of materials and objects. I have a strong interest in experimenting and discovering new ways of making, creating new techniques and expanding my hand skills in traditional craft specifically in making small objects...

Johnathan English

Johnathan English

Working in clay, for me, is both a passion and a deeply theraputic process. Suffering from long term Post Traumatic Stress Disorder after having served as a Paramedic in the Parachute regiment of the French Foreign Legion for six years. During this time I was to see...

Lucy Thwaites

Lucy Thwaites

Porcelain has been used for centuries for its unique properties. It is fine, delicate, vulnerable and retains evidence of each interaction made with it, fixing a moment in time, documenting a history, the life of the clay. My forms exploit this capacity, finding...

Olivia Antonio

Olivia Antonio

My work displays ambiguous forms that express the human figure, mimicking the subtle movements gestured between bodies capturing connections within intimate moments. These movements displayed by the sensual ceramic forms combined with the composition of the ceramic...

Andrea Pykett

Andrea Pykett

A family is made up of individuals: parents, children, siblings who come together to make a whole. Belonging to a group can bring a sense of cohesion and unity, but individuality cannot be ignored. I believe the same is true for the ceramics used within a home,...

Adlina Razan Binti Ruslan

Adlina Razan Binti Ruslan

My work is a celebration of transculturation and interculturation between Malay, Pakistani and Western culture. Through my practice I hope to represent audiences who are mixed raced, those who are in a minority, and those who are experiencing racial ambiguity, to...

Liam Clayton

Liam Clayton

Space, we move through it every day. We travel from destination to destination chasing our latest objective, most of the time hardly considering where we are beyond how to get to where we need to go. Everything we can perceive exists within space yet we often consider...

Hannah Frances

Hannah Frances

The materiality of clay and the alchemy of minerals are intrinsic properties of the earth often unseen by the naked eye. I choose processes that capture the energy of transformation. Whether first in plaster, second with high end porcelain slip or thirdly by giving a...

Lucy Jenkins

Lucy Jenkins

There is beauty in transferability, in creating a design so simplistic and efficient that it can be adapted to serve multiple functions. Adaptability is essential to my practice. I batch produce pieces, through use of plaster moulds and slip casting, that can be...

Cristina Sabater-Hayes

Cristina Sabater-Hayes

I believe that ceramics is an undervalued material. As humans we have forged a relationship with ceramics for thousands of years and yet we somehow take it for granted. We are constantly in contact with plates, cups, bowls, etc. but we never pay these objects enough...

Jasper Smith

Jasper Smith

We often look at objects and perceive them as static, but it doesnt take much to shift that perception enabling us to transform the regular and mundane into something else. In order to try and come to better terms with what we experience we need a starting point from...

Ady Barker

Ady Barker

The landscape contains a particular spirit that is shaped by those who interact with it. The same is true of the making process, with clay responding to the intent and knowledge of the makers hands. A harmony can be found, a meditative connection reached in both...

Saskia Raw

Saskia Raw

The stacked tea bowls pose a contradiction between function and sculpture, referencing human interaction and the more compositional concerns of weight, shape, form and balance. The consequence of this is a sense of unpredictability, of familiar objects moving into and...

Cameron Benn

Cameron Benn

The ethos of my work is to celebrate a pure minimalist design, to reveal the essential beauty of qualities and values that exist in our architecture and products. It is a beauty derived from a balance of elements that help us feel centred, with the capacity to create...

Elin Hughes

Elin Hughes

My practice stems from a motivation to understand the thrown form. Through a cyclic process of fracturing and reconstructing I hope to achieve an instinctive understanding not of the process of throwing but of the forms that result from this method of making. My...

Nam Kanjana Paylor

Nam Kanjana Paylor

My work explores the balance between function and ornamentation. Whilst ceramics is often associated with utility, our tactile interaction with their properties can enable a story to be told; a sense of time can be captured through movement in glaze, sense states...

Yixia Lin

Yixia Lin

Living in utilitarian buildings, inhabitants can tend to act passively with their surroundings. My interest lies in reactivating our early human lives and a more intimate interaction with the environment. I am fascinated by the primitive quality of the ancient objects...

Cheryl Turner

Cheryl Turner

Cheryl Turner, an Architectural Technologist used Revit and AutoCAD to create a planning and construction package. Working with 2 and 3-dimensional model software, allowed to build and evolve an initial concept into The Anchorage. The design aspects of The Anchorage...

Karan Magon

Karan Magon

Located in the heart of Cardiff, i.e; Cardiff Bay, this massive mixed-use building development is on a prominent waterside site. Spread over 7 storeys, the building offers lot more than you expect. The ground floor and the first floor are divided into two halves with...

Mohamed Kamel

Mohamed Kamel

From an early age, I have always had a powerful passion for art and design, and I have been engaged with it form all throughout my life. When I was 14 years old I knew that it was something that I might like to go ahead as a profession, I started taking it more...

Gloire Nkouka

Gloire Nkouka

The mix used building project, is based on the Porth Teigr bay site near the BBC filming studio. The given task was to design two mix use building on a 5565.30m2 area surrounded by a residential area, mix zone and commercial zone facing the north side of the site. The...

Shauna Hearne

Shauna Hearne

The final year design practice project is based on the development of a prominent waterside site at Cardiff Bay, South Wales for a mixed use of residential, commercial and/ or office. The development is a low rise five storey building that will accommodate a mix of...

Laura Manfield

Laura Manfield

The brief of this project required the architectural design and technical details of a 5 storey building for a mixed use development, incorporating commercial and residential space. The brief was based around a live location at Porth Teigr bay, Cardiff bay. My Design...

Ryan Davies

Ryan Davies

My project is based on the development of the prominent waterside site at Cardiff Bay, South Wales. The building is to include a mixed use of residential, office and commercial space that’s elevated over 7-storeys, the building will accommodate 42 apartments a mix of...

Kenny Waddell-Breen

Kenny Waddell-Breen

My major final year project is a mixed-use development on a waterside site located adjacent to the South-East edge of the Roath Basin, Cardiff Bay. The development contains one and two bedroom apartments which include multiple penthouses - housing up to 42 residents -...

Nahla Juilany

Nahla Juilany

My final year project is based on the waterside development of Porth Teigr, on the southern side of Roath Basin, forming the newest part of Cardiff Bay. In 2003, the Welsh Government purchased the site in order to make use of the spectacular waterfront location and...

Batool Fathi

Batool Fathi

The design scheme is based on the development of a prominent waterside site at Cardiff Bay, South Wales for mixed use of Residential, Office and Retail with a strong public realm and a connection of open spaces between them. Overall the scheme is a mixed-use building...

Tiiana McIntosh

Tiiana McIntosh

This projects brief was to design a mixed purpose 5-6 storey building overlooking the Roath Basin in Cardiff Bay. The lower two levels of the building were to be commercial and/or residential, and so I chose to incorporate a gym and office on the first two levels as...

Philip Cooper

Philip Cooper

What excites me about Architectural Design and Technology is the unlimited design solutions that are possible to solve a certain set of criteria in any given brief. The rigid discipline of building science and manufacture can be met with the freedom of creativity and...

Daniel Pickering

Daniel Pickering

This display is intended to show the site and context of the proposed Cardiff Bay Waterfront development ‘Porth Teigr’. This proposed development consists of a new mixed-use apartment block containing 3 No. water - front commercial spaces, 1 No. cafe and 36 No....

Jacob Tasker

Jacob Tasker

The brief required the design of a 5 or 6 storey mixed-use building for the prominent waterside site located in Porth Teigr, Cardiff Bay. The ground and first floor of the building required a mixture of retail and commercial spaces, with the second to fifth floor...

Xuhui Zhou

Xuhui Zhou

This is my final year project and it is located in Porth Teigr which near to Cardiff Bay. The purpose of this project is to design a five or six storey building that will accommodate a mix of one or two bed flats with a top floor of penthouse apartments. The ground...

Sara Treble-Parry

Sara Treble-Parry

The fetishisation of food has become a hugely important aspect of my practice. The playful and flirtatious nature of eating on camera for an audience to document the sexualised reactions has developed from paintings of a "sexual" emoji fruit machine into a grotesque...

Roxanne Spana

Roxanne Spana

When I make, I am powered by my love of animals and my love of cuddly things, with the goal of creating something that will give me, my client, and any other wearers or viewers a spark of joy. For the wearer, I strive for comfort, through features such as soft...

Sean Matthews

Sean Matthews

The body of work is an exploration into various manufacturing processes and materials used to represent the form of the human hand. These hands are informed by the materiality of the process used with the abstracted forms expressing the materials themselves. The...

Daniel Hartill

Daniel Hartill

My piece is based on the chairs awarded during the Eisteddfod ‘Chairing of the Bard’ ceremony. I incorporated imagery from the Mabinogion stories, particularly animals, to create a piece based on welsh folklore with a message of preserving our ancient connection to...

Nicole Elyse Garner

Nicole Elyse Garner

I believe that the world can be too complex and that there is definitive beauty in simplicity and minimalism. I feel that minimalistic designs positively affect our mental wellbeing. The ethos of my work is to show that contemporary design can occasionally be too...

Natasha Goss

Natasha Goss

My practice is rooted in combining sound, experience and objects. The aim of my work is to stimulate senses other than the visual by creating interactive objects that enable people to be both actor and receptor in an experience of resonant sound. Translating these...

Michaela Davidova

Michaela Davidova

I am a multidisciplinary artist, photographer and maker. One thing which attracts me on art and design is turning the objects and their meaning around - making a new use for items that have been wasted, thinking about alternative solutions and possibilities for a...

Sophie Hall

Sophie Hall

My practice is focused on fostering an appreciation of true craftsmanship while celebrating the natural qualities of wood. My aim for these pieces was to showcase my skills; both within design and making, as both aspects are essential for effective and innovative...

Rhiannon Rees-Williamson

Rhiannon Rees-Williamson

The beach of bricks and mortar is a result of Cardiff’s industrial revolution. The beach in the city that found it’s glory in the coal and carbon industries. Industries that ran the dross out into the ocean. Splott Beach holds an archive of materials that have been...

Daisy Eltenton

Daisy Eltenton

My art practice involves photography, drawing, and ceramics. From a young age, Photography has allowed me to document my everyday life, taking pictures of my friends as we grew up, and depicting the struggles and joys along the way. My drawings have been a way of...

William Treasure

William Treasure

Our over exposure to common objects results in us viewing them in a synecdochic fashion. We disregard the complex nature of objects, our overuse of them obfuscates their identity, hindering our appreciation of them, limiting our experience of them. We don’t see a bowl...