Events
Saturday Table TalksJason&Becky & Niall Maxwell
17 May - 17 May 2014
Sound, vision and social media: How to live in the virtual world - and down here on earth...
From 12pm
Join Jason&Becky and Niall Maxwell in St. David’s car park as they discuss their work with panel members Mat Barnes, Sarah Pace, Stephen Smith, Tessa Blazey and chairperson Denise Kwan.
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Mat Barnes Architect & STORE associate
Mat, an architect and artist, runs a small design studio, Critical Architecture Network (CAN) and works as project architect at Paul Archer Design. He is also an active associate at STORE, an elastic association experimenting with educational models, collaborative projects and a wide ranging public programme. His current work looks at using and distorting cultural contexts, embedding projects into their location both physically and culturally.
Sarah Pace | Arts Consultant, Co-Director, ADDO
Addo is a not-for-profit arts organisation specialising in the curation of contemporary art in the public realm. Based in Addo's South Wales Office in Pontypridd, Sarah has worked in the public art sector in Wales for the past 9 years. She has extensive experience of developing public art strategies, curating and managing programmes of temporary and permanent public artworks and leading on the delivery of artist residencies, exhibitions and other events with, for and on behalf of artists, communities, voluntary organisations and private and public sector clients, including Arts Council of Wales, Leadbitter, Cardiff Community Housing Association, Torfaen County Borough Council, Tŷ Hafan and City & County of Swansea Council. Originally trained as a painter at Loughborough University, Sarah later completed an MA in Art Museum & Gallery Studies at Newcastle University. In parallel to her work for Addo, Sarah is a PhD candidate at Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries at the University of South Wales and is managing, on behalf of the Josef Herman Art Foundation Cymru, 'Mining Josef Herman', the first of five outreach projects for Tate’s 'Transforming Tate Britain: Archives & Access' programme.
Stephen Smith | Design & Conservation Officer, City & County of Swansea
Tessa Blazey | Head of Engagement, Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay
Tessa heads up the engagement team for Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay. In addition she is developing proposals for education, sports, arts and cultural programmes founded on the lagoon. She brings twenty years’ experience in the events and sports industry, planning and organising major international events including The AEGON Championships and The World Super Series Finals.
Denise Kwan | Writer & Curator, Lecturer in Contextual Studies at Swansea Metropolitan, UWTSD
Denise studied Fine Art Sculpture at University of Brighton and developed her studies in Curating Contemporary Art at Royal College of Art. As an artist-writer, she is interested in questions of origin and migration and how these ideas can be expressed through found objects, cultural motifs, images and text. She is interested in ideas of otherness specifically in the context of British Chinese diaspora and its representation through artists’ practice, television and media. As a writer, Denise has contributed towards magazines such as Art Review, This Is Tomorrow and in 2010, was awarded the Art Criticism Prize from BREESELITTLE.
