Events
Saturday Table TalksCatriona Ryan & Lindsay Halton
24 May - 24 May 2014
Words or Walls
From 12pm
Join Catriona Ryan and Lindsay Halton at Mission Gallery as they discuss their work with panel members Caroline Humphreys, Steph Mastoris, Shellie Holden and chairperson Ciara Healy
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Caroline Humphreys | Managing Director Epona Cymru Limited
Caroline Humphreys has worked in the field housing and support for over 25 years, working for Welsh Women’s Aid and holding senior posts in housing associations in South Wales before establishing her consultancy Epona Cymru Ltd in 2000. This year alongside her paid work Caroline has also started an Art and Design Foundation Course at UWTSD in Swansea.
Steph Mastoris | Head, National Waterfront Museum
Steph Mastoris is Head of the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea, one of seven sites operated by Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales. Before moving to Wales in 2004, Steph had spent over 25 years working for municipal museums in Nottingham and Leicestershire, firstly as a history curator then as a site manager and latterly as Head of Collections. He was born in Cardiff and studied history at London University.
Shellie Holden | Artist
Practitioner, researcher and lecturer, Shellie’s practice lies on the peripheries between, drawing, making and textiles. She uses these disciplines to explore the materiality of making. With recent projects including re-inventing the original native Alaskan Parka using pig gut as a sustainable source. Featured on 'Kevin Mcclouds Man Made Home,' for Optomen Television, October 2013. Participation in ‘Everyone Everything’ an exhibition and series of events held at the Ragged School, Swansea, 2013. ‘Concepts for a domestic space - curating in the home’ a series of ongoing interventions and enquiry, December 2013 – present. ‘Spaces for making’, a Maker in Focus installation for the Mission Gallery Swansea, 20th May - 29th June 2014.
Ciara Healy | Writer, curator & book artist
Ciara Healy is currently the Head of Critical and Contextual Studies at The School of Creative Arts, Coleg Sir Gar/UWTSD. In 2011 she was one of three writers to be awarded the WAI & Axis Developing Critical Writing on Contemporary Visual Arts Programme. Since then she has worked with established critics JJ Charlesworth, Cherry Smyth and Chris Sharratt and has written for Art Review, Circa and This is Tomorrow. She has also written many exhibition catalogue essays. She is currently studying for a PhD at the Place Research Centre, University of the West of England, Bristol with Dr. Iain Biggs under the research title: The Thin Perception: A proposal for a new curatorial approach. Her bookworks have been exhibited internationally and they are housed in prestigious national and international collections including TATE Britain Artists’ Book Collection as well as private collections in Ireland, the UK and the USA.
