I went and visited a few exhibitions around Cardiff as part of the Cardiff Design Festival. First up was the UWIC gallery in Capitol shopping centre. It's a fairly small gallery, and when I visited was showing the work of Austrian designers and students. For a small space, there was a lot of work shown, and it was nice to see international work as well as Welsh work being shown in the design festival.
The next stop on my quick tour was Bay Art where there was an exhibition of work by Tim Freeman, Liam O'Connor and Christopher Holloway. I didn't enjoy Chris Holloway's paintings as much as the other work in this show. I could see what the artist was aiming for with his paintings of distorted suburbia, but I felt that the computer manipulation they had undergone before being painted was too obvious and the use of fluorescent pink was overdone. The choice of images was interesting though and they all had a feeling of eerieness and waiting for the next scene about them. Tim Freeman's work was much more calm and muted, and left me puzzling over how he created it. Liam O'Connor's contribution to the show was his paintings of friends and family and of these I particularly liked the ones of people singing as there was a lot of motion to them and I liked the style of painting.
After that I got down to the Wales Millenium Centre for the show of work by design agencies in and around Cardiff. I was very impressed by a lot of the work and overall there seemed to be a lot of green and eco designs. It was interesting for me to see the work of designers in Cardiff, to gain inspiration and also to get an idea of places that my work would suit and that I could apply for placements in.
Related Links:
http://www.cardiffdesignfestival.org
http://www.bayart.org.uk
http://www.wmc.org.uk
http://www.liammarcoconnor.com
http://www.uwic.ac.uk
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