My Cherry Bomb. Newly developed print folio comprising 9 large-scale 6’x6’ canvases and folio of 20 screen prints in a limited edition of 10.
- Submitting institution
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University of Wales Trinity Saint David / Prifysgol Cymru Y Drindod Dewi Sant
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32-SW1
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Gallery TEN Cardiff, STUDIO18 Gallery Pontycymer, The Print Market Project Cardiff
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of first exhibition
- June
- Year of first exhibition
- 2018
- URL
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https://conifer.rhizome.org/RIES_MattBriggs/uoa32-sw-1/20210128113236/https://culturecolony.com/media/video/my-cherry-bomb-conversation
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- My Cherry Bomb is a conversation project and a curatorial initiative funded and supported by the Arts Council of Wales culminating in an exhibition bringing a new perspective to the post-industrial communities of South Wales. The exhibits covered a wide variety of contemporary issues: global news, identity, gender, feminism, sexuality and economic crisis. Williams produced 9 large-scale ‘page-a-week’ canvases responding to the ‘real’ and ‘cyber’ worlds, completed over a 9-week period in conjunction with the Print Market Project, Cardiff and a folio of 20 silkscreen litho-graphs in a limited edition of 10. The print collaboration marked a turning point for Williams and her playing with scale, which resulted in stark contrast to the size and vibrancy of the paintings and the prints which are monochrome and intimate in scale. Reminiscent of the Victorian-era’s erotic miniatures, the viewer becomes a voyeur, a position which is perhaps more familiar in today’s digitally dependent world. The work investigates the play and multi-layered nuances between real and virtual life and the speed at which these two worlds are converging to expose the extreme variances of human behaviour and emergent forms of communication. This dichotomy is the key point from which the artist works exposing darkness/humour in direct textual/hand-written musings and visual images on canvas. Williams collaborated with Studio18 owner and artist Kevin Sinnott, and Gallery TEN in Cardiff to create an exhibition and events which introduced the community to the Fine Art education, options and possibilities, most of whom do not encounter the visual arts in any way shape or form. Dissemination: Studio18. Pontycymmer. 9th – 18th June 2018.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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