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Artists' Residencies at Aberystwyth Arts Centre
Supported by Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
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Applications are now invited for the new Artists’ Residency Programme. Successful artists will be based for a period of either 3 or 6 months at Aberystwyth Arts Centre, part of Aberystwyth University, in newly built studios designed by the award winning Thomas Heatherwick.
The residencies are open to UK visual artists in all disciplines including applied arts. The successful artists will receive studio space of c. 35 square metres, accommodation, and living expenses for the duration of their residency. The residency will be an opportunity for the artist to step away from the everyday constraints of life and experience time in which to develop individual artistic practice, and to exchange ideas in a creative atmosphere with people from other disciplines.
The selected artists will devote most of their time to pursuing their work, but the following will, by discussion with individual artists, be a part of the experience:
- An informal public talk by the artist about their practice
- Social meetings with other artists and arranged visits to other arts venues in Wales
- Open studio morning once per month by arrangement with the artist
- Open Studio exhibition of work at the end of the residency.
The possibility of the work being exhibited for a longer period in one of the Arts Centre Galleries will be discussed during the residency; as will the potential for any outreach/educational work should the artist wish it.
Up to three artists will be offered residencies at any one time. Other Units in the complex will be in use by a variety of creative businesses.
A residency will cover the following costs for the agreed period: cost of the Studio, including heating, lighting etc; accommodation arranged locally. A fixed sum for living expenses and materials will be awarded. Travel to and from Aberystwyth is borne by the artist.
The amounts currently awarded are: £100 per week living expenses to include travel during the residency period; £25 per week materials allowance.
The studios have basic furniture only. Facilities within the Arts Centre will be available by negotiation, eg. digilab equipment, darkroom, ceramics studio etc.
Applicants will be evaluated on criteria including the artistic or professional excellence of the applicant’s work; and the extent to which a residency at Aberystwyth Arts Centre will contribute to the artist’s development and be consistent with the applicant’s creative goals, and professional development.
HOW TO APPLY
The first residencies will begin in June 2008. Applications are accepted at any time.
Applicants should fill in the application form and send it to the address listed on the form, together with the visual and printed material and references as requested.
If further copies of the form are required, by post or by email, please email etr@aber.ac.uk
Or call 01970 622887/ 621634
Information can also be downloaded from:
http://www.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk/whatson/
Aberystwyth Arts Centre
Aberystwyth Arts Centre is an award winning arts facility, the largest and busiest arts centre in Wales with a wide-ranging programme of events and activities across all art forms. Over 700,000 visitors a year are welcomed, and the Centre employs 40 full time and 119 part time staff. In 2000, the Arts Centre completed a major £4.3 million redevelopment project which was largely funded by the National Lottery, and now has facilities unrivalled throughout much of the UK; leading it to be recognised as a national centre for arts development and described as a ‘national flagship for the arts.’ It is a department of Aberystwyth University. The building houses a concert hall, theatre, two galleries, ceramics collection gallery, cinema, studio theatre, workshops (including pottery, dark room, recording studio, digital lab), café, Craft & Design shop, Bookshop, bars, and full backstage and administration facilities.
The artistic programme is a very varied one, including performing arts, literature, the visual arts and crafts, music and community arts; and the Centre is the hub for several international Festivals including the highly successful biennial International Ceramics Festival.
Aberystwyth Arts Centre has a successful track record for creating and running successful operations which contribute to the ethos of the Centre and also help the financial balancing act; the Centre’s earned income is over 70% of the total - far higher than comparable cultural facilities in the UK. The venue is an important and successful facility which is playing an increasingly vital role as income from traditional industries continues to decline.
The performing arts programme has a wide range and is of high quality; including UK & international dance and drama such as Out Of Joint theatre, Amajuba, Theatre de Complicite, Hull truck; Wales based companies such as Mappa Mundi, Diversions dance; Classical Music with Welsh National Opera, Catrin Finch; youth & community productions and a programme of world, folk, blues and popular music.
The cinema embraces a wide ranging programme including the best of UK and world cinema, and encompasses work from small independent producers to Hollywood productions.
The temporary exhibitions programme takes place within two galleries, and encompasses a wide range of contemporary practice from within the UK and worldwide. Recent exhibitions, some of which are originated here to tour to other venues in the UK and Ireland, include James Morris’ ‘Butabu’; Jeremy Deller’s Folk Archive; Janet Cardiff’s ‘Forty Part Motet’ and Cadet, new work by Tim Davies, which includes a film work made in Aberystwyth.
Aberystwyth Arts Centre also houses the University’s important collection of 20th and 21st century studio ceramics, and the exhibitions programme has a long commitment to the promotion and development of contemporary crafts, ceramics in particular.
Community arts and education programme includes an ‘Open Platform’ which helps emerging practitioners in music, dance, theatre and performance to present their work in a professional environment. Artists in Schools covers a range of creative Outreach and Arts Centre based visual arts, dance, drama, music and writing based workshops for school aged children. In addition, regular classes stimulate creativity and enhance well being.
Aberystwyth itself can offer the benefits of rural life – a small town, surrounded by an outstanding landscape and the sea – yet with the stimulating company of arts colleagues, University staff and students, and other facilities including national organisations such as the National Library, National Books Council and the Institute of Grassland & Environmental Research ( - which was the base for an exciting art-science NESTA funded collaboration with artists Heather Ackroyd & Dan Harvey.
The Units, designed by Thomas Heatherwick Studio
The residency programme will offer artists the opportunity to concentrate on their work in a congenial setting. The new Creative Business Units will bring together creative businesses and individual artists’ studios. The three Units reserved for temporary residencies will be part of this grouping, and all will relate back strongly to the Arts Centre, immediately adjacent, which will continue to function as the primary social meeting point.
Artists’ Impression of the Creative Business Units
The Creative Business Units have been supported by the Welsh Development Agency and the Arts Council of Wales. Following a commitment to the economic value and aesthetics of low cost buildings, five design teams were invited to explore the use of modular building technologies in visually and spatially innovative ways; and Thomas Heatherwick Studios was selected.
Reluctant to dilute the wooded character of the site by superimposing a single campus-style block, the Studio chose instead to set smaller buildings among the trees. These consist of simple timber frame buildings, split down their centre and pulled apart to provide light and ventilation and a shared entrance area, clad in an innovative and distinctive crinkled stainless steel.
The units average 35 square metres; the interiors are practical, accessible to the disabled and easily adaptable to many needs. Outside, these units will have a unique look, set in a curve beside the Arts Centre and reflecting the foliage with which they are surrounded.
Aberystwyth
Aberystwyth town is situated on the West Coast of Wales, in the centre of Cardigan Bay. The medieval walled town was built around a 13th-century fortress, and later became the exporter for the once-flourishing local lead mines. Aberystwyth today is a University town and an established holiday resort, on a spectacular coastline and surrounded by some of the most glorious countryside in Britain. Aberystwyth University attracts students from all over the world, which lends the town a more cosmopolitan and liberal ambience than many Welsh towns of a similar size.
The town is generally regarded as the capital of mid Wales, and several institutions have regional or national offices there – including the National Library of Wales, the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales and the Institute of Grassland and Environmenal Research.
Preswyliadau Artistiaid yng Nghanolfan y Celfyddydau Aberystwyth
Bellach gwahoddir ceisiadau am y Rhaglen Preswyliadau Artistiaid newydd. Lleolir artistiaid llwyddiannus am gyfnod o 3 neu 6 mis yng Nghanolfan y Celfyddydau Aberystwyth – rhan o Brifysgol Aberystwyth – yn y stiwdios newydd sbon danlli a gynlluniwyd gan y dylunydd arobryn Thomas Heatherwick.
Mae’r preswyliadau’n agored i artistiaid gweledol o’r DU ym mhob disgyblaeth gan gynnwys y celfyddydau cymhwysol. Bydd yr artistiaid llwyddiannus yn derbyn gofod stiwdio 35 metr sgwâr, llety a threuliau cynhaliaeth ar gyfer eu preswyliad ar ei hyd. Bydd y preswyliad yn gyfle i’r artist gamu oddi wrth gyfyngiadau beunyddiol bywyd gan brofi amser pryd y gall ddatblygu ymarfer artistig unigol a chyfnewid syniadau mewn awyrgylch creadigol gyda phobl o ddisgyblaethau eraill.
Bydd yr artistiaid a ddetholir yn treulio’r rhan fwyaf o’u hamser wrth eu gwaith, ond bydd y canlynol, yn sgil trafodaeth â’r artistiaid unigol, yn rhan o’r profiad:
- Sgwrs anffurfiol gan yr artist am eu hymarfer
- Cyfarfodydd cymdeithasol ag artistiaid eraill ac ymweliadau drwy drefniant â chanolfannau celfyddydau eraill yng Nghymru
- Bore stiwdio agored unwaith y mis drwy drefniant â’r artist
- Arddangosfa gwaith stiwdio agored ar ddiwedd y preswyliad.
Trafodir y posibilrwydd y bydd y gwaith yn cael ei arddangos am gyfnod hirach mewn un o Orielau Canolfan y Celfyddydau ynghyd â’r posibiliadau ynglŷn â gwneud unrhyw waith allgymorth/addysgol, os dymuna’r artist.
Bydd hyd at dri artist yn cael cynnig preswyliadau ar unrhyw adeg. Defnyddir unedau eraill yn y ganolfan gan amrywiaeth o fusnesau creadigol.
Bydd preswyliadau’n cynnwys y costau canlynol ar gyfer y cyfnod y cytunir arno: cost y Stiwdio gan gynnwys gwres, golau ac yn y blaen, llety wedi’i drefnu’n lleol. Rhoddir swm penodedig ar gyfer treuliau cynhaliaeth a defnyddiau. Yr artist fydd yn gyfrifol am y costau teithio i Aberystwyth ac yn ôl.
Y swm sydd ar gael ar hyn o bryd yw £100 yr wythnos costau cynhaliaeth gan gynnwys teithio yn ystod cyfnod y preswyliad; £25 yr wythnos o lwfans defnyddiau.
Nid oes ond dodrefn sylfaenol yn unig yn y stiwdios. Bydd cyfleusterau yng Nghanolfan y Celfyddydau ar gael trwy drafodaeth e.e. offer y labordy digidol, ystafell dywyll, stiwdio gerameg ac yn y blaen.
Bydd ymgeiswyr yn cael eu hasesu ar feini prawf gan gynnwys rhagoriaeth artistig neu broffesiynol gwaith yr ymgeisydd ac i ba raddau y bydd preswyliad yng Nghanolfan y Celfyddydau Aberystwyth yn cyfrannu at ddatblygu’r artist ac yn gyson â nodau creadigol a datblygiad proffesiynol yr artist.
SUT MAE YMGEISIO
Bydd y preswyliad cyntaf yn dechrau ym mis Mehefin 2008. Derbynnir ceisiadau ar unrhyw adeg.
Dylai ymgeiswyr lenwi ffurflen gais Preswyliad, a’i hanfon i’r cyfeiriad a nodir ar y ffurflen ynghyd â deunydd gweledol ac argraffiedig a geirda yn ôl y gofyn.
Os oes angen copïau pellach o’r ffurflen, drwy’r post neu e-bost, dylech e-bostio etr@aber.ac.uk
Neu galwch 01970 622887/ 621634
Gellir hefyd lawrlwytho gwybodaeth gan:
http://www.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk/whatson/
Canolfan y Celfyddydau Aberystwyth
Adnodd arobryn i’r celfyddydau yw Canolfan y Celfyddydau Aberystwyth. Hon yw’r ganolfan fwyaf a phrysuraf i’r celfyddydau yng Nghymru gyda rhaglen eang o ddigwyddiadau a gweithgareddau ar draws yr holl gelfyddydau. Croesewir dros 700,000 o ymwelwyr bob blwyddyn, ac mae’r ganolfan yn cyflogi 40 o staff amser llawn a 119 o staff rhan amser. Yn 2000, cwblhawyd prosiect ailwampio £4.3m sylweddol gan y Ganolfan a ariannwyd yn bennaf gan y Loteri Genedlaethol ac erbyn hyn mae ganddi gyfleusterau sydd heb eu hail drwy’r DU, nes ei bod bellach yn cael ei chydnabod fel canolfan genedlaethol ar gyfer datblygu’r celfyddydau ac mae wedi’i disgrifio fel ‘banerlong genedlaethol i’r celfyddydau’. Un o adrannau Prifysgol Aberystwyth yw hi. Mae’r adeilad yn gartref i neuadd gyngerdd, theatr, dwy oriel, oriel casgliad cerameg, sinema, theatr stiwdio, gweithdai, gan gynnwys crochenwaith, ystafell dywyll, stiwdio recordio, labordy digidol, caffi, Siop Grefft a dylunio, siop lyfrau, barau a chyfleusterau gweinyddol a chefn-y-llwyfan cyflawn.
Mae’r rhaglen artistig yn amrywiol iawn, gan gynnwys, y celfyddydau perfformio, llenyddiaeth, y celfyddydau gweledol a chrefftau, cerddoriaeth a chelfyddydau cymunedol; Y Ganolfan yw’r canolbwynt ar gyfer sawl gŵyl ryngwladol gan gynnwys yr Ŵyl Gerameg Ryngwladol Eilflwydd hynod lwyddiannus.Mae enw da gan Ganolfan y Celfyddydau Aberystwyth o ran creu a threfnu gweithredoedd llwyddiannus sy’n cyfrannu at ethos y Ganolfan ac sydd hefyd yn helpu wrth gadw’r fantol ariannol yn wastad; Mae’r Ganolfan yn gyfrifol am ennill dros 70% o gyfanswm ei hincwm, yn uwch o lawer na chyfleusterau diwylliannol eraill yn y DU. Adnodd llwyddiannus a phwysig yw’r Ganolfan sy’n chwarae rôl gynyddol hanfodol wrth i incwm o ddiwydiannau traddodiadol ostwng o hyd.
Mae ystod eang i’r rhaglen i’r celfyddydau perfformio ac mae’n uchel iawn ei hansawdd, gan gynnwys dawns a drama o’r DU a thramor megis Out of Joint Theatre, Mappa Mundi, Diversion, cerddoriaeth glasurol ag Opera Cenedlaethol Cymru a Catrin Finch; cynyrchiadau ieuenctid a chymunedol a rhaglen o gerddoriaeth fyd-eang, cerddoriaeth werin, y felan a cherddoriaeth boblogaidd.
Mae’r sinema’n cynnig rhaglen eang gan gynnwys y gorau o sinema’r DU a’r byd gan gwmpasu gwaith gan fân gynhyrchwyr annibynnol a chynyrchiadau Hollywood.
Cynhelir y rhaglen arddangosfeydd dros dro mewn dwy oriel, gan gwmpasu amrywiaeth eang o ymarfer cyfoes o’r DU ac ar draws y byd. Mae arddangosfeydd diweddar, rhai ohonynt yn deillio’n wreiddiol o’r Ganolfan ei hun i deithio i ganolfannau eraill yn y DU ac Iwerddon, yn cynnwys ‘Butabe’ James Morris; Yr Archif Werin Jeremy Deller; ‘Motet mewn Deugain Darn’ gan Janet Cardiff a Cadet, gwaith newydd gan Tim Davies, sy’n cynnwys gwaith ffilm a wnaed yn Aberystwyth.Mae Canolfan y Celfyddydau Aberystwyth hefyd yn gartref i gasgliad cerameg stiwdio pwysig y Brifysgol o’r ugeinfed ganrif a’r unfed ganrif ar hugain ac mae’r rhaglen arddangosfeydd wedi ymrwymo’n hirdymor i hyrwyddo a datblygu crefftau cyfoes, cerameg yn arbennig.
Mae’r rhaglen celfyddydau cymunedol ac addysg yn cynnwys Llwyfan Agored sy’n helpu ymarferwyr newydd mewn cerddoriaeth, dawns, theatr a pherfformio i gyflwyno eu gwaith mewn amgylchedd proffesiynol. Mae Artistiaid mewn Ysgolion yn cynnwys amrywiaeth o weithdai creadigol allgymorth ac wedi’u seilio yn y Ganolfan i blant oed ysgol yn y celfyddydau gweledol, dawns, drama, cerddoriaeth ac ysgrifennu. Yn ychwanegol, bydd dosbarthiadau rheolaidd yn sbarduno creadigrwydd ac yn hybu lles.
Mae Aberystwyth ei hun yn gallu cynnig holl fanteision bywyd cefn gwlad – tref fach wedi’i hamgylchynu gan dirwedd diguro a’r môr – ac eto gyda chwmni ysgogol artistiaid, cydweithwyr/wragedd, staff y Brifysgol a myfyrwyr ac mae cyfleusterau eraill yn cynnwys cyrff cenedlaethol Cymreig megis Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru a’r Sefydliad Ymchwil Tir Glas Amgylcheddol – a fu’n lleoliad ar gyfer cywaith celf-gwyddoniaeth NESTA cyffrous gyda’r artistiaid Heather Ackroyd a Dan Harvey.
Yr Unedau a gynlluniwyd gan Thomas Heatherwick
Bydd y rhaglen breswyliadau’n cynnig cyfle i artistiaid i ganolbwyntio ar eu gwaith mewn lleoliad cydnaws.
Argraff artist o’r Unedau Busnes Creadigol
Bydd yr Unedau Busnes Creadigol yn dwyn at ei gilydd fusnesau creadigol a stiwdios artistiaid unigol. Bydd y tair stiwdio sydd ar gadw ar gyfer preswyliadau dros dro’n rhan o’r clwstwr hwn, a byddant yn ymberthyn i Ganolfan y Celfyddydau sydd yn union gyfagos a fydd yn parhau i weithredu fel y brif fan cyfarfod cymdeithasol.
Mae’r Unedau Busnes Creadigol wedi’u hariannu gan Awdurdod Datblygu Cymru a Chyngor Celfyddydau Cymru. Yn dilyn ymrwymiad i’r gwerth economaidd ac estheteg adeiladu rhad, gwahoddwyd y timau cynllunio i archwilio defnyddio technolegau adeiladu modiwlar mewn ffyrdd gweledol a gofodol arloesol, a dewiswyd Stiwdios Thomas Heatherwick.
Heb eisiau glastwreiddio naws goediog y safle trwy osod rhyw floc yn null y campws ar ei ben, dewisodd y Stiwdios osod adeiladau llai ymysg y coed. Adeiladau ffrâm bren syml yw’r rhain a rennir i lawr y canol a’u tynnu wrth ei gilydd i roi golau ac awyr iach a mynedfa ar y cyd. Maent wedi’u gorchuddio mewn dur di-staen ‘crychlyd’ nodedig ac arloesol.
Ar gyfartaledd maint yr unedau yw 35 metr sgwâr. Y tu mewn maent yn ymarferol yn hygyrch i’r anabl ac yn hawdd i’w haddasu i ddiwallu llawer iawn o anghenion. Y tu allan bydd golwg unigryw ar yr unedau hyn, wedi’u gosod mewn cilgant wrth ymyl Canolfan y Celfyddydau gan adlewyrchu gwyrddi’r coed sydd o’u cwmpas.
Aberystwyth
Fe orwedd tref Aberystwyth ar arfordir orllewinol Cymru yng nghanol Bae Ceredigion. Adeiladwyd tref furiog y canol oesoedd o gwmpas castell o’r drydedd ganrif ar ddeg, ac yn nes ymlaen bu’n borthladd ar gyfer allforio plwm o’r gweithfeydd lleol a fu’n hynod lewyrchus ar un adeg. Tref prifysgol yw Aberystwyth erbyn heddiw ac yn gyrchfan gwyliau boblogaidd sy’n sefyll ar arfordir godidog wedi’i hamgylchynu gan beth o gefn gwlad harddaf gwledydd Prydain. Mae’r Brifysgol yn denu myfyrwyr o bedwar ban byd sy’n golygu bod y dref yn cynnig naws mwy cosmopolitan ac eangfrydig na llawer dref arall o’r un maint.
Ystyrir y dref yn gyffredinol fel prifddinas canolbarth Cymru ac mae gan sawl sefydliad swyddfa genedlaethol neu ranbarthol yno – gan gynnwys Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, Comisiwn Henebion Cymru a Sefydliad Ymchwil Tir Glas a’r Amgylchedd .