Take One…Bell

The Take One ...project is inspired by the National Gallery's ‘Take One Picture’ project.

Over the centuries legends have been told about the Marden Bell, and few facts are known about it, but similar bells are known to have been carried by Celtic missionaries. There is also evidence to suggest that such bells might have been revered as sacred objects. Pupils from seven schools and students from the Hereford College of Arts have been involved with the project. Their work, along with the Marden Bell itself, will be displayed in the South Transept of Hereford Cathedral from Saturday June 2nd – Saturday June 16th

Participating students from 1 year Extended Diploma in Art & Design have created some striking and contemporary interpretations of the celtic bell.

Join us in celebrating the final work of our current Foundation Diploma in Art & Design students at their end of course show.  The show profiles the final major work off all students finishing the course this year.

Validated by University of the Arts London, this post A Level course prepares students for study at degree level.  The majority of students exhibiting will be progressing on to degree courses throughout the UK.

Public Opening Times:

Sat 28 April -    11am-2pm
Sun 29 April -   Closed
Mon 30 April - 11am-8pm
Tue 1 May -     11am-8pm

Three of our BA (Hons) Illustration students have formed the collective, Little Boxes. They have installed a large exhibition at the Hereford Deli. THis is the first public outing of the collective's work. Little Boxes' members are Stephanie Moulden, Suzanne Booten, and Jo Parker.

In their own words, they describe their installation: "This exhibition is the collective work of three third year BA Hons Illustration students. We go by the name of Little Boxes. We've created an installation mainly made of recycled cardboard. We wanted to create something that was a self indulgent escape from our busy lives as we finish our degrees. It's full of hope, exploration, and adventure."

The exhibition runs until 3rd March.

For more information about the project, click here.

Also here is a promotional video Rob Gale made for Little Boxes.

1st year Extended Diploma in Performing Arts perform a story about a womanwhose entire life has been dictated to her.

Machinal, a play by american writer Sophie Treadwell.  It follows the story of a woman (played by 4 students) who follows the rituals that society expects of her.   The play tackles challenging issues, and through a series of events, she is driven to murder and is found guilty.

23 & 24 May, 2012
2pm & 7.30pm
Folly Arts Theatre
Tickets: £3 on the door
(12 years and over recommended)

For more details on the AA2A scheme visit www.aa2a.org


Artist Statements

Alan Hughes
The Artist’s Access scheme (AA2A) has afforded me invaluable access to specialist printmaking facilities, which I have used to explore the pictorial and narrative potential of “multiples”, using, as my starting point, familiar, mass-produced items, such as bottle tops and vacuum-formed blister packs.

The subsequent body of work generated through experimentation with printmaking techniques has provided me with a rich source of visual material, which I am continuing to process and refine.

The images on display represent work produced at the College between January and March 2012 and are part of a larger body of work in progress.

Jain McKay
AA2A was a chance for me to do two things, firstly I had a specific project I wanted to complete. A book that I had decided to work on just a few weeks before the AA2A opportunity came up and secondly I wanted to play and experiment with printmaking, images, size, mixing media and trying alternative formats. While making lots of mistakes along the way I managed to do all this and more. I found out more about myself, how I work, what I like, what I can do and what I canʼt do. It was an incredibly useful process and I come away from it a lot more skilled and with some great finished work. The project Melia and the Quest is a small book about how we try different things to fill our inner feeling of emptiness.

Tessa Waite: I thought I saw you
During my AA2A project at the college I made a series of experimental animated films and collage works on paper. With no set outcome in mind I worked intuitively on each animation with drawing and collaged elements, making changes as they suggested themselves. I allowed a series of images to reveal themselves, to develop and change, which set up an intriguing dialogue between myself and my imagery.

The process of stop frame animation was both frustrating in its slowness and liberating in allowing me to work playfully to create a shifting series of transitions. This has offered me a new way to investigate the subtle and on-going changes in ourselves and our relationships that are core themes in my work.

I also made a film, 'Something strange about the house' in response to a short story 'The Yellow Wallpaper' written by Charlotte Gilman Perkins in 1890. The eerie story follows the central character who is being subjected to a particular treatment for her post natal depression which constitutes being isolated in a room with crazy yellow wallpaper. In some ways I could associate with her on-going madness, as I too felt incarcerated in the windowless photography studio with my own inner ramblings!

A similar intuitive approach is evident in the series of collaged works on paper that combine found elements, drawing, print and photographs.

I would like to thank Nick Brown and Nick Beresford-Poole in particular for their help and encouragement in the making of the animations, and the college as a whole for this opportunity.