Three budding artists selected for Digital Residency

Three students from University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) have been selected for the Jane Phillips Award Digital Residency 2023, administered by Mission Gallery.

The Swansea art gallery is partnered with UWTSD’s Swansea College of Art and offers opportunities to a few selected Foundation Art and Design students per year.

This year, Seren Trodden, Nia Davies and Isabella Watkins were chosen to receive the digital residency by Rhian Wyn Stone, Mission Gallery’s director, and were asked to respond to the idea of Nostalgia within their work.

Seren’s work explored this theme through world issues such as climate change and extinction, Nia focused on looking back through memories inspired by space and place, while Isabella used Origami to transform something from the past into something new.

Mission Gallery says: “We are proud to be working with our partners at UWTSD’s Swansea College of Art, and keen to shine a light on the high standard of work being produced by students.

This residency will provide an online space within the Jane Phillips Award website to display and develop work, ideas and research, while offering support and promotion through our networks.”

Katherine Clewett, Programme Manager for Foundation Art and Design at UWTSD, says: “The Art & Design Foundation at Swansea College of Art UWTSD is very pleased to have been considered again as part of Mission Gallery’s Jane Phillips Residency programme.

“Mission Gallery consistently provides a context for many of our course projects and modules, with our students benefiting in countless ways from the gallery’s exhibitions and opportunities.

“The long-standing and successful partnership between our respective cultural and educational organisations has offered unique engagement opportunities. I am very proud and pleased for Nia, Seren and Isabella and look forward to what they might produce.”

The Digital Residency runs between 5 and 30 June 2023.

About the Jane Phillips Award

Launched at Mission Gallery in 2011, the Jane Phillips Award is a memorial to Jane Phillips (1957–2011) Mission Gallery’s first director. The award is intended as a legacy to Jane’s passion for mentoring and nurturing talent, working with individuals at every level – offering opportunities to students as well as artists at the beginning of their journey.

Further Information

Ella Staden

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Corporate Communications and PR    
Email: ella.staden@uwtsd.ac.uk     
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