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This is the Official page from Foundation Art and Design, welcoming past, present and potential students, along with a network of friends and followers!

Cert HE Art and Design Foundation is part of Swansea College Of Art, University of Wales Trinity St Davids based at ALEX Alexander Rd Swansea. Staff on the course include:
Bella Kerr, Katherine Clewett, Anthony Arrowsmith, Anna Lewis, Shellie Holden, Tim Stokes and Terri Saunders. The course is diagnostic in nature and enables students to find their own potential and their own preference for specialist areas of study. Students experiment with a range of materials and methods and are introduced to four main areas of study. Fine Art
Visual Communication
Fashion Textiles
3D Studies

There is an active, supported element of the course that aids the student building a portfolio of work to take on to further education or opportunities. Students progressive study options can then include, to list only a few for example:

Crafts
Fashion
Furniture Design
Animation
Games Design
Video
Graphics
Illustration
Interior
Jewellery Design
Photography
Printmaking
Theatre Design
Textiles
Surface Pattern

Students have an end of year exhibition around the end of May, we'll post up information on our site near this time. Throughout the academic year there are opportunities to come and visit, we advertise Open Days and interactive Workshops at various stages, to find out more please email:

[email protected]

For further information, click our website link

02/10/2026

First week is almost done, we made it to Friday 🎉 the students are all in their workshops today, welding, printing, making pots and frame stretching. This week they have also been making drawing machines, collecting data and mark making. Enjoy the weekend everyone 😊

24/09/2026

First trip out to the Glynn Vivian for the new Foundation crew. Thanks for having us, I’m sure we will be back plenty of times this year!

21/09/2026

Foundation induction kicked us off today! It was lovely to meet all the new students today. Welcome Fest tomorrow, day one is done!!! ✔️

04/09/2026

The Foundation street window has had a spruce up too! Or maybe is it a place to put the plinths while we are not using them 😬 any other ideas of what to do with them while they are here let us know. Best answer wins…..

03/09/2026

Almost ready!!! 😊 We’re looking forward to welcome the new students in a couple of weeks. The studios are almost ready to go, watch this space 🎨📷✍️

08/07/2026

Tayah-May Owen

The theme ‘generate’ allowed me to have the freedom to bring something into existence and be creative.

For this, I have used pencil to capture detail – a family portrait within my siblings. This image implies emotions revealing their individual personal traits. I have applied colour to express the love and joy that runs through.

Amanda Oleanders work has inspired because of her focuses on the private moments with friends and family; those moments which are usually hidden from the public eye.

07/07/2026

Siriol ap Rhys

For ‘generate’, I have decided to utilise works which engage with the art historical traditions of Christian imagery, especially that which is generated for modern churches. I hope that the works raise questions about the place of religion and religious culture in our modern society.

My practice encompasses a wide variety of mediums including ceramics, painting and printing. I have chosen to incorporate several small objects into a shrine-like arrangement.

My work has been influenced my many visits to churches and heritage sites - and the artists whose work I have seen there. This included Jacob Epstein and Eric Gill. The work also draws influence from the traditions of subverting Christian imagery in a fine art context, including the artists Ciprian Muresan, Max Ernst, and Claire Curneen.

06/07/2026

Sian Jones

My work is generated from the concept of the imagery of oppression and how it is expressed. My aim is to engage the viewer and hope that they are intrigued enough to question what I am portraying.

Many artists use shoes or boots to tell stories of hardship, loss, absence or death such as Van Gogh, Francis Alÿs and Elina Chauvet.

In my pieces I have looked at oppression through aggression, pageant, invasion and bullying, seeking to question what has become the norm and highlighting its impact on society.

05/07/2026

Runa Osborne

When given the theme ‘generate’ what immediately came to my mind was to generate ideas and creativity, as I had been working on Pagan research and art I was aiming to generate an idea based on Paganism, Norse Pagan to be exact.

As a previous fur-suit maker in the past, I had thought it a good idea to recreate Fenrir, the wolf, and create him into a fur-suit head with new meaning. originally I was going to make him into a scary, or intimidating style. However, I came up with the idea, what if Fenrir didn't have to be scary? So I made him more approachable rather than intimidating.

I had gotten a lot of inspiration from other fur-suit makers and artists, such as
Fleetwood, Jesterjingles, and pagans that I get inspired by such as Jacoub Toddson. They all have very different roles, Jacoub teaches all about the life and world of Paganism, while Jesterjingles and Fleetwood are fursuit makers and artists, whom I have followed for nearly 4 years.

04/07/2026

Rene Dabrowska

Because no hope means hope

Loving without expectation is highly underrated. Many of us are living ‘fake’ lives, especially on social media. What if we remove transactional pressure allowing love to become an authentic experience? ‘Because no hope means hope’ includes 3D collage, paintings and inspirational quotes of Walter Benjamin to explore this idea.

The process of making including using materials of everyday life, like newspapers, fabrics and found objects, involving a process of transforming the mundane into new narrative.

Address

ALEX Alexander Road
Swansea
SA15DU

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

Website

http://www.uwtsd.ac.uk/cert-he-art-and-design-foundation/

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