National Waterfront Museum, Swansea
Sat 27 Aug – Sun 27 Nov
After years of the arts course moving around University of Wales campus for construction reasons, the arts, glass and industrial design department will be back in their original location in the newly refurbished ALEX building. To celebrate this, the staff had decided to create a glass arts project to scatter light both inside the new building and outside into the city of Swansea.
A blood-line of past student’s design has been created to show the past with the current. The idea is to show how past students are a part of the university’s history and have helped mould the structure of the education and social experience in the courses.
Located in the building’s four-sided square tower, the glass is designed to serve as a beacon, a metaphorical ‘crown’ for the building to represent both its history and resurrection; a visual statement of continuity and change.
Visible from all round the city, the double height tower room houses a meeting space specifically chosen so that all users of the building can enjoy it. The colourful glass beacon will be a shining example, literally, of the rich tradition and ongoing excellence in stained and architectural glass training in Swansea and of education as a whole within the University of Wales Trinity St David.
Admission: free. Info: 029 2057 3600 / museum.wales/Swansea
words EMILY GARSIDE