Shrouded car (bird) on BBC Mid Wales

Lampeter artist turns car into sculpture

Margaret Sharrow won an University of Wales Geoffrey Crawshay Memorial Travel Scholarship in 2008 Lampeter artist Margaret Sharrow has given up her car for art's sake. She has turned her vehicle into a sculpture to be exhibited at Lampeter Town Hall. 'Shrouded car (bird)' is being featured at a special exhibition at the venue on Saturday 10 April from 1100 GMT and 1500 GMT It complements Margaret's exhibition 'Shrouded Forms', which also runs at the Town Hall Café-Deli until 30 April 2010.  I'll be taking 'Shrouded car (bird)' on tour - look out for me photographing it at locations around Wales  Margaret Sharrow Margaret Sharrow said: "I began studying alternative ways of making photographs at Aberystwyth University, with my tutor Dr Christopher Webster. "He really opened my mind to completely different ways of taking and making images, and provided a very supportive environment for experimentation." Travel While still an undergraduate, Margaret showed work at the School of Art's 'Imaging the Bible' exhibition in 2008. Margaret intends to take the exhibition on tour Since graduating in 2009 she has also had a solo show at the Erwood Station Gallery, contributed to Michael Landy's 'Art Bin', and plans to continue expanding her artistic career. "I'm entering work from the Shrouded Forms series in shows in Wales and London and I'm also planning a large collaborative project involving travel," she added. Margaret was the winner of a £2,000 University of Wales Geoffrey Crawshay Memorial Travel Scholarship in 2008, which allowed her to travel to Greenland. She said: "l still have more work planned following on from that trip and I'll be taking 'Shrouded car (bird) on tour - look out for me photographing it at locations around Wales." http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/midwales/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_8609000/8609184.stm

Back in time: a trip to Lacock Abbey

Touring Lacock Abbey, copyright Margaret Sharrow 2009

A motley crew of photographers and art historians from Aberystwyth University's School of Art took a coach trip yesterday to visit the Lacock Abbey and William Henry Fox Talbot Museum.

It was a lovely hazy warm day and we had a tour of the abbey, as well as a chance to see the museum and wander the village's historic streets.

The outing was part of Chris Webster's course, History of Photography Part 1: Themes and Processes 1840-1940, or HOP1 for short.

William Henry Fox Talbot was a pioneer in the development of photography, and produced the first photographic negative that could be reproduced as a positive image.



View of Lacock Abbey, copyright Margaret Sharrow 2009


More information about Lacock Abbey:

Lacock Abbey is a National Trust property.

One of Fox Talbot's early negatives, which he called a photogenic drawing negative, was of Lacock Abbey. He used the abbey and the grounds as settings for many of his photographs.

Two of the Harry Potter films used Lacock Abbey as a setting for Hogwarts, and it has also appeared in other film and television productions.

Inevitably, Wikipedia discourses on Lacock Abbey, particularly about its film/TV connections.


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