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Chelsea-Paige Summers is a conceptual photographic artist that is currently based in Swansea, South Wales. After obtaining her Bachelors and Masters degree at Swansea College of Art in Photography, she decided to expand her knowledge and experiences by undergoing a teaching course (PCET).
Chelsea tends to use a wide range of materials and mediums to create her work rather than just simply using the camera. From always having an interest in alternative processes and the darkroom, and other forms of artistry such as illustration and painting, she combines the mediums to curate her pieces. Her practice is personal - and essentially, a documentation of her life. Currently, her work and aim as an artist practitioner, is to create work that embodies her relationship with her son, and to show the reality of motherhood and matrescence.
Recently, Chelsea has had the privilege of assisting at the photography department at Swansea College of Art, teaching all years of undergraduates and supporting them throughout their studies. Taking on roles such as; a lecturer, assistant, workshop co-ordinator, curator and a marking assessor.
BA, MA, PCET.
Founder of Les Femmes Collective
Member of Spilt Milk Gallery
Emergency First Aid at Work Level 3
The Open University:
Creative writing and critical reading
Diversity and inclusion in the workplace
Exploring equality and equity in education
Exploring innovative assessment methods
Extending and developing your thinking skills
Language and creativity
Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner
Making sense of art history
The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK
Why teach art?
Future Learn: Exploring Inclusive Pedagogies
Education
2022 - 2024 PGCE / PCET in Post Compulsory Education and Training, UWTSD - Merit
2020 - 2022 MA Contemporary Dialogues, Photography, Swansea College of Art - Merit
2017 – 2020 BA Photography in the Arts, Swansea College of Art - Second Upper Class Honours
2015 – 2017 BTEC Photography, Bridgend College, South Wales - Triple Distinction *
Experience
2023 - 2024 Placement, Teacher in Training, Photography Dept, Swansea College of Art
2023 Placement, Teacher in Training, Illustration Dept, Swansea College of Art
Online Press
2023 Artist Profile, Artpil
2023 Featured Artist, Spilt Milk Gallery
2022 Swansea College of Art - A Day in the Life & Artist in Focus
2022 Sola Journal Instagram Takeover
2021 Tied to Light Collective, (2nd)
2021 Flaneur Archive
2021 Always More Art
2021 Featured Artist, Umbrella Cardiff
2020 October Gallery, The Student Gallery
2020 Outlast Journal
2020 The Social Distance Art Project
2020 Tied to Light Collective
2020 Siapio Instagram Takeover
2020 Isowithher
Exhibition’s
2024 Open 24, Queen Street Gallery, Neath
2023 Do you hear us…are you listening?, Spilt Milk Gallery, Online Exhibition
2022 Les Femmes, MA Summer Satellite Show, Elysium Gallery, Swansea (curated)
2021 Soft Anatomy, Volcano Theatre, Swansea
2021 Era, Take Care Zine Digital Exhibition
2020 Siapio Online Exhibition
2020 Swansea College of Art Online Summer Show
2020 Art Prof Graduate's of 2020 Online Exhibition
2020 Source Magazine Graduate Photography Online 2020
2019 Monomania, Swansea College of Art, Swansea College of Art
2019 Psychedelic Society, Savanna Bar, Swansea
2019 The Reading Festival, Swansea College of Art
2018 Nascent Energy, Swansea College of Art
2018 The Way We Live Now, Swansea College of Art
2018 Here is Always Somewhere Else, Swansea College of Art
2017 FMP Show, Bridgend College, Bridgend
In Print
2022 The Land From Which We Come, Sola Journal, Physical
2021 Art Walk Magazine, Issue 3, Physical
2021 Angels, Issue 3, Pigiama, Physcial
2021 April 2021, The Student Gallery, Physical
2021 Memory, Volume 1, Issue 15, Polemical Zine, Digital
2021 Era, Issue 7, Take Care Zine, Physical
2020 Issue 2, Dead Dad's Club, Physical
2020 Ghouls on Film, Issue 5, Take Care Zine, Physical
2020 MELANCHOLIA, Photobook, Self-Published
2019 Trothwy, Codi Pais, Fourth Edition, Physical
2019 Elliott, Photobook, Self-Published
2017 Greyscale, Photobook, Self-Published
