Stoneware, thrown baluster shape, brown body covered in grey-green glaze. Two oval panels of oxide-brown brushed decoration. 22cm high. Mark ? Haney 1951 incised on base.
Aberystwyth Ceramics Collection have a collection of over 1600 examples of British and International hand built ceramics in Aberystwyth University’s Ceramic Collection.
(www.ceramics-aberystwyth.com).
The collection has significant examples of early pioneer studio pottery from the early 20th century. Unfortunately we do not know many details about some of the pieces in the collection. We would love to hear from anyone who has any information about these potters in this group. If you would like to help, the mystery pots can be viewed here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aberceramics/sets/72157622423495642/
A number of original paintings by Johnn Sharkey will be displayed in the foyer at Theatr Mwldan to accompany the screenings of “Cave of Forgotten Dreams” from 10th to 18th May.
Having gained unprecedented access and with the tightest of technical restrictions, Werner Herzog’s extraordinary film of the interior of the Chauvet cave in Southern France shows some brief torchlight imaages of its art. Closed to the general public since its initial discovery in 1994 it has turned out to be the earliest scientifically dated cave art of over 30,000 years ago, Its cave walls were decorated with hundreds of images of fearsome beasts like mammoths, rhinoceroses, aurochs, lions, wild horses and bears whose scratch marks show it once had been a bear-cave.
The local artist and writer John Sharkey has visited a number of caves in France and his ‘prehistoric’ work has been previously shown there. He is pleased to have had this opportunity of displaying some of his oil paintings of the Grotte Chauver, in a local setting like Theatr Mwldan during the showing of the film “Cave of Forgotten Dreams”
Film times & dates: mwldan
Theatr Mwldan
Bath House Road
Aberteifi/Cardigan
John Sharkey contact: ogamstone@yahoo.com
Friday 1st October 2010
Creativity in Hard Times
Supported by Arts Council of Wales and Cardiff School of Art & Design
9.00am – 4.00pm, Pierhead Building Cardiff Bay
In recent decades the link between artistic endeavour and the creative industries have become recognised as central to the economic as well as cultural health of the country. As Wales braces itself for another period of austerity and financial stringency in the second decade of the 21st Century, how should policy makers respond? How can sector organisations such as the Arts Council of Wales help in turning a period of adversity to our advantage?
In the 1930s the visual arts took on a new lease of life and there was also the ‘first flowering’ of Welsh writing in English, through the work of such authors as Rhys Davies, Jack Jones, Idris Davies, Gwyn Thomas and, of course, the poets Vernon Watkins and Dylan Thomas. The 1980s, another period of hardship in Welsh economic life, witnessed a further burst of creativity, this time associated with television, the launch of S4C, the production of a number of landmark television series on Welsh history, and the emergence of influential Welsh rock bands such as the Stereophonics and the Manic Street Preachers.
Can we anticipate a comparable artistic response to hard times in the 2010s to the one that occurred in the 1930s and 1980s? This conference marks the launch of the 2010 Cardiff Design Festival.
Key note speaker: Peter Lord: Wales’s leading art historian, Cardiff Design Fortnight Launch, Senedd, 4.00pm – 6.00pm
Conference tickets are:
£52 for IWA members
£65 for non-members
£85 for a conference place and 1 years IWA membership, which includes unlimited digital access to all IWA publications
For a full conference programme please visit our website for more information
Tickets can either be booked on our secure website
or alternatively if you prefer to contact us directly please email or telephone 029 2066 0820
The Aesthetica Creative Works Competition is now open for entries!
Aesthetica Magazine is inviting all artists, writers and poets to submit their work into the Aesthetica Creative Works Competition 2010. Now in its third year, the Creative Works Competition is dedicated to celebrating and championing creative talent across three disciplines, identifying new artists and writers and bringing them to international attention.
• The Competition has three categories, Artwork, Poetry and Fiction.
• Winners and finalists are published in the Aesthetica Creative Works Annual.
• Winners of each category receive £500 prize money plus other prizes.
• Entry to the Creative Works Competition is £10
• The entry fee allows the submission of 2 images, 2 poems or 2 short stories.
• The deadline for submissions is the 31st August 2010.
• More guidelines on how to submit can be found online at www.aestheticamagazine.com
Bryony Byrne
