Cardigan Arts Society Summer Show 2010

Exhibition 3rd July – 14th August
Each year, this exhibition showcases the best of members’ work and forms a popular event in Oriel Mwldan’s calendar. Cardigan Art Society’s members continue to encourage emerging and established visual artists, most of whom live and work in Cardigan and the surrounding areas of west Wales.

Original works are for sale at affordable prices and include painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics and photography.

Please join us for the Opening Reception on Friday 2 July at 6.30pm. Light refreshments will be served and a warm welcome to all.

Art At 2010 3-4 July

Participation is at the heart of Art At.

For visitors it is an opportunity to explore their creative side and take away not necessarily an object but certainly an inspiration. The project was set up in response to discussion initially among artists who were excited by the proposal to show a high standard of work and to benefit by working together to maximize the success of the project. The immediate response of the owner of Rhos-y-gilwen to this entirely new event for West Wales was extremely encouraging. The need is there for a wider cross section of our community to integrate and enjoy the arts and environmental issues.

Download your Workshop Programme for ArtAt here

The first ART AT Rhosygilwen, in 2008, took place in brilliant sunshine which definitely enhanced the pleasure of all who came to participate in the creative workshops – skill building from using recycled materials making sunhats, collaborative paintings, found object sculptural construction, portrait painting, and many more diverse activities.

The four master-classes in Print-making, Life Drawing, Sculpture and Water-based painting lead by top professionals in their field, were well attended.

The main exhibition showing works of 42 artists from all over Wales, was shown in the main house and the Oak Hall and astounded people with its high standard and presentation of work.

People came to enjoy the whole event were also to be surprised and delighted by impromptu music and performance within the hall and around the grounds, and while wandering they would come across a family of life-sized figures standing in the shade of the trees; huge figures created from willow; large ceramic hollow “pebbles” for plants to grow in, displayed on the decking; quirky heads and busts that made everyone smile; beautiful hand made furniture made from recycled wood and slate and much, much more.

All in all, the week-end had an air of enchantment about it, and there were many voices saying, “lets make this into a yearly event!”

Artists will be exhibiting work, running demonstrations and workshops.
There will be some performance art and pieces created that are site
specific.

The contributors will be drawn mainly from Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion, and
Carmarthenshire but it will also include some “names” known nationally and
internationally.

There will be a selected of 2D and 3D art in the main hall.

In the marquee there will be a range of art and craft stalls chosen for
their quality.

There will be short workshops and demonstrations where visitors can work with
artists.
Also day long master classes.

Video and film: there will be screenings of a selection of entries from this year’s Manchester Film Fesival.

Poetry

Childrens activities

Catering provided by Rhosygilwen

Entry £3, children free.

Art At Map

Please see website at http://www.artat.org.uk

Cardigan Open Studios Showcase Exhibition 2010

A showcase exhibition of the work of artists participating in this year’s ‘Visit Artist Studios’ event.

The workshops and studios are scattered throughout a landscape of coast, hill and valley, in fishing villages, market towns and isolated hamlets. A full colour, bilingual brochure, available in the gallery, will give full directions to each studio.

The exhibition opening will be held on Friday 16th April at 7pm. There will also be a ‘Meet the Artists’ day in Oriel Mwldan on April 24th midday to 3pm. Exhibition closes 22nd May
A warm welcome to all.

www.cardiganopenstudios.org

Elizabeth Adeline & Pip Woolf: Exhibition

Elizabeth Adeline & Pip Woolf

A Drop of Water

27 Feb – April 10, 2010 at Theatr Mwldan

Pip and Elizabeth have a shared fascination with water. They have been working together and along side each other since 1991, developing their ideas along the theme of nature and living more sensitively in the environment. This joint exhibition shows the outcome of their explorations, asking such questions as ‘How do we show water, its force, movement, qualities, stories, value without using water?’

Pip’s fulfilling a dream to install a hydroelectric scheme in her home and work place in the Dyffryn, has resulted in her drawing with water itself. Elizabeth finds a simple strength in re-telling every day experiences, such as her childhood memories in Ireland of fetching drinking water in a pail, from a spring, in a wood.

The exhibition includes sculptural installations, film and works on paper from Elizabeth Adeline whilst Pip Woolf displays 2D works on paper and handmade artist’s books.

Theatr Mwldan warmly invite you to attend the opening reception on Friday 26th February at 6.30pm.

Inspire Wales Awards 2010

Have you made Wales a Better Place?

ARTS, MEDIA AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
Closing date: Friday, 23 April 2010
Sponsored by Active Music Services

To recognise an outstanding contribution by an individual to the enhancement of Wales’s reputation in the arts, media or creative industries. This category will embrace all art forms, including design and architecture, whether publicly funded or commercial or recognise an outstanding contribution by an individual to the enhancement of Wales’s reputation through the medium of print, radio, television or online.

If you would like further information or wish to nominate someone, please visit the Inspire Wales Awards 2010 website www.iwa.org.uk

Ivor Davies Exhibition

Ivor Davies

Departure | Ymadawiad

16th  January - February 20th 2010

Painter, art historian and activist, Ivor Davies – Vice President of the Royal Cambrian Academy – is one of Wales’ most celebrated artists. He has had over 60 one man shows, exhibiting internationally, including Blast to Freeze: Bristish Artists of the Twentieth Century (France and Germany). In 1966 he helped to organize the Destruction in Art Symposium in London and he was an early member of the activist art movement BECA the 1980s. In 2004 his work was included in Art In The 1960s at the Tate Britain. Much of his work is stimulated by Welsh culture and politics and this show is tailor made for Cardigan. Ivor’s family have their roots in the Cardigan and we are delighted that this exhibition will be the first to open here in the town’s 900th year.

Last day today to see this exhibition!.

Exhibition at Oriel Mwldan Gallery Cardigan
Website: www.mwldan.co.uk
Tel: 01239 621 200
Free
Disabled Access

Bethan Ash Exhibition

Bethan Ash

Over Twenty

December 5th 2009 to January 9th 2010

An inspiring and vibrant exhibition of diverse and stimulating work, this exhibition features a selection of art quilts and collages that have been made during the past twenty years. The work on show represents an artistic range of textiles and alludes to the history of the art quilt.

Exhibition at Oriel Mwldan Gallery Cardigan
Website: www.mwldan.co.uk
Tel: 01239 621 200
Free
Disabled Access

Nine Artists Films

Nine Artists Films (PG)
17 Jan 2010 – 16:15 (opens at 15:55) at Theatr Mwldan

Penny Jones (’Taith Cranogwen’ & ‘Rant’) | Ruth Jones (Vigil) | Reuben Knutson and Pete Judge (1000 Days) | Rowan O’Neill (Menyw a ddaeth o Gatraeth) | Jake Whittaker (’Taith Cranogwen’ + Three Vinyl) | Simon Whitehead (Anemos) | Sean Vicary (’Sea of Glass’ & Haiku).

In recent years technological advances in film and video have proven to be fertile ground for many contemporary artists, whose work blurs the boundaries between film-making and art. This programme of short films represents the work of seven artists from West Wales and is a unique opportunity to see their work together on the cinema screen.

Rant

“People and communication; what they say and what they mean, to question the “notion of what a person is… involves setting up a situation which welcomes this perhaps anarchic, non-volitional stage of awareness”. Susan Hiller 1996.

Resistance and opposition; the resonance of feminism and struggles of the powerless in relation to the powerful?

Can one be heard and say what one feels?” Penny Jones

Taith Cranogwen
A film by Jake Whittaker based on ideas by Penny Jones that came about during a residency in Llangrannog.

Vigil

Recent work by Ruth Jones has focused on relationships between humans, animals and the land in Pembrokeshire and explores the magnetic pull that particular places have for people. Drawing on mythological crossings between humans and other animals, Ruth’s video installations and public art projects look towards greater fluidity between self, others and the environment.

Vigil explores the presence that Strumble Head Lighthouse has on the surrounding landscape in North Pembrokeshire. Strumble Head was built in 1908, and its rotating beam can be seen for thirty miles in all directions. Every lighthouse has its own distinctive “character”, recognised by a pattern and duration of flashes, in this case one flash every two seconds four times followed by seven seconds of darkness. Vigil explores how this rhythm has permeated the land for over a hundred years, seeping into the psyche of its inhabitants.

The installation also represents the lighthouse as a threshold place, situated between land and sea, day and night and human and animal kingdoms. Using Strumble’s regulated light pattern as a guide for editing both picture and sound, the film invites a quiet contemplation of the internal and external rhythms that influence our daily experiences, rituals and memories.

Menyw a Ddaeth o Gatraeth / A Woman Came from Catterick

“This film was made in response to the artist’s book In Debatable Lands… which takes as its starting point the land between England and Scotland and the tradition of the border ballads. The book is an exploration of identity and conflicting notions of home. My film draws on the medieval Welsh epic Y Gododdin which tells of a battle that took place at Catterick in the 6th century. Catterick remains a site of military significance to today. My Grandmother moved from the area close to Catterick in the mid 50s to settle in rural West Wales.

In my Grandmother’s suitcase I keep the relics of a long forgotten strife…” Rowan O’Neill

3 Vinyl

“Tying Tone Arms (02:42)
(This film was made in response to a call for short films on the theme of restriction and first shown as part of the Real Institute’s ‘Really Restrictive Shorts’ event, Llangollen, 13/01/07. Subsequently it has also screened at Shunt Vaults, London, Projektor at Café Gallery, London, Mission Gallery Open 08 in Swansea.)

Restrictions are fundamental to my work. This film focuses on the most obvious physical restriction. My work generally uses found objects, and my aim is to use them, as much as is possible, in the state in which they are found. Basic repairs are made merely to achieve some sound, with any problems leading to their being discarded playing an important part of the composing process. With turntables I often then intervene further by tying the tone arm back in order to interrupt normal play. The work is then produced live without headphones or post-production, using randomly selected loops from often randomly selected records. By making work in this way I hope to reassess the nature of the objects and their ‘useful’ life, explore memory and notions of musical consistency and examine the ontology of recorded sound.
This study (Tying Tone Arms) of a fundamental part of my composing process is accompanied by a mix of randomly selected loops from records selected by Louise Bird.

Shaky (03:22)
Looks at a particular fault of an old Alba hifi found by a friend some years ago. The audio is from the camera mic.

Panaround (05:14)
A single long pan around the studio, cutting to details on the beat of the loop. The audio is the stuck record shown playing, Bauhaus 79-83 Side 1 (a ‘natural’ loop, ie not tied) recorded on camera mic.

These films document processes and activity in the studio. They provide a nostalgic look at found and faulty hifi equipment, questioning our sentimentality and reverence towards music and past technology.” Jake Whittaker

Anemos

“Anemos” explores the evolution of nature’s breath, the Wind. Personified in the performer, and related to Mankind’s utilisation of it’s power, the Wind is symbolised by the environment that ‘Anemos’ dwells within, where light is generated. This combination of themes; Light, Energy, Wind and Landscape, both external and internal, are blended into a journey from darkness to lightness. The transient, and ethereal nature of the Wind contrasts with the substance of it’s energy and effect, this is translated into both the movement of the performer and the film’s language and structure.

A film by Choreographer Simon Whitehead and Film Maker Margaret Constantas, Performer Stirling Steward

BBC Dance Film Wales commission 2000.

Sea of Glass

Director Sean Vicary
Music Tom Middleton

Sea of Glass from the album Lifetracks released through Big Chill Recordings
Produced by Sean Vicary at Creative Mwldan Creadigidol

The coastal landscape of West Wales provides the setting for this short film.

Organic detritus is manipulated and juxtaposed with music and photography in order to explore the liminal space between land and sea.

The animation has evolved from an original piece produced as part of an audio visual performance with the composer Tom Middleton at the National Film Theatre, London.

Tickets from Theatr Mwldan £4.20 / £5.50

Emma Cameron – Exhibition

Emma Cameron – A Sense Of Being

Emma Cameron

A Sense Of Being

Emma Cameron’s paintings have been the subject of articles both by academics and celebrities such as Griff Rhys-Jones and Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen. Her paintings show human figures emerging out of abstract grounds that represent imaginative worlds of mystery and mythology in classical poses made from observation and defined by the suggestion of outline. Although she is originally from the Scottish Highlands, Cameron’s mother, the artist Tessa Spencer Pryse is Welsh, as was her grandfather, the late artist Gerald Spencer Pryse.

You are warmly invited to the opening of Emma Cameron’s exhibition at Oriel Mwldan on Friday 16th October at 5.30pm.

Admission to Oriel Mwldan is free. Opening times are 10am – 8pm DAILY.

Henri Matisse – Exhibition

Drawing With Scissors 

Late Works 1950 – 1954

The French painter, sculptor and designer, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was one of the 20th century’s most influential artists. His vibrant works are celebrated for their extraordinary richness and luminosity of colour.

Matisse: Drawing with Scissors, a Hayward Touring exhibition from the Southbank Centre, features 35 lithographic prints of the famous cut-outs, produced in the last four years of his life, when the artist was confined to his bed. It includes many of his iconic images, such as The Snail and the Blue Nudes.

‘There is no gap between my earlier pictures and my cut-outs, I have only reached a form reduced to the essential through greater absoluteness and greater abstraction’ Matisse

A Hayward Gallery exhibition from the Southbank Centre, London on behalf of Arts Council England

• Tel: 01239 621 200
• Website: www.mwldan.co.uk
• Location: Theatr Mwldan, Cardigan
• Tickets: FREE
• Access: Disabled Access