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Rabab Ghazoul is a visual artist whose practice draws upon a range of media to explore our negotiations and constructions of the political. Part social observation, part investigation into the realm of public narrative, her work often sees her referencing or re-staging chosen ‘texts’ – from news media footage to an existing art...
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My practise is centred on approaches to the substance of paint as a pre-loaded, genetic material where marks and surface, pigment, history, place and myth are part of a genetic code of painting as art. Supporting this approach, I use the context of how and where the painting is made to reference broader structures that inform the meaning of its...
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Blue has been given access to the National Library of Wales' (NLW) varied collections which consist of many of the Nation's treasures, including a broad range of materials such as manuscripts, maps, photographs, paintings and archives - not to mention the films, sound tapes and off-air recordings that are also housed there. The project was...
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My arts current practice draws upon my interests in stage magic and folk traditions. Props and costume are combined with song, text and other activities creating strange rituals. Placed within this context the magical effect becomes a mode of symbolic demonstration, creating narratives that often reference cultural myths and histories of the...
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Concepts I am a photographic artist who works within a context of fine art ideas. These images evolve from an ongoing artistic investigation which began as an exploration into the notion of home, memory, story and history within a Welsh cultural context. These works explores the intimacy of a garden space as a site of performance,...
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Anne-Mie Melis work explores the visual nature of plants and their role in an increasingly technology-infiltrated world. Her main inspiration is science, focused towards plant biology and engineering. She uses a variety of media; large-scale architectural botanical drawings on paper, assembled objects, composed from plant parts or pruned shrubs,...
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In 'Bird Gesture' (2008) a woman stands in the centre of a busy shopping precinct. Around her are the signs of urban conformity and consumerism. The sun casts a shadow from one of the nearby trees, one of only a few in this non-place, which could be just about anywhere in the UK. In her cupped hands she holds a tiny bird. The bird is...
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'Eve Dent has consistently pushed audiences in their expectations of performance. The subtlety of her work cuts through some of the po-faced bombast of much performance work'. (Anthony Shapland).Eve Dent is a Cardiff-based artist who has performed widely throughout the UK and Europe since 1999. Influenced by ideas of embodiment in...
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Adam Burton, Ryan Mclelland, Michael Cousin, Stephen Felmingham, James Lander,Maslen & Mehra, Marina de Stacpoole, Florin UngureanuCurated by Mona CaseyOriginally I approached this commission with the idea of looking for political work or work that dealt with Politics, but had no clear idea as to what particular arena of the political I...
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A practicing artist since 2000, based in South Wales, Hamish Gane explores broad themes surrounding photography, memory and melancholia, most often through depiction of his immediate domestic environment and family. His evolving practice incorporates several ongoing series, including Apron, Lazy Eye, Two Hundred Seconds and All's Misalliance. His...
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CARWYN EVANS works in mixed media, photography and installation to explore issues related to his individual sense of place.His first solo exhibition That Morning He Watched The Dawn recently took place at Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown and contained work that reflects Evans’ personal experiences while exploring broader social and political shifts...
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Miranda Whall's work is simultaneously intimate while resonant of the collective vagaries of human experience and our inability to truly empathise with each other and with the natural and physical world around us. Whilst the content of her drawings and videos often appears sexually provocative or deeply confessional, she does this not for shock...
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We are bound by cloth, from the swaddling cloth of the newly born to the binding sheets of the recently dead. Cloth traces the very fabric of our being: metaphorically, materially, and psychologically. This woven bond is perhaps most intimately experienced by women through the secular rituals performed within the domestic and philosophical folds...
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Nicola Kelly explores photography’s relationship with vernacular portraiture, death, and the memento mori. Her photographic images and installations are densely coded with both explicit and implicit references to the history of photography and photographic theories on indexicality and the uncanny.This is particularly evident in the work she...
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The work is predominantly, though not exclusively, film and video. TV and cinema have accustomed viewers to rapid cuts and condensed narratives, treating the medium as a fast-changing window on the world. This compacts our expectations of a reward or resolution. However, when we view unedited ‘real time’ it ticks by on-screen with an...
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  Olivia PlenderThe Masterpiece - Part One, Strange Adventures, 2003 Julie Brixey-Williams, Lilah Fowler, Maria Kontis, Kate Davis, Sue Williams, Olivia PlenderCurated by Anna LovattProvisional, quotidian, humble and unassuming, the practice of drawing was often overlooked by critics and curators during the modernist period. But...
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Open Frequency ProfileArtist and writer Gordon Dalton profiles Lauren Elizabeth Jury's 'Dyfodiad' series of photographic works for Open Frequency.If you go down to the woods today, you’re sure of a big surprise…Have you ever been so lost that you were bed-wettingly frightened? Where you thought that the earth may open up...
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Working with a range of artistic interventions and situations, including site-specific installation, video, three-dimensional photocopies and the readymade, Sean Edwards' sculptures set up situations that lead you into examining your viewing habits. Through a formal analysis of both the real and the fake, often employing a notion of absurdity in...
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Crop, installation, 2006 2006 saw a major exhibition of Simon Fenoulhet's work at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea. Called Another Light (2006), the work represented a culmination of many of Simon's ideas, chiefly to do with light and the transformation of everyday objects. Here, we focus on one piece of work...
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Open Frequency ProfileRussell Roberts, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Photographic Research, University of Wales, discusses the recent paintings of Welsh artist Gareth Hugh Davies.       It has been said of the paintings by Gareth Hugh Davies that they represent a sense of the liminal; a...
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Holly Davey's 'photographic performances' take place between herself, the camera and the audience. The viewer is only invited to see a trace of these performances as photographs. The camera becomes her audience, using the lens as a mirror in an attempt to be both outside and inside herself at the same time. Nominator's text Holly...
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Gordon Dalton is equally fascinated and disappointed with our surrounding culture. This shifts uncomfortably between attempts at greatness and contentment with a more sedate way of life. Dalton's work utilises this acute identity crisis, playing in the gaps between our aspirations and circumstances, the everyday and the mythic, and between success...
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Sam Aldridge’s sculptural work uses low-fi construction techniques to create replicas of objects or environments that we encounter daily. Using a limited range of cheap, readily available materials, his subject matter has ranged from shower units to cutlery, breeze blocks to refuse skips. With a seemingly limited ‘palette’ of...
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Stefhan Caddick trained as a documentary photographer and now works primarily with new media, performance and site-specific intervention. A wide-ranging body of works produced during the past decade have at their root a sensitivity to the site of their conception or presentation, maintaining an inquisitive, questioning approach. Process is more...
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The Meeting and the Journey In Courbet's painting 'The Meeting' (1854), Courbet chances upon his patron, Gustave Alfred Bruyas and his servant Calas, on a road outside Montpellier. The painting depicts their respective social stature through their clothing and pose, with Courbet, the less wealthy artisan, commenting on the nature of the art...
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David Cushway is fascinated with clay as a material and it's intrinsic connection to all aspects of our lives. From birth, day-to-day living, and to death, clay and the ceramic process has been fundamental to our cultural existence since the first human beings developed the skills to use it. The sublime, in relation to the landscape, is a...
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Tim Williams is an artist who works through the medium of photography. His work reflects on aspects of North Wales that have traditionally fallen out of the frame when photographed in the past. He questions his relationship with the area in which he lives by representing those in-between spaces that we drive past or park in. 'Shift' (1998) was...
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Esther Tyson is a painter whose work responds to the natural world and reflects the rich variety of subjects she finds there. Producing paintings and drawings directly from life, Tyson seeks to capture the essence of her subject matter, responding to the smell, sights and sounds of each environment. She states 'I am apart from nature - a mere...
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'You should plant your bulbs in autumn when the wind is...'Morfa Mawddach, Wales, 27 February 2006 Over the last five years Heather & Ivan Morison have been producing an evolving set of artworks documenting and fictionalising their real life adventures across Birmingham, Russia, China, New Zealand and beyond, travelling by foot,...
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'Like a weird sort of yin and yang Bermingham and Robinson seem to balance out each other's practice and output so that we are presented with two sides of every story. They unrelentingly present us with an unedited dialogue, and this is where their work becomes interesting. Through it we listen in on the chats of two friends, eavesdrop on their...
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The inspiration for Charade came from Truffaut's film Fahrenheit 451 (1966) in which reading is considered a criminal offence and books are destroyed. Inspired by this sense of loss and living in an age when data can so easily be destroyed by hacks and viruses, the artist Simon Pope asked...
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The most basic ecology of the contemporary art scene would place the uber Contemporary Art Museum at the top of the food chain, with dealers, collectors, art fairs and biennales scrapping it out for second. Next up would be the galleries, art prizes, art magazines, journalists, funding bodies and the spaces the support jostling for...
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