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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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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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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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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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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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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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'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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