Art and Photography
<p>The Artes Mundi Prize has been established to celebrate visual culture within a global context. Set to become a biennial event, it showcases artists who have achieved recognition in their own country and are emerging internationally. The emphasis is upon those who are working with ideas of human form or presence, and producing art which...
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<p>Tim Davies is one of the most exciting artists working in Britain today. Internationally exhibited and acclaimed he specialises in art which explores identity through artefacts – he has approached Wales through wool, fire, oil-drenched seabird feathers, lead from the roof of a disused chapel. More exotically he has returned a...
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<h2> </h2><p><br />Photographer John Briggs continues his project to document change in the Cardiff docklands, revisiting the sites and people memorably recorded in <em>Before the Deluge</em>. In the last thirty years landmark buildings have been demolished, docks filled in, the barrage built, maritime...
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<p>Twenty-five surreal collages by John Digby, set in an ornate arch from the Alhambra, suggest a multiplicity of narratives and provide provocative starting points for poet Tony Curtis.</p><p>Giraffes in slings, a toppling Statue of Liberty, woolly mammoths, an enthroned bull, a monster pear and giant apple, flying fishes, a...
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Art and Photography
<p>Twenty-five surreal collages by John Digby, set in an ornate arch from the Alhambra, suggest a multiplicity of narratives and provide provocative starting points for poet Tony Curtis.</p><p>Giraffes in slings, a toppling Statue of Liberty, woolly mammoths, an enthroned bull, a monster pear and giant apple, flying fishes, a...
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<p><em>The Golden Valley </em>is a personal account in words and photographs of the Garw where Phil Cope has lived for thirty-five years. In it he explores the valley’s history: sparsely worked agriculture; boom-town coal exploitation; sudden, followed by gentle, post-industrial decline; attempts at re-invigoration...
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<p>A celebration of the harp in Wales, an instrument as symbolically key to a Welsh identity as the flag itself. Foreword by Catrin Finch.<br /><br />Bruce Cardwell provides a history of the harp in Wales, including how it grew to prominence, its evolving role in Welsh culture, how it became a central symbol of Welshness, how it...
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<p>Author and photographer Phil Cope takes us on a journey through the sacred wells of Wales, from Anglesey to Gwent. On his way he discovers wells in city centres and, quite literally, in the middle of nowhere – on mountainsides, in deserted valleys, on the coast, in sea caves. They include healing wells,...
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<p><strong>‘The story behind why this was written is equally as inspiring as are the dishes’ – <em>Buzz Magazine</em></strong></p><p><strong>‘[Sarah Philpott’s] reasoning to try vegan food is sound. Less cruelty, more deliciousness, and some...
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<p>Includes contibutions from William Packer, Francesca Rhydderch and Edward Lucie-Smith.<br /><br />A book of new paintings and works by Shani Rhys James, one of Britain’s leading and most distinctive artists. Her latest work has developed a lighter palette to deal with new subjects of flowers and colourful patterned...
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Art and Photography
<p><em>The River Wye</em> is a sumptuous record of an important and beautiful landscape. In breathtaking colour photographs, Barry Needle captures the essence of the river, from its source high in the mountains of mid-Wales to its entry in to the sea under the towering Severn suspension bridge.</p>
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<h2><br /> </h2><p><em>The Valleys </em>is a beautifully- produced collection of more than a hundred colour photographs selected from several thousand images made during five years by Anthony Stokes. Stokes’ pictures reveal a unique and richly-coloured vernacular...
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<p><em>Tide-Race</em> is a remarkable account of life on Bardsey (known as Ynys Enlli to Welsh speakers), a remote and mysterious island off the coast of North Wales. Brenda Chamberlain lived on the island from 1947 to 1961, during the last days of its hardy community. The combination of Bardsey, ancient site of Christian...
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<p>André Stitt is one of the foremost practitioners of performance art in the UK. His gallery in Cardiff, Trace, hosts a regular programme focussing on contemporary fine art performance, video, installation and interactive, interdisciplinary activity. In the first five years of its existence, the gallery produced 40 installations/...
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<p><strong>‘Miles’s appraisal of Jones’s paintings is not only eloquent, but refreshing... I would recommend this eminently readable book.’<br />– <em>Art Unit</em></strong></p><p><strong>‘Well researched and thoughtful. This book...
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<p>This beautifully produced book is sculptor David Nash’s response to the three hundred year old yews in the gardens of Powis Castle. After decades – in some cases centuries – without trimming some twenty yews by the castle have grown into fantastic, organic shapes not usually associated with the formally...
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<p>Featuring Brendan Stuart Burns, Ivor Davies, David Garner, Robert Harding, Alfred Janes, Christine Jones, Jonah Jones, David Nash, Terry Setch and Lois Williams, this collection of interviews with artists from Wales is further evidence of the renaissance of the visual arts in the country. The ten artists talking to Tony Curtis vary in...
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