“Yellow, if steadily gazed at in any geometrical form, has a disturbing influence, and reveals in the colour an insistent, aggressive character” Kandinsky Elysium Gallery presents the first solo exhibition by Swansea based artist Phillip Cheater. Health and Safety artefacts have become prominent in the everyday environment, however these are generally… read more
White Shirt Collective | 10th – 17th February 2012
“The White Shirt is no tabula rasa. Its emptiness is an illusion. With it’s collar, cuff and brilliance, It’s wearing suggests an acceptance or alignment with certain codes, values, and expectations. In its uniformity, for it is a uniform in every sense, the white shirt enables us to ‘come into line’ and perhaps… read more
Klang Canteen | 14th – 28th January 2012
Klang Canteen. Curated by Barnaby Dicker for Art’s Birthday, Wales Marking five years of activity Art’s Birthday, Wales presents its first exhibition. As with all Art’s Birthday celebrations, it belongs to a more or less informal worldwide network of artists who, each year, pick up the baton(s) left by Robert… read more
Mary-Ann Kokoska – Drawing:Land & Sky | 19th November – 23rd December 2011
Mary-Ann Kokoska’s recent work and creative research focuses on currents of air in our atmosphere – specifically the appearance, movement and scientific significance of clouds. These works are manifested in the form of large wall size drawings that often take the form of collage installations. Clouds are nature’s way of… read more
DISRUPTION | 5th November 2011
‘Most of us go about our daily lives with an assumption how the day’s events will go. We meticulously plot and plan our routines, treading our familiar well worn paths towards the comfort of the familiar. Then all of a sudden there is a DISRUPTION! Everything changes and all that… read more
DISRUPTION – Cl*wns | 4th November 2011
Kapspike & Goebbels present CL*WNS images created by Michael Bosanko performances directed by Ceri Phillips and music composed by Bethan Wynne Phillips By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes. Why does evil exist? And where does it come from? Does it exist independently from the people… read more
Simulacrum | 30th September – 22nd October 2011
elysium gallery’s photography open 2011 ‘Our era prefers the image to the thing, the copy to the original, the representation to the reality, appearance to being.’ Ludwig Feuerbach Elysium gallery presents the work of 19 diverse photographers from the U.K., Europe, Australia and U.S.A selected by Turner prize nominated photographer Richard… read more
Bus Stop Cinema @ Venice | 29th September 2011
Elina Medley, Shabnam Piryaei, Sean Vicary, James Johnson-Perkins, David Marchant, Thomas Canning, Jayne Wilson, David Theobald, Melvyn Williams, Hazel Gore, Lindsay Foster, Jacob Dwyer, Marina Moreno and Michael Meldru Medjivepjis Elysium Gallery presents 15 fabulous short films from 14 international artist film makers ranging from Swansea to New York to… read more
Venice – The Vending Machine | 14th – 30th September 2011
www.venicevendingmachine.com From an original concept created by the Venetian, UK based, artist Marina Moreno, elysium Gallery with ART-E-MOTION presents Vending Machine: an Installation, which features the work of both UK based and International artists. This dual sited installation will be hosted by Italian partners Microclima, an artistic project at the… read more
Melanie Ezra – Self [other] | 9th – 24th September 2011
The self is not the face or the body but is an abstraction of the mind. The intangibility of the self means that one is never truly able to create a self-portrait. The self is an unknown; a constantly evolving abstract based on a collection of shared experiences and flawed… read more