Asiya Clark: Affinity Preview: Saturday 20th May 7pm Exhibition continues until Saturday 8th July Gallery open Weds-Sat 11am-9pm Asiya Clarke’s work is about losing and finding oneself in nature. Connecting inner and outer worlds she attempts to find signs and metaphors that extend from the particular to the universal. Her work is… read more
Sarah Poland Silence – The Messenger and the Metaphor | 20th May – 1st July 2023
Sarah Poland Silence – The Messenger and the Metaphor Preview: Saturday 20th May 7pm Continues until Saturday 1st July. Gallery open Weds – Sat 11am-9pm Artist in conversation with Sculptor Mark Halliday Online artists talk Tuesday 23rd May 7.30pm Silence – The messenger and the metaphor by Sarah Poland – YouTube Silence –… read more
Online Artist Talk: Mark Halliday in conversation with Sarah Poland | 23rd May 2023
Art in the Bar – Swansea Sports | 1st April – 6th May 2023
Art in the Bar:Swansea Sports Matt Eynon | Carys Griffiths | Alex Wilson | Becky Young | Zobia Ahmed | Serena Killen | Jack Moyse 01/04/23 – 06/05/23 Sport has formed a large part of shaping Swansea’s identity on national and international stages. From the Jacks and the ‘Spreys to historic events such as… read more
OOPARTS * Out of place artefacts – Ben Hartley & Buoys Buoys Buoys | 13th April – 6th May 2023
Preview: Thursday 13th April. 6pmGallery ThreeExhibition continues until 6th May. Lo! Artefacts from a lost history and a speculative future; relics andsigils; they take you now on an otherworldly journey into a space wheretime is in flux. Explore how the past becomes shrouded in mystery, wherelegends and stories form. Ooparts is an exhibition about objects, how they act as vessels for thestories bestowed on them through folk tradition and community play, andtheir importance in the construction of heritage and identity. Usingspeculative futures and fictionalised Welsh artefacts, the exhibitionbrings together imagined relics reinterpreted with scavenged things,demonstrating how these everyday objects and materials can becomevessels for legend. Buoys Buoys Buoys Johnny Jones, also known as Buoys, Buoys, Buoys is aSwansea born bard working in live performance, sculpture,and interactiveinstallation. Exhibiting in gallery spaces, immersive club environments,and cabaret stages throughout South Wales and England has allowed themto engage with the overarching and eclectic themes in their work: Queermasculinity, contemporary ritual magic, and working class Welsh folkculture. On a mission to build joyous spectacles in all their work anddrawing from the carnivalesque and absurd, Buoys Buoys Buoys is usingtheir practice as a vessel to engage communities in the retelling ofWelsh mythologies through laughter and bizarre public play. Ben Hartley Ben Hartley is a Bristol based artist primarily working insculpture and installation. Harnessing their perpetual state ofeco-anxietyand preoccupation with material waste, for the last four years Ben’spractice has been centred around experimenting with low-impact,non-extractive and ecologically sustainable approaches to art-makingwith a focus on sculptural practice. Informed by the self-initiatedmethod of working the Circular Practice, research, mapping, visualhistories and speculative fiction, Ben is interested in telling storiesthrough objects and materials.
SGIP: Eco Visions | 1st April – 6th May 2023
GIP: Gweledigaethau Eco | SKIP: Eco Visions Clirio llwybrau at ddulliau cynaliadwy o wneud celf. Clearing pathways to sustainable approaches to making art. Nazma Ali | Lucy Donald | Mark Folds | Jonathan Green | Demian Johnston | Ann Jordan | Paul Munn | Sarah Poland | SGIP Orielau Un a Dau / Galleries One and Two Rhagolwg /… read more
Online Artist Talk: Lucia Jones & Natasha Morley: A World of Her Own | 6th March 2021
Angela Dickens – Faces in the Green Bush | 2nd February – 18th March 2023
Angela Dickens: Faces in the Green Bush Preview: Thursday 2nd February 6pm Exhibition continues until 18th March Elysium gallery is proud to present this exhibition of new paintings by Swansea based artist Angela Dickens. The paintings were created over the past year coming out of the pandemic lockdowns. This new body of… read more
Peter Finnemore – MU | 3rd February – 18th March 2023
Preview: Friday 3rd February, 7pm Exhibition continues until 18th March Gallery open: Weds – Sat 11am – 9pm MU is the latest exhibition from the distinct art practice of Peter Finnemore. Without a set narrative or singular theme, this installation explores the pluralistic language of photography in relation to materiality, installation, painting, video,… read more
Natasha Morley & Lucia Jones – Byd ei hun / A World of her own | 3rd February – 18th March 2023
Preview: Friday 3rd February 7pm Exhibition continues until 18th March Gallery open Weds – Sat 11am – 9pm Online Artists talk Tuesday 21st February 7.30pm ‘A world of her own’ is an exploratory exhibition by nature, a navigation of its namesake. Traversing mediums as well as the lived and the imagined, the artists meditate on the relationship between women… read more