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Aberystwyth Arts Centre University Of Wales, Aberystwyth. Free. Mon-Sat 10am-8pm. 01970 621903 / www.aber.ac.uk/artscentre Michel Huneault ‘Histoires Normales’ International pho- togapher who depicts moments from many different countries – Bolivia, Nepal, USA, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Cuba; they are united by the way they capture a fragment of everyday life car- rying on, sometimes in extreme circumstances. (Throughout April) Vicki Kerr, Heather Phillipson, Michelle Sank Three artists who have all been Artists in Residence at Aberystwyth Arts Centre’s Creative Units. Their work here ranges from installations to film works and photographic projects. (From Wed 6 Apr until Sat 21 May)


Albany Gallery 74b Albany Road, Cardiff. Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 11am-4pm. Free. 029 2048 7158 / www.albanygallery. com


temporary artworks that are made as a direct response to the culture, heritage and land- scape of Swansea. The names and locations are as follows: Simon & Tom Bloor, Nothing Should Stand In Your Way (Museum Park); Alex Duncan, Holocene (Civic Centre); Laura Ford, Little Bird (The Princess Way); Rhys Himsworth, Industrial Revolution (National Waterfront Museum); Maider López, Trees (Museum Green) and Bedwyr Williams, Lionheart & Lightsout (The Kingsway). (From Sat 16 Apr until Fri 13 May)


Claire Griffiths, Wynne Jenkins & Jake Sutton A mixed show by three gallery art- ists which also features ceram- ics by Sally Wakley. (From Fri 8 until Sat 30 Apr)


Art Across The City Various locations, Swansea. Admission free. 01792 468979 / www.artacrossthecity.com Locws International: Art Across The City artists from the UK, Qatar, Wales and mainland Europe create new


Attic Gallery 37 Pocketts Wharf, Maritime Quarter, Swansea. Tues-Fri 10am-5.30pm, Sat 10am- 4.30pm. Free. 01792 653387 / www.atticgallery.co.uk Paul Rees & Warren Williams ‘Forerunners’ Exhibition contrasting the work of two young Welsh artists. Williams is described as the “forerunner of a new wave of highly skilled young painters”; Rees is relatively new on the art scene but this statement could equally apply to him. (Until Sat 9 Apr) Aled Pritchard-Jones Debut solo exhibition here from a painter who has contributed to a number of mixed exhibi- tions. He depicts the landscapes and mountains of Wales here, in his favoured soft pastel. (From Sat 16 Apr until Sat 7 May)


Barker Gallery / Torfaen


Gallery Pontypool Museum, Park Buildings, Pontypool. Mon- Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 2-5pm. Admission £1.20/60p. Free Wed/Sun 2-5pm. 01495 752036. Roger Polley ‘In The Shadow Of The Cross’


Photographic exhibition of Blaenavon. (Until Sun 17 July)


BayArt 54 Bute Street, Cardiff Bay. Open Tues-Sat. 029 2065 0016 / bayart@tiscali.co.uk / www. bayart.org.uk Ten Years In Celebratory exhibition marking the 10th anniversary of Butetown Artists Studios and BayArt. Artists include Iwan Bala, Jan Beeney, Richard Cox, David Gould, Maggie James, Phil Nicol, Will Roberts, and Emrys Williams.


01792 465676 / www. brunswickswansea.com Darren Wallace, Melanie Ezra & Peter Spriggs Wallace presents Digit, an exhibition of digital drawing; Ezra has Silence & Solitude, photo- graphic art, and Gaudi, Guell And Making Faces are draw- ings and paintings by Spriggs. (Until Sat 14 May)


Cardiff Castle Castle Street, Cardiff. Daily, 9am-6pm. £11.00/ £8.50 (5-16 yrs)/£9.50 NUS or OAP.


Several of the most prominent Welsh artists from this present generation – ones


operating in the more leftfield end of the form – feature in Ten Years In, which marks a decade open for the Bay Art


gallery in Cardiff Bay, and runs until Wed 20 Apr.


(Until Wed 20 Apr)


The Boiler House Andrews Road, Andrews Road Industrial Estate, Llandaff North, Cardiff. Free. 07977 138587 / info@ boilerhousegraffiti.com *Kemef Exhibition of new work by Birmingham-based graffiti crew who have been active since the mid-80s, and are some of the best known UK graf artists around. (Until mid-April)


The Brunswick 3 Duke Street, Swansea. Mon- Sun 11.30am-11pm. Free.


029 2087 8100 / www. cardiffcastle.com Zulu exhibition dedicated to the film Zulu, best known for Michael Caine’s starring role. It features an extremely rare set of storyboard sketches, script, unpublished photographs, props, costume, production notes, posters and images from around the world and much more. On display in the Firing Line Museum. (Until Sun 26 June)


Cardiff Story (formerly


The Old Library) The Hayes, Cardiff. Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 10am-4pm. Free. 029 2022 7181 / museum@cardiff.gov.uk Big Little City Cardiff Multimedia project that offers a window into the lives of people who give cities and towns their unique character. This year it concentrates on Cardiff, and has been organised by Dan Green. (Until June)


Ceredigion Museum Terrace Road, Aberystwyth. Free. 01970 633088 / amgueddfa@ceredigion. gov.uk


artist presents new works that continue his practice of using animation, music and three- dimensional forms to supple- ment his naive yet disarming drawings. (From Fri 29 Apr until Sun 19 June)


Craft In The Bay The Flourish, Lloyd George Avenue, Cardiff. Mon-Sun 10.30am-5.30pm. Free. 029 2048 4611. The Printed Surface A group exhibition showcasing contemporary designs in ceram- ics, glass, metal, textiles and paper in which each artist has selected a specific printmaking process to research, develop and apply to the design and making of their works. (Until Sun 17 Apr) Becky Adams Unique artwork presented in the form of a book and incor- porating found objects, old photographs, text, collected ephemera – each piece telling a story. The realm of the book is intrinsic to Becky’s work as it offers a private space that invites recollection and contem- plation. (From Sat 2 Apr until Tue 31 May)


Cynon Valley Museum Depot Rd, Gadlys, Aberdare. Mon-Sat 9am-4.30pm. Free. 01685 886729. Alan Bateman Also a locally- based artist, Bateman presents paintings of the Cynon Valley. (Until Sun 1 May)


Dylan Thomas Centre Somerset Place, Swansea. Tue-Sun 10.30am-5pm. Free. 01792 463980 / www. dylanthomas.org Womencentrestage: Bread & Roses An exhibition of con- temporary art by women from Swansea and south Wales. The title of the exhibition celebrates the centenary of International Women’s Day. (Until Tue 12 Apr)


FFILM 3 Throughout April, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea Admission: free. Info: 01792 516900 / www.glynnviviangallery.org The last of Glynn Vivian’s fascinating series of exhibitions but by no means the least, Ffilm 3 presents a thrilling selection of film and video in Room 1 and the Collection Galleries. Amongst the varied frenzy of pictures are pieces by UK artists such as Mark Wallinger, John Wood and Paul Harrison, as well as works by Wales based artists Peter Finnemore and Holly Davey. Richard Grayson’s The Golden Space City Of God commissioned by Matt’s Gallery in London, also sees its debut at this exciting event, plus a mov- ing array of work from highly acclaimed international artists like Ciprian Muresan. The British Council, Film and Video Umbrella, The Arts Council Collection and Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales are just a few of the commissioning organisations that contributed to this evocative and inspirational exhibition.


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Preachers And Pulpits At a time when roughly one Welsh chapel cloes each week, this exhibition showcases the best examples of chapel furniture, including pulpits, harmoniums a sedd fawr and inscriptions, to be found in Wales. (Until Sat 14 May) Capeli Capeli started in 2005 as a collaborative perform- ance event in a disused chapel in Llangrannog.. Lou Laurens and Jacob Whittaker have uti- lised a range of different media and approaches – film, pho- tography, writing, composition, improvisation, sonic arts – to to create personal and evocative explorations of the encounters the project generated, present- ed in this five-year retrospec- tive. (Until Sat 18 June)


Chapter Gallery Chapter Arts Centre, Market Rd, Canton, Cardiff. Tue-Sun 12pm-5pm + 6pm-9pm. Free. 029 2030 4400 / www. chapter.org Lloyd Durling Monochromatic wood engravings of suspended still lifes, useing silhouettes to explore negative space, and give the impression of physical form by working back-to-front, filling in the space directly around the image. (Until Sun 8 May) David Mackintosh ‘The Curtain’ Manchester-based


Elysium 31 Craddock Street, Swansea. Wed-Sat, 12-5pm. Free. 07980 925449 / elysiumgallery@ yahoo.co.uk W.O.M.A.N Five female art- ists – Charlie Canning-Jones, Susan Morris, Tiff Oben, Helene Roberts and Julia Rowlands – present mixed work tying in with International Women’s Day, and based around the notion of being both an indi- vidual and part of a collective. (Until Sat 23 Apr)


Ffotogallery @ Turner


House Plymouth Road, Penarth, nr Cardiff. Wed-Sun 11am-5pm. Admission free. 029 2034 1667.


reflect a bygone age when tea parties and domestic decadence were everyday occurrences. (From Sat 9 Apr until Sat 7 May)


The Gate Keppoch Street, Roath, Cardiff. Mon-Sat 10am-9pm. Free. 029 2048 3344 / info@ thegate.org.uk Many Hands Open exhibi- tion organised by the Women’s Arts Association showing the diverse talents and productions of women working in the arts in Wales. It also ties in with Intenrational Women’s Day, on Tue 8 Mar. (Throughout April)


Glynn Vivian Arts Gallery Alexandra Rd, Swansea. Tue-Sun, 10am-4.45pm. Free. 01792 655006 / www. glynnviviangallery.org Ffilm 3 Recent film and video shown in various spaces throughout the gallery. Includes selected works from the British Council, Arts Council England and the National Museum Wales. (Throughout April)


Grand Pavilion The Esplanade, Porthcawl. Mon-Fri 9.30am-5pm, Sat 10am-5pm. Free. 01656 815995 / www. grandpavilion.co.uk Paul Bentley ‘UK Jazz’ Thematic paintings situated in the cafe bar. (Until Sun 1 May)


The Kitchen Gallery 80 Whitchurch Road, Cardiff. Free. 07859 315317 / www. cardiffkitchengallery.org Sean Donovan New paintings from Cardiff artist whose work is selling well of late. “My work is primarily concerned with the actual process of painting [and] the sensuality of paint.” (From Tue 5 until Tue 19 Apr)


Kooywood Gallery 8 Museum Place, Cardiff. Tue- Sat 10.30am-6pm. Free. 029 2023 5093 / www. kooywoodgallery.com Alfred Janes Cenetenary Exhibition Swansea-born painter who was a contempo- rary of the likes of Ceri Richards and Dylan Thomas. This is the first exhibition of his work since 1999. (Until Fri 15 Apr) Lisa Carter, Mary Edwards, Jacob Buckland & Helen Sinclair New paintings and sculptures from these artists, based variously in North and South Wales. (From Fri 15 Apr until Sat 14 May)


Llantarnam Grange Arts


Michael Campeau ‘Darkroom’ A visual study of photographic darkrooms around the world, which are closing as a result of developments in digital technology. Having initially visited over 75 dark- rooms in his native Canada, he then went on to visit more Niger, Cuba, Belgium, Mexico, Vietnam and France. (Until Sat 9 Apr) Ruth Maclennan ‘Anarcadia’ Video projection and accompanying photo-series shot among the desert expanses of Kazakhstan and featuring an archeologist and a prospector as its main characters. (From Thurs 21 Apr until Sat 4 June)


Form Contemporary Craft


Gallery 35 Broad Street, Blaenavon, Torfaen. Admission free. 0495 790926 / www.form-gallery. co.uk Karen Shapley ‘With Love From Noah’ Ceramic/textile artist creating a range of ceram- ic objects resembling domestic tea ephemera. Shapley’s pieces


Centre St. David’s Rd, Cwmbran, Torfaen. Mon-Sat, 10am-5pm. Free. 01633 483321. Resonant Colour Curated by Cardiff based maker Laura Thomas, this exhibition presents significant work from six contemporary applied artists exploring colour in an intel- ligent and sensitive manner. (Until Thurs 5 May) Robyn Hobbs Watercolour paintings which, according to the artist, aim to depart from the tradi- tional perspectives of landscape painting. (Until Sat 7 May)


Martin Tinney Gallery 18 St Andrew’s Crescent, Cardiff. Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 10am-5pm. Free. 029 2064 1411 / mtg@artwales. com


Gallery Artists This chang- ing exhibition at both this gallery and Oriel Tegfryn up north. It will include work by Wales’ leading artists, past and present, with sale prices rang- ing from £100 to £50,000. (From Fri 8 Apr until Sun 8 May)


Milkwood Gallery 41 Lochaber Street, Roath, Cardiff. 029 2047 3373 /


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