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ECO VISIONS + ECO CRAFT MARKET Elysium Gallery, Swansea Sat 1 Apr-Sat 13 May


The Elysium Gallery’s


sustainable approaches to making works of art with members of SGIP/SKIP


programme opens with SGIP/ SKIP’s month-long Eco Visions. In response to our ongoing ecological crisis,


April the exhibit addresses


combination of Elysium Studio members and external artists – who are proactively making environmentally positive choices in their artistic processes.


– collectively a


Through engaging with nature and their own natural surroundings, these artists offer ways for the viewer to recontextualise their own environment. Artists such as Paul Munn, who can’t resist digging through skips: “I have no idea what any of the contents may be useful for, but it is the first impression, the glimpse, that compels me to either remove the object or let it be.” For Munn, this “organic methodology” drives the finished result, rather than a preconceived vision from


the start. Swansea-based artist Nazma


Green, Demian Johnston, and Sarah Poland will also be on display.


Mark Folds, Jonathan


Ali, meanwhile, uses cuttings and collaged images to link colours from the natural world to our human-made one. Other works from Ann Jordan, Lucy Donald,


Eco Visions includes a free drop-in printmaking workshop on Sat 1 Apr from 12-4pm, open to everyone and located in Elysium’s new community and sustainability-focused Thirdspace area. There will also be an eco- art and craft market on Sat 8 Apr, showcasing the work of makers who are committed to creating eco-conscious art and upcycling/ recycling items.


Admission: FREE. Info: elysiumgallery.com EMMA WAY


CAI THOMAS:


THINGS THAT MOVE Oriel Davies, Newtown Sat 1-Sat 15 Apr


Filmmaker and performer Cai Thomas has been dancing for as long as he could move, describing himself as a ‘dance artist’ rather than one or the other. In fact, it was the marriage of the two as a boy – attempting to photograph himself mid-jump – that began his journey as an artist. “In a way I was trying to catch the impossible, trying to hold time, to lengthen time, and stop time. [That] image represents the seed of my preoccupations as a dance artist.”


Previously, Thomas has worked outside of the art world, conducting workshops in places like hospitals and mental health facilities, and relishing the chance to work with “non-professionals”. Things That Move will pin him down for a research project investigating how improvisational dance and movement link to our energy and memory at the Oriel Davies: “It’s a place of feeling, not of thought. A place in the body that knows waiting. And has a reverence for waiting.”


Admission: FREE. Info: orieldavies.org HANNAH COLLINS


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DISABILITY ACTIVISM


IN BRISTOL M Shed, Bristol Fri 28 Apr-Sun 1 Oct


In


Equality Forum, social and cultural museum M Shed will play host to a longrunning exhibit celebrating the city’s “vital” role in disability activism from the late 1980s onwards. This is due to Bristol being an early adopter of what’s known as a ‘social model of disability’, which advocates that people are “disabled by barriers in society, not by their impairment or difference.” Therefore, the world should try and adapt to make life easier for the differently-abled, not the other way round.


partnership with the Bristol


This modest exhibition will largely comprise archival photos, first- person accounts from campaigners between 1988 and the 2010s, and portraits taken by Bristolian David Constantine.


accident left Constantine paralysed from the shoulders down at age 21, he’s continued taking photographs all around the world under the studio name Sitting Images, and is


Though a diving


photography; capturing people in their “natural environment”, as he’s done for the activists featured here.


especially interested in


Admission: FREE. Info: bristolmuseums.org HANNAH COLLINS


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EDWIN MILES:


ST. CATHERINE’S ROCK Mission Gallery, Swansea Until Sat 6 May


Moving image artist and filmmaker Edwin Miles explores the relationship between person and place in a screening of St. Catherine’s Rock, his newest film. Mission Gallery in Swansea present it as the first in a series of that recycles the artist’s old home videos shot on his grandad’s Mini DV camcorder.


A merging of documentary-like images and a fictionalised narrative set against a British landscape, St. Catherine’s Rock is also created through


VHS, with the tape creating a nostalgic haziness that complements the camera’s soft focus.


The film itself is constructed to offer


Edwin family’s past, showing the importance of place and how it ages with perception. Set over the duration of a week-long family holiday in Pembrokeshire, some of the locations featured in the film include Manorbier Castle, Wiseman’s Bridge, and St. Catherine’s Island near South Beach in Tenby.


short, insightful bursts into


Admission: FREE. Info: missiongallery.co.uk EMMA WAY


INTO THE SUN Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay Tue 11 Apr-Sun 4 June


Part of the WMC’s programme of immersive


Into The Sun is experiences,


display that needs you to function. Directed by Matt Pyke and inspired by the Japanese word komorebi, which describes the look of sunlight shining through tree canopies in the morning or afternoon, this free, walk-in projection puts participants at a ground-view of nature and uses human movement to bring the flora and fauna to life.


an interactive BOCS,


It’s been developed by innovative artistic and UX collective Universal Everything, based across the UK, who have been bringing future- thinking exhibitions concerning AI and digital lifeforms to museums, commercial and public spaces around the world since 2008. Specialists in experience-based art, their body of work “subverts cinematic CGI, physics simulations and real-time generative design.”


Following this, Anagram – also behind last year’s BOCS exhibit Goliath – will host a free immersive VR and AR storytelling workshop on Thurs 11 and Fri 12 May.


Admission: FREE. Info: wmc.org.uk HANNAH COLLINS


David Constantine


Lucy Donald


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