listings cymru art ABERYSTWYTH ARTS CENTRE


University Of Wales, Aberystwyth. Mon-Sat 10am-8pm. 01970 621903 / aberystwythartscentre.co.uk


Colin Howkins: Tynygraig Work by an English painter, now in his late 80s, who spent most of his artistic career near Tregaron and developed from expression- ism to more linear landscapes. (Until Sun 23 Apr)


ALBANY GALLERY


74b Albany Road, Cardiff. Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 11am-4pm. 029 2078 9171 / albanygallery.com


Coast New work from Peter Cronin, Dai David, Thomas Haskett, Sian McGill, Peter Morgan, Paul Sims and Rhona Tooze celebrating Wales’ coastline. (From Thurs 6 until Sat 29 Apr)


CANFAS


Manchester House, Grosvenor Hill, Cardigan. Mon-Sat 10.30am-4pm. 01239 614344 / canfas.co.uk


Maximillian Victor Self Memorial exhibition of an artist who died in 2022 aged 29, and who used his drawing ability to convey his mental health issues. These intricate 2D/3D drawings are black and white, with some colourised in Photoshop. (Until Sat 29 Apr) Sarah Lees New work from Carmarthenshire-based painter, here focus- ing on the visual language of trees and hedgerows and how they fit into the agri- cultural landscape. (Until Sat 29 Apr)


CHAPTER GALLERY


Chapter Arts Centre, Market Road, Cardiff. Tue, Wed, Sat + Sun 12-6pm; Thurs + Fri 12-8pm. 029 2031 1050 / chapter.org


Leo Robinson: The Infinity Card Glasgow-based artist and musician with a multimedia exhibition of “oracles, musical scores and objects that explore a speculative future,” many of them ostensibly mundane (eg Pokémon cards) but imbued with a sense of symbolism and ritualism. (Until Sun 16 Apr)


CRAFT IN THE BAY


The Flourish, Lloyd George Avenue, Cardiff. Daily 10am-5pm. 029 2048 4611 / makersguildinwales.org.uk


Uncommon Beauty Mixed exhibition, curated by Verity Pulford, which includes artists working in metal, ceramics, glass, textiles, natural materials, paper, print, bone and beeswax to create pieces inspired by the “cabinets of curiosities” which preceded museums. “A wonderfully eclectic range of objects, made and found,” is how the Makers Guild put it. (Until Mon 29 May)


ELYSIUM GALLERY


210 High Street, Swansea. Tue-Sat 12-5pm. 07980 925449 / elysiumgallery.com


SGIP: Eco Visions Work by Nazma Ali, Lucy Donald, Mark Folds, Jonathan Green, Demian Johnston, Ann Jordan, Paul Munn and Sarah Poland, arising from a collective attempt to make their creative practise more sustainable. (Until Sat 6 May) Ben Hartley & Buoys Buoys Buoys: OOPARTS Teamup between the Swansea-born Johnny Jones aka BBB, and Bristol-based Ben Hartley, for a sculp- tural/installation work playing on notions of folk tradition and artefacts. (‘OOPARTS’ is short for ‘out of place artefacts’.) (From Thurs 13 Apr until Sat 6 May)


FOUND GALLERY 1 Bulwark, Brecon. Tue-Sat


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10am-4.30pm. 07736 062849 / foundgallery.co.uk


Body & Soil Beth Flynn (paintings and photos), Gwyn Daggett (furniture) and Connor Ritchie (wooden homeware) exhib- it their works. (From Tue 14 Mar until Sat 22 Apr)


David Collyer & Agneiska Pohl: The Concrete And The Clay South Wales-based documentary photographer Collyer and Polish-born, north Wales-based potter Pohl present work jointly, with pieces by the latter inspired by the former’s pho- tos. (From Wed 26 Apr until Sat 20 May)


GALLERY TEN


The Coachhouse, 143 Donald Street, Cardiff. Wed-Sat 10.30am-5pm. 029 2060 0495 / gallery-ten.co.uk


Catrin Llwyd Evans: Ar Hyd Llwybr New Welsh landscape paintings including watercolour and gouache works on paper and larger-scale oils on board. (Until Sat 22 Apr)


GLYNN VIVIAN ART GALLERY


Alexandra Road, Swansea. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm. 01792 516900 / glynnvivian.co.uk


Swansea Open 2023 Annual competi- tion for locally-based artists, the displayed works selected by Daniel Trivedy and Gillian Fox. (Until Sun 16 Apr) His Dark Materials – World Building In Wales A look behind the scenes of this hit drama, based on the Philip Pullman books and filmed in Wales. (Until Sun 23 Apr)


LIFE FULL COLOUR


23-25 Hole In The Wall Street, Caernarfon. Tue-Sat 10.30am-5pm. 01286 678211 / lifefullcolour.com


Jane Paice: Time And Tide Semi- abstract oil and mixed media work inspired by Paice’s Anglesey sea surroundings. In addition to the 30-plus pieces on show, some of Paice’s related poetry will also be


displayed. (Until Sat 29 Apr) NATIONAL MUSEUM CARDIFF


LLANTARNAM GRANGE ARTS CENTRE


St. David’s Road, Cwmbran, Torfaen. Mon-Sat 10am-5pm. 01633 483321 / llantarnamgrange.com


Walter Keeler Renowned potter whose work grows from a fascination with pots from the past and the joy of working with clay and firing kilns. (Until Sat 22 Apr) Jess Parry: Pretty New work combin- ing collage, embroidery and found materi- als to construct monstrous feminine forms. (Until Sat 22 Apr)


MISSION GALLERY


Gloucester Place, Swansea. Wed-Sat 11am-5pm. 01792 652016 / missiongallery.co.uk


Edwin Miles: St Catherine’s Rock First in a series of films recycling home video from filmmaker Miles’ grandfather’s early-2000s camcorder, combined with his own more contemporary work, and depicting a holiday in west Wales. (Until Sat 6 May)


Sarah Hopkins & Muhammad Atif Khan: Diptych... Collaborative printmaking project between these artists, based in Wales and Pakistan. Work was exchanged back and forth with 16 prints resulting. (Until Sat 6 May) Stephen West: Finding Sea Level New installation from mid-Wales-based art- ist, comprising large-scale drawings which together create a sequence of dramatic images. (Until Sat 13 May) Bonnie Grace Maker In Focus show including ceramic jugs which Grace describes as “two-dimensional 3D forms”. She also works in drawing, painting, paint- work, textiles and paperwork. (Until Sat 20 May)


MOMA MACHYNLLETH


Heol Pen’Rallt, Machynlleth. Wed + Fri 10am-4pm, Thurs + Sat 10am-1pm. 01654 703355 / moma.


Cathays Park, Cardiff. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm. Free except where noted. 0300 1112333 / museum.wales/cardiff


BBC 100 In Wales ”Experience a walk through time to discover more about the history of the BBC in Wales and how 100 years of broadcasting has evolved, as well as an opportunity to see the technology, programmes and costumes of the past through objects and archive footage,” say the Museum. (Until Sun 16 Apr) Garry Fabian Miller: The Sea Horizon Miller is a fine art photographer and this work dates from the 1970s, cap- turing Welsh landscapes and inviting us to consider how they’ve changed over time. See Art. (Until Sun 10 Sept)


NEWPORT MUSEUM & ART GALLERY


John Frost Square, Newport. Tue-Fri 9.30am-5pm, Sat 9.30am-4pm. 01633 656656 / newport.gov.uk/heritage/ museum-art-gallery


Newport Rock Collecting Audio archive relating to Newport’s rock (etc) music history, with Joe Strummer, Jon Langford, Dub War, 60ft Dolls, Terris, Elastica and Goldie Lookin Chain among those featured. (Until Sat 10 June) Painting Newport – Painting Wales Paintings focusing on local and Welsh views, chosen from the collections of this gallery. (Until Sat 2 Sept)


ORIEL CANFAS


Glamorgan Street, Cardiff. Tue-Fri 1-4.30pm, Sat + Sun 11am-4.30pm. 029 2066 6455 / orielcanfas.co.uk


Coastal Path Exhibition An exhibi- tion celebrating Wales’ coastal path in pain, poetry, film, story and sculpture with con- tributions from 18 creative sorts including Luca Paci, Nia Bennett, Madoc Roberts, Alun Hemming, Jon Gower and Robert Law. (Until Sat 15 Apr)


MAXIMILLIAN VICTOR SELF Canfas, Cardigan, until Sat 29 Apr Admission: FREE. Info: canfas.co.uk


Coinciding with the one-year anniversary of Maximillian Victor Self’s death aged 29, this memorial exhibition has been brought together by his mother Nicky Watts and the owners of this Cardigan gallery. Resident in nearby St Dogmaels, Self used art as a creative outlet for his mental health issues, creating highly intricate black and white drawings with fine liner pens; his most widely seen piece, from 2020, was drawn directly onto a wall of a Haverfordwest psychiatric hospital, where he was sectioned at the time.


PAX New work commemorating the cen- tenary of Wales’ Women’s Peace Appeal of 1923-24, with artists invited to create work representing ‘peace’. (Until Sat 15 Apr) Jane Hope: Echoes Of The Mabinogion Paintings based on stories and images from the mythical Welsh book of the title, also inspired by Hope’s time living in Blaenau Ffestiniog. (Until Sat 15 Apr)


Spike Blackhurst: Against All Odds Clay and metal sculptures aiming in the artist’s words to “increase awareness of how emotional abuse can affect our internal organs”. (Until Sat 10 June) John Clow: A Whisper Stirs The Silence Photographs of Snowdonia from a collection spanning around 30 years’ work, by a photographer who died in 2009. Sketchbooks and watercolours by Clow will also be shown here. (Until Sat 20 May) Neale Howells: Bring The Story Inside Large-scale pieces from collage painter, perhaps one of the most notorious ‘contemporary’ Welsh artists of the last 30 years; many of these pieces combine old and new material by Howells. (From Sat 22 Apr until Sat 10 June) SLQS: Roan/m Screenprints, photo- graphs, textile and film from a London- based, Franco-Vietnamese artist whose recurrent themes include decolonisation and diversity in equestrian communities. (From Sat 22 Apr until Sat 10 June)


MOSTYN


12 Vaughan Street, Llandudno. Tue- Sun 10.30am-5pm. 01492 879201 / mostyn.org


Stefan Brüggemann: Not Black, Not White, Silver Mexico City-based pop/installation artist who deploys news headlines and accessible language/imagery in his site-responsive, conceptual pieces. (Until Sat 17 June)


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