In 2002 the gallery celebrated its
40th Anniversary Year with a special series of exhibitions.
23rd February
- 16th March
Brenda
Hartill and Trevor Price
The first exhibition of the year features two
London based printmakers. Brenda Hartill is a long established
printmaker whose innovative work explores the texture, light
and pattern of the landscape. She is most interested in the
strong light and shadow of southern Europe and employs embossing
techniques and bright pigments in her abstract images.
There are two strands to Trevor Price's work. His figurative
prints cast a witty and mischievous eye on adult relationships
while his abstract work combines printmaking with collage.
He studied printmaking at Winchester College of Art and apprenticed
under the direction of Brenda Hartill before setting up his
own studio in 1991.
23rd
March - 13th April
Muriel
Delahaye and Michelle Scragg
Trained in Manchester at the Regional College
of Art and Victoria University, Delahaye has lived in Borth,
Ceredigion for thirty years. She is a figurative painter whose
paintings and drawings relate to the sea and to the people
who inhabit the beach and coastline around Borth. She has
won a number of prizes for her work including First Prize
at 'Art West 2000'. Michelle Scragg was born in Glasgow and
trained at both Glasgow and Winchester Schools of Art. She
left a successful career as a designer to concentrate on her
painting, and has had numerous successful shows both in the
UK and abroad. Her work is notable, as with certain other
Scottish artists, for her use of colour. Now, living in Swansea
she has brought her eye for colour to bear on the landscape
and culture of South Wales.
27th April - 25th May
David Carpanini
David Carpanini is President of the Royal Society
of Painter Printmakers and formerly Professor of Art at the
University of Wolverhampton. He is one of the few Welsh artists
whose art is inspired by Wales and is also known outside Wales.
He was born into a South Wales mining community whose land was
"scarred by industrialisation but home for a resolute people
that I found a trigger for my creative imagination". He regards
himself both as a painter and a printmaker, each method allowing
him to explore different aspects of his personal vision. This
will be his first solo show for four years and a centrepiece
of our 40th anniversary exhibition programme.
1st - 22nd June
Wilf Roberts
Wilfred Roberts was born in Anglesey in North
Wales in 1941. He attended Bangor then Croydon Art College.
He taught art in London for thirteen years until 1973, holding
regular exhibitions of his own work. He returned to Anglesy
in 1973 to work for Gwynnedd County Council.
Since his early retirement in 1996 he has painted full time.
A number of successful solo shows have followed, and he has
seen his reputation grow. He has been described as one of the
finest, individualistic and popular artists currently working
in North Wales. The main subject of his work is the Anglesey
landscape. He draws inspiration from the sublime but simple
beauty of his homeland and most particularly from the rocky
grandeur around Mynydd Bodafon where he lives.
13th July - 3rd
August
Gareth Thomas
Enthusiastic collectors of his work eagerly await
Swansea born Gareth Thomas' biennial one-man exhibitions at
this gallery. He first established his reputation with his sensitive
watercolour paintings of the South Wales coast. The Gower coastline
still features in his work and for this exhibition he has also
been working in Southern France and Italy.
10th
August - 14th September
40th Anniversary Exhibition
For this changing mixed exhibition we have
asked each of our artists to provide two or three pieces of
new work. We represent over 50 artists so as well as paintings,
there will be the work of leading printmakers, plus sculpture,
stained glass and ceramics on display. We will receive more
work than we can hang so as work is sold it will be replaced.
This exhibition coincides with the opening of the gallery
40 years ago. Some of the artists we currently represent were
showing with the gallery when it first opened. These artists
are also bringing in their latest work.
21st September
- 12th October
Nick Holly
The artist has made his reputation
as a chronicler of the urban and industrial landscape of South
Wales and in particular of the east side of Swansea where he
lives. For this exhibition he continues to draw inspiration
from the terraced houses and streets where he was brought up.
19th
October - 9th November
Valerie Ganz
A distinguished Swansea born artist
who made her name going where almost no woman had been before
- down the Welsh pits. An accomplished artist she may equally
be found drawing and painting at a jazz club, backstage with
a ballet company or on the touchline at a rugby match.
16th
November - 24th December
Christmas Mixed Exhibition
Large, changing group show of selected new work
from the artists who show with the gallery.
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Tuesday
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10 - 5.30 |
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Saturday
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10 - 4.30. |
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There is no
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