art
spective on an everyday functional object transformed and
re-examined through artistic
interpretation and representation,” is what the folks at the
gallery are saying. (From Fri 4
until Fri 25 Apr)
Martin Tinney Gallery
18 St Andrew’s Crescent,
Cardiff. Mon-Fri 10am-6pm,
Sat 10am-5pm. Free. 029
2064 1411 / mtg@artwales.
com
Ceri Richards: The Dylan
Thomas Works Paintings and
drawings by one deceased icon
of Welsh artistic expression,
Richards, which were inspired
by another, Thomas. This exhibition includes the famed Dylan
Thomas Suite of lithographs,
and all work will be for sale. I
don’t know if that means that
said Suite might be broken up
and put into private hands.
Maybe the gallery will tell you
if you ask. (Until Sat 5 Apr)
Arenig The death in 1914 of
James Jackson Innes, important UK post-impressionist
artist, has its centenary marked
with an exhibition of especially
commissioned new work by
Wales’ leading contemporary
landscape painters, inspired by
locations including Arenig Fawr
– a mountainous Welsh area
where he produced some of his
best known work. (From Wed 9
Apr until Sat 3 May)
Mission Gallery
Gloucester Place, Swansea.
Tue-Sun 11am-5pm. Free.
01792 652016 / www.
missiongallery.co.uk
Beca Beeby This season’s
Maker In Focus, Beeby makes
delicate pieces from Copper,
where noted. 029 2057 3500 /
www.nmgw.ac.uk
Wales Visitation: Poetry,
Romanticism And Myth
In Art Exhibition which
takes inspiration from Allen
Ginsberg’s poem Wales
Visitation, which he wrote in
1967 after exploring the Welsh
countryside while tripping balls.
Featured artists include David
Jones, Richard Long, Graham
Sutherland and Clare Woods.
(Until Sun 7 Sept) Wildlife
Photographer Of The Year
Annual competition showcasing
the best in photographic images
of the natural world. (Until Sun
22 June) Landscapes By J.D.
Innes: Beauty Most Wild
Marking the centenary of Welsh
artist James Dickson Innes’
artist’s death, the exhibition
will shed new light on the work
of this unjustly neglected artist.
Supported by the Brecknock Art
Trust. (From Sat 12 Apr until
Sun 20 July)
National Waterfront
Museum
Oystermouth Road, Maritime
Quarter, Swansea. Daily
10am-5pm. Free. 01792
638950.
Love Swansea Glass The
return of the museum’s popular
celebration of love and romance
in the form of fragile glass
hearts, in time for Santes
Dwynwen and St Valentine’s
days. (Until Sun 11 May)
Norwegian Church Arts
Centre
Harbour Drive, Cardiff Bay.
Mon-Sat 9am-6pm, Sun 9am3pm. Free. 029 2087 7959 /
www.norwegianchurchcardiff.
com
Cardiff-based Paul Reas’ Day
Dreaming About The Good
Times? exhibition comes to
Ffotogallery in Penarth (until
Sat 10 May), having previously
been shown in Bradford,
where he grew up. It offers an
evocative photographic take
on various aspects of British
culture in the 80s and 90s.
graphite and porcelain among
others, inspired by her work
with honeybees. Nominative
determinism forever! (Until Sun
6 Apr) Laura Reeves Held in
the gallery’s ‘[...] Space’, Reeves
– a recent recipient of the
Jane Phillips Award – presents
multi-disciplinary work based
around research into John
Dillyn Llewellyn’s orchid house,
and later orchids in general.
(Until Sun 6 Apr) Michael
Cousin Work presented in ‘the
[...] space’, described here as
“a programme for artists’ film
and moving image”. (From
Tue 8 Apr until Sun 11 May)
Vanessa Cutler Works in
glass as part of the Makers
In Focus series. (From Tue 8
Apr until Sun 18 May) Civic
Work by Anna Barratt, Owen
Griffiths, Jason&Becky, Catriona
Ryan, Huw Griffiths Architects,
Lindsay Halton, Niall Maxwell
and Andrew Nixon (Powell
Dobson), taking place in this
gallery and across Swansea,
using and responding to the
urban space. (From Sat 12 Ap