art
Showcasing new work by all
the gallery’s co-operative
members. (Until Wed 30
Apr) Mark Morris Popular
Carmarthenshire painter who
will be exhibiting a selection
of his new, urban acrylic paintings with a strong emphasis on
rural characters and views of
Swansea, Tenby and London.
(Until Wed 30 Apr)
Kooywood Gallery
8 Museum Place, Cardiff. TueSat 10.30am-6pm. Free. 029
2023 5093 / www.
kooywoodgallery.com
Carl Melegari Fine art oil
painter heavily influenced by
figures and landscapes. (From
Fri 7 Mar until Sat 5 Apr)
Llantarnam Grange Arts
Centre
St. David’s Rd, Cwmbran,
Torfaen. Mon-Sat 10am-5pm.
Free. 01633 483321 / www.
lgac.org.uk
Artistic Revolutionaries:
The 56 Group Now New work
from members of this venerable
art group, founded in Cardiff
in 1956. (Until Sun 15 Mar)
Christine Kaltoft Jewellery
showcase for a maker whose
work exuberant, light, and
graphic, usually from a simple
palette of wood, silver and gold.
(Until Sun 15 Mar) Sarah
Culleton Craft showcase: bags
and accessories, handmade
from the finest fabrics, recycled
materials and antique findings.
(Until Sun 15 Mar)
M.A.D.E. Gallery
41 Lochaber St, Cardiff. Free.
029 2047 3373.
BIO-Organism / Living
Cultures Featured artists,
whose names are TBC, examine
Process’ Held in the gallery’s
‘[...] Space’, Murphy presents a
selection of new artworks produced during a partnership residency between Mission Gallery
and Gower College. (Until Sun
9 Mar) Claire Curneen ‘To
This I Put My Name’ New
body of work by internationally
renowned ceramicist Curneen,
which is the result of a Creative
Wales Ambassador Award
given by the Arts Council Of
Wales. (Until Sun 16 Mar)
Beca Beeby This season’s
Maker In Focus, Beeby makes
delicate pieces from Copper,
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 multidisciplinary work based around
research into John Dillyn
Llewellyn’s orchid house, and
later orchids in general. (From
Tue 11 Mar until Sun 6 Apr)
National Museum &
Gallery
Cathays Park, Cardiff. TueSun 10am-5pm. Free except
where noted. 029 2057 3500 /
www.nmgw.ac.uk
Peter Blake ‘Llareggub’
Illustrations relating to Under
Milk Wood, shown for the first
time and the culmination of
a 25-year project. (Until Sun
16 Mar) 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
Starting at the end of this
month and running until Sat
17 May, Oriel Mwldan in
Cardigan has a conceptually
interesting-sounding
exhibition by Helen Booth.
Based in Carmarthenshire,
her paintings are based on
layering, built up and stripped
back to create texture.
the crossover between biological
and technical growth. On Sat 22
and Sun 23 there will also be a
symposium weekend featuring
discussion, practical demonstrations and experimentation
with academics and artists on
the nature of cultural growth.
(From Fri 7 until Fri 28 Mar)
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. (From Thurs 6 Mar
until Sat 5 Apr)
Mission Gallery
Gloucester Place, Swansea.
Tue-Sun 11am-5pm. Free.
01792 652016 / www.
missiongallery.co.uk
Ingrid Murphy ‘A Blue
countryside while tripping balls.
Featured artists include David
Jones, Richard Long, Graham
Sutherland and Clare Woods.
(Until Sun 7 Sept)
National Waterfront
Museum
Oystermouth Road, Maritime
Quarter, Swansea. Daily
10am-5pm. Free. 01792
638950.
Graham Sutherland
‘From Darkness Into
Light – Mining, Metal And
Machines’ More than 60
WWII-era sketchbook drawings from the private collection of this important 20th
century artist. (Until Sun 23
March) 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
Arnold Lowrey Watercolours,
oils, acrylics, pastels and mixed
media work from an artist who
appears on Sky’s Painting &
Drawing channel. I only know
this channel exists because it’s
always mentioned when this guy
has an exhibition here. (From
Mon 24 until Sun 30 Mar)
Off The Wall
The Old Probate Registry,
Cardiff Road, Llandaff,
Cardiff. Tue-Fri 9.30am5.30pm, Sat 10am-4pm. Free.
029 2055 4469 / [email protected]
International Women’s
Day Show Centring on the
notion of “inspiring change”,
the slogan of this year’s IWD,
the gallery exhibits work from
women whose work, they say,
can inspire us all. Rachel Tighe,
Lynne Cartlige and Sally James
are among them. (Until Wed 26
Mar) Paresh Nrshinga Young
painter based in Hertfordshire
whose work “offers a unique
experience of spirituality, music
and passion through a journey
of emotions and colours.”
(From Wed 26 Mar until Wed
23 Apr)
Oriel Canfas
Glamorgan Street, Canton,
Cardiff. Tue-Fri 1-4.30pm, Sat
10.30am-4.30pm. 029 2066
6455 / www.
orielcanfas.co.uk
Dilys Jackson ‘Pollen’ An
exhibition of new sculpture
work with the theme of hidden
sexuality. (Until Sun 9 Mar)
Oriel Davies
The Park, Newtown, Powys.
Mon-Sat 10am-5.30pm. Free.
01686 625041 / enquiries@
orieldavies.org
Mary Vettise ‘0000000:
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