art
SEREN MORGAN JONES: LLYGAID
HANES/ HISTORY’S EYES
Gallery/Ten, Cardiff
Until Sat 5 Oct
Seren Morgan Jones is an Aberystwythborn artist, who graduated from the
University of the Arts London in 2009.
Her exhibition Llygaid Hanes/History’s
Eyes at Gallery/Ten presents 12 portraits
of historical, but fictional, Welsh women
from the 19th and early 20th century.
Jones’ style fuses traditional portraiture
with contemporary features. Some of the
women in the exhibition sneer at the viewer,
as if daring them to comment. Others look
natural and offer a glimpse into the past,
a great-great-grandmother staring back at
us. Jones has created portraits that look as
though they belong to another time, yet the
poses and features of the women she has
painted are very much of today.
Her paintings are a mix of broad
brushstrokes, almost abstract when
depicting clothing, and all the detail is kept
for the hands and faces. Each eyelash has
been delicately painted in, each ruddy
complexion carefully blended.
Gwlad/Country stands out; a woman in
traditional Welsh lady costume. There is
a half smile on her lips, and her finger
points to the floor as if to say “get here
now”. In different clothes she could be a
young lady from anywhere in Wales.
Gwlad/Country is just one of many of
Jones’ captivating paintings who stare at
you, each one of them are stern, serious,
and beautiful.
Admission: free. Info: 029 2034 5978 /
www.gallery-ten.co.uk (AW)
BUZZ 38
SPACE, TIME, MACHINE AND MONSTER
The Riverfront, Newport
Mon 14-Fri 25 Oct
As part of Literature Wales’s Space, Time, Machine And Monster Literacy Festival, The Art Depot of Newport,
have loaned a selection of vintage horror and science fiction film posters.
After WWII the gothic era of horror films started to change, the public were no longer interested in classic monsters
and, by the late 1940s, horror films stopped being produced. When we moved into the nuclear age, however, fear of
that power and stories of space travel gave birth to a whole new set of horror monsters. Then in 1951 The Thing set
a precedent for the many space invasion films that followed.
If you love retro horror films like Creature From The Black Lagoon, Plan 9 From Outer Space, or Atom Age
Vampire, then this exhibition gives you the chance to experience a part of film history. You’ll gasp with horror,
thrill with fear, and be haunted by the garish adjectives on show.
Leering red titles and twisted fonts was a style of movie poster that remained popular well into the 60s. Viewing
these posters today, you can see pre-echoes of the film posters we see on the billboards and bus stops around us.
Though today’s posters have evolved to be sleeker, in both design and language, there is a far wider choice of film
to watch at the cinema now than there ever was in the 50s.
Following its success in 2008, the Space, Time Machine And Monster Literary Festival returns this year for a
weekend full of fiction fun. There will be a whole variety of talks, workshops, film screenings, panel events and
competitions. On the evening of Fri 18 Oct, and all day Sat 19 Oct, the exhibition space will be taken over by
these activities, which include titles such as Origami Yoda and Destroying The World For Fun And Profit.
Admission: free. Workshops and lectures: £3-£7. Info: 01633 656757 / www.newport.gov.uk/theriverfront
ANDREW WILLIAMS
PETE SAINTY: A CAST IRON
SHORE
ALMUT LINDE: RADICAL BEAUTY HANNAH DOWNING: ON LOOKING
Chapter Gallery, Cardiff
Sat 12 Oct-Sun 24 Nov
Oriel Canfas, Cardiff
Almut Linde was born in 1965 in Lübeck in
Sat 12 Oct-Sat 9 Nov
Germany and currently lives in Hamburg.
Pete Sainty had the idea for his latest
Her art involves many different forms
artistic venture whilst walking along the
including action, sculpture, installation,
South Wales coastline. During his walk,
he was impressed by the ammonite fossils, photography and video. Radical Beauty
at Chapter is her first extensive exhibition
obscurely shaped shells and crab claws
tour, with works dating from the past 20
that he discovered. Despite his love for
years.
his native city of Liverpool, he cannot
Linde’s work draws on performance
deny that the Welsh coastline has a lot of
character, and he has clearly been affected and dance to create photographs and
installations that, at first, appear to
by his shell-finding trips.
purely document however her exhibitions,
A Cast Iron Shore, his latest exhibition,
such as Radical Beauty, also question
refers to him returning back to the
the differences between the struc