Finding your place
There is a tremendous amount of
artist-led activity across Wales,
and west Wales has its fair share.
Rhôd is a strong regional hub - started in
2009, it is an artist-run project in Drefelin,
Carmarthenshire, which seeks to activate an
‘urban-rural dialogue’ from a most stunning rural
location - an old mill down a long rambling lane.
The low-down
Narberth Museum >
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Artists with studios on the site are part of the
wider Rhôd Artist Group, which includes artists
invited to make work and exhibit on the site.
The project sets out to make the case that
work produced outside the city is as distinct
and significant as that which comes from within
it. There is only a dichotomy of mind between
the two. Outside and inside are inversions of
one another.
Oriel Myrddin Gallery >
Colony 14, in collaboration with Elysium Gallery
in Swansea, took place again in Cardigan this
past August, occupying two beautiful disused
warehouse spaces. With over 50 artists
participating, it was an ambitious endeavour for
the quiet market town and included a diverse
and interesting range of work, from established
artists like Iwan Bala to emerging talents like
Anthony Rhys.
Rhôd >
Rhys’s strange paintings are the out-takes
of old daguerreotypes - the Victorian subjects
have been caught laughing or yelling or deeply
angry or sad, perhaps hysterical. The images,
which could never have been captured by the
slow daguerreotype process, are imagined
by Rhys’s tiny paintbrushes. These pictures
subvert the language of portraiture and reveal
instead what we might never see.
Installation views of the Colony 14 exhibition,
Cardigan, August 2014
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Alicia Miller, September 2014
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