'Future Tense' at Aberystwyth Arts Centre in September

In September a new show of recent work by David Garner will be presented at Aberystwyth Art Centre. The exhibition is called 'Future Tense' and, as the play on words in the title suggests, it will be an uneasy look at our society and where we might be going. 

The works are arrangements of 'found objects' that, when placed together, create installations that explore our feelings and attitudes or pose difficult questions.

Last week Culture Colony filmed and photographed David and his new art works. The images will be used in the exhibition catalogue and the video will be shown on Culture Colony to co-incide with the show.

Unusually the art works were filmed and photographed, not in the white box spaces of a gallery, but in the Old Tannery in Machynlleth and the stables at horse training centre Carreg Dressage.

Photograph - David Garner installing one of his works in a horses stable at Carreg Dressage.

Aberystwyth Arts Centre Platform 

2012 Review

Yes, we all know that 2012 is going to be remembered for the Olympics and the Queens Jubilee, but what about the work that you create?

With attention focused on London this year, and very little prospect of television broadcasters, or the press in Wales, recording and reporting on developments of our cultural evolution, it is very likely that what happens regionally will become invisible to the future if nothing is being recorded to a decent standard.  

To do what we can to redress this imbalance, Culture Colony has started to record as much as possible this year in full High Definition with the intention of creating a 2012 Review (and 2013 Preview) that will appear in January next year. We hope that the review will be published as a Mobile App backed up by the Culture Colony web site.

Active Culture Colony members will feature in the review alongside major cultural events and festivals that Culture Colony is involved with this year. Events such as David Nash at Kew, National Theatre Wales' production of Coriolan/Us, Bedwyr Williams at the Ikon in Birmingham, The Royal Commission's purchase of 600 works by Falcon Hildred, David Garner's exhibition later this year at Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Creative Wales Awards, Experimentica, and much more. By backing the 2012 Review up with the Cuture Colony web site, featured artists who maintain their profiles on Culture Colony can always keep the links to the review up to date, even years after the review is published.

We intend to maintain the annual review of culture in Wales year on year, developing the project region by region around the UK. Indeed we have already started documenting 2013 events. It's simple to get into the review - increase your activity on the Cuture Colony web site.

Photograph by Jessica Balla - work taking place at the Wood Quarry, part of David Nash's major exhibition this year at Kew Gardens

David Nash at Kew video

Emergence Platform

Hangar 858 video

Rhod 2012 video

Book Launch Tomorrow

Jon Gower's collection of short stories will be launched on Friday at Waterstones Book Shop in Cardiff.

Cocktails have been promised at Waterstone's for the launch at 6.30 this Friday. Dai Smith chairs the event while Richard Huw Morgan & Tomos Williams perform.

"Gower's tales possess a primal, almost savage formality that's far removed from the calmer precisions and interiority of the mitered short story. They are also exhilarating and lush and knowing and in all ways bespeak authenticity".
Richard Ford.

Jon Gower profile

Book Launch news item

Maria Hayes receives prestigious award

The Campaign for Drawing has one main aim and that is to get people drawing. Every year good practice and innovation is acknowledged through the Drawing Inspiration Award.

This year the Award has gone to Maria Hayes who demonstrated how drawing is by no means out dated as she incorporates layers of technology and projected images into performative drawing works that captures the essence of movement.

All the Energy Gift Exchange workshops for the Big Draw that Maria enabled took place at the School of Art Gallery, Aberyswyth University.

The award certificate itself is an original drawing by Quentin Blake and Maria is seen holding it in the photograph above.

Maria Hayes profile

The Campaign for Drawing web site

Made in Roath Call for Artists

PRESS RELEASE

Call for expressions of interest 
Croeso i’r Rhath at milkwood.
As part of Made in Roath 2012, milkwood is pleased to be hosting Croeso y'r Rhath/Welcome to Roath, a group exhibition showcasing emerging and established contemporary artists using any media. We are looking for artists whose work is critically engaged, whilst also focusing on the geography, community and idiosyncrasies of the locale.
If you would like to be considered, please send a brief statement about your practice with images (3MB max) to bobgelsthorpe@googlemail.com
The exhibition will run between October 12th – 22nd , where necessary and possible, we will endeavour to provide accommodation and/or transportation for selected artists.
Founded in 2009, the Made in Roath festival has become an established artist-led event in contemporary Cardiff's cultural calendar, and has recently been awarded a small development grant from the Arts Council of Wales. Both milkwood and MiR maintain a commitment to widening audiences for contemporary art practice, milkwood through its gallery and basement programme, and MiR by inviting resident and visiting artists to present their work in domestic, commercial, public and sometimes overlooked spaces throughout the Roath area during the festival.
Croeso i’r Rhath will be based at milkwood, but proposals from artists wishing to exhibit off-site are also welcomed.
For general enquiries please email info@milkwoodgallery.co.uk
www.milkwoodgallery.com
www.madeinroath.com

Photo - Tom Betts 'Roathbud' for MiR at milkwood 2009

Made in Roath Platform

Milkwood Gallery profile

271 Miles in 5 days by bike!

On the 18th of June, Jamie Davies and Brychan Tudor will be cycling to Anglesey from Cardiff; a total of 271 Miles in 5 days.
All details of the project and what they're raising money for are posted below and on the Sponsume Sponsor site.

Brychan said - "I should add that we have not been in training and are very concerned about the outcome (one of us more than the other!).  Thanks very much for your support, no matter how modest."

To pledge your support you can follow the link -

http://www.sponsume.com/project/caapos-cycle-anglesey-all-payments-optional

What They Intend To Do

On 18/06/2012, Creative Assault Art Production Organisation Directors Jamie Davies & Brychan Tudor will be cycling from Cardiff to Anglesey, a total of 271 Miles in 5 days!  They hope to raise £300, which will go towards paying artists fees and expenses in the projects that CAAPO commissions.  Any funds raised in addition of this figure will be donated to a local cancer charity.

Any Donation of £5 or over will automatically entitle you to a special thank you in their 'Dystopia: Are We Nearly There Yet?' publication; marking the end of a series of events that have taken place over the last 12 months. Any donation of £10 or over will receive a mention in the publication and a signed A3 deluxe-print from CAAPO's Dystopia Series.

All funds raised and details of any donations will be announced on their website - www.creativeassault.org - and through the twitter account @CAAPOGermanBite.

Although they are supported by the Arts Council of Wales, they have a responsibility to raise a large portion of their project budgets through private and public sponsorship and through sales of their publications.

On 17/03/2012, CAAPO commissioned two new public artworks to take place in Cardiff City Centre in amongst an audience of over 100,000 people.  These 'Moving Sculpture' commissions were awarded to Spazi Docili (Florence-based Public Art Organisation) and Laurence Payot (French Liverpool-based Public Artist). Events such as these are only made possible through the support of the Arts Council and the wider community.

Jamie and Brychan will be stopping off at various places en route next week to make impromptu art works. Culture Colony is looking forward to seeing them on Wednesday at MOMA Wales in Machynlleth to make a record of their journey at its mid point.

This is better than the Olympic Torch Marathon, go to CAAPO's web site, see the route and get out there to support something that benefits the arts in Wales rather than takes funding away from it.

The photograph above represents their fundraising efforts from 2012 - it was taken at the 'Bat The Rat' stall at Art Car-Boutique Sale 2012.

Art Car-Boutique Sale video

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