Catalogues

Catalogue for the 50th anniversary exhibition at Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre. Includes recent history of Llantarnam Grange. Published March 2016.

Artists include:

Anna Adam, Becky Adams, Billy Adams, Iwan Bala, Alan Barrett-Danes & Ruth Barrett-Danes, Geoffrey Bradford, Sarah Bradford, Mick Brown, William Brown , Adam Buick, Brendan Burns, Roger Cecil, Richard Cox, Jack Crabtree, Brian Crouch, Ivor Davies, Lowri Davies, Natalia Dias, Ken Elias, Ann Catrin Evans, Michael Flynn, Morgen Hall, Frank Hamer, Janet Hamer, Jane Hamlyn, Ruth Harries, Rozanne Hawksley, Bert Isaac, Dilys Jackson, Walter Keeler, Christine Kinsey, John Langford, Mary Lloyd Jones, Michael Organ, Arlie Panting, Betty Pepper, Thomas Rathmell, John Selway, Laura Thomas and Ernest Zobole

Curator Aidan Moesby begins a conversation exploring the notion of weather as a metaphor for the human condition. Aidan has brought together an International selection of artists whose work resonates with his vision. Featuring Catrin Andersson; Joanne Mitchell; Zoe Preece and Tim Shaw

This exhibition is a Tu Fewn project and presented as part of LGAC’s “Maker to Curator” series.

Featuring the work of this year’s top graduates in the applied arts.

LGAC have travelled the UK to select the cream of this year’s graduates in the applied arts, searching for those who are pushing the boundaries of applied art whilst maintaining and developing the traditions of their craft. These are the makers and designers destined to lead and shape the next generation of applied artists.

This year we have also decided to expand our ‘One Year On’ section of the exhibition where we have handpicked a number of last year’s graduates to show how their work has evolved and progressed since they finished their degree courses Shannon Bartlett-Smith, Klara Capouskova, Laura Coles, Julie Heaton, Leah Jensen, Rhian Wyn Jones, Chrisoula Konstantakou, Rachel Lovatt, Victoria Radcliffe, Christian Vaughan Jones

Matt & Amanda Caines have both pursued their own fine art practices for many years, Matt as stone carver and Amanda as jeweller and mixed-media artist. In 2012 they relocated to Wales and started a process of uniting stone, wood, antler, metal and textiles. Their work binds together disperate mediums in a shared vision. This will be the first major exhibition of the couple’s collaborative work.

Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre 23/05/15– 25/07/15

Part of a golden generation at the Royal College of Art that included the fledgling Pop Art luminaries Derek Boshier, David Hockney, Alan Jones, R. B. Kitaj and Barry Bates – John Selway immediately set about pursuing his own artistic agenda. Always working from memory, he has often ventured far and wide in search of suitable subject matter. An influential tutor at both Newport and Carmarthen Art Colleges, whether flirting with abstraction, drawing inspiration from literature or responding to a landscape, his primary concern still remains as always, the human condition.