This Month's Forum 'Wales In Venice'

 6.30pm, Ffotogallery Meeting Room in Chapter, 30th May 2013

Artist Victoria Malcolm will be presenting work about invigilating 'Wales at Venice' and the importance of this role. Victoria will be showing a video piece made on location in Venice and discussing how her practice has developed since her stay during the Biennale in 2011.

FORUM will also have a new addition to the usual format and we will be inviting recent graduate Brady Knight to be the resident writer for the evening.

Forum is free, and anyone and everyone are welcome to come along and Prosecco will be available for this event!

Other guest speakers are tbc...

If you're interested in showing work, or have an idea of what you'd like to discuss at a future Forum event email Sera at intern@g39.org or Helen at helen@ffotogallery.org. Forum is a monthly, informal event run collaboratively between Ffotogallery and Warp, which offers recent graduates, students and early career artists an opportunity to present work and discuss issues surrounding contemporary practice.

This Month's FORUM  'Discipline Crossover'

Thursday 28th March 7.30pm g39

Resident artist Laura Reeves will be in-conversation with poet Rhian Edwards to discuss their collaboration in as part of 'There Will Be Words' in the g39 library.

The pair will be discussing the importance of this partnerships with practitioners in other disciplines and the outcomes of the project. 

More information will be coming soon....

Intercourse 2

Curated by Elbow Room an investigation into participatory practice.

   

A series of events in creative partnership with venues, organisations and artists. Through these Elbow Room wish to explore in more detail the nature of participation, shared experience and interactive engagement. This will happen mainly through the process and realisation of projects by artists and artist groups who have public participation, engagement and interaction at the core of their practice. The project artists are Ania Bas, Freya Dooley, Tiff Oben and artist group B.R.G. 

Elbow Room's Intercourse 2013 event will take place on Saturday 6th April in Royal Arcade, Cardiff. Freya Dooley will be showing new work alongside Bee Aar Gee, Tiff Oben and Ania Bas. There will be screenings, interventions and discussions with Paul Hurley, Gill Nicol, Sophie Hope and others. 

Their activities can be found here.

WALES INTERNATIONAL YOUNG ARTIST AWARD

We’ve just had word from the British Council Wales…

If you are a young artist currently living or born in Wales, between the ages 17 – 25, there is now a Wales International Young Artist Award for those from a range of creative backgrounds including painting, sculpture, photography, graphic design, printmaking, drawing and film. 

The winner will be selected in November 2013 and will have the opportunity to show their work across a national and international platform as well as a cash prize of £500.

The deadline is the 2^nd of September 2013.

To find out more visit http://www.britishcouncil.org/wales-wiyaa.htm.

The 'Made in Wales' Shop

 

This proposed new artist run store will feature the work of Welsh makers in it’s biggest shopping center, St David’s, right at the heart of the countries capital.
 

Made in Wales will showcase handmade gifts, crafts and original artwork. Their aim is to attract a diverse customer base including the many tourists visiting the capital.Their aim to open our shop in May for a 9 week trail period. (8th May until 7th July)They then hope to return for a second installment later in the year.They are inviting all Welsh artists to apply to take part in this unique concept.You can apply to take part as one of the shop team, working in the shop throughout the trial, or as a guest maker.

 

The Made in Wales shop will be managed by Bryony Morgan, of Made in Bristol, who founded the successful artist run shop, Paper Scissors Stone, in Bristol.Made in Bristol provides Bristol’s creative community with professional, affordable retail and business development opportunities.

 

Artists taking part in Paper Scissors Stone throughout 2012 found the experience very rewarding, not just financially but also with developing work, building confidence and the chance to work with other artists resulted in new collaborations, friendship and networks being formed.

 

Please email madeinwalesshop@gmail.com to request an application form.

 

The deadline to apply is 25th March

 

All applicants will be contacted before 5pm on 5th April.

 

 

Hand In Glove PLATFORM - Josephine Sowden

As a Lotus Flower is Born in Water

Motorcade/FlashParade, Bristol

Opening Friday 8 March 2013, 6pm til late

Exhibition continues: Sat 9 & Sun 10 March 2013, 12 – 5pm **amended dates**

Josephine Sowden uses lens-based media to explore the human condition in relation to modern day consciousness. Commissioned by Hand in Glove, Sowden’s new work As a Lotus Flower is Born in Water is an immersive two-channel video installation.

Inherently performative, the work features the artist amidst the natural landscape, externalising notions of ‘nature’, ‘self’ and ‘ego’. The oppositional personas that Sowden assumes reduce experience to a series of words, distorted memories of the past and predictions of an uncertain future. These confrontational actions exaggerate and bring in to sharp focus a modern day obsession with inner streams of thought; ultimately seeking to question a separation from nature and more primal instincts and desires.

A piece of critical writing by artist Trevor H Smith, recipient of Hand in Glove’s PLATFORM Professional Development, will accompany the exhibition.

Sowden graduated from BA Photographic Art at University of Wales, Newport in 2012 and has since been selected for the Catlin Guide, Videoholica International Video Art Festival in Bulgaria and the 2012 Aesthetica Art Prize. Her degree show piece Lilies of the Field was selected by Hand in Glove for PLATFORM 2012; a group exhibition showcasing work by promising arts graduates from Bristol, Bath and Newport. Sowden was then awarded the PLATFORM Commission, to create new work with the support of Hand in Glove for her first solo exhibition.

 Lilies of the Field will be screened on the opening night only.

The PLATFORM Commission is part of a twelve month series of projects funded by Arts Council England. University of Wales, Newport are also supporting As a Lotus Flower is Born in Water. With thanks to Motorcade/FlashParade, Louisa Fairclough and Maia Conran.

Forthcoming event: PLATFORM

Friday 15 March 11am - 6pm
229 High Street, Swansea, SA1 1NY 

A one-off event for postgraduate students undertaking academic and practice-based research in creative and humanities disciplines. Who are you and how do you work? That's what we want to know.

Platform will provide a space for postgraduates to share and discuss ideas and practice at different stages of development and to learn about the work of others. It's an opportunity to discuss your practice in a relaxed informal atmosphere, meet other research students in the South Wales area and to explore new opportunities for collaboration.

Those who wish to attend and contribute to the event can get involved in different ways. Presentations don't have to be confined to traditional academic or slide-show formats and can be given as performances, film screenings, discussions, practical workshops or demonstrations, walks, pecha-kucha...  Platform is a chance to develop your voice as a creative academic and will be structured in response to the work that is presented. The event will also include facilitated practical sessions focusing on cross-discipline collaboration.

FREE BUT BOOKING ESSENTIAL. To register please email stephen-donnelly@hotmail.co.uk
http://volcanotheatre.co.uk/735/productions/birthday-party-events.html