OPPORTUNITY FOR VISUAL ARTISTS: VENICE 2011

Ffotogallery was made aware of this fantastic opportunity and would like to share it with our FORUM followers!
elysium Gallery & ART-E-M0TION

Venice: Vending Machine, An Installation. 100 Artists from Wales. September 2011

Deadline for work Fri 12th August 2011

Opportunity for 100 Welsh or Wales based visual artists to create small scale work, to be part of
an installation sited at two prestigious locations in Venice, Galleria Perela & Serra dei Giardini
reflecting the theme of the 54th Venice Biennale Illuminations and the global environment.
The work, in any media, maximum dimension 9cm diagonally will be packaged in Venice, with the
artist’ name and contact details, in one of 220 transparent plastic spheres, seeds of creativity,
placed in the vending machine and be will available through random selection by the viewer &
operator of the machine.

Artists may enter up to 3 pieces of work.

Submission fee for handling, transport and marketing £10 .
The work will be curated and catalogued .

For further information and how to send work contact:

Ann Jordan: 07743699861
info@elysiumgallery.com, subject Venice
www.elysiumgallery.com

Marina Moreno: 07873 927 110
artemotion@virginmedia.com, subject Venice

FFOTOGALLERY and WARP bring you the FORUM event of the summer!

Thursday 4th August is the:

FORUM ART BBQ!

Next FORUM is a social, offering a chance to meet other local artists from all arts disciplines, to share work, ideas and grub.

Bring along any work, finished or in progress, which you’d like to discuss with the group.

Chuck into the equation a BBQ, refreshments and the slight chance of summer/rain and you’ve got a FORUM ART BBQ!

Bring along any BBQ-able/inflammable food & drink down to Turner House Gallery, Penarth from 6:30 onwards.

No need to book; however, if you would like to present work please let us know. We can project Powerpoint, slide shows, audio and we always welcome tangible works.

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FORUM is an informal, monthly event aiming to develop a core group of emerging artists together with students and graduates from visual media courses. It is a platform for practitioners from various disciplines to exchange ideas, experience and opinions.

If you have any queries or questions please call:

(029) 2070 8870

or email: turnerhouse@ffotogallery.o​rg

http://www.ffotogallery-fo​rum.blogspot.com/

Turner House, Plymouth Road, Penarth, Cardiff. CF64 3D

RICK DAVIES: INVISIBLE LANDSCAPES

Opening Wednesday 10 August 2011, 6.30 – 8.30pm

Exhibition continues 11 – 27 August 2011

Admission Free

Rick Davies’ panoramic prints go beyond what the eye normally sees and provide insights to our contemporary industrial and post-industrial experience. The artist’s elongated vistas of places such as Milford Haven and Port Talbot show how concrete and steel structures and petrochemical plants have become embedded in the landscape, with incongruous industrial and leisure activities taking place side by side.

Invisible Landscapes is the second exhibition in Ffotogallery’s Wish You Were Here summer season, focusing on emerging photographic artists in Wales.

Ffotogallery at The Dairy, 100 Kings Rd, Pontcanna, Cardiff, CF11 9DF

Open Tues – Sat, 11am – 5pm

turnerhouse@ffotogallery.org

www.ffotogallery.org

DAWN WOOLLEY: VISUAL PLEASURE

Opening Wednesday 20 July 2011, 6.30 – 8.30pm

Exhibition continues 21 July – 6 August 2011

Admission Free

In a provocative and sometimes hilarious fashion, Visual Pleasure examines the act of looking and being looked at. Referring to psychoanalysis, phenomenology and feminism, Dawn Woolley considers both her own experience and that of the viewer when looking at her as a female and a photographic object. In a practice that encompasses photography, video, sculpture, installation and performance, Woolley questions how we interpret what we see and how meaning is created by social regulation, expectation and desire.

Visual Pleasure is the first exhibition in Ffotogallery’s Wish You Were Here summer season, focusing on emerging photographic artists in Wales.

Ffotogallery, Turner House, Plymouth Rd, Penarth, CF64 3DH

Open Tues – Sat, 11am – 5pm

029 2070 8870

turnerhouse@ffotogallery.org

www.ffotogallery.org

After the brilliant presentation at the last FORUM, we have the privilege of passing on some further Rhôd news. BRG's Sam Aldridge will be speaking about his Open Empty Spaces project at this symposium next week:

Symposium Rhôd 2011

Monday 11 July/Llun Gorffennaf 11
Chapter Arts Centre/Canolfan Gelfyddydau Chapter

Caerdydd/Cardiff

6.00 - 8.00 pm/yh

Free (ticketed)/Am ddim [gyda tocyn]

Please book your ticket by contacting the Box Office on 029 2030 4400/

Cysylltwch â r Swyddfa Docynnau 02920304400

Rhôd seeks to expand the ideas surrounding an urban/rural dialogue. Following the recent Rhod exhibition at Melin Glonc, in West Wales, this symposium seeks to form an understanding of artistic activity across the UK and to what degree site dictates the nature of this.

Guest speakers include Reveal Somerset, Angharad Pearce Jones and Open Empty Spaces. The event is free to attend and advance booking is recommended as space is limited.

Mae Rhôd yn ceisio datblygu syniadau ynglyn â r berthynas rhwng y wlad a r ddinas. Yn dilyn yr arddangosfa ddiweddar yn Melin Glonc, Drefach Felindre, bydd y symposium yn gyfle i ddeall mwy am weithgaredd creadigol ar draws y DU ac i ba raddau y mae lleoliad yn dylanwadu ar natur y gwaith.

Siaradwyr gwâdd i gynnwys Reveal Somerset, Angharad Pearce Jones ac Open Empty Spaces. Mae r digwyddiad am ddim ond awgrymir ichi archebu tocyn rhagblaen gan fod lle cyfyngedig.

For more information please visit/am ragor o wybodaeth ewch i: www.therhod.wordpress.com

LAST NIGHT'S FORUM

Thanks to everyone who came! Here's some links to things that came up.

'Pitch', the radio show by Richard Huw Morgan and John Rowley is on Tuesday mornings 10-11am on Radio Cardiff (98.7FM). Info can be found on artcardiff.com and culturecolony.com.

Rhôd

¿AreWeNotDrawnOnwardToNewEra? at g39, preview this Sat 2nd July - last ever exhibition on g39's current site!

5 Perspectives on Drawing at the Elysium

And feel free to contact me if you have any ideas for collaborations/ events etc this summer at the Dairy - emma @ ffotogallery.org / 029 2070 8870.