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Aildanio 2022-23 Arts Prize Exhibition

Dydd Sadwrn 16 Medi 2023 – Dydd Sul 5 Tachwedd 2023
10:00 am – 4:30 pm

Bydd ‘Aildanio’, yr arddangosfa Gwobr Gelf Celfyddydau Anabledd Cymru (CAC) yn teithio’n genedlaethol ar draws chwe oriel yn dechrau yn g39 Caerdydd o 18fed Tachwedd 2022.

Plas Bodfa Projects

Unique, inclusive, creative projects with roots on the Isle of Anglesey with branches throughout Wales and the world, combining contemporary art and storytelling with the sciences and an entanglement with all aspects of our surroundings.

Julie Upmeyer

Julie Upmeyer is an artist and initiator. Deep-diving into a particular material or process, she creates sculptures and objects, performances and installations.

Neale Howells – Artist

(Warning – Strong language from the start) Neale Howells has an exhibition at MOMA Machynlleth – Bring the Story Inside – April 22nd to 10th of June 2023. This film catches Neale in his studio for a quick chat….

Learn more about Bring the Story Inside here

Sara Wheeler

Dr Sara Louise Wheeler is a freelance poet, littérateur, and artist. She writes the column ‘O’r Gororau’ (‘From the borders’) for Barddas Welsh poetry magazine, where she explores topics relating to marginal experiences, including disabilities; she also writes a bi-monthly column for Golwg360. Sara undertakes consultancy work on accessibility and is a member of numerous committees and networks relating to equality and diversity; she is also Vice-Chair of the central literature committee for the National Eisteddfod of Wales, is a member of the Executive committee for PEN Wales, and also the Board of Governors for Ysgol Morgan Llwyd. Sara works in and around North-East Wales, providing workshops relating to creativity and wellbeing. Sara won the DAC ‘Creative Word’ (Welsh medium) competition 2022 with her poem ‘Ablaeth Rhemp y Crachach’, which she subsequently translated and published in her bilingual pamphlet of poetry ‘Trawiad/ Seizure’. Her artwork ‘The sands of hearing time’ is featured in the DAC Arts Prize exhibition ‘Aildanio’ and is currently on display in Tŷ Pawb, Wrecsam. Sara is currently preparing a children’s book called ‘The Silver Princess’, based on the story and artwork she recently published in ‘Cylchgrawn CIP’; she will publish Welsh and English versions of the study, with original artwork.

Socials: @serensiwenna (Twitter ag Instagram) Saralouisewheelerneeedwards ar Facebook.

View some art by Sara here

Exhibition: The Living Room

28 April – 11 May

Faadi/Y Stafell Fyw/The Living Room is an intergenerational photography and fashion project sharing intimate family settings within Somali Welsh homes. With an emphasis on celebration, the project includes images of young local models in bridal wear, community members modelling cultural clothing such as Hidyaah Dhaqan and Diraq, brotherhood and soft masculinity and the traditional dance of Ciyaar Somali. 

 Around 40-50 community members participated in this photoshoot, either as models, dancers or providing materials and traditional clothing. This is the first intergenerational project which showcases the Welsh Somali experience and life with an emphasis on the young women in the community. The revival of the traditional dance Ciyaar Somali in the past year has been an excellent opportunity for younger community members to connect to their cultural heritage, and as a wedding and celebratory dance, we thought it would be important to document this very important moment for the Welsh Somali community in Cardiff.

This project is a collaboration between Asma Elmi, founder and creative director of Al Naeem, and Young Queens. Al Naeem is a magazine which centres on Black and Muslim fashion, photography and art. Young Queens is an arts group for young Welsh Somali women from Cardiff, founded by Hayaat Women’s Trust, with funding support from Heritage Lottery.

Credits

Directed by Asma Elmi

Executive Producer: Izzy Rabey

Photographer: Yasmin Jama

Videographer: Saif

Stylist & Set Design: Asma Elmi, Haida Hamidi

Cast: Young Queens, Marwah Ahmed, Nadia Nur, Muna Ali, Mohamed Hassan, Kamal Yussuf

Thank you to: Al Naaem Magazine, Young Queens, Hayaat Women’s Trust, Heavenly Boutique, Blossom Bay Events.

Open Wednesday – Saturday, 12 – 5pm

Exhibition: Assignments 23

9 June – 8 July

This Summer we are delighted to present ‘Assignments23’ at Ffotogallery, in what will be its first time travelling to Wales. Organised by the British Press Photographers’ Association (BPPA), this flagship exhibition will feature the best in British press photography selected from an open call. This follows its initial ten day run at London’s Bargehouse on the Southbank in May.

We are excited to host the ‘Assignments23’ exhibition here at Ffotogallery, not only as it’s the first time being exhibited in Wales, but also as it showcases photographs that will play a vital role in helping us to remember and reflect on some of the key events to have taken place in the UK in the last year.

“The BPPA are delighted to bring ‘Assignments23’ to Wales for the first time following on from our London exhibition. It is our aim to take the photographs on from their initial showing to other parts of the UK, giving them a wider audience and we’re delighted to be working with Ffotogallery to bring this incredible representation of British press photography to Cardiff.” – Chair of the BPPA Paul Ellis

The exhibition comprises photographs submitted via the ‘Assignments23’ open call, with selections made by a panel of jurors including Phil Coburn (Daily Mirror), Talar Kalajian (Agence France-Presse), Matthew Fearn (The Telegraph), Alan Crowhurst (Getty Images) and Freddie Sloan (Hello Magazine).

Open Wednesday – Saturday, 12 – 5pm

River of Time – Sean Harris

Animation artist Sean Harris creates a large installation over a river in the Clwydian Hills, bringing the ancient history of the region to life.

Spike Blackhurst – Against All Odds

I have created these sculptures to increase awareness of how emotional abuse can affect our internal organs. Emotions are often very abstract to try and describe. However, by allowing them to be viewed in a physical form offers a more inclusive audience and a deeper understanding, than just reading or listening about such trauma. Within this collection of sculptures, four have been forged from metal and connected with Raku fired clay, reflecting the strength and fragility that these materials can offer. After thirty years of working with metal, this is the first time I have incorporated clay into my work, this has been a challenging journey, filled with new discoveries and will now become part of my sculpture process for the future. The fifth sculpture “Intuition” is forged entirely from steel to demonstrate the strength we have inside of us. With the gut often named ‘the second brain’ or ‘the voice to listen too’, it translates as our intuition.

Tanchwa – Mary Lloyd Jones

Mary Lloyd Jones paints Tanchwa – Explosion, inspired by Yr Ysgwrn, the poet Hedd Wyn’s family home, in preparation for a major exhibition of her work.

Photography Courses

Sub Sahara Advisory Project are excited to offer free photography courses through the Jamii Project, for wellbeing in Afro-Carib communities in Wales. 

The courses are open to all for ages 14+ and include 6 sessions every other Saturday, starting from 6th May, 11am-1pm, in YMCA Plas, CF24 3AG.

There is no requirement for previous photography experience but we ask there is commitment for the full 6 sessions.

There are limited spaces, so please get in touch asap with your contact information and secure your space via email: rehana.jaffer@ssap.org.uk

Catherine Taylor Parry

To welcome the Spring, our artist of the month is painter Catherine Taylor Parry, whose colourful paintings bring a sense of joy, excitement and serenity to the viewer.

We asked Catherine a few questions about her work. Below are her responses…

Enjoy some of Catherine’s art here

Traethlinau: Poppit Sands

“Our final play on the sand was on the beach at Poppit Sands. Instead of creating a circular design, this time sand artist Rachel Shiamh designed something that allowed us to work closely with the natural landscape, so we moved around the rocks creating a piece of sand art that looks completely at home amongst the rocks.

It was a sunny and cold morning, ❄ so we were delighted that Anglea, Director at WAHWN set up a little camp area with hot drinks and homemade banana bread. Nourishing on all levels!

This event was part of Shorelines – a creative wellbeing offer for Hywel Dda staff, commissioned by Hywel Dda Arts in Health team and produced by WAHWN

Gwobr Gelf/Arts Prize: Aildanio – Galeri

Mae’r arddangosfa gelf Aildanio, sydd yn dangos gwaith o Wobr Gelf Celfyddydau Anabledd Cymru, yn symud i Galeri Caernarfon!

04/03 – 15/04

Mwy o wybodaeth am weithdai Aildanio isod

North Wales Wildlife Trust – Wild Words

The Wildlife Trusts are a grassroots movement of people working together for wildlife. The Wildlife Trusts cover the UK to improve places for wildlife and influence governments to ensure a future for wildlife.   Wild Words is a feature from Wild North Wales, where readers are encouraged to explore and respond to a poem featured […]

WAHWN Cymru

The Wales Arts Health and Well-being Network (WAHWN) is a rapidly expanding network of colleagues delivering arts and health work in Wales. The Network represents members from the arts, health and HE sectors and includes practitioners working across the full range of art form practice in health, arts and other community settings.

How Ya Doing? Sut Mae’n Mynd?

How Ya Doing? Artist Wellbeing Programme / Rhaglen Llesiant Artistiaid Sut Mae’n Mynd?

How Ya Doing? was a pan-Wales artist support programme commissioned by Arts Council Wales in response to the need to support the wellbeing and mental health of freelance artists in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Delivered by Engage Cymru, How Ya Doing? was a pilot programme offering a range of different support offers including peer support groups, group gatherings, reflective practice and coaching groups. It was delivered over three seasons between November 2021 and April 2022.

The project was evaluated by Jane Willis.

“Y mae stafell…’ Catrin Gwilym

Ffilm gan / A film by Juliette Daum, Oak Wren Productions

Ar gyfer arddangosfa Catrin Gwilym yn Pontio, hyd at 28 Chwefror

Catrin Gwilym yw Artist y Mis Disability Arts Cymru! Dysgwch fwy yma

Catrin Gwilym

“A journey to understand the world and my place in it is always the starting point to my artwork – and through various mediums attempting to question what it means to belong and also how people and places on the margins fit in to the larger jigsaw. All this came about after being made redundant and my attempt to come to terms with this as a middle aged and disabled Welsh woman. Considering how some doors close and others open in wonderful and unexpected ways. Basically a storyteller trying to find her voice. And this through rummaging the layers of the tale. Collecting and connecting, as a means to find conclusions.”

Catrin Gwilym is a multidisciplinary artist from Porthmadog, who changed career paths after being made redundant at middle age. She studied art through Bangor University’s part-time courses in the community. She currently has an exhibition at Pontio, Bangor, which is her first solo show in a leading Welsh institution.

“This Journal is an account of the last ten years; periods of trying to find new ways of dealing with loss. It is a consideration of locations, dislocations and at times relocations: of opportunities, second opportunities and lack of opportunities and their potential to change lives.

It is a celebration of the places on the peripheries – through wandering, discovering and reflecting in five specific places – looking for the extraordinary in the ordinary, the unusual in the usual, and the unfamiliar in the familiar. But here also there is a lamentation for endings, for thrown-away treasures and things ceasing, whether that be through lack of investment or apathy.

Y Bocs Gwyn at Pontio was the last piece in the jigsaw in terms of exhibiting the work of the Jyrnal, but because of the pandemic the show – which was intended to include several other artists – was cancelled in May 2020. By revisiting the space recently with the film-maker Juliette Daum, I had the opportunity to try to process what had existed, what had been lost, and the things that come our way through new opportunities. And all of this through conclusions and attempting to arrive at conclusions.

More details of her exhibition, ‘Y Mae Stafell’ can be found here

SUMMIT: Artist Call Out – Cerddoriaeth O Gymru: Pioneering Change

Beacons Cymru are in search of artists to contribute works to an exhibition taking place in Cardiff on March 2nd as part of the Summit Festival 2023. The exhibition theme is “Cerddoriaeth O Gymru (Music Of Wales): Pioneering Change”. We ask that applicants submit works based on their personal interpretation of this theme. We accept […]

Noson Gelf / Art Night SBÊSHAL

This is the Noson Gelf / Art Night Sbêshal, twelve and twenty hours of live broadcasting condensed into an hour and a half to give you a little taster of what just happened. If you’d like to see the full interviews in all their live glory, then they can also be found here on our channel on AM.

Rwyt ti’n barod am newid!

Dwyt ti ddim am guddio’r mislif dim mwy. Rwyt ti am leisio dy rwystredigaeth er mwyn cael dy weld a dy glywed heb ddychryn na chynhyrfu.

Digon yw digon o ragfarn yn erbyn y mislif.

‘Period’ dim Mislif – Perchnogi’r Mislif yn y Gymraeg

‘Period’ dim Mislif – Perchnogi’r Mislif yn y Gymraeg

Dwi isio defnyddio’r Gymraeg yn naturiol i fynegi fy mhrofiad o fod yn ferch sydd yn byw gyda’r milsif.

Dydw i ddim am fenthyg geiriau i rannu pwy ydw i. DWI ISIO BOD YN FERCH GYFLAWN YN Y GYMRAEG.

Merched o dy flaen a tu ôl i ti

Merched o dy flaen a tu ôl i ti

Gyda’n gilydd mi allwn ni greu ein WAL GOCH MISLIF ein hunain.

Bloeddio cefnogaeth i’n gilydd – yma o hyd!

Merched, mislif, pêl-droed

Fe ddaw y dydd pan fydd y cylchdro yn cael ei ddathlu yn agored. Tan hynny, mi allwn ni gyd addunedu i normaleiddio’r mislif.

Merched, Mislif, Pêl-droed

Prosiect creadigol hefo merched sydd yn chwarae pêl-droed yn rhoi cyfle i rannu profiadau am y mislif. Creu gofod saff i ddychmygu byd lle mae’r mislif yn cael ei ‘normaleiddio’.

Dydi dy fislif ddim yn dy gadw ar y fainc

Gall hyfforddi a chwarae pêl-droed leddfu poenau mislif. Mae gen ti hawl i egluro sut mae’r mislif yn dy effeithio yn gorfforol ac emosiynol heb deimlo cywilydd. Mae hi’n bosibl dod dros heriau’r mislif wrth siarad yn agored a chael cefnogaeth.

“Yr un chwaraeon = yr un chwarae teg”

Nid yw sicrhau hawliau yn bygwth ond yn hytrach yn grymuso pawb. Wrth i bêl-droed merched ffynnu mae cyfleon a phosibliadau newydd yn agor i garfannau ehangach o fewn cymdeithas.

Maniffesto Cylchdro

Dyma mae merched sy’n chwarae pêl-droed eisiau ei sefydlu fel hawliau sylfaenol. Mae’n rhaid i ferched ddeall eu cyrff, eu meddwl eu hemosiynau er mwyn bod ar eu gorau ar gae pêl-droed. Rhaid darganfod ffyrdd diogel i fechgyn a dynion, a phob hunaniaeth, ddeall a siarad am y mislif er mwyn cynnig gwell cyfleon i bawb.

Gaeaf – Mislif

Mi all y cyfnod yma deimlo’n llwm ac heb gysur. Ond mae gen ti benderfyniad – defnyddia fo i dy fantais dy hun.

Rwyt ti’n arwres yn delio hefo dy fislif.

Gwanwyn – Cyn Ofylu

Mae gen ti egni di-ben-draw. Does yn ddim diwedd i beth y gelli gyflawni. Dos amdani! Neu wyt ti yn oedi ac yn pwyllo? Gwranda ar dy reddf.

Haf – Ofylu

Mae gen ti bositifrwydd .Mae’n amser delfrydol i ddychmygu beth wyt ti am gyflawni mewn bywyd.

Ond efallai bod dy gylchdro yn dylanwadu arnat ti yn wahanol ac mae hynny yn iawn.

Hydref – Wedi ofylu ond heb ddechrau gwaedu

Gall fod yn amser lle’r wyt ti’n sensitif- lle mae’n hawdd dy gorddi di. Defnyddia’r gallu hwn i asesu dy fod yn gofyn ac yn derbyn yr hyn yr wyt ti ei angen.

Mae dy sensitifrwydd yn arf i dy gynnal.

Mae gen ti hawl i deimlo pob emosiwn fel merch. Perchnoga dy wylltineb, dy rwystredigaeth a dy angerdd.