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Exhibition now open to view | BREAKING THE SILENCE

Exhibition live until – 15 . 7 . 22

An exceptional exhibition featuring work from both UK and internationally acclaimed artists.

Original paintings by | FRANK SCHROEDER

Original cast bronze sculptures by | CRAIG HUDSON

OUR GREEN PLANET | Frank Schroeder

OUR GREEN PLANET | Frank Schroeder

Original painting using acrylics + dried sticks

BILL + TED | Craig Hudson

Original cast bronze sculpture

Original paintings and sculpture exhibited as part of

BREAKING THE SILENCE

Exhibition available to view at Blackwater Gallery, Cardiff bay or online at
BLACKWATERGALLERY.CO.UK

Exhibition is live until 15 . 7 . 22

Enquiries welcome to
HELLO@BLACKWATERGALLERY.CO.UK

Blackwater Gallery is a proud member of collector plan, allowing you to spread the cost of purchasing and investing in original art.

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Blackwater gallery is a dynamic independent art gallery located in Cardiff Bay. Dedicated to providing a platform for expressive & emerging artists to showcase their work through forward thinking exhibitions and inspirational community events.

We are open –
Wednesday – Friday
10:00am – 3:00pm

Stop by for a walk in visit, or alternatively book a consultation with our gallery director by emailing us at HELLO@BLACKWATERGALLERY.CO.UK

View our online artist collection 24/7 @
BLACKWATERGALLERY.CO.UK

Song of the Trees

A unique symphony led by the rainforests of Wales.

Launching for the Summer Solstice 2022, CÂN Y COED Rainforest Symphony empowers a new voice for our fragile ecology, inviting audiences to connect with the environment through a unique collaboration with nature, where for the first time, the rainforests of Wales sing out from beneath the bark. Hearing impaired, environmental sound artist and composer Cheryl Beer, has spent the last year working with the ancient rainforests of Wales, composing music led by the vascular systems of four remaining fragile enclaves. Her work reunites ancient Celtic grounds that would once have been joined together under the soil, by the fine feathery threads of mycelium fungus, as one magnificent rainforest.

By repurposing hearing aid and sensitive biomedical sound equipment, Cheryl has collated biorhythms created by conductivity deep within trees, ferns and moss, using these readings to compose CÂN Y COED Rainforest Symphony, unearthing previously unheard conversations within nature, where every note played is led by the ancient trees, fern and moss, themselves. Through her ground breaking arts & technology fusion, Cheryl’s unique way of composing music is raising awareness of our globally significant eco-system

Wales Millennium Centre | Canolfan Mileniwm Cymru

We are a home for the arts in Wales, a cauldron of creativity for the nation. We fire imaginations by creating our own theatre productions, festivals and digital experiences – as well as curating world-class, critically acclaimed touring productions – from musical theatre and comedy to dance and cabaret. We kindle emerging talents with our own fresh, […]

Cheryl Beer

Hearing impaired, environmental sound artist and composer Cheryl Beer, has spent the last year working with the ancient rainforests of Wales, composing music led by the vascular systems of four remaining fragile enclaves. Her work reunites ancient Celtic grounds that would once have been joined together under the soil, by the fine feathery threads of mycelium fungus, as one magnificent rainforest.

By repurposing hearing aid and sensitive biomedical sound equipment, Cheryl has collated biorhythms created by conductivity deep within trees, ferns and moss, using these readings to compose CÂN Y COED Rainforest Symphony, unearthing previously unheard conversations within nature, where every note played is led by the ancient trees, fern and moss, themselves. Through her ground breaking arts & technology fusion, Cheryl’s unique way of composing music is raising awareness of our globally significant eco-system.

Cheryl has several events coming up over the next few months. Find out more about CÂN Y COED and Cheryl’s activities here.

Join Cheryl On The 21st June 2022 For The Launch Of Her Much Acclaimed Unlimited Commission CÂN Y COED Rainforest Symphony, As It Airs Across International Platforms & Tours Throughout Wales.

Cheryl’s Blog

Cheryl’s Facebook

ICARUS LAST FLIGHT | Frank Schroeder

Frank Schroeder is recognised globally a leading Neo-Expressionist artist, with a prominent body of work that has been exhibited in both group and solo shows across the globe. His practice looks to visualise the political and cultural issues prevalent in society, ignited by the davastating cirsumstances of Schroeders own past. Schroeder works across mediums, incorporating […]

AM

A website and app for the arts in Wales.   AM was launched in March 2020 by PYST with financial support from the Welsh Government. The platform is both a website –www.amam.cymru – and app optimised for mobile and tablet devices (available via Apple App Store & Google Play), and consists of different channels representing the […]

CALL FOR ARTISTS @ BLACKWATER GALLERY

SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 14 JUNE 2022

THE BRIEF – OBJECTS

Artists are asked to create a visual response to the the brief of celebrating everyday inanimate objects. Examining the mundane and looking for the beauty in the often overlooked.

Submissions are FREE TO ENTER

Emerging artists, artists from intersectional backgrounds and artists of colour are encouraged to apply.

SUBMISSIONS TO – Hello@blackwatergallery.co.uk

FULL SUBMISSION DETAILS – Blackwatergallery.co.uk/events

CRAIG HUDSON @ BLACKWATER

LAUNCHES 20 / 05 / 2022

The powerful contemporary sculptures of artist CRAIG HUDSON will be available through Blackwater Gallery from this friday.

Hudsons visual response to emotional subject matter, combined with the tactility of his work and considered use of colour, have made his sculptures resonate with collectors worldwide.

An exciting and diverse body of work from Hudson will be available through Blackwater Gallery from May 20th

Jill Powell

Jill Powell is a mixed media, surreal artist from Cwmbran, Gwent. After a career break from Biomedical Sciences, Jill progressed to art as a mature student. Her art career highlights include the illustration of a poetry book, participating in Tom Croft’s Portraits for NHS Heroes and an Antimicrobial Art Commission for Cardiff University’s Art lab which exhibited in Chapter Arts in Cardiff earlier this year.

Jill’s exhibition ‘Kintsugi’ is opening at Cwtsh Community Centre in Newport 15/05/22.

Jill’s Website

EMERGING ARTIST PAGES | Now live @ BLACKWATERGALLERY.CO.UK

We’ve been working behind the scenes to create an entirely new and dedicated emerging artist space in our online gallery.

Formed as part of a hub for all of our emerging artists, this is just the beginning of our 2022 journey to bring you a wealth of new and exciting emerging artist content. You can browse and shop from each artists page, as well as learn and discover more about the inspiration and processes they use. We’ve got lots to come including more behind the scenes photos and interviews from each artist so check back for more updates soon.

Check it out now!

HIGHER SELF | Jon Wall

Appointments available via DM or email

Details of the Jon Wall collection available at BLACKWATERGALLERY.CO.UK

Blackwater gallery is a dynamic independent art gallery located in Cardiff Bay. Dedicated to providing a platform for expressive & emerging artists to showcase their work to collectors in the UK and around the globe.

We are open by appointment

Wednesday – Friday
10:00am – 3:00pm

Book your viewing appointment by DM or email us now at
HELLO@BLACKWATERGALLERY.CO.UK

View our online artist collection 24/7 @
BLACKWATERGALLERY.CO.UK

COLLECTORPLAN | BLACKWATER GALLERY

We are extremely proud to now be a member gallery of COLLECTORPLAN here at Blackwater. Formed as part of the Arts Council of Wales, Collectorplan aims to provide affordable finance options to collectors supporting the arts here in Wales. “We believe art should be for everyone and one of our aims is to make owning […]

Jake Sawyers

Recently described by the BBC as ‘Wales’ first visually impaired drag queen’. Jake Sawyers AKA Venetia Blind is a disabled actor and content creator from Cardiff who entertains, as well as teaches, audeinces about what it’s like to live as a disabled person.   Click here to learn more about Jake BBC ‘Doing drag makeup […]

Sub-Sahara Advisory Panel

Sub-Sahara Advisory Panel was formed in 2009 when a number of African diaspora groups in Wales met to consider how they might collectively advance their common interest in local and International Development. We are not an organisation representing African Diaspora communities in Wales but one that seeks to utilise skills, capacity and knowledge found within Welsh […]

LILLY [detail] | JAMIE GALLAGHER [typ01134]

Exhibiting as part of UNDOD @ Blackwater Gallery

Our first emerging artist exhibition of 2022

Part of a diverse and powerful figurative collection from Gallagher, presented at Blackwater as part of UNDOD.

Painting predominantly in oils, Gallagher’s work explores the concept of ‘identity’

The raw physicality of painting and a deep connection with the materials and tactility of the process feed the work. From heavy impasto oils and raw, textured linens to delicate gold leaf and bleeding inks, each mark is instinctive.

LOVE IN EVERY PORT [detail] | IAN MACKENZIE

Exhibiting as part of UNDOD @ Blackwater Gallery

Our first emerging artist exhibition of 2022

Taken from an incredibly detailed collection of oil paintings by Ian Mackenzie. Exploring the themes, culture, and narratives of the Welsh landscape and heritage. Exhibiting as part of UNDOD at Blackwater Gallery.

An artist based in South Wales, Mackenzie works in rich detailed oils on canvas. He has a unique eye for colour and precision and as such many of his paintings represent a photorealism style.

Ians influence to paint comes from the study of the subject, the emotion involved and the interaction with the surrounding environment.

DOOR 2 [detail] | CHRIS POMPA

Exhibiting as part of UNDOD @ Blackwater Gallery

Our first emerging artist exhibition of 2022

Part of a collection of mixed media works from Chris Pompa. Including assemblage, decoupage, and found art. Presented in an array of both large and small scale forms at Blackwater as part of UNDOD.

“My motivation is to reinterpret the world and everything in it as it’s experienced within my own imagination.

I am inspired primarily by colour and secondly by the rhythms I create between those colours and their forms. I work largely in an abstract style, due to its freeing and cathartic application, often not knowing where or when a piece will end. I call this process ‘no form only expression’ as I work on an intuitive level with no sketching or planning beforehand. Only after the completion of a piece will I attempt to understand its visceral journey.”

CULT Cymru

CULT Cymru is a learning project led by BECTU in partnership with Equity, the Musicians’ Union and the Writers’ Guild. We work with industry workers, employers and other organisations to arrange learning activities and networking events throughout Wales.   Types of learning activities include:   Business Skills (e.g. Becoming freelance, Marketing & Promotion, Bid Writing, […]

JIMMY JENKINS & MIKE @ HALF-TIME | Makenzy Beard

**NEW ARTWORK REVEAL**

A powerful new addition to the body of work being produced by this incredibly talented young artist.

We cannot wait to receive this stunning piece to our gallery space. More detailed photos and videos will follow as we capture the detail of ‘Jimmy Jenkins & Mike @ Half-time’ to share with you all.

WELL WAGON @ UNDOD | 8 – 4 – 2022

Joining us as part of our emerging artist exhibition UNDOD is the fantastically engaging art experience that is WELL WAGON!

Well Wagon is a project that offers art workshops on wheels, with the workshops running on a donation basis. Through creativity and meaning-making, Well Wagon provides a safe space for everyone, including vulnerable members of the public, enabling collaboration while sharing creative coping mechanisms.

Well Wagon is a project led by artists Anna Amalia Coviello and Beth Smith, two Creative and Therapeutic Arts practitioners that share the same passion- which also lays the foundation of their manifesto:

* We believe in everyone’s creative potential
* We believe in the healing power of the arts
* We believe that the arts should be accessible to everyone

Well Wagon will be providing a crafting activity responding to the work at UNDOD, supporting the viewers’ experience of the exhibition through their own means of expression while consequently aiming to merge and unify with the artists’ vision.

UNDOD | TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW

With a reputation for putting bold and emerging art at the forefront of our artist portfolio here at Blackwater Gallery, we are extremely excited to bring you our highly anticipated emerging artists collection of 2022 through UNDOD.

A selection of 5 emerging artists have been chosen to exhibit at our first emerging artist event of 2022. Their work covers a broad spectrum of visual disciplines, with each artist being chosen for their diverse aesthetic style and individuality.

Tickets here

National Theatre Wales

These are uncertain times for us all. As a national company, we are deeply aware of our role in supporting, enabling and nurturing the performance sector around us as well as offering the people of Wales the chance to connect to the stories that can unite us in shared experiences while we are kept apart. We know this is a hard time for many of us, but if you are able to consider making a donation to help us continue our work, it would be hugely appreciated. Click HERE to be added to our e-newsletter.

The nation of Wales is our stage.
We collaborate with people and places to make extraordinary theatre that inspires change. From the intimate to the epic, our work is powerful, brave and unexpected. Rooted in Wales, with a global outlook, we are the English-language national theatre of Wales.
National Theatre Wales has staged more than 80 inspirational productions in locations all over Wales, the UK, internationally and online since March 2010.
We usually operate from a small base in Cardiff’s city centre, but we work all over the country and beyond, using Wales’ rich and diverse landscape, its towns, cities and villages, its incredible stories and rich talent as our inspiration.

More Than A Number Symposium & Virtual Tour

More Than A Number is an exhibition which looks to explore our thinking of an Africa caught between modernity and tradition, and how different cultures can produce meaning through images. It invites the audience to engage with the exceptional and thought-provoking work of 12 photographers from Africa. And encourages us to look deeply and clearly into the face of the individual in front of you and engage in a conversation. As Elbert Hubbard wrote, “If men could only know each other, they would neither idolise nor hate”.

View a virtual tour of the exhibition here.

Plethu: Affricerdd Connections

‘Plethu: affricerdd’ is a series of short films commissioned by NDCWales and Tŷ Cerdd fusing original music and dance from across Wales and giving platform to music artists of African descent.

This unique collaboration gives artists the chance to explore film-making as a new skill and medium for their combined artforms.

Connections’ shows different responses to living in the city of Cardiff.

Dancer, Idrissa Camara has set movements in response to music featuring energetic, percussive rhythms, bolon taps and field recordings of traffic taken near where Composer Eric Martin Kamosi lives in Cardiff.

What can be seen here is effected by what can be heard and seen in the Cardiff.

The listener is encouraged to take part in an experience of this environment.

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Composer, Film and edit: Eric Martin Kamosi

Choreographer, Dancer: Idrissa Camara

Elfyn Lewis – Anochel

Lansio • Launching

Friday 4 February 2022, 18:00 -21:00

5 February – 19 March 2022

An exhibition catalogue is available to view here

BLACKWATER GALLERY | Opening times

The gallery will remain open by appointment as we move into 2022, please book your viewing by email or send us a DM to arrange your visit.