Cofis Dre & Co
XVII
30.04.22 – 04.06.22
Ann Lawrence, Chris Upmalis, Ellie Hennessey, Gisselle Mayorga, Julian O'Dwyer, Kar Rowson, Lisa Ann Williams, Lucy Ann Jones, Meg Jôs, Morgan Wyn, Petra Goetz, Rhiannon Fograty-Wilkinson, Shauna Taylor, Shirley Fahy, Tara Louise, Zack Robinson
‘Cofis Dre & Co’ is an exhibition showcasing 16 BA Fine Art students from Coleg Menai enabling them to explore personal themes, ideas and creative concerns through a wide variety of disciplines which include drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking and multimedia activity.
Raising the Bar Pop-up Shop
08/04/22 – 11/06/22
Raising the Bar is a scheme for 16 - 24 year olds who want to develop their art skills. It includes a creative workshops and professional training with the initiative of preparing our young people for a career in the creative world. Local professional artist Heledd Owen and Menai Rowlands lead the project with the young people and supported to create new collections of products. Creative workshops to learn and develop coaching, creation, marketing and branding skills.
Creative young people in the shop are Gwyndy, Lacey, Lili, Mia, Skliee, twmw, Mabon and Ithel
This project is being administered through Galeri Caernarfon in conjunction with Oriel Môn. The scheme is available to eligible Gwynedd and Anglesey young people. The project was funded by Galeri Caernarfon, the Isle of Anglesey County Council and the Arts Council of Wales.
Derek Crawford
Plasticity
20/04/22 – 30/05/22
These images were initially created as photograms, a simple darkroom process in which the subjects are placed directly onto photographic papers, exposed to light projected from an enlarger, then processed in standard colour photochemistry. The resulting prints were selectively scanned at high resolution and enlarged digitally, for presentation as gallery scale archival pigment inkjet prints.
Cysur
Haf Weighton
12/03/22 – 23/04/22
Around the time of the pandemic people started to look around them and reflect on their domestic surroundings in a different way. Haf Weighton is better known for her facades of buildings using her trade mark print, paint and stitch. But for this solo exhibition at Galeri she has looked at life behind the doors.
Whats on your mind?
Menai Rowlands
02/03/22 – 18/04/22
The work explores themes of identity and our individual perceptions of the world around us. They also explore the idea that our identity is built upon memories, which are often distorted and manipulated. But through creativity and communication we can find a common ground of connection and empathy for one another.
INC
Anthony Harrison, Connor Williams, Courtnie Savannah, Hari Cennin Roberts, Kev Curtis, Kirsty Reid, Nika Petelinek, Sophie Beddow, Thomas Jones
by Picsil8
Picsil8 is a photography collective that centres on ideas of individual expression. The group encompasses a broad range of disciplines that include traditional film and dark room skills, as well as cutting edge lens based digital technologies.
PWYTH
Llio James, Lowri Drakley, Anna Pritchard, Samantha Jones
05/02/22 – 31/03/22
PWYTH celebrates 4 Welsh textile artists whom work with traditional techniques but create creative contemporary blankets. Anna Pritchard from Gwynedd with a deep connection with the land, grew up on a dairy farm and is one of the oldest farming families still living in the Ogwen Valley. This has a huge influence on the designs of her fabrics. Her passion for colours, patterns and textures is seen in her work. The idea of continuing the ancient traditions of the Welsh woollen mills, weaving and knitting is important to her. Llio James's exceptional work is inspired from the marine landscape around her; investigating the colour and pattern of nautical banners, as well as studying the old weaving patterns of our traditional cloth. The work comes deep from Llio's background and history and from the origins of the wool industry and its legacy to us today. Lowri Drakley base on Ynys Mon is a contemporary quilter and painter using a botanical dye with ingredients gathered around her home. It follows its vision and responds to its dream and its need to reconnect with the natural world, by exploring nature and discovering its environmental identity. Samantha Jones is a quilt maker using traditional methods to create contemporary quilts. Samantha is a firm believer in makers sharing their skills and has a strong interest in heritage and the long-established history of quilting in Wales.
Sarah Ryder
Feet. Brain. Back Again.
25/01/22 – 05/03/22
For over 20 years Ryder has worked with a variety of materials to test out concepts of expanded painting, often making 2D works that transform into 3D. Underpinned by notions of imperfection, temporality, the structure of systems, and the balance of chaos and control, Ryder’s processes fluctuate between playful and contemplative – both states being equal to, and dependent on the other.
Mia Roberts
She let me play the organ
20/01/22 – 28/02/22
The intention within Mia’s work is to combine a multitude of personal and observed narratives into one composition. This results in an amalgamated image that ultimately gives the viewer the power to define what the piece in question means to them. It also allows the release of personal experiences subliminally within the work without influencing observers with clearly demonstrated ideological leanings. Even though the practice is deeply personal, it is important that the viewer makes their own narrative and conclusion upon viewing.
Mia is a trans-feminine artist working within the North Wales region who’s work primarily revolves around micro cultures, localism, social projects, sexuality, masculinity, mental health and addiction.
LHBT+ GISDA X Galeri presents
Moral Universe
05/02/22 – 28/02/22
Guest Artists:
Anthony Shapland
Eden Grant Dodd
Jasper Dawson clough
Katherine Fiona Jones
Lee green
Mia Roberts
MYTHSNTITS
sponsored by Gwyn a Mary Owen
Galeri’s annual Open exhibition offers an opportunity for anyone of any age – whether a professional artist, student or someone who creates art in their spare time to be part of a special exhibition in Galeri.
With thanks to the exhibition sponsors, Gwyn and Mary Owen,
£1,000 judges choice
£400 highly commended
£250 people’s choice
Selected by : Alan Whitfield, Darren Hughes, Rebecca Hardy-Griffith and Naomi Saunders
Alys Gwynedd
Ashley Cooke
Booker Skelding
Carrie Francis
Carwyn Jones
Catrin Gwilym
Catrin Menai
Cerys Knighton
Chris Higson
Dane Briscoe
David Garner
Diana Williams
Dottie-may Aston
Ella Louise Jones
Gareth Berwyn
Jenny Murray
João Saramago
Laura Ducker
Leigh Sinclair
Lena Aires
Lesley James
Lora Gwyneth
Lowri Drakely
Lleucu Non
Llinos Owen
Llyr Evans
Manon Awst
Mared Parry
Marian Haf
Owain McGilvary
Paddy Faulker
Paul Vining
Phillip Jones
Raji Salan
Roger Lougher
Ruth Jen Evans
Rhiannon Gwyn
Rhys Aneurin
Sam Hayes
Tara Dean
Verity Pulford
New exhibition of abstract paintings by Anglesey based artist. One group of Gwen’s artworks is exploring the democracy of the grid as a source of calm, whilst playing with colour and doorways.
Another group uses patterns from different areas - music notation, geometry and chance processes.
Traditionally through textiles women expressed themselves by sewing and embroidery to create useful things for the home. But the issues that matter to women today are very different from our grandmothers. Nerys' artwork seeks to explore these issues by creating a personal response. The work is a reflection of Nerys' upbringing in rural Wales and also the small trivial things, a shopping message on the back of an envelope, the apron on the back of a door, sayings in Welsh. Welsh cloth patterns and images of kitchen furniture.
There's humor to the work too, Nerys creates unhelpful pieces, for example the aprons made from chip shop forks and the ironic use of the saying "best art in the world: good woman." the tablecloths are not practical, for example the piece adorned with fine beads mimics a mark burned by an iron. Also trying to imitate the idea of "bottom drawer", which is the collection of art and materials women would collect in preparation for their marital lives.
It is said that people spend less than 6 seconds looking at artwork in an exhibition. The way people look and react to the work is important to Nerys, that they notice the hidden objects, read the sayings embroidered on the pieces and appreciate the hand and machine stitches in the work.
Instagram: @nerysjonescelf
This exhibition brings together new works on canvas and board and paintings on paper with selected fragments of text. Evolving from the feelings and imagery evoked by literature these works were mostly made during lockdown in 2020 and early 2021. Lisa Carter Grist’s paintings reveal suggestions of scenes, scapes and emotions within their often apparently abstract surface. Referential allusions to imaginary landscapes, stages, window frames, figures and objects are acknowledged during the process of painting.